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If I didn't think Rasmus wasn't hard on himself or not interested in learning, I'd be concerned. His body language doesn't say that, and at times he's both absolutely amazing and absolutely frustrating in the same game. I'm enjoying watching him develop. I would be significantly disappointed of he is dealt in any way.
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No need to bash Eichel, but he wasn't a leader. Saw him speak at an event 3 years ago with BB Kyle Williams. Kyle was a leader, and Jack was all about himself. No shame in that, it's what makes some athlete's great. But once he was given the C, it was never going to work. I'm glad it's over......
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Just now, Let's Go B-Lo said:
Loooooots of missed chances tonight for TB. Lots. I'll take the points but games like this aren't a formula for success.
True that, sloppy second, but a great amount of youthful effort.
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1 hour ago, nfreeman said:
Maybe it'll be different this time.
= "we will get fooled again!"
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Tanky McTankFace.
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RIP Rene. I know every Sabres fan as old as me has a Rene story. Here is mine I've told before.
I listened and watched the Sabres from the time they were an expansion team, but my first #buffalosabres hockey game was the famous "Fog" game 4 of the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals when I was 14. Dad somehow scored tickets as he was working for NYSEG and had some connections. The seats were right where the players exit. When Rene Robert scored in overtime to win I had never had that kind of sports joy and really haven't since. Here's a few pics I took with my Dad's work Polaroid camera he let me take.
There was a camera right behind me and clearly it took the footage here 45 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlNHmgBzPwY&t=24s
Rene was a lot of fun and lived life large and now the 2nd gone from the famed French Connection. Thanks for all the great memories!-
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Old timer watching since the start. I vote yes. Worst ever. Evidence:
- Realizing Eichel was never going to be the leadership guy I wanted.
- The L streak.
- The delay in pulling Krueger.
- RJ forced to create enthusiasm.
- Risto still getting big minutes.
- COVID games in morgue atmospheres.
- And then the resurgence with no games played for any meaning except another "next year".
- Then Eichel's press conference. F this guy.
I hated the tank years and I think they have never recovered from the stench, but this is rock bottom.
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On 5/24/2021 at 11:25 AM, Thorny said:
What I'm taking a "stand" on is the Cup being the goal. For me, it's not. Being entertained is the goal, and for me that involves being a winning hockey team. A winning hockey team in the NHL generally makes the playoffs.
I've experienced runs in the playoffs where we only got half way (won 2 series) that I can confidently say have given me some of my best memories, and for me provide the joy necessary to justify the amount of time I put into the team. Any team making it can fluke off a series win or two, it's just about making it and being in the conversation.
It's simple math - win more than you lose and you enjoy more than you don't. Winning more than you lose in a league where half the teams make the playoffs means being a winning team generally gets you in - playoffs are just a symptom of being a winning hockey team.
That's all I want, to be entertained - a winning hockey team. 50/50 odds going into any season? To me that's logical.
This. I want to have a meaningful last game of the regular season. Win and in, or win and a better seed. Too many times lately my trips to Buffalo has been to watch non-meaningful hockey in a morgue-like atmosphere. Oh, and while I'm going full curmudgeon, I miss the ramps at the Aud.
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34 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Thanks for that. Still laugh / crying.
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I got a bottle of winners choice spirits on who finishes higher in the standings, Sabres or Rangers with a friend. I figured This would at least keep the season interesting. That last game was disheartening after some optimism.
Also, many of my favorite Sabres memories involved Lindy. Let's hope for one today.
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Sabres 7-1. Tampa rode the euro-disco train celebrating win last night. I can visualize it and it wasn't pretty.
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11 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
I just cleared it with my boss: I'm playing hooky this afternoon so I can watch the game.
I am the boss. I can't allow that.
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How can i watch MSNBC at work?
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These days I have more hate for the Sabres. Our franchise is just flat out bad.
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It's game day, and this thread is this short against the Leafs? That's a depressing sign of the state of this team.
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Thanks for sharing that RadioLabs. I don't know why, maybe because I was just an average athlete that had to work twice as hard, but I got just as teared up as when I watched it actually happen. Maybe because of his and his wife's narration. Fantastic stuff.
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Great thread. I'm 57. When the Sabres were an expansion team I had a cheap radio from WT Grant (way before you kids time) that I used to listen to games on after my parents sent me to bed. There was a great game in the first couple of years against Montreal when the Sabres called for a goalie pad measurement and Montreal's goalie (Dryden?) had oversized pads. The Sabres scored on the ensuing PP and won. To me that game was like David slew Goliath. At the time Montreal was like the Patriots are now. I remember it like yesterday. I was already hooked, but that game took me over the top.
My first actual game was the famous "Fog" game and I have posted pics from it and my boy crush for Schoney. Later I remember the Sabres playing the Russians (and winning) before the "Miracle on Ice" in Lake Placid. I listened to AM radio to feeds through a tuned antennae when I lived in NYC in the early 80's. "May Day" "No Goal" "Pommenville's epic goal in Ottawa. So many great moments and truthfully some pretty low ones. The loss to the Hurricanes in the ECF was crushing.
But one of the most frustrating things has been that my kids are in their late teens and they have never seen good hockey from the Sabres. I've taken them to many games in the dead atmosphere of the F'N Center (It will always be that to me), but they've never seen a win. Mostly they saw bad hockey and when this streak started I think for some reason they started paying attention. There are so many other distractions for kids these days that I can't blame them for not catching the fever I caught 45 years ago.
But something happened last night. When the "1,2,3,4..........." chant started, my youngest son stopped doing his homework. The Sabres were up 2-0 and I was getting ticked about the fans jinxing but you get old and you get crazy grumpy thoughts. I've had this feeling that this team is so young they remind me of the "Confidence is high" days of youth and to watch that win with my youngest son and see him have the fever.......it was the kind of joy I'm not sure I'd have again. He went straight to bed and I watched the post game and with the streak and seeing all the cancer survivors and the emotion of the broadcast......yeah.....I had tears.
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Je pisse sur les Canadiens de Montréal-
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At a Bills game against Miami in the late Shula years when the Ralph was his and Marino's house of horrors. Beautiful day, might have been the opener, and the Bills won big and as I was walking out with my gf (now wife) and two nephews, there was some Miami fans in a little speck of a car with a mob of Bills fans holding it's front wheels off the ground by the front bumper and taunting the Miami fan occupants. They were clearly very scared, revving the engine which was running and in gear. Scary. "Nothing to see here kids" to nephews.
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Check in here from time to time to feel the positive energy. You kids brighten my day. Oh, and my Chevy Bolt is an amazing car.
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The chances of picking a good quarterback are pretty random. I think getting one of these marquis QB's this year would just prolong getting to SB for three more years. Get the best athlete available with Sean's desired character. If one is a QB, great, but if they pull another Sammy Watkins, I'll be in the fetal position as I was in 2015. We are still paying that mortgage.
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. Patience (with some suffering) since 1970!!!
fixed that for you.
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Spent last night with my three sisters. We get together after losing Dad last March once a month. Love these three weirdos. Still smiling.
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My frustration is just the spinning wheels. It feels like hope is far away, although I thought they played almost a complete game Saturday. They deserved better. But stringing together a four or five game winning streak doesn't seem like something they can achieve. And Las Vegas isn't helping my frustration.
Jack Quinn Tested Positive for Mono, He will likely be out until After Christmas
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Maybe he's just bored.