‘The flight took a little over an hour. The odyssey took 11 hours longer than that. And when it was over, after Robert Byczkowski and his wife, Angela, had sat through Monday’s cancellations and delays at Newark (N.J.) Airport, after they had flown to Rochester, N.Y., and driven to their home in Buffalo, only one part of his life remained unchanged. A season ticketholder, he still hasn’t seen his Buffalo Sabres play a playoff game since Game 7 of a first-round 2001 series.’