Eleven

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.

I think so too. After the coaches talked, not before. It takes the league time to make that decision, and that's ok, even if for no other reason than it keeps the streets clear for emergency vehicles and gives traffic control time to get into position.

Peverly?

It was obvious when the coaches met at midfield that they were taking that decision into their own hands, and God bless them for doing so.

I may be done, I have to consider whether I am willing to watch this anymore. Maybe I am, maybe I am not, but I do have to think about it.

It was so much fun. I just retired the (then) new parka that I had received as a Christmas gift specifically for that game. It lasted 15 years.

I think you're right, and I think it's a huge mistake. He's maintaining his workload now and the team is winning. He plays better in Buffalo (with a better defense, of course) than in Rochester and it's time to give him the reins and see if he can drive the wagon.

I thought I saw DeSmith out there? Or maybe that was just the pre-game walk.

ABC for antenna, right?

Insert the word "wrong" or "wrongly" in there and yeah.

He has earned it and I don't think it's something we forgot--I think it's something we were hoping for.

I apologize for the stupid question--but the IIHF site is bereft of information as always--are we in the elimination round now?

Indeed.

Yes. Some of them, with apostrophes or failures to pluralize verbs. My comment was specific to Granato.

People sometimes ask me my opinion on Don Granato. I'm undecided. That 5-on-3 in the first period, and the failure to pull Anderson in a timely manner, are reasons why.

He turned over the puck on three consecutive shifts in the first period!