darksabre

For once we agree on something.

Okay, but they have to give us Carey Price AND retain salary.

You'd literally have to go back into the archives to find any major complaints from me about Kane. I've been pretty on his side for over a year now. My only issue with him recently was Housley playing him with Jack, which has more to do with Housley than Kane. I think my feelings on Kane over his time here can be described most accurately as a mixed bag.

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Right? Like, I'm sure there are guys like me who love playing in places like Minnesota because they love winter. But I also know that walking out of the rink in shorts and a t-shirt is really nice.

Losing culture gets misconstrued as some kind of all-encompassing funk that hangs over a team. What it really means is that a team just consistently fails to get the right mixture of talent, attitude, chemistry, work ethic, and leadership qualities. A losing culture can be a team with too much talent and no work ethic. A losing culture can be a team with a ton of work ethic and no talent. Or a ton of talent and no chemistry. A winning culture is just a team that has managed to hit on the right mixture for an extended period of time. Perhaps there are some talented scouts or a talented GM or coach who has a good read for what guys bring what to that mixture. You see winning cultures on teams like Boston where a group of guys really just works well together in the room (Marchand, Bergeron, Chara), and they hold things together through coaching and GM changes and roster turnover. They might turn into a total dumpster fire of a team when those guys retire. Who knows.

I think if you changed the polling answers to something more reasonable you'd see different results. I might even cast a vote.

Meaning, where the game was available (locally I assume), the games drew 6.2% of the possible viewership. That's not a lot of people watching the Sabres on MSG. So for the NHL playoffs, which are broadcast throughout the US and Canada on NBC and TSN, the market is quite a bit larger. It would seem to me that more people in Buffalo are watching the playoffs this year than they did their own team last year?

Try the steak? Wait...

Drawing any conclusions from your poll given the response options might make you faker news than Fox.

And I still just don't think he felt comfortable here in Buffalo. Like...this wasn't his kinda place. Winnipeg was probably worse. He's going to be happy in San Jose. And he's going to be a good fit for that team. At least until guys like Thornton, Pavelski, and Burns leave...

Sweet

Took Josie to the airport this morning for her mini vacation to Nashville and now I'm off to work 6:30-3, which are hours I wish I could work every day :)

Agreed. He never signed a contract in Buffalo.

If you thought that was a bad game by Myers, man, you don't even know how good you have it :lol:

It's not gonna matter anyway since you picked Nashville :p

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Smith-Pelly, goal scorer

We're the Kings of the Wasteland!

John Tortorella just ruined Nick Foligno with his shot blocking nonsense

Hmmmmm, that's a good idea... Feed it to him like soup.... Thanks for the idea :)

So basically it means no one is watching the NHL playoffs then? Because there's no way we should be dominating the percentages.

Cat had to have his big bottom right tooth out on Friday. He's been recovering since then and things have been mostly going well. But his painkillers were done by noon yesterday and now I think it's bugging him to eat. He's not eating the watered down kibble I give him (to be fair, I just think he prefers them dry), and he's been leaving more of his canned wet food than I'd like. So tonight I decided to see if maybe it was something about the mechanics of eating the food that was bothering him. Turns out, I think he was using that bottom right tooth as the tooth the picks his food out of the bowl with, so the harder to get pieces are getting left behind. So this is me, sitting on the kitchen floor mushing globs of wet food around on my fingers letting him eat the food off. It seems to have worked. I'll do whatever to make sure he's eating enough. Checkup with the vet is tomorrow afternoon so hopefully they won't find anything wrong with how he's healing.

You know how Botts was talking about leadership at his presser? There can be no doubt that Boston has had one of the better leadership groups of the last decade.

I guess I don't understand what the % actually is. Is it the number of people in each city watching the game as opposed to other tv content, the number of people in a city watching the game vs the city's population, or is it the number of people in each city watching the game vs the total viewership of the game nationally? I always assumed it was the first one.