PASabreFan
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See Liger? That's how it's done.
Bwahahahaha
No, THIS is how it's done.
So did he get you free?
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Does it follow then that Pittsburgh would make that trade?
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They have the persona of their captain. Can't say as I am too surprised. If I was them and they felt confident in Malkin staying healthy I would trade Crosby. Of course that's me.. but then again Gretzky was traded. :)
Would you trade the first pick in this draft for Sid?
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After being so immersed in the mind of Walter White, being with Jimmy is a lot more fun.
Except for, y'know, when it's not.
Yeah, you can pull for Jimmy. He's had his indiscretions, but, wow, he's got a ways to go to become Saul. Mike, too. Watching the transformations is going to be fascinating. Is Nacho going to be the hook who pulls them to the (really) dark side?
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Looked it up to talk a friend off the ledge. Looks like the sweet spot is to get your game in shape and finish strong without shooting your, ya know.
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
14 -- LA -- 12-6-2 -
Can we have a , thread too? Maybe a ; or a : thread?
I'm surprised we've only had one this season, the only other time I can imagine one is some playoff stress
I started a : thread last summer.
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I should correct myself, the actual PM wasn't brought into the thread but the fact that I sent the PM did as well as the topic. I'm not going to mention any names, but I said the reason I sent the PM to the people I was having issues with was because nobody in the thread wanted to read the bickering.
Still, nobody should be bringing PM's into the discussion, you are correct. If it gets to the point of harassment then bring it to the mods' attention. But leave it out of the threads.
PMS should be banned.
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Remember SnowMobile3019840923851, and their was another SnowSomethingorother? They both have since been permanently banned.
PA got banned/quit-and-lurked for a year or so after a contentious interaction with some board members.
No, I told SDS off. I deserved the ban. But I didn't lurk here. I went to HF Boards. They didn't like me either. The feeling is mutual. There's nothing like SabreSpace. So I came back.
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Good take.
Plus food metaphors always add flavour to the discussion. :P
In the spirit of the thread, what are your thoughts on the Kane trade? Or of Murray's moves in general?
Don't you think trading two prospects and a pick for a pair of 23-year-olds speaks more loudly than your reading of the above quote?
Trading for Gorges?
The only players Murray has moved for futures have been pending UFAs, with the exception of Flynn.
I read the latter move as his attempt to clear some space for (better?) prospects, like Larsson.
I loved the Kane trade. It seemed to signal a quicker build. The quote suggests, to me anyway, something else. I'm a bit discombobulated. We'll know a lot more by the dog days of hockey.
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This thread promises to be a real head-desker because PA and a few others read the quote one way and many other another.
You can't have a good discussion if you can't agree on the premise of that discussion,
Here's another possible underlying source of, for lack of a better word, friction on this board. I think there are many posters here who love the draft, junior hockey, college hockey, rating and discussing prospects and so forth. They seem to relish in the idea of a nice rebuild, even a tank, because it's going to lead to several years of getting ass deep in prospect talk. I mean, they love the Sabres and want them to win, but all in good time. That'll be fun, too.
Others, and I am squarely in this camp, wouldn't walk across the street to watch our fourth round pick play a junior game. I don't want to see how the sausage is made. I just want some good sausage. And we're starving for it. It's probably why Murray's quote riled me up. We can't be in the kitchen forever. Hell, it never even had to come to The Tank. It's been four years since Terry took over. These should be our salad days. OK, now I'm actually hungry.
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LOL. When I had to move my stove a while back to do the kitchen backsplash I was shocked by the number of those plastic jingle bell cat toys that had ended up under there.
I feel bad though, like I disrupted some kind of ecosystem or hidden society. Maybe they were happy, in loving relationships. The blueberry and the chick pea were committed to each other, and I like to think the M&M and pill would be like that married couple who both have PhDs. But the two couples got along swimmingly like Luci and Desi and Fred and Ethel. But then I wonder if the two smartie pants threw the fact they had been imprinted in the face of the lowly salad throw-in and berry next door. "We give pleasure! We cure disease!" And then the berry is like, "I'm a super food!" The berry looked like its head was dented in. Maybe I don't really want to know what was going on under there all that time.
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Yeah, I feel you there (and I'm just teasing, 11)... I watched tonight mostly because I had nothing better to do and didn't feel like cleaning my house, lol.
I actually got in the mood to clean. I haven't cleaned under the kitchen stove in a ######'s age, not since it was put in, actually. I never pulled it out because the gas line is too short. Tonight my 97-point IQ kicked in and I realized I could turn the stove sideways and move it enough to completely expose the floor under it. The crud was pretty impressive. Everything I've dropped in that kitchen that seemed to disappear into another dimension was under there. M&Ms, pills, chick peas, a blueberry, all in various states of mummification. It was pretty funny, actually.
Edit: Oh, FFS, a racoon's age.
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Peeps are people!
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I look at it like this. Why pound the pavement day after day to get a job, work hard at it even if you don't really like it or it doesn't pay as much as you might like,… when you can just stay at home and collect unemployment.
Not bad. Or... the Sabres faked a back injury to get on disability, and now they're spending that check on Mega Millions tickets.
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Kids who binge on marshmallows grow up to be thin! More conflicting dietary advice!
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Here's the other thing - you can be angry at the Sabres and Pegula - I would't agree with your anger, but go for it - but being angry with GMTM for our current state makes absolutely no sense. He's barely been the GM for more than a year. He inherited this situation. He didn't trade Vanek. He didn't trade Pominville. He traded Miller and Ott but they were both going to leave anyway - at least Miller was. The Sabres were already the worst team in the league when he got here. He really didn't have a choice other than to finish the rebuild and then build the team back up.
Like I said, he talked about how he could go ahead and just get a bunch of players in here and gun for 8th place. Lots of teams do that. Look at Florida. Look at TORONTO. But he's doing what is best for the long-term success of the franchise. I'm glad he does what he thinks is best and doesn't listen to the few who want to win now and not worry about the future. Luckily, most fans are on board with what he's doing.
I guarantee the same fans whining about GMTM now are going to be right on the Sabres bandwagon when they're carrying the Cup down Delaware Avenue. And they'll STILL probably be complaining.
You need an editor. Your posts are great, but there's always one line that kills them, usually at the end. Heartbreaking.
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I can't tell if that's your smiley face or your vomit face.
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The idea that Breaking Bad was just the setup for something even better is pretty mind-blowing. Maybe a bit premature, but the last episode, like Rob said, at least starts the conversation.
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There is this aura of trouble downtown right now. I don't know if it's because of the parade tomorrow or what, but there's definitely something up. Many more people wandering around than is normal for a Saturday afternoon--and I mean downtown, not Allentown or Elmwood.
Moreso than an aura of trouble, do you get any sense there's ennui in the air?
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Agreed. No more posting in this thread until everyone gets their steak and bj out of the way. I already sent my wife out to the butcher and will report back later.
At least the butcher will have a good day. Wait, what?
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This thread promises to be a real head-desker because PA and a few others read the quote one way and many other another.
You can't have a good discussion if you can't agree on the premise of that discussion,
I guess. There's really nothing else to say. It'll be interesting to revisit this quote after we've heard Murray say more after the season, especially after the draft. I continue to find it puzzling that he'd make a statement like that before knowing if a generational talent the likes of which the NHL rarely sees will be in the lineup on opening day. Or not. Leave it to the Sabres to make Connor McDavid earn his keep in Rochester for a season.
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Day two? OK. I was hoping, this being a major holiday and all, that we'd be like the British and the Germans during the Great War meeting in no man's land and kicking a soccer ball around and singing "We're gonna win that Cup (in 2024)." Thought chz, bio or Jo might even show up with porterhouses.
But if you'd rather have it this way...
This is a GM who has traded for players like Kane and Bogosian. And has traded draft picks for older prospects.
But words speak louder than actions here?What are you driving at? That Murray's actions signal that he's trying to accelerate the rebuild, maybe even thinking about the Sabres competing for a playoff spot next season, but he wants to keep expectations low, for the benefit of the players, the fans, other GMs who are sizing him up?
And I don't want one with his head in the clouds unable to acknowledge reality. To expect to make the playoffs he'd have to expect a 40 point improvement. That's insane.
I might be hung up on two words here, but my problem isn't that Tim expressed a cold analysis of where he thinks the team will be. It's that he thinks of the new lottery rules "selfishly" while he "hope"s that the Sabres are in the running for it. That tells me, even before he knows if he's getting McDavid or Hanifin, before he knows what free agents might be willing to come, before he knows what trades are available, that his mind is set on what he wants out of next season. That smacks of something he said he didn't want to be, that rebuilding GM who milks a situation for job security. It smacks of the use of losing as a means to an end, and that was supposed to end this season.
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Paging Greg House. I'm going with an environmental cause. He had a reaction to whatever they used to clean the hardwood floor at the gym. Murphy's Oil Soap can throw you for a loop. That, or a deer tick in his .
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Murray talks to much. I think after the honeymoon phase is over here that act will get old. Right now he is enjoying the attention he is getting. I will start paying more attention to what he has to say when he has done more than sell off some UFA'S and be asked to captain the worse team hockey.
Why can't we be next years Calgary or NYI? Why come out and say what he did? I am sick of this loser mentality. If he realistically thinks we are not a playoff team next year THEN DO MORE!! Earn your damn paycheck. Any blind squirrel can sit back and wait for years worth of high draft picks to accumulate.
Expect more from yourself, your coaches, your scouts, and your players. This BS of accepting to not compete for a playoff spot is old. Take TP's nipple out of your mouth and start doing your job. This act is old. What exactly is he saying that DR didn't???? Yet we accept it because Murray GZF's. Give me a break. Put a damn hockey team on the ice and shut the hell up.
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Seriously?
Of course not. You make this place better, much better. It was just a jab at the CHL thread.
Finally read the article--context is a beautiful thing. He was clearly talking about the Sabres chances to win the lottery in light of the changes to the format and his expectation that we're not in the playoffs. He may as well have said "I think we're going to be better, but thanks to the bozos around the league, we're going to have a better chance than in the past to win the lottery, and I hope we do." Much ado about nothing.
You didn't need the article for that context. The first part of his quote that I copied and pasted gave the context. Whatever.
His hoping that they're in the running for a top three pick is what there should be much ado about. That's the story here. I thought it would surprise more people given GMTM's comments about a quicker turnaround than expected, his denials that the team has even been tanking, the trade of a pick and prospects for Kane and Bogosian, etc. The idea that next year is about getting better, but not too much better, by hope/design, is a new twist on the immediate future. At least in my eyes.
Seriously, isn't anyone else down for two more Kane style trades, maybe a Snow-like poaching of a team with cap troubles, a good free agent signing, a decent goaltender and let's go win some hockey games?!
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