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  1. I'm really coming around to the idea that the first 2/3rds of that episode was basically sandbagged in order to set up the ending. Let one of the writer's tween daughters write the first part and get the viewers bitching on social media. Then the Rick speech, the zombienado and the arrival of the gent from the Land's End catalog. Suckers.

  2. He didn't say "my sources with the Sabres tell me" -- but I think he said something like "it's obvious" and he may have said "widespread opinion around the league."

     

    Friedman is generally very solid.  I'm more convinced than ever that Nolan is gone very shortly after the season ends.

    And Ted is starting to act like it, innit? (My first innit, hope I nailed it.) He was on WGR this morning and was as outspoken as I've heard him about Hodgson and Larsson. I think he GZF right now too and might be positioning himself for the next gig. Could be an interesting rest of the season for tea-leaf readers.

  3. Those torsos would make a good defense against humans. Stick them side by side on top of a fence or wall facing outward and they would discourage people from trying to climb over the walls.

    It would do a number on the Jehovah's Witnesses anyway.

  4. So they went all Korean BBQ on us. What was grosser, Bob watching the folks eat his own flesh or Cujo on a Stick?

     

    I thought the episode was dreadfully written, just completely implausible, corny, sappy dreck you would never expect people in that situation to speak.

     

    I did like Rick's description of the group as "the walking dead." And the barn door scene and aftermath of the fleshnado were cool.

     

    The final scene... here we go again?

  5. Jack Eichel is significantly outperforming where John Tavares was Pre-Draft. The expectations for his rookie year should be appropriately elevated.

     

    Connor is similarly outperforming. 

    From what I've heard from Islanders fans, Tavares has been a bit of a development project. He had to get a lot stronger physically and he's really improved his skating. He might just now be coming into his own in season five or six or whatever. I know people are expecting a different trajectory for McDavid.

  6. They need to do it to coincide with the end of the rebuild.  I think it could easily be accomplished if they set their collective minds to it.  Ted, we know you stalk the forums, give this some serious though, okay?

    It could be spun so many ways to make them look good. They could start with a big mea culpa for not only their turdburger, but the slug, and the butterknife. Sorry, fans. Look humble. Then make a principled stand. We're going to give you what you want and we promise to never take it away. We don't care about the revenue. (Terry almost certainly doesn't; the bean-counters do, but Ted has already said the revenue stream for such things is only a trickle.) Then you knock it out of the park with a perfect royal blue and gold retro look, proclaiming that you're essentially an original six franchise and the uniform is now sacrosanct. (Sacrosanct, but here in five years, after a period of quiet, as the team is really good again and the fondness for a certain era of Sabres hockey grows, maybe you come out with a blue and gold goathead third.)

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