Rick Jeanneret with the team, and the decision may have been influenced by the labor dispute that shortened the length of the season. Furthermore, Jeanneret missed the first four games of the season due to illness; he ended up calling 44 games for the Sabres in the shortened 2013 season. Jeanneret confirmed he would return for the 2013-14 season (he had signed a two-year contract the previous year) but did not make a solid commitment to how many games he would call in that season. Most indications were that Jeanneret would call 55 to 65 games for the 2013-14 season. Jeanneret announced
Nuages gris was happening and what would happen in European music: sound, with the assistance of symmetry, would take over, harmony would be absorbed into color and lose its cadential function." Claude Debussy probably had "Nuages gris" in mind when he composed his own "Nuages". Mauricio Kagel used "Nuages gris" in his "Unguis incarnatus est" (1972). in 1986, Heinz Holliger worked the piece out into "Zwei Liszt-Transkriptionen" for orchestra (together with "Unstern!"). A shocking scene at the morgue in Stanley Kubrick's last film" Eyes Wide Shut" is accompanied by "Nuages gris". Nuages gris Nuages gris (; French, lit. "Grey Clouds"), S.199 or