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Yeah still don't think my favorite team has enough of that yet either. I will be curious to see how he does with really skilled linemates. Guess it depends on if he has to play more policeman than power forward.

Some good idea's here, nice to see you getting your game ready Ink. I like the party in the box idea alot as a real possibility. I too am surprised with the PGH connection that it doesn't sound like they are going more down that path.

Spectacular ! Best quote and image of the year.

Amen to that. Let the good times roll.

I took a peek at http://www.capgeek.com/sabres/ and agree Leino if he does not really step up his game. As a second maybe it is wishful thinking after that horrible attempt at humor in that stafford workout video but if stafford does not come back in top shape and stay at the same level he was clicking at with Ennis and Foligno than I would not be sorry to see him traded or bought out. Besides the trade away salary option I am interested in is if new CBA has any changes/restrictions on renegotiating a players contract, turning salary into signing bonus for adding a year or two for a lower annual salary or more performance orientated. I could see the team going that route as well with just a single buyout like Leino's

Well now what a reunion. Been a sometimes lurker but enjoyed the free time for other endeavors. Labatt, nice kickoff Taro, love the taint. Chaz, mon ami Sheri, Bio, great memory of the fu man workout, classic piece of what was/is wrong with this team attitude wise. PA, welcome back and how about kotter for your Satan replacement you horshshack. ;-) Ghost, a little close to home with that analogy heh, I think you were that camp counselor, Nfreeman, nice to see your in, Wonder, sten,d4, and all you others good to see the gangs all here. Keep up the great conversations.

Happy Stuffing your selves all you Turkeys. Hope you and yours are all safe and enjoying your Holiday. The longer the lockout the less I am missing hockey and enjoying all the extra time I have for family and life, however I do miss the comadarie of this board.

I do not think all the appropriate choices are listed. I want an option to take the side of the "Fans" which would be what is good for the league and enhancing the game like eleven, and deluca and weave are also saying. Really should not be any harder than a 50/50 partnership to continue to build, strengthen and increase the market for the game.

Yeah lets add people and relatives that tell the same story over and over again oblivious to the fact they may have already told you this umpteith times and expect you to laugh at the punch line like you never heard it.

People who get impatient and curse at me while I back into my parking spot because I need to statisfy my OCD tendencies to always be pointed in the correct direction and satisfy my impatientness with the need for hasty get aways. ;)

I am sorry to hear and offer my heartfelt condolances. I know how hard putting your dog to sleep is after doing that with our 14 years young lab just 3 years back. We had her as a puppy before children so she really was the beginning of the family for my wife and I and it was very, very hard. Now 3 children and a new lab puppy later we are experiencing the joy as family all over again. Take some time to grieve but maybe in time allow for another to share life with again. We kept some of the toys from our last to the new dog and I swear she knows she was preceded by a great dog and at times even has some similar personaility traits although that could just be the lab coming through. My complaint, summer is over, school started already here today for the first kid and the nice slower summer pace is going right out the window now from morning to night starting with the get the kids out of bed, on the bus on time shuffle to the get home, get dinner, do homework, after school activities fire drill. So while I reserve the right to complain, all in all I wouldn't trade it back for the single life in a second or a lifetime. ;)

Voles and chipmonks darn buggers have moved into my mulch beds the last few years and dig holes under my sidewalk and all through my mulch beds. I do my own landscaping/lawn chores and just after I get it all remulched and flowers planted for the summer season they retrench and go for the new plants and roots. I am tiring of sharing my space with them and considering drastic measures :ph34r: (envision Caddy shack/Bill Murray) and going after these darn varmits...

What no love for Peter Sellers some comedy at it's best; Dr Strangelove and original Pink Panther's Anything John Wayne but True Grit fits the timeframe as well as one of his best last films; the Shootist and also what killed him in real life(cancer). Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns in deed, The good the bad, the ugly; Hang em High, Also got to have some love for the Bogart, African Queen; Casablanca, Errol Flynn anyone, defintitely the original Robin Hood.

Cool topic, I like weave have teenagers(15 yr old daughter, 13 yr old son) that want to experience the concert scene truth be told my 10 year old is more of a rocker like his dad then his older siblings since he already has a lot of the music on his Ipod that I listen too. I am considering breaking them in with a starter like 8/14, Def Leppard and Poison and/or maybe 9/2 Kiss and Motley Crue at Post Gazette pavillion. Have to see how the summer goes.

My complaint is it just went out the window with that story, yeah complaining about not being able to complain. With kids of my own 14, 12 and 10 the two youngest being boys I just say wow. So much more to say and do with them to want to help them on their way in life and .... don't know what you got till it's gone and I'm just going to try and remember that today, tomorrow and make my time count with the important people in my life...

My thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family. Great to hear see there are still stand up people in this crazy f'd up world like you. Just be there. My complaint seems trivial however it must be done. Work just sucks the life out of me sometimes especially when I read things like this and know there are so many other things so much more important. Oh and many thanks for the laughs to weave and GODD. (mancapades nice touch).

Hello my name is R_dudly and after reading this thread originally started by Deluca in October I now have become a walking dead following zombie for this whole season and likely the duration. I think I can control my zombie urges but find myself considering the run for your life event here outside Pgh 9-1.(I am trying to get a group from work here to enter with me but no luck yet) I haven't started my formal doomsday planning but I also find myself mysteriously intrigued by the doomsday training brought to our attention by Korab and strangely also here in Pennsylvania where I live. Maybe it's the radon or the water here but anyway I loved the last episode and will be looking forward to the next season like a zombie chasing after that flesh fix they crave.

Haha, a meet the Fockers type of scenario immediately comes to mind. I say just treat it like a work experience with new co-workers you just met and have to work with on a project for a few days or have some real fun with it and play it like cousin Eddy from family vacation. Good luck with your choice either will work however if you add alcohol as weave suggests I'm betting more on cousin than co-worker experience.

I didn't see this here in this thread but just prior responded to a similar sentiment in the it's all family thread. While I agree with Schrader that in reality it likely is more coincidence then cause and effect. I will say I do miss his reparte and he did set a lot of the context around a lot of good discussion threads. He almost always was online every day, on top of the topics of the day and never shy to post. Miss his opinions.

That is truly an accomplishment and something to be proud of. It also proves that you could be successful ina nything you get real serious about. Congrats. The goodies; -it's F'n Friday already and after the holidays it couldn't come fast enough this week. -It's payday , yeah! -My sister and Brother in law are coming for the weekend and the kids and new puppy will get to enjoy the fresh meat. - I am going to my first live hockey game of year(yeah), unfortuately it's for the Pens here where I live(Boo) but it's on my B-in-laws dime(yeah) however he is obnoxious Rangers fan from Long island(boo) which automatically makes me a Pens fan tonight(double boo). -Beer will be involved. (Yeah)

Yes a very Merry Christmas to all. Please excuse my lame attempt at song writing below but in the spirit of Christmas past and the current board tenor I feel compelled to share a little Christmas parody song. Oh the hockey inside is frightful, But the rioting fans fire delightful, The Sabres no place to go, Let heads roll! Let’m roll! Let’m roll! When we finally hit last place, How I’ll hate going here to this storm! But if Lindy will hold us tight, On the way to playoffs I’ll be warm. Now the fans fire is slowly dying, But my dear Sabres will still be trying, So as long as I love them so, I can say, let’m roll! Let’m roll! Let’m roll!

My complaint is that there are not more thoughtful people in the world like this. Thats' a christmas spirit worth talking about. Merry Chrstmas Chilean and nice to hear you sound like your making it through your own family situation with your head in the right place. :worthy:

Still recovering from the work Big Lebowski holiday bowling party last night where I won the best big Lebowski award.( Yeah I got into it). Another Xmas party tonight. Love this time of christmas cheer.

Finally off work for the week, home with a bottle of delicious Stoudt's oktoberfest to start my Sabres pregame ritual. :beer: