darksabre

Oh right, you're using your metrics. He's the same player he's always been.

Scandella?

Reminds me of the last home game of the 2003-2004 season. They played the Devils and wore the classic home whites instead of the goat heads.

I don't think anyone really wants him back too badly. I'm fine with never seeing either of them again.

Most improved: Reinhart Most disappointing: Reinhart

Agreed. I have no idea who that player would be. I just don't want to go back to having no centers. Those days were worse than the tank.

They're upgrading him to Mike Ricci

The only way I trade O'Reilly is if we're getting a younger center in return who is a better fit for the team.

I think the slashing calls are a big contributor.

The entire concept of sitting on ones coat all game is ridiculous. I don't bring a coat in for that reason. There should be coat checks.

If they're going to turn up the heat in the arena I'm going to have a beef. It's going to be too damn hot in there. You know why people wear their coats and hats in the arena? Because that's what they were wearing when they walked a quarter mile down Washington from the ballpark ramp in January! Now...if they were to work out a shuttle system from the nearby ramps and lots whereby I could leave my coat or sweatshirt in the car, then by all means, turn the heat up.

That sucks lol

I think trading ROR would be a huge mistake. Reinhart as well. Ristolainen seems like the guy I'd peg for trade bait. He eats a lot of minutes, but his development seems to have stopped. If Botts thinks he can fill out the forwards with real goal scorers then I could see Ristolainen on the move. Eating minutes is great, but this team needs players putting up points. Googles Risto's stats: he has 40 points this year??? When did he do that? Maybe he's not trade bait either.

Saying my prayers for Nylander and Mitts with the corpse of KO

Holy cow I forgot about that

*exerts self* Good post.

Playoff wins aren't everything. They're about to jettison a franchise player for no reason. That team has nothing going for it. Their owner actively hates the fans. I wouldn't trade places with a Sens fan. Would you?

I feel bad for Sens fans. Their team is woefully mismanaged. Far worse than anything we've experienced over the last ten years.

It was easier to be a new guy back when the team was good. You could come in and sh*t post in the GDTs with everyone and build your post count and reputation easily. No one rolled out the welcome wagon for me back in '07, but the forum was so vibrant because of how good the team was that it didn't matter. I hung around because the GDTs were fun. Now... not so much.

I guess I don't see that as my responsibility? I've been here talking Sabres hockey for over ten years now. There are posts that interest me and posts that don't. More often than not these days it's the latter, which is mostly a product of the team itself. It's not that I don't read them or appreciate their being made. I'm just a little bored. Like I said, I bet half of my posts have never been responded to. I feel like that's just the nature of message boards. Just keep posting.

I mean, I see the word practice, which is a thing that the coaches run but the players actually do. Seems like a stretch to turn that in to some indictment of Housley by Botterill. Of course, I'm the guy who also thinks that problem players are problem players and coaching only goes so far, so my read is that he's not happy with certain players and intends to make changes accordingly. Pi's Housley axe is down to the handle at this point, so forgive me for trying to follow his attempts at squeezing water from a rock.

No offense, but this is kind of a weird complaint. Do all posts warrant a response? I have to think more than half of my posts have never received a response, especially in GDTs where we're all just firing comments at a wall as the game goes along. If you're expecting responses to all of your posts then you may need to adjust your expectations.

Lol wut

I'm watching friggen basketball because I secretly like LeBron