PASabreFan
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It looks like Mother Nature — or Old Pappy Weather, I dunno — is experimenting with splatter art. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
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The last exciting player we had was Afinogenov. Fans always gasped when he roared up ice just prior to turning the puck over.
Years of Pommenstein, Vanek, Stafford, Myers... eh... Who gets your blood pumping there? The same old players, playing under the same old coach, put together by the same old GM led to years of having nothing interesting to watch or talk about.
No offense, but this (and the others posts like it) all sounds like hyperbole to me.
The not standing? It's very real. The looks? I've noticed it. It's either anger or shock that someone is yelling during a memorial service.
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The Sabres should require an act of faith. STHs should be required to stand in line, outside, all night, to renew their tix. Each ticket holder must stand in line, including the toddlers and crotch turds. Positive ID required.
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How did we all miss this?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/21/manhole_cover_octopus_inferno/
This is how I'm going to die, on the afternoon of Game 4, the Sabres leading the final 3-0. I just know it.
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Who says edmonton doesn't pick eichel :P
To read this board today, you would think they would be crazy not to!
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I may or may not have misremembered how the distribution shifted for 28th place. :bag:
Wait, I might have been right about something? Now I have to work on Taro. He's as slippery as an eel, and as infallible as the Pope (not Wander).
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It's always a good day when Wilbur escapes his evil master, PA.
Run Wilbur, run!! Be free!!
The kid is not my son!
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I'm not saying anyone intentionally gave Edmonton better odds, it was simply an unintended consequence of the changes to the lottery odds. Edmonton had a better chance of winning the lottery because of the changes the league made--this is a factual observation. That GMs are now upset that this event occurred amuses me a great deal, and I really don't think they have any leg to stand on with their complaining.
Huh? The odds for teams at the bottom got worse. Edmonton's shot was 11.5%. Last year it would have been 14.2%.
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I meant "the league" collectively (including the board of governors), not the league office in particular. There were more than a few tweets from reputable hockey media that GMs around the league were upset that Edmonton won again...well hey bozos, you helped that happen by changing the odds. Obviously Edmonton got lucky, but all I'm saying is them winning again was made more likely by the actions of the league to spread out the lottery odds further from the last place team. Everyone seems to be complaining about an outcome that they deliberately made more likely, which amuses me greatly, and if I were a decision-maker I would make no effort to "bail them out" so to speak.
I don't get it. The "league" didn't know what place Edmonton was going to finish. How were they supposed to tweak the odds to make it less likely for them to win? Increase the odds for the last place team? And what if it had been Edmonton? Edmonton got lucky.
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Some of the first people to routinely haul out the "troll" insult are the biggest trolls on this board.
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Many facets to this. It's almost like Ted Black's "million little things to win" quote. There are a million little things that could be done from all angles to improve things. One big thing is a complete, and I mean complete, overhaul of the arena experience. Hire a producer. I don't trust the people who gave us the Hasek ceremony.
We have to get past Black's notion that the Sabres crowd is "mature" and thus any change would be an affront to tradition or something. He used the line once when asked why the PA announcer (who's lousy, by the way) doesn't announce icings and offsides, pucks out of play etc. Oh, no, the knowledgeable Buffalo hockey fan would never need that.
One of my pet ideas, of course, which won me so much support here, is getting a kickass anthem singer. No offense to Doug's lovely and gentle style. Set the tone from the anthems. A million little things.
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I'm not sure I like the wording at the end of this piece, but it's good advice for LB:
So if any Sabres fans find themselves on a ledge, consider the team’s highly promising McDavid-less future and calmly step down.
http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/why-buffalos-mcdavid-less-future-is-still-brighter-than-edmontons/
Then Pegula should spit in their face, since they spread out the odds further this year in part to spite the Sabres. As I said in the lottery thread itself: it's a terrible outcome for the league, and the league is 100% responsible for it, and that actually makes me pretty happy.
The changes to the lottery didn't ensure that outcome. Edmonton got lucky. Would you feel better if they had won it under last year's rules? And spite? Really? The "league" didn't do anything. The governors did. A bunch of teams wanted a better shot at McDavid.
Theory going 'round the water cooler this morning: The league cannot possibly want McDavid in Edmonton. What if the league prods Pegula to take action?
Not my theory.
What action? My devious thought is that the league could get Pegula and the Oilers' owner in a room and tell them how it's going to be. McDavid is going to be a Sabre. What can the league offer? MFT status for both teams? What is the carrot and what is the stick?
I'm not in any stage of grief, by the way. I am down for Eichel. I merely like devious thoughts.
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Just like Toronto, a lot of the wrong people are in the seats. I know why it's that way in Toronto. It's so expensive. I'm not sure why it's happening in Buffalo. If I had to guess, it's because wayyyyy too many people look at owning season tickets as an economic opportunity.
It's Hockey Heaven's Dirty Little Secret: the arena atmosphere is terrible, was terrible before The Tank — and going way, way back.
Instead of beating this back and forth, I'd rather focus on what the answer is. What an opportunity to reinvent that arena. Part of it rests with Mrs. Pegula, apparently. The real heavy lifting has to come from the fans. I want to say some kind of system like Nashville put in place to discourage out of town fans would help. I really don't know.
Big takeaway: it's time for the next generation to take over. I don't know how they do that from the Party in the Plaza.
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Went back and did a little more math.
Eichel finished his season strong with 71 points in 40 games. That puts his NHL equivalency points at 64 (up from 57 calculated in January). Using the analysis method I posted back then, it's possible that with good usage and opportunity typical of a high draft pick, Eichel could post an NHL rookie point total around 70-82 points.
He's actually surpassed McDavid, whose NHLe is 61 points. But it's possible that rises to 73-93 points based on my corrected NHLe.
If Eichel can truly be regarded as a #1 overall pick in any other year, stats say it's not out of bounds to consider his rookie ceiling near 97 points.
Now, these high-end totals for Eichel and McDavid would effectively lead both the team and league in points, and there's legitimate questions about whether that's possible, especially in a downturn in total NHL scoring.
See? it. Where were you when I needed you? Noooo, I'm a troll or an idiot.
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She ain't got time for erroneous balls.
And thus for time immemorial, your rapper name shall be Erroneous Balls.
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lol you think I listen to the company line. Please, do I really appear to follow the herd?
We could debate this but meh. Dead horse and all.
OK. But they did want to buy a team those first two offseasons. By early in the lockout season, I think they realized the folly of it.
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I think I spent every evening of my childhood watching Yolanda Vega picking the lotto numbers while mom cooked dinner.
Spank my ass and call me Nancy! She didn't pay that second ball no never mind!
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No big fella it isn't.
As the company line goes, according to Ted Black, the Sabres couldn't get free agents to come to Buffalo in 2012 and at that point they realized they had to build through the draft.
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Edmonton sucks because they draft soft finesse players year after year after year. They always draft forwards. They never get players of value outside of the 1st round and UFA's have no desire to go to Edmonton because it's freaking Edmonton. If I had to pick a team today between Buffalo and Edmonton, I take Buffalo.
Careful, little feller. For one, the UFA issue, as the company line goes, is why the Sabres had to tank.
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There is no screw up. Two balls come up all the time (teehee). There is a lock that only holds the first one in place and the other falls back down.
There really is nothing to see here.
How do some of you know so much about these gizmos? It really is quite maddening and at the same time intriguing.
B... 2... B 2... as in, you're going 2 B picking 2 again.
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I still can't believe we're getting Jack Eichel. So awesome. I'm going to do plenty drugs in celebration.
Yeah, but it's Buffalo sports. The Sabres could get Jack Eichel and somebody would be bitching about it. Stupid fans. I mean, stupid GM.
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haha - because that was the goofiest picture i could find of him.
surriously?
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You are either trolling or have no idea what you are talking about. 50 points on a horrible team would be pretty good.
I took it as career potential upside. But thanks for interpreting it in the worst possible way, and for the insults.
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And the long lost version with the logo upside down... sniff sniff
Buffalo Bills 2015
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I'll pay Terry a rare compliment, but I'm only speculating. Perhaps he told his people he didn't care if home games at the end were tough to sell, thus three of five at home to finish. I could be wrong, but that's unusual on a Bills schedule.