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I'm liking Risto's game. If I were a betting man I'd wager he makes the team. I'm liking Lemieux, but he needs to grow more before he has the physical strength to back up his mouth. Grigorenko will need a year in the AHL to shore up his defensive game; he needs that pro experience. I like that the club is clearly encouraging the fiestiness; it illustrates the internal "culture change". I like S-T Pain, as well. Looks like he has some natural leadership ability.

Grigorenko makes face offs look easy. In the NHL, Reinhart would have had his head taken off by not paying attention to the play. I did not like seeing that.

A fight?

I love hockey.

Prophet?

There it is...looks like they're using someone's cellphone camera.

Dammit. It's this kind of stuff that makes me want to apply for a job with the Sabres. The lack of internet competency is appalling.

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OMG. My wife is sick so I decided not to go, thinking I could watch online. Fool!

Should we come up with a method of identifying fellow Sabre Spacers? I propose we go naked.

Ehhh, the CHL's prosperity IS good for the prospects. And the AHL and NHL. Just because fans may be itching to have person A here or there, doesn't mean the fact that league relationships may prevent such moves is a bad thing in the grand narrative. Fans just don't like it because they're impatient.

You forgot chronic halitosis.

But it's a nice, intimate space to watch. Loved going there.

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.