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Hoping FLA wins it all. Have mild dislike to outright disdain for every other team left in the tournament. Carolina - blank them and their whining over baby eating along with raping and pillaging. Joisey - Don't care that Lindy Ruff is there nor that they actually play fun hockey now, they ushered in 10 years of the most boring hockey EVER. F' those guys. TO - The diatribe would be too long if it starts. Vegas - No. Not with all their Cap shenanigans. Krackers - No. If the pricks would've joined the league when they were supposed to, rather than a year later the Sabres would've lost Hutton or absolutely nothing. And losing Hutton would've been addition by subtraction. Give us Will Borgen back and the Sabres find 2 more points through 82 games. Eulers - Probably should want them to do something as the Sabres have become the 21st century version of Edmonton East (as opposed to Muckler's efforts to make Buffalo the 20th century version of Edmonton East) but something annoying about that franchise. Dallas - Maybe someday after they drop the puck at the blueline to the left of Hasek they can earn a championship; but until that puck drops, F' those guys. The Swamp Cats ruined the B's dream season. And they did a great job hosting the ASG this year. Sure, why, not.

The verb is Umberger. As in, Meier just got Umbergered by Trouba. (And suppose it could be said that Meier skated into a Trouba-door and it twernt open neither.) And yes, it sure did look like shoulder to head was the primary and initial point of contact.

Hmm. 22 goalie in his 2nd professional season. Was in the USHL 2 years ago. Veddy Eeen-ter-est-ingk.

DTv says the game is on ESPN, not ESPN2.

Didn't Huberduberdeau sign an 8 year contract upon getting traded to Calgary? Can't see him having much leverage to get out the door unless he was willing to go scorched earth in an attempt to get out the door and just don't see him being THAT guy. Guess it's moot now.

Pretty sure Pilut got out of his KHL contract also.

Be annoyed by whatever floats your boat (or sinks it, more appropriately). If you want to be annoyed, go for it. Personally am glad that FLA beat the B's and am hoping FLA beats the Loafs. They'll probably need those 2 playing well to do so.

The downside to chasing team regular season records. Most of the top teams take their collective foot off the gas once they've locked their spot in and get ready for the post-season. But when you're chasing the past, you don't get out of that full-on mode. Don't know that's the reason these record setting teams tend to go out so unceremoniously and early (that 16-0 Cheatriots team being a notable exception blowing it in THE final matchup), but suspect it's a significant portion of it.

Maybe. But expect he's still pretty happy today with his hometown team rejoining the SHL after several years in the lower tier. And he's probably getting some satisifaction from the series losing game being on Swayman and not his boy Ullmark.

Where does he rank when his F scoring is taken out of that total? And the only reason (besides not being exclusively a D-man) why his career totals are so high are because he played for 21 years. Being slightly above average in scoring for a long time should not equate "greatness" which is what is SUPPOSED to be the primary criterion for entry into the HoF. Though if his assists on Richer's goals were included, he'd probably be top 2 in scoring. He was absolutely BRUTAL in his own end. He flat out never should have gotten in. Had he not been American, he likely wouldn't have gotten in.

Why would the Pegulas want to take on the headache of adding (an) additional owner(s)? Afawk they don't have cash flow / liquidity issues and the Bills bring in a nice chunk of change every year (as likely do their remaining NG rights). Flat out don't see what would be in it for them.

Explain Housley then. No f'n' way he should be in the HoF.

Bandits clinched home field throughout tonight in Albany. They'll host the single elimination game against Ra-cha-cha on Saturday May 6 at 7PM. (NLL website is showing Buffalo hosting Halifax, but the standings show Halifax in 3rd with the Kin-ig-hit Hawks in 4th (both with 10-8 records) and it looks like Halifax takes 3rd on the 3rd tiebreaker with a +8 goal differential in their 2 H-T-H matchups.) Hopefully the Bandits get to the finals again with the 3rd time (in a row) being the charm. Edit: and the Kin-ig-hits broadcast also said they play in Buffalo next weekend.

It might be marginally better. But when you're done watching, does it really matter whether you want to wash your eyes out with bleach or gasoline? Wouldn't watch either.

On a scale of 0-100, it would be a -572. F' TO and everything and everyone associated with it ('ceptin' the Blue Jays and the handful of posters here that are from there).

Good for her.

Bandits are looking to lock up home field throughout the playoffs tonight in Albany as the 13-4 Bandits take on the 3-14 Firewolves. Albany won the season opener in Buffalo. Game started at 7PM, but you can watch on delay on ESPN+ if you'd like. (And you have ESPN+.)

What, they didn't go with the lady of African descent who always wears the blue lipstick?

This should be ban worthy.

But that was with THE Eleven. Ours is just plain old Eleven. 😉

Power thrives with Clague as his partner. Pretty sure it's the rookie, not the other guy making that pairing. Have said all year, wanted to see somebody better than Jokiharju teamed with Power so Power could be "unleashed" so to speak and know there was a pretty strong possibility that any mistakes he makes get covered and so that he wouldn't need to be focused on covering for his partner's shortcomings. Pretty sure Adams feels the same way, though he isn't going to throw Henri under the bus. There's also a possibility that Henri will still improve from where he is. He is significantly better than he was right after Scandella left. (He's probably better than he was when he was paired with Scandella, but not positive of that. A case could be made he was the Sabres best or 2nd best D-man when he had Scandella as a partner.) But Power (and the team) deserves to have HIS Scandella that will allow him to do the things he's capable of without worrying that he's going to get hung out to dry doing so. Get that guy (maybe he's currently on one of the teams that made the playoffs (bringing this back to the topic of the thread 😉 ) so the top 4 is legit and that along with Levi (and ideally another quality NHLer in net, maybe he's on a playoff team currently) will go a long way towards ensuring the team is in the mix for top 3 in the division and solidly in a playoff spot when April arrives.

More likely other teams could utilize. Really hard pressed to see who he keeps out of the lineup with just what we know they'll have in October. Any other additions up front and there simply isn't room for this potential 30 goal scorer. (My how this team has evolved from even just 2 seasons ago.)

Hodgins replacement. Why they kept that kid on the PS rather than elevate him last year still is puzzling. With the way Bass puts the ball through the end zone when they want him to and the hang time Martin had, didn't understand why they insisted on keeping the best STers they could around at the expense of the other 2 units which get way more snaps per game.

Yes, to the bolded. With 1 year prior to becoming an UFA, his trade value will diminish to close to 0 within 1 year. He has a very good shot and is reasonable as a passer. There are many teams that have a need for a pure goal scorer. With the additions of Jost and Greenway, and the potential additions of Savoie, Rousek/Kulich, &/or a 4C simply don't see Olofsson fitting into the top 12 when the team is reasonably healthy even if Okposo &/or Girgensons aren't back. He HAS value, but expect his value is greater for a team that isn't top 3 in goal scoring leaguewide. Really hope they trade him as he could (either on his own, or more likely in a package) bring back something they need and will have more value than the 30 or so games he'd play before he walks in FA.

Thought we were having a discussion, but one where we had differing points of view. Nobody needs to "win" the "argument." You say Eichel is in the 2nd round sooner than anybody else (well, specifically before a particular individual) and technically that's correct. But personally see it more like the USPTO views patent applications filed on the same day - they don't look at which one was submitted earlier in the day, they both came in that day. Any applications filed the day before another gets submitted are considered to be prior art over that later submitted application but those submitted earlier in the same day as another aren't. Any team that makes it out of the 1st round this year got to the 2nd round at the same time IMHO. Hopefully that other guy gets to the 2nd round significantly later than Jack did. (Never is sufficiently later btw. 😉 ) Will try to refrain from replying to your posts if we don't see exactly eye to eye for a while. (Won't promise it, but will try.) Not sure why you see disagreement as an attack, but you seem to and really don't want to be contributing towards running good posters away from here. 🍻