LastPommerFan

Harry Neal makes a lucid comment? Amazing.

I can't even express the appropriate number of F-bombs needed to properly describe the effort here. When you lack talent like the Sabres do, you have to play harder. AAHHHHHHH!!! BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

BOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOO!!!1

A decade ago: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-8-2003/puck-buddies

The Bristol Scale. You're Welcome.

Outstanding framing by 716. As a political junkie, you have to be impressed.

I graduated from Notre Dame with Patrick Burke. He was then, and is now, a fantastic person, despite his work with the Flyers.

I'm local radio FAMOUS! what was the context?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=acuR.MBkK34g&refer=canada Also, related to the failure of drafting under OSP: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/blogs/elliottefriedman/2011/02/scouting-cuts-hurt-sabres-under-golisano.html

Check out the scoreboard watching thread. I'm tending the kittens there. Darcy's drafting 2005-2007 is a terrible outlier to his long career, I'm just trying to figure out what went wrong. So i did a little googling, Jim Benning left as director of Amateur Scouting in 2004. That might be the primary cause. He is currently the Assistant GM of the Bruins. What he did there was put his name on the Cup. Could he be our next GM?

Didn't Ballard become Drury? Doesn't that score some points in category #4 It's not just that he didn't draft stars, he barely drafted serviceable players.

Darcy's drafting from 2005-2007 is absolutely the reason we suck right now. You can't go 3 straight drafts with NOTHING to show for your picks. Chris ###### Butler is the most seasoned player drafted during that time. 53 goals scored by the 23 players drafted in those years, 27 of them by a hard working dwarf. It's not the trades, it's the three years where they might as well have traded all their picks for a ###### in the Baltimore st parking lot after the game. Was this the time of "alternate scouting methods"? Why were these drafts so much worse than all his other drafts. what was different?

Tonight: BOS over NYI PHI over OTT Math stills says it's possible. Could be tied with 8th in points by Sunday if we can put together another 3 game streak. Isle play BOS tonight and NYR on saturday. Sens play PHI tonight and NJD tomorrow.

Crowd home advantage matters most in Football because of the verbal communication needed between players on offense and the crowds ability to affect that and quiet down while the home team has the ball. In all other major sports the noise is simply an environmental effect that can be tuned out by the players.

Shingles and an STD at the same time...been a rough decade so far.

I was making this same complaint to my wife this morning. What happened? was there a leap day i wasn't told about?

yes, in this country, yes.

What would the Shanaban be?

This is the difference between sports in Europe and the United States.

If you're not familiar with the song, listen to EVERY WORD. (I played Smokey in our high school production years ago)

Staff even beat him last night, though, -4. That experimental line was a disaster.

Tonight: TOR over NYR (7:00 PM) BOS over NJD (7:30 PM) I believe until Mathematics tells me not to.