PASabreFan
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I've seen both.
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Pizza! Get out of midtown and find Lombardi's (Spring and Mott) or Patsy's (several) ... Motorino and/or Nicoletta in the East Village are also very good. For a nice change of pace, Cafe Habana in Soho rocks as well ...
This is what it took to get you to come out of lurking?
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I am very important though. I have many leather bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
I don't know Rich, and I don't want to smell him, but I am envious.
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Tookus?
The heat getting to you? You've been perplexed a lot lately.
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Next year will actually be sorta fun to watch for there'd be no stress for them to win on our parts. It won't be a roster of rejects and misfits anymore and will actually start to show some of what is to come. McEichel or not in two seasons there are legitimate reasons for hopefulness.
I can accept this. I also think this being the first full season with Nolan and Murray finally makes for a clean sweep of the old regime.
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No. I'm not.
Yeah. Again, no.
Thanks for the clarification.
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Today I learned that wyldnwoody is thirteen.
wyldndoogie?
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Exactly.
But I don't see how someone could not like Goon.
Curt Keilback, playing that role, is better than Dan Dunleavy. Pour some gravy on me!
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Not meant as creepy; she said that she hangs at Bijou before catching the train to games.
I was kidding.
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EDIT: Also, if she works for the team, why does she take the train down from the Theatre District on game nights?
This comes off as quite creepy. Obviously she goes home to freshen up and take care of "lady business."
Not our business unless someone is suggesting there is a corporate plant, I suppose.
Then again, she hardly acts like an arm of the organization when posting, so I suppose it's no matter.
But PA not being completely out to lunch? You're taking it too far, man.
I'm always out to lunch, except five years into the future. Then I'm spot on.
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McRib fans apparently lobbied McDonalds to bring that sandwich back. Like any moderately competent business, McDonald's brass got the message and put it on the menu in some markets, and in others it comes back for a limited time.
Sabres fans have been lobbying for a Cup. The Sabres are trying to oblige. It's slightly more difficult than pulling out the faux rack of rib molds.
Nice! They're just trying give us what we want! Thank you Sabres! Thank you Sabres!
If their marketing strategies are working now, imagine how well they will be working when the team is good. They'll be practically sucking money out of the fan-base's pockets with a vacuum cleaner if they become a contender.
The critique on marketing and the gullible fan-base is ridiculous. Are they not supposed to market their product? WTF. They're a business, they're managing their business exactly the way they're supposed to.
Should someone propose new laws that ban the marketing by sports teams who do not contend for championships?
I think Swamp's problem is with the product mainly. Or the fact that there is no product, the marketing of which ("hope!" #blueprint, "the future's so bright…") is offensive.
Yes, and we're pissed, but we're optimistic. We're not dupes, FFS.
There is no we. There isn't one kind of STH. Some are not optimistic. Some think the Sabres are going to be really good next season after Murray signed those guys, and they're dupes. Some are only pissed because the secondary market has dropped through the floor.
Well, I know what freeman and SDS do. Chz, do you work for the Sabres communications department?
chz did make a comment recently that suggested Mike is/was her boss.
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They did promote the prospects game.
What are they doing, marketing-wise, that results in the waiting list?
Not that it was this group, but I'm sure you remember "It's our team, let's keep it that way" (accompanied by image of cute puppy in Sabres sweater with gun to its head). Ted Black said he can't operate on the assumption that Terry and his money will be around forever. The implied threat for Buffalo sports fans is always there. Support these teams, or else.
Is it marketing? Sure. Like Swamp said, marketing is part of every message the team puts out. Subtle things are even done online, like maybe having an employee of the Sabres communications department moderate a fan message board.
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What is the real point here? Do you think they are not trying to build a good team? Do you think they are somehow lying to us? Are you as outraged as PAFan is that they are spending $5MM below the cap this year?
I'm not outraged. And it was just a question. Jeez, you must like Wang (not that there's anything wrong with it). He's been spending well under the cap for years. He must be trying REALLY hard to win multiple Cups.
Edit: nhlnumbers.com says the Sabres have a little less than $14 million in cap space.
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TG/LQ "meddled" by deciding to get rid of players that were critical to the team's constitution. If TP "meddled," it was by urging DR to sign Ehrhoff.
Apples and oranges.
Nah. It's all meddling.
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It was my pleasure.
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Distilled Essence of Offseason.
Oh, OK, black gym socks.
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Change out OKC for Quebec City and revisit your questions. We have hockey fans here in Buffalo.
Typical Buffalo hockey arrogance. OKC has been considered a place for NHL hockey for a reason. By the way, real hockey fans do "revolt" against garbage hockey. It happens all the way, and even used to in Buffalo.
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The more I hear about this tank and the more I think about this tank, the more f'n angry I get. It quite possibly is the greatest marketing job ever perpetrated against a fan base in sports history. To have people on this knowledgeable message board, as well as radio personalities defending it, telling us that losing is good just blows my mind. There is still a chance that we don't get McDavid or Eichel (I don't believe that the PA has agreed to the new draft rules yet). What then? I guess we'll have to build a team the legitimate way and all of this will have been for naught.
I can understand being bad at the trade deadline and writing off the last month of the season by getting rid of some assets to improve your draft. That's a real tank. But we are going into our third f'n year where we are being told that we are going to be awful,… but it's good. :blink: Boy, Darcy really f'd with our heads and continues to.
The only positive I can find in this steaming pile is that the pressure is off of our first time GM. He really can't do any wrong. Hopefully that freedom will help him build a winner. I still have my doubts.
Good to hear another side. I look at it this way. The Sabres left Buffalo after the Rigas scandal and moved to Oklahoma City. Everything proceeded the same there as it has here. Number of STHs in OKC right now? How many people on a waiting list for season tickets? Average attendance last season? Number of fans who show up for a prospects scrimmage?
Would the answers indicate that the fans of OKC are fickle or smart? That the fans of Buffalo are loyal or gullible?
It goes back to my "ripe for the picking" comment. We trust that the people in charge of the Sabres are pure and think only of rewarding the loyal fan base with a Cup. Terry might be fairly close to pure, I have no idea. I know that the dirtbag lawyers and accountants and money-changers he's surrounded himself with aren't pure. Just how much does the bottom line of the franchise improve when you're at the cap floor?
This fan base has dropped the soap in the shower, and despite the advice they've always heard, they're bending over to pick it up. Best wishes.
Yes.
29th should do the trick though, right? The 30th team would have to win the lottery, but that's hardly unprecedented.
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There is a strong chance that the Sabres do not end up with McDavid or Eichel, with or without the new draft rules.
Are you saying there's a strong chance they don't finish 30th again?
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Terry told somebody I know shortly after he bought the team that "Darcy and Lindy are my idols" when they asked if he planned on cleaning house now that he owned the team.
That doesn't surprise me.
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What is this thread?
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Based on a couple of his instagram posts where he's shirtless he doesn't seem like he's particularly muscular, but he doesn't look out of shape, either. His girlfriend (who I mistake for one of my exes almost every single time I see a post with her in it) looks like she could be used by Nikita as an extra stick.
Gooo onnnnnn...
We'll, the 2005-07 errors have been discussed a million times over. I think most of those came from TG and LQ. I was referring to 2010-12 errors, which I think we're mostly Darcy's.
So TG meddled, but TP didn't? Right. What was so damn appealing to Terry about keeping Darcy around? Hmmm? "I can work with him."
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I keep biting my tongue at everyone who says he looks slow. I was stoked when they drafted him because he's not a flashy skater. He's extremely smooth. There is no wasted motion or energy in how he moves.
So to some people he looks slow. But I think his skating ability just makes him appear that way.
Vanek Syndrome?
Vanek in ROC court
in The Aud Club
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I wouldn't play poker with the man.