[GDT: Lightning @ Sabres - Sat Jan 20, 2024, 12:30 pm ET MSG-B, BSSUN 📺 WGR 📻]

55 minutes ago, BMWR100RT said:

Just home from game. The singing of the Anthems were the highlight.  This product is defective.  

Actually, on the television feed, it sounded like the microphones were cutting out during Oh Canada. The girls sounded great, but it did appear that the product is indeed defective.  

[Buffalo things that hold no meaning for you]

On 11/17/2023 at 2:20 PM, Mango said:

I came into this thread thinking that this thread was going to go a totally different direction and talk about some of the stuff that Buffalo hypes but feels silly. I came prepared to answer a question nobody asked me, so here it goes. 

Tim Hortons- Their coffee stinks. I have never missed it.
Sahlens hot dogs- Don't get me wrong, I love Ted's. But when it comes to brands a lot of regions have their local purveyor and most taste pretty similar. 

As not to pile on Buffalo, I live in the capital region now. 

Stewarts - If K-Mart were a gas station it would be Stewarts. People who hype Stewarts have never been to a Wawa (The Wegmans of gas stations/corner stores)

Re: Stewarts 

I’m a WNY transplant also in the Capital Region of NY and I can’t make sense of the veneration for Stewart’s. It’s a gas station. Outside of their own ice cream, there’s nothing special about a Stewart’s.  You can’t even get a sandwich there that isn’t a day old and wrapped in plastic. 
 

Mr. Yuck.

20 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Question for the Buffalo Expats, how often do you come back to visit? 

Two to three times a year.  But I’m only a 4 hour drive. 

[GDT: Avalanche @ Sabres Sunday Oct 29th- 1pm]

53 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Skinner Mittelstadt and Johnson are driving the team this year so far.

Dahlin too??

[Sabres ticket sales still pretty dismal]

18 minutes ago, tom webster said:

I’ve read your posts and must say everyone I have asked have had the opposite experience. Some of their staff had grown complacent but the new people gave been great.

If you want to pm me your info, I promise I can get someone to call you within 24 hours. 

Thanks for the offer Tom, but I bought a few single game tickets through Ticketmaster instead of the weekend pack.  
 

Sabres ticket office not answering my requests saved me a lot of money. 

[Sabres ticket sales still pretty dismal]

7 hours ago, sabremike said:

They are the exact opposite of the Devils who will never stop contacting you.

This is true!  I bought Devils/Sabres tickets last season and the Devils are constantly emailing me.  

Now if I could just get Buffalo to email me back…

[Sabres ticket sales still pretty dismal]

I’ll add this to the conversation:

 I filled out the interest form from the Sabres ticket office on three occasions to purchase a weekend pack before the season started and never heard back.  
 

In addition to the product on the ice not being that hot, the sales team is too busy doing other things to call back or email customers who are trying to buy tickets. 
 

Not going to fill a lot of seats that way.
 

 

[OT - bands from Buffalo]

On 9/20/2023 at 10:46 PM, Broken Ankles said:

Patrick Cowley

name the movie.  

If you look further into Cowley you’ll see that he had his music in A LOT of movies.  He was a large contributor to the soundtrack for gay pornography in the early 80’s.

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[Sabres traded that made you sad to see them go]

Marcus Foligno

[Ot: Blue cheese or Mayo]

Blue Cheese

[Sabrespacer Baseball Teams]

On 5/18/2023 at 3:19 AM, ubkev said:

Yankees.

My dad and I watched around 145 games per year together from about 1992 until I moved out in 2003. Even then, I'd still call him whenever anything cool happened in a game. It didn't even have to be a big game, could have been a cool sliding catch in June. 

Paul O'Neill is my only favorite player in any sport. The distain he had for his own failure is probably my favorite quality in an athlete. 

1996 World Series is my favorite sports memory. After that it's the 03 NCAA Basketball Championship.

The Baseball Hall of Fame is the greatest museum on planet Earth. I can easily spend 5 hours inside and not get sick of looking at the awesomeness in there. 

Re: The Baseball Hall of Fame

I live nearby and we have a membership.  I go several times a year with my wife and kids and I see something new every time.  Seriously love that place.  
 

My favorite time to go is on a late afternoon in winter. You can sit quietly in the plaque gallery while the sun sets.  It’s peaceful.  You usually have the whole space to yourself. I highly recommend it. 
 

Oh,  and I’m a Detroit Tigers fan.  

Like most of you guys, I’m a western New Yorker without a hometown team to root for.  Picked up the Tigers when I was about 8 years old.  Been rooting for them from a distance for about 35 years now. 
 

 

 

 

 

[OT: What SS posters are on the hot seat]

I’d hate to see anyone go, but at the end of the day you have got to understand that this is a business.  

[GDT: Sabres @ Devils - April 11, 2023, 7pm, MSG 📺 WGR 📻]

1 hour ago, DarthEbriate said:

[First impressions of Jordan Greenway]

2 minutes ago, Marvin said:

Welcome back!

And great find!

Thanks for the welcome back.  I have always been more of a lurker than a poster.

[First impressions of Jordan Greenway]

On 3/22/2023 at 9:30 AM, Buffalonill said:

 So you are OK with a coach pounding a table for a player  (For a playoff push) And hes out of shape ?

 

 Shouldn't you research that before you trade for a player like that

It was public knowledge that he started the season out of shape due to not being able to complete a full off season work out program because of injuries/surgeries.   

This isn’t something that Adams/Granato learned when he got to Buffalo.  

You suggest that Granato was pounding the table to get a player (for the playoff push).  There is more evidence to suggest that Greenway was brought with the long view in mind.  

I’ll reserve all my judgement until he gets a full off season conditioning program with Buffalo.  
 

link to “public knowledge”:

https://m.startribune.com/wilds-jordan-greenway-ready-to-put-painful-offseason-behind-him-deliver-on-promise-lavelle-neal/600210755/

 

[My Take on B&G Insights with Kevyn Adams - 03-28-23]

Thanks for taking the time to share that.  

[Sabres trade for Defenseman Riley Stillman in exchange for Josh Bloom]

28 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:

That’s actually the sad thing is that he was developing into a good 2 way player.  He leads the team with 4 short handed goals.  

I’ve posted about our glut of prospect forwards and that some would need to go, but I thought we’d actually get something we need in return.

Maybe Stillman will surprise us all and turn into someone like Eric Cernak.  From what I saw watching Van, he looks more like bad Lyubushkin.

I read the short handed goal stat line too, which is why I was so puzzled about him only getting special teams minutes.  

[Sabres trade for Defenseman Riley Stillman in exchange for Josh Bloom]

Haven’t posted in years, but I’m here to say that I was up in Ottawa last week and happened to see North Bay play the 67’s.  

Watched for him closely and I only noticed Bloom skating on the power play. Perhaps he wasn’t developing as a well rounded player.  Seems like Adams just jettisoned him.