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This is going to be the first Jersey game all over again.

Someday I want to see a hyper competitive visiting captain refuse to lose a ceremonial opening faceoff. That one might be the closest I’ll ever get.

That's exactly where my mind went. They didn't overlap during their time there, but I can imagine they crossed paths several times.

I knew that arena wasn't designed for hockey, but square corners? Wow, I had no idea it was that bad.

Typically it's a conversation that can't be had beyond opening day.

I'm assuming you downloaded that one ahead of time. If that one was available on the plane, I'm incredibly impressed.

Ahhh crap.

The ordering of the list is curious. It makes it seem like Okposo and Dahlin’s “indefinite” is shorter than Rodrigues’ week-to-week while Sobotka is much longer term. But then Tage listed last, I’m not sure where that fits in.

I wonder if you might get a different performance from the app local vs. non-local.

And it's not like he didn't have a chance to beat out any of these guys. He's been in multiple training camps with the Sabres and with the Amerks. They've had more than enough time to evaluate him in comparison to anyone else on the roster.

Except the ECHL really isn't a higher tier league than the CHL or NCAA. It's one thing if you're made up of the elite from those leagues, but that's not who heads to the ECHL. They're pulling in the 3rd or 4th tier guys from those leagues. So if you're a player in the ECHL, many of the elite guys who you previously faced don't wind up in your league and instead wind up in at least the AHL. Things get watered down.

I don't know, people seem to mention him all the time around here. So both exes are obsessed but refuse to acknowledge it.

Sorry, I have no idea what happened, how that post got into this thread and how it wound up quoting you.

Buffalo is not making moves to stock Cincinnati. The majority of that team is not under contract with the Buffalo/Rochester organizations. It's not their concern.

But they traded a D for this D, so it really doesn't make that chain of callups any more possible than it was before. These minor league trades are always interesting because it's tough for pretty much anyone to figure out what the hell is going on, yet people are still going to speculate about the reasons. And now my random speculation. My guess is that Botterill's only involvement in this deal was as a rubber stamp. Randy Sexton and whoever Tampa's minor league guy is did all the driving here.

I’m not really sure how that makes a case for Wilson over Prescott and Cousins. That’s one nice thing of reading this on my phone, I can easily rotate that plot. The three of them look to be right in line with each other. and am I blind or do I not see Josh Allen anywhere?

I wonder if they even could LTIR Okposo. Concussions are such a mixed bag. Even with his history I wonder if they could actually make the claim the he’d be out that long. I haven’t seen the injury list so I don’t know what they have him listed at, even if that’s not exactly a scientific system.

OJ was the most public murder trial in the history of mankind. In a world driven by PR, it’s tough finding anything that comes anywhere close to matching up with that one.

We had to buy a new car within the last two months and ever since, I've been flooded with extended warranty robocalls and junk mail. Apparently the wife is getting them too. It's easy enough to ignore the robocalls, but for whatever reason the damn things all leave voicemails. I'm the type who wants to clear out any notifications on my phone, so the voicemail requires one extra step to rid the phone of all of those little red circles. I think verizon had actually been taking steps to eliminate the spam calls. I was down to almost none of them up until the new car.

The whole Myles Garrett thing just took an incredibly predictable turn...

Then there are the guys currently in top 6 roles who are much better suited for bottom 6. They get bumped back down so addressing the top 6 also addresses the bottom 6.

Does NY require a police "escort" for the work zones? I know some people like to complain about the cost of something like that, but I've always viewed that as the most effective way to protect the guys out there. The flashing lights tend to catch the attention of most drivers. The ones who miss that are probably going to miss just about anything. The earbud thing, now that's one that drives me crazy. I was always under the impression that wearing headphones while driving was illegal, but maybe that's not the case. The ones I see all the time are people wearing those obnoxiously large headphones while driving. Now if by some chance they're just wearing them and not actually listening to anything, there still has to be at least some level of noise cancellation from that. So now you don't hear honks, sirens, or something else like a train whistle. How stupid can you be?

It's one single car approaching the front of the line like that which leads to the increased speed. If more people are using that lane it would naturally cause that slow down that you're calling for. And if you want to prevent people from approaching the work zone with speed, build in a bigger buffer between the lane closure and the actual start of the work zone.

@Ogre Most cars merging over early like that actually slows down traffic significantly. The full road winds up not being used and multiple choke points are created. The most efficient is to use both lanes and then have people alternately merge at the point of the lane shift. The problem is that it's tough to get more people to follow this practice, it's so ingrained in us to merge over early. Google "zipper merge", traffic jams will be eased significantly if more people learn this. I get the feeling the cop put on a show for you because this kid did nothing wrong... well, other than the 911 call of course.

Completely unrelated to the topic, but does anyone else get an ad for Uggs at the bottom of this link? I don't know why, but it looks like they photoshopped the head of the little girl on the left onto her body backwards.