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What does Washington have to do with anything?

I would bet it’s more like every once in a while. The rest draft early.

Effective, Efficient and Economic Everything you said I agree with, but there has to be a commitment to winning now. You are not going to win if you don’t spend money on actual contributing skaters and keep claiming it is because we are trying to win more in the future. It’s crap.

Of course he won’t. It’s way cheaper to refill the bottom 6. And dudachek is right, that will not fix this team, anyway. Until there is any indication that EEE has been rescinded, we’re pretty much screwed.

We are still being sold the same “we shouldn’t mortgage our future for short term success” bullsh!t we were sold over 13 years ago. There is no future! I chose option 2 in the poll, with the caveat that a major change could be one or several of the current future core (Did I really just type that,… ***** this team) significantly changes who they are as hockey player(s), because as of right now, i don’t think they have what it takes to compete deep into the playoffs, if they ever manage to even get there. And I don’t want to ever hear from a GM “once you get to the playoffs, anything can happen.” No it can’t. That’s for fans to hope, not a GM’s strategy. Good lord.

I'm watching. It is good. Boy, the Sabres are sooooo far away from playoff hockey.

They can't trade Skinner. They would have to work that much harder just to get to the cap floor.

I really can't believe it's Thursday already.

They should call them the Wasatch

I can’t believe it’s Thursday already. After 4 years of construction, the family next door finally moved into their new house. Thought I was finally going to have a quiet summer with no noise. Nope. The house behind me sold and they are doing a complete tear down. Why are there no arrow keys on an iPad keyboard? It’s really annoying.

I still have one. Got it after I ditched cable. You get a lot of channels for free. I don’t have a motor, but I used this to aim it. https://www.channelmaster.com/pages/tv-antenna-map

I had no problem with the extra punch. Boston got away with so much than should have been allowed, if Tkachuk got in an extra one,… oh, well. That was awesome.

Didn’t Murray score an OT winner?

Again, that is a different issue.

I can’t answer the drinking part, but I agree about the open ice part.

He might not be very good, but do people really believe that Jeff Skinner doesn’t play with heart? I find that weird. Early in the season, I felt that he was often the only one on the Sabres that played with any.

Thought this was funny.

Colorado looks great.

That was a pretty lame crosschecking call to end it. Really good teams get those calls, though. It doesn't hurt that the Rags are also really good with a solid goalie.

Yep. That interview this morning was maddening. He starts his answer to the cap question by saying spending has never been a problem(which is total crap but not my point) and then for the next ten minutes gives excuse after excuse on why he’s not going to do it. WEE’RE FKD …and yes, I know that there are 3Es in that.

Milton Waddams, the Matt Ellis of Office Space characters.

"Hold on professor. We fixed the glitch."

My problem with this is that I don't see anything to differentiate our collection of "talent" and any other team's. I keep hearing about how much better they are going to end up, but I have yet to see anything that makes me believe that.

Hope is not a strategy.

I completely and absolutely disagree with this. What we have now is not enough, not even close. My fear is that KA agrees with you and thinks that this team is just going to magically get better without doing something.