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  1. 11 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:

    We're building a kind of inverse-Toronto, who has Willy (heh) and Marner, passers on the wing who transition the puck and carry play, and feed Tavares/Kadri/Matthews, centers who CAN do that stuff but who are much better at driving the net and popping in goals. The way we're doing it is far more traditional, our goal scorers on the wing and the centers transitioning the puck in the middle of the ice and feeding the netfront area for Skinner and co. 

    good analysis

  2. I appreciate the tip on Get Dressed though. When I'm on a little more generous timeline I am definitely going to check them out. I bet I can probably get an even better suit there for an even better price, but I can't do wait and see right now for sizing. With the way I have to mix and match pants and jackets they might not work for me anyway. But I like the concept a lot. 

     

    You are most welcome. When you have more time to play with, def check them out. FYI, the owner is very creative/suggestive when it comes to mixing and matching stuff. My experience is that he has a keen eye & ear in terms of what you are looking for.

  3. I liked them. Nice place, not too overpriced. Very friendly service. They had what I was looking for. I was going to shop around but I figured I probably wouldn't be able to do any better anywhere else.

     

    I really like that they do the tailoring in house.

     

    They're going to call me when the suit comes in so I can get the pants measured and altered. I'm wearing a 42L jacket but need the width in the thigh of a 38 pant which doesn't come with the 42 jacket, so we had to order that combo.

     

    Glad it worked out for you !

  4. The price is going to be right.  The question is whether he'll have what you're looking for on the given day you stop in.  

     

    2 other benefits: supporting an independent local business, & getting very personalized, knowledgeable service you won't find buying off the rack or at a chain store.....a definite value-add. If he doesn't have exactly what you are looking for, he is always getting new stuff in and can tell you exactly what & when he is getting. He almost always seems to have something unique I have never seen before.

  5. I would check out Get Dressed on Elmwood. I know the owner, great guy and he has a wide range of pricing in line, I think, with what you're looking for. He is an old-school clothier who will do the measurements and free tailoring to boot. He has great connections in NYC and buys his stuff in the Garment District....b/c his is a small shop, you're not paying for overhead. His pricing is very fair and quality very good relative to price  - I have bought alot from him over the years.

     

    http://getdressedbuffalo.com/

  6. Eyyyyyyyyy welcome back!

    And if we can get people in over Gorges and whoever replaces Kulikov when Kulikov gets hurt again (is Kulikov hurt right now? I simply can't remember) then I am all in on them, just for something different than Gorges.

     

    Thanks for the welcome back! In addition to posting here after an extended AWOL, how about me moving back to Buffalo recently after a 27 year post-college expatriation? Yesterday was the first day during that timeframe I drove in any kind of snow.

     

    It was time to come home and help the parents. 

  7. Corsica actually has a scoring chance metric. Overall percentage we're pretty good at 53.58%, 7th in the league. But that's due almost entirely to our scoring chance prevention, where we're 3rd at 6.53 per game. Problem is we're only generating 7.54 per game, which is 19th. Before you ask, I'm not sure exactly what they count as a scoring chance (which is why I don't regularly cite the data), but a safe bet are things in the whole slot area.

     

    We are shooting a little low as a team, at 5.06% (as opposed to our expected, per Corsica, of 5.97%), but even if we were shooting as expected, it'd still only give us another 6 goals on the season. We simply aren't generating enough chances to score more.

     

    Which brings me full circle to Bylsma: he's using the roster incorrectly. As I think we can all agree, we're not a team with a bunch of high end finishers (our only guy with a realistic expectation of hitting 30 is Jack), so we have to manufacture offense through volume and control. Bylsma is doing the exact opposite of that with his passive forecheck, weak puck support, and neutral zone trapping. Sure we're limiting chances against at an elite level, but we're generating chances at a below average level and when combined with our roster, has resulted in a total dearth of offense.

     

    Backing away from the stats some, looking at our defense, I think it's pretty clear that Risto, McCabe, and Bogosian (lord save my soul) are better at attacking offensively than they are at defending in their own zone. Yet, Bylsma's system has them spending more time playing to their weaknesses than to their strengths. Every game I see a lot of chances to either lead a rush or pinch, but they just choose to sit back instead. If it was only say Gorges doing it, that's one thing, but they all are. That's coaching.

     

    Jack coming back will help, as he can generate on his own outside of the system, and he can finish. But him coming back doesn't fix the underlying systemic problems Bylsma is responsible for. People can point to the injuries all they want, but it was the same last year, and it was the same this year when we were healthy minus Jack. It's how Bylsma wants to play. I've often joked about what Bylsma learned in his year off...well I think he decided that clogging everything up and castrating the generation of chances (by both teams) was the way to go. Though his breakouts and dumping and chasing is basically the same as in Pittsburgh, I think he neutered the forecheck he used there in favor of stifling the competiton (someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I have no memory of Pittsburgh playing a 1-2-2 with any regularity...quite the contrary, I remember them giving up a lot of speed rushes through the neutral zone).

     

    Bleh.

     

    this is the analysis I have been looking for, thanks

  8. wonderful story, and one of the BEST thread I've ever seen here. I hope you all know the story of Matt Urban, who I am almost ashamed to admit I did not know of until I visited his memorial plaque at the Buffalo Naval Park on 7.30.16.

     

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Urban    (please read in its entirety...!!)

     

    Folklore has it that Audie Murphy was the most decorated/recognized combat soldier in WW2; that's patently false, and it's only because Hollywood chose to make him the subject of more than 40 feature films and one television series.

    I'm proud, as a Buffalonian,  beyond belief, of Lt. Col. Matt Urban.....

  9. PLEASE keep thoughts & prayers to those in central Italy affected by this earthquake...I have family in Rome & am desperately awaiting word from my cousin that everything is OK.....

     

    Lots of Italian-Americans in Buffalo (.....or just "American" as some here would say), so this hits home for many

     

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_ITALY_QUAKE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-08-23-23-46-05

     

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/magnitude-6-4-quake-hits-italy-near-perugia-015222205.html

     

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3755722/Italy-rocked-6-1-magnitude-earthquake-centered-near-capital-Rome.html

  10. This is a kind of long, and interesting, read about the Islamic State. A lot of good insight. To defeat them, we have understand them, where they are heading and what it takes to get there, then deny them that. Ultimately ISIS is an apocalyptic cult that's trying to drag us down to their level, which is basically stone-age civilization and law. The worst thing we can do is get drawn into fighting with them on their terms.

    Thank you Mr. Egg for the linked article. I purposely waited to post this reply until I had the chance to read it in its entirety. I am enthralled and very enlightened by all the content of that article, which certainly augmented what I thought I knew.

  11. I don't think that this board should have ANT religion/politics posts.

     

    That's why there's a PPP board at TSW.

     

    I'm fine with your opinion, except it's not as simple of a subject as mere religion; it has become an existential threat, and is getting worse.

    Thank God the Bills have been matriculating the ball down the field.

    I wish we'd just get rid of that tag.

     

    love the humor PA, that is a good one !!

  12. This isn't even close to "slightly" OT, BTW. :)

    happy to remove the "slightly" if it will placate, maybe I need to learn what is OT around here and what is not

    Correct. There is no specific "there" with societies influenced by Sharia.

     

    if I need to define the here and there by country it could take a while. Sorry if my description was too general; I thought most readers would understand the macro concept w/o the need for me to delineate by country/region/sect

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