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Holmstrom also getting his 1st playoff action up front.

7 D tonight. Nick Boka (sp?) is the extra D-man. He's in for Teves.

Whatevs.

Seems your security guards are very good at their jobs. Shame the nut killed himself, but better that than him getting the person he was looking for 1st.

IMHO, the only easily implementable & fairly non-gameable way to address the issue. Won't happen, because the goons tend to run the player discipline office & the NHLPA. But it would fix the issue.

Because it would be so difficult for a player to tell an independent doctor that he's still suffering headaches or it really hurts a lot when that arm is getting worked to its limits in the office. 😒

Doesn't change the fact that he didn't expect to be shooting someone he knew when he woke up this morning. That seems to be significantly different than shooting an enemy he doesn't personally know that wants him dead.

That seems to be close to the best outcome given the circumstances. Hopefully the guard has good councilling resources available. Really doubt he'd signed up intentionally to kill someone this morning.

Prayers to you & your coworkers. Hoping the shooter wasn't proficient. Scary stuff.

Bite, your, tongue, now! 😉

So, up to 5,000 people watching the game won't see the dog howling and everybody watching on TV will see it. Not sure it's that big of a deal.

Oftentimes, though not always, they are the same people. 😉

Regardless of the history, the UTI Comets is a ridiculously bad name. Should they relocate to Clinton,some of us would have even more fun w/ that name; but at least it would be alliterative & ha e a historical basis.

Can't see Miles Wood happy in Buffalo. There was very bad blood between his dad & the Sabres w/ the way his Sabre tenure ended.

One of the stranger things seen was in the 3rd after a clear by the UTI Comets (what a HORRIBLE name) Greer & a UTI Comet D-man crashed into each other. As Greer reached the bench he gave a middle finger salute to the crowd & some guy just missed hitting his head w/ some sort of Rohrbach product. Linesman picked it up off the ice. At the next play stoppage the PA announcer asked the crowd to please refrain from throwing anything else or the Amerks would get a penalty. Been a long time since seeing a beer thrown on the ice. Can't honestly recall seeing a can thrown on the ice. Saw MANY cups of beer thrown, particularly at Bruins, but not a can.

Maybe, maybe not. The majority of his scoring in the playoffs has come when he's out w/ Krebs & IIRC Biro on the other wing rather than Quinn. He's played w/ Quinn a little in the playoffs, but they aren't regularly linemates.

So, are the Amerks rolling 7D w/ Mersch out & Davidsson in or is Alt out & some other forward in too?

There will be those that want to continue to discuss it for years. (Look at how many other topics still get brought up even though their expiration date is seemingly long past.) But, as long as it doesn't crop up in every thread, and it won't, people that don't want to discuss it can just scroll past it.

Speaking as apparently one of those you're calling out, will explain why he's been penciled in as an early season callup rather than an out of the gate Sabre. It comes down to 2 things: 1 - he was very out of place in his brief callup to the Sabres. Quinn looked like he belonged, Peterka not so much. And 2 - his play in the defensive zone has for the most part been adequate at best between poor coverage in zone to leaving the zone early looking for that breakaway that has been a large part of his offense. Both of which will cost the team goals at the next level. Now, that said, his play in the playoffs (which btw are quite recent and haven't yet been factored in 😉 ) is making that expectation that he won't make the Sabres out of the gate less certain. Will wait until the playoffs are done to revise the expectation, but it could change. And, even if it does, if he looks as out of place in TC games as he did this season, it will shift back to an e petition that he's an early season callup. And, it isn't a knock on JJ either to say he still has some things to work on & the wings are crowded this year, especially if a Hinostroza or 2 are brought back/in next year to keep from being entirely young, so there's a possibility he isn't a Sabre on opening night. You mention Vanek, but forget one of his teammates in Ra-cha-cha. Pominville put up 68 points in 78 games in '04-'05 and had to clear waivers the next year and still got sent down before finally becoming a regular later in the fall of '05. Peterka doesn't have to clear waivers.

Yeah, they're getting to a point where they actually have a full roster's worth of NHL talent (though a fair portion isn't at their prime yet) all through the lineup w/ the glaringbexception of GTing. Will allow them to have some mixing and matching depending upon the opponent. Will be better when these guys are in their primes and other teams have to juggle around them, but after being lost in the desert for so long, it's moving in the right direction.

No doubt. But they'll be able to bring in good career AHLers to round the roster out.

Am guessing that Ruotsalainen comes back. Also, they'll have the Russian kid they just signed. Bjork will likely be an AHL All Star next year as he isn't cracking the Sabres lineup & nobody'll claim him on the way down. They'll have Subban in net. They'll be OK again next year.

Good. Maybe a long run here will get them back to having nearly full games on the weekends at least next year. Been a long time since they even did that.

then you're a part of the precipitate? 😕

And they'll have the proverbial truckload of shiny new toys (all of whom will be on cheap contracts) to surround him with. If he is as partial to the area he grew up in as people have claimed, there might be something very enticing for him to come back & be their savior. He can always include some sort of tacit agreement w/ management that if the team doesn't wind up in Tempe or Phoenix to let him work out a trade to elsewhere. Nobody believes Alex Tuch doesn't want to win, but he's happier than the proverbial pig in you know what to be playing for his favorite team. Winning is sweet. Winning & being a big part of it where you want to be is even sweeter.