If there were any doubts that Terry Pegula was as big a Sabres fan as he says he is, they were erased when Pegula choked up at the sight of Sabres great Gilbert Perreault arriving at Pegula's first news conference as the team's new owner. If there were doubts about Pegula's commitment to bringing a championship to Buffalo, he took care of them, too, by promising all but a blank check to general manager Darcy Regier. "Starting today, there will be no financial mandates on the Buffalo Sabres hockey department," the Pennsylvania natural gas billionaire said Tuesday at HSBC Arena, with the players he inherits sitting to his left and the ones he spent years watching -- Perreault, Larry Playfair and others -- at his right. Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=6147411
