{"id":407182,"date":"2026-01-14T13:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/407182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:02:16","slug":"meet-and-greet-with-buffalo-sabres-alumni-at-tops-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/407182\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet And Greet With Buffalo Sabres Alumni At Tops Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, you will have a chance to meet and greet with some of the best former Sabres players of all time. Tops Markers will be holding two separate meet and greets with Sabres&#8217; alumni.<\/p>\n<p>How To Meet and Greet Buffalo Sabres Alumni<\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Sabres are on a tear and have moved into one of the NFL playoff spots after starting off the season very slowly. Sabrehood fever is spreading across Western New York, and you can relive some of the best moments from the past with special meet and greets with Sabres Alumni.<\/p>\n<p>Tops Markets announced they will be holding two separate meet and greets with Sabre Alumni this week. First, on Thursday, January 15th, you can meet and greet with Taylor Pyatt, Ales Kotalik, and Jason Pominville at the Tops Market on South Park Ave in Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Friday the 16th, you can meet up with JP Dumont, Jochen Hecht, and Tomas Vanek at the Tops Market on Transit Road in Depew.<\/p>\n<p>As for the current Sabres, they are riding a heater over the past several games. They have worked their way into playoff contention and will be at home for their next three games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenew961.com\/buffalo-sabres-senior-wishes-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: THE BUFFALO SABRES GRANT SPECIAL WISH FOR A SENIOR IN WESTERN NEW YORK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this the year the Sabres finally make the playoffs again? They haven&#8217;t played a playoff game since 2011 and have the longest active playoff drought in the NHL, and are tied with the Jets for the longest playoff drought by any North American professional team.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Let me know <a href=\"https:\/\/wbuf.com\/meet-buffalo-sabres-alumni\/mailto:dave.fields@townsquaremedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a> or send me a message using our APP.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/attachment-900.jpg\" alt=\"92.9 WBUF logo\"\/>10 Reason Why The Buffalo Sabres Will End Their Playoff Drought<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you think of Kevin Adams, put that aside for a second and just look at the roster he&#8217;s built. It looks very strong on paper, and these 10 players are why the drought will end this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, you will have a chance to meet and greet with some of the best former Sabres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,16872,229,5133,5,4,1108,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-407182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-buffalo-events","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sabres","15":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115893590226698540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}