Ghost of Dwight Drane

I'm with Physics...Kalinin was a great 4 on 4 player and I thought he could be an All-Star. He was just too nice of a guy. I thought Michael Grosek was going to be a 400 goal scorer and a top power forward for a decade. Taylor Pyatt 300. I celebrated with PA as the first few posters to be excited about Pegula taking over the team.

Do you believe George Washington was the first President of the United States? I think in the Bible, you have to assume more things were left out to protect...so i will agree that they want to cast a positive light. Women were pretty much worthless then and there. Jesus could very well have been married, or even.....just bf/gf with a confirmed prostitute. That's a pretty big ommission, but very possible given the culture at the time. God loves questioning. What true god would want a mindless, obediant follower? Even Jesus said (according to the bible), what good is it to love a friend? But if you can love an enemy....that is worth much more.....give or take.

Off Topic...but I laughed out loud at the intro to the Cup tonight on NBC. One of the Lightning said, "The Stanley Cup is the ultimate....more important than your wedding day."

You have to say it like a German SS officer though to get correct pronounciation. I bought the "Nordic NHL Players for Dummies" book. I'm willing to help with Tallinder as well.......

Let's help him remember.... "I enjoy yo frangrance so much.....I just wanna Teravainen yo a$$"............

I was the one who sent you the November '92 Hustler mag. Props to the video game fella.....

I'm just teasing. I know what you were doing.....sometimes even if you think it's obvious, there is more than one way to see something. (general statement)

You have been a great poster in my opinion. I don't piggyback too much on things i agree with. It was nice in the day when there was a thumbs up function, as that is a lot quicker, but it turned into some junior high nonsense for some. I have one admission...your avatar is a little scary. I don't know if that is a hockey player with a stick, or a fan with an 1860's pistol that had enough of the tank?

Nobody gets it right 100% of the time. 100% tell the truth some of the time. Some tell the truth 99.9% of the time. We just have to watch the wiggle. It's not fun.

1) What if the guy is anemic? Is the dog ok? 2) I like "Refined Asian" 3) A Patriot never dies.....

And I think that's the crux of how a lot of stuff happens. This place is sort of a country club with open public tee times. If you come in and sit at the bar, the same old timers have heard every story from each other and they are like old drunks, calling each other out, playfully 99% of the time, but sometimes the screwdriver takes over. But there's nothing more fun than having someone new to shoot the junk with. You may not know how many Majors the Golden Bear won, or you might not be able to immulate Chi-Chi Rodriguez after a 30 foot putt.....you may not even know who they are.....but you can say, "That 14th fairway sure is a b!tch with all those bunkers".....and the old drunk is going to say, "Tell me about it! How many did it get you for?" We all love in one way or another, this team. We may have different ways of defining what love is, and what really constitutes team.......and that is where you see a lot of strife. Bottom line......if the Sabres ever win the Cup, we will all be drinking together and playing grabass. Even if some of the new guys need to wheel us old guys around downtown......

Is the first part of this statement your opinion, or fact?

New posters always get a free pass. I know I will go all West Side Story on familiar folks, but unless you come in here shilling for your own blog, or name....I welcome and encourage it. It usually takes me a few dozen posts to get an idea of what is going on. Some of my favorite posters rarely post. I don't think it is so much the community as it is the world has become so PC. There are a lot of good young posters here who earned their stripes, and maybe the young kids find it easier to give an opinion because of free range social media they grew up with. If you are 40, have a family and a job.....you have trained yourself to not rock the boat. It may be fun to READ a strong opinion, but to give one is either not in the nature, or can be intimidating. 15 years ago, we relied on a few to have strong opinions in the press. Now, anyone can speak their mind....AND....call out the establishment. There's nothing wrong with being a casual fan. The gameday threads are so dead now, it would be nice for a new person who just wants to feel a sense of fandom to post even in there...."Nice shot by Bogosian!".....everyone saw it....nobody has to respond, but that doesn't mean everyone isn't at home nodding their heads, going, "Hell yeah!" Hell Yeah!

That's ok....I write for a 1978 sitcom in my head. I don't have a diary so it goes here.

Did you name your sink Ryan Miller?

Lord, what have i done?

Have you seen a Prius?

You find guys that WANT to play that game and actually have talent....like Bogosian, Zadorov, Gorges, (maybe) Risto...... If the Sabres defense matures, under Bylsma it will be a top 5 unit. They just need a real top 10 goalie and this team will go on a 5 year run in 3 years or so.

This is the crux. Everyone is talking in nominal dollars as well. Did we not see the link a few pages back where all the major banks "were" in collusion to fix FOREX rates? I believe everyone here will see full social security benefits in name. The Sabres also could have run a promotion in 2006...."Buy a seat to a game today at twice the price, and you will get the same seat to a game against New Jersey in 2014.

That your avatar can jump 20 flaming school buses........................ Come'on....

What kind of odds would you like?

I am not an aviation expert by any means......so I must ask.....what and why are the Ball Turret, Waist, and Tail Gunner so close together? OK...just looked it up.......

Drane here. Member since late 2006. Once they jobbed Dumont and let Grier walk, (McKee too but that was valid), it was a whole new ballgame. Called out Briere and Drury for being wusses by not fighting Ovi, and Briere hiding bedhind Campbell to spear him. While people celebrated the brawl against Ottawa, it showed the biggest inferiority complex this side of the Niagara. That's when I pegged Lindy. PA and DeLuca openly disliked me, Taro called me a slimeball scalper because I sold most of my tickets the rest of the year, not to make money, but because the Soccer Moms and teenie boppers who took over the arena and would chant, "Let's Go Sabres", to the organ cue...pretty much gave me the sign it was all over. I have no affiliation with the team. and as far as I know, none of my family or close friends has one either. I have made money selling off my Sabres historic collection over the past few years, and had fun being able to give away some as well. I get more of a thrill out of the memories of seeing a 90's Nolan smirk, or a Danny Gare babyface smile, backed up with a right uppercut than anything hanging on my wall at this point. I don't have anything to add to the agenda. After the last few weeks of this season, I think I experienced my Sabres Fan Death Rattle. Being banned, I came to understand what a waste of time it is trying to hold a candle in the gusty alley of darkness. This week gave me a bump.....almost enough to take as a sign to keep caring.........but the A$$holes will always outnumber the good. It was always worth it because I truly felt the city was special. Then...I watched this place Crucify Mike Weber.....for actually caring about the team and winning.......the only player who ever gave a sh!t every time he stepped on the ice for the Sabres the past decade. He never turtled...he took on guys 50 lbs bigger....he tried to clear the net...he dove, blocked, hustled.....and this city was calling him out for being who he was......a 3rd pairing defenseman who gave enough a sh!t about this team and city that he would actually have his feelings hurt by getting cheered against in his own building, then got the reward of going home with a missing tooth and an icebag on his ballsack...like he does almost every night. I guess I am a dinosaur. I tear up over the stories of the vets and personal stories in Pappy's thread. I always go to the handshake line and try to find a genuine compliment to give to someone, even if I plastered them through the boards 20 minutes earlier. And I actually think enough about the city of Buffalo, that I figured they would gravitate to the same qualities I always tried to present, in the midst of my clowning, and not be bamboozled by the real jerkoffs out there. My name is Ghost of Dwight Drane I would win sports trivia contests at Buffalo Police Headquarters at 8 years old with money on the line. I would cut out Wendt's milk cartons and use the winnings to get a pair of Upper Blues against a sh!tty team like Washington or St. Louis. I AM.....Team Stormcloud......... I think I'll just go take a nap on my tinfoil pillow now, for I am tired.

This thread needs to be pinned forever.

Well, given the suit and color.....and earthly hips.......looks like that's him next to Pegula in the Kane picture as well......