PASabreFan

GENERATE O-FFENSE!

They teach that kind of stuff in media relations 101. It works.

The problem for a lot of folks is going to be that this trip will be the big bonding trip. Once they start to falter around Halloween and begin falling three four five points out of the race, no one will be able to say the western trip comes at the right time because The Boys Will Bond.

Let's have some tea. Great Value or fancy schmancy? I guess my issue is really with having a headline that says the Sabres generated offense while being shut out.

Thank you. Now we can dig into this. I don't think shots on goal is offense. Are missed shots in basketball offense? Yardage in football might be offense, but yards are means to an end. If Allen makes 10 throws into the end zone in a game and none are touchdowns, did he create offense?

Punch, that's great. But it doesn't of course address ownership involvement. How much did the Knoxes get in your business?

Is it true that NFL coaches script the first x plays of a game/half? Is there no such concept in hockey? The Sabres often come out flat. Couldn't this be addressed with a script? First five minutes... These seven shifts... These lines and d pairs... here's what we're doing. Here's who we're targeting.

It boggles my mind. The larger point is the gaslighting that Hoppe and Lykowski do. Even Mike has fallen ill with a touch of it. As newspapers struggle to make it, what's the calculation here? That the only people still interested in the team are the fanbois and they only want to hear good news? I don't watch Buffalo TV anymore, but does this syndrome affect them as well?

Mike's on record that DG will be back bc of Terry's penny pinching. But it all falls short of reporting. I still think the word indicate is too strong. Anyway I just realized it says news coaching staff. Apparently Mike thinks he'll finally get Lindy's wish.

It gets the crowd going too. Kind of a virtuous cycle.

I might head over to Olean and turn in pop cans at Tops and walk around the Olean Center Mall for a few hours.

If it's true Terry is ready to spend again maybe it's a good sign. Maybe good soldiers Adams and Granato will get plum reassignments and we'll have real management and coaching next year.

Still wish the title could be tweaked to something like Harrington thinks if DG is back it's likely he'll have new staff. It was not meant to be reporting that DG will return.

Apres? Fancyyyy and maybe schmancyyy. Yeah it's odd to combine his verve-less personality and circuitous way of talking with his charge to the team: be bold, play direct, go to the net etc.

Yep. Recently we saw an opinion called dogsh*t and garbage. One comment came from a piece of gum from under this site's shoe, but the other came from someone, like Lincoln, clothed in immense power. And Quint is gone. Thanks to Jame for the spot on post.

So why is Terry up in the crow's nest asking about winds and whales and stuff? His presence in any meeting necessarily affects the decision making process. "Terry do u wanna get tougher to play against?" Kevin Devine circa 2012

Sorry. No blowout tonight. Not even for the Panthers. Feels like a night where the Sabres hang tough but some weird ***** does them in. Also feels like an Arby's night. Did you ever do a jumping jack on skates as the puck sailed just over your head?

I work second shift but try to maintain a normal sleep schedule. It usually doesn't work, so I try and take a nap this time of day before I go in. The nap also usually doesn't work. A short while ago I started to nod off but only got to that delightful stage of being half awake and half asleep. This is when the most random images come to me (hence the delight). I saw blue jeans, maybe a flannel shirt and definitely suspenders over an ample gut. You know where this is going. I saw flashes of Rick from down through the years. The curly hair, the brush cut hair, the Romanesque hair. I was alert enough to know that for a few seconds my heart actually ached and I wanted to cry. But didn't. An unexpected reminder that the hole Rick's passing left in me, and in Sabres hockey, well now, you could drive a Greyhound Bus straight through it!

Yeah but when trying to conjure up mediocre defensemen, I ended up with a Canadian ice hockey right winger, thank you Wikipedia.

It was poorly executed, like a Matt D'Agostini breakaway pass. I was trying to extend the sarcasm ad infinitum.

You took shrader seriously? atoq was serious.

You never brought Dodo to Buffado. Why? Driving home, staying in motor lodges during the season.

Mein weinerschnitzel!