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Awesome...do they still make the shepherds pie using real shepherds?

I'm going to meet you all at UP and already told Woody about it (despite my sarcasm earlier); I can just stand if they can't accommodate us with a table.

That is an option. It is not a good option.

I have not tried that and maybe I should. But I did love the world of physical cash for physical tix. Did I use that word?

I miss the days of resellers on the streets before the game. Tickets on StubHub right now are incredibly costly.

Why isn't this expected?

Reading through the last few posts, it seems that we can agree that Mittleltadt sucks. The problem is whether his replacement is in the organization, which iit isn't. Can you honestly see this guy starting games in Chicago, much less Boston?

This is not news.

I knew enough about Rivet and Peters to not even start listening, but I'm sad to hear that they are promoting anti-vax conspiracy nonsense.

what a colossal screw up

1. Possibly somewhere. 2. No.

Because he always was expected to be a defensive forward (WE KNEW THIS even if you weren't here at the time), which he is. Mittlestadt was expected to be a scorer at least, and a two-way player at best, and is good at neither.

Girgensons is not an underachiever. Mittlestadt is, and that was a known fact at his draft combine.

I'll admit that I haven't worked through this in my brain, but mathematically, how is a tie different than just a "no contest"?

Tickets are not sold for the first round of the playoffs (or for any round except for the Super Bowl), nor are stadiums booked. They don't even know who plays where yet. They do this on one week's notice for every round every year.

Rags just signed Vesey to 2x800K.

The question is how bad is he now (he is) and not whether the Sabres should have drafted a guy who couldn't do one pullup at 8th overall (they shouldn't have).

This is the best criterion IMO.

It's more fair than not playing the game at all, if some teams' playoff positioning or even making it at all is an issue.

Yes but we're not telling you where.

I have been coughing a lot since switching from my stomach to my side. Maybe I'll switch back.

Plenty of time. The Super Bowl is set in advance, but the playoff games are not, and there is that extra week before the Super Bowl that the NFL could just eliminate (cf. 1991).

All of us on here are in some kind of NHL support program.

Any interest in Vrana (on waivers)?

Yep. Baseball style. Play the make-up game only if it's necessary.