PASabreFan
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You actually can rig a ping-pong ball lottery fairly easily. You simply make the 4 balls you want to come up lighter than the others. They will be more likely to be sucked up the tube. Conspiracy's back on!
Ooops, sorry,Fake Gorby already cited an example.
It's a Pennsyltucky thing. I've lightened many a ball.
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Yeah--PTR--look at the previous page. You can get the list ordered by number or ordered by team.
It's pretty much impossible to argue that this thing is fixed now, unless someone can tinker with the machine:
1) The list is publicly available.
2) The draw will be observed by a member of the Sabres' executive team.
3) The draw will be shown on the Internet after it is completed.
I think next year, the league will probably show the draws live. With three draws and bs commentary in between, there's enough for a half hour show.
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So one magical run followed by a near decade of crap? No thanks. Give me perennial contention even if it always falls short.
In this post and the previous one — the importance of enjoying sports — you've pretty much destroyed any basis for being pro-tank. Weird.
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Guess TPegs isn't superstitious. Craig Patrick and his four-leaf clover should be in the room.
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Not really "hubris" to ask for this though, innit? More like unrealistic, sense-of-entitlement expectations?
(This post has been brought to you by those demanding more mod involvement.)
Is demanding a 30th place team also an example of an entitled fan base?
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Again, we have to start by defining terms. This wasn't a merely a rebuild, this was a tank. If this was a rebuild I'd be fine with contending for the next ten years (heck, even five). This was a tank, though,… an epic, multi-year tank of historic proportions. I want a Cup or it wasn't worth it.
This seems reasonable. High risk, high reward. I asked a while back what the comparable high is to hoping the Bruins beat the Sabres. It has to be a Cup.
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Tomorrow night at 8:00 pm. Getting close...
Although really, a 1-in-5 chance at McD isn't worth getting hopes up for -- the odds are just too low.
I think someone mentioned — and I forget who, whom sorry — that we still have the best odds of getting him. It's like 20% and the rest are all lower than that, lower than 20%, I want to say.
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i wish i could have read the article, sounds like a hoot
It really wasn't. It was pretty dull and unreadable. Nothing about the story was controversial. The controversy (apparently; I haven't sliced and diced it) is that Yahoo published someone without vetting for political correctness. In Schopp's case, I imagine his problem is that a prominent outlet published an anti-tank piece, and that a mere peasant with an IQ less than his was granted such an opportunity.
I don't mind revealing my guess. His last post: "I hope McDavid and Eichel bust"
I could be wrong, and I apologize to him if I am, but my best guess is:
I was thinking more along the lines of a more recent new poster.
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Interesting, based on his Twitter feed I'm shocked that he could write something as intelligent as the article (and I'm not saying that article was intelligent in the first place).
It's tenuous, but it's one of only 10 accounts that retweeted the article. And 3 hours later, he tweeted:
It appears that my article predictably riled up a bunch of ###### into acting like ######, proving my point.
OK, now I remember that the editor's note said this fan caught Puck Daddy's attention on Twitter, so they presumably asked him (maybe her, who knows) to write something. How were they later surprised that the account contained some objectionable material?
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I'm confused. Is this the story? If it is, I must have it cached because I can still open it.
Inside the tank: Sabres reporter recalls horrific, surreal season | Puck Daddy - Yahoo Sports.pdfNo, that's not it.
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Wonder how his Twitter account got tied to the article?
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ok, fess up time. Who wrote this?
edit: maybe not anyone here on second thought. How the hell do you become a fan of the Phoenix Suns, Houston Texans, Atlanta Braves and the Buffalo Sabres?
The article has since been taken down. It's quite the scandal. The author's Twitter feed was somehow discovered, it offended some people and they wrote to Puck Daddy. If the guy was/is here, I have one guess as to who it is.
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Why is Leggio wearing a low-cut pink blouse?
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The "e" values look like they predict an upside of ~50 points for Eichel, and ~60 points for McDavid.
I derived that upside by taking the higest "e" values from their respective leagues -- .70 (NCAA) and .52 (OHL).
And that seems about right. More likely we see Eichel in the 40s and McDavid in the 50s next year.
If we went through all this for these guys to score 50ish points, a lot of people are going to be very unhappy.
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Remember the story about Murray flapping his gums about Myers, this and that while drinking with someone? I doubted it then, but it's becoming more plausible in my mind. The guy doesn't seem to have a filter.
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It was a complete teardown timed to coincide with the arrival of two generational/elite players. The term "tanking" should have been defined and agreed upon here; would have improved the discussion IMHO. I don't think there was all that much heinous tanking — short-term actions by owner, GM, coach or player to ensure a loss. What? Pysyk staying down? Don't get me wrong. The intent was to finish 30th or die trying. That was the macro. (And I didn't like it, want it or think it was necessary, but I bought in at the end.)
I don't see what all the hub bub is about outside of Buffalo, other than a small-market team few people care about might be threatening to emerge as the next elite team. And we can't have that. Some schmuck who goes by Down Goes Brown was on WGR and said he and the rest of hockey are rooting against Buffalo getting McDavid. And for whom exactly? Honorable franchises like Toronto, Arizona and Edmonton?
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Using newspapers to clean windows (with Windex, of course). I always thought it was an old wive's tale. Great results. Take that, Big Paper Towel.
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When posting about "Mike" Grigorenko, think about abbreviating his name "Grigo" instead of "Grigs" so that it's easier to distinguish his name from "Girgs" (Girgensons). Also, if you fat-finger the "ri" and type "ir" by mistake, it'll be easier to determine that the true intent was Grigo.
Does that make sense?
Until and unless a player's "official" nickname is known (what he's called in the lockerroom), how bout we stop trying to use cute fansie nicknames for these guys and just use, ya know, their name?
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No. Because he didn't hire Nolan. And he had no option but to give him an extension (based on the vibes I get about the whole thing).
I've read your signature many times. What does it mean??????
My other thread thought is this: I listened to Murray's comments again about interviewing the players, and I don't see how a "narrative" emerges from that about the players wanting Nolan out. I really don't. What am I missing?
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"Management" but yeah. Anyway, zero given, right? It cuts both ways. Well done, Ted.
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Here's the thing kids, I don't need Tim Murray to stroke players egos, or blow rainbows and unicorns up Pegula's ass, or tell the fanbase the truth every day so we know what's going on, or to coddle the coach or coaches in an effort to make them feel better when he terminates their contracts. No I don't need any of that although it appears some of you do. I need Tim Murray, General Manager of the Buffalo Sabres to do one simple task, win the Buffalo Sabres a Stanley Cup by whatever means he deems necessary. That means he has to have a plan he can not only execute but also adapt to changing circumstances. So while some of you will mourn the passing of Ted Nolan, quite frankly I don't give a damn. I don't need Murray to explain it to me or to hug me so I feel better. I simply need him to continually demonstrate he has a plan going forward and is executing it. So far Tim Murray has executed his plan. When the team bombed in January he altered his plan to maximize the assets from what then became a lost season. When the season ended he fired the coach who clearly was not always getting through to his players. Only Buffalo fans would lament losing a coach after the season we just had and honestly I think it is nostalgia more than anything. Enjoy your whine and cheese kids, I'm going to enjoy a GM who is a big picture kind of guy. Tim Murray isn't the General Manager to make everyone all warm and fuzzy, he's the General Manager to win a Stanley Cup.
If you believe Murray wasn't trying to ice one of the worst teams in league history, and was actually shooting for something north of 30th place, then doesn't he deserve some criticism, at the very least for hiring such a terrible coach? You can't have it both ways.
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She could serve me a turd burger, and I would eat it. With joy in my heart.
Times like this call for restraint. So much restraint.
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Nolan was the heart and sole of one the worst thing's iv ever seen in a stadium. What else do you expect? The HEART and SOLE!
Let's not get Aud excited.
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Ok that's one excellent reason.... And then?
I dunno, the rubber chicken dude never told us how it ends.
Ryan Miller benched for playoffs in favor of Eddie Lack...
in The Aud Club
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Yeah, right, why start Elite? Ruff, Miller, everything is proceeding according to plan. Gorby strokes his chin...