{"id":250984,"date":"2025-07-31T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/250984\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:36:11","slug":"buffalo-sabres-exploring-outdoor-nhl-game-at-future-bills-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/250984\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres exploring outdoor NHL game at future Bills stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Bills and Sabres COO Pete Guelli said yesterday that his teams have \u201cdiscussed the possibility of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/05\/development-around-bills-new-stadium-has-been-part-of-plan-from-the-start\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/05\/development-around-bills-new-stadium-has-been-part-of-plan-from-the-start\/\">Bills\u2019 future home stadium<\/a> hosting an outdoor NHL game, whether it\u2019s the Winter Classic or a game in the NHL\u2019s Stadium Series,\u201d according to Rachel Lenzi of the BUFFALO NEWS. Nothing \u201cis set in stone,\u201d and the NHL has yet to announce the dates or pairings for the Winter Classic or Stadium Series for the 2026-27 season. But Jan. 1, 2028, the 20th anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Daily\/Issues\/2008\/01\/03\/Events-Attractions\/Winter-Classic-Draws-71000-Fans-Mostly-Positive-Reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Daily\/Issues\/2008\/01\/03\/Events-Attractions\/Winter-Classic-Draws-71000-Fans-Mostly-Positive-Reviews\/\">first Winter Classic<\/a> held at then-Ralph Wilson Stadium, is \u201cone possible date Buffalo could entertain.\u201d Guelli \u201cconfirmed that the Bills continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/06\/03\/buffalo-bills-nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/06\/03\/buffalo-bills-nfl-draft\/\">pursue the NFL draft<\/a>,\u201d and the \u201cmost likely years for that would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/03\/bills-aiming-to-land-2029-nfl-draft-around-new-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/03\/bills-aiming-to-land-2029-nfl-draft-around-new-stadium\/\">2029<\/a> and 2030.\u201d Guelli also discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/21\/sabres-playoff-drought-aging-arena-playing-role-in-fan-frustration-ticket-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/21\/sabres-playoff-drought-aging-arena-playing-role-in-fan-frustration-ticket-sales\/\">Sabres season ticket sales<\/a>, noting they have \u201cbeen pretty consistent,\u201d hovering \u201caround 9,000.\u201d It is \u201cabout 3,000 short of the maximum sweet spot Guelli targets for a building with KeyBank Center\u2019s capacity of 19,070: north of 10,000 season tickets sold, and topping out in the 12,000 range.\u201d Guelli also said that the Sabres \u201cplan to launch a number of new ticket sales plans\u201d for the club in advance of the season (<a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/sports\/professional\/nhl\/sabres\/article_bfbb8a4c-7380-4731-9e52-22796938c63d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BUFFALO NEWS, 7\/30<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bills and Sabres COO Pete Guelli said yesterday that his teams have \u201cdiscussed the possibility of the Bills\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,6,4475],"class_list":{"0":"post-250984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114948590113077201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}