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No way. Team is rested from the cancelled practice.

Tennyson always says "'Tis better to have played in the NHL and be sent down Than to have never played in the NHL at all."

Completely plausible theory. I've got one now and it sucks.

Or drink more. We win either way.

Since there is no TV coverage, we're relying on you Derrico to give us the scoop. No pressure but good luck, we're all counting on you. Awesome! Looks like we get to dress an extra defenseman tonight. Really, Sabres should get that in regular season games every time Bogo is in the line-up.

The finest feature of BlueCross Arena right there. I like looking at the river between periods.

In other words, the James Harrison School of Career Planning approach.

The article is very well written and had me riveted to each word. Kudo's to Tim Graham. The entire experience was harrowing of course, and the whole hospitalization part of it is key, but another thing that caught my attention was the neck injury aspect of it, and the story about the un-named Dr. doing adjustments on his neck that seemed to impact his entire body (and mind) in a significant way. That's wild stuff. The body is an amazingly complex thing.

I just don’t want to eat at a place called The Healthy Scratch no matter how pithy the play on words.

I have to say whenever I hear the name Rosen, Ie the goal scorer, I think of this:

He better be better than the Good Ennis. The uniform number and skating style is just causing me flashbacks to Ennis.

Yes

Dahlin at the point instead of Risto and that pass to Okposo is a goal

Hey, I worked hard this off-season. Focused on grammar and composition, read old copies of The Hockey News, and hung out with a bunch of folks from Canada. I'm ready.

It's pre-season...can't expect everyone to be in mid-season posting form yet.

At the time of the Lehner trade, he was about 24 years old and had an established NHL save % track record of about 91.5% over parts of three seasons. His Calder Cup winning 93.8% save % season in the AHL was already two years in the past. Right now, Sparks is about 25 years old, has just come off a Calder Cup winning 93.6% save % season in the AHL, and has only shown am 89.3% NHL save percentage when given 17 games in the '15-'16 season. So, assuming it's a late 1st round pick (like it was for Lehner) and most people hated the Lehner trade at the time and since, it seems like this would be a bad idea since Sparks resume is slightly weaker than Lehner's was at the time.

Seeing Larsson in the 3rd line center spot, even though I know it's just a pre-season split squad roster, still makes me somewhat dismayed. Looking forward to him being an ex-Sabre.

Back the OP...I can't believe no one has mentioned the NCAA in this discussion. I don't know about "caring about" or not, but if the topic is inequity between the institutions, coaches, and players of high level basketball and football programs then there is more meat on that bone than in talking about professionals.

I'm not making that argument at all. I don't think NHL players are being exploited. No coercion, no exploitation. My point was that even if you think they are being exploited for whatever reason, the level of angst should be just about nil. And we are agreeing on the silliness of calling it slavery or some similar term. I was imagining a level of angst similar to that of the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow. (A brilliant ironic statement by Monty Python that apparently only I find amusing based on my post earlier in this thread).

If Hank is extreme here, it's because he's extremely correct. Here's another group of people (like, maybe a million people) who actually deserve our concern, as opposed to well paid Western athletes voluntarily participating in their chosen profession: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_reeducation_camp The key here is coercion. No one is coercing players to sign contracts with NHL teams or come from Russia and Europe to play in North America. Whereas the Filipino women in Hank's example and the Uyghur's in mine are in fact slaves or prisoners. To refer to an NHL player's circumstances with the same language is offensive.

Proper spelling from Ringo:

Trade his ass now

I 100% felt this way when I got divorced. Maybe Jack and Sam were secretly married? If so, at least there are no kids in the picture to complicate things, not counting Dahlin.

This past weekend in Corning saw David Grisman Dawg Trio at the Museum Auditorium. Danny Barnes on guitar and banjo and Sam Grisman on bass. If Bluegrass with some folk and a little jazz thrown in is your thing, they’re a great act to catch. Grisman remains stellar on the mandolin of course. i shook his hand after the show and his hands are tiny! Makes sense the way he plays that instrument.