PASabreFan

Have a safe and joyous day.

Go to an opposing team's message board after the Sabres beat them. You'll be in SS Bizzaro World. Of course the Sabres get calls. You hit the nail on the head. There are no excuses to be made for Buffalo having another losing season. The fans I can kind of understand. The team? As Lindy said, that's a joooke.

It's funny that Punch agreed with this post. He took me to task for agreeing with Robinson's penalty. Wow the eggnog must have really been spiked this year.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Dangerous and late on a vulnerable player. It wasn't late. Have you watched a replay? Next the NHL requires a player to be defenseless for a boarding penalty to be imposed, which is a fair bit different than vulnerable. Was Ryan Johnson defenseless? That would suggest he had no idea he was about to be hit. I think he knew it. He did react. So IMHO he was vulnerable but not defenseless. The NHL then needs to see that the hit is violent or dangerous. As usual these are murky terms in the rulebook. All hits to some degree are violent and or dangerous. Do we want all hits where the player being hit contacts the boards to be a penalty? Of course not. The Ranger did not charge the Sabre. He didn't leap into him. He didn't target the head. The contact was on the upper chest. There was no elbow. The Sabre was close to the boards, but was not propelled into the boards in an especially dangerous way. In every sense of the word and the rules, it was a clean hit. Ole Punch should just admit he's come around to the 2023 worldview that clean hits must be avenged. Two more things. Most including print journalist for the Sabres Lance L. are conveniently leaving out Erik Johnson's laying the wood on the Ranger after the hit. That's the extra two. Then, this idea that the Sabres whine to the refs makes me dislike them even more. The refs are against us. The losing culture is so engrained in the team and fans.

Are you going to leave out details of how the situation was resolved?

Can you imagine the NFL clearing the area around a cleanly sacked QB and letting an offensive lineman pummel a linebacker? To send a message.

The league allowing clean hits to be "avenged" is bizarre to me. Maybe last night reflects a crackdown on it, but I doubt it. Anywho what the elder J did will not prevent the younger J from getting hit like that again. And again.

Jumping into a player is charging and is pretty obvious. What tends to happen on big hits is the hitter's skates come up after contact.

Rick! Is there any argument the whistle should have gone?

That seems made up.

Really?

A Man Called Otto was awesome. It had me laughing and tearing up. Tom Hanks is a national treasure.

I mean, it wasn't terrible. A fun holiday game. Still gotta file it under Learning to Lose. Off to Cackletown.

There ya go Ras.

Peeper.

Good job being a voice of reason.

You're doing a good job. I just have no room for crying about the officiating. Would love to see the NHL crack down on "avenging" a clean hit.

Gum flapping.

The sea hag.

Against the grain.

Seeing more Sabres with neckguards. They seem a little low?

UPL doing his Samsonov impression.

Kyle scores and saves goals.

Kyle has been a force of late.