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  6. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    3 hours ago, Weave said:

    From what I understand, he is getting a phone hearing, so no book being thrown.  It will be less than 5 games.

    Yeah, because it probably wasn’t an elbow. It’s blatant head hunting and deserving of a suspension still, but that definitely looks he makes contact with his shoulder/upper arm. That follow through raising up the arm? It doesn’t matter. 
     

    But that audio is very disturbing if he was in fact talking about this play. The dude’s not even human if he’s showing that little concern about another player. I’d love to see the union do something since they’re supposed to actually care about their players. 

  7. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    32 minutes ago, bunomatic said:

    My gawd is he tone deaf to the situation. Out of touch and possibly out of his mind. He literally had to go out of his way to elbow this player and lift himself up to actually make contact with his face. Also the hit was late. He could have just as easily hit him body to body. And then he has the nerve to victim shame the guy? Blame the victim. Idiot.

    I really hope that is some old video taken out of context.  If he actually said that in response to his penalty, the league should use it to throw the book at him.

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  8. The even randomer thread

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    2 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

    Would drivers please pretty please stop giving up the right of way and waving me to proceed? I don't get it. I hate to stare them down and most of the time tick them off, but I will not allow anothet driver to drive my car for me.

    I hate it even more when I’m on foot, so that’s usually in parking lots. Car, you’re going to clear out of my way much faster than I’ll be out of yours. Just go and everyone’s being more efficient. 

  9. The even randomer thread

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    2 hours ago, Marvin said:

    What does it mean when I would rather watch bad Sabres hockey over another second of 2024 election news?  I used to follow both with some intensity.  Now, the Sabres are sometimes borderline unbearable -- but I find it preferable to just the news, especially the election.

    It means you’re human. 

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  10. McKenzie’s Mid Season Draft Rankings

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    33 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

    I do not see the 2024 Draft Thread right now, but here on McKenzie’s Rankings complied from 10 scouts 

    He took his ball and went home… yet again. 
     

    But anyway, I’m glad that McKenzie mentioned just how well Celebrini has taken the ball and run with it. His production at his age in the NCAA is very impressive. Why did BU start getting these guys immediately after I left the area?

  12. Buffalo Bills 2023 Thread

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    4 minutes ago, SwampD said:

    It was a three point game. The D stopped them enough.

    Everyone knows that the missed field goal is exactly how Reid drew it up. That was the culmination of yet another coaching masterpiece. 

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  13. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    1 minute ago, rickshaw said:

    Not sure if it’s been spoken about but will Eichel be ready for the game on mar 2? Probably if rehab goes well. 
    Sabres fans in Buffalo, you want him to play when they’re there or you happy if he’s still out?

    If they the lower body surgery that was joked about here, I wonder who performs the first cup check. 

  16. Worst trades in Sabres history?

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    5 minutes ago, Quint said:

    Two lousy draft choices. With few exceptions over their history, the Sabres have always been bad at drafting. Hard to say what they're worse at, trading or drafting.

    They traded Ballard before he even played a single game. That was a part of a three way deal that landed Drury. Was he really a bad draft pick?

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  17. Worst trades in Sabres history?

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    56 minutes ago, Quint said:

    I still don't understand the trades for Ben Bishop and Johnny Boychuk. I know it was for cap reasons but it seems like gross mismanagement that the Sabres had to do this in the first place. They didn't play one minute for our team. The return the Sabres got on the Reinhart deal, although incomplete, seems to be bad to me at this stage. I'm not counting on Levi making it (we'll see)  and Kulich, although he has a rocket, seems to be a one-note Johnny, like an Olofsson. As mentioned, the Hasek forced trade for Kozlov and what turned out to be Keith Ballard was really poor, but like many bad trades the Sabres have made, they have turned high draft choices to stale mediocrity by bad choices.

    It might not be the worst but my least favorite trade was Peter McNab for Andre Savard.

    They took Ballard with their own pick. The one from the Hasek trade wound up being traded to move up and take Dan Paille. 

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  18. Buffalo Bills 2023 Thread

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    3 hours ago, SwampD said:

    I don’t care about Belichick, or Brady, or some imagined attack on Christmas.

    What we should be talking about is does anyone truly believe that Josh Allen and Bills Mafia (another thing I really can’t stand) have the power to deny the NFL, and their desire to have Taylor Swift in a box at the Super Bowl?!

    I wonder how many parents of teenage girls are going to realize in six months that they’ve been paying $9.99/month for a streaming service they didn’t even know they had. Hope they like soccer.

    Swift dumping Kelce on live tv and jumping into a love triangle with Josh Allen and Kate Bishop… that would make for some great tv for the tmz crowd. 

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  20. Worst trades in Sabres history?

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    3 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

     I don’t think this thread was written for the rental player, the salary dump, and rebuilding and moving on from vet type of trades -  in fact read the OP and it isn’t.   But if want to include them in a worst trade in history thread, go ahead. 
     

    As for the purpose of a trade.  If you are not getting better, you're getting worse.  
     


     

     

    The point is that it’s a strange standard to apply to all trades. They’re not all made today. The gold standard has to be Nieuwendyk for Iginla. Calgary didn’t get better from that deal, only adding 14 points over 31 games. But not teams won that deal: a cup for a long hall of fame career. 
     

    So clearly we know what this talk branched off from. It’s not a good deal but there’s still so much to be written with the two key pieces still in place and very early in their careers. So bad today, but it doesn’t approach the worst of all time label, particularly when you’re talking  about a team that got absolutely nothing in return for the greatest goalie who ever set foot on the earth (hey, I can counter hyperbole with some of my own).

  21. Worst trades in Sabres history?

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    1 hour ago, Pimlach said:

    I’m talking about good old fashioned “hockey trades”.   Like the ROR trade.  
     

    Deadline trades of sellers would skew everything. 

    So in describing the purpose of trades, we want to exclude a large portion of trades that are made? Seems fair. 

     

    1 hour ago, seer775 said:

    The blues got their impact. We sold our 1C and got another one a handful of years later. 

    Result? Down a top C for years on years. Bad trade.

    As I said, I’m not talking about that trade. 

  23. Worst trades in Sabres history?

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    3 hours ago, Pimlach said:

    I would love to see data on this statement. 
     

    The Sabres were not rebuilding when they trade ROR, they were reaching and reacting, which is what chronic losers do.   The two vets were supposed to improve the club at the time, the rest were futures.  We are lucky to have two good players 6 years later, which salvages the trade.  But to the hockey world,  the Blues won a cup in large part because of this trade.  

    Data? So do you think all those player for draft pick deals at each deadline, both teams are expecting immediate impact?

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  24. Worst trades in Sabres history?

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    16 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

    The object of a trade is to improve your team.  The Blues added a great player, plus they dumped two players past their prime and on bad contracts, and won a cup that ended up with ROR getting the MVP.  The Sabres got no immediate help improving their team.  The two vets were garbage.  They got a future pick in Ryan Johnson, and they got Tage, who 3 years later has developed into a good player that might be a great player - maybe.  
     

    The Sabres did not improve their team.  They have continued to lose.   It’s been 6 years with no playoffs since that trade.  

    I’m going to talk about trades in general and not that specific trade. There are very few trades that occur where both teams are trying to add immediate help. 

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