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Hockey night in America
By Kara Yorio - SportingNews

A series of little lighted signs greets you in the concourse at Buffalo Niagara International Airport:
Enjoy this beautiful season
Go Sabres!
Is that two thoughts or one?

Do Buffalo fans even know the holidays are here amid all the Sabres celebrations since October? They hope the good times run long past New Year's Day.

The Sabres are a team with speed, depth and two quality goaltenders. Many of the players developed together within the organization. They know one another's strengths and weaknesses, and they are friends. The Sabres have skill but perhaps more often are categorized as hardworking. General manager Darcy Regier has built a team for the postlockout, salary capped NHL, and Lindy Ruff coaches it well.

An ode (or five) to Buffalo:

In November, Kara asked you why Buffalo is such a great hockey city, and the response was overwhelming. Here are the comments that ran in the December 22 issue of Sporting News magazine.:
The Buffalo fans learned hockey from the best, our neighbors up north, just a few minutes' drive away. We grow up on real chicken wings and Hockey Night in Canada. --Knabber

Hockey is deeply woven into the fabric of the culture. It lives in the soul of every Western New Yorker. --JayTheMachine

As soon as we were ealking, we were stickhandling, and then not even a 5-foot dusting on Valentine's Day could stop us from emulating our blue-and-gold heroes in the side street or on the neighborhood pond. --Bill Cox

This is a blue-collar tem playing for a blue-collar city. Buffalo isn't a city with a hockey team, it's a hockey team with a city behind it. --sabresrsick123

Maybe football is part of our national psyche, but hockey is quietly, more intimately, who we are. --Dennis O'Brien The result has been amazing success. Through 29 games, the Sabres had won 22 and earned at least a point in 24. Now, a great hockey town is hockey crazy. The Buffalo News recently said these Sabres are "being embraced by this town like few other teams have."
Chris Drury, who previously had NHL stints in Colorado and Calgary, feels the spirit -- and did even before this season. "It's been amazing since I first got here," says Drury, who was traded to Buffalo in July 2003. "Even in the summertime, the people are excited."

Not so long ago, a crooked owner and bad economy left seats empty and the Sabres bankrupt, their survival in doubt. Then along came billionaire Tom Golisano of nearby Rochester, N.Y. He saved the organization by buying the team. And he's a fan, just like the rest of them; he cheers at every game and has plenty of company -- the Sabres already have sold out all of their home games.

On a recent Friday night, HSBC Arena was playoff-loud during a shootout against the Rangers. When Ryan Miller made the save that secured a Sabres victory, the building shook with noise and a wave of high fives and hugs moved through the arena.

One night later, with the team on the road, a downtown bar filled as game time approached.
On two floors of Pearl Street Grill & Brewery -- four blocks from the arena -- all but one TV showed the Sabres pregame show. The music was off in favor of an interview with Ruff.
A few minutes into the first period, that one TV was changed to the Sabres. Every person in a crowd dotted with Sabres T-shirts and jerseys watched the game. The air hockey, bubble hockey and pool tables were still. Here, the Sabres game is not background noise; socializing starts when the game ends. It's like this all the time, I'm assured by locals, but it's even more intense this season. Not to knock good American fans farther south, but there is a deeper passion for the game in Buffalo. The city's proximity to the border produces a Canadian-like love for and knowledge of hockey. The people of Buffalo watch Hockey Night in Canada, fight tough winters and enjoy months of outdoor ice. And when the Sabres are this good, the area goes crazy.

In Buffalo, it is indeed a beautiful season. Enjoy.

Kara Yorio is a staff writer for Sporting News. E-mail her at kyorio@sportingnews.com.