MattPie

Ah, now I see where you went off path. No one is doing research on the Sabres outside upstate NY and the diaspora.

I've been reading the board more lately, and occasionally click on a topic, like a post or two, and then realize it's from 2018. I hope those 78s worked out for you, @darksabre.

While the hopium is flowing here and we're chuckling at other teams moves, it's a pretty easy bet to put the Sabres roughly the same place as last year from the outside. The team hasn't made a splash in the off-season They appear to be running a 41-year-old and some other team's backup in net There will be like 10 rookies in the lineup (I exaggerate, but there are a bunch of unproven guys in the forward group) No one is going to risk saying the Sabres will be good this year given the past decade I don't think all these things are true, but it'd be easy for a few rookies to get sent back to the AHL, a sophomore slump, and an injured G to have the Sabres be terrible again.

I mostly remember Roethlisburger being able to shed tackles due to his size. I don't know if I've seen a QB that's just as happy hurdling or throwing a stiff-arm as Allen, it's quite incredible.

But (at least here), it's the same day so you're just checking one more box on the voter form. It's almost no extra work or time. I'm not sure how to process preferring your elected leaders electing the head of state. In the early USA, it was done this way in the Electoral College without a popular vote (don't get me started). I do believe a direct election will marginally represent the people better than letting politicians do it. The USA has a number of questionable ideas surrounding its elections, but actually directly electing the president (even in the broken rounding-error way we do it) is not one of the bad ideas.

Ugh, figured. I suppose Ithaca might be in Rangers territory, but I doubt it.

In-market? (Dare I hope, since I have that already)

Not us! 🙂 There's a wild theory that they ordered Tara Powder instead of Tara Flour, which is a dye used in tanning. Our AST/ALT are back to normal now, MsPie's was like 300+ at one point.

It looks like it's some sort of toxin situation, MsPie and I both had some liver function issues that seem to have mostly fixed themselves. Luckily, we didn't eat much of it. It was pretty good, so we would have if the recall didn't come up a day or two later, lol. Some people are in much worse shape than we were. https://www.daily-harvest.com/content/french-lentil-leek-crumbles-advisory

Acadia was the plan this summer, but some health issues messed that up. MsPie and I ate some food that ended up being recalled and the company is still figuring out what happened (3+ months later). We're both kinda fine now though, although worried about lingering effects. Anyway, Acadia. We were there in 2019 before I got back into cycling and as soon as start cycling again I started thinking about the carriage roads and the big paved loop in the part. I had a plan to those a couple times during the trip. Ah well, next time. On a side note, I also have a Specialized (gravel) and a Trek (old MTB).

I read about this recently, it's now on my bucket list. https://hikebiketravel.com/cycling-the-cabot-trail-on-cape-breton-island/ (Hi @Sabres Fan in NS!)

Not hot, dreary.

Bold: yeah, but Barasso came into the league on fire; Buffalo will accept nothing less now, lol. I do think Hasek and Miller have poisoned the fan base a bit, if the Sabres get even decent play it still looks mediocre after seeing some elite seasons.

To pick a TOTALLY RANDOM example, Ryan O'Reilly's cap hit is $7.5M and he put up 21g 58p last year. There were ~22 Centers that were around a point a game last season. Tage isn't getting paid like a #1 star center.

Do we go with catapolta, or poltaput? Or just call it a polta-pow.

Might have to go further back than that. D probably play better on the traditional side because I've always played there. Their first pee-wee coach put them on those sides because that's just what you do. All the little things that should be automatic (like, stopping a puck getting past you on the boards) is just that little bit faster since they've been doing it on the same side for 10 years. I remember a time when the Sabres PP1 was entirely left-shots, and I think PP2 was entirely right-shots. That's not the same situation on the PP for a D, but interesting. I don't remember when that was, but I think it was one of the times they've been good in the last 25 years. That'll narrow it down quite a bit, lol.

There is a theory which states that in a universe if ever the Bills win the Superbowl, that universe will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

I do IT work for a large company with some fairly peculiar/strict rules about how the network works. I spent a *bunch* of time over the last year or two getting an install process working for a compute cluster (Red Hat Openshift) to work around the peculiarities, automated almost all of it, and wrote what I feel are OK docs on how to make it all work. We've had a few people on my team and other area in the company run through the docs with success. This whole thing follows a kinda "Open Source" model within the company so I'm not on the hook for it to work outside my team; it's provided "here's what we're doing, if it helps you we'd love to hear about it". I'm trying to help someone on another team else get through the install, and dude just will not read the docs or follow the process. He's just way off in the weeds running into things that I figured out and automated around. I'm frustrated that he's struggling even though I can honestly say it's his own doing. But I still want his project succeed.

Immediately what I thought of when I saw this, lol.

What do you make of this?

The Sabres have had luck in the past with the 2A 2B 2C 4 line setup.

Dude, you always bring the facts. Thanks. You last paragraph I think is spot on. My guess is he never tops last year in goals, but drops down to a reasonable SH% and hovers around 30. People that are predisposed will complain that he got a big contract on one year, but in reality he's being paid like a 2C 30 goal, 60 point guy, which is probably where he ends up. The league average is something like 9.9%, I don't think he'll drop below that.

This is the data that makes the contract look solid. I think I'm on record here questioning if this is a career year, but even sliding back to 25/35/60 still puts this in a decent place compared to his peers; it's a good deal.

Yeah, I read it as snark. "It's sooooo obvious to me, but other lesser people, like the Bills, might not have thought of it."