Pete excitedly texts me last night, saying “we’re getting a new scoreboard!” And indeed, Tim Graham at the Buffalo News reports that a new state of the art video board is in the works for an opening night debut.

Well, we’ve been only beating the drum for state of the art electronics enhancements for about seven years now. We continually sent former Sabres Exec VP Ron Bertovich ideas from our road trips; we pushed for a new board in a 2006 Artvoice Puck Stop column Making Over HSBC Arena. A couple of times we’ve also sent Larry Quinn digital jpegs of scoreboards which blew our socks off.

So upon reading this news, one of my first calls this morning was to Sabres PR Honcho Mike Gilbert to get the details. “Mike, Andrew Kulyk here! I see we’re finally getting a cool new scoreboard. Will the Sabres have an information packet out on this soon? I want to do a story!”

Gilbert’s reply? “What makes you think we’re getting a new scoreboard?” Me: “Well, umm, it was reported last night on the Buffalo News Sabres blog.” Gilbert: “What makes you think everything you read on blogs is true?”

The bottom line - the Sabres have no official announcement. Gilbert twice gave me a firm “no comment” on any details regarding this issue. I thanked him for his time, told him I’d see him down at the arena later this week, and bid him good bye.

We’re hoping Tim Graham’s assumption and source is true. When I get down to training camp later this week I will certainly do my own snooping.

Meantime, wet your whistle with these amazing photographs from Boston and Charlotte, and imagine HSBC Arena with something similar as its centerpiece.

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