SwampD
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Evander Kane.
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OK, I laughed.
I think PA is mostly correct though.
No. He is not. If GMTM and Bylsma thought Lehner was going to be the starter when the season started, why would they not still think that? And judging him after only having played ONE game this year,… his first game of the year,… his first after recovering from injury, is just,… well, I don't know what it is, but it's seems a little silly.
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The NHL is so stupid. A loss is a loss.
I don't agree with this and never have.
The points system has been set up for one purpose, choosing the best teams for the playoffs.
A team that is in every game, fighting hard and getting to overtime but still losing, is a better team than one that lost every game 7-1. The point system reflects that.
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That was pretty crazy. I thought the ref was great at rectifying the situation. He immediately said it didn't flip and did it over.
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Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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And they still don't OPI on Gronk. I'm done watching.
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Why do so many people get so worked up over the ASG? Yes it's not hockey (in the NHL sense). Yes it's stupid. Yes it means nothing, but that's what the value of it is. It's just for fun.
It is still okay for someone to have fun, isn't it?
I'll watch it. I always have. I've always enjoyed it, too.
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Of course not. But winning the Stanley Cup doesn't mean everyone in the Cup team is better than their equivalents on the Presidents Trophy team, or any other team that didn't win the Cup.
I was being facetious, but how can you place no value in playoff performance, though? Performance under pressure is a real thing, and I think I value it more than anything in sports.
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I just disagree with seemingly everyone on the value of playoff performance. Even going on a Cup run is a comparatively short stretch of games and I refuse to weigh 40 playoff games heavier than hundreds of regular season games. I think performing better in the playoffs than the regular season is how players get overrated, whereas most probably view it completely the opposite.
So you would rather win the Presidents' Trophy than the Stanley Cup?
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I want to agree, except that being able to do things like communicate with friends who are at the game is kind of nice.
You'll never be able to turn the clock back on the always-connected society. It's here to stay.
It can be defeated with a good product though. I'll put my phone away if the Sabres are good. They just haven't been for a long long time.
Your friends will get over it if you don't communicate with them during the game. And how about communicating with the people around you? All that talking would (and used to) create a din that actually makes it sound like there are people at the game.
Maybe in today's world, there should be a rule in place where if you have to communicate with people using your thumbs, you have to have the volume all the way up on your phone and that clicking sound when you type turned on. The din of 20 thousand people clicking away will replace the din of people actually talking.
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Soooo.
One game…
That's all a guy gets now?…
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I will call myself on hedging my bets and waiting to say this, but putting Lehner in last night is absolutely evidence there's another tank going on. He got lit up in Rochester and looked crummy last night on two of the goals and seemed to get sloppier as the night wore on. Murray had to be expecting something like that. To force him into the lineup (I'm assuming it was Murray's call) after the team won two straight games tells me winning is not a priority right now. What a dangerous game they are playing. Would love to get inside Eichel's head or O'Reilly's head, these guys who hate to lose.
-for the last time, this is not a tank!!! With a tank, results matter! Winning might not be a priority right now, but for it to be a tank, losing has to be a priority, and it's not! Let it go.
Do you really not think that even the players know what the deal is with this team right now? If they don't, then we probably don't want them on the team anyway. This is a season long pre-season, for evaluating talent, for when winning will start to be a priority next season.
Watching it with this in mind makes it far more enjoyable.
(oh, great. now I feel like Winston Smith just waiting for the bullet to enter my brain, oof)
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Turn off the wifi, disrupt cell service. People who go to games and spend it on their phones are idiots. If I offended you because you do this, you are an idiot.
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Where is there no protection? Unless he's altered them to gain some speed.Without D-Lo in the lineup this team is extremely spineless. TM better trade for a little more toughness.
He got slashed right above the knee pad where there is zero protectection.
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I loved his game tonight too. Was that slash to his previously injured knee?
He had a really good game. He must have the worst shin guards ever. That was a love tap the he should not have even fealt.
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they looked pretty good, though.5 minutes left, down two goals, play Legwand-Schaller-McGinn. That would not be my choice.
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It's it me, or does the one guy working out in the "bro" commercial look like Vanek?
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Lots of time.
ROCK'EM SABRES!!!!
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Evander Kane.
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I think we should rename the thread to "Guys you want to dump on because, as Sabres fans, we aren't lucky enough to be able to root for"
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The Titans are deciding between Mike Mularkey and Doug Marrone. Bills fans are laughing hysterically at this and think it's stupid... Even though those are the only two coaches to have a winning record in Buffalo since 1999.
I'm not laughing.
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Just got news that my 72 year old grandfather has been officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's. We all saw it coming, but it's so sad. I really hope my kids get to see him in close to a similar light as I saw him before he starts to fade too much. His driving days are over, but he still knows people and places. Just gets dates and times, and places he's been confused.
The man is my hero. He was a Tank Commander in the US Army at the Berlin wall (dropped out of hs). left the armor for the green berets. Left the green berets for the MPs. Finally left the MPs for the national guard and was one of the Non commissioned officers in charge of a large outfit tasked with security in NYC after 9/11 as his last deployment. He was a Buffalo city cop, and a plumber in there too somewhere, with some sketchy things that come with being an Italian plumber in Buffalo...He's been everywhere, seen everything. He has always been lighthearted, quick with a joke, and there to have your back. Powered through a heart attack, and valve replacement, and a hip replacement. The man has always seemed indestructible.
and now I paused to take a phone call from my sister, and whoever is cutting the damn onions in my office needs to stop.
Nice tribute. Good luck.
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Love Actually!
We won't hold that against him.
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Is it bad of me to kind of hope that he fell off a building? I know what movie I'm watching this weekend. I didn't get the chance to watch it over Christmas and now I'm kicking myself.
Galaxy Quest?
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It's stupid to not take the lump sum. Kevin O'Leary was on the news and he was explaining why you always go lump sum.
I dont remember everything he said but basically theres to many loop holes and ways to get screwed over.
Plus, you only need to make something like 2.5% a year over the thirty years to get the same amount as the annuity.
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We have 2 groups at work that I contribute $2 to. One has ~250 people in it. The other has about 20 in it. I don't want to be the only one left behind. And of course I buy my own ticket. I only do this for the bigger jackpots. It's worth the $6 to have the fun of the discussion of "what would you do if..." conversation with the family. Kids have especially interesting ideas.
Was just wondering and maybe someone will know. If you were to actually win $500 million dollars, what do you do with it? Not what do you buy with it, but where do you actually put that much money until you could spend it or something else? In a bank? some other financial institution?
Watch CNBC at 7 pm toinight. They are doing a special about this very topic.
Around the NHL: 2015-2016
in The Aud Club
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Also, the same people complaining about the current system would be complaining about that one. "How can some games be worth less than others?!?!"
Some just are.