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The game tonight brings back a little culture foot of Washington Street.  The building of First Niagara Center (initially as the Marine Midland Arena) saw the death of a tradition, that being the gala event of Tux and Pucks, where the crowd was less like a fan based raved mad for a Stanley Cup, and more like the group of people that gather on Main Street for Curtain Up! the start of the theater district season.  Another step in the Pegula era to make the Buffalo Sabres more fan friendly and player destination like – at this point in the season is a passe movement when the team on the ice cannot win hockey games. 

Despite the midway point of the season fastly approaching, this is the fifth of six meetings between these two teams.  While the teams have split the first four decisions – the final two are going to be very important battles between the Sabres and Senators.  The two teams are looking to climb back into the Eastern Conference elite - with only four points seperating the two teams, wins against division opponents are key in the standlings .

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