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Mike Weber is grateful. GO SABRES!!!

Me, too. He's sound positionally and is crafty with the puck. Just a matter of time. GO SABRES!!!

We need 22 others just like him. What he has simply can't be taught. GO SABRES!!!

Love how he "boxed out" the last defender while positioning himself for the shot. That was amazing situational awareness and body control. GO SABRES!!!

I gotta think that's exactly what the front office and coaching staff needs to see as well. If they can find those players that sell out in spite of knowing they aren't heading for winning season, then they'll know who they have when they ARE competing for the playoffs and beyond. I think the "glue guys" like Gionta, Gorges, Cordy Mac, etc. are here for the next several years. Outside of the young players you mentioned and them, the buzz word is "roster turnover." GO SABRES!!! Got that right. I ask myself, is there anyone else on this team that's willing to throw his body in front of shots when down by 10 goals in the 3rd period? I doubt it. Now, if he starts tossing the boom box out of the locker room after losses a la Drury... As for the system, Benedict captured it perfectly in a post up thread. GO SABRES!!!

With the occasionial east to west crossover from the penalty box to the bench. GO SABRES!!!

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but Reinhart looked like he knew where to be from a positioning standpoint most of the night. He's never been an explosive player so I'm not expecting that out of him. Not a terrible performance by any stretch. I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do in the next eight games, preferably with bigger wingers who can create space. At least get Stewart on a line with him. GO SABRES!!!

And well beyond, too. They are linchpins in the rebuild. GO BILLS!!!

Sorry, my bad. This puts it in an entirely new light. I had never heard of him before this, but after a little research, it's easy to see why the Republican party and the Tea Party looked to distance themselves from him. He is certifiably nuts. And to think he was the Executive Director of the South Carolina GOP.

Anybody hear South Carolina wingnut Todd Kincannon's remedy for ebola? He says we should execute anyone that has the virus. Seriously.

Nice choices to be sure. Kinda what everybody thought except perhaps Moulson. Gionta will do as a placeholder until Girgensens assumes the reigns. And I thank God Stafford wasn't selected. Can't have an ocassional floater that takes shifts off serve as an example for all the young players on this team. Anybody else see Stafford blocking shots when down by 10 goals in the 3rd period like Girgs? GO SABRES!!!

I just felt it move. GO SABRES!!!

I'd like to know who's buying this oil and I'd lay odds there are a number of European and American companies doing just that. Blood money, all of it.

I think analytics lends itself to baseball in ways it doesn't to other team sports. Baseball, while a team sport, is really an individual vs. another individual and the team element really doesn't come into play. Contrast that to football, where you have 22 moving parts on every snap and those moving parts are interdependent. There are just some things that statistics can't predict and those things typically require a trained eye to do so. Analytics have their place in hockey to be sure, but I can understand why a coach wouldn't ever be a slave to them. GO BILLS!!!

I agree with this. I can't think of a player that wasn't considered good become good because of his favorable analytics. If a player is good, his stats will usually back that up over the long term. In the short term and in the absence of those established analytics, I'll trust a scout's and coach's ability to assess his potential based upon their criteria which usually includes their opinion that a kid can play or not based upon what they see on the ice. GO SABRES!!!

I'd be careful there. Bullschit gets told with much greater accuracy as well.

This was posted at TSW by PromoTheRobot. I thought it was funny and merited a spot here. Thanks, Promo. GO BILLS!!!

I've often lamented the weakening of the "press" as the fourth rail as well. Reporting has become too much of a corporate exercise. But when you refer to journalism, to what aspect of the profession do you mean, reporting or op-ed? I ask because the link you provide is an opinion piece and it' always been the golden age of opinion writing. The golden age of reporting, in today's sound-byte world of short attention spans, is becoming more and more a thing of the past.

There was nothing all of a sudden about that deal at all. It was months of arduous negotiations. I don't wish to discuss any more revisionist history.

There were all sorts of theories about the Reagan camp, including bribing the Iranians with the promise of future arms if they would hold the hostages until after the election in order to prevent a bump for Carter. I think that's a bit of a stretch. But people really should appreciate the work that Carter did in securing their release. It aged that man over night it seemed.

I remember a lot of people giving him credit for it, but if Reagan himself took credit, I'll have to reconsider his graciousness. I just don't recall that. Is it still the accepted belief that the Iranians waited until after the swearing in to put the hostages on a plane simply to irk Carter, whom they despised?

Also forgotten is that the night of Reagan's inaugaration, hours after taking the oath of office and only hours before the Reagans were set to move in the next morning, Carter and aides were in the White House feverishly negotiating and working out the details of the hostage release from Tehran. Literally spent the entire night putting the final touches on a deal many months in the making. I always admired Reagan for having the class that allowed Carter the leeway to do that.

As I tried to explain yesterday, ISIL defines a far larger geographical area than Syria and Iraq, puts several more countries in play, and makes it an easier sell in coalition building in the region. And coalitions will defintily have to be built.

The bolded is just wrong. On every front imagineable. Your quest to blame Carter shouldn't cloud your desire to actually learn something about the history of the region. It's shameless really.

Some may think it trivial that the White House and other government agencies use the term ISIL vs. ISIS, but there's a reason for it. Chiefly, ISIL refers to a much larger geographic area than just Syria and Iraq which may be damned important to other players in the region, like Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and parts of Turkey. If we can convince others that the threat encompasses a much larger area than just Iraq and Syria, it will help to smooth the way for the coalition building that will need to be done moving forward.