MattPie

The bright side of the Decade of Incompetence is there's a whole group of young Sabres fans that have never meaningfully seen the Sabres lose a round (or even an important game), so they can enjoy non-Sabres playoff games between east teams. Well, what about the second round where the bolded rule is meaningless?

Few years back when I was doing the pace data analysis stuff every game, I think I used 0.580 as the "you're on the bubble" mark. Sure, you might not get in with 95-96 points but the vast majority of years you're in. I like 0.600 as "other than a freak season you're in". #TeamNHL600 (and because it's the internet) #DeLuca500isforNazis 🙂

I'll take 32-18-32 (D 0.390) over 42-40-0 (D 0.512) any day. 🙂

I'd go with Reinhart is better at almost all the facets of the game other than scoring goals.

We've got the Power. This really should be his goal song.

From a reply: JACK EICHEL WILL BE FINE I maintain that calling a person by a name they don't prefer is pure a**holery. I'm not picking on you directly, this goes for all the people that do it. This needs one of the videos like Ovie.

I looked last night. Significantly more than 50% of TNT's G, A, Points, etc. have come in the 76 games this season vs. the 130 games before. It's a huge breakout season, and he wouldn't be the first to regress after a big season in the NHL. Vanek never beat those 43 goals in 06-07; 40 once and 30+ twice for example. I'd be comfortable giving him market rate for a 25-30 goal guy if he'll take it, but even that feels like a risk. These decisions are how GMs make or break a team.

Interesting about the Ralph. Somehow I suspect they could have cobbled together the infrastructure needs temporarily for the next few years until permanent solutions could be found. Run bus shuttles to the metro line, make the Skyway one-way on game days to help with the traffic, etc. I think not putting the stadium downtown will end up being a mistake for the city for decades.

Hey, everyone has those "Wait, what am I supposed to be doing again?" moments.

- Mid-80s to mid-90s: in the 90s I started watching the replays at night when I was in high school and college (early 80s I'd watch with my Dad, but he got fed up) - 2002-2005: didn't have center ice, too responsible to stay up to 2AM to watch the replay - 2017-current: realized that I had things that brought me more joy than watching the Sabres; I stuck with the tank teams for awhile but eventually gave up

Just take The 190 to The Harborcenter to see The Sullivans.

I'm guessing the nightly close up doesn't include "make sure all the watertight doors are sealed just so we can open them in the morning". It's improbably named "USS The Sullivans". On a tour when I was a kid I remember the tour guide saying it is the only ship in the history of the US Navy with "The" in the name. (funny what things stick in your head (and hopefully I'm not misremembering)). I too did the Boy Scout camp out, but on the USS Little Rock.

Short answer: no. TNT may end up being nearly as effective, however.

Holy cow, I just walked by there on Tuesday. I wonder what I did.

Knife and fork, charlatan! I had to stop wearing my monocle though, the sweat of my brow would make it fall out and land in the sauce. I lost partial sight in my eye when I failed to clean it properly, never again!

Elma/East Aurora, Blue Cheese is an abomination and ruins a perfectly good wing.

Huh, all these years and never knew. Thanks!

Curious: the OP solo skate; is that a "thing" for local players, 1 overall picks, or ???. I don't think I've seen that before.

The COG line, I like it.

I prefer hot BBQ when I'm outside Buffalo. The Hot are rarely good so BBQ is a more enjoyable experience.

Level 2: never date the songwriter in your band. "Go Your Own Way" was written by Fleetwood Mac's guitar player, Lindsay Buckingham, about Stevie Nicks who then had to sing backing vocals every time it was performed.

Keep your dirty well-researched facts out of this. 🙂 I forget which era it was (I think 2006-2007 teams, but might have been the late 90s), but the Sabres had 1 guy over 30 goals, but 6 with 20. Those teams were way more fun than Jack and the JAGs. Keep Olofsson, create three (or four) dangerous lines and roll. As someone pointed out above, there are 50 guys in the league that would be in the AHL since the recent expansions; the third pair D on every team isn't getting better.

The schadenfreude is real.

And yet: Biron and Noronen both had seniority. Sure, dumb stuff happens, like Fuhr getting starts over Hasek but none of the players we're talking about now are established NHL players. Somewhere above, re: Bleed Blue and Gold Levi made his decision bleeding whatever colors Northeastern wears. Next year, it's entirely likely he'll sign with the Sabres and start bleeding blue and gold. It does seem like the guy sticks with his team longer than many would and I take that as a good sign.

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