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I find it pretty amazing when athletes in their 40s can still perform at the highest levels. Ehrhoff had that smooth, effortless skating style that seems to be a hallmark of guys that continue to play at a high level well past most others’ primes. Teppo, James Patrick being other Sabres examples. I’d be surprised if Skinner isn’t able to have a career well past the time most have retired.

Your Rorschach test results must be quite interesting.

Just wait until the next Robin Lehner interview.

Late last season (I think) I saw a podcast with a goalie that TnT played against in the AHL. Claimed that players on his team wanted to be on the ice against TnT. Whatever. He’s obviously not the same guy he was then. It’s irrelevant.

I resisted the urge to state that Mendon is not representative of sparsely populated areas. I guess I didn’t resist that much, lol.

100% agreed. Maybe the sparser populated areas of Monroe Co are less likely to have trash neighbors, but my experience in less sparsely populated areas is that level of pride in your property is quite diverse.

Yes I have. It doesn’t belong, unless your goal is to make adult food taste more like children’s food.

So you agree, then. Popular does not equal good. Bleu cheese is part of wings. You don’t put ranch dressing on a Caesar salad. You don’t put ketchup on an omelette. You don’t put ranch on wings.

Umm, duh? Isn’t his opinion the point?

I caught the same vibe. He almost sounded ashamed. Or embarrassed.

You must have thought Britney Spears made awesome music in her day. Popular usually means simple and plain. Generally unoffending. Sounds awesome.

Fingers, McNuggets, molded scrap meat, whatever. They aren’t even a tender unless they are made from that specific muscle.

And correct sauce is only part of it. Wings are greasy, fatty rich. You need the right compliment to it. The strong, tangy, slightly funky flavors of bleu cheese mesh with the fatty texture and heat of the sauce. Ranch is sweet, thin, mild and cloying, and it dumbs down what makes a Buffalo wing a Buffalo wing. Like Eleven said, it’s no different than ketchup on a steak. Sweet, thin and cloying to satisfy a child’s sweet tooth and dumb down what makes a steak a steak. Order Chicken McNuggets and honey mustard, FFS.

Yup. Children’s dipping sauce.

Better it happens as a Sabre than to a Sabre.

Funny you used this phrase. Earlier today I had a long layover in Dallas on my way home. I’m at the bar of an airport restaurant and the guy next to me orders Buffalo style bonless wings and ranch dressing, and the exact phrase that immediately came to my mind was, an abomination against God. For both the boneless wings and the children’s dip he ordered with it.

Who?

It feels like scheme to me. They were consistently not aggressive with pressure on the puck, and often susceptible to cross ice plays down low.

Interesting. From where I sat, those teams were beloved during the run and after. The only bitterness I recall was bittersweet when we knew it was over. Once the immediate raw emotions of the loss ended, I don’t recall anger among the great majority. I think when the Sabres win one, the fanbase will canonize the entire team and staff.

The 4 consecutive super bowl years suggest otherwise.

That has some serious hard to play against vibes, and still allows for a fair amount of fire wagon hockey.

You can’t even get it write for other teams’ games. LOL

It would be interesting to get inside Krebs head regarding this. He had to surmise that with Tage and Cozens he’s a 3rd line center at best. Add in the Mitts wildcard and….. You have to know that bottom 6 isn’t what he aspired to. Does he have the confidence to go somewhere else and beat someone else for a top 6 role, or does he like the situation here and be happy with a needed role on a team that appears headed upward? Personally, I think if he chases a top 6 role he’ll be disappointed.