SwampD
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You guys are killing me. You want a primma donna, not playing any defense, creating a short handed situation every time the puck enters the defensive zone because he doesn't allow himself to cross the blue line cancer on the team crippling the payroll so he can score a few high light reel goals on the team.
Do you guys understand hockey is a team game and he is the epitome of the opposite? There is a reason the Devils suck right now and he is one of them. I'm all for more offense but not at the expense of my teams character. Laugh if you want but that dude would kill this group of sausage grabbers. You think Roy is a bad leader, wait until this jamoke shows up and alienates everyone. He's a class A doosh bag.
And yet Kovy is undefeated in games he has played against the Sabres (I don't know if this is true but I'm sure it's pretty close). You guys are killing me. You can actually justify how any star player out there would break up the magical chemistry of this Sabres team that in three years has missed the playoffs twice and had one early playoff exit.
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Notes from the Rock.
I have never been to a quieter arena. Ever. By a lot. The only time it got even remotely loud was when Brodeur came in.
There should have been a boarding call on NJ in the first. Kaleta was hit right in the back head first into the boards. From where I was sitting it was scary.
Myers had enough time to make a sandwich on his goal. What's funny is that people in the crowd were blaming Hedberg on that goal and were screaming to put Brodeur in right then. How do 5 guys not notice a 6'8" tower standing all alone in front of their net.
Jersey's D was really bad.
The "Mites on Ice" was a pretty good contest. Number four for the White team was a heck of a defenseman. It really wouldn't have been that close without him shoring up that blueline.
I really like McCormick.
Ennis needs to learn how to pass. This is a recording.
Does Connolly even need to wash his Jersey after a game?
Miller was/is awesome. It seems like he is getting better at moving the puck to his D. I feel I also need to say that he's bat$#!% crazy. Every time they came out to shovel the ice, he would go to the middle of the ice halfway between the goal and the blue line and go into his Buddha pose. I like it.
Brodeur made just a lights out save towards the end of the game. I don't know what it looked like on TV, but live it was unbelievable.
Listening to the fans, all you had to do was replace the words Miller for Brodeur and Lalime for Hedberg and I would have sworn I was in Buffalo. NJ was a different team when Brodeur cam in. We still won 2-1.
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How crazy (and kinda cool) would it be if the Bills and the Sabres both got the #1 picks in their drafts in the same year?
It would sorta be like the year that both teams got so screwed by the officials that they actually changed the rules in both leagues. (No Goal, "Just give it to 'em.")
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I just watched some of the game again. McCormick played great. During the stoppage when Monty got his penalty there were several things I noticed. Ryan Miller is on the bench looking right at Lindy and he is PISSED. Lindy Ruff, WTF, why is Connolly taking faceoffs at the end of the game. Goose is looking down the bench and the ice trying to figure out why it's not him. Roy then goes out and wins one, the the very next faceoff it's Timmy again and he loses it.
To me it sounds like the crowd mics are on the glass instead of hanging in the rafters. Again, you can hear the entire arena booing in the distance, but up close you can hear one or two individual people booing, just awful.
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Take it up with Vogl. :)
"There were oohs and ahhs Friday night in HSBC Arena, and believe it or not there was even a decent amount of cheering by the fans in Sabreland."
What perplexes me about this ongoing debate is why, when the arena has been persistently criticized in the media the last year or so for being so quiet, the Sabres broadcast crew isn't simply instructed to adjust the audio to reflect the truth -- that the building is plenty loud. Why wouldn't the Sabres want to prove the critics wrong, and why wouldn't they want people at home to hear what rip-roaring good time going to a Sabres game is, how entertained the fans in the building are? IMHO, the sound is not there to emphasize.
Unfortunately, the world is filled with people who aren't that good at what they do yet still have egos. They are trying to improve it. They are just going about it the wrong way.
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Cool. Have fun. Hope you have a better time than I did seeing the same two teams last week.
Me too. But if I only come away with the knowledge of where they place their crowd mics it will be a win. :D
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Oh yeah, how many games should Vanek be suspended for?
He takes a clean hit and responds with a cheap shot?
None. Don't you know they only suspend someone if there's a resulting injury?
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Here, also, is where the franchise is:
The arena started emptying out with a couple of minutes to go. There were huge areas of blue seats in the empty bowl with the Sabres "pressing" to tie in the final minute.
Now Swamp and Eleven can tell me I'm seeing things, too. Yeah, Eleven, that joint was really jumpin' in the third. lol
I don't care if the fans are quiet or loud, but you say it like it is their fault the when the Sabres lose. Others have taken this tack before and it bugs the ###### out of me, "Well, if you lemmings would just stop supporting your crappy team maybe they will do something about it. Suckers." It's not the fans' fault when the team sucks! And again, if you don't like it, then go to arena yourself and do something about it.
For the record, after watching last night and really paying close attention to the sound, I am convinced more than ever that the crowd mic placement in HSBC is TERRIBLE. There was one time during the broadcast where you could here the whole arena doing a "Let's go Buffalo" chant in the distance, but all you could here was two guys up close on a mic. It really was terrible.
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I'll be there.
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How is Stafford out there late instead of Ennis?
Why is Connolly taking two faceoffs at the very end -- lost 'em both.
Even I didn't believe that Ruff was this bad.
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If we can't beat this clowns who can we beat?
You deserve the no fee promise
Yep,... that's kinda the point.
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We HAVE to win this game because I don't think Ottwa is very good.
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What sucks about relying on Miller so much is that we can't run Elliot for risk of Miller.
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You could have posted this two seasons ago.
:lol:
Ennis's refusal to pass is maddening. We have an extra skater and he decides to carry it in. :wallbash:
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Rivet's done.
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You hope it translates to the NHL, but as long as he's putting those numbers up in the OHL and not the NHL, you can't say too much about them.
Who pissed in your cheerios today?
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I'm waiting for a couch and chair to be delivered. They called and said it was going to be late, about 9:30. They then called and said it wouldn't be until 11:15. WTF? I'm glad I'm a night owl.
On a positive note, we put our old couch on Freecycle (a site where you list stuff and just give it away). When the couple came over to get it tonight, somehow the topic of our Autistic daughter came up and it turns out that they have three Autistic kids (oof). They have the matching chair and love seat to our couch and they couldn't buy any other furniture because their kids have such sensory issues that the fabric on this set is the only thing they can tolerate. I know it doesn't seem like much but this was pretty intense for me. By us giving away a couch that we didn't even really like for free, we probably changed this couples life in a way I can't even imagine (actually I can). I felt honored.
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Discretion is the better part of valor. I think Prudence was a schoolteacher on Little House on the Prairie or something.
I thought she was the one that wouldn't come out to play.
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Ennis is still getting the hang of things, but I thought he played pretty well tonight (I agree that the Myers offside was Ennis' fault though). One thought that struck me as I watched him dangling through the offensive zone for the 10th time tonight was that he might, like Max, hang on to the puck too long, but unlike Max, he doesn't commit the killer turnover at the blue line and spring the other team for a breakout the other way.
That's a good point. His turnovers do seem to be a little deeper into the zone. He could be great, yet I'm complaining that he's only just really good. I guess that's a good problem to have.
Vanek really was wide open, though.
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Vanek does love garbage time against the SE, innit?
He would have had one earlier if Ennis had passed him the puck on that PP. Then right after on the same shift, Myers is ahead of him entering the zone and goes offside because he doesn't pass it to him. I like that Ennis scored, but he is going to be a problem if he doesn't learn how to pass.
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The feed I'm watching is definitely shot 16x9. Just seems like it's off a little. Would think it had something to do with connecting my comp to the big screen, but all the other games are crystal clear and correct proportion. Who knows. The MSG feed is better than last year on GC. And this year we can choose between feeds.
The feed on CI on Cablevision is in SD and sucks. I've seen better quality on a cell phone.
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That's good advice. No one will ever convince me that building has any energy whatsoever, just like the team and the burnout behind the bench.
And I'm certainly not going to be swayed by someone who doesn't recognize the history of hockey fans in Chicago.
I'll take that as your white flag of surrender. Whether I go or not is irrelevant to the discussion.
If you need that to be a white flag for you to feel good then sure, it's a white flag.
My point was that you wouldn't need convincing about the energy if you just went to a game. I say the broadcast makes a difference. You say it doesn't. You're wrong. Is it quieter than other barns? Maybe. I've already said that, but not by as much as you think because of the amount of the crowd mics that the director allows to go to air.
My advice, Swamp: save yourself the trouble (but you are right).
Why oh why didn't I listen.
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That's good advice. No one will ever convince me that building has any energy whatsoever, just like the team and the burnout behind the bench.
And I'm certainly not going to be swayed by someone who doesn't recognize the history of hockey fans in Chicago.
Feel free to cheer and add some of your own energy every time you go to a game.
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I think we have an idea, since you just told us.
I'm trying to get away from the distraction of whether it's the sound mixing or not.
I'm saying it's both, but the crowd isn't as bad as you think.
GAME DISCUSSION THREAD
in 2010/2011 Season
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Nice opening line.
Now you lost me. As has been pointed out ad nauseam with Kovy, the parts (I've been told) are greater than the sum. Isn't the inverse true then? Couldn't this be a case where the sum is greater than the parts and therefor worth it to pay Hank? They are both obviously better together.
Then don't say the goal is to win the Cup.
I'm sure that as soon as anyone of value becomes available Darcy with jump right on him, because his track record truly shows this to be his MO. :wallbash: