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This is just awesome.

If you think that Olesiak / Zadorov situation you posted in the around the NHL thread was a fight, or an ass-kicking, or anything, you're the figure skating fan...

Well, I'm off the hook. I couldn't watch the game--I don't get ESPN+ and my parents won't let me watch the Playboy Channel, even if it's hockey and even though I'm a grownup. SO I don't know what happened. But they lost, my streak is broken, and someone else can start a GDT in 15 minutes.

That would make a lot of sense.

Very similar to what my friend said--but she added that the Devils do want to give Brunette some time. So I'd think that any date after January 1 is really fair game. STILL?!

A friend with a bit of an inside track on the Devils tells me that the expectation is that Ruff will train Brunette to succeed him and then retire at the end of the year (his contract is expiring).

If the season ended today, this would be the playoff matchup. Wild! Er no, Hurricanes!

A win tonight!! I was unable to see most of it. I'm going to have to go through the thread to see what started the skirmishes at the end of the game. I'm setting an alarm for 11:55pm tomorrow for another GDT. We're on a roll.

Was that even a fight?

The Penguins have been the Sabs' kryptonite for far too long. It ends tonight!

It is, and it's so weird because when I hear that word I think of a burly white dude with a bowler hat and a toothpick in his mouth.

Gare? And this could be about seventeen different Sabres if you just take out the word "Blackhawks."

Randy Wyrozub and Paul Cyr.

I won't be :(.

I just want to know who his hotdog vendor is. Who doesn't love hotdogs? (BESIDES commies.)

This is the perfect example of a game I would have selected when I split seasons with one other guy, too. Weeknight, early, can get Dad in and out of the arena, all that. I really would have loved to go to this one.

That was an annihilation. (I had to sleep for some of it. Such is life.) If anyone starts a GDT before I do in 24 hours and 9 minutes, well, it's on you.

Rob Ray's got no love for Bob Boughner, huh?

It's Riley Sheahan. They may as well have put Taro and me on waivers.

Let's make it two in a row, Sabres! I expect Comrie in net and Asplund in the lineup.

Well, they have about 24 hours.

Yay! If Asplund is a healthy scratch on Monday, I'm not going to be happy.

I knew Asplund wasn't in the starters' lines at practice. Maybe there really is something wrong with him.

Hey I need two more positive reactions to the first post in this thread to get that pretty green outline thing. Help a fella out? I like the outline.

There's a lot here, much of which I agree with. I haven't been to Nashville, but I've been to NHL games in Washington, NYC, and Toronto recently enough to know that the experience in those arenas is pretty much the same as the experience in Buffalo. Toronto had better fresh food options. And even watching games on TV, you can tell that pretty much every venue has the same package of very loud bad music, stupid sound effects, and "noise meters" on the scoreboard. Even with all the newer restaurants near the Arena, the neighborhood does still have a generic, corporate feel to it, yes, compared to the rest of Buffalo. But that's because Buffalo is a pretty special place with a lot of individualism. The areas around MSG, Capital One, and whatever Toronto's arena is called this week (a problem that also plagues us) are no less generic/corporate, really. Especially MSG; it must be a record for number of Sbarro "pizzerias" in a two block radius.