darksabre

Watch them be the team to finally sign Kaep and totally muck up our wild card hopes.

The Leafs are in such a strange spot with their roster. They have all of their cap tied up in forwards and basically no one signed up to play defense for them after this season.

It probably is. I mostly don't care for NFL football and the Bills are a team I root for because I am obligated to do so because I'm not going to be one of those dorks who jumps on some other bandwagon. But as long as the Bills exist I will be forever miffed that anyone even takes anything they do in the first 5-6 weeks seriously. The successes always find a way to melt away into nothing. And that's not even hyperbole, it's a fact. The Sabres, even when they're bad, will always more interesting than the Bills. But that's just probably because hockey is the better sport anyway. Fun. Sure. I've wasted too many nice fall Sundays to fall for that again.

The Sabres are a different animal entirely and aren't even relevant to this. These last few years have been exhausting, sure, but at least they were relevant as near as 2011. The Bills "blowing them out of the water" is the absolute lowest of bars and is a laughable comment to make. The Bills have been ***** for decades and they have been suckering people into believing in them in September for decades. It's like a revivalist church every year in this dumb town. I just don't see the point. You can scream at me until you have a stroke that this year is somehow different but as far as I'm concerned it's just the same old song and dance. You can tell me I was wrong in January.

I don't understand the optimism. This team's biggest accomplishment of the last twenty years was losing to the Jaguars in a playoff game. They've have plenty of good starts in that time frame. None of this means anything.

"Because Buffalo" exists for a reason. They've been doing this ***** my whole life. They're finishing 8-8 and I don't care if they win the first 8 in a row.

This is why I've always dismissed Winnipeg as a trade partner.

It's going to be 4-4 because they'll manage to somehow beat Philly but then they'll lose a total debacle of a game against Miami to give them their first win of the season. Book it.

I expected them to go 1-4, 2-3 at best, through the first 5 and I think I'm still mostly right with that given that they barely beat the Jets. They *should* go 3-2, but they're going to Bills up one of the Titans or Bengals games so I'm still comfortable with 2-3. Experience says that the Bills are more likely to ***** everything up than not so yeah.

Very excited to lose the next 3 in a row

Yes, trades. I could see some stuff during preseason but it's much more likely at this point that it'll be during the first week or two of the season now given historical trends.

I don't expect any moves until October now.

You need to have a philosophy to set expectations for what is going to earn players their ice time. Clearly the evaluation is going to be based on whether players are playing a heads up game and working well with their teammates. If you're out there making blind passes to no one then you're going to have a problem.

He will be.

I project Linus as Marty Biron

It was 100 degrees at Appomattox Courthouse today. Why does anyone choose to live in the south.

It's really not. I'm okay with that. It's closer to Newcastle than anything. Even Genny Bock, which is barely a bock, is more bock than Shiner.

That might be worth debating.

Agreed. I'll drink anything. Except maybe Keystone, which I never need to have near me ever again ?

There's nothing wrong with Shiner. It's beer.

It was left in the fridge at our Airbnb! I haven't had a Shiner in a while.

I don't see a Bob tweet about Laine and the Ducks. Some random dude saying it doesn't instill much confidence. Especially since it doesn't make sense.

Bob who?

I don't understand how Laine would go to Anaheim unless Winnipeg takes on a bunch of cap dumps. And Laine also doesn't help Anaheim on defense. It makes no sense. I think that talk is largely bs.