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WTF UPL.

For Pete's sake, Dan, can we get just a little bit of drama when we score? When they boot Meatballs I hope he takes Dan and that smug creep Duff with him.

That is a good idea. Rather, this gives me good, or maybe not so good, ideas.

The bolded is a great way to position the Meatballs.

The challenge is that Adams let this go for too long. Dahlin's on-ice fits are symptomatic. Any veteran, say like an Eric Johnson, are going to come in here and try to grapple with the culture, but the culture has such deep roots that Adams would have to ship off over half the team and replace them with right-minded vets if he expects that tactic to work. And half of the remaining roster would have to buy-in to the move completely and immediately, or, once again, there will quickly develop factions in the locker room.

Right?!

It's because he didn't go along with the plan. Doug Allen was our RJ of anthem singers and look what they did to him.

Is Sabrespace advertising gambling sites now?

Heckle it is!

I said this. People scoffed. Perhaps it's not true but when you look at the actions it's not difficult to game-out where such actions would eventually lead. It's very much like what's happening at all of the small colleges around here - sorry, some of the them are now "universities" - most if not all formerly Christian-based like Canisus, D'Youville, Houghton, etc., where their boards have turned over and they then hired SUNY system zombies to run the schools. Like I said, some of them have gone "university", all have or are realigning their core mission and have overhauled their curriculum in curious ways. What's the end-goal? If I wanted to eliminate competition for the SUNY schools and consolidate what is considered academics in NYS I would place puppets on these boards who hire puppets to run these places into the ground or, at best, severely limit what these places offer where those offerings, like health-care, fall under a rubric outlined by the state anyway. Then they either close down or become completely state controlled - either absorbed outwardly or extremely regulated while outwardly appearing to remain independent (the latter of which is what we're seeing now). If you like people indoctrinated by the state doing everything for you I guess this outcome is fine, but I think "the state" has other ideas for "the citizens" which I don't agree with. Same could be true with Pegula - if he wanted to sell the team it'd be so easy if he ran it as far into the ground as he possibly could. This is what I'd do.

Call me crazy, but I can swear @That Aud Smell clarified multiple times up thread that this take completely misses the point of the thread.

I have a side theory that Pegula is intentionally running the team into the ground so he can justify selling the Sabres to a buyer who would move them out of town.

The Sabres as an organization are completely brain dead. At how many home games do you need to be booed before you finally understand changes need to be made?

Tim Connolly says hello.

Does he still live here?

Dan can suck an egg - his brain does not operate fast enough for his job.

That was Quinn down, right?

Yay, team. Great stretch for UPL. I'm not convinced, though, unfortunately, as he's still over-committing on some of his plays. The positive side is that means he's getting support from his team in those instances. Mitts has been making bone-headed Mitts passes lately as well. I'll balance that with I'm noticing more team aggression on the boards especially in the defensive zone which is good. We'll see how they look when they face a decent team but for now it's nice to finally have some solid victories.

Haven't looked into the calculus, but the 1% point change for the SB line after the Detroit game makes me scratch my head.

I can't believe teh weather is more important than this right now:

Anyone disagree with this?