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Yeah, this is all very true. And at least 5, possibly 6, of the 11 (?) accepted penalties were clear cut penalties. I'm still in disbelief over what Diggs did last night. ~8 months removed from an ACL tear. On the wrong side of 30. Jeepers.

Posted in the last few minutes just before 12:30 pm today...

But then they'd have to waive Bryson (or the claimed player) once everyone gets back to health. And Adams can't risk exposing Bryson to waivers.

Zucker is on a long term contract taking him into his late 30's making close to 10% of the cap. For what is likely going to be close to 10% of the cap, at least initially, and close to 8% long term, I do not want to sign someone who "IF" something good happens he'll be able to contribue "in some form". Not for that money.

See also 2005-2006. I think you are spot on. The next season felt so different. Man, we are due for another breakout year. So NFL decision? Seriously, it has to be tough on the quarterback especially.

He's his dad's kid, for sure. Ed was a tool. Shawn is a tool on steroids. (Though it's likely dad did more of them than sonny boy.) They both are under the misguided impression that the people in the stands and watching on TV are there to watch THEM do their jobs. No, actually we prefer it when the refs are essentially invisible. But as bad as Hochuli and crew were; they didn't cause Knox to mistime his shift; they didn't cause Coleman to fumble the ball; they didn't cause Allen to Brett Favre that ball into a non-existant window; and they didn't decide Tre White could cover Diggs without any help as often as he was given that assignment. Stinks that they lost this one; but the Cheats will lose a couple more they shouldn't; the Crows and the Bungles are both essentially dead men walking; SD is still SD; and KC has a killer schedule. The Bills get the AFC North in the year that some teams are emerging in the South and West and they get the NFC South in a year that except for TB they all look like the Fishies. Injuries let them luck into a better PK and better P than they started the year with. Find a way to get past Atlanta next Monday. Get Hoecht and the other suspended guy back; get Oliver healthy; and get to it. They still control their own destiny.

The largetst part of being a fan for me is the social aspect of it. If a team played, but there was no one to talk to about the game, no sports radio, no pre and post game show. No highlights. No stadium or arena to be part of the cheering crows. If it was just the game and nothing else, not even a message board like this, then that would reduce the fun of being a fan for many of us. With that said, it is the REACTION(s) of all those other people in the social aspect that impacts my enjoyment of rooting for a particular team that was the genesis of my prior post.

They should have picked someone up off waivers. Guess we'll see who is healthy but a Byram - Samuelsson pairing makes me wanna puke.

Realize 3 of the 4 pairings aren't those they'll be running Thursday night. But holy cow is that a serious hound's breakfast back there.

I think Greenway is a 4th liner on this squad. He's definitely not rolling with the Norris line or McLeod-Tuch under normal 5-on-5 situations. Ruff has a very Ruffian-style kid third line in Quinn-Kulich-Doan. If Greenway skates on the remaining spare parts line of say: Greenway-Krebs-Danforth, then they probably get 9-10 minutes 5-on-5 and Greenway gets another 2+ as PK1. But, I do agree that Geertsen gets much different ice time. If the 4th line for that night is Geertsen-Krebs-Danforth, then Geertsen gets 6 minutes total and other players get a double shift with the Krebs-Danforth forechecking effort. Pasta is from the Italian word for... well, pasta. Noodle is from the German Knödel or dumpling, but a boiled dumpling is a type of pasta.

With this Defense the Sabres should claim someone of waivers to just come in and Temporarily take a spot. It was mentioned before but the Leafs put Thrun on waivers and Colorado put Keaton Middleton on waivers I'd take Keaton Middleton all day, he is Jacob Middletons brother who plays for Minnesota, now while Jacob is the much better player, they both play the game the same way. They are both there teams toughest players and best fighters. I would welcome Middleton with open arms! He can play third pairing minutes until Kesserling is back and then if we dont want him anymore try to put him on waivers to get to Roch, or truthfully just keep him as the 7 and let Bryson go. If we are trying to be tougher to play against, here is a perfect way to do that

First and foremost, being married to an Italian, Chinese food has noodles. Italian dishes have pasta. I’m praying (ok I’m atheist) but you get my gist, physicality can be shot into the sun. I can only picture Bill Cowher’s old stiff mug saying dumb words like physicality.

The Bills really need better receivers. I don't know about that, but they were just hideous. Not sure why the NFL wants them to wear another team's uniforms, I mean,... other than the enormous money grab from all the suckers that bought one.

Have admitted it likely won't work as Krebs probably doesn't have the chops to play on the top line even with 2 really good top line finishers. BUT, and again it was against lesser competition, he was in the right spots when he played with those 2 and he had important quality passes that led directly to 2 goals (he got assists on both, know 1 was primary, not sure if the other was 2ndary or not but it was crucial to the play); IF he can play within his limitations and just get pucks and feed them to spots those other 2 can work with it would free up a better player to play with McLeod and Tuch and it would also let whatever version of a Kid Line the 3rd scoring line is have Zucker on it, which should make THAT line significantly more effective. Krebs will be what he will be should he end up where we all expect centering the 4th line. But if he could be even a discount Rob Brown with Lemieux or Sheary with Crosby (guys who don't bring down significantly better players, but are themselves elevated by playing with the better player) then the middle 2 lines can both be improved. The idea is to maximize the total, not one of the parts. And, once again, it likely won't work. But it flashed it could. And this team has enough self-inflicted contraints already applied to it ($5MM under the cap; very bad X&O coaching; no proven goalie; just to name a few); they need a bit to break their way unexpectedly to overcome them. This could be one of those bits.

He never misses an opportunity to flex on national TV.

there's no doubting it. i can't look now, but someone once compiled data to establish it as fact. it's also possible that his crews just penalize the ever loving sh1t out of most teams. just overly active. (there were at least 3 Bills penalties last night where I was left befuddled.) that f**ker hochuli made me boiling mad with that offside call last night -- when he said "that penalty is declined because [smirk] the result of the play [smiling and signaling] is a touchdown."

I know that I can’t drive the owner out. That doesn’t mean that it can’t be pointed out that as an owner he is a dismal failure. Are the complaints repetitious? Absolutely so. And the reason is that his foolishness has been going on for a generation. His extended record is his record. And that in itself is an absurdity.

I typically would be against something like this, but AI RJ would be better than what we currently have now. If RJ's family were supportive of the idea, i'd be open to trying it out too. I mean this life we all live may just be a simulation anyways, so at least we get to hear RJ call the games lol

Good question. Understand why the media folks use it, because seeing who's working through the drills together (aka a rush up the ice) is how they figure out which groupings are actually lines on that particular day. But no idea when it went from simply "lines" to guys taking "reps" together to "line rushes." When did "physicality" become a thing? Heck, when did we go from "noodles" to "pasta?"

This is more of a personal problem than anything with the team TBH. It's just one loss in a sport where anything can and does happen. Wonder where people went from just being a fan of a team to letting it ruin their day. You cannot effect the game in anyway and do not get paid to play it... don't let it ruin you.

Great to see Benson back! Hopefully Sammy is g2g by Thursday, and Power I really hope its just a rest day, if we are missing our entire second D pairing for any length of time that is going to really be devastating

She's a Buffalo News reporter. Believe she replaced Lysowski.

No idea at all who this person is, but here's what they said:

Im pretty sure we called them that back way back when I played peewee. Maybe it's a regional thing?