PASabreFan

Craig Stadler was a hoot. Tom Watson pure class. Greg Norman was the car accident about to happen you couldn't look away from. This was a huge part of my life as a yout. So many wasted Sundays... Summer watching golf and fall watching the Bills. I played and could have been pretty good had I applied myself. Shot a 74 once and had an eagle. The story of my life...

GPY it's not just that the braintrust (ahem) wants the youngest teams in hockey it's that so called leaders on the team are parroting the phrase when asked to explain failure. Dahlin just did it, which disqualifies him even more in my mind (in addition to the blond hair and blue eyes and funny way of talkin'). Someone else nailed it. We don't have a captain on the roster. Maybe it's not a problem or maybe it's exactly what KA needs to be getting this summer.

So good he'll be awarded the K.

Lovely take.

https://www.buffalohockeybeat.com/expect-trades-significant-changes-after-sabres-playoff-drought-hits-13-years/

Finish strong and build momentum for the fall! I'll show myself out.

I pretty much say the same thing every season. You won't find any record of me predicting out of the playoffs or 103.25478 points. I am arguing against hopelessness bc in the realm of sports there should be no such thing. The Sabres are bad but could easily make the playoffs next season with a little tweaking or no tweaking at all. It's a low bar. I've hardly been brainwashed by The Cackler.

The problem with this is we have all this awesomeness and it doesn't amount to much in the standings. I bet similar glistening analytical evaluations can be offered for several other Sabres. It has to be reconciled with the eye test... Of actual games and actual standings. It would seem to point to coaching and a losing culture.

Is it also your contention that Shakespeare was an imposter?

In hair.

They are two or three wins over the course of the season from being right there. That's close enough to reasonably close for me. I was responding to the idea there is no end in sight. It's sports. Teams can come from nowhere and have good seasons. It's thin gruel, yes.

As pessimistic as I might come off, I never think this way. Even running everything back (they won't; things always change; 19 yo Benson is not 18 yo Benson). They could be a very good team. We are not used to it of late, but pro sports is full of could be's. Really we're just pining for the playoffs, and this team has been reasonably close. They can't miss again. They really can't.

Just as I planned. Repeat after me... Tom Jolls was not convivial. Tom Jolls was not convivial. Tom...

Not totally buying it. The issue wasn't cloud cover but the atmospheric forces that led to pushing the clouds to the east faster than expected. Not predictable? Don's explanation shows how cagey these guys and gals are. It sounds like a plausible excuse, then you realize every forecast has cloud cover as one of the primary elements. Clouds, temperature, precip, maybe wind. They forecast cloud cover all the time for specific areas, and they act like they can foresee it many days in advance. NWS Buffalo says for Buffalo: Monday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 44. Thickness of cloud coverage at a specific time? Sure. Most people just wanted to know where their best chance of seeing the sun would be. Even the morning of... There was little guidance.

From Dallas Texas, the flash, apparently official...

From a crass financial point of view only I don't see how they can bring Granato back. Crass as in he's going to lose you money. I realize they'll be eating some of his salary.

Ouch. You seem as bitter as I am about yesterday.

Hey SDS wanna go to the total eclipse in Greenland in 2026?* *Only one of us will return.

My best shot from fairly early in the proceedings. You can see it... But maybe not at low res.

My policy is to never expect that. It's the NHL and it's a long season. Not sure what the Stars have to play for, but they could easily look past the Sabres, who are more than capable of beating the best. Inexplicably and probably to their credit, they won't quit.

Of course. They should.

I say it sancTIMony.

I think it's a symptom, not the disease.

And what the hell is Ellis gnawing?

From TBN. The way he helped the Sabres score goals won't be found on any stat sheet. "One day during practice I was leaning against the door at the end of the rink in Memorial Auditorium," he said. "I had my foot at the bottom of the door and John Tucker shoots the puck around the boards. It hit right where my foot was. I told him to do it again and I kept my foot in the same spot. The puck bounced right out into the slot. I knew I was on to something." It wasn't unusual to see Palmer in that same spot during Sabre games, putting his foot down at just the right moment. "It happened maybe 10 or 12 times a year," he said. It became so common that some teams included it in their scouting reports. Others complained to the referees. Others went even further. "When Daren Puppa was the goaltender with Tampa Bay, their backup was Wendell Young," Palmer said. "And he had also been in Pittsburgh the year before with Tom Barrasso, another (ex-Sabre) who knew I did it. "So one night Young starts cussing me out and said he was going to punch me out. I got a little scared that night." Did Palmer's help ever result in a Sabres goal? "Oh, one or two," he said with a smile.