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Someone from the league might want to let the Sabres front office know that this strategy still requires fan engagement .

Yup. My days of accurately prognosticating a Roy for Ott deal are gone. I don’t know ***** about the rest of the league because my interest in the rest of the league always revolved around how it affects the Sabres, and that part has become irrelevant if I am not actively watching.

We were discussing the Sabres at Thanksgiving dinner and my son made the observation that, “you seem much more interested in the off ice stuff for the team than you are about the on ice stuff”. He’s totally correct. I can’t remember the last time I set aside time to watch a game. Sure, I’ll watch if it’s convenient. Or if I see on Twitter that the game is compelling I will seek it out. But otherwise, I get 10x more satisfaction out of this place and following news items than I do out of investing my time actually watching the games. It’s why I rarely discuss tactics and team specifics anymore. I don’t watch enough to feel comfortable making many observations. No need to worry about it. You’ll hardly notice.

You are repeating yourself. 😁 This team has done a wonderful job of freeing up my evenings for the last dozen years. I should be thankful.

Why can’t he be a hockey ignoramus patsie autocrat?

Interesting video about Linus Ullmark popped up on my youtube feed today. Wow. We never heard about the issues with his father back home, and how his fathers death affected him. Heart wrenching stuff. They framed his decision to go to Boston as a need to move on after the death of his father. And it makes sense. So much happened in his life and he needed to sever the attachments to his past. Gave an interesting perspective. I wish him well. But not Boston. The youtube channel is sportsnet. Check it out.

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How many of us would have predicted before the season started that Clifton would be losing ice time to the two Johnsons in the first 1/3 of the season?

I’ll pay for that the next time I see Inky at an Amerks game.

I’m not sure you have to worry about your wife cheating with an uglier dude.

Double whammy today. Two summers ago I slipped on a concrete boat launch that was pretty slimy and fell hard. My tailbone had been messed up ever since. Got an MRI. My tailbone is officially messed up. Talked to a surgeon today. He indicated that there isn’t much of anything treatment wise that can be done. PT and cortisone injections apparently have poor success rates and surgery is essentially removal of the tailbone. He said there are only a couple of surgeons that do it, and success rates are not good either. He highly recommends I not pursue that route. Message was essentially, deal with it, change how I manage it, and find a support group for that sort of injury. ***** me. I have to live with this I guess. Aaaaaand. The wife and I have been planning a 4 day weekend in the Finger Lakes. Got an airbnb with reservations starting tomorrow. Guess who has two thumbs and a brand new upper respiratory infection? This guy. Hoping the host will allow us to move the dates out today. ***** head colds.

I dont recall any consensus either. Both Sam’s and Leon were all in the mix, and if I have any memory at all, Leon was 3rd of the 3 on most lists.

Yeah, mixed feelings here too. Would have been somewhat comforting to hear that he had some sort of tryout with the team to evaluate his skating, and he chose elsewhere because of our spot in the standings. At least we would have known we were a legit option for him.

Hank be gloating. You called it. Hope it stays this way.

I have a confused.

They should make him work on his size in Rochester. I kid, I kid. If UPL6KOopie is gonna get a starters workload, Levi absolutely should get the starters workload (or at least 50/50) in Rochester so he can continue to hone his game with a reasonable game frequency. As an aside, my phone offers Ra-cha-cha as an alternate choice for Rochester, lol.

Thorny, you’re my guy. Carrying conceptual disagreements into conversations that have nothing to do with the disagreement isn’t cool. Imma back off. You are too emotionally invested presently.

You OK?

It’s the number of teams we need to leapfrog that is really going to become unmanageable. Out pointing “one” team has its own difficulty. Out pointing 4 teams? The difficulty ratchets up considerably.

***** Kulich. Poor us.

@Brawndo I am not sure you can say this with any degree of confidence….. “Granato isn’t making the most effective lineup decisions for the team based analytics, AKA He doesn’t always listen to them. “ …..if you also understand this to be factual… “They do have both private data they gather themselves and data that is exclusive to NHL Teams “ We have no idea what data Granato may or may not be using.

The Rags were in the cup finals in 13-14 , and 7th in their division as recently as 18-19. They seem on pace to be serious cup contenders again. The Rangers are a threat to be another team that was a cup contender, rebuilt after a bit of a run, and is back to contention again, all while the Sabres wander in the desert.

Whoa

As Stamkos so infamously stated, its an 85% league, but Okie’s message in the 2nd intermission was, clearly this team still needs to be playing at 100% to win.