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  1. 7 hours ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:

    I'm at work and was sitting at the nurses station watching.... They kept asking me for silly things, I think I said "if no one is in active cardiac arrest right now, then I'm unavailable for the next 10 minutes" 😂😂

    Even then...

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  2. 1 hour ago, Thorny said:

    How is that an X. A random regular season hockey game won by a fraud unit wasn’t the closest to a championship we got 

    i guess the argument is it “felt” like it? I get that but to me it felt like what it was, a fraud core getting themselves up for an “event” game cause they couldn’t find a way to care as much when it wasn’t. It was nice for RJ but in his heart of hearts I bet you he said “where the hell was this the other nights”  

    Would never feel like the real thing to me because the night was only significant for one team. I don’t think our opponent put as much stock in the RJ bowl 

    Fair enough 

    And I thought you were a romantic.

    I wrote "championship moment," not championship.

  3. 33 minutes ago, Thorny said:

    Oodles of moments in the 2006 run were better and closer. 

    Disagree. None of those moments felt like a championship moment bc they were moments on the way to what we were convinced was a championship. RJ Night was different. I was there. You could convince yourself this is what it's going to feel like. Not so for those playoff moments in 06, or dozens of others down through time. Of course, that's just me.

  4. 15 hours ago, Andrew Amerk said:

    After some self-reflection and introspection into this topic, I came to a realization. 

    For the past few years, I’ve blamed my declining interest in the Sabres on their continued poor play for so many consecutive seasons. 

    I realized today, that the timeline of my declining support/fandom coincides with RJ. 

    As a kid, I watched the start of most games on TV with my parents, and fell asleep to his voice on the radio at bedtime. As a teen, I began making a point to watch every single game, even if it was a recording, around 1997. In 2005, I started driving from Rochester to Buffalo for about 20 games a year, and stopped doing that in 2019 when I didn’t see an end in the ineptitude - I felt invested in the team, but didn’t feel it was being reciprocated. 

    During the 22-23 season, after RJ retired, I missed some games for the first time. Then RJ died. In 23-24, I watched maybe half the games. Last season, I only saw a handful of games, and a lot of times I didn’t even know when they were playing. It’s sad. 

    It’s almost a crime to me that RJ never got to hoist the Cup, and that the Sabres had to play such terrible, directionless, passionless hockey in front of him for the final 14 years of his life.   

    I've been sitting on a "Four Strikes and I'm Out?" post, and one of the strikes obviously is Rick. I almost certainly was a bigger fan of Rick than the Sabres (if the two can even be considered distinct). I was by leaps and bounds a bigger fan of Rick than of the NHL. I wouldn't walk across my street to see an NHL game not involving the Sabres.

    They did play one awesome and direction-filled and passion-filled game in front of him. On his banner night. Of course he didn't get to call it. Until the Sabres win a Cup, that win is as close to a championship moment as we'll ever get.

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