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I don't think that is what happened at all. If Lehner wasn't in position it had nothing to do with McDavid. McDavid skated down the wing from his defensive zone. Regardless of how fast we was going - Lehner probably had 3 seconds to move two feet to his left. And although he technically gets past Risto in the last 5 feet, he was comfortably contained to the outside and left with nothing but a poor angle shot on his backhand.

Fair enough. The adulation with respect to his last goal is unwarranted. It was a bad goal let in by the keeper. He should get as much credit for that as Legwand did for scoring from 160 ft out. I'll be damned if I get down on bended knee for a soft backhand.

How did that make it past the filters?!!!!

Are you saying this because of his two goals? In particular the last one?

Eh. Don't confuse conjecture with facts. I don't know who GMTM would have preferred, but Drury signed his contract extension early in the season. TG didn't consummate the marriage. Drury eventually pulled out and THEN he was walking. So, Drury was originally fine with staying, but TM may not have offered that contract in the first place.

This is just being argumentative for argument's sake. Draft picks are the currency for the NHL. Arguing about receiving draft picks is like arguing with your employer about receiving money as compensation for work. You can't eat money. Money doesn't keep the rain off your head. Why would anyone want money then? Tim Murray explicitly stated that the Sabres would be beneficiaries of teams needing to unload good players this summer because of the cap. He's loading up on the currency that allows him to buy those players. So, that's not 4-6 years. It is more likely that it is 6 months. He will use those picks to buy good players who fit in the long term.

If I had considerably more cash to just throw away I would have flung my phone through a TV by now…

The sole purpose choosing a non-desirable default avatar is to motivate people to change it in a humorous way. Tim was chosen at the time because the fanbase really soured on him and he had a reputation for being lazy. Being too lazy to change your avatar sort of fit right in. Just something to keep in mind.

This would be the place for such a discussion. Thanks. :thumbsup:

:blink: To "speculate" means to form an opinion/theory lacking firm evidence. Setting the bushels of low-hanging fruit aside... Your words make zero practical sense. No one needs to "speculate whether" they will or will not sign Stamkos or continue the Toronto series. I know FOR A FACT that they "will or will not sign Stamkos"... "will or will not continue the Toronto series". There is no speculation that either one of the two scenarios will occur regarding either event. Now, perhaps you meant to say "I wonder if..."?

??? It is already out. It replaced gamecenter.

I have both verbal and non-verbal things to communicate to the ref.

I don't think that's true. They seemed shoulder to shoulder to me but the defender was on the wrong side. OTOH, The call in overtime was complete horseshit.

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I agree with this one...

haha. Now I get it. :thumbsup:

Well, the last sentence describes a semi-annual event over the course of 14 years. What are you saying?

The inference was for the layer beyond that. That because of that short sentence (with no context) that somehow meant there was a larger force at action. Sometimes a travel article is really just a travel article and sometimes a few politically correct words about a group of people are just some politically correct words... What didn't happen was in the video. Picture the scene with Gilbert as the NASA director and calling all hands on deck into the Sabres War Room... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhoXFVQsIxw Where the dialog would be how the organization was going to handle Lorne's inquiries on hotel sheet thread counts, farm to table supply chains and what level of reception opposing fans would receive. The President did not call down to check on the Lorne travel article situation. There was no after action debriefing. As an aside, I'm not sure how many people have actually been interviewed for a written article. I happen to have been quite a few times (no big deal, just saying I have). I once talked with Judy Battista from NYT/NFL.com for well over an hour. The article she wrote gave me two sentences. Although I was never misrepresented by her, you never know what response from what question is going to make it.

Looking at some numbers today and I realize I need to really address it better than I have. Both TBD and SS get 38% of their traffic from mobile and about 12% tablet (although this is less of a concern). I know the mobile view of the forum is pretty spartan. This also dovetails in that this version of the software is EOL in 14 months. My choices are probably to upgrade IPB to 4.0 series or move to Xenforo. IPB has treaded water for years and while not a dying platform it isn't growing either. Xenforo is growing by leaps and bounds taking share away from IPB and vBulletin. Does anyone visit another forum that has really a good mobile experience? Here are the two mobile skins (if you are reading this on mobile - else it is just their default desktop skin)) for IPB and Xenforo: IPB: https://community.invisionpower.com/ Xenforo: https://xenforo.com/community/ Would be interested in your thoughts.

It is hard to understand how badly this is being misinterpreted. The Sabres were definitely doing the touting. The difference is that a third party was pulling the information from them - they were not pushing it. The path of least resistance between the author and payday was how quickly he could repackage the information he asked for and was subsequently given. To channel my inner GDD... If a dog does his business in a park, some people witness this and think the dog just pooped. Another group who witnessed the same event decided to speculate that ISIS could have infected the dog with a fatal virus and the dog has been sent to distribute the deadly virus among the population via the drinking wells. When the owner, a Jewish lady in her mid-50's, is confronted with questions regarding the defecation, the owner is concerned that everyone is on drugs and is frightened that seemingly reasonable people have in-depth questions about a lawn turd. Truly frightened. After reporting this back to the masses that the dog was just indeed taking a poop, the ISIS speculators retort that of course the owner was going to deny the distribution of a deadly virus by their biological warfare delivery vehicle, duh! and continue to chortle about the lack of evidence disproving their perfectly reasonable theory.

No. The take was that he was able to field a competitive team on a shoestring budget.

We may have had one but it wasn't used. If it was I would still use it. Live game chats are usually fairly useless because they are immediate reactions with no context. Although not so much an issue now, 100 people reloading a thread over and over used to strain the server. A message board just isn't the right tool for that, but people are creatures of habit.

Open season in games 81 and 82? :)

10 years down the road and I would contend there is some selection bias here. Those of us who remain have been willing to tolerate that hyperbole, ignore the calls to fire the national anthem anthem singer, ignore the complaints of what row Terry Pegula sat in when he watched his first game. Although I should not be counted in that because over the years I have disappeared for long stretches. Why? Because like many before me who logged off and never came back I could not stand to read another day of team storm cloud. However, I keep coming back because I actually pay the bills. I have been doing this for 18 years and I have met hundreds of members. Granted, most of those have been on the Bills side. I will tell you that the number one reason people tell me why they stop visiting a message board is that they can no longer stand the negativity. Anecdotal? Yes. But it completely jives with my own personal experience.

I was ready to just call it a day regarding this situation, but I would like to riff off this if I may... When I first read the original post, I was fairly disgusted at the sight of yet another smear campaign being launched by the OP. Despite the wailings of the uninformed, I did what I do 99.9% of time - I ignored it. I did not intervene, comment, warn nor perform any action. I then checked back and saw LGR4GM's post. My level of disgust grew because he was baited into that reply. Again, I chose to ignore the thread because after years of this, after you tolerate it for so long, your instinct is just to tolerate more. I did not intervene, comment, warn nor perform any action. In fact, no moderator stepped in. Heavy-handed indeed! :rolleyes: (I later learned that LGR4GM decided to step away from the board. I'm sensing a theme here...) Later that evening, a member sent in an official complaint. That's normally when we step in - when someone asks us to (oh, the oppression...). While it was clear LGR4GM's comments were not worded according to community standards, it was also clear that the original post was meant to inflame. Stanley cup being flushed down the toilet? Games to be played in Hamilton? Gratuitous pot shots at the "fanatic superfan" owner? All over a single sentence? NONE of that verbiage was necessary to strike up a conversation about opposing teams fans in the building. NONE. Whatever legitimate discussion point the OP was attempting to make was drowned out in inflammatory rhetoric. So, a warning was issued to both parties... and I'll stand behind that 100%. And no, I don't care to hear anyone's rebuttal regarding this. Not your circus. No one was banned, no posts removed (LGR4GM deleted his own post). Just a simple request to stop being an asshat. My word, not chz's. Instead of the OP discussing this in private (or give enough time to discuss it in private... you know, like a responsible person confused by the situation would do), it was decided that his PRIVATE warning should IMMEDIATELY be the start of a PUBLIC spectacle. You know, the kind of spectacle we all enjoyed last December when he took it upon himself to announce GDD's departure. And that was my match meet gasoline moment. This is where the OP continually raises his middle finger to me and the other volunteers. It was a bush league, divisive, dick move that accomplished nothing constructive. He posted that to create chaos and chaos is what we all got. That's the moment when I decided speak up. That's a deliberate disruption of the community. Moderators should have the ability to contact people in private and work out issues without the Mean Girls' drama. We are not the enemy and we will not be treated as such. And there is your timeline for anyone still harboring the notion that opinion is being stifled and moderation is heavy-handed or wondering why this thread became a lightning rod. Easily 98% of all members that have came through the doors of TBD or SS have never had a post deleted or have been warned by a moderator. Participating conflict free in my communities comes with a giant red EASY button. How hard can it possibly be? The amount of work you need to do to overcome my desire to avoid conflict is immense. I would say 2% of the members command 98% of our attention. Well over 5 million posts have passed through our communities. Just a little perspective...