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635-1 has the game on, but happen to be in the Sabres market, so it's always there for us.

Every NFL team, the NFL itself, & at least the Bisons (probably the Sabres & Bandits too) have made their Twitter avatar a blue background with the words "Pray for Damar 3" across it. Very nice gesture. Saw a tweet that the hospital won't have any updates today. Hoping no news is good news.

OK, if somebody you are friends with outside of work has a bad accident, are you taking the next day off?

Did you go to work today? If you did, then why shouldn't the Sabres be expected to not do so? If you didn't, well that's noble in a way, but doubt many others can say likewise.

The reffing in the early Saturday game & the Bills & Bengals games will be very interesting. Not saying they rig games, but there often is one team or the other that seem to gain an abundance of favorable calls at critical points. Losing the money from a single regular season game that had a majority of the paid for commercials air would seem to be cheaper & less disruptive than trying to squeeze in a game before the WC weekend or pushing the entire playoffs back a week. They could keep the SB when it was scheduled by bouncing the Flag Football Game festivities back 2 weeks. But that's an awful lot of moving parts to accommodate should the Bills win & the Chiefs lose w/ the Bengals tying. (OTTOMH, that's the only way the Bills Bengals game is completely immaterial as that would keep all 3 at the top of there divisions w/ no chance to leap frog each other.)

Expect Granato to keep the same starting lines/pairs as he's run with the past few games. If things aren't working, he'll make adjustments in the 3rd. Fully expect the Caps will be fine with having Ovechkin's line out against any of the Sabres lines. You're probably right that Cozens line will get the brunt of it. Will be a very stiff test for the kids. Looking forward to it in any case. As Badger Bob used to say "it's a great day for hockey."

@Wyldnwoody44 @Brawndo @North Buffalo Danke for all the info on this in layman's terms & without random speculation. (That last part doesn't read as it should, it really is meant as a comliment on all your professionalism, but words still aren't quite coming out right. Apologies for that.) Your insights have been helpful in this very upsetting time.

Take it for whatever it's worth, but the NFL is denying the "5 minute warmup delay" coming from them.

Could see it being true but not as horrible as it seems on 1st glance. (And it could be just as bad as it's being made out to be if it is true.) There have been several instances through the years of guys being paralyzed coming off the field with the games completing. Can't recall any not being completed. Making a decision from 800 miles away could see how Goodell & his staff didn't fully understand the emotion of the moment. Seeing the player hooked up to the AED is way more traumatic to the guys right there. He'll get roasted for it, but not positive it's justified. (Though it may very well be.)

Likely one final FYI. (Am finally getting tired enough to think about heading to bed.)

Another FYI. Take it for what it's worth. So amazing how well the Bengals responded to this. ,uch respect for them.

Probably technically correct under the league's rules & bylaws. Honestly don't give a flying fig if they make the Bills forfeit or call it a tie or do something else. Took some time, but the right thing was done tonight. Tomorrow is another day. Hopefully they do the right thing then as well, regardless of what that is.

Just an FYI. Those players, coaches, & staff can't do anything for him right now. They need to be w/ their families right now.

Was at the Everett game and the Zednik game. Both were shocking, the Zednik moreso because the true immediacy of how closely he came to dying was obvious. It wasn't as clear from the cheap seats just how horrific Everett's injury was. But to have the player need an AED on the field was at least as scary as Zednik's situation. Prayers to him to both survive and have a speedy & complete recovery. Very glad they could let his mother accompany him on the trip to the hospital. Dear God, please let her get good news quickly.

No data. @Brawndo usually knows the answers to these sort of questions.

However you get ABC. Pretty sure they've been simulcasting MNF on both ESPN & ABC all season with the occasional Manningcast on ESPN2. It doesn't look like this is a Manningcast game but it's listed on all 3 networks.

Anybody looking for the game on ESPN @ kickoff will likely be disappointed as they're showing the Rosebowl before the game. (And it is 6:30PM, 2 hours before gametime & that game is still in the 1st 1/2.) ABC & ESPN2 are also showing the Bills game and are likely better choices to see the 1st couple of drives.

Will actively root for next year's "Winter" Classic getting rained out. Until they give the Sabres an ACTUAL home game in one (or better yet, as somebody suggested above, giving the Sabres a road game in Erie County) hope every one of them is a blow out & the weather totally doesn't cooperate. Especially w/ the 2 teams that haven't waited even a moment to get into one. The Krackers can blank themselves. Like the idea of Buffalo TO being in the rotation. (Provided we actually get to truly host some; not just get a home game stolen.)

What do you mean? Why, didn't you realize the Sabres have hosted TWO Winter Classics & one Heritage Classic? They just move them all to the Buffalo suburbs. The 1st one to Orchard Park, the second to a slightly more remote suburb the Bronx, and the last one not quite as remote in Hamilton. The next one Buffalo hosts will probably be in a slightly more remote suburb, Philadelphia.

And right now, in a 1 goal game protecting a lead in the 3rd Lyubushkin is the 4th D-man w/ Bryson & Clague glued to the bench. But in a 1 goal game tring to get that tying goal in the 3rd, Clague is the 4 & the 3rd pairing was glued to the bench. Interesting how this weekend, Bryson was the odd man out in both situations.

True. Ended up wording the post awkwardly. The point of the post was that Adams has realized this was a possibility since the day the 3rd goalie was in house and has had a plan on how to accommodate that for as long. Expect it being Comrie that got injured rather than Anderson might've been a bit of a twist but not totally out of left field. Preparing for this possibility has been 1 more thing Adams has been doing all along.

One thing we all seem to be forgetting is this situation - UPL earning a spot on the roster after a stint on an injury callup, has been a possibility since day 1. Expect that though we're fretting, Adams has had a plan for how to react to the injured guy getting healthy from day 1. We'll know what it is in a couple of weeks at the latest.

Decent overview of the situation, but he misstatements 2 minor points. 1. Comrie comes back on the 14th. He played on December 31, so his 14th day in Ro-cha-cha is January 13, not 14 & he needs to be a Sabres or waived on the 14th. 2. That leaves 12 days max, not a few weeks, to make a decision. And with it having been such a journey to get UPL playing like they've needed him to play really wouldn't send him back down. But, will say, if Adams, Granato, & Bales all decide sending UPL back down is the right call will accept that it is. Granato has been pretty spot on in his evaluations & trust in his players to date.