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Buffalo employed a professional 22 years old figure skater to assist in introducing the players during home games in 1970, the young lady had become an amateur multi-medalist in the US and Canada who then coached at the Buffalo Skating and Curling Clubs and winning a National Synchronized skating championship.
No pyrotechnic display, loud blaring horn or pop music, no giant logo lit up on the ice, and no major celebrity to kick off the show…just hockey, introduced by a lone figure skater with a piece of classical music from Russian composer Aram Khachaturian.
The music written in 1942 for the ballet “Gayane”, the “Sabre Dance” is considered by some to be one the signature pieces of the 20th century, and has been covered by many artists around the world, and here along the Lake this piece has become our hockey music.
For the first time Buffalo hosted the US National Figure Skating Championship and it coincided with the Sabres inaugural season 1970-71 during January 27– 30, which was the Golden Anniversary year of US figure skating which included 14 years old Dorothy Hamill competing.
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Fascinating piece of historical hockey significance, thank you.
I went to look up how old she would be now and came across this site with some good early memories being shared.
https://www.sabrespace.com/community/topic/18892-early-sabre-memories/
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Your welcome, and thank you for considering my writing significant hockey history, I think I will have that put in my eulogy, not that I need it anytime soon, lol.
I had tried unsuccessfully to reach out to her, her last places of teaching and skating, former students, one was out in California, but I could not, I was 9 when she was 22 in 1970 so now she has to be 76, more or less.
I did go to the link, responses were dated 2011, lol, probably a boat load of memories since then as well, lol
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It’s cool that you tried to reach out to her!
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Maybe…unless she thought I was a stalker, lol
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LOL
That’s always a risk. Been there, done that.
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Well, I do not consider talking up a young man in the elevator that looked like Mitch Marner should be constituted as “stalking” but I am not an attorney.
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LOL. Great memory.
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