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  1. Just been keeping an eye on things. With the dust perhaps settling, the following from Mike Rose of the Batavia Daily News seems like the best summary I've seen. The Sabres seem to be stuck in Meh Mode. But let's see what the fall brings.

    "The Sabres did make several additions that appear to be positives. Michael Kesselring and Connor Timmins should help shore up the right side of the defense pairings, and Josh Doan and Justin Danforth should be quality depth contributors for the forward group. In addition, Alex Lyon provides a solid goaltender to add to the mix.

    The problem is that most of those moves are along the margins of the roster. With the departure of JJ Peterka in the deal that brought in Doan and Kesselring, Buffalo needed more than that to elevate to a team that can be feared in the Atlantic Division."

    https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/sports/rose-with-sabres-seemingly-done-making-moves-the-same-philosophical-issues-remain/article_1b8de285-3b92-464c-a5d9-5e585d75faca.html

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  2. I will probably break down and pony up for this article. Fairburn should be saluted and supported for being perhaps the only truth teller re: Sabres left. Of course the truth he reported on has been known since almost Day One, but those with a rich guy fetish denied it and made me the villain instead.

    Correction. Day One. "I like hard-working, gritty players." Within weeks one of the Tweety Bird daughters let it slip her dad was impressed by Ehrhoff in the playoffs.

    New, old news.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Pimlach said:

    True.   You would think a degreed engineer from Penn State, one that built a huge business, would know that coaching a few years of Olean Youth Hockey is really not knowing hockey.  

    I've told the story about briefly working with a man who (said he) knew Terry well during his Olean days. "He's a nice guy, but he thinks he knows more than he does."

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  4. 1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:

    Yeah - looking back on it - this seems like a fart in a bottle.

    Now - that bottled fart is skittering and clinking around the titling deck of the Titanic as it lurches to its final resting place.

    But it's a fart in a bottle all the same.

    If I Could Put Farts in A Bottle to the tune of If I Could Put Time in a Bottle was a thing back in the day, but there's scant evidence of it online, at least at first glance.

    There does seem to be copious evidence of people using the USPS to mail farts in jars. There's a story about how some lovely young gal made a million dollars!

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  5. 21 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

    Harrington advocating for Shanahan. 
     

    why go get a Shanahan or Dudley when you can keep the entire group that has failed here for years. 
     

    Why succeed when you can fail but be heard.

    Just watched the CBC’s documentary on Harold Ballard and the way he destroyed the Leafs franchise in the 70s and 80s.  I can see a Pegula one in the future.  He’s not as abrasive or as mean as Ballard but there are parallels to the damage they did to their teams.

    I always hesitate to characterize these people whom we don't really know. For example, Kyke Okposo Good Man. Who knows?

    We can only go by what we know. Terry might not be mean, but on Day One he went to visit TBN and he went after them. I might never forget how he sat there and scraped the junk out of his fingernails onto the conference room table. Yes, it happened!

    I think there's a passive aggressiveness to the man. Mean? How about ghosting Sabres fans? Cruel, at the least. And that's not to mention what he's actually done to come close to destroying the franchise.

    I've always suspected that a change took place when he was booed on RJ Night.

  6. 10 minutes ago, RangerDave said:

    Weren't they related, like cousins or something?  Could her name have been Roosevelt, too?  Or am I confusing that with another president?

    Yes. She was Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. If her middle name was Rosario she could come back as a voice on NPR.

    Her uncle was Teddy. She married a distant cousin in Franklin.

  7. I had the idea awhile back. That Lorentz's killing of the bat launched a curse on the Sabres franchise.

    Bat people agree.

    https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/unknown-stories/buffalo-sabres-bat-game-anniversary/71-f80469c3-ed38-41e7-b75e-d179fa12e7a7#:~:text=for the rest-,of,-the game. The

    But their answer is not enough. Jim has to release a rehabbed bat at Canalside, on the ice as close as possible to where he slayed the original pesk. It's the only way.

    I am about to email these fellas and singlehandedly start us down the path of an inevitable championship.

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  8. Sabres br(ass) love at least three kinds of fans: 1. The believers in youth turning into something in five year plans that would make the Soviet Politburo proud; 2. People who hate Leaf fans so much they buy season tickets in order to sell tickets to Leaf fans; 3. Goalpost movers who are prepared to say gotcha and organize a parade if the Sabres ever just make the playoffs, which was literally never the goal, from Darcy to Kevyn.

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