tom webster

Sorry, I forgot that. I will go all in.

At $200, I will put 150 on Buffalo

He is not Darryl Shannon. He skates much better. He will become a much bigger offensive threat once the forwards and the rest of the team improves. He is a 40 to 50 assist guy waiting to happen. Its too early to tell but I see a Teppo in the making.

The Sedin's never said they wouldn't play separately. They did acknowledge they preferred to play together and Burke engineered the deal to accomplish that. Stepan was considered a legitimate number one pick at the time.

There is a lot to write positive but as far as playoff series he wasn't close to winning another one and just barely won the first

For the record, I think that Ted Nolan was one of the most over-rated coaches in Sabres history. The whole "hardest working team" in hockey and the fighting were entertaining but his philosophy was basically let the other team take 75 shots at Hasek, block about 25 and then when they are frustrated and tired score a timely goal. It was basically the rope a dope of hockey. The notion that he worked well with younger players was also over blown. He worked well with marginal players who were grateful for the opportunity. He was knocked out of the playoffs largely because he tried to out tough the Flyers. The next year under Ruff, they utilized their speed and won rather easily. All that being said, he is a good guy, a passionate guy and he can be entertaining for about a year and maybe with age and maturity he has developed a better feel for the X's and O's. If the new GM is more progressive in his approach to the game, it would be surprising if he kept Nolan.

Possler has to rate as "positive" surprise so far as well. As far as Catenacci, I felt all along he was just another internet creation and never expected much.

I am pretty sure those "family" connections ended when his uncle was fired.

I'm at $600. I'll put $300 on Buffalo

Still at $800, I will put $300 on Buffalo

I'll put $200 on Buffalo

News says roster at 41(25/13/3) which means at least 18 more. Now the News says 42! I have never understood why they can't list the roster so it's clear who is still being counted

There was no reason for him to fight Prust in a preseason game. He made his point by going to the defense if McBain and he let up on Galencyuk after making said point. I personally think Kaleta may surprise people this year.

Cap issues, most of which can be cleared up when they put Pronger on long term IR

See, in the end we agree on all but the last point. If Stevie makes that catch or somebody steps up and stops their slot guys, no one is talking about time management, which as someone else already mentioned, is butchered by every one, even the hoodie.

That is so wrong. He was top candidate of San Diego and Cleveland after Chip Kelly signed and at least one NFL Executive not with Buffalo thinks he will have best career of all new NFL coaches. No one knows for sure how he will turn out, but he is not here because he was the cheapest. The drop was huge. How many critical drops has he had in his career

I buy a lot of what you are saying, and one of my better friends will spends days arguing about the whole " pressure" thing, but when a player comes up short several times and is an integral part of team, he has to take a large part of the blame. I understand your confusion, Buffalo actually has a coach that knew he had to score there and you mistakenly think its bad clock management!

He choked in Tennesee and came up short most of his NFL career. The Super Bowl was a perfect storm culminating with one of weakest opponents ever.

I think "back" pretty clearly implies the most recent incarnation.

Graham pointed out that they need a guy to run scout team so the other two can concentrate on getting ready for opener

Exactly

The Bills could have, and actually still could although no reason to now, negotiate a 1 year deal and offered; 1) more then the $6.9 2) less then the $6.9 but with agreement not to re-tag next year 3) just agree not to re-tag to get him to come in Clearly now both sides still aren't happy but a lot can change over the next 16 weeks or so

Of course it's not coincidental, The Bills didn't blink and he came in at the last possible moment without jeopardizing any part of his full year's salary. It's just business.

That's right. Actually was a dumb question. In my defense, still on the hydrocodone.

I really wanted to stay out of this conversation since its ancient news but after this post I had to go to the video. How is Brind D'Amour not called for being in crease on 4th goal ?