Marine Midland Arena, 1997 (Photo by James Cavanaugh)
October 30, 2025
This popped up on my Facebook this morning, thought it was interesting to see how much has and hasn’t changed over the years.
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Tha Crossroads
The awesome huge neon Pepsi cap and sports headlines with the red and black sports tickers, this was super early as the Sabres store neon is not on the wall yet, The Sports Headlines spinning players, and on the bottom of the sports headlines spinner was the touch screens with a trivia game, Such a cool shot
Back in the day when Lindy Ruff was the coach… 🤔
I remember that Basketball Hockey statue, was always confused why basketball was included lol
Back when you could actually walk into the front doors
Dead mall vibes
Iconic arena entrance
The good old days!!
The atrium is awesome, don’t get me wrong. But isn’t it sort of a crime that it is largely the same nearly 30 years later?
This is an unpopular opinion perhaps but as a 90s kid I really love how 90s coded the arena is. Really harks back to the glory days. It could use many structural upgrades though.
13 comments
Tha Crossroads
The awesome huge neon Pepsi cap and sports headlines with the red and black sports tickers, this was super early as the Sabres store neon is not on the wall yet, The Sports Headlines spinning players, and on the bottom of the sports headlines spinner was the touch screens with a trivia game, Such a cool shot
Back in the day when Lindy Ruff was the coach… 🤔
I remember that Basketball Hockey statue, was always confused why basketball was included lol
Why is there hsbc branding?
Omg the feels
Realized I should probably share the link to the [source](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14MqBAFmRuk/) and not just attribute him by name.
Back when you could actually walk into the front doors
Dead mall vibes
Iconic arena entrance
The good old days!!
The atrium is awesome, don’t get me wrong. But isn’t it sort of a crime that it is largely the same nearly 30 years later?
This is an unpopular opinion perhaps but as a 90s kid I really love how 90s coded the arena is. Really harks back to the glory days. It could use many structural upgrades though.