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Going to try and make it myself. I had to miss last year's, but prior to that I have been attending summer camps for years. I wish they were back in NF or in Amherst, though. They finally caught on that it's a money-grab scenario.

Nikita?

Only to be traded to the Wild prior to the next rebuild...

I was kind of hoping for a slightly more interesting off-season than this.

My God! Look at what they're doing to the poor kid: http://video.sabres.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=628389&catid=1018 http://video.sabres.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=627463&catid=1018 Haven't they learned anything from Tyler Myers? He's being paraded around like a recently proposed to fiancée parades around her soon-to-be husband.

O.M.G. Just leave it the f#$k alone. The current OT format is fine. Some of us like the SO. Hockey people fiddle more than the Facebook brass do.

Option number one is the best option in a poll here that I have seen in a while. http://youtu.be/05AeeEIbnsM

You know, it could have happened that way. Tim Murray was involved in the transaction after all.

Isn't it possible that Kim is there to over rule Terry? I can see that prior to Darcy's firing, there was a near-domestic incident or two in the Pegula household. The kids were complaining to mom that their friends, and the world, are mocking them. Kim confronts Terry while he munches his dinner broccoli: "Terry, the kids are upset over the hockey team. They're being made fun of by strangers in Alberta. That's in Canada. And, frankly, I'm a little miffed about the whole thing, too. Remember when Jess brought you home that plant for your desk." "Well, not specifically..." "It died, Terry. While on your desk, in front of you. It drooped over, turned brown, and became a twig." "Ohhh, yeah, I remember that. Jess wasn't happy about that, was she?" "Of course not. This is what you're doing with your hockey team, Terry. It's drooped over and turning brown." "But dear, I'm doing the best I can...it's not easy running a team..." "LET THE HOCKEY PEOPLE DO IT! Honey, I love you, but you can't run a team worth a damn..." "But..." "No buts, and I'm going to start going to the meetings to make sure you behave. Got me?" "But..." "I mean it, Terry." "Okay..." I can see this. I can see Kim making sure Terry doesn't micro-manage the team to death.

Being a happily married man, I fail to see the issue with Kim sitting in on meetings, even in place of Terry. Indeed, given the history of this ownership, and the narratives that emerge around it (based on very little inside info), I actually welcome Kim's oversight. Any man married to an intelligent woman, who is also a mother, simply can not disagree: a smart mama bear will out-ruthless most daddy bears any day.

He should be alright; the floors are clean.

Girgensons has been hanging around all summer, right? He was at a Bisons' game I was at a couple of weeks ago.

While I tend to agree with your POV on this topic, I think the point you're making regarding the superstar depends, a lot, on the superstar themselves. For example, if the dude is a team player, and is humble, I think having that kind of superstar far outweighs the superstar status. This is where the player interviews are incredibly important, and we'll probably have a better handle by then on whether or not Murray's character judgment is solid (or not). If Murray is capable of getting the right kind of character in here, and if he takes a potential superstar, I would expect that person NOT to be an Ovechkin or Crosby type. Kane and Toews are examples of the "right" kind of superstar. On the flip side, what if Murray determines through interviews McDavid could be caustic in the locker room? IMHO, he should pass.

That's what we do, now. We'll put the money from our mini-pack into only a couple of games, but we'll get 200 level seats and do it up. My wife loves going to games that way.

You want to target the 200 level then. Basically any seat will be fine, but, obviously, if you have the chance, grab a pair that is not on the ends or in the corners. The entire 200 is the "club level", you have amenities the other two levels don't have. I can't recall if that gets you into the Harbor Club. I let my mini pack lapse before last season.

Haha! What if Murray, upon winning the no. 1 for the 2015, decides to announce he's willing to trade up for a couple of picks in the 2-6 range?

I would advise anywhere in the 200's so your missus (wife, gf, other?) is cozy and taken care of. I also think they're great seats. On the hub, you're likely to get a good price closer to game-time. At worst, if you wait until the afternoon of the game, you're likely to find SOMETHING cheap. My second choice would be the loge - first two rows of the 300's, and third, the last rows of the 100's. Your missus (wife, gf, other?) will just hate the glass if she's not into it.

"Not possible," you say. "I don't fall into that category of manipulation", you tell yourself. "They" study this sh*t all of the time. And have been studying mass manipulation since someone figured out how stats and people correlate. Facebook did it to you: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-facebooks-manipulative-experiment/ Not only do they target ads all over the internet, the news, and the content, is targeted and manipulated. This conversation over "a religious belief" is nonsense, distracting, and exactly what the government wants. If drugs were a means of distracting and manipulating you, there wouldn't be a drug schedule. Radio, then TV, were manna for the establishment, the internet, however, has turned the government into its own god. They say, most of you do. Don't like it? Here, let's make you feel better about it... Still not conforming? Here, let's make sure life is difficult so you don't have time to think about it, or do anything about it, you just need to survive and make sure your children are taken care of. Artificially high fuel prices, bogus environmental scares, wrecked economy, and, oh yeah, if that ain't bad enough, we're only going to educate you enough so you think you're smart, but you really only know how to access the information we want you to have, so you think you found something out for yourself, and you'll defend this "self-revelation" harder than you would something obviously spoon fed.

Woah. That's a bit surprising. Anyway, yes, an abundance of submarine sandwich pleasures await you here in the greater WNY area. If Wegman's was a treat, you owe yourself a weekend trip.

What's the difference between a so-called religious belief and a socio/political ideal? Nothing. You don't need to be "religious" to have an objection to something, anything. Abortion on demand? It's not strictly a religious oriented discussion, but it just happens to be presented that way. Contraception? Man vs. woman, Christians/Muslims vs. the non-secular. Rich vs. poor. Western governments, actually all governments, position these issues in such a way to maximize the debate. It's not good enough to have a rationale, reasonable conversation over the details and points of disagreement. We are not supposed to find consensus as sophisticated people. No, we must go at each other like dogs in a pit. "They" want us to think in terms of "us versus them" - the Christians suck because they believe in a God that science says doesn't exist, therefore the Christians must be throwback idiots and every conclusion they come to is thusly discredited. It's Toronto's fans versus Montreal's fans. Meanwhile, the government benefit from the foment it stirs up because the disputing parties look at it as the mediator and, ultimately, the final authority, because someone has to be that figure in our lives. The government almost always gets what it wants because it will support the side it favors through various, subtle, means: bills or laws that tip the balance, oppression of the opposition, rhetoric, etc. This is all it is. This stupid issue means nothing otherwise. If it worked in the favor of the government to outlaw abortions, to defund all contraception, to ban gay marriage, the government would do it. We, the sheep, play our role. Baaaaahhh.

If you're in north Jersey, aren't there just a staggering number of sub shops available for you to explore?

Who feeds it and cleans the litter?

The Sun is not beholden to the whimsy of the Moon. Love is not beholden to the blindness of hate. Chocolate is not beholden to the existence of peanut butter.

This took two dogs for me to accept. I nearly forgot this pearl of wisdom: The President is not beholden to the laws of the Constitution. Once you wrap your head around that, I guess anything is possible.

Well, sure, unless you believe the customer should not be beholden to the inclinations of the restaurant. If you do, then you expect all subs to taste like Wegman's subs, which would really, really suck.