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Merry Christmas 11 and to all the other old time posters I know. Chz, nfreeman, taro, x, Aud, deluca, PA, and the many others I have engaged in xmas past. Still lurking and reading, lots of good new timers here now as well. Sorry life(family, work,...) is more of a priority for me now than social media. Well not really sorry. I hope this finds all well and enjoying the holiday with family and friends as best as possible. And my last wish is for a happy new year that finds us all with a hockey team we all have been waiting for. Now if Santa could pull that off well that a Merry Christmas indeed!

I have been living in Pittsburgh since the early 90's. I never liked or was on board with the hiring of DB after seeing him here for a few years with the Pens. What you are seeing now with the Sabres is exactly what Blysma was doing with the Pen's that ultimately got him fired. As the style of hockey was changing years back to the speed or possession styles in vogue today he was not with talented Pens team. Constant line shuffling, playing your better possession centers as wings, limiting your offensive defense men like Kris Letang to a dump and don't carry style. Lucky for the Pens Mario recognized the way hockey could be played with the players they had and acquired for where the league is now. I feel like I am wasting my center Ice watching 1990's hockey every time I tune a Sabres game. Watching many of the other games available where hockey is actually being played makes the Sabres style even harder to watch for a whole game. It's a shame too because there finally does appear to be a good solid core and finally some real depth at Center. Yes fire Dan Please and pass the torch too the assistant Murray.

I will agree it's early in the season and some key players are missing but having seen DD coach here in PGH for many years I will say some of the observations and concerns are valid and a reason that he is no longer the Penguins coach. I also wonder if the loss of last years assistant coach has effected some of the play. He may be a coach that gets us to the playoff's but the team that won a cup under him was Michael Therians not his and if he did not learn anything after his firing from the Penguins I'm not sure if he is a cup winning coach.

It's from when I started lurking on this board many moons ago. I picked an avatar for a player I saw as a kid flying around the ice wearing a headband, Rick Dudley. I liked him and he's Canadian and they invented Hockey so I tried to get cute with my user id Dudly_do_right of the Canadian Mounties fame. I also grew up watching and enjoying hockey night in Canada, the cartoon Dudley do right and loved to hate the Montreal Canadian dynasty that was. So in the end its my odd way of showing my respect to my team, Canada and the sport I have grown to love even though those canucks are all hoser's...

Yes they were one of the many bands I saw in my misspent youth. Although I would argue it was not misspent but foundation to who I am. This is the show I saw them in high school. Went to all of the first 3 stadium fests. Oh and tailgating was mandatory back then.

Your rap version with that video was enough to bring me out of retirement. :w00t: Pure entertainment...

A Happy Fathers day shout out to all you SS posters I know are Dads and to some of you aspiring young pups who may some day know the blessing. I also want to say to all those who may not be Dads for reasons beyond your control or of your own choosing you still have impact and influence on those you touch daily. I am sure I have read some great posts on here from some of the same. Special Thanks to SDS who i know is a dad and also father of this message board and cyberspace community. :flirt:

Thanks all for the recap, too much work not enough spare time to check in during the day.. After watching him coach the Pens over his career here in Pittsburgh I am curious to see his assistant hires..rumor had it when he first started here Mario heavily influenced his options for helpers. Let the climb back begin.. Go Buffalo

This thread lacks the physicality to compete with SS version 1.0 and wouldn't make it past the first round.

I call this why sabrespace is the best place to get informative spirited debate. I miss my old job where i had time to research and try to post more but I could never keep up with heavy weights... Carry on gentlemen.

More of an infrequent lurker now than regular poster but that's a result of a lack of much if any free time with job and family. IT Director- Consumer Technology, web, mobile and integration applications. Any CS Programmer wannabe's that would be willing to move to Pittsburgh, PM me, no promises but hard work if you can pass an interview.

What do you expect when the family coat of arms is a straight jacket. It's all good brother, besides who said we all had to agree all the time anyway. And with this and you I do agree whole heartedly. thats

Up down turnaround Feeling high feeling low, Read it all and don't you know This is where I landed. +1 Deluca Oh and I also agree with Yuri. Couldn't watch much of what they were calling hockey with this team for months now. Last but not least, alleluia saints be praised, the Stafford infection has healed and now the recovery can begin.

Finished yard work Saturday pretty heated and dirty. Needed to run out to store so threw on a quick change pair of shorts and sandals. Walking into store with oldest son and he says, Dad your wearing socks(white) with your sandals. I said John your right and I now officially have become my father. Zero f's given. Truth be told I didn't understand it either when I saw my dad rocking that style 40 years ago.

Deluca's day job is performing politeness training for high profile customer service company's.

Yeah read that article this morning and it just reminded me of the arrogance of a few of the Canadians I used to run into when I was growing up their in Buffalo. This also reminds me why I always love to root against Toronto teams. Old joke we had growing up, whats Blue and lives in the cellar ? Maple Leafs, Argonauts and Blue Jays.....!!! Never found that to be the case with the french canadian girls though, always nice.

Ditto that. Thank you sir may I have another ! What a refreshing change to see blatant honesty in the public eye. Well played!

Wow first day in a while I drop by and get a chance to catch up on Sabrespace, Scott I like your first free agent addition. Nfreeman what were you thinking, you could held out for more 5X5 ? ;) Oh and thanks to the outgoing mods, Corp and KR.

Thanks for noticing although can't make any promises family, work and then some much needed Dudly time must take precedence. :P I do very well sir and I must say that when i do steal some time to catch up on all you Sabrespacer's I am very happy to see you are again a regular ball bust,, er I mean contributor... ;)

Well played sir. Yes I like it and give TM a lot of credit for going at it the way he see's fit. This move is a culture changer, serve notice, new sheriffs in town. Tear it down to build it up right or right as you see it anyways. NFW Darcy would ever have been able to do something like this. Tim is not timid and i for one find this a refreshing change for this team. Can't wait to see who he gets in UFA or trade to round out this comings years roster. Go Tim, Go.

Nope me. Been lurking and reading when I can but like some others I could not watch a full game it's been much better spending the time with my family in evening and nose to grindstone at work. My hats off to the hard core that stayed the course and still tried to find positives to talk about. Also to the entertaining many pre and post trade spaculations that caused some rousing debate. Hoping for nothing but up from here. Go Blues.

Just finished a bottle of Elijah Craig as my golf season burboun companion (carry it in flask on the course). Started the season in april with Eagle Rare, than mid went to Buffalo trace and fiinsihed with Elijah. Liked all 3 though different. Thought the Eagle rare was the smoothest of three with some modest complexity, Buffalo trace was nice for the price point but simple complexity and not as smooth as Eagle last the Elijah was the boldest most flavored and defintely best with a cigar.

Great to hear and best wishes for continued good health. However i can't let this pass with you on the swollen comment, a WHO song comes to mind "Mama's got a squeze box and daddy never sleeps at night" give it a rest killer. :P

I think for that time and place the way hockey was being played he was a good fit for the team at that time. It was a much more physical game where fighting was still expected. I do agree he was not your x's and o's game planner. I do think he may actually be a good fit as an interim coach to at least help some of these kids understand what it takes effortwise to play in the NHL and help the team to develop an indentity however i agree with the sentiment I would prefer the new GM to hire the man he feels is best for the job.

+1 Bingo, buy that man in the mustache a cigar.