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Is this another 'Terry is cheap' move? Saving themselves from having to pay a seamstress to remove the stitching holding Samuelsson's A on his sweater. (Realize it isn't, but it might as well be.)

No it wasn't. It was a row ahead of her. If it were at her feet, the man that ended up with the ball would not have been able to get it.

Speaking of making things up. It was a row ahead of her. It wasn't "right at her feet."

Hopefully, for the 1st time in the last 3 years they run a NORMAL preseason and actually not just try to optimize lines but actually succeed at it. 2 years ago they were too concerned with finding out which Amerks could fit into the top 6 / top 4 should injuries strike to bother figuring out which SABRES should be there in the 1st place. Last year, due to the abreviated camp they pretty much picked the lines and pairings before seeing if there might be some better chemistry to develop with a smidge of experimentation. They have ZERO excuses for not being ready to go from the day they host the Rags and hopefully they catch some teams still getting it together to build up a bit of a cushion for the inevitable stretches of bad injury luck or simply everyone being flat at the same time for about a week which almost all middling teams suffer at some point in the season.

Pretty sure either set of dates / times would work. If not, autodraft can get me just as lousy a team as drafting legitimately would do. 😉

Yup. He found a team desperate enough to pay him like he's an NHLer regardless of where he plays. And, if somebody trades for him or snags him when he gets waived to Ra-cha-cha, well then he gets to ride on planes to the next rink he'll sit at the end of the bench and watch the guy ahead of him play rather than ride a bus to the next rink he'll sit at the end of the bench and watch the guy ahead of him play.

She yells that it was in her hand and he took it away from her hand. That it hit her hand before bouncing to the row below hers is immaterial to who should actually end up with the ball. Balls and pucks that go into the crowd very often end up going home with the 2nd or even 3rd person to have an actual crack at them. Is what it is. But she did not have it in her hand when he took it. IF she did, would say she has a case. And the guy didn't come from another section. He came over from about 10 seats away (which happened to be the nearest occupied seat in his row to where the ball was) to a ball rolling around in HIS row. You can say it was in HER area because of its horizontal position relative to her and him; but you could also say it was in HIS area because it was in his row with its vertical position relative to him and her. AND it was way easier and way safer for him to get to it based upon where it was when he got the ball. For her to get to it without jumping over a seat she needed to walk to the end of her row down 2 steps and then traverse essentially the same distance within that row as he travelled from his seat to get to it. IMHO, after having watched the exchange between the 2 from a couple of different angles, fully expect that had the ball bounced closer to the guy while staying in his row after bouncing out of her hand then she would've still run over claiming he stole HER ball.

Tix on the resale market are NOT moving. Might be making a lot more weeknight games than expected. Not sure how much Pegula "saved" by essentially bringing back the entire FO and coaching staff; but uniess they get out of the gate REALLY quickly expect that'll have been a negative NPV decision by the end of October at the latest.

Nope. Special teams let them down again. So, these Sabres are Sabres.

Over the, checks his notes, ... , uh, Sabres. Ooooh, look at us, we're cool, we spotted the Sabres a 4-1 lead and came back. Big whoop.

Does anybody know wtf the NHL Network is showing the Sabres Avs game from Dec 3 tonight? THAT was THE game where the wheels fell off and the season was lost. What a bizarrely cruel choice of a game.

100% there was. They ALWAYS (well, almost always) had somebody in motion at the snap, and if it was Hill, he'd turned upfield WELL before the ball actually snapped. A bit tougher to cover when he's already fully accelerating at the defender prior to the ball being snapped. Waddle and the others were prone to doing that as well. But Hill was very blatent about it. And that was taken away from them before last season started.

His offense has regressed tremendously since the league started to crackdown on players (Hill, cough, cough, Waddle to a lesser degree, cough, cough) in motion turning upfield a step or 2 or 6 before the ball is actually snapped. Since that little cheat code got removed the O has been noticably easier to defend against. The players haven't changed significantly the past year+, but enforcement of the rules certainly has.

It finally opened up.

Anybody else still not seeing the Sabres site opening up the game feed?

Game effectively over. BJs with their 7th.

Costantini w/ the shortie v the BJs. 4-5. And the BJs don't choke after giving up the shortie. Regain the 2 goal lead on the same PP. 4-6.

Scoreboard operator KNEW the score would become 5-3; he/she just had the wrong team getting to 5 1st. BJ's with a full hand's worth of goals. 3-5.

It seems the person that normally is in charge of the shot clock in the MMArena is in charge of the scoreboard tonight. Since the game became 3-3, the score has been rolling from 3-3 to 5-3 back to 3-3 back to 5-3 with an occassional 0-3 on the way back to 3-3. So, at least THAT aspect of the team is back to regular season form. 😉 And now the scoreboard won't roll from 3-3 to 5-3 anymore as the BJs just went up to 4.

Anybody know if Melvin is any relation to Jiri Novotny? Had to do a double take the 2nd time Dunleavy mentioned that name.

Several of which will never be heard of again. 😉 Fug. Sabres gave up a shortie. Uuuuuugggggly. 3-3.

The Savage Redmond, err, Redmond Savage roofs it past the BJs keeper. 3-2 good guys.

Helenius has been much more noticable today. Hasn't scored yet but has been aronund the puck and getting good chances; and just got a coincidental minor for dancing with a BJ. And Östlund with a beauty. Top shelf on the 4v4.

BJs explode for a 2nd goal on a delayed penalty before they can go on the PP. 1-2. 13:40 left in the 2nd.

BJs tie it off a 1 timer from a cross ice pass. 1-1; 4 to go in the 1st.