Which is fine if the player retires, gets traded, etc. But you don't change your number years in to your time with a team. You just don't.
Which is why I hate Simonick's number games.
Nolan and Guhle showed up and that's about it.
I think Sabres PR would care. Fans spend money to wear the name and number of their favorite player. If you don't see why making thousands of jerseys obsolete overnight would be douchey then I can't help you.
I lived with a guy who was dabbling in synthetic for a while instead of smoking weed and I basically told him to cut that out and go back to smoking weed because he was super weird on the synthetic stuff. I think at the time it was branded as K2. I remember one instance we were driving home from somewhere and I was following him in my truck and he had just used some K2 and he was driving SUPER SLOW. When we got home he told me he was freaking out about the police (there were no police).
Synthetic is bad stuff.