Thanks for posting this link.
I really, really enjoyed looking at all the photos at the linked website.
There are some WBEN stickers on that locker door. I had one of those on my bedroom dresser as a kid.
That building was low on amenities and high technology, but absolutely filled with character.
The new building is precisely the opposite.
The first Sabres game I ever went to was up in the oranges. I held onto my dad's arm the entire time, out of FEAR. Yes, it was STEEP and the entire crowd absolutely hung over the ice surface.
I can still picture the crowd going crazy and the air horn sounding after a goal...and those sound deadening cylinders hanging from the ceiling would be swinging around like crazy from all the sonic energy pushing through the building.
Damn I miss that place!