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The black guy from the pilot and the apartment is still lurking out there too, presumably. Remember he found the note in the church and knew they were heading to Washington.
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Suitable for framing.
Damn you and M*A*S*H references. I know that's a M*A*S*H reference!
Leino or Darcy, with an edge to Darcy. Is SDS the only one who can change it, or can a mod do it too?
Something like this even goes above SDS.
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Cup champs since lockout, last 20 regular season games.
06 -- Carolina -- 9-8-3
07 -- Anaheim -- 15-4-1
08 -- Detroit -- 12-6-2
09 -- Pittsburgh -- 15-2-3
10 -- Chicago -- 11-6-3
11 -- Boston -- 10-6-4
12 -- LA -- 12-5-3
13 -- Chicago -- 13-5-2
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Dale Hunter?
Rod Brindamour? (Sic)
Lucic?
Chris Neil?
Brett ###### Hull?
I'm trying to think of Sabre heels.
Heels? Kim Pegula, then.
If we are actually voting then Darcy.
I don't know. Why not Lindy then? They both did a good job for a long time, their time just ran out here. Really, how far away was Darcy from delivering us what we want before we die, just once?
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My vote for getting rid of Timmy has to do with basically feeling bad about all his concussion issues. I don't want to poke fun at the poor guy anymore.
Creepy Ville Leino for me.
I like this sentiment. Connolly is hardly a villain in Sabres history. What is the default avatar on TBD?
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McDavid? Yawn.
Sherry Bassin, the Otters’ 75-year-old owner who possesses a lifetime of hockey memories and a voice like an old record, scratchy and faint, recalled that the Hockey Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk, who coaches the O.H.L. rival Barrie Colts, said of McDavid: “He skates like Bobby Orr. He has the vision of Wayne Gretzky. And he handles the puck like Mario Lemieux.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/sports/hockey/hockeys-next-great-one-draws-a-crowd.html?_r=0
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This is year two of the transition. Dan was supposed to get 35 games, after 25 last season, with half of the games next season. I don't have any source to check this, but I don't think Dan will end up doing 35 games. Rick doing a lot of road games, like last night in Colorado, has raised my suspicion that something has changed in the plan.
I am now wondering if:
1. Beating cancer, which no one could have predicted when the succession plan was announced +
2. The Sabres bottoming out +
3. The Sabres getting Connor McDavid +
4. The Sabres 50th anniversary coming in five years
Might equal the Sabres and Rick coming to a new understanding. Wishful thinking? Sure. Rick's lost a step and his voice hasn't fully recovered, so the time seems right after next season. It's hard to let go and very hard to imagine Sabres hockey without him.
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Ah, the old momentum myth. I have no idea how this all plays out but history has shown that how you enter the playoffs has little to do with the success you achieve
I recently looked at the final 20 regular season games of the eventual Cup champions since the lockout and posted the data in a thread. I can't remember which one. A few teams were "on fire" at the end, but the general trend was a strong, solid finish. FWIW, no one limped home the way they Islanders are. I'll try to find the thread if you're interested.
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Pretty sure he did some color work when the broadcast was on channel 7. Ted had told me he could have made more money working for 2 or 7, but as the contract tended to flip to the other when it was up, he prefered the lowered pay but additional job security that came from working directly for the club.
(It might have been Pat Hannigan he was referring to that lost the job w/ the contract change, not Azar. That memory is a little fuzzy.)
There was only one change in stations in the early days. The Sabres were on Channel 7 from the start through 1977-78, then they went to Channel 2 through the mid 80s. Hannigan carried on through the transition. Ed Kilgore became the studio host on Channel 2; Wikipedia has Rick Azar in that role before that, which makes sense. For the unfamiliar, Rick was Sports Director for Channel 7.
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I always heard that Dave Hodge did the play by play for TV games in the first season. There were just seven games televised. But the Sabres media guide says play by play announcers were Hodge and Azar. Just throwing a hail mary here in case any of the old-timers remember.
The next season's guide is also unclear. There were 14 games on TV, and it says Ted Darling, Hodge and Azar would share the broadcasting duties.
Tank, can you ask Paul Wieland?
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I think the Rangers got in their head. Back in February, the Isles were up by two in the third period and the Rangers, still pretty far back of them in the standings, scored three straight goals to win. Then the Rangers got hot and made a big deal at the deadline and never looked back. The Isles sat on their hands. "We like our team" Darcy style. That, and Tavares has absolutely dried up.
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Google image search for Phil Varone is messing with my mind.
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Active players who scored 20 or more goals in their first ten seasons:
Ovechkin
Jagr
Vanek
That is all.
That's a great stat.
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He lived in Lockport.
I know. :blink:
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Anyone remember two memorable games in March 1981 at the Aud? Sabres tied the Bruins a few hours after President Reagan was shot. My dad and I assumed the game would be canceled, but came up anyway. Good thing. The crowd was very quiet. Uncle Milt made an announcement that Reagan was out of surgery and that lightened things up a bit. Then later in the month the Sabres beat the Leafs 14-4. I will never forget the We Want 15 chant. We sat in the oranges for the first and only time, and it was a wild trip to the seats. And an awesome view the likes of which we will never see again.
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I wanted to publicly thank you. It just arrived at my doorstep. How did you know?! The Betty Crocker for my butt hurt!
You somehow know just what a woman wants, and how to get her what she needs. A true gentleman.
This guy, folks, is a True Gentleman. :worthy:
That's where the batter goes. Trust me.
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You know you're right.
Do not do that Tank Jedi Mind Trick on me! Rob is NOT saying, "Know you're right." Not possible.
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I apologize for not making it to this most important Game Day Thread. As always, I will stand in your corner, I may even fight a round or two with thee fellow winners against the so-called losers. It's just that Thursday is all you can bowl night at the Family Lanes in Lockport.
It only costs $6. Apparently, by "all you can bowl," they mean "all you can bowl in the span of three days, no more, Anna, no more."
Lockport? If Clip Smith were still around he'd say, "Get your butt out of there, and, oh yeah, your mind out of the (guffaw) gutter."
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I always figured Rick's first broadcast of a Sabres game would have been the first game of the 1971-72 season. But I just realized it would have been the first TV broadcast of that season, October 14 at Boston.
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I just had this conversation a week or two ago with my brother and he was pretty sure the first games broadcast locally were on Ch 7 with Ted Darling and Rick Azar, I was 8 years old so I really can't remember. The earliest I can remember when ch 29 started showing games locally.
The Sabres have put their first two media guides online. http://sabresdigitalpressbox.com/media-guide/ From those we know that Channel 7 televised nine road games in 1970-71 with Dave Hodge and Rick Azar doing the play by play. Ted did all the games on WGR Radio, apparently by himself.
In season 2, Ted moved to TV (still Channel 7) for 14 games, all but three of them on the road. The guide says Ted "shared broadcasting duties" with Hodge and Azar. Rick joined the team and called the games on radio when Ted was on TV. Ted did all the radio-only games, with Rick his color man at home.
It must have been the next season that Rick and Paul Wieland did games on cable TV, since a picture of the two of them is in Wieland's book with the date 1972.
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A voice like excitable silk.
That's the most incredible metaphor, simile, whatever. Perfect. I was going to quibble with "excitable," but if silk got excited, that's what it would sound like! I was always a Jeanneret man, but Ted was top-notch. I think Dunleavy has a lot of Darling in him.
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Depends on definition of "distinct," but, yeah, the league has been moving towards considering that situation to NOT be considered a "distinct kicking motion." Which, considering how far down goal scoring is, is probably a good thing.
Throw in the fact the play was made on home ice by the (arguably) best player in the game against the 29th best team, and that's the icing on the proverbial cake. (Not stating anything deeper than the stars get the breaks and teams that are in the dumps tend not to get them.)
The goal in question came in the Bruins-Rangers game.
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Still wondering what the issue really is with Halak.
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http://deadspin.com/milan-lucic-scores-controversial-kicked-goal-1694265473
I think they tried to take the new kick rules too seriously. To me, that's a blatant kicking motion.
As they watch you it you can hear Edwards even slowly accept that it's a kick... I do not think that should be a goal. I want more scoring, but it's not a hockey play. Lucic even accepts that it's a kick. He hardly makes an attempt to get his stick on the puck after the kick and doesn't even celebrate.
It's hard to change your thinking as a fan. That would never have been counted over so many years. But it's not a distinct kicking motion. It's a gray area for sure, and you hate to see goals like that. Still... as long as the standard is "distinct kicking motion," that has to count.
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Oh yeah? I remember this time on the People's Court...