PASabreFan
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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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OK, duh, Lorentz was Rick's color man in the early 80s — at least the 82-83 season. I should have known that because I recall Rick getting sick one night and Lorentz took over the play by play for the rest of the night and at least one more game after that. And he was good.
This is confirmed by my 82-83 media guide. Lorentz was with Rick on radio all year. Don Dussias was the host.
Thirty games (27 on the road) were on Channel 2 with Ted and color man Pat Hannigan and Ed Kilgore as host. The Wikipedia page is wrong, go figure. Thirty additional home games were on cable TV. Ted, Gerry Meehan and Ralph Hubbell.
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I remember listening to the clock radio so low that I could hardly hear it because my mom would get mad if I wasn't "going to sleep" for school. Back in the day when only the road games were televised.
To be a kid again.
I think RJ did the away games on the radio and Ted did the home games. Who was the color guy way back then?
That's a whale of a question about who did color on the radio in the early days. In my mind, I can't hear any other voice alongside Rick's on the radio. I can hear seconds of silence and Rick making small talk between whistles. This Wikipedia page doesn't list a color man on the radio until Danny Gare in 1990-91, but that doesn't seem right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buffalo_Sabres_broadcasters
For awhile, for road games on the radio, Ted would do the first and third period and Rick the second, so each could be considered the color commentator.
To add another wrinkle, Rick and Paul Wieland did some home games on cable TV in the early days.
This would be a great project for someone, to compile the complete list of who did what when. I think you'd just need all the media guides, and the Sabres surely have those.
Another thing that nags at me occasionally is that I can vaguely remember Rick calling a game not involving the Sabres. Maybe at some point if he did a game for a national network or something — but I think I remember hearing this on the radio. I almost want to say it was late in the regular season in the early 80s and it was a game that had dramatic playoff implications for the Sabres.
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I posed the seemingly nonsensical idea that Murray might want Eichel over McDavid. Took some catcalls. Fine. Murray at least seems to be doing his due diligence in going to watch McDavid and Eichel play. Is his mind really made up? Or, more plausibly, is he actually going to see other guys? Strome etc.
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This reminds me. Rick has told the story about how when Jim came to the Sabres, he was Jim "Lawrence." Rick, with his flair for showmanship, convinced him to go with "Luh-RENTZ" — or at least to allow Rick to say it that way on the air. I have no idea how Jim says his last name in "real life."
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A group of informed people thinks O'Connor will sign? Sounds meaty to me.
Fair enough. I didn't want people who didn't click the link to think the story was reporting as such, with sources and all, a la Bob McKenzie or something.
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Not even close. If there's any thoughts of going from 1 to 2 it has to include known commodities. OEL.
And, again, the second point is completely off point. Nobody is pinning all their hopes on one pick. Won't that argument die already?
Shirley, you can't be serious. That's most fans. "Go Arizona, we'll get McDavid and win Cups."
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I found a gif to sum up the last few pages of this thread,
OK, Jimmy, the adults are talking. Take your Etch a Sketch gizmo into the other room.
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Sports net saying Sabrès may have inside track on BU goalie Matt O'Connor.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/west-coast-bias-oilers-play-oconnor/
Their "prediction." There's not a lot of meat on this bone.
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Bull ######! Fans root for the laundry. The players come and go, the laundry is the only constant regardless of what color scheme it may take at any given time. Fans are the stewards of the passion for the laundry, and wanting the best players to wear it; wanting great achievement from those that don it is the value proposition that drives the business of pro sports. Lose the passion, brand loyalty or whatever you want to name it and the value goes away. For the investment you and other sth make, you could choose a myriad of other options with a better return. You make the commitment because of the passion to see not only quality execution but achievement at the highest level as measured by winning championships. If the fans are maintaining that passion at the expense of the current renters of the laundry, so be it. The hope for the future and the fact that they still care, should be lauded not criticized. Buy a lemon from ford, and chances are you won't buy another. Yet Sabres fans have been given lemons for the vast majority of the franchise's history and yet the passion is still there. Someone finally acknowledges the value in that, takes steps to reward it, and publicly acknowledges that the goal is to ensure that passion and loyalty is rewarded consistently for the foreseeable future and the local meatheads see there sheltered parochial worldview imploding. ###### em! There are no guarantees but I will grab hold of the rope and pull because we're pulling in the right direction. Lead, follow or get the ###### out of the way!
This is not aimed at you Eleven. Just a visceral reaction to this idea that we need to temper whatever emotions we have about the current state of affairs to bow to some etiquette that does not and never has any valid reason for existence.
This is a fantastic post. It really is. But I think it's too bad that fans like you are lumped in with/want to be lumped in with the a-holes who made their voices heard the other night. This is just my impression, but if I could get 20 tankers from this board and 20 of those a-holes together in a room... well, I bet there'd be very little you have in common. I bet you didn't, and wouldn't, cheer against the Sabres in the arena. Wearing a Coyotes jersey didn't take passion. It took a troll.
Sheltered parochial worldview. Schopp was pushing this negative view of anti-tankers yesterday, like they're anti-progress or flat-earthers or something. There are other reasonable views about how to build a Cup-winner. What the Sabres have done is one extreme. There is middle ground. How many teams in the Sabres' neighborhood in the standings in early 2013 have taken a similar path?
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Thread's off to a good start! The humor has sustained us as a people.
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Pretty close. But it's not Paul MacLean and his uncanny doppleganger in Ottawa.
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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.