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So let him drown. If the others are too stupid to know what their abilities are then let them drown as well.
I've never met a rescue professional or volunteer with that mindset.
Seems there is always some thrill seeker that puts himself in harm's way only to end up in need of a rescue. Makes sense to curtail that activity when you can if it means not subjecting rescuers to the same peril.
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So, there are once in a lifetime waves on lake Ontario, and an experienced surfer wants to ride them. Why is it acceptable for the cops to tell him to stop?
Because if he gets in trouble out there he will put rescue personnel in harm's way? Because others perhaps not experienced may be tempted to do the same? A combination of these factors perhaps?
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The racist right wing media is all over this one. They're just itching to pin something on Obama. Just wait till the weekend. That's gonna be the real October Surprise.
Linked prominently on Sludge:
That is some seriously sad commentary on us as a species.
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Atlantic City, on your own. 911 shut down and no first responders out.
Let the looting begin!
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Crossing my fingers for you and everyone else down in the thick of it. May your sump pump run strong, your power stay on, and the water have somewhere to go.
That's an old Irish prayer, isn't it?
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It's basically a monster nor'easter..
You mean pissah naheastah
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Really? That's what you read into that?
If you're trolling, fine.
If you're sarcastic, okay.
If you're serious, well, you have work to do on the inside. It was a passing remark during a lunch speech.
If? He lives for trolling.
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That bastard.
or should I say Great Bastard.
Inglorious Bastard.
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sounds like some shakespeare stuff right here.
As far as the death of synthetic constructs and demands of the truth? Yes. Very Shakespearean. chz can bring the prose when she decides to.
As for vibrational stagnation? Sounds like a battery problem.
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i feel i should add/remind everyone: if hodgson was a problem child in van-city, it's likely because no one would play ministick hockey with him.
from garth at hockey buzz:
If you were like me, checking your Twitter news feed on Easter Sunday, right around 5pm, you saw an epic picture that Nathan Gerbe had tweeted. The picture looked like a scene out of a youth travel hockey settung, with Cody Hodgson and Tyler Ennis battling it out in an intense game of mini-stick. Two grown NHLs, on their knees, smashing shots off one another with mini hockey sticks. I laughed out loud when I saw it. My first thought was, "Did Henrik and Daniel Sedin ever asked Cody Hodgson to play mini sticks at their house on Eatser Sunday".
I asked Hodgson the same question on locker clean out day.
Laughing he said, "No, it was a different situation there (in Vancouver). Here I'm one of the guys. You saw the picture, Enzo and Gerbs are hilarious. I remember when I was first traded here, and Gerbe asked me over immediately to play mini sticks, it was great. he made me feel welcome from the minute I got here. Thats what so great about this team. There are a lot of guys who care about one another".
Hodgson is a 22 year old NHLer, who sees more guys his age in the Buffalo room. He told me that the Vancouver room was made up of more established, older guys who have families away from the rink. Here in Buffalo, there's a nice blend of young guys who are starting out just like him, as well as older guys who he views as role models.
Speaking of established NHLers to pattern your life and career after, Hodgson told me that he's getting pumped to begin his second full off season training with "Scary Gary". Stanley cup winner, and future Hall Of Famer, Gary Roberts has his own NHL player training company located just north of the Greater Toronto Area. Roberts also works out of the world famous Bio Steel Gym in Toronto.
"Its an awesome experience because its not just on-ice coaching. Its more of a lifestyle coaching experience. They teach young players like me, James, Neal, Jeff Skinner, Steven Stamkos, John Tavares, Wojtek Wolski, and others about the importance of vitamins and minerals, and our daily diets. There's chiropractic, soft tissue work, and a lot of things that are essential for me and other to helps us through the dog days of the winter grind in the NHL. Its hockey, but its more than just pushing the weights around, you know? Its really helping me now. I went there for rehab a couple of Summers ago, then I spent the Summer there after my first NHL season. I'll take time off now, and then start there in May and go through until training camp. I really look forward to it because we work out off the ice, then we scrimmage with some of the best players in the world. They let us bring some friends along too, which is cool".
Hodgson told me that he plans on driving back and forth down the QEW from his off season home in Markham to Buffalo.
"I have a lot of friends here and I'm definitely going to be in touch with them and I'll come here to work out as well. Buffalo is a great town with excellent people. I really love it here".
I can't believe that immature dweeb threw the Sedins and the entire Canuck team under the bus like that. Not to mention the entire city of Vancouver.
I can only hope his dad hires an indigenous Canadian to beat him senseless.
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And that prediction was for this year, so this Hodgson timing can't just be a coincidence.
Well, that's what the Mayan's predicted. Drane bases his on the Book of Revelation, at least from what I can gather from his posts in 2008. I'm pretty sure he's a big fan of the movie, 'The Late Great Planet Earth' as well.
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... A few last things: I don't care much for the drama of Team Apathy, Team Sunshine and Kittens, and Team Storm cloud. ... I
You forgot Team Sanctimonious. Hey, any rational fan, and I know that can be a stretch, is a member of all of these teams at one time or another. At least I am, depending on how much the Sabres are pissing me off at the moment, especially during a frenzied game.
It really comes down to two teams: team optimistic or team pessimistic.
If one chooses to wallow in misery, so be it. But it IS a choice. Let's be clear.
When a fan deliberately insults my intelligence because of a FREE choice that I made to remain optimistic, especially about people and events NONE of us have ANY control over, then he has crossed the line. Those fans would be the charter members of Team Douchebag.
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I just want to know what kind of danger our team is in if he continues to play for us? What if he decides he doesn't like Buffalo? Would daddy take it upon himself to covertly bankrupt Pegula, thus costing us our Sabres? Plus gas prices would go up and truckers wouldn't be able to afford to ship goods, so the economy would tank, spiraling us into some Depression 2.0.
I better get my apocalypse bunker ready. Cody Hodgson could be the end of us all.
Don't EVER joke about the apocalypse with Drane around. He's actually prophesied the end of days in other forums in these parts. Even gave us some 'end times' events and other clues of what to look for and everything.
That said, has anyone ever seen Cody Hodgson riding a white horse?
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They replayed a portion of the interview on WGR this morning. He definitely said "issues." Chz had the quote right.
That's the quote from the Vancouver Sun article on the front page as well.
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The most important name as it relates to Cody Hodgson is not Mike Gillis, Zach Kassian, Chris Hodgson, nor Lindy Ruff.
It's Gary Roberts.
And that name matters because of names like Stamkos, Seguin, Neal, and Skinner.
In 2 years this kid could be one of the top 10 centers in the league.
When that happens Gillis will need cover for the fact that he couldn't make Cody want to be a perpetual thrid-liner, and traded him for a huge maybe.
Good point about the Roberts angle. Hodgson already possesses something I've yet to see in Kassian: a burning work ethic.
Drane is just pissed (this time) because NONE of his predictions regarding the trade have yet to come to fruition. Not one. Indeed, the fact that Kassian got less and less ice time during the season until finally being benched in the most important game of the season shows just how far off the mark he was.
DeLuca is just pissed because, well, he's DeLuca. That's just how he rolls and trolls.
Gillis is just trying to save face as best he can. The trade wasn't popular since day one and criticism grew as Kassian played worse. The fact he had to throw a 21 year old rookie under the bus to do so says a lot about him. His team just isn't good enough. I would have asked Gillis who the other five players were that he would have traded Hodgson for, if not Kassian. More I think about it, he paid Cody quite the compliment, actually.
Sunshine and kittens. Glass half full. It's a great day to be a Sabres fan.
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Thank goodness you don't make the moves in Buffalo. I think you need to give Hodgson a fair shake and not judge him on one month of hockey. Maybe Schenn would be a good player in Buffalo as he was a teammate of Myers in Kelowna. But maybe Hodgson is a decent top 6 forward that this team needs. We scored very little this year.
I am not ready to give up on Hodgson yet. But I would take Schenn too but not for Hodgson.
The Canucks would've been better off taking Schenn for Hodgson rather than the trade they made.
Now why would you say that when it's so clear that Vigneault has 'unruined' him? Clearly Kassian just needed to get out from under Lindy's yoke and provide the Canucks with his Lucic-like grit and propel them to the cup.
It's not cool to disrespect The Concept like that.
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If Burke still wants Hodgson for Schenn, I'll be willing to drive Cody to Toronto myself.
Gotta love your dedication. First few weeks of the off-season and you're still hittin' the weights, training hard, and maintaining your fine mid-season form. Keep up the good work.
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I said weeks ago on this thread that this was an incredibly ballsy move by Darcy.
If Kassian tanks — despite the "ZK concept" we were all in love with —it is solid evidence that Regier is not always paralyzed by overvaluing his own players.
Ironically, it appears that the very person that accused DR of overvaluing his players earlier in the season, did the very same thing with one of his own in the form of Burke offering up Schenn for Hodgson and getting turned down by the Canucks. That Burke is a genius.
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I think Hodgson played his best game as a Sabre last night. He really seems to be settling in and making very good decisions with the puck. I love the idea of Vanek getting healthier just in time to build great chemistry with a center that knows how to manage the game.
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One of the things that had worried me about Kassian's development is he has already had his Bertuzzi moment. I don't recall to many players that go thru thous kind of things that come out of it playing the same game
That's a very interesting point and you may well be on to something. I remember the reports after he came back from his suspension in juniors saying that he just kind of plateaued. Many said it was because he didn't have anything left to prove at that level. And that's absolutely correct. But he was never this big, aggressive checker so much as just such a physically superior player that when he did hit it usually resulted in a thunderous crunch.
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Obviously you don't pay attention to the positives I say. I've given Ruff plenty of credit. My biggest issues have always been lack of developing gritty forwards, and his mismanagement of Ryan Miller.
Ruff is a top 8-20 coach. However given his philosophy and that of Regier, the combo is toxic.
Darcy.....I'd rather pull a name out of a hat and take my chances.
You'll have to forgive me if the cacophony of your Ohio State Marching Band-sized negatives tend to mute the music of piccolo solo-sized positives (which are seemingly conducted in a sound-proofed booth).
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What do you call reports from inside the team that they were actively shopping him since December? Their 20yo 1st round pick from 2 years ago. Sounds like giving up on to me. The fans seem to have a majority opinion that he wasn't what was advertised and don't mind seeing him go.
I would have much rather had them beg Calgary to give up Iginla and make Kassian the centerpiece of that package. Or use it as part of a Getzlaf deal. Both those teams were listening back then, then pulled everyone off the market.
If previous reports are true, Kassian never could have been the centerpiece for any package involving Getzlaf. The rumors were the price was Myers. End of discussion. And rightly so, IMO.
I love everything about what Iginla brings to the table. But Kassian would have been too high a price. Kassian represents "Iginla future" while Iginla represents well, Iginla past. His best days are behind him.
I think by mid-December, with the Leino at center experiment already a failure, that the need for a legit pivot prospect became too glaring even for Regier to ignore. The only asset available to attract that player was our best prospect, Kassian. It wouldn't surprise me if the Sabres were trying to send him to the Ducks in a package for Getzlaf but I can understand the Ducks not wanting that deal.
Anyway, we need to let it go. It took our #1 prospect plus MAG to get another #1 prospect. All there is to it. There is no more 'there' there.
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....The sabres have not even been close to as bad as those teams the last few year their worst seasons they missed the playoffs by like 2 and 3 points. There are 7 or 8 teams that have been much worse than the sabres about the same that have been much better (since the lockout I mean) but most have been in the same neighborhood IMO. So I disagree with your premise and during all but this year the sabres have had a self imposed cap. I don't think the coach is the biggest problem that the team has right now. Is he a problem? Maybe, but the players on the team are the major issue for me and I think to say that he has to win a stanley cup or win 2 or 3 playoff series with a team that isn't built to do that is stupid IMO.
I disagree with my premise, too. See carpandean's response to my post above.
And welcome to the board.
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Not that it matters at all in the discussion but JP Dumont was not drafted by the Sabres.
Psst. Think Jason Pominville.
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You know who I will give credit to Lindy Ruff for developing? Jason Pominville. I think he has gotten the most out of him and has been great for him. If you are a defensive minded perimeter player who doesn't like to make waves...Lindy is good for you.
I just can't help but feeling that if JP hadn't had the misfortune of getting drafted by the Sabres and being forced to develop under the yoke of Lindy Ruff's ineptitude, that he would have been an annual 50 goal scorer and multi-MVP award winner.
That and Pommers just doesn't seem to hate Lindy enough.
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All About Natural Disasters
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Your point seems to be that rescue workers only become rescue workers simply because they can't keep themselves from rescuing people. Maybe if more of these rescuers died while rescuing people, fewer people would be apt to become a rescuers who simply like to spoil all the fun for all the thrill seekers out there.
And if we're REALLY lucky someone with a video recording device can capture a thrill seeker killing themselves in the process. Personally, I can't think of greater fun than live footage of a drowning surfer floundering in the waves and frantically waving his arms as he takes his last breath and disappears beneath the waves, never to be seen again. Or at least not until a few days later when his bloated corpse washes up on the beach. And I insist that only that person's immediate family should have the responsibility to recover the body as well. This might serve to dissuade other idiots from spawning additional thrill seeking idiots.