‘The announced attendance was 18,211. I’m here to tell you that number was inflated. Empty seats were the norm in all the corner sections around the upper bowl. There were plenty of fans dressed as blue chairs in the lower bowl, too, although they were scattered. And the Sabres — once revered for the ingenuity and creativity that brought us the variable ticket pricing — seem to have finally found the upper limit of what Buffalonians will pay. Torontonians too.’