SwampD
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That truly is awesome.
Here's the live action version.
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The ice on the WGRZ tower cam makes Buffalo look like an impressionist painting.
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Here's the thing though. It doesn't seem like the best players and skaters are bending their knees that much. I haven't quite figured this out yet.
Once you see a video of yourself skating, you'll realize that they really are.
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After reading the GDT, I guess I was lucky that I had a playoff game last night.Congrats, PA! Like others have said, you won't regret the purchase.
I'm more of a sleeveless cotton shirt kind of guy, but I can't echo the rest of this enough. You're bag is going to reek if you forget your stuff in it overnight and the smell is pretty tough to get out. Though being the stinky guy is definitely a strategy I've seen used in pickup and it works well.
And if you think you're bending your knees enough, you're probably half way there!
I thought about this quote all game and boy did it help. Everything felt better and was easier. :thumbsup:
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I know that that goal kinda took the starch out of things, Jeebus h Christ that crowd sucks.
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Is that Father Time sitting behind Bylsma?
I think it's Lee Sklar.
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I hope it being on NHLN doesn't mean it will be blacked out on NHL.tv. That would suck.
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Will the game be on tonight? It was suppose to be on nbc sports but they changed it to penguins and caps and I heard they kept the rights to the game? Has anyone heard if it will be on MSG?
I believe on NHL.com it is the free game of the week. You might have to sign in though. I'll check.
yep.
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That draft pick may also be packaged with other picks or players and bring an NHL player back....
And then the other side will complain that we paid too much,... and the circle of life is complete.
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I'm certainly one of the targets of this (and I suspect Swamo's video), but I've had one post. It was long but it was even-keeled and fair, I thought. It wasn't over the top... I presented my thoughts and moved on.
You were not the target of my post. Your thoughts on all of this have never changed or been over the top.
If future success is not the goal, then what is?
It would be success now. I don't think we are there yet but I understand the frustration of others.
Yep.
We all know that moving McGinn was the right move. Just don't ask me to be happy about it,… or even indifferent.
Here we are yet again on the day after a trade deadline, and instead of being excited about watching our new arrival play tonight, pushing us into the playoffs, I'm being told to be excited about a player who may or may not make the NHL in 4-6 years. Awesome.
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Ignorance. McGinn was going to free agency. We got a free draft pick out of it. We added value to the dice roll. Everyone is satisfied. Except the fans of course.
FUTURE!!
FUTURE!!
FUTURE!!
Gooooo00000OOOOOO FUTURE!!
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If they want to complain about the loss of McGinn then they need to finish that line of complaint. Take it to its logical end. Renounce the rebuild. Renounce the fruits of the tank. Renounce GMTM. Renounce the entire process that we're in the midst of before it has been seen through.
Anything less is just whining.
Many of us have been renouncing it the entire time. Did you just join the board today?
The assumption here being that any of that feel good stuff matters. 20 games of Jamie McGinn, he goes to free agency and it's a coin flip if he re-signs. Is that really any more of a contributor to a "winning culture" or "locker room atmosphere"?
Doubtful.
And yet those are still better odds than a 3rd becoming something worth anything.
HOORAY FOR THE FUTURE!!!!…
…May you never come.
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I'm unsure as to who this post is addressing. Those who are comfortable with losing Mcginn and missing the playoffs or those who see this as another lost season?
Obviously it's the former.
I want to add again that I fall into both of those groups.
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I love that the loudest voices all year, complaining about where the team is have turned into these guys.
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I see the horizon.
I really don't understand why even if we didn't add anything from outside the system to this team next year, we wouldn't expect to be better? Jack Eichel will be the same player at 20 he was at 19 and Reinhart has obviously plateaued right? I mean that seems to be the belief whether it is voiced or not. The reason this team won't be Edmonton East is because we have 2 way players, we have vets, we have ROR for crying out loud. Murray could have sold every UFA we had yesterday yet veterans like Legwand are still here because this isn't a tank year. However it is the first year post tank and to expect us to magically go from 50 some odd points in the standings to 90 some odd points in the standings in one off season I think is insane.
For me this team has been as entertaining as possible in the current "lucky bounce" era of the NHL where most games are decided by volume not skill. We have lost something like 16 1 goal games now. If we had one just half of those we would be talking about playoff chances most likely. We are that close. Next year I expect, demand, playoffs.
I agree with all of this, and I, too, have been happy with the way this season has gone so far (way more than most who are discussing in this thread, ironically). We all know what is going on and how it has to happen, but when the end of another season comes knocking at my door on March 1st, don't ask me to invite it in and offer it a robe and wash it's feet.
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Gump wouldn't have paid it no nevermind because that boy could pong.
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I don't get the lament that a competent NHLer was traded for a guy unlikely to make the NHL.
Murray is stockpiling assets again so that he can acquire NHL talent.
I'll chuckle if anyone on Team McGinn Lamentation laments this summer that GM TM gave away too much for an NHLer of his choice.
Nobody is lamenting the loss of McGinn. We are lamenting the loss of yet another season, with no end sight to Darcy's suffering anywhere on the horizon.
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Hurray for the future!!!I'm really amazed at this thread, had no idea people were so attached to the concept of McGinn. I never really got attached to him since it was obvious he wasn't going to be a Sabre for more than a season.
The trade deadline is for teams looking to bulk up for the playoffs or teams to cut their losses and deal their best assets for a good return. This year's deadline did not apply to the Sabres. Murray will make this team better byet making deals near the draft and in free agency, by then nobody will much care about Mcginn.
I'm starting to think that GMTM is even better at playing the "promise of the future" game than even Darcy was. If he ever says "we just have to wait for our core to mature..." well, that's when I'll know all hope is lost.
Just ftr, I agree with this move. Still sucks, though.
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Like I said, I get there is a long term goal, but eventually he is going to have to make a move that make us better right away. I think I'm just said that that time isn't today.I guess I didn't consider the season after the tank long term. So you really mean instant improvement. I just think you gave to evaluate moves in context of what their intent was to try to judge Murray. If all we're interested in is things to make the team better, it's really just this offseason we have to work with.
Oh, yeah, he traded Miller,... and Molson (when he was still good).
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Well, how many trades were intended to make the team better on the ice? If we're going straight off the transactions for immediate impact, I'd say Gorges > 2nd round pick, ROR > Grigs/Zads/futures, Lehner & Legwand > 1st round pick. Even if you think the Kane deal was a wash, that's still 3/4.
I said not long term. Trading Stafford for a guy who couldn't play (Kane) did not make us better at the time of the trade, by design. McGinn for a pick does not make us better.
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This got me thinking, what percentage of Murray's moves have actually been to make the team better? Not long term, obviously, but how many moves can you say," the team on the ice now is better than it was before."Mostly Bylsma for me, unless Murray makes poor moves trying to get better.
I bet it's about 50%, maybe less, at this stage in the rebuild.
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I agree. I am surprised you didn't take fire early on.
It wasn't JJ that brought the snark.
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Again, just because I'm not happy with it, doesn't mean I am making a mountain out of it. Everyone needs to just settle down. I get nuts and bolts business part of it, but it still sucks. It shows we are absolutely no closer to being a contender than we have been for some time. We would rather roll the dice on some guy in four years than try and win with someone we have now.No. In fact this trade is absolutely nothing. That's why this whole thread is such an absurdity. Jamie McGinn wants to test free agency. GMTM has no leverage against that. Trade for assets. Cut and dry. Making anything more out of it is just foolish.
I hope McGinn comes back. I'm a fan. But this trade is nothing. It's barely discussion worthy. And yet somehow here we are, making mountains out of mole hills.
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Does everything always have to be everything? I can not like this trade because I liked the player we let go and don't like the idea that that pick is just as likely to be AHL washout out as a NHL starter. It doesn't mean that I think Jamie was the glue that would get us to a Cup.Not a chance. Jamie McGinn is the straw that broke the camel's back. And darn it, that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
GDT: Edmonton @ Buffalo, 7:30 pm est, 3-1-2016
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This made me laugh, if only because of it's truthyness.