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“The old Aud was rocking,” Gare remembers. “I threw my gloves and my stick and I think they all went up in the stands, I was so pumped up. It was electric, just electric. The fans in Buffalo are some of the most rabid and rowdiest fans in the league. They’re loud. And at the Aud, the fans were right on top of you. It was like the old Chicago Stadium or Boston Garden. And the fans there love hockey.”
Gare played in 891 NHL games, scoring 379 goals and adding 352 assists for 731 points during his career. When Gare wrapped up his NHL career with Edmonton in 1986-87, he was taken in by a longtime admirer named Wayne Gretzky.
“Wayne lived in Brantford (Ontario) when I was playing in Buffalo, he was a big Sabre fan,” Gare says. “He said he loved watching me play, and I had played in the Canada Cup with him in ’81 and played in some All-Star Games with him and we befriended one another. So, when I got to Edmonton, he said, ‘Come stay with me.' I stayed with him for about a month and a half until my family came in.”
gretzky a sabres fan... the great one likes the great team, perhaps?
Gare played in 891 NHL games, scoring 379 goals and adding 352 assists for 731 points during his career. When Gare wrapped up his NHL career with Edmonton in 1986-87, he was taken in by a longtime admirer named Wayne Gretzky.
“Wayne lived in Brantford (Ontario) when I was playing in Buffalo, he was a big Sabre fan,” Gare says. “He said he loved watching me play, and I had played in the Canada Cup with him in ’81 and played in some All-Star Games with him and we befriended one another. So, when I got to Edmonton, he said, ‘Come stay with me.' I stayed with him for about a month and a half until my family came in.”
gretzky a sabres fan... the great one likes the great team, perhaps?
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