And since he ia a Coastie, he should visit the Naval and Serviceman's Park down at Canalside. Canalside is the location of the end of the Erie Canal. Was the location of the old hockey arena. After they razed it, they found the remains of the canal under the arena. They have rebuilt a few hundred feet of it with the original rocks. In winter, the fountains are an ice rink and they paint the Sabres logo on the ice at the exact spot where center ice was in the Memorial Auditorium.