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PA with a "smart TV?" Still trying to figure out how he expects to "watch" the game on a rotary phone. 😉

It'll end up every 10th game. 8 ESPN+ exclusive game's. & TNT has 2 or 3. (Can never remember if it's 2 + the Heritage Classic or if the 2 includes that one.)

Got it. And Farley was a genius. But have not had a good last 2 weeks & really have nothing else to add to it.

Apparently her conversion happened ~2001 around the time she divorced Ted Turner. (Who apparently found Christianity -~2013.) That WS was back in '92. She was still devoutly anti-religious back then.

They might be tired. If they are, then Granato's strategy appears to be unsustainable. They can't be gassed 3 weeks into a 26 week slog. Hoping it's more a case of other teams finally starting to view them as NHLers. Which leaves this a long season, but still allows for hope when there is more talent throughout the lineup. (A fair amount of which will arrive simply by these kids being a year or 2-3 older.) But, if that's the case, hope the Pegulas budgeted for 8,000 strong crowds for the foreseeable future (once the border reopens; 4-5,000 until then). At least the next team up is the Snarks. They tend to cure a lot of Sabres ills.

4th game in a row they've had either a bad 2nd period, 3rd period, or on multiple occasions both. They need to find a way to keep the early intensity up. They pretty much ALWAYS beat the Snarks. Regardless of how good or bad either team is, the Sabres win that matchup way more often than not. That's been the "get to 0.500" game since they beat the Ducks. The other 2 were the get some breathing room over a playoff pace games because they'll definitely need it when they finally hit a stretch if good teams.

The Fish was further over the line than Edmunds was. The only request is that they call it consistently. That was apparently too much to ask for this afternoon.

26th year here. Our next Trick or Treater will be our 1st.

Close, but not quite. He missed 1 game w/ the leg injury that continued hampering him until the shutdown. Can seeing playing close to full seasons after he resumes playing, he's done that 2-3 times depending on the definition of "close", but would be mildly surprised if he ever plays a full 82.

Priorities. 😉

If you don't ride your bicycle home from the bar you can probably just miss the anthem. 😉

It's possible, but the Sabres would definitely have had to have been the matinee. The ice would not be playable in the evening after being covered earlier that day. Maybe a concert could've followed, but doubt the Braves would've. (And now we've gotten PA to waste his entire day researching your question in hopes of proving yours truly wrong. Pretty sure that's a win-win for everybody. 😉 ) Remember many a Sabres game where they were pulling out the mats to cover the ice to be ready for an event the next day before the fans had even left the building. And there were double headers of the Blizzard & Bandits, but that's not nearly the same level of effort.

Interesting. Really don't like that move because Girgensons & Okposo's primary purpose is shutting down the other team's top line and Skinner is, to put it kindly, not good in his own end. Agree that 1 of Skinner's 2 best skills when he's on his game is cleaning up garbage around the other net & that more than a few pucks get there for those 2. Hoping this is one of those "it's so crazy, it just might work" moves, but not overly hopeful that it does.

No data on the trifecta. Almost positive the Braves & Sabres never did a same day double header. It was the Sabres getting priority on choosing home dates that caused Snyder to decide to sell off the players & eventually the team.

Yeah, it does seem like the Sabres are trying to develop a "they're the best 4th line in hockey, just like the Clutterbuck line on the Aisle" vibe. Of course, that pretty much makes the R2 Rou2 line one of the worst 3rd lines in hockey & the Cozens line one of the worst 1st lines in hockey. But it does help sell the "hardest working team in hockey" motif. So, there is that.

Well, he's no longer a rookie, but except for a few handful of really special players they all take a slight step back as sophomores as they're expected to do more than the 1 or 2 things that got them to the show. Getting Mittelstadt back will help him a bunch. He can either drop to a very sheltered C role or a less sheltered W role where the defensive responsibilities are reduced & he won't HAVE to drive his line but might. Cozens has flashed enough to expect he'll be fine. But this season could be very frustrating as he figures it out all w/out anyone "blocking" him into an appropriate role for a 20-ish 2nd year player.

The SOB BETTER pan out because he should've been local boy David Farrance.

Tony Esposito? 😕 And IMHO the hip surgery has been the demarcation point for him. He seemed to have great potential prior to that. But since, he plays like he's only 5'9" (or whatever height Levi is) as he gies up about 3" of space at the top of the net that NHL shooters will find every time. Apparently AHL shooters are also finding holes. Hoping it's mental with him now, which theoretically should be fixable, but having the same issues so far after the surgeries is troubling & really don't consider him a true prospect at this point.

Should the shifting of the game flow we've seen in the past 3 games continue, we'll likely see some adjustments (beyond Eakin coming back sometime on the road trip & Mittelstadt hopefully being back soon after that). If they get back to the play of the 1st 4 games, expect things will stay as they are. You don't fix what isn't broken.

That one is close. But "Magic Power" can take you from a horrible mood to a manic great one in less that 5 minutes. It wins. 😉

The Ducks are cursed. They LOST to Robin LEHNER in a friggin' shoot out. They should have a bag skate for that.

Good thing he did. 4-3 w/ just over 4 left. Oullet w/ the answer back.

Fitzgerald getting the buffer goal back w/ just under 5 to go.

Way back when the Braves were playing the Jays in the WS, there was a clip of avowed atheist Jane Fonda in a praying pose I one of the games. The next Coaches Corner had Grapes asking nobody in particular just who she was praying to. That's still a favorite Coaches Corner memory for this kid.

One of the greatest workout songs is "All the Way." All the Way But "Magic Power" is their best song. Magic Power