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Wonder what the real backstory on this is? On the surface it is an entirely #### move, but have to believe something happened that caused Bowness to go out of his way to shaft the kid. Whether that trigger was enough to warrant the decision, don't know. But it would be interesting to learn what it was.

Really liking that the default wasn't line him back up w/ Dahlin.

Son's trip to Urgent Care didn't even result in stitches, just some superglue & those butterfly sutures. Nothing broken & no structural damage. Even got out of a meeting. Fantastic.

That makes much more sense. Thanks.

Not sure how his signing a contract in the off-season significantly affects his trajectory forward on a team that he's been a healthy scratch the entire season to date.

Pretty sure it was Eakin w/ an equipment issue that caused the line juggling. They went Cozens centering Asplund & Skinner, Thompson centering the checking line, R2 Rou2 centering Cozens wingers, those 1st 2 lines again, R2 Rou2 w/ his line, then Eakin w/ Thompson's wingers & then Cozens line & they've been back to normal since. Though Dahlin's been actually starting off the draw to Pysyk's right.

No more games on lunar eclipse night. The tides are too strong.

Audette got cheap shotted by Muni & blew out his knee. Don't blame him one bit for the stuff he did to try to keep people from taking further liberties.

Would make sense. That'd make the upcharge ~$0.80 which seems plausible.

Yeah, the response was harsher than necessary. Apologies.

Life imitating.

Yes, and Becker was Walter. Have listened to the Nightfly probably more than any of the albums he & Becker did together. And saw them together 3 times. Not that any of that matters.

Toyed w/ that idea, didn't think they'd be appreciative of that selection. "Who's your favorite player?" The imaginary 1 from 45 years ago. Have, but only once or twice.

And BTW, both are excellent albums. Listening to the 2nd right now.

OK. But why do the Sabres start fast on the road more often than not, but get pinned in during the 3rd period? None of what you've said addresses that phenomenon. .

Her high voice was natural. FAR better than Beth Moins (sp?) attempt to do pbp w/ Marv Alberts' deep voice which she does not have.

Anybody know when "video scouting" officially was put to rest?

Thought the same thing about 15/9. Hope you're right.

It's absolutely a WIP thing. But, IMHO they don't panic. They get outplayed significantly, but honestly don't see panic in that. See a better team finally dictating. But that better team couldn't do it earlier. Why not? My money says it's because the weaker team busted it's arse but the matchups finally wore them out. Considering we essentially haven't seen that at home lends credence. Would love to hear your thoughts on why it happens on the road but not at home. Change my mind.

Don't you mean Fagan? Minus Becker, it's a solo act playing his old band's stuff plus a little Nightfly & Kamakiriaid.

The 1st goal wasn't as bad but was also weak. The team deserved better, but the Sabres were right in who they called up, bad as he is.

If you were offered a Sabres sweater, who would you choose? Would you go Mitts, Cozens, or Dahlin? Or would you go off the board with Tokarski, Rousalainen, Jeanneret, or other? Thinking of going RJ.

Art routinely berated any fan that disagreed w/ him. Which was basically anyone w/ a functioning cerebral cortex. That he had no problem ####ing on kids calling in to his show really highlighted what a (sad example of a) human he was. The tiny tot was not something for Buffaloanians to celebrate. He was one to denegrate.

Except it doesn't seem to be a panic. They don't overskate (in general, though on the Detroit tying goal they did overskate) nor do they totally fall back into 5 men below the circles. Seems to be more of a running out of energy. Which, again IMHO, goes back to the other team getting the matchups they want & the overmatched Sabres not being able to match that for 60 full minutes. The ONLY time that's happened at home for close to a whole period was in the 2nd period of the Bolts game and Granato righted that ship in the intermission. That it doesn't happen at home often but regularly happens on the road says that matchups are a factor. IMHO. YMMV.

And yet E-Rod leads the Pens in scoring. Hmmpf. Nothing to write home about indeed. 😉