darksabre

Yup. No news is, frankly, good news.

This is generally what I assumed you were getting at. Type A people are Type A people. I think what sets Rapinoe apart is that she's a major icon in the LGBT community, a voice for Women's equality in sports (especially soccer where the women's team is arguably more popular than the men's), and civil rights in general. Male athletes don't tend to take their Type A to other areas outside of sports.

I'm a little unsure of what the line of thought is here. The qualities you outline are ones typically praised in athletes, but I can't say I've ever seen anyone question whether an intense athlete is difficult to...be friends with or something?

No Santa suit this year please

Good for him. One of the most likeable players in the game. I hope he lands a nice TV gig somewhere.

It could literally be months before anything happens.

Here's last season for comparison:

The thing is, there's nothing to indicate that he's bad in his own end. His Corsi numbers are solid and he breaks the puck out well. He's not good at defending zone entries, but the puck doesn't seem to end up in his net much when he's on the ice, so maybe it doesn't matter for him. For the price he'd be a good 4-5 d man.

Ambitious.

Trading for Skinner was cautious?

Is that a tag line somewhere? Does this celebration have three different themes?

Right, which is why it's weird to draw attention to the different logos/jerseys as points of demarcation. It kinda draws attention away from the idea that this is supposed to be a celebration of the Sabres history and makes it a bit too much about the jersey changes.

I don't. It's their jobs to do this stuff right even if the team is bad. If this thing turns into a huge, disjointed mess then fans shouldn't feel bad at all about shitting on it.

It certainly makes sense to celebrate all the different jerseys, but it's weird to me that they're already hitting their Golden Anniversary theme with a bus. It's only June!

I mean, typically if you're doing a special patch you keep it uniform and just slap it on everything whether or not the colors match. I'd have expected a Golden Anniversary colored patch (that matches the rumored all white and gold kits) to be put on all the throwback jerseys. But this muddies the waters a bit and seems to go counter to that white and gold theme they're trying to establish.

If I were to read between the lines a little bit, what I'm seeing is acknowledgement of two very interesting points: 1. The team is fully aware of the hyper-focus fans place on the jerseys 2. They're so aware of it that they're already clumsily running over their own Decades theme with it Ominous...

Which would be kinda weird if they're going to be putting them on the jerseys they represent... You're right though. These are definitely patches/merchandising.

Good call, that graphic doesn't make a lot of sense. It would have made more sense to use an action shot of a player or something for each decade rather than highlighting the uniform changes, which occurred haphazardly throughout the years.

I mean, listen, maybe it's not fair to assume that the Sabres are going to get this all wrong. But...

Pfft you can do anything if you drill a well

Maybe classic jerseys for warmups or something. There's no way they have the guts to re-release all of them as special editions and worn in games.

I'm sure it won't be nearly as interesting as we'd like it to be.

Scandella maybe?

I count 8 sets multiple wins in a row. Ambitious.

This seems right.