ska-T Palmtown
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16 minutes ago, Broken Ankles said:
As far as the NHL is concerned, the ESPN+ experience has been great for me. I was paying $150/year for Centre Ice on Direct TV. Direct TV also had TBS, ESPN and NHL networks. When the NFL exited DTV I cancelled my subscription, as the Bills and the NFL was my primary reason for using the service. And while I miss a few Sabres games here and there, I pickup about 65/year using ESPN plus which was only like $3.99 to bundle with Disney which I had for the kids. And I get great college hoops as a bonus. So I’m paying nothing for cable (which was $75/month) plus $150 for NHL package annually vs today I pay $4/month and catch 80% of the games.
I fully acknowledge that this works b/c my “team” is not inside my region. If I were a Ducks fan, ESPN+would be worthless. As it is for Sabre fans in Western NY.This is my exact experience as well. Somehow the out-of-town fans get better treatment than the home fans.
For the longest time under their previous owner, the Blackhawks owner would only allow home games to be broadcast if the game was sold out. I think they are now all shown (except national games) on some random Chicago sports network channel. Seems broken to me. But, ESPN+ for Sabres and picking up random free trials for other services when I care to try to watch TNT works just fine for me.
Sidenote - if you have a gmail address, you can add and move around a period to your address to fool the subscription services.
JoeSchmoe at gmail and Joe.Schmoe at gmail both go to the same inbox. I have almost run out of these iteration with Fubo, tho - lol
Edit: Cut the cord in 2015 and have not regretted for one single second. Cable can eff off.
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14 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:
Don't get me wrong, watching winning is more fun than watching losing but this team can't excite me with a late season surge. Burned too many times. I'm not going to jump on the just wait until next year bandwagon that might create either. Too many variables and if the same people run it they can screw it up again.
Yeah, totally get that. I just ... I dunno, I like to give in to the good vibes. I also don't get super down when they get back to sucking giant donkey balls, either. Watching your favorite football team lose 4 super bowls in a row while you are 12-16 yrs old really just kinda teaches you how not to feel, lol
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4 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Oh please stop dreaming. We're climbing over all those teams. Detroit won, Columbus won, we're finally playing the way some of these teams have been playing so we compete but we are way too far below. Way too far.
It is worth noting that by going 7-3-0 in their last 10, if they keep that pace up with a few 7-2-1's , they'd be near CBJ's current 90.5 pt pace.
Unlikely, yup. Improbable, heck ya. Fun if it happens, sure would be!
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2 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
Russia isn't nuking Canada.
They clearly need ground troops as none of their bombers forced Ukraine to surrender.
This. It is hilarious how poorly the Russian military has performed right next door to their own country to think they wouldn't lose half their force crossing the ocean to broken down boats is silly.
Not for nothing, I don't Canada's air force would be a push over, either.
A+ for the fan fic, LGR!
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2 minutes ago, matter2003 said:
3. Cam Ward (2006 - Carolina Hurricanes)
- Ward won the Conn Smythe as playoff MVP, but that was largely because there weren’t many standout skaters.
- His regular-season numbers were bad (3.68 GAA, .882 SV%), and he wasn't even the starter until the playoffs.
- The Hurricanes were an underrated juggernaut, featuring Staal, Brind’Amour, Cole, and solid defensemen like Wesley and Hedican.
The second bullet under Ward actually makes me lean towards him. Forgot ALLLLL about Niemi.
I guess a reasonable argument could be made that in his starting years with TB, Dilfer's number were "decent"?
69 (heh heh) TD and 85 INT seems closer to bad than decent. More like Ward's 3.68 and 0.882 ... woof.
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@matter2003 after carefully reviewing the virtually non-existent criteria I set forth in this challenge, I have decided to reluctantly accept Osgood.
I still think he (and Cam Ward) were no where near the level of "WTF?" in being starting 'tendies that Dilfer was being a starting QB, but they might be the closest we get?
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5 hours ago, HumanSlinky39 said:
This is a team that for most of the last 2 seasons didn't appear to know how to close out games and win. That resulted in a lot of close losses and not many really ugly losses. At the same time, there have been fleeting glimpses of what they're capable that have given us some nice blowout wins. The Penguins are just an old, slow, and bad hockey team that get blown out a lot, but they also know how to gut out the occasional close win with guys like Crosby/Malkin/Letang. So, the surface-level numbers are deceiving. We're seeing some signs this month that maybe they're starting to crack the code, though.
Of course, we've seen these signs before only for them to piss on their shoes again. We'll see if this is finally the progress we've been waiting for or if yet another set back is ahead.
But, that isn't entirely true. Didn't they have one of, if not the best, record in the NHL under Donny G when leading going into the third? This year has be so traumatizing, it has people misremembering left and right! Or ... am I one of those people??
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14 minutes ago, erickompositör72 said:
If we win our games-in-hand, we're right back in the mix!
I mean ... with the exception of dee troy it, no one above the Sabres seems to want it..
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4 hours ago, Weave said:
Were you impressed at all when he’s played with NHLers?
😉 well ... no.
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RE: Murray (sorta) - aren't we (the forum) sorta talking in circles? Most threads include discussion on ALL the player evals that the team got wrong (insert list of players we constantly lament that "got away") ... but now we are saying we TRUST their ability to properly evaluate Murray (or any other AHL player) ... which is it? lol
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3 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Everyone says Brett Murray is too slow for the NHL but all he does is go to the net and scores goals for the Amerks. He's basically a human backboard. Are we sure we can't use that in Buffalo? 23 goals, 39 points in 51 games.
Sounds like Dave Andreychuk
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2 hours ago, Thorner said:
I don’t really understand this website. I feel like I’d have to argue that water is a liquid
Ok. 2010 goal is irrelevant even though it quite literally always tops the Canada wide polls. I think that’s now 452 posters that have disagreed with me, claiming the “4 nations” goal is quite comparable to Henderson, a tournament quite literally already forgotten, and the goal from the Olympics quite meaningless. I do digress.
I am quite jealous you have national polls about hockey things 😞
Most Americans think they won the gold in the game against Russia in 1980 ... and that is IF they even know about it any more. 🤷♂️
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4 minutes ago, shrader said:
Why not look straight to the most cursed cup ever Around these parts:
Ward, Cam
.908 and 2.74 ... but those numbers are a bit misleading, lower GAAs were more common in his main playing days.
✅I accept your answer - even tho Cam was not at the same level of "oh lord, what?" as Dilfer.
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2 minutes ago, Jorcus said:
Was that a requirement for this hypothetical?
My sentence structure on the original question was poor, but I did say "that actually won the cup"
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13 minutes ago, Porous Five Hole said:
Adin Hill is my best guess. His stats are pretty average…his career save percentage is .908. For reference, UPL is .902. And LV has a far better overall team.
10 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:Chris Osgood would be my bet.
I think people need a refresher on the fact that Trent would not even be described as an "adequate" starting QB:
6 minutes ago, Jorcus said:Stuart Skinner. Sometimes he can sometimes he can't.
He hasn't won a cup, so *BUZZ* you get the family feud red x ❌
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4 hours ago, Flashsabre said:
Point to me one great NHL coach that didn’t have good goaltending.
That makes me wonder ... has there ever been the NHL goalie equivalent of Trent Dilfer? "We just need our goalie to manage the game and not lose it for us?" that actually won the cup?
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On 2/22/2025 at 3:13 PM, Pimlach said:
Sure, fire away if it helps you.
Bingo. I have given up on Adams and I think he is pushing Cozens as a favorite. Still don't get how the kid got an "A" other than salary and expectations.
At some point you would think Lindy would know how to use him better.
Not necessarily you, but I remember LOTS of folks 'round these here parts were ready to anoint him as our next CAPTAIN, let alone just the "A" ...
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On 1/26/2025 at 12:39 PM, JohnC said:
I believe that wing is the best spot for him. He lacks the instinctiveness (my opinion) to play to his best level as a second-line center. He has thrived in the international tournaments playing wing with quality centers. As you point, it is evident that his play and development have been crimped by the stress he is placing on himself.
My fear is if dealt he will thrive with a team/organization that has a clue as to how to put players in position to grow and succeed. The situation in Buffalo is too dysfunctional for talented players to develop as well as they should. The owner by his irrational hires and tinkering has destroyed this once proud franchise and has severely eroded this once flourishing fanbase to the point of submission. Terry Pegula is the Danny Snyder of hockey without the sleazy personal behavior. This silent and clueless billionaire lacks the self-awareness to recognize what he has done.
To the bold ... so? Would you rather have him here, floundering in a situation that is not right for him and dragging the team down, or move on and try to make the team better?
Far more successful organizations that this one have moved on from far better players than Cozens when their performance was not what it needed to be.
For the record, I blame the contract for part of it - putting too much pressure on himself. If I recall correctly, Ryan Miller used a sports psychologist at points in his career ... maybe Ryan could share the number? Or perhaps Rasmus could earn that "C" on his chest and tell Dylan that story about when he (Ras) realized he needed to stop playing the game for other people and just go out be the best Dahlin he could be.
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42 minutes ago, EM88 said:
I will stop bringing up complaints about Dylan Cozens when he starts playing a consistently better game for a few weeks at a time.
Until then he, along with any other player, is fair game to criticize. No gatekeeping to protect players we may like individually from me.
Hey! You can't gatekeep the gatekeeping! 🤣
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I will say the Crosby goal was a FAR bigger dagger to my American (but very respectful of Canadians) heart. Ryan Miller willed that team to the Gold Medal game. He was brilliant. Everyone knew the US had no business being in OT for the Gold without Miller. To see it end sorta casually with a funny shot from a weird angle was devastating.
I think knowing the US blew their one chance made it worse. I feel like the US will be a factor in the medal rounds of international hockey far more frequently going forward.
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20 hours ago, JoeSchmoe said:
Östlund was listed as 163lb going into the draft.
Also, Bergeron is considerably bigger than what you list. If you can recall him playing with Crosby in 2005 he was by no means small.
The bolded is the whole point. The stats for PB I listed were when he was drafted. I did miss the part where Östlund's weight had since been updated.
NHL.com had PB at 6'-1" and 196 for his playing career. "Small" by this board's standards.
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6 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
We did to that, we traded Savoie for McLeod.
We didn't pick that many undersized forwards. Savoie, Rosen, Östlund, I suppose we could add Benson but he's a different cat. Out of those 3, Savoie was the only truly small guy in terms of height.
The talk of how big some 17 or 18 yr old kid is and how that will translate to NHL success is absurd (not directed at the most esteemed LGR, as I know you have railed against that in the past). I would challenge anyone to notice the on-ice difference between 5'-11" and 174 lbs and 6'-0" 180 lbs.
The two players, in order, listed above - Östlund (minus the fancy O) and one of the greatest defensive forwards to play the game, Patrice Bergeron ...
So, yeah - complaining about the size of 17 yr old kids ... so smart 🙄
For an added bonus, Mike Peca was 5'-11" 183 lbs during his NHL playing career. Get right outta here that Östlund is "too small" ... no time for that!
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1 minute ago, Thorner said:
Oftentimes defensive talent gets developed and rounded out at the nhl level: these a guys are generally the offensive superstars in junior etc
so there’s always been merit to that idea that these guys would see their defensive acumen develop on the big club
the reason why it’s functional for a player to learn on the job in this way is because a team will generally carefully integrate young players to a stable, veteran environment
another course of action a team may take is to instead simply flood and overwhelm the roster with these types of players, every year, and claim they are all learning to play defence at once. This strategy works well because it perpetuates it’s own reality moving forward allowing for maximum job security
Pros/cons
A team might win with the "sure hope they figure it out real quick" strategy (it happened like once before, so i guess it could happen again?) ... but that team would be foolish bastards to expect it.**
**ESPECIALLY when the "vets" on that team are merely survivors of (or the poor souls who failed to escape from) the aforementioned system of lunacy.
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Just now, Stoner said:
Hello. The whole lot of 'em, I say.
lol - fair. Although, I think they probably have enough players with "enough" hockey IQ, but those players tend to rely on the high end guys for cues and to be the first to react to something. I think the Sabres don't have enough high end, so the simply adequate folks get exposed more regularly.
Sabres have the 6th-best 1st line in the NHL
in The Aud Club
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23-25 bring me an enormous amount of joy
This also makes it official, right? Tage Thompson is the #6 center in the league. Done. 😉