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I’d pick 3 on the 3rd question, but I hear voices.

Angry PA filling in for forum absences!

Spoiler, I havent watched any of them in probably 2 years.

I give you credit. You can still drum up an emotional spark. I can’t get my blood pressure up about this anymore. I’m dead inside. FFS the best I could raise up at the trade deadline was, hey at least Mitts for Byram was a hockey trade. Kadri could have elicited a spark. A bubble of emotional fervor. A ray of hope that EEE isn’t the framework we are going to try to pursue playoffs under. Instead I am stuck with debating whether I want to rid myself of 23 minutes of my precious time on earth watching a we signed Jason ####ing Zucker Blue and Gold episode. I push my fingers into my eyes It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache.

Why must you give me a sad on a Saturday?

I can see this. He’s got more talent than Ellis, but it doesn’t seem to be enough to translate well in the NHL. He just doesn’t show enough flashes of talent to make me believe he’s got another gear coming. Not fast enough, determined enough, or shifty enough to overcome his faults. Seems like a classic tweener talent. Maybe he can carve out a career like Lazar did. Im certainly not hoping against it. But my gut says it won’t be in Buffalo unless he really does have another gear he hasn’t shown yet.

No.

Edna with the blue ribbon apple strudel attends all the games.

Gat damn. A half a dozen years ago we were posed the question would you rather have our core or Toronto’s core. Now we have a new core that still has questions around it.

Flip a coin, at best.

As a teen I remember a guy a few years older than me speeding down our little residential street several times a day in his muscle car. My dad and neighbor decided to put a stop to it on their own. They were playing catch with a softball across the street when this kid came through. Neighbor threw the ball right into the door of the car. When the car came to a screeching halt my neighbor ran up to the car and got in this kids face and let him know how he felt about this kid tearing up and down our street. My dad and neighbor were big, intimidating looking guys. It sorta worked. For the rest of the summer we heard the kid tearing up the street one block over.

Round 2 is usually the bad one. Hopefully you are getting it over with in round 1.

Darcy Regier called his shot.

Especially when Ryan Johansen is available for nuthin. Amiright?

Risto? Meyers? I’m too lazy to look and see if they peaked at (by?) 20, but it feels like they did.

This is disappointing. When Rushdie was attacked I said somewhere on this site that it made me sad in part because the innocence at Chautauqua is gone, and the expected changes would harm the vibe of the place. But they really needed to make changes to match the changes in society around us. I’m disappointed and surprised that they’ll roll the dice and expect a bad incident won’t repeat. Seems……. Negligent? Maybe?

Yeah, thats about what I’d expect.

I’m concerned Lindy is past his freshness date. And I presume there was a distinct lack of candidates interested in what Buffalo has to offer.

I don’t care about losing Savoie. I kinda care about losing Mitts, but we did need to change the mix up front. I still think getting Byram back was more about timeline than roster. I think it boils down to, no faith in the front office to make the right decisions with these offseason moves. No choice in the poll for that, really.

I don’t even know how to characterize my feelings, so I didn’t vote. Not pessimistic, per se, but nothing that leaves me to believe that improvement this season is obvious.

I’m stuck between 2 and 3. 2 does fit, but there is an element of 3 to my thoughts on the offseason. It feels desperate. It doesn’t feel like enough too.

I would have selected #3 if the second half of the sentence said “and the lack of backfill is more evidence of how few players are actually willing to play here”. That does not excuse KA’s lack of success. A good GM finds a path.

And the crowd? I’m curious if they revamped security now.

The entire history of the place is based on a hegemony, so it’s not a recent development. Nonetheless in our time there we never really picked up any negative vibe about it. But it does tend to attract a certain type of people. We called them “Tuit-ers”. Nothing but good experiences there personally. And the calmness and serenity in there is almost addictive.

It will be senior for sure. We had a place there for awhile. I miss it greatly , but we were not like everyone else, lol. I am curious how it has changed as a result of the attack on Rushdie a few years ago.