PASabreFan

This thread has disgusted and infuriated me so far. I implore all to be better. I was wondering if I can watch a replay on E+.

As soon as robots take vitals and tell people to STFU there's no more prune juice I'm there.

Do people really still care?

When is your recall to your home planet? It can't come soon enough.

Sure looked like more actual fannies in the seats.

Keep ridin the coattails Dan.

Now that he's gone, I think it's OK to say how we felt about him.

This thread, so far, sucks!

No GOGOY?

Alas, 4-2 is 4-2. I don't know whose hill is bigger or sadder, but we're both dying on it!

Haven't read before this. Fascinating situation. I believe it was a feel decision more than a statistical decision. The way TN drove down the field, perhaps McD figured his chances in OT were less, although maybe only modestly less, than converting on fourth down (and scoring) or converting and scoring. I liked the decision. The play call? Not so much? The stats guys can break down your chance of getting fourth and one with the QB behind center and everyone locked and loaded vs. the QB being in the shotgun and the defense more spread out. Gutsy. I like McD a little more because of it.

What did we tell you about the breakfast burritos?

I appreciate the chuckle, but to me this scene on Washington St. was more poignant than comical. It's Game 2 and already the world has wadded up and discarded the Sabres. Even the leaves aren't paying much attention. Well, just the one that decided to get all up in Hagg's grill. (It fell off a nearby thorny tree.) If I was DG, I would show the team this picture and tell them this is what the universe and the hockey gods have cooked up for them. Then I'd tell them, in my best Perreault, let's go beat those ***** frogs! (Check.)

I had to send Terry a freakin' Christmas card.

Love it. Or a big save.

Why wait?

This is silly. There's no need to fit in. In fact, I'd discourage it.

THEY are gone. This team is not those teams. It seems like an obvious point, but you missed it. That's the beauty of where things stand, if you can be logical and shed the baggage of past seasons. This team might very well do what those others teams did, but it will be almost 100% coincidence.

The who what.

I like the arena. I always seem to agree with people who rail on it as some dump. But it's fine. I didn't see crumbling concrete, missing cup holders or whatever the usual complaints are. It's clean, easy to get into and out of the scoreboard is good enough, the sound, etc. (and the lighting was tremendous; I was seeing names and numbers I never saw before, unless the flaxseed oil is finally kicking in and straightening out my tear film). What more do we want? I can't see putting $400 million into it. I know, things are expensive. Maybe replace the seats? Redo the atrium? Maybe it only took 25 years, but I had a nice fuzzy feeling about the place yesterday. Isn't that the time frame for feeling nostalgic about a building? The Seneca Building (Seneca One?), the modernish skyscraper by the arena skewered in Leino's T-shirt or poster or whatever, was looking handsome with its new brown exterior. I think I might like the new arena host. She interviewed a fan for the trivia contest. He answered a simple, "Where are you from?" with, "Well, that's an interesting question. I'm from Denver, but I used to live in Rochester." She was right there with, "What is this, a podcast?" Lots of laughs in my section. What the heck was with the delay after each shootout attempt? Live band is a great idea. You can imagine how that could be a fantastic feature if the Sabres ever make that thing they used to make a lot, again. Snippets of RJ calls during the intermission were cool. I always used to like the "live" RJ calls after Sabres goals. It wouldn't work quite as well anymore, what with the circus in town and stuff.