Please,,,,, this is like the 8,385th "deal-breaker" for you in the last 5 years.
Just face it, you're a lifer.
Nah ... there have been no more than 1,000
The closest I came was when they raised the ticket prices 7% and tried to pass it off as no increase because it was just the sales tax. They then "backed off" by waiving it for a year (I think as a paid-in-full incentive).
PDFs are now critical because my use of the tickets has changed over the years. I became a sth when my oldest son was 3 and my youngest wasn't even born, and my dad was near retirement. Almost all games was some combination of me, my dad, and one or more of my sons. Plus, the kids loved the "skate with the team" and other sth perks.
Now, my dad is 82 (and, thankfully, still goes to a game or two with me each year), but my sons don't go too often (oldest lives in NYC, but can virtually never made a weeknight game due to work, middle one is in college in Syracuse and will be living in CT upon graduation, and youngest will be off to college (somewhere) in a year. So majority of games include a client.
A flex plan makes the most sense at this point, as then I can get anywhere from 2-4 tickets/game and don't have to deal with re-selling, etc (especially with the Devils making that more difficult).