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Except there is a logic to having a reluctance to trade with your rivals; especially if the trade involves a "star" player. Your fans will come after you with pitchforks every single time that star player does something good against your team. And even if the fans get to a point where they might forget about it, the local media drums the fury back up every time it happens and the pitchforks and torches are back out. If the fans come after you often enough and hard enough, your job security tumbles. It's the psychology of the game. And it's in the same vein of why a guy like Danny Paille essentially got ran out of town here in Buffalo but was a contributor on a SC winning Bruins squad. He was a 1st rounder here, and had expectations of being a top 6 F because of that. And he couldn't live up to those expectations because he wasn't anywhere close to a 1st or even a 2nd liner. But he was a very effective 4th liner.

And when the Sabres win tonight, the Sharks will only be 0.667 in their last 9. #### Dumbo D'oh and his big night. Go, go, Buffalo.

Not really the right place for this, but got tired of scrolling back through topics to find a Quinn specific one. Until he tried to set the Ducks up with a breakaway in the last minute or so of the game that they were unable to take advantage of; thought Quinn had his best game of the season last night. If he is finally starting to understand how he fits into Ruff's system we should see his play actually being useful like last night rather than like his 1st nearly 20 games. Though he didn't score, he was driving to the slot with the puck creating HD chances, he made some nice passes, and he wasn't randomly turning the puck over (well, at least not until his last shift in regulation; baby steps) nor noticably seeming lost in his own end. Will be paying attention to his play tonight vs the Snarks to see if it was just a 1 game fluke or if he really is finally getting it.

They didn't pick the Sabres game because of the Sabrepede incident. IF they chose the Sabres for a historical reason it is because Thornton played his 1st ever game as a Shark in Buffalo.

How many of those other teams had to play a "home" game in the backyard of their opponent much less 2 of them?

Gotham didn't have a Duck. Just a Penguin. Sheesh.

The Sabres have "hosted" 2 Winter Classics and one Heritage Classic. The 1st was in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park. The 2nd was in the Buffalo suburb of the Bronx. The 3rd was in the Buffalo suburb of Hamilton, ON. Maybe the Sabres can host one in Las Vegas so Eichel can play in front of the "hometown" fans once again. Money grubbin' ######.

Of course they can. They can even have another home game. Which local suburb would you like this one to be played in? Boston? Filly? Maybe they could go to the other side of the county and play that home game in Seattle or Vancouver.

You're related to Elizabeth Warren? 😉

The "best culture" comes from having really good hockey players during their peak years. Good coaching helps; but that's really at the heart of it.

Since when does @Brawndo need to be confirmed? If HIS sources say it happened, $'s to donuts, it happened.

Yes, Allen saw that the Chefs were actually in zone on that play; but it doesn't appear that he changed the play out of one that was (per Orlovsky) designed to beat man and not zone which is why all the Bills receivers were covered.

One of the 2 equity groups does have that group within it's 10% stake. (The article had it somewhere between a 1% and 3.something % stake; don't recall as the list of smaller investor groups was fairly large for only a 10% stake.) The article said that at the end of the day, Pegula will keep a 79.9% stake in the Bills. There are 2 separate roughly 10% equity groups that are up for league approval, one of which is actually a whole bunch of groups each getting a much smaller stake in the Bills to add up to their ~10% stake.

Expect the bigger issue of the leg room is people that have arthritis or other leg joint ailments tend to have issues with the seating and those of us fortunate enough to not have them yet don't have issues with them. Gentleman that sits near me really dislikes sitting in our row even though he's relatively short as the leg room is noticably less than it is for rows behind us. Have never had major issues with it personally, though when sitting next to someone who likes to "spread out" it can be a little awkward as their leg keeps brushing up against the people sitting next to them. As others have said, a new arena could likely overcome this issue but at the cost of the seats being even further from the ice surface unless each upper section is directly above the one below it (like the 300's pretty much are directly over the suites at the MMArena).

All you had to do was ask, Snoogums.

Not thrilled with Pegula selling off ~20% of the team, but guess he has to cover the stadium overruns somehow and "drilling another well" doesn't seem to be on the table. Mainly unhappy with it for what it might mean to the long term picture for the team when TP passes on. Realize the family (Kim or the kids) would still own nearly 80% but no idea how estate taxes might factor into the mix and not sure how much of a stake the new ownership groups would have in keeping the team in Buffalo. Guess worry about that when it comes. But that day will be here sooner than later and after ~20 years of rumors of TO the past decade with no real threat of them leaving has been a nice respite but would really like to have seen the respite last longer.

Actually, according to Orlovsky it was Spagnola who made the better chess move on both that play and the other big run that Allen had in the 4th Q, but that Allen simply made it not matter. Apparently, Buffalo expected zone when they got man and then expected man and got zone (but the way the Bills ran the routes on the TD it effectively became man coverage due to the routes the Bills ran) and Allen simply took off when KC had everything covered on both plays. It's good to have an alien under center. 😉

Based on his play in the last 2 games, it isn't surprising. Wasn't sure if they'd send him down before heading out west or after; guess we got the answer to that. Guess it was smart of him to go with plain brown pads this year. He'll be fine, but right now this move should be good for both the Sabres and him.

You probably should see a doctor for both of those issues. 😉

Pretty sure it was more his entrance onto the scene, more specifically his entrance into Timmy Ho's, that soured that relationship from ownership's perspective.

Father Time remains undefeated. Apparently, he never stopped training with Cus D'amato.

But the 1st letter was clearly a P; and the 1st name of the guy on the Sabres that wears 19 currently starts with a P. And if you expect the Slash 6 could be a K, then, yeah, it looks like a friggin' K. And, oddly enough, expecting the player to be #19 would lead one to expect the Slash 6 to be a K as that's what his last name starts with. (And then the interuterine device in between the P and K becomes likely a Y but possibly a T, either of which are in the middle of 19's 1st name.)

If you knew it said 19 on it, why did you ask the Q?

It MIGHT work. Would not have had that combo on the bingo card 1 month ago.

Wasn't anticipating Greenway to possibly be out. If he is, then they have 4 "regular" C's as Lafferty takes the 4th line and Krebs the 3rd. Was expecting Aube-Kubel being out and Ruff putting the regular 4th line back together like he did last night. With Greenway out, one of Benson, Quinn, or more likely Kulich takes his spot on a very hodgepodge 3rd line (Zucker - Krebs - Kulich most likely).