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I was using ~94 points but either way. They're not out of it yet, but they're standing on the precipice. If Botterill doesn't do anything to help them get to the playoffs then we'll be able to comfortably conclude that he didn't care for the team to make the playoffs this year, which is really too bad for both the players and the fans.

The Sabres need to get about 65% of the possible points over the remaining games this season to make the playoffs. They went 5-5-0 over their last 10, which would not be good enough. Starting tonight, they need to go something like 5-2-3 over the next 10. Is adding Skinner enough to get them some loser points? I don't know. But they're close enough that Botterill needs to buy and he needs to do it soon, or else this season could be over before the trade deadline even gets here. I don't expect anything to happen though. The time to make moves was months ago.

Absolutely heartbreaking.

In another awful turn for Jeremy and his family, his mother has been killed in a car crash caused by a driver in an unregistered vehicle

The older I get, the more I appreciate the pairing of a shot and a beer.

Bogo isn't valuable. His 18 games this year are the worst of his career, and he's really never been that good. His hips might feel better, but his legs are gone. And that's with reduced ice time. There's not much anyone can do about that.

Yup, and it's distinctly possible that the Robi mistake jersey wasn't even the Sabres doing. It would be weird for the Alumni Association to screw it up since they've made so many jerseys for him already at this point, but it looks like one of theirs. Who knows.... The Hawerchuk/Andreychuk jerseys are unforgivable though. Along with the misplaced shoulder patches... And don't forget that the 90s night Goathead jerseys were cheapo knockoffs that had the wrong collars and didn't have the important B-sword shoulder patches...

They might be from the same event, but it looks like the team supplied jerseys to players that didn't have one and left other guys to wear whatever they had laying around, be it original game worns, alumni association versions, etc. It would make sense that the one with the shoulder patches in the wrong spot would also have the name spelled wrong, since that would make it one of the ones the team provided. The Robi one looks like an Alumni Association version though, which makes it even stranger...

Here's the old Alumni association Flickr account. You can see the jerseys they have are very nice.

Some of them might have been Alumni team jerseys. I believe that the Alumni Association and team operate independently of the Sabres and have traditionally taken care of sourcing their own jerseys for their members to wear for events, alumni games, etc. I recall those jerseys being accurate and of high quality.

I remember the Robi jersey from a while back. I'm pretty sure we even discussed it on here.

I ended up with a 50" after debating whether I needed a 55", and ultimately the 50" is plenty big. The displays in the store really distort things. I don't know who out there is buying 65"+ but holy crap those are big TVs. The lack of motion blur in movies is really noticable. Predator was on earlier and I couldn't believe how good it looked. I just assumed older movies all looked a little ***** because reasons ?

So I finally bit the bullet and bought a 4k tv this weekend. Let me tell you, I thought RDR2 was pretty in 1080p. But with HDR it's almost too good. Watching movies is wild and I'm going to have to adjust. 2160p feels like too many p. Tremors shouldn't look *this* good lol

Fun game tonight. I wouldn't want to be either goalie.

January isn't going half bad...

People are gonna be upset when they sit down for this one at 8:00 and realize the pregame just started...

I can't say I've ever seen a ref actually penalize a player for talking ***** except in beer league.

What about Bruce Boudreau? https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/washington-capitals/boudreau-offense-great-defense-wins

Thanks for putting this together Liger. Looks like the data confirm everything we already knew in September. Ullmark is functional, Hutton fell apart again, the defense is good, and the offense is terrible. Shocking. Incredible that nothing has been done to fix these predictable results. Either Botterill is an idiot, or he simply elected to punt this entire season before it even started...

Yup. I wanted to believe. But he's severely mismanaged the cap while failing to make the team better. And now we get to watch yet another season go down the toilet. I don't trust him with our abundant cap space this summer.

Now do Botterill

This, ultimately, is why I've become nervous about him going into the coming off-season with something like $30 million in cap to play with. Imagine the bad contracts this supposed "cap genius" could saddle this team with? Imagine the damage he could do?

Botterill's failure to simply make this team better for Jack this year is pathetic. God forbid you lose a trade to get something done. Coward.

That's literally what I'm saying. That's why I specified game day.