Way to go!

Congrats Brendan & BECKY
Love barbara, weston, marissa, keith, the Buffalo Sabres and 75 thousand of your closest friends!

Oh yeah...
1-1 were going to overtime!

Comments

[Brian Foster]

Point of Order:

"They just announced the attendance in the press box at 71,217. That's not the number of people in the press box, of course, but in the stadium. It's getting harder to see the fans, though, as the snow has picked up again." (Source.)

The world record for attendance at a hockey game remains with the "Cold War," Michigan-Michigan State, October 6, 2001. (Source.)

Thank you.

[Derek]

Brian, how about "record for attendance at a professional hockey game," or "record for attendance at a hockey game with a winner." Both would exclude the perversely-named "Cold War" from that title.

[Brian Foster]

Derek,

Conceded that both would. Of course, neither title is as impressive. I'm sure somewhere, some pee wee floor hockey league could lay claim to the title of "record for attendance at a pee wee floor hockey game where no score was kept and neither goalie made a single save," but why would it want to? And so it is here. Clearly they hoped to break the Cold War's record. They failed, notwithstanding Weston's hyperbolic crowd estimate. I simply noted it for the record.

Also, I fail to see how the name is perverse. It was cold. It was a "war" as much as any sporting contest can be. They shall not be faulted for employing the same rhetoric that coaches and commentators have used since time immemorial. Oh no. They shall not.