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Originally Posted by Sandman
My brother and I used to get the company seats in that era for every pre-season game (nobody else wanted those tickets).We used to enjoy going to see the young guys and prospects play, and it was also fun because the players who weren't playing (usually half the regulars) would walk around the concourse with the public, so we would actually walk right up to them to converse and get autographs. Even players travelling with the opposing teams would just be walking around. This was possible due to the fact that only 3,000 to 5,000 fans would attend.
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The company I worked for had season tickets too, and I would end up getting them almost every game. The boss would come out of his office and be like "who wants the seats tonight?" Crickets, except for I would put my hand up. He would be like, "Nah, you got them the last couple times. I'm going to find someone else." Then he would walk around the office for 20 min and come back to my desk with a dejected look on his face and hand me the tickets. I bet I went to 30 games that year. Our corporate seats were 2nd level but we moved down to the lower bowl almost every game.
I was at Fuhr's last game as well. It was disgusting how loud it was in there when the oilers scored. The guy was a legend but man he was just so done by that point that it was kind of pathetic. Man we had a couple seasons there where this team was an absolute goalie graveyard.