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Was at that one. Fun times. Have never seen one quite like that one before or since.

Was over 6k in the building IMHO. Not sure if this one or the Roswell ticket splurge for HFC night had the bigger crowd. But both were huge by this season's standard. Q for @Brawndo: was it an NHL thing to have a buffer of blanked off seats around the team's doctor's usual seats, a Sabres thing, or on Erie County/ NYS? Had not noticed it any of the earlier games this season. Thought w/ your background you might know who drove that decision. (Just curious, not a big deal either way.)

Well, the F lines had to be adjusted to cover for Murray's absence for 17 minutes. After he was available the lines went back to how they started. The D was adjusted to still roll 3 pairs, but having either Dahlin or Pysyk taking an extra shift to make sure Butcher & Prow never were on the ice together again after the 1st period.

It was pretty much every kid in the building. Was curious if the sound engineers would've tried to filter it out of the broadcast; guess not. Unfortunately, it starting coincided with the Sabres losing the momentum they'd generated.

So, you see him as a borderline RHD that gets brought in as a favor for the can't miss stud but will end up playing LD primarily because somehow the depth that has been accumulated at that spot is chucked away for no apparent reason & somehow against the odds he actually puts it off but still ends up being underappreciated because he rivals Brind'amour for ugliest mug ever to catch a puck in the mush? Or was that reading too much into it? 😉

Not as of the morning skate he wasn't. He was on the 3rd pairing w/ Prow.

He is. Quinn & he have done the most to earn callups. But, if you're not available, that doesn't really matter.

Umm, isn't the goal to get people actually in the rink to watch the game?

Good to know. Still got very poor results when using it, but maybe it's been a while since last using it. Out of curiosity, when did you upgrade it?

He pretty much revolutionized color commentary. He also revolutionized sports video games. RIP

Eh, probably not watching a game tonight. Will likely either go w/ Spiderman or the new Bond. Will be at Tuch's debut tomorrow. Apparently Peterka & Krebs will debut then, too.

Depending on what Jiricek's injury is, he might wind up being a target if the lottery balls don't fall their way.

Which game? Most of them are archived, but the search function is pretty bad.

Would rather have Cozens in tonight's lineup. But very interested to see what Peterka & Krebs can do.

Why not, were you expecting anybody else to date you? 😉

Interesting on both of these tweets. Would've expected Mahomes was in these clubs as well. Pretty cool that Allen is & Pat isn't.

Ours was ECA. Far & away the sweetest dog we've ever had. He was rescued from an Alabama pound a year ago August. Other than the parasites he brought up w/ him, the "adoption" was flawless. Hope yours works out as well. Glad it's off to a good start.

Sweet. Can go w/ my kid to that 1 if it actually gets played. Merry Christmas to me.

East Coast Adoptions?

Is that the precursor to canceling 12/29 as well?

So, what'd ya get that really stands out? Wifey got me the Blu-ray/CD of the Rush R40 Live from a few years back. Just about through the 1st set & that was an awesome concert. Alex & Neil are/were such absolute masters of their craft & Geddy Lee fit them so well. Sucks that the Professor is gone. Hope all are having an excellent Christmas & that those that don't celebrate that holiday have a wonderful Holiday themselves.

They met the next year, too. Sabres swept that one. Thus why 7 was the quantity chosen. 😉

Yippie Ki Yay, mother #######!

You sure about that? (Pretty sure they played 7 meaningful games 4 decades ago.)

Don't know about that necessarily. It took 2 cracks at it for them to get a competent management team for the Bills, but they did in fact find competent management there. The Bandits are one of the best franchises in indoor lax. And pretty sure they've actually been better under the Pegulas than under Golisano. And neither have lived up to the heyday when all the teams were under a single ownership group w/ local management running the day to day items. Would really love to hear what the conversation between ownership & Regier that set the course to "suffering" really was like & who else was involved in that decision. That threw the team into a tailspin it's still to this day not recovered from. Would also be interesting, though there's no way to ever get a do-over, to see how either never bringing in Murray or at a minimum replacing him w/ another proponent of "west coast hockey" would've worked out. Botterill's vision was a polar opposite to that of Murray and his decision to stop focusing on big guys that had skill also slowed the emergence from the tank. Adams seemingly having the same preferred player type as JBotts as evidenced by keeping the younger guys brought in by JBotts at least only set his version of the rebuild back 1-2 years in all likelihood relative to the 3-4+ set in motion by the previous 3 GMs. Unfortunately, the team WE care the most about is the one that ownership has suffered through the worst growing pains. Yes, their changing directions so often when having stayed the original course but with much better scouting & the opportunity presented by being able to be 1 of the 1st teams on the analytics front rather than a late rider of the bandwagon put this franchise in a terrible predicament. But their getting really bad advice from the league, Brandon, & others was as big, if not a bigger impediment to their success than their being neophytes was. MHO. Ymmv.