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The discussions are fine. It's one poster who regularly chooses to openly mock the subject that leads to the issues. The rest I'd say has been a respectful conversation.

Right, but they can also fall to the 4 seed. The Texans beat them so they hold the tie breaker. I realize we're only dealing with 15 here, but I'm surprised that adding in that one extra week of playoff games leads to a more likely scenario. I guess there's just enough wiggle room to get the Texans out of the 4th seed.

I'm too lazy to explore their math, but I have a hard time picturing how a potential second round matchup can be more likely than a first round matchup. The Bills are essentially locked into the first wild card. New England is basically locked into 2 or 3. Everyone else has a better chance of moving around a bit. I guess there's enough of a chance that the Texans could either jump over KC or fall behind Tennessee (don't know the tie breaker there).

I found myself driving behind and SUV this morning with a giant patriots logo on the back window. At that moment, I knew I was being filmed.

I don't pay close enough attention to the Bills to really know what they've done. But the bolded is a good indicator of the impression I always get from them. Those two always come across to me as being a true team, both levels of the management being on the same exact page and working together. The Sabres haven't had anything remotely like that i a long time now, probably the earlier years of Darcy/Lindy. Maybe Botterill/Krueger can finally be that, but we haven't seen enough yet to really know.

What you miss is five seconds later when he is hit by a car.

And not just that, but a 3 year deal to an over 35 proven flight risk. This was almost as predictable as Josh Gordon’s latest suspension.

I usually hate the whole “run 10 yards up field to celebrate a sack” thing, but I have to admit that I really enjoyed Phillips mocking Watt’s “kick the field goal” motion late last night. Granted, he’s celebrating all while Pittsburgh is rushing to lineup, but it was worth it. That Watt celebration was poorly timed considering the fact that his team was about to give up the lead once that field goal went through the uprights.

I never expected Bogosian to play a single game this year. So I suppose he does qualify as a major disappointment up to this point.

It doesn’t matter what people have, they always want more. It’s basic human nature.

The team actually is required to provide some accommodations in the short term. I'm too lazy to look it up, but it is specifically outlined in the CBA what they have to provide to any player who is traded, called up, or sent down to the minors. More than likely, they're living out of a hotel in the short term.

I wonder if the PA (no, not you) has some sort of directory.

Well now that the most disappointing Sabre has been sent down to Rochester, maybe Erod enters the conversation.

There's no intention of piling on. The demographics of football are just very different than most of the northeast. McDermott's mindset is more than likely very prominent in many football circles. I thought that's part of what you were getting at with the comment about realizing that your thoughts may not line up exactly with the others in those NFL locker rooms.

I would have guessed he was younger. I didn't realize he was already 30 when he came to the team. I guess we tend to forget how different the road from Europe to the NHL was even just 25 or so years ago. Well, that and I was mixing him up with Denis Tsygurov, who is also older than I expected... and also was a Russian involved in a Buffalo/LA trade.

I always find it interesting how so many people don't realize that football is pulling people from a very different background than what we see in our neck of the woods or in the northeast in general. That faith-based outlook, it's huge around the football world. The problem is that for so many people, the second they seem something unfamiliar, they decide to mock it rather than to understand where these people are coming from. You have to think exactly like me or else I don't trust you.

All ELCs are two-way.

I can think of something more frustrating than being a healthy scratch... having a zero removed from your paycheck. Hopefully that serves a motivational purpose, but I couldn't fault the kid if he's angry about it. This is the kind of thing that can break a lot of people. Hopefully he's got the right head on his shoulders to deal with it. We will see.

Well maybe if you stopped sniffing that glue while your mom is upstairs with all the Santas...

Most unanimous?

ahhh I read it backwards. I thought he skipped out on the NCAA and didn’t head to BC. Skipping out on BC is always the way to go in my book.

A pace that would get him 147 point over a season. That’s a number we haven’t seen since 1996. Yeah, he’ll cool off from that pace a bit.

And that’s the thing. As amazing as this streak has been, McDavid still has 11 point on him this year. Th gap between those two is crazy.

Watching Rudolph right now. That is always awesome this time of year. Being a “few” drinks in doesn’t hurt either.

Why would rejecting the NCAA in favor of the CHL hurt him in the eyes of the Canadian team? That’s the exact route they’d want to see him follow.