Samson's Flow

Having gone to two games this year, I will say that the Beauts games are a great bang for your buck in terms of entertainment. The intimate atmosphere of the Harborcenter gets you really close to the action, and the play quality was different but equally entertaining to the Sabres games I have been to (my record in person is sub .250 so that may attribute some of it).

That's cool - I did a similar thing with a US/Canada map to track all the cities and random single-stoplight towns I visited for work and pleasure. I might have to dig that up and update it with all the new places I've been to. Unfortunately if I did the world map it would be pretty sparse with only a dozen or so countries filled in. We can't compete with you buddy!

I think the biggest difference is that tonight we look like a real hockey team... I mean check out the hair flow on Mitts and Nelson. Savages!

I feel like the exact opposite. I don't have much interest reading all of the "Fire Housley", "Is Tage good", "How sucky can we get" threads during non-game days. It's just too much of the same dreariness. But there's something fun to me about the communal reactions of watching your team do well or poorly in real time. There's hockey knowledge here in abundance, and reading through reactions gives me some real gems of insight.

That Penguins game last Friday was the most fun I had at a Sabres game since 2010-11 playoffs against the Flyers. Every game I have attended from that time until this year has been low-event, boring hockey with the added misery of losing the majority of the games. I know they aren't making the playoffs this year, but I have had more fun watching this year than the last 5 years combined.

I don't know man, it's gonna be tough to re-elect an impeached president.

I figured it wouldn't take long for us all to like him. Exactly the kind of defensemen this team is looking for

Duffer and Marty doing the intermission report. Marty then went to shave his head for bald for bucks

Glad to see the enthusiasm. Barely two pages at puck drop

I think we're in 214, but I'll confirm closer to game time through PM.

Samson becomes the third most important player on the Jack/Jeff line, as he defers to those two to drive play. When he is on his own line, he is the one who drives play and has the puck on his stick most of the time. I honestly cannot see how PH doesn't recognize this. I'm down with scenario #1 & #2, but even in #3 above I would let them figure it out on their own, because of how ineffective the rest of the lines are when we stack line 1.

Scored free tickets to tonight's Sabres game when a friend offered them yesterday night. We will see if that turns out to be F'N Fantastic or not, but at least worse case we get a night out with friends downtown.

Friend called us last night with free 200 level tickets, so I guess that means we're attending this one. Her husband is a Penguins fan as well, so hopefully the home team gives a solid showing tonight so we don't have to listen to him all game :) Let me know if you want to say hello since I missed the SS meetup.

Agreed. At this point Jack and Sam on separate lines should be a foregone conclusion. Pommers with Jack & Jeff gives that line ~90% of the effectiveness of Sam with that pair, and Sam on the second line turns them from road kill into an offensive threat.

You're not wrong.

Lol. This is the world we live in now.

Which is what exactly? (not trying to be snarky, just wondering if you can expand on what you see that I haven't through the broadcast)

Tage has moments on the ice where I see the potential and he could be something. He occasionally is able to deke through defenders and use his long reach and strong shot to look dangerous. Unfortunately, that is drastically offset by other times looking like a newborn giraffe on ice, and having very poor advanced stats metrics. I just think he's still so young that a lot of the things that used to work for him in juniors are not working in the NHL, and because of it leads to odd man rushes and opportunities for our opponents. I think he's only in Buffalo to continue to show something from the ROR trade, since Berglund left and Sobotka is an unmitigated disaster as well.

That was my vote too. ?

Good lord indeed. For perspective here is the avg Pts/GM from last season. Notice that 21 pts per game, while an improvement on the Bills being 30th at 16Pts/GM would still only be ~23rd roughly even with last year's Jets.

The Sabres play recently did not help distract me from my miserable last week. Sports is supposed to be an escape, not compound the anger and sadness.

Curious - who is the fourth in your opinion?

Welcome to Buffalo Brendan, you get to play with Matt Hunwick! ?

It's been pretty interesting so far IMO. Testifying under oath that the President gave him 11 checks to reimburse him for the Stormy Daniels hush payment. Mentioning multiple times that Trump indicated to him that he should take care of certain things with respect to staying on message, omitting key information in carefully worded statements and being involved in the Russia meddling stuff. It is a bit painful to watch since it is SO partisan. Every Republican that gets their 5 minutes looks to de-legitimize Cohen with personal attacks and establishing his history of lying and referencing his recent convictions; meanwhile, the Democrats are looking for verification of any ammunition they can get to attack Trump and build an impeachment case.

*buh dum chih*