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I really don't care if you pull in. If you're in a hurry or something or whatever, I don't know. Do what you need to do. The sensors are at the light (where we have them, as far as I know, Buffalo does not have many, but the suburbs might), not a few cars back. If I'm in front, I pull up to the stop line. It is about 25 feet for me to see the bottoms of the rear tires. (I note that I do keep my seat as low and as far back as I can--I'm not a tall guy, but I like my room). I just tested this because of this thread (and because what else is there to do, there is no hockey). My car is a little over 14 feet long.

It's the bottom of the next car's tires you want to see, not the bottom of the bumper. That's just shy of two car lengths for me--my car is really small.

I think they just sense the first car, at the few intersections we have with sensors? If I'm close to the front I'm usually closer to the car in front, though, anyway. In my mind's eye, when I wrote my post, I was in a longer line of cars than that.

I want two car lengths between me and the person in front of me, and more if it's a truck in front of me. I want to see and I want to be able to get around them if they're an idiot. It's not like it slows anything down.

Sorry, man, but I got used to the personal space of six feet and I'll continue it.

Hey, you're the one who asked the original question. I just answered it.

Not getting it...

No--I had no way of knowing--is there a way to look that up? OF COURSE I KNOW. No reason to be condescending.

The 12th forward was hardly the reason why the team finished one point out of a playoff spot. I wanted to be sure I got that in there, too. Exactly. Quinn's replacement is already in the system.

They're either ready to fill in for a guy who was a prospect himself 12 months ago or they're bad picks, is my point...and I don't think they're bad picks.

I really want to know what the point is of having a million forward prospects if they're never going to play.

He's 29 and I think the worst he's suffered is a collapsed lung and a broken rib. Heck, I've had each of those. Anyway, he's not a Sabre until 2024. So moving on...

This is it...not necessarily those two players in particular, but the idea.

I think you're missing the point. Quinn was, for all logical purposes, a first-year guy last year. I.e., a rookie. That does NOT make him a veteran the next year. A second-year guy (even if he played two games before his real rookie year) is not a veteran. The idea is that there are other soon-to-be rookies, just like Quinn was last year, who can give the same production.

It was a reference to SabreSapace groupthink. And Quinn is not a veteran, sorry.

Or any number of the other kids who are "untradeable"... Yeah, we've really moved on. It's a new era.

He was a rookie last season, no? (Or do you count his whopping 2 games in 2021-22?) And he's hardly a vet! If you think one of the guys in the pipeline can't fill his skates, that can only mean that the Sabres drafted poorly.

No he wasn't. And the system is foaming with similar guys.

That's a nope. Whether he's a star remains to be seen, but his ceiling is too high.

I like this idea but I don't know why the Sabres need a vet to fill the spot of a non-vet. It's ok to give the other thirty-four kids a shot. It's forward. The Sabres are so well-stocked with prospects there right now that we fans are spoiled. The money is more wisely spent on the blueline or in goal.

I'm glad I was drinking water when I read this rather than something with sugar in it.

"Both" is the answer. And I'm not sure he wasn't available to Buffalo at 1 x 3.9 a couple of days ago. Consider @LTS's hypothesis above, which I quote here: "Definitely. My guess is Dumba was looking for a high-value, long term contract and didn't get any takers. He then reverted to looking for a single year contract with whomever would pay him the most to be a rental and likely not be a team to make the playoffs. Basically, Dumba set himself up to be traded to a playoff team at the deadline and Arizona will get a pick. Buffalo doesn't fit into those categories... now, could they trade for him? Certainly." Well, either Buffalo is going to make the playoffs or not. If it so happens, Dumba doesn't need "to be traded to a playoff team," because he's already on one. If it doesn't, Buffalo would trade him at the deadline and Buffalo would get a pick, right? Seems that Buffalo fits into the "categories" as much as Arizona would. Or any other team, for that matter, considering that the playoffs aren't a lock for anyone (injuries, the next pandemic, whatever...). So while I'm not jumping up and down and screaming that Buffalo didn't sign him--and I think the Sabs need some dry powder for a possible goalie trade anyway--I do think it was possible to sign Dumba at 1 x 4. The Sabres chose not to.

You can get those same vibes at Dank 716 and take/smoke them when you get to Cooperstown now.

They're only a year apart in age and Dumba has had the more impressive career so I'd have to guess that he's going to be better in the future as well.

I'm just answering the question...