Buffalo Sabres Top Five Value Games Of 2015-16 NHL Season

In about a month, the Buffalo Sabres will begin making their way to the rink for physicals, testing and training camp. Shortly after that will come preseason, and then the regular season, which opens on October 8th as the Ottawa Senators visit First Niagara Center to open the 2015-2016 NHL season.

Throughout the course of the season, the Buffalo Sabres will hit the ice 41 times at First Niagara Center. The team’s variable pricing means that you can go to a game for as low as $37, if it’s a value game and you’re willing to sit in the 300 level end sections. Or, alternately, you can pay as much as $250 for a ticket to a Buffalo Sabres home game this year, if it’s a platinum game and you’re sitting in the 200 level.

So — as you start to plan out your season, which games should you purchase tickets for? Which games are the best value?

Here’s five Buffalo Sabres games that might give you a little more bang for your buck this coming season:

1. Monday, October 12, 2015 vs. Columbus

The third home game of the season sees the Buffalo Sabres host the Columbus Blue Jackets on – you guessed it – Columbus Day. Isn’t that a nice little pun? Anyways, it’s a 3 p.m. game, which may limit the audience – schools may be off and a lot of business may be closed, but there are still those who need to suit up and go to work that day. With that, the Buffalo Sabres have made this a bronze game, making it a great deal.

Tickets for this game range from $48 to $135 at face value, the second-lowest level of the Buffalo Sabres’ variable seating prices. See Gregory Campbell, Nick Foligno, Brandon Saad, Jack Johnson and Sergei Bobrovsky – not to mention Jack Eichel, Sam Reinhart and co. – on a Monday afternoon for a reasonable price.

This is the second consecutive year the Buffalo Sabres have a home game on Columbus Day, as they hosted the Anaheim Ducks in an afternoon tilt last October. Stay downtown after the game and check out Canalside, HARBORcenter and the like as you (hopefully) enjoy the last remnants of decent weather.

2. Saturday, January 2, 2016 vs. Detroit

3. Thursday, February 4, 2016 vs. Boston

What’s this – a Bruins game that isn’t gold? Alas, this game is a bronze one – presumably due to it being on a Thursday – which means tickets range from $48 to $135 at face value.

Check out the Post-Milan Lucic Bruins with guys like Max Talbot, Patrice Bergeron (who doesn’t love him?), Loui Eriksson and Torey Krug. Only three Atlantic Division games are at bronze pricing or below – with the other two both value-level games against the Florida Panthers.

You can’t miss the opportunity to see this heated rivalry with those prices.

4. Tuesday, March 1, 2016 vs. Edmonton

How can you miss this one? Jack Eichel vs. Connor McDavid. Sam Reinhart, Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle….. need I go on? It’s like a YoungStars game, on First Niagara Center ice.

Despite being a Tuesday night, this one is a silver game, which puts tickets between $59 and $144, but it’s on this list primarily because of the young talent and the chance to see the top two 2015 NHL Draft picks face off in Buffalo. You can’t miss it, and the way people have flocked to Eichel and McDavid before they’ve even set foot on the NHL ice during the regular season, you know prices could’ve been higher.

5. Tuesday, March 8, 2016 vs. NY Rangers

A chance to see the New York Rangers at bronze-level pricing? I’ll take it. Tickets for this one cost between $48 to $135 at face value.

Derek Stepan, Mats Zuccarello, Ryan McDonough and of course, Henrik Lundqvist, not to mention the talent on the Sabres’ end of the spectrum, makes this a good value – not to mention the addition of Antti Raanta.

The downfall is, of course, that it’s a Tuesday night, but if you don’t mind leaving work and heading to the rink, there’s no reason why you can’t call this one a good deal.

Next: Sabres Games To Be Nationally Broadcast

More from Sabre Noise

Home/Sabres News