Maybe fewer goals, but more scoreboard
Sabres fans who show up Friday morning to watch the first practice of training camp will notice a large, gaping void above the ice that'll make HSBC Arena look more like an airplane hangar.

The video scoreboard will be gone.

No, the JumboTron didn't fall from the ceiling again. And it hasn't been taken down for autumn cleaning.

The Sabres are having a large, high-definition video scoreboard and ribbon boards installed in time for the regular season. The system will be similar to the astonishing setup used by the Bruins in TD Banknorth Garden. >> STORY

Now, that looks freakin' awesome!

http://www.tdbanknorthgarden.com/business_advertising.asp

The centerpiece of the TD Banknorth Garden's renovations is the country's first indoor arena, fully functional high-definition (HD) scoreboard called Garden HDX. The massive state-of-the-art scoreboard features four larger-than-life screens along with 3 rings of LED technology, bringing fans closer to the action with amazing clarity like never seen before. Easily viewed from any seat, it generates great interest and high sponsor recall. Its features include:

* 4 HD Diamond Vision Display Screens with audio and video capabilities (12'9" x 21'4" each screen)
* 3 LED rings with animation, graphics and text capabilities

They must use multiple LCD panels per display I'd say 4 LCD panels. They could do it cheaper with an array of 9 or 12 panels depending on the aspect ratio they are going for.

I've got one question though do pucks ever accidentally get flipped up into the panels like on clearing attempts? That is one hell of an expensive mistake even one of the panels that comprise one of the arrays would cost somewhere in the 80k or more range. Not to mention the cost to ship and install it.

Awsome. I'll have to try to get tixs just to see it lol....And of course to watch the sabres.

That is so so so so great.

The one in Philly is awesome as well. I am very excited to see it on the 29th!

I think that actual look of it is so ugly and there is too much empty space up there. I would rather have the screens all come together flush but the screens will look awesome. Hd baby!!

So, we can watch the sabres game in HD at the arena, the next step is to be able to watch the sabres game in HD in our living rooms

i would have rather had them buy hd equipment for tv broadcast than a new scoreboard ...

Or spend some money to sign a player.


Sorry, just had to kick the dead horse one more time.

It wasn't about the money. Larry Quinn hated Briere and didn't want him on his team. They offered the money.

this just proves my theory , and lgs thread is subject to being taken over by briere /drury/regier/quinn madness

part of the problem is that "a new scoreboard" doesn't really excite a whole heck of a lot of people into talking about it. But what proves MY theory correct in this thread is that "People from Buffalo cannot resist complaining about people who make more than them in professional sports." It's a given in anything related to Buffalo.

I think its a given in the whole continent.... Most sports players are overpaid and thats a fact of life.

I think they are putting in a new HD scoreboard to increase the arena experience in hopes to increase arena revenue and to keep the attendance from tailing off if they suck this year or next.

One of my professors was mentioning that. I think he's worked with some franchises before and even with the Sabres. They'll be upgrading and using probably the Daktronics Venus-7000 system like almost all other sports franchises, it's the same system we have here at my school. It's a pretty sick system, I operate it at the home football and soccer games. Deffinately about time they did something with it.

I have a feeling the Sabres new Scoreboard will look a lot like the Preds new scoreboard! Here's a video of it. U have to press the play button.
http://vimeo.com/314159

The Preds one is similar to what they put up here in Calgary and it looks fantastic. You will enjoy it.

i hope its personalized like the old jumbotron with the smoking buffalo head.

He's going to hate him even more when he's scoring on us.

That is already in place. Time Warner Basic Cable will carry all 41 home games in High Definition on MSG Network

in the Buffalo area maybe....

I don't see any changes coming in the Rochester area to our HD capacities

I think the Predator's one is a tad bit overkill, but that's just me.

I actually really like how everything flows up behind the HD screens... I don't think I would like just empty space behind there in all the gaps.

I wrote that before it happened. They must have read my post and thought "Wow, this guy is a genius. We should listen to him"

i doubt they thought that, they are probably logical people

Larry Quinn is not logical.

update:

(not a real photo, but a picture that was sent in a sabres insider email)

That might be the greatest thing I have seen all day.

I doubt the little slugs at the bottom are going to blow smoke but I suppose we could be surprised.

The crossed sabres are definitely a nice touch.