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Living in Rick's shadow is an impossible task. Calling play-by-play radio style, instead of television style with endless irrelevant yammering; see also Emerick, et al, is also a rarity now. Most Buffalo fans would haaaate TV style, especially after Rick. We're lucky that the Sabres broadcast team didn't change over. Dan's better than many. He's also a bit like dry toast, which makes the banter with a silly Rayzor warmly welcomed to me.

This is all so ridiculous. The recent trend of needing to know every single detail about everything we interface with is long overdue. Combined with instant mass communication, the groups that are obsessed with details, no matter what the topic is, unearth details about that topic and broadcast them to the rest of society. We then learn, are better informed, and thus make better decisions as a society. It flies in the face of the antiquated view that mommy and daddy government, that Bob and Jane commercial food preparers, and that Edna and Josef banker would always make sound, reasonable decisions that benefit all strata of society. This latter way of looking at the world has been proven to all but the most blind that it is naive, lazy, and ultimately critically dangerous. What do you think put the world in the position it's in now? Believing what you're told, caving into the pressure to accept the narrative, and lacking the insight and courage to ask questions. Sure, it's only a hockey DB website on the surface, but what it really indicates is what I just said: a segmented, yet collective shattering of not being interested in details. So, its purchase and planned closure by the Commie Capitals is not only a huge slap in the face to NHL fans, but it is emphasizing the stark contrast between what it means to be informed, have access to data, and freely ponder the narrative presented to you and what it means to have information censored or completely removed and be left in the dark about reality.

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My first choice is to trade the pick for an impact player. If they keep it than Catton, Helenius, Dickinson or Biuim would be great picks.

Good to see a roaring return of prescriptive PAngloss. Unblock him @LGR4GM!

I can tell you don't know this audience all too well.

Move those goalposts, Pops!! I don’t think the culturals inspire quite the same kind of inside baseball activities that you see in pro sports. That said, rest assured that Tony and Linda (Shea’s sth’s since 1992) write lengthy emails to Shea’s president about restoration projects, shows that get booked (and not booked), the choice of junior development officers, and such. And then they kibitz about those same things at the Friday fish fry with Ed and Rene.

I like Benson and Quinn a lot and would be reluctant to move them. You and and a few others see more potential than I think is there though. Both can be high-level NHL players. It is highly unlikely that either will ever be seriously considered worthy of being the center-piece of a trade for an elite player such as MacKinnon.

I miss the French broadcasts that NHL.TV would show. Even though I don't speak French, I would often have those on while doing other stuff. You get the energy of the game and know when to look, and you could ignore the mindless sports drivel.

Remember when we heard, “Perreault winding up behind his own net … “ and we could follow that radio call all the way down the ice? Lost art indeed.

I have closed the old poll and added an updated poll with more of the choices we have been discussing here and on the Off-season game plan thread.

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I believe this is called the Mike Tirico Syndrome. For a football fan with at least half a brain, it can be fatal over time. The only cure is turning off the sound on the broadcast or going the bathroom when it starts picking up, usually with canned, gaudy graphics.

My dislike of Dunleavy has absolutely nothing to do with RJ in the least. And the fact that other PBP guys around the league are just as bad as Dunleavy doesn’t elevate him in the least, either. It seems radio play by play is a lost art. Much to the detriment of the audience.

I don’t know the stats but my viewings of him are that a lot of his goals were tap ins and rebounds because Tocchet got him using his big body to go to the front of the net. Shooting pe4centage should be good from inside of 6 feet.

If you enjoy Pringles and choose to consume them, then you certainly should want to know as much about them as possible, especially their ingredients, nutritional value (or lack thereof) and the effects consuming Pringles has on your health. If, for example, Pringles sold in the USA are made from a different menu of ingredients and have a different nutritional value (or lack thereof) then of those sold in Europe, then one might want to know why, especially if the European ingredient list can be deciphered without the use of a dictionary and Wikipedia. Upon an examination of the ingredients of the USA Pringles one discovers ingredients that have negative health consequences, one might want to discover why Pringles would do such a thing. One obvious place to look is at the leadership of Pringles to determine their motivations. As we know, compensation and lordships (ie. having a fiefdom and yielding power within it) are great motivators for the un-conscientious.

People who need summer and nice weather in order to enjoy the outdoors and be happy are soft. 😂

Dunleavy is OK, but they need a better color guy.

I am not a fan of summer. It can take as long as it wants before showing up. If it doesn't show up at all and we go right into fall, I'm fine with that, too.

I have not thought of Dan Dunleavy of being bad enough to bother me. The one good thing about combined radio TV broadcast is it forces him to call the game and not discuss stupid stuff like they do on the national broadcast networks. Rob Ray will lead him astray at times but he does try to get back to calling the game most of the time. I could live without Rob Ray. He is not the most insightful color man. I think it would be better if he or someone else was up in the press box next to Dan.

Don't trade out of the spot just because you have a strong group of similar prospects in your pipeline. Always take BPA.

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Not trying to argumentative, but I’m not aware any Sabres executives who actually worked either of those guys at the time they were hired. When I see “guys we’ve worked with” I read it to mean that it means guys they actually worked with, like Adams and Ruff, or Karmanos and Ventura.