‘”It used to be pretty common that teams would go heavy (on season tickets) or almost all the way to capacity,” said Pete Guelli, the Sabres’ president of business operations. “But with the way the model works now, it doesn’t make as much sense. We feel you always want to have access to your building for other customers, for individual game sales and group sales so you can continue to make sure you’ve got a foundation well into the future. “That’s standard for a lot of teams but even more important from our perspective. I mean, you have 14 years of futility that led to a lost generation of hockey fans in our market.”‘