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I’m not getting any of this from that comment. Imo, he is merely saying that in Utah, the fans were just happy to have a team. In Buffalo, they are actually hockey fans.

Avs by a billion!

Yes. But I'd be $25 richer.

You have a Kia or Hyundai?

The general rule of thumb I was taught is that you don't enter the intersection unless you can clear it before the light turns red. So if I look at oncoming traffic and I see a long line then I do not enter the intersection until I can see a potential gap in the traffic that would allow me to complete my turn. Also told that if you are in the intersection when the light turns red you have effectively run the red light and could be ticketed. This is true going straight, left, or right. I tend to drive cautious because I have enough crap happening in life and enough car problems to not have to deal with an accident, etc.

I actually forgot Danforth and Norris were part of this team. Not that it really matters anyway

If you wagered, say, $10,000 on the Avalanche to win straight-up tonight... would your winnings be... $10,025?

Holy hell I love this quote. He's hitting the team in two ways. First, Levi is a really good goalie but the team in front of him is letting him down. Second, Levi needs to find a way to pick his team up with a save and not wilt if the skaters on the ice aren't getting it done. The more I hear about this guy... yeah.

I'm going to max out my credit card on the Avalanche Money Line sports bet tonight. A guaranteed win!!

No. Because even with those players in the lineup the defensive zone coverage still doesn't understand the concept of the backdoor or trailing high slot player. Also this, but I don't think they'd be in a playoff spot because the coaching is horrible and the PP sucks along with defensive zone coverage. It's not alarming and it's not unique. It's a call out that it's tougher to play in a market where fans are critical of the product on the ice. We hear players talk about the pressure of playing in Toronto and Montreal. It's a real thing. We're viewing this from the eyes of LONG TIME fans where it's been misery and we're critical because it's been misery. It's not easy for anyone to jump into that scenario and have the same feeling as coming from a market where fans were just excited they had a hockey team. To me this is much ado about nothing and an attempt to stir the pot by a media personality. It's harder to play in Buffalo than Utah and certainly Arizona where so few cared about the team that they kept bouncing around to the arena that would have them. In my opinion he's complimenting the Buffalo area as being a hockey market with fans who don't accept an inferior product. I don't think it's a sentiment that he isn't the type of player to embrace it. He's just commenting on the difference.

I gotta wonder if the PP wouldn’t be at least a little better if it weren’t currently missing four contributors.

All of them need to go including the strength and conditioning coaches

The learning part is really important. Understanding how to use your skills within the next level of competition but also to develop them further and gain new ones. McKenna has a great base, he's under the microscope though and that won't change.

When does Adams, the entire front office and coaching staff get fired? Until that happens nothing is going to change!

A reason is a justifiable explanation for an outcome. An excuse is an unjustifiable reason. Injuries are real. The question we need to debate is whether the players being lost to injury would change the outcomes of the results on the ice. In other words, do the injuries justify the losses? If we believe they do, then it's a reason and we should accept that the CURRENT situation is an outcome of the injuries. Now, the OVERALL situation and a discussion on Kevyn Adams as a GM.. that's another story. He's hopeless and even if the injuries are seen as a reason for the outcome I would still argue that the team isn't where it needs to be and hasn't been.

Super alarming comment from a guy who has been completely invisible. If you are involved in a trade where the player going the other way is already exceeding expectations, should you really be bumping your gums about how “hard it is to play” for fans that aren’t just simps waiting for the next goal. This attitude is disgraceful.

So.. I saw the Mitts statement. Is this more like early Jack Eichel who kept trying to do things that did not work? Back then I called it his arrogance. Because it had always worked before he was slow in understanding that the margin for error shrunk along with the gap in talent. So he had to learn how to apply his elevated skill differently to the NHL game.

Shame my beer league game is at 9:10pm.. a real shame.

Sorry, Michigan State.

What are they up to in man-games lost now? 79 in 16? Carson Meyer is back! (in Rochester)

Now that's a name I hadn't heard in a long time. A long time. Until yesterday! I went to hockey-reference to look something up and saw a headshot with a Sabres sweater and said, "who's that?" because I didn't recognize him. It was probably some random passer-through of the Pegular era, right? And it was! Strachan lives. It might not be a bad thing to get 2 or 3 instead of McKenna this year. Simply because if they do draft him, he's going to be in the opening lineup next season as the savior. At least if they get one of the more "project" type guys, they don't just anoint him to be everything from the opening faceoff. I can just see Pegula responding in some embedded video if the Sabres win the lottery, "We get McKenna? I paid to get him to play at my college and he was really good for a 17 year-old. Now we're Stanley Cup contenders!" <Adams is about to say "But..." in the background, but then is like, yup, contenders, yup. The Pegula is always right.>

Michigan or Michigan State? State is ranked 1 in the country and just beat PSU (at the time #3) 2 in a row in the past week.

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