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  3. Time to have a conversation about the board again?

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    Posted

    fwiw, ill tell you the story about why im banned on tbd. of course its relevant here, too. idk why im not banned here too, but whatever

     

    those of you that know me know im an independent centrist. thats not a 'finger in the wind' centrist, its a 'wisdom resides in the middle' centrist, somewhat buddha-ish philosophy. you also know i am a very long time civil rights activist, even married a crazy black woman - who wasnt crazy at first then went total classic insane black woman crazy on me. so theres that

     

    anyway, there i am in the main tbd board posting along with the conversations involving kaepercz9xnick and the protests, and im articulating how i think blackness is making mistakes that also contribute to the inability of the races to come together over the nfl protests

     

    note that in this conversation there are plenty of places where whiteness is criticized/blamed. i am simply pointing out where my black brothers and sister are ALSO legitimately making mistakes and contributing to the problem

     

    all of a sudden i start seeing my posts not be mine anymore because they have changed! im not making this up, the mods were literally editing my posts to remove my valid constructive criticisms of blackness amidst the sea of criticisms of whiteness (!!!)

     

    let me repeat that:

     

    the mods though it was ok to selectively edit out my contribution to the discussion by going into my posts and deleting what they didnt like - with no record of them doing that whatsoever

     

    what could possibly go wrong?!!?!?

     

    obviously i was furious

     

    i posted a thread saying that if you are going to just edit me for no good reason and with no trail to show you did it, then just ban me

     

    the rest is history

     

    this is a popular place so they can afford to act that way. doesnt make it right. doesnt make the problem of mind hives and groupthing and millemmingals and constant warring over stupid ѕhit go away

     

    at least they saved the world by banning a guy telling the truth about the negatives within a blackness he adores. nice job, fellas


    i expect i wont be poster here much longer either, so bye fellas. fight against the machine

  5. Explain to me the hesitancy on Robin Lehner

    in The Aud Club

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    i agree the shootout points are crucial to a middling team like the sabres

     

    you know its perfectly legal to switch goalies for the shootout. it would piss any starting goalie off to get replaced after you got the team to the shootout but perhaps housley has the balls to let ochocinco take all shootout trys

     

    i sincerely doubt it. but with a .500-ish career shootout save pcentage on a team trying to squeak into the playoffs it might be time to think outside of the crease

  8. Explain to me the hesitancy on Robin Lehner

    in The Aud Club

    Posted

    honestly i have no idea about this 'dangerous shot' save %. is there someplace that compiles that stat?

     

    when i watch regular season games i dont sit there and keep my eyes glued to the tv, i usually just sit here at my computer desk and surf the net or play a game and then watch critical moments (pp, sh), replays, or whenever it sounds like rick jeanerette is working up to something

     

    so i didnt notice the dangerous shot issue myself. if that really is the case then yeah i would be very hesitant to commit to him, too

  9. Explain to me the hesitancy on Robin Lehner

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    i completely forgot about the shootout percentages. i do recall he was a brutal oh-for-everything last year, but that could just be a statistical anomaly. so i went and looked up his career shootout save percentage and its barely over .500. so yes indeed he does have a problem with shootout performance

     

    One of the things to remember about last year is that the Sabres defense played a very passive box system. Their job was to basically keep everything to the outside of the slots. This lead to a ton of shots from outside. How this will impact Lehner in a new system that doesn't do this is hard to predict. I think Botterill rightly wants to see how Lehner adapts and if he does well he can be signed at any point this year to an extension. 

     

    good point


    it goes without saying he needs to have a good season not only for the sabres to make the playoffs but for him to stick around here

  10. Explain to me the hesitancy on Robin Lehner

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    it seemed like all spring and summer they were trying to find reasons not to keep robin lehner. naturally the gm/coaching change delayed any resolution. but it was pretty obvious the general consensus was that his status was up in the air for reasons other than the management change and his free agency

     

    then when they finally got everything in place all they did was sign lehner to a one-year deal worth 4M, placing him approximately 24th in the league in total salary

     

    i dont get it

     

    wasnt the sabres defense one of the leagues worst last season? even so, lehners save% was .920, good for 8th in the league among starters. he faced not only a lot of shots, he also faced a lot of prime scoring position shots, so that high of a save % is pretty remarkable. the eye test told me that most nights he was one of their best players on the ice

     

    so why is everyone (including management) so lukewarm on the guy? at 26 hes still pretty young for a goalie, so to step in and perform that well on a bad defensive team should be viewed as an impressive feat. i know he had that big injury problem in 15 and only played 20-ish games, but he bounced back fine and played 59 last season

     

    so why didnt they try to lock him up for at least 2-3 years? whats the deal with the 1-year sort of trial deal?

     

  17. Was this the hardest season for the fans in Sabres history?

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    playoffs were a reasonable goal but it was still a stretch to expect them to make it. i figured they'd make a run in the second half and get everybody excited but then still not make the playoffs. so pretty much hit the nail on the head there, tho it wasnt really a difficult prediction to make

     

    kulikov was a tough one. when healthy hes a reasonably good player so his loss was missed. almost nobody else stepped up. jack did and robin did and bad kane did. too many defensive breakdowns and not much stepping up back there. secondary scoring was weak

     

    getting within three before the break was exciting. then they promptly crumbled and died, that was very disappointing

     

    and yeah, watching it happen to other teams in exactly the way we hoped it was happening here makes it suck serious ass

     

    probably 2nd or 3rd most disappointing. the captains debacle was tops. i cant remember details of other seasons but i certainly remember feeling worse than this. no goal is probably at least tied

  20. Risto has hearing for his hit

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    Posted · Edited by Meathead

    the nhl has had this mind bottlingly inconsistent punishment for many decades. ive always expected they would fix it eventually but they never have. its like a tradition or something: remove the superstars from punishment consideration and spin a wheel to determine number of games for everybody else

     

    btw, when i used to play in mens rec leagues there were guys who liked to do that thing with putting the blade of their stick up between your cup and your balls. its infuriating bc you have to stop skating or risk injury, and the refs hardly never call it bc there is no overt motion that makes them aware of it. of course its also a super dirty play. idk what its like in the nhl but there are plenty of retaliations i used to use. the most obvious is just whacking them firmly in the balls the next time you get the chance, which gets the message across but that risks a penalty. and you cant just do the same thing they did to you bc that sort of legitimizes it and they will never stop. a better way is the next time you get close enough to make body contact with them choke up on the butt end of your stick and leave it out so that it digs firmly into their ribs. then when they protest that you hurt their ribs just tell them the next time they put their stick near your balls youre going to break those ribs. never had to do that more than once with anybody

  21. Lehner is NOT a starter

    in The Aud Club

    Posted

    I think these references are too recent.  Where is Howie Morenz?  Elmer Lach?  Eddie Shore?

     

    Old time hockey, eh?

     

    one word:

     

    gump worsley

    Can the thread title now be changed to "Lehner is a starter, until he's not again"?

     

    lol. rickshaw made the op then disappeared off the face of the earth. probably to hide his shame

  24. Ultimate hockey barn grub

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    Posted

    i wasnt playing bc i was on vaca but i recall an active outdoor rink in austria with a bar you could skate up to and get what they called a jägertea but was really more like a hot long island ice tea coffee. twice the caffeine and five times the drunkenness. too bad it was just open skate that night but they did play hockey on it. woulda loved to see that eh

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