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Wearing a regular sweater instead of a special one likely is a compromise that works, but not sure that won't still generate a firestorm itself. And personally, really don't like the idea of having players intentionally skip warmups. They warm up to loosen up and to be ready to play to keep themselves injury free and focused on the game at hand.

"Untouchable" is relative. Do expect there is very little possibility either get sent packing. But if the BJ's were to offer Jiricek straight up for 1 of them, would likely pull that trigger. He's going to be a 2/3 soon and that would give the Sabres D a 1, a 1/2, a 2/3, and a 3/4 playing with that 1. With a bunch of possibilities in house already to finish rounding out that D. (Would still want a Graves or other 4 today to get added this year, but that D would be a bee-yotch to play against in 2-3 years (if not sooner).)

Art - the bestest way to launder money and bribe people ever invented. Ooh, that painting of that sunset is just perfect, would you please take $10MM for it?

@Marvin just wanted to make sure you saw the correction. The 1st rebroadcast of rounds 2-7 is on at 6:30PM. The live broadcast is at 11AM. Sorry for the confusion.

Rounds 2-7 11AM-3PM - NHLN on Thursday

ESPN - 7PM-10PM

Then it's false advertising on a massive scale. Still wouldn't want someone studying math there as the administration must be unethical in that case.

Unless they're using Base 14 (or Base 16 in a couple of sports) they ain't got TEN teams. And pretty sure the poly sci departments would have their heads explode at even the thought of it being Base 14, so no, if you can't count beyond 10, you ain't got no maths no way no how.

They could, but why would they? They're loaded with skilled F's and if they only use 1 D at a time on the PP they knock 2 minutes off the 120 minutes you expect out of the D-men.

No idea how many they actually have now, but would NOT let one of my kids be a math major at any of those schools. They don't count too good. 😉

You're 3 days shy of the draft and already going to get sick because Adams made no moves? Did GA swipe your login creds?😉

East Coast Hockey League. (Which actually has teams as far west as Idaho and Utah.) It's the biggest of the minor pro leagues below the AHL. That's where Cincinnati was playing and whatever the Sabres new affiliate will be playing.

Likely Subban and either Hauser or some other team's Hauser. Which is what the Amerks should be planning on having and if Comrie (or UPL) end up clearing waivers then Hauser/replacement Hauser gets to spend a winter in FLA.

Pretty sure "way" is an exaggeration, but yeah, it probably was before your time.

Only way that happens, IMHO, is if Adams is really comfortable with the one that stays as the backup, he REALLY doesn't want to roll with the 3 headed goalie monster redux, AND he doesn't believe Comrie (&/or UPL, whoever is odd man out) could clear waivers.

Presuming a vet goalie is brought in, it is almost definite that one of UPL or Comrie gets traded. Would expect that UPL is more likely to get traded as he has more upside so presumably teams would want him more than Comrie. And as he has more upside would expect it would be less likely for him to clear waivers if he were the 3rd goalie left in the or-gan-I-za-tion. A 2nd or 3rd is most likely what he'd be worth if he isn't part of a package for 1 of those 4 pieces the Sabres should be looking for (top 4 D, veteran goalie, another 5/6 D, & vet 4C that's good on faceoffs and PK). And pretty much only expect 2 of those 4 pieces brought in though am still hoping Adams grabs all 4.

Very good question. Had 2 of the 3 (one is painfully obvious) but missed on the 3rd guy. The guess for the 3rd only played 78 games that year (plus all the playoffs).

Actually, as I'd said upthread, he is the player that the reference source used had indicated was the 8th player that had played at least 80 NHL games and all with the Sabres. But that was incorrect, as Davis had played 11 games for the Wings over 2 seasons over 3 years prior to coming to Buffalo.

Nope, it was pointed towards "really, Mac Davis was the QB in North Dallas 40? Wtf was the casting director smoking that week? And more importantly, who decided to give him his own network show?"

They are. But the comment was more directed to the idea that both the coach and GM need to be under contract far enough into the future that neither is thinking about how great it might be to be working in some other city. Coaches are cannon fodder far more than GM's are. Having a coach locked in through the following season (or possibly longer) will (or at minimum should) keep him from looking for his "dream job" if his current one doesn't fit that bill. And GMs need to have enough skin in the game that they don't start mortgaging the future of the team for a slim shot at all the lottery numbers in the power ball working out. Trading some of the future for enough tickets that he can get the 3 number daily lottery to work out is an entirely different story. Am perfectly fine with that in most situations. He should be trying to win now; but not by doing something so moronic as taking Aaron Maybin in the 1st round. (And if he thinks bringing in the next Maybin might save a tenuous hold on his job then he should be canned. Not saying he's doing that; but when there's no job security a guy might try something like that.)

FTFY. 😉 Yep. Been thinking that same thought for a while.

Thought he was a 60's singer and was host of a talk show, not really a variety show. Though the 'X' was for Mike Douglas never having played for the Sabres much less being the answer to the trivia question. 😉

This year it was. But IMHO the 2nd round is usually the best of the 4. You have 2 fairly closely matched teams typically and you've only begun the stocking the walking wounded brigade. Getting further out, you start having attrition and exhaustion take their tolls; and the final can be excellent (Boston Chicago) or more likely it'll be a mismatch.

Turns out there were only 7 that met the criteria. The reference had neglected to mention that the one that had been believed to have been the 8th had actually played a handful of games for the Wings prior to coming to the Sabres organization. Sorry about that. The 8th player we were looking for was Mal Davis; but he does not qualify having played 11 games for Detroit at the end of the 70's / very early 80's. So the 7 were: Gilbert Perreault - 17 seasons - 1,191 RS games with 90 more playoff games; Craig Ramsay - 14 seasons - 1,070 RS games w/ 89 Playoff games; Bill Hajt - 14 seasons - 854 RS games w/ 80 playoff games; Hannu Virta - 5 seasons - 245 RS games w/ 17 playoff games; Gates Orlando - 3 seasons - 98 RS games w/ 5 playoff games; Pat Kaleta - 9 seasons - 348 RS games w/ 12 playoff games; Casey Nelson - 4 seasons - 93 RS games w/ 0 playoff games. If somebody that got 1 or more of the answers wants to come up with the next contest; have at it. Have a good one relating to the HHoF that will be a lot easier if they don't have one. And if somebody wanted to say that there really were only 4 that fully met the criteria, it would be hard to quibble. But am sticking with there being 7 for now.

They aren't getting to a point where the NHL's playoffs end in March. Which is the only way the NHL is avoiding playing games during the baseball season. Football pulls way more viewers / attendees away from hockey than does baseball. They aren't going to go up against 4 months of football + a month of NFL playoffs when they already hate going up against 3 months of football + playoffs.