[ESPN NHL Guru] Lives of the lockout: City of Buffalo

ArticleBot · 10-26-2004, 04:51 AM

Wide right! No goal! Now locked outBUFFALO, N.Y. -- Construction debris. Northeast tumbleweeds.A 40-mph wind. Rain with a name, "lake-effect rain," as Buffalo's TV weather guys call it. It's raining sideways. The conditions couldn't possibly be worse. Anywhere.It begins to hail. Then thunder.The hockey gods do not want us here, in the empty parking lot of the HSBC Arena, Buffalo Sabres land. It's 7:30 p.m., plus nine minutes. That's when the Sabres' PR department said the puck hits the ice for the opening...

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ArticleBot Member Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 991 TTP Friends: (0)	[ESPN NHL Guru] Lives of the lockout: City of Buffalo Wide right! No goal! Now locked outBUFFALO, N.Y. -- Construction debris. Northeast tumbleweeds.A 40-mph wind. Rain with a name, "lake-effect rain," as Buffalo's TV weather guys call it. It's raining sideways. The conditions couldn't possibly be worse. Anywhere.It begins to hail. Then thunder.The hockey gods do not want us here, in the empty parking lot of the HSBC Arena, Buffalo Sabres land. It's 7:30 p.m., plus nine minutes. That's when the Sabres' PR department said the puck hits the ice for the opening... http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/column...C-DT9705204233 __________________ Love the Irish

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