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Paul Hamilton, Sabretooth, Ronan Tynan
Chicken Wing, Celery, Bleu Cheese
Rob Ray, Brad May, Matt Barnaby
Bucky Gleason, Cody Hodgson, The Earl of Bud
Meszaros, Benoit
Benoit, Meszaros
Meszaros, Benoit
Vinz
This cracked me up.
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"McDavid with a GOLIATH of a goal!"
Nice! I love that.
I've had this line stuck in my head for a bit. The cliche thing to say upon McDavid's first goal as a Sabre would be, "Connor McDavid, welcome to the National Hockey League." I hear, "National Hockey League, welcome to Connor McDavid in Buffalo!"
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I hear it's a crazy contact high. Like, better than bath salts.
Chara tried to eat the damned thing.
You magnificent bastard. You, not Chara.
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La-La-La-La-La Fontaine is a great call, but I feel like there are some good calls for players lurking if the team is good again.
- Weber really put the mustard on that one! (if Weber scored more goals)
- Larsson just commited Larceny! (if Larsson played goal)
- Benny put on the jets and blew by Chara!
(yeah, I know, but there needs more non-tank content here)
Grand Larsson-y!
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Patience grasshopper
Now I am stroking my little goatee. Hmmm. Ohhhhhh. Ahhhhhhhh...
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Wide right and no goal are the first things that came into my head, but there are many lows.
I have not embraced the tank, so I never hope the Sabres lose. If I did find myself doing that I think that would be the lowest of the low.
I have nothing against the pro-tankers. I actually do not believe that they are actively cheering for the Sabres to lose. I really think they want them to lose as it would help secure top talent going forward, but I can't believe they actually want the Sabres to tank, as it is usually defined.
EDIT TO ADD:
I hate Brad friggin' Park!!
You're in as well.
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I don't know - I think that's one of those deals where you make the first letter of a proper noun lower-case and then it becomes generic. For example, Kleenex is a brand of face tissues made by Kimberly-Clark, but if you write it as kleenex, it's just a tissue. :blink:
Interesting. Alps as a brand. Or maybe the Alps were thusly named because the word alps already meant high mountains.
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I woke up today feeling like the Sabres had lost a playoff overtime game to the Bruins last night. I honestly did. I didn't reach the depths I did the day after Brad Park beat us in '83, but I was 56% of the way there, and that's a lot. I started the season as a snark-tanker. I was kind of behind it, while wanting to maintain plausible deniability should things go south, or north, whatever. After the first game, I think I joked, "81 more just like it." But my heart wasn't in it. It really wasn't in it when they started winning in December.
But since then it has enveloped me. I've gone from not caring if they win to actually wanting them to lose. I mean, why not? If they're going to tank, then do it right, I figure. I mentioned recently I fist-pumped after an opponent's goal. It really is awful. I am ashamed. What I've been wondering today is what would be the more profound fan moment: waking up like I did today or waking up some day in the future and instantly realizing that the Sabres had won the Stanley Cup the night before. I'm not sure. I fear they are equivalent moments, on the very extremes of the fan experience spectrum. What's worse than feeling bad about your team's victory?
d4rk and bio and some others will ascend directly to fan heaven on the coming day of judgment. When a second point against Pittsburgh in the season finale will knock the Sabres out of 30th place, they will be cheering for a Tyler Ennis goal in the shootout. After Jesus and Satan do battle on Perry St. and good finally vanquishes evil, well, let's just say the sunset will have a special reddish tone that evening, and it might even be bearded.
The rest of us are left to ponder this question. Do you agree with me? Or is something else just as low? Perhaps we've already felt it, twice. Or is nothing as low as Stanley is high?
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Interesting little fact on that word.. I learned the origin one time when I was desperate to make a word in Scrabble. It was challenged and I won. Based on this (dictionary.com):
Word Origin and History for monsExpandn.from Latin mons (plural montes) "mountain" (see mount (n.)); used inEnglish in various anatomical senses, especially mons Veneris "mountains ofLove," fleshy eminence atop the vaginal opening, 1690s; often mons forshort.
None of my young-ish nieces or nephews had ever beaten me at Scrabble. Then David finally slayed Goliath. On his last turn, my nephew was trying to put down L A P S but switched the L and A and made A L P S. I challenged, certain it was a proper name. Nope. The word alps means high mountains.
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Indeed.
But a month ago we were 8 points back of Edmonton and 12 points back of Arizona (or thereabouts). And I remembered thinking "Why was I ever so worried? Good things can happen." I embraced the idea of a perfect outcome and now I have to be ready to abandon it again.
Now here we are -- 3 points from disappointment. We're in the "lead" but this feels like the Bills are up by 1 and Brady is getting the ball back with 2:10 left on the clock. We're Buffalo, and we know how this ends.
Give me Dylan Strome and tell me he lives up to his "no.1 center, Nicklas Backstrom-type" potential and I'll be content.
No. Hecht just scored and we're taking a 2-1 lead into the third period of Game 7.
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I'm a little fuzzy on a couple of things. Jimmy took that "hush" money from the Kettlemans, and we found out last night it was 30k. Didn't he spend a ton of it on suits, advertising at the nursing home, the billboard, etc.? Looked like he had the 30k stashed away above his office. He took the 30k out and replaced it when Mike brought over the remainder of the $1.5 million. How did he pay for all that stuff?
Also, where did Mike take the money? Jimmy told Mike something like, "You know where to take it." Jimmy then told the Kettlemans it was on its way to the DA. Surely that's not where Mike took it.
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Is it possible we can make any kind of judgment about Murray's true intentions? If he sticks to his guns about not interfering with coaching (for example, telling Nolan to get Hackett his games to keep his rights), can we infer from that (lack of) action that he legitimately didn't care about guaranteeing finishing dead last? Given his background is in amateur scouting, I wouldn't be totally shocked if he had the attitude of "Yes I'd love to get McEichel, but if I don't, I'm still going to be able to build a winner."
This does not seem to jibe with his stated hope of being in the lottery again next season.
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Inexplicably, Blackdraft.
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Right. This ties into my thoughts. The only thing I have is that Murray is running numbers, and, like TBPhD, he has faith in his numbers. That everything will fall into place mathematically.
This makes no sense. The last aberration lasted a month!
That would imply a mutiny by the coaching staff.
Murray's got a little Frank Underwood in him. He should invite Lindback down to the metro rail station for a chat.
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I'm happy they got the win tonight. But I do want to see them complete the tank.
So, what keeps going through my mind is "what is Murray going to do about this as we head down the stretch?" This is all on Murray. ALL. ON. MURRAY. If the Sabres do not finish the tank correctly, it's because Murray allowed that to happen.
We've BEEN heading down the stretch. What's he going to do this week he didn't do last week, or should have done yesterday? Hackett should be playing. He's not.
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Oh yea, that's poorly written. It's not actually suggested that they get rid of the rule. It's that they make it reviewable.
Now I see that in another nhl.com story. http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=758484
Ugh, that's terrible. Video review for that is a bad idea. That'll be fun.
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Where'd you see that? Haven't seen it reported anywhere. All I've seen is that coaches will be able to challenge it when a penalty is called.
Third paragraph. It's poorly written and probably where you got the idea that it would be reviewable.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=758474&navid=nhl:topheads
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Delay of game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass, an automatic penalty anyway, could be gone. Nine years too late for the Sabres.
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It's 58 here today (that's in our English measurements). I see it's 80 and 60% humidity in Miami, we're just getting to the season where Florida can keep that ###### for themselves.
What's everybody's favorite temperature?
I love when it gets really, really cold. Let's say -2 on a brilliantly sunny day after a fresh snow fall. Crunchy snow. Nothing better. Except 64, as long as winds are light and there's some sun.
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Monsies. Enzo calls me Mondo
By the way I don't think you know how a group hug works. I will gladly do a you-me hug. I'm worried that you are calling it a group hug because Ghost will secretly be in there.
To be clear, I would hug Ghost as well, just separately. Too much old man to contend with in one hug
I'm actually debating whether I know how a group hug works. I'm not sure I do. But I know some people fare better than others.
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Come on, now.
The inkster / inksie does not need to exercise those calves of his.
They exercise themselves?
Met, I would look into the canklecise classes that are popping up everywhere nowadays. www.canklecise.com
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Pretty big stuff out of the GM meetings
3v3 OT going to players for discussion
Coach's challenge looks to be in
Cap could *shrink* to the $68 million range if the players don't okay the escalator (then it goes to the commonly projected $71 million range). Anyone hoping for the Sabres to pluck some cap casualties on the cheap should hope the players refuse the escalator.
Will the players consider 3v3 in OT a move down the slippery slope toward 4v4 in regulation?
And if NFL coaches throw red flags, what will NHL have to do? I am thinking t-shirt gun, or they have to take their shirts off and toss them, ala that crazy coach from back in the day who went beserk.
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These are great. But let's remember that the franchise that gave us Taro and Rick Jeanneret — John Gurtler even — is pretty humorless in its modern incarnation. I mean, they hired the bland Dan Dunleavy, right?