PASabreFan

No. No straw men please. Speaking for myself anyway, all I noted is that relative to today, whether Larry was the cause or just along for the ride, his dentures were associated with Better Days.

LB plays the long game. Well, always thought he had nice hair. And he got through the arctic aneurysm like a trooper. Good guy.

Are you forgetting his first stent?

That seems neither here nor there. You'd go back to the LQ days in an instant, and so would I. What I liked about Tom was that he admitted he didn't know a puck from a meatball. And when they showed him after Briere's OT goal against the Canes, he had his hands on his head. Shock. Elation. Not an assistant coach or GM in sight.

I yell PASS! when the Sabres are on the peeper. @shrader

Correlation or causation, but whenever LQ was around Buffalo actually enjoyed having a franchise in the NHL.

Lol. Z. Jeff doesn't have grace. He doesn't want grace. He doesn't even say grace.

So this is gonna be all summer, eh?

Maybe one day he'll get us in the sterling conversation. I'll show myself out.

The johnson watch begins...

Poorly worded on my part. I fear that there could be a sense of entitlement. The reasons there could be a sense of entitlement seem obvious. I like this group. How they play in signature moments before big home crowds and on special nights tells me they understand their obligations.

I fear the level of entitlement in this iteration of The Core.

And Bill Polian had the marching band in behind the opposition bench. Good. Wish we cared this much about winning. DG probably takes toast into the visiting room.

Why was it stupid? Shouldn't there be value in someone questioning the status quo and pushing for answers on the pressing question of merely making the playoffs? I am glad there are Wawrows and Harringtons in a media market where everyone else is for all intents and purposes on the team payroll.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

There's the troll slur. For a perfectly legit question of commitment to winning over development. Also... It's not a promise of making the playoffs that's the issue. It's a substantive statement that the franchise has done the work to pass through a doorway and into a room where other NHL franchises exist.

Thanks Mike. One of DG or KA also said the players are bothered by enemy fans in the building. Hopefully that starts to ameloriate itself.

It's not about semantics. It's about whether individual player development conflicts with tangible team goals. There's an obvious example at hand. Do you let Levi learn to be a starter at the NHL level next season at the cost of the best chance of winning games? Not "blocking" young players was an example this season. What the coach said yesterday is that player development is the focus and the playoffs will "take care of themselves." (And also that next season is not playoffs or bust.)

How many games did it take?

We're coming up on the 10 year anniversary of Darcy saying the same thing about the playoffs.

This is honestly refreshing. It's OK for fans to feel this way in a year that should have been (™).

It always comes back to toast with you people. I wonder if some of you could tell Granato's words from Krueger's. Might be an interesting poll.

Scrolling back has been a disappointment.