carpandean
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I know. Stupid points system. They can't just call a win a win, anymore.
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In reference to my earlier post, if a single player/coach says that it was great to get the two points, I'm going to throw my remote through the TV. Please, just please, say that it was great for Anders to get the win. I can at least understand that feeling (he did deserve it.)
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For whom? If you don't like Boston and, therefore, want to keep them from getting points, then that's fine. Heck, say that you want the Sabres to play tough enough to at least force overtime. That's understandable, too. I would disagree, but I could understand where you are coming from (I don't think anti-tankers are wrong even though I don't share their beliefs). But, getting a point (say, losing in OT) would do absolutely nothing good for anyone (outside of Arizona and Edmonton). It's the same way that I have felt in the last month or so, when players and Nolan would say things like, "it was good to get the two points tonight." No, it wasn't. It might have been good for the room and some fans to get the win, but you're out of the playoffs; it was decidedly not good to the two points!
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Done. The gap (for equal games played) is exactly the same versus Edmonton as was at the trade deadline and actually could widen in the Sabres' game-in-hand after the Oilers won last night. Verus the Coyotes, the gap is one point wider, but that could narrow in the Sabres' game-in-hand after the Coyotes lost last night. It's looking more and more like those two head-to-heads could decide our fate.
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I would have expressed that a little differently. Something like, "In both this season and last, roughly 1 in 4 (24% both years) games played were tied at the end of regulation. However, this year 77% of those games ended in OT versus just 35% last year."
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Sort of. Both teams lost their 68th games in regulation, so they remained 3 points below through that point. Edmonton gained one point in their 69th game, but the Sabres have not played theirs yet. If they win, then they will close the gap by one point (to 2 points below); if they lose in regulation, then they will widen the gap by one point (to 4 points below); and if they lose in SO/OT, then they will hold steady at 3 points below through 69 games.
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I was out while the game was on and was so worried about the outcome that I immediately fast-forwarded through it when I got home. I stopped twice -- the fight and the first goal -- and I can say that it was even a boring game in 3x FF.
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The league can (theoretically) fix the lottery (i.e., who gets McDavid), but not who gets the second pick. If you assume a fix is in, then whoever finishes 30th gets Eichel. There's a chance that's Arizona (sure looked like it at the trade deadline), but they have two teams to pass and Edmonton is making it hard enough for the Sabres to stay below, much less for the 'Yotes to pass them.
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With one point tonight (blowing a 4-3 lead with under 4 minutes left), the lead over the Oilers is no longer definitive. By that, I mean that the Sabres have two games in hand and a one ROW lead on the tie breaker, so winning both of those GIH in regulation would put the Sabres into 29th with 13 games to go. I believe that the Oilers have the head-to-head lead (i.e., they did better), so any other outcome of those two GIH would leave the Sabres in 30th.
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Hopefully, some day, he'll be centering a third line with Girgensons on his wing. I could see him being "that guy" who gets hot during a playoff run.
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Seriously. The Sabres have done everything they could to be bad and they are having trouble staying below a team with an entire line (if they want) of #1 overall picks. Everyone involved there should ashamed.
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It means that their market research showed that people were buying them without any affiliation with the team to wear out and look cool (or something like that.)
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I would have said that Larsson has a good 15-20 lbs on Pominville. Looking on their respective NHL pages, Jason is listed at 187 lbs, while Johan is listed at 206 lbs.
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Maybe, but he implied that it was in big fashion, non-hockey areas, and the type of volume that he was talking about wasn't just due to displaced Buffalo fans.
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I'd go with the toilet water. Why the toilet water? 'Cause f**k him, that's why.
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You would think so, but as I have mentioned before, when talking with one of the big three from the last ownership group (TG/LQ/DD), I was surprised to learn that the slug jersey was one of the best sellers outside of the Buffalo market. He said that it was a fashion item. :huh:
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I would say that it looks a little better than that jersey. The biggest (weirdest) problem is this: Besides that, a lighter blue would be a little better (though Patty's looks darker than I remember), reversing the waist striping would be a little better (too much gold) and replacing the two-piece blue-silver stripes with solid blue would be a little better. The silver ... whatever you would call those curved things on the side of the torso ... are less noticeable on the whites, but those could go. I know that others hate the silver-lined logo, but it has never bothered me. All (pits and yellow center waist stripe, aside) small things that would improve the jersey marginally. The blue is a much bigger problem on the home jerseys. I prefer a couple of things on the current one: the laces (always a fan), the contrasting collar and the fact that the stripes are stitched on rather than sublimated (at least, I believe both of those are true, respectively.)
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Or, at least, something a little closer to them. The thirds in 2006-07 looked a little plain/dated, but that could be fixed with less dramatic changes than the current set has. Royal blue (or, again, something closer to it; certainly, less black looking on TV) would be a must, as would removing the silver/gray. The Winter Classic jerseys seemed like a darker royal than the originals, but not nearly as dark as the current set:
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Ah, yes, I believe that's called Szczechura syndrome.
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I haven't read this whole thread, but is it safe to say that there was plenty of attention given to how sloppy and out of synch the Leafs were? They looked terrible for most of the game.
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A little early to say that he has made it. Not saying that he won't, but it's a small sample after going to a new team. Lots of such stories that have reverted back to their pre-trade play after the initial high.
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There's a big difference between telling the coach that, at this point, you want to focus on developing players or that you want to see a certain goalie get some starts to see if there is anything there, and flat out telling him that you want to tank the rest of the season.
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I don't quite buy this. It is true that you cannot tell the players to go lose on purpose and you can't pull some scrub from the AHL to play ahead of your NHL goaltenders, but that doesn't mean that your coach should have winning as his top priority whether or not it benefits the franchise. Many teams who find themselves out of the playoffs say that the rest of the season is about player development. That means that younger players, who might not be as good now but are more important to the future of the franchise, get played ahead of vets. Obviously, that's not the case here with the goaltenders (neither is likely a big part of the future), but it is an example of the franchise directing the coach to do something other than win at all cost, because it is better for the franchise. A more comparable example, here, would be giving young defensemen more minutes than Zach Bogosian, even though playing Zach more would give them the best chance to win. Not that Zach isn't part of the future, but he is already more developed. For the goaltenders, though, Nolan said (before Johnson went down) that if one of them got hot, then he would continue to play him. That idea should absolutely have been squashed by GMTM in favor of "I want to see them both get games" plan, instead. Even more, I would absolutely expect GMTM to tell Ted that he needs to start whichever one is playing worse against Arizona, especially on the road.
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I posted something like that (swap the blue and gold) around the time when the thirds were coming out (can't remember if it was before or after.)
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I don't know, but I think that I would like the SR-71 of third jerseys. Though, it does make me think of these:
