PASabreFan
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By the way, the faith on display by many fans shouldn't be all about the faith that this plan will work. Before you get that far, you have to have faith that the plan is really all about winning a Cup. When you have Ted Black openly talking about not being able to assume Terry's going to be around forever, the team struggling to reach the cap floor, the paying customer continuing to support the product (a highly predictable constant variable), and the long odds of a tank actually working anyway, well, it just makes you wonder what the real end game here is. Was it the Pegulas establishing their bona fides as professional sports owners so they could be handed the Bills? That's what keeps me awake some nights. Something has just never added up from the get-go. Starting with the superfan owner who didn't know the team was for sale after the Rigas Scandal. Hmmm...
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The management that created this monster doesn't work for this team anymore... Let's stop acting like we're the only team to be terrible in the history go professional hockey. Management doesn't have to answer ######.
Hang on, sonny. Come over here, grandpa's got a nice lap. Listen... someone above Darcy conceived of this monster. GMTM is not here to clean up someone else's mess, he's here to continue the mess-making as per the plan. Tim's pretty young and this is his first rodeo. He's more than willing to be compliant and follow orders from up top. Did he really have the luxury of coming in and saying, "I want to turn this thing around fast"? No. There's your answer. I still think ###### will hit the fan when Murray's balls drop and he tells Terry et. al. he wants to cash in a top pick or prospects for NHL-ready talent. Hell, imagine what the 2015 second pick could bring in.
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DR sells Pegula on a plan. Pegula then fires DR because the fans are outraged with the on ice product. He then tells a competitive and proud PLF on a yacht that he wants to win. PLF comes in with a plan far different than the guy that just got fired. Pegula says "wait I still like the plan of the guy I fired". PLF says f u. TN says I should follow my heart and walk away from this debacle. Then he realizes he hasn't had a real job in decades and could use the money. So he begrudgingly stays. New GMTM has his first gig. He is happy. Pegula tells him the plan and here we are.
This shitshow is not that difficult to figure out. Our owner is a complete moron.
This is fantastic. It's almost like something we could put in a history book 25 years from now when all the principals are given the fancy new truth serum and start singing like canaries. I would only quarrel with the first statement. Darcy pretty cleverly hung the complete teardown concept on Terry in an interview of WGR when Darcy said, "The owner will determine the extent of the rebuild." Why Terry fired Darcy is a bit of a mystery, except that he was covering his own ass and currying favor with the fan base.
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FU Garth. You couldn't put a good team together if your life depended on it, but the year we have your 1st round pick, the light has clicked on? :angry:
Isles are tightening up. Not a good sign.
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If you come from Germany, i'll have a ticket for you at no charge.
Cool.
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I actually think that as long as the tank is the plan, it should be the owner, president, or GM answering questions in the post game locker room? The guys are playing their balls off and they are hanging them out to dry. What a bunch of cowards.
That's quite a mixed metaphor. But an interesting take. I think it's fair to say you could plot "talent level" and "amount of effort perceived" on a chart and find that the relationship would be proportional.
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Eyesore Hockey.
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Of all the funny potential things you could say, John Vogl says this...
@BuffNewsVogl: The Sabres are celebrating "Military Appreciation Night." The Penguins are celebrating "Name Your Own Score Night."
I, for some reason, am really annoyed by how unfunny this tweet is.
Vogl is not funny.
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I was just thinking that. The Sabres are going to win this game.
…and thanks to this GD f'd up season, I'm conflicted about that.
You have a history of doing this! (And being right.)
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Ten, really ? I can see getting 3 (not that I'd like it ), but 10 games is a little harsh. Not saying it wasn't a stupid thing to do.
It's the minimum penalty set out in the rule book for what Ennis did.
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Hi, Sybil, how're things today? ;)
My hypothetical was not a defense of Ennis.
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Jeez, even with a confession, the league doesn't enforce its own rules. Go figure.
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Attempting to swat the linesman on the butt would not make this better. You can't intentionally make contact w/ an official. It was painfully dumb. A better tack for him to take would be to claim he was doing a wtf wave and the stick got away from him.
The context matters though, right? Say the Sabres were up 4-1 and the linesman is Ennis' old junior coach or something. There can be innocent contact, no?
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Fenwick close is a better predictor of future wins than current wins are. You don't have to like it, or even understand it, but it's true. So while the standings aren't straight set by it, betting on Fenwick is a better bet than a fluke result against a good team that's sleepwalking on a given night.
I understand it. It's so simple a concept, that when I did look it up recently I was more than a bit surprised. This is the vaunted analytics? So some pencil necks in short sleeve dress shirts crunch some numbers and come to a conclusion that every hockey man since the invention of ice innately understands?
The Sabres have beaten San Jose and Detroit and gotten points against Montreal and Boston. If they can do that while playing as poorly as the statistics suggest, what's going to happen when NHL players inevitably move closer to the mean? This team will not average 1.2 goals a game during an entire season. And... the goaltending has been pretty good.
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I don't see how there's any defense for what Ennis did. Blue and gold blinders off. Ennis earns the automatic 10.
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I thought Dexter went downhill right after Deb found out his secret. Starch. Taken out. In fact, I never did see the final season. He became a lumberjack or something?
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Yeah, it has something to do with the concussion stuff. A player must use the same helmet all season long. (I must assume that there is some exception in place for a broken helmet. Or maybe not--this is the NFL, after all.) So they are free to change decals, etc. but can't change the color of the whole helmet. Actually, maybe what you suggested could be accomplished with decals, anyway.
It sounds pretty impractical. It would never happen anyway. Both fan bases would have hemorrhage shits.
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NFL doesn't have large logos on jerseys and teams no longer are allowed to change helmets. Impossible to put into practice, as much as I like the idea.
Quite a brain fart on my part. Do you believe me now that I don't watch football anymore, so much that I've forgotten what the jerseys look like?
Teams can't change helmets? So all the logos are set in stone?
Is this what you're referring to?
The league office told all teams planning to wear throwback uniforms this season that players must wear their regular helmets on throwback dates. The outside of the helmet can be modified by removing or replacing decals, but the helmet itself must stay the same. Once players have properly fitted helmets that they’re comfortable wearing, the NFL doesn’t want them changing helmets during the season just for appearances.
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If anyone listened to the Pegulas and Murray over the past couple of days and has not concluded that this is the plan, well, then you're not listening.
The Pegulas on WGR? I don't think they admitted to a Tank Plan. They described the whole process as a rather routine rebuilding situation, and Terry seemed to suggest they were in this place because they lost players like Miller and Vanek.
What did Tim say?
My fear is I have to spend the next 7 months reading this sort of thing. We're the worst team in the league and it's really not even close. Plus, this is *before* Murray does any roster manipulation, and before the players really start running for the bus. We may not have great odds of winning the lottery, but we have a great chance to finish last.
Will the league use points or Fenwick Close percentages to determine the standing? The Sabres are getting wins and points against very good teams. It should be a point of concern.
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Is babe still alive?
Yes, they threw him back in.
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Breaking news: water may be wet.
Sorry, I don't assume anything when it comes to Terry. He doesn't always make the obvious move that's right.
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@myregularface: GIF: Watch #63 (Ennis)...he gets a game misconduct for hitting the linesman on the hand. @ScoutingTheRefs http://t.co/kMWMU2kXfo
Back and to the left... back and to the left... back and to the left...
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Hey X., remember that time in Junior B?
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Pegulas intent on ending Toronto series. Good for them.
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Actually they shot their load, went flaccid and appear to be on the rise again, beating Anaheim and LA and finishing off their road trip with a win in Phoenix, allowing three goals in the three games.