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Which is why Nashville wouldn't make it.

Speaking of Kings properties that should be wearing tinfoil hats; Portillo just gave up a PP goal with just over a minute left in the 2nd. Nittany Lions 1, Wolverines 0. Through 2 periods. The winner will take on Quinnipiac in the Frozen 4.

Sabre 2014 1st is in Florida for the goalie of the future. Can't use it for the goalie of the present. ;) And the deal you meant to propose, would do that in a heartbeat if it brought Saros in.

Am betting he'll do better than Anderson has done in these "guaranteed win" versus bad opponent games. 5 of them since January 1 and the team is 0-4-1 in them. For all the talk about the 8 game losing streak or the poor stretch since Tuch went out and Dahlin was hurt too which has now morphed into Samuelsson out and Thompson playing hurt, if they pick up 7 out of 10 points in those instead of a truly pathetic 1 point, they're the team that's getting chased. Would like to see Levi get the start tomorrow. If not him, either Comrie or UPL. For the love of all that is Holy, please do not put Anderson in net that game. Yes, they could win it with Andy in it, but why risk throwing away another 2 points in that situation.

Well Conner Fields wasn't protected in the expansion draft and the Kin-ig-hit Hawks traded for him and they are now a game back of the Bandits. Also, Frazier has only played 1 game. Byrne missed about 6. Nanticoke missed the past 3 and Brandon Robinson has been out the past 3 as well. Plus Cloutier was hurt the 1st game and has only been back the past 3 games. That's a LOT of offensive firepower to be missing. They also tend to go run and gun even more than last season so they have a lot of 10 second or less possessions that end with a single shot as there is nobody around to pick up the loose ball after the shot. They are not the juggernaut they were during the regular season last year. That team ranked up there with the mid-90's squads. Too bad Vinc ran out of gas and they couldn't figure out Colorado's D. The way they have to battle for these wins rather than run away from anybody will hopefully serve them well when they get to the playoffs. Hoping they find a way to stay in 1st because the 2nd and 3rd seeds are going to beat the snot out of each other before facing the conference winner that will get to play a much weaker Halifax or Filly. Vinc looked spent the 1st 2 games but has been his normal self since. If they can get the penalties under control - they take a LOT of penalties and not just the physical ones like they usually get; they also have a ridiculously large quantity of illegal substitutions; they should be in good shape as well. How you have illegal substitution more than 3 times a year is boggling. They do that twice a game.

When my younger one was in 1st or 2nd grade, they had an assignment to say what they did to help out around the house. His answer was "get daddy beers." He didn't lie. ;)

Priolo with the unassisted winner in OT. 7-6. Both goalies were incredible. Buffalo held San Diego scoreless in the 1st and 4th; and SD held the Bandits scoreless in the 2nd. Byrne had the Bandits 1st 3 goals including the only goal of the 1st; then Smith; McCollum; and Cloutier had the only goal of the 4th. At 11-3 with a 1/2 game lead over the Rock who sit at 11-4. Kin-ig-hit Hawks were losing at the half in Vegas. Would be nice to see them lose out there to the expansion team.

Bandits in San Diego in a few minutes in a battle of the 2 1st place teams. Bandits need this win to stay a 1/2 game ahead of ToGronto. Game is on ESPN News.

Well there is that. But, they do seem to have issues keeping the heavier teams from making them look silly in their own end. That they can actually do it against A team gives hope they could do it against more next season. And against the Aisles they don't let them work into the dirty areas without getting a body / stick on them. One of the very few teams they do that against.

And that was their 21st road win this season. Those of you disciples of the mythical Deluca 0.500 can rejoice that they've clinched one for the road. Fun game to watch. They played reasonable team defense all game. There's something about the Aisles that they can actually play defense against them. Not positive what/why that is but they can't do it against so many other teams. They played very good team D the 2nd and 3rd periods of the Miller game too. And they were playing good the 1st half of the 1s game in Barclay's. (Didn't get to watch the 2nd half of that game. Know they lost, but not sure how they played in that snoozefest.) They're still alive. Probably won't get all the way back into a playoff spot, but they're still playing meaningful games in the last week of March and almost definitely will be still playing them into April. Baby steps.

2nd longest. That 1st full season they owned the team they just barely missed the playoffs by only 3 points.

For more than 40 years the NFL went out of its way to make sure that if every single seat in the local mausoleum wasn't paid for then nobody could watch locally. Didn't matter if only 10 seats were empty, a couple million people weren't allowed to watch the game without taking a road trip. Even if tickets were only on sale for less than a week, if you didn't have every single seat spoken for, you couldn't watch your team. What changed? Did the magnanimous masters of the NFL find Jesus? Nope. They found multiple $BILLIONS in TV revenue. And TV networks don't like to have the local markets blacked out. Your local TV provider makes sure your local team is televised to everyone for free. And you'd better hope you are within the confines of the local primary TV market should your team show up on NFL Network or Amazon Prime. Better not be in the overall market but from a 2ndary market like Ra-cha-cha or Baton Rouge. Because you AREN'T watching your local team for free. And as streaming services continue to take a bigger piece of the NFL pie, locals are not going to get to watch ALL the local games for free. Enjoy it now while you can if you're in the primary market.

Seem to recall a guy that started out in Indianapolis that they said the same thing about. ;)

They put out a press release when the schedule is released about when each "special" night will be, but don't do much more than that. Guess the sponsors of those nights don't pay for additional advertising of their event nights.

They've had them at least the last 2 if not the last 3 or 4 seasons. Just like they have Hockey Fights Cancer night every year and Military Appreciation night every year.

Then shouldn't they be playing great this past week or so as they are chasing again?

So 3 barely watchable seasons never happened? They aren't included on the ledger? Maybe they can get that Dahlin deal for Thompson as well. Just 1 decade more to wait to see the fruits of those deals.

In general, this is true. But the reason the Sabres let Miro Satan walk after the lockout was Drury went to Ruff and Regier and told them he was a cancer and was holding the team back. Addition by substraction. How much would having had Miro on that team that came out of the lockout messed up the team chemistry.

With all due respect, by that logic, a trade of Dahlin for another team's 1st and 2nd round draft picks for 6 consecutive years starting 10 years from now will be an overwhelming win for the Sabres. Because with a competent GM, about 4 years into that run the Sabres should start having an overwhelming amount of talent coming on board and Dahlin will be in his early 30's and coming back down to the pack. The time value of when things are useful CAN'T be neglected in an evaluation of a trade. How much good will and money was lost to the team by fans not showing up & was hemorrhaged over the 3 seasons where the Sabres were trash and the closest thing to a valuable on-ice asset was the Tage Thompson that tore up his shoulder taking a routine check into the boards? This wasn't even a Niewendyk for Iginla trade where it was obvious to all that Joe was a star in his prime and Jerome was going to be a star and both would fit the timeline of the team they were getting traded to better than they fit with their old team's timeline. There was no indication that Thompson was going to grow from a baby giraffe into a serious badass unicorn. If there was, he wouldn't have lasted to the end of the 1st in the year he was drafted and he would've been the guy that St. Louis absolutely refused to part with.

That would've been under the previous CBA. A player on an ATO would be eligible for the Calder Playoffs. But don't see how a guy signs an ATO (amateur tryout agreement/contract) when he has a professional contract. Clearly must be missing something if that happens.

Agreed. And as one of the people that wanted the Sabres to find a way to keep him was very disappointed that they couldn't even get what Moe-ray-all got for Scandella.

Plus he'd been playing on a 1 year deal that walked him to UFA status that season. If they didn't trade him, they'd've had absolutely nothing but cap space after he walked.

Not if they're going to play in the Calder Playoffs they don't. And, if they're on an ELC, then there is no ATO available. The ATO is to let a team see a player in action before signing him to a real deal. An ELC is a real contract.

Saw where the league is considering havnig the Thursday night games at the end of the season to be flexible. They'd move a scheduled Sunday afternoon game during weeks 14-17 onto Thursday and presumably bump the original bad Thursday night game over to Sunday. There would be 15 day notice of the change in dates/ times. Does anything say they don't care 1 lick for the people attending games more than making that change? Sure, you've had flights and hotels booked for 4 months. Too bad, so sad. Nobody wants to watch the Jest play the Lions on Thursday night in December. They want Denver KC for some reason nobody outside the NFL headquarters can comprehend. So those of you travelling to Detroit and KC, tough noogies.

They're going to start him on the Island, aren't they? If he isn't getting tonight's start, he should get the Moe-ray-all game as his 1st NHL game. (That way more Sabres fans can say they were there the night it all started.) Hopefully they win tonight. Not holding my breath. But, they have to win again SOMETIME. Why not tonight?