PASabreFan

If it comes down to the PB, I like my chances. (Randomly generated numbers, BTW.) (Not showing the other numbers, because I'm definitely going to win and don't want all of you coming after me.)

Maybe he doesn't want to live in the greatest country in the world anymore?

Don't even buy 'em dinner!

Maybe New Mike will tell us why he didn't take the job in Buffalo. If the Sabres suck again, it'll be a fair topic, and I doubt he signed any kind of NDA.

Correct.

Correct! Not sure if dudacek's original comment also was a McKayism.

How do you feel about the Sabres' execution?

See also sabering response, the reaction of Sabre fans to any two straight losses to start a season. Both arms extend down at a 45 degree and fingers move furiously and randomly.

That's the head coach's perogie. Skinner's a streaky one way player who hasn't streaked since Woodstock. Meh.

I'm getting at the memory we have of those few goals, which at the time had us as heady as at any time since 2006 and 2007. I suspect it's coloring the pro Skinner sentiment.

Would Skinner have as many defenders if he hadn't scored a few huge goals during that winning streak?

Interesting take. But I think once the Sabres are good again, a lot of the technical discussions become pointless. I see the point of them right now as some fans with outsized opinions of their own hockey acumen wanting to fix the team. Understandable, I guess, but after 10+ years of it, it's beyond tiresome. I want the Sabres to be good again so that kind of stuff recedes into the background (as many want the Sabres to be good again so they don't have to hear me bitching about Terry — but at least I've given it a rest of late). Look at Bills talk today. There's chatter about where The Interception fits into team lore. Is anybody really up for "Joe Blow should be the LOLB!" We've forgotten what it's all about.

I mean adding crowd noise to the broadcast, not the arena.

Charlie Woods will break Nicklaus' record.

Adding crowd noise is fundamentally dishonest, but I think I can live with it. But it also seems they are delaying the video by a half second, making the audio a bit ahead. This gives the impression that Rick and Dan can call a goal the millisecond the puck crosses the goal line, and we know neither one is that good (anymore; Rick could in his prime, probably). That I find to be a bridge too far. Also — the horn is too quick and it smothers the goal call until they tone down the sound (help me Swamp). The broadcast and the team sucking? They're consistent, gotta give 'em that.

Taro didn't know when the game started and I got the old man joke. I see.

The dinnertime who what?

And the steaming pile one.

It's not there because you would have worn it out.

Intended or principal? Does intent play into it?

”That’s a tough hit,” Taylor Hall told the media. “[Staal’s] not even a really dangerous player at that point when he has the puck, so for their guy to go after him and make contact with his jaw like that, it’s not something that you want to see.”‘ Not sure how to interpret the quote. Is his problem with the illegal hit/outcome or, as suggested, does he have a problem with a strong center ice hit when the player presents no "danger" (of scoring, I guess, or making a breakaway pass or something). A player poised to dump the puck in is dangerous enough in my book. To think otherwise is not playing the game of hockey, at least as we've always known it. It all goes to something a lot more disturbing to the average fan of a certain age of a certain team. How bad do they really want to win? As much as we do?

I dream of a day where the hockey is so good, we never speak of diamonds or forecheck schemes or PCWTMOACB (passes completed within two minutes of a commercial break). Where we leave the theater with no interest in the camera angle the director used to shoot the critical scene or what percentage of the budget went to camera operators. A movie so awesome, the experience of watching it was enough. Hockey can be that. We so rarely get to see it in Buffalo, we've truly forgotten what it feels like. We should call a cop — we're being robbed. I am sad when I read these threads. I do understand it's all we have.

This is said about the Sabres every season. I wouldn't blame change as much as ineffective change. But, yeah, if the Sabres still look this bad when they play that home and home with the Caps in mid-January, I'll be worried.

The attack is that you are posting something you don't believe ("trolling" "fake outrage"). Sadly, get used to it. It won't ever be addressed.

Sometimes it does, but the leader has to be in the mood. No one's really sure when that's going to happen, but if it didn't happen last night, that's an issue.