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There are roughly 1.2 million people in the Buffalo area versus about 0.73 million in the Winnipeg area. There are about 1.2 million people in all of Manitoba. Toronto (6 million) is 1 1/2 hours away from Buffalo and there are another million people in Rochester (a little over an hour away), many of whom are Sabres (Amerks) fans.
Also what is population of Hamilton/Burlington and areas twds Niagra Falls add that in and you have a lot denser area.
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They broke 50 points, that is an accomplishment with this team. Nolan deserves all the credit. Not sure if that helps him much.
Fell asleep, couldn't watch, but I find it ironic a TM defenseman won the game...Mess even the king of shart this season.
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Really I think both likely.
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Rule #9 is douchey but not wrong.
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Here's a vision. I am curious as to whether you think the same as I do.
There are many fans who desire to finish last to have a guarantee of drafting one or the other of McEichel. Others think the whole concept of tanking to get one of them sucks. Easy to understand both sides. (Disclosure: I happen to want one of them very badly).
IF we end up last, I think the long path of discord among Sabres fans is over. For me, with one of those players, it is all about WINNING and only about WINNING from that point on. I do not anticipate an instant turnaround. But, dammit, I expect this team to make progress quickly and aggressively with all the prospects and draft picks we have. I will be angry if they do not show a lot of forward progress... and, like, next year.
So I think we all reunite on common ground right after the draft. I think the bickering stops and we are all of one mind at that point. Agree?
Most agree... the thing is everyone could see that this team was bottom 5 from the beginning of the year unlike the Leaves. So rooting for the top pick is understandable especially after the trade deadline when it became so obvious that there was nothing left to cheer for. Next year is a whole nother animal. Not saying they will make the playoffs, but the building blocks are available to start developing. Maybe one more top 5 depending on record and circumstance, but at least as others have said not this boring crap Sabres are calling professional hockey. Heck my beer league team looks better than them on some nights.
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Wow, you mean we are "rebuilding" or tanking or whatever. I think we , everybody, everywhere knew that. I am sure they have done a segment on the 76s, the Bucs pulling their starters in the their last game last year , Indy sitting players in their last two games in their "suck for Luck" campaign.
Again, I don't mean this personally, but i can't recall one time in the last three years anyone saying Indy as an organization, or that their fan base, is somehow dirty. I know I sure as chit did not hear anything in the AFC Championship game they played in last year.
Let them blast away, nothing but talk show fodder
Agreed, slow news time right now. The fact that Mike and Mike are focusing on hockey is a step in the right direction. Still until ESPN actually covers the sport, I say a big whatever. P.S. I seem to remember the Colt fans cheering the other team toward the end of the year before they drafted Luck.... Whatever.
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Fans should have kept the cheering inside themselves, i wanted to loose as well, but there are players on the ice giving the best they can.
Any update on grigs , how did he look like ?
That is called repression and it tends to come out sideways, at the worst time. This is an appropriate time to do what fans did. Not saying I would, but I understand.
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The more sophisticated response was to stay quiet and leave the game with a smile on my face.
Maybe, but the emotionally sophisticated response was this. Otherwise, when we all get old and demented we will constantly cussing out Mike Weber and telling Dangerslakov to go f himself for losing.
Some of us may do this right after the Sabres win the cup being oblivious so. Get it off your chest I say... :P
Seen it happen on a ward full of demented people. The most repressed have the most verbal diarrhea... scary what this say about all of this on this board...hmmm
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It's the quietest barn in the league and has been for years. If they were sophisticated they'd make some noise once in a while at games.
It's sad that the most raucous cheer went up with the Arizona goal in overtime.
No that was a sophisticated cheer.... You may not like it, but you should understand it and if you don't are really a Sabre fan?
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. Agree Lucic was worse and the response was the problem, this tanking is part of the solution and the fans know it.We were *actually* the laughing stocks of the nhl after the lucic incident. We are largely irrelevant right now. I don't know how you can be more embarrassed right now (a terrible bad team with only a few weeks left) compared ot watching our goalie get destroyed and no one answer. It was pathetic.
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I always root for the players but just not for the team right now. Patty is one of the good guys and his response is perfect. Understand Weber's frustration just a dollar late...SabresBuzz @SabresBuzz 9m9 minutes ago
Kaleta: "I play for the fans who root for us and the little kids who come to the game & root for the Buffalo Sabres. Thats who I play for"
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It's the quietest barn in the league and has been for years. If they were sophisticated they'd make some noise once in a while at games.
It's ###### disgraceful for "fans" wearing Sabres jerseys to attend a game then openly root for Arizona. The players around the league have pride. From what I've read over the past year or so, most on this board do not. Guys in that room are pissed, as they should be.
Bull hockey, i wear my sabre hat regularly now knowing the future is not an oncoming train. Before I shook my head in disgrace because it was said train and I was tired of getting run over. Sabres suck right now, but at least the fans know they need to finish the job. so a little good natured booing of a team that sucks and so does their effort in this game at times the players need to suck it up and prepare for next year. If Weber is pissed at fans he has no one to blame but himself. P.S. Toronto fans are far less accomodating.
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4 min to go pulease
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Dammit. Everyone else is going back to their old usernames but I made too many changes. I can't change again until May.
Maybe I'll wait and see if Neuvirth comes back in free agency before I decide on a new name.
Ah its time?, Not till after the next two games... Russians are still lurking.
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Shart Bowl 1 and 2 coming up.
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I found a gif for your viewing pleasure. He gets the pass looks for help, finds none but by hesitating, Niagara gets back, and then he just skates through. Them. All. Remember, this is shorthanded.
That was sick...
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Holy ######! ###### yeah! Totes with the OT ######in loss! Woooooooo
Do you believe in miracles?
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While I was away on vacation, the ceiling started to leak (dogsitter noticed). Turns out the 5 million pounds of snow that sat on my roof all winter did some damage. Claim adjuster will be here Monday or Tuesday. Any words to the wise or experience in said matters? All input is welcome.
As was said, ask lots of questions, hang with the adjuster while he is looking and point out anything he may no focus on. Keep a list yourself and compare to list he sends to insurance. When contractor comes in ask him for a list of what he says needs to be done, make sure two lists are comparable and if adjuster leaves anything out call insurance company and demand it be added. Provide contractors price estimate for it as well. Bird dog both contractor and insurance company. Only use reputable contractor, don't give more than half the money up front to the contractor, better to layout only a quarter till supplies are delivered and another half when job is nearing completion and only the last after job is totally finished.
Was flood in VA and had to stay on top of it.
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When Nolan was on the Island, Snow let Nolan go because Nolan really had no time for managing the minutes of rookies like Commuaeu (sp?) Tambellini, and Neilsen. I think the last game of the year of of a meaningless season..., Nolan played Neilsen for one shift fulfilling his professional courtesy to his GM. Kid turned into a pretty good player.
I don't think anyone here is going out on a limb by saying this won't end well either.
Yeh that is my biggest problem with Nolan and I like the guy, but he seems to have an aversion if not outright belligerence to working with and developing rookies. He is great with the veterans, but it is almost like if he doesn't know your game and you are new and not a veteran then you are going to sit no matter what. It is too bad because I see a system developing for him and the players. Their breakouts have been a lot better, defensively they are lot stouter, and Grigs looked wonderful getting back on D. He still seems to lack confidence with the puck moving it up ice on his own. That has to be Nolan, but his backchecking last night was nice to see and I saw some real speed out of him I didn't know he had.
Does anyone think with Trotts there Nolan can change or is he to stubborn to make adjustments and allow some of the younger guys to develop in the NHL.
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Instead of trading all the hot goalies, Murray should have fired Irbe. He may be the real long term gem on the staff.
If 3 (or 4) goalies all perform over their heads for extended periods of time with Irbe as goalie coach, you can start calling that a trend and not a coincidence.
Is he the goalie whisperer?
God its looking like it. Need to get some duct tape for the next 4 weeks and then apologize profusely... Use to know some guys that could make him disappear indefinitely, but not sure that is what we want.
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I'll be livid
Agreed, Murray and Nolan should be fired if they don't win the Shart.
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Wrong.
Correct.
The Dogs don't need the Sabres to find 3 points, the Dogs can TAKE 4 from the Sabres. They can finish in a tie for 1st via their own actions. They needn't rely on anyone else.
The Eulers need the Sabres to find 4 points (3 leaves Sabres w/ the tiebreak) and therefore do not control their own destiny; the DD's can show those Easter eggs to the Sabres on their own, so they do hold at least a tie for 1st in their own hands.
You guys are nuts I say, just nuts... Really both are saying the same thing, like a bunch of Dems and Republicans... neither side wanting the other side to get credit for something that is so obvious... Please spare me.
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If the Yotes and Oilers both lose the next 12 games, the Oilers win the Shart.
Crap, you scared me, I had to look at the standings in the real league and realized you were just talking about the Shart. OK I'll give up the Shart as long as the Sabres finish dead last.
GMTM--"I think too much about McDavid. I wish I could help myself"
in The Aud Club
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