LoveAndWarrener
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His words were perfect for them make this narrative and now that's the national story. This is literally why I'm beside myself with him doing what he did last night. It's not like that was his first day as an NHL GM, but it was amateur hour all the way. He should be way more savvy than that.
I'd say "this, too, shall pass." And I give a hell of a lot more f---s about how he builds the hockey team than about his thoughts on a trumped-up NHL spectacle that, by all accounts, backfired.
Also, you should probably go smoke a jay and relax.
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Given that in the same column he is also evaluating pitchers based on their W-L and ERA, I'm just going to go ahead and chalk this up to Bucky being an idiot.
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Dammit, KIND of doughnut, not baker. Geez. You and sizzle should get together and deep fry each other or something.
WTF is that?!
They only make one kind. You can have whatever glaze you want on it. The taste of choice = America. Deal with it.
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Duck Donuts in the Outer Banks.
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I heard they smokem-ed peace pipe.
Man, that's pretty wrong.
I wondered about the TN-Dom angle too, though. Weird timing -- definitely a sort of "hey fans, not everything is terrible!" move in the course of a lost season.
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It hurts me, dammit. I DEMAND that he wear no. 30.
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I demand that he bug his eyes out as much as possible, fast to slim down, grow a beard and wear a toque with a suit as well.
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Mo wore 42 before MLB retired it in 1997. Anybody already wearing it was allowed to keep wearing it. Mo was the last one, and no one will ever wear 42 in MLB again.
Fair 'nuff. I did not realize that the number was retired that late. I think some franchises other than just the Dodgers and Mets had done so, prior, but you're right.
New #Sabres goaltender Michal Neuvirth will wear #34.
And I'm sure this hurts nobody and pleases a couple people. Again, not a bad move and if Neuvirth is cool with it, it's a nice gesture to your new teammates.
Plus, if you're new here, why not give people a little less ammunition to compare you to the last guy?
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So are they supposed to wait a week? A month? Until the end of the season? Is there some kind of statute of limitations for jersey numbers? Is Neuvirth supposed to come to BFLO and proclaim 'Out of respect to the recently departed I hereby withdraw my request for the #30 for a period of one month, or 15 games, whichever comes first'? :unsure:
After seeing Miller in the post game interview on the ice last night, I'm pretty sure he couldn't care less.
If I were the team I would give him a number that isn't #30 for the rest of the year. It ain't rocket surgery. If Neuvirth is a fringe NHLer I am sure that to acquiesce to his strident demands for #30 - or not - isn't going to be a make or break situation for the guy.
It's more about the players who are here and respect Miller than it is about anyone else.
It's just my opinion, no need to be so flabbergasted about it. The team obviously doesn't care and I'm not going to harp on it.
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Total exaggeration. You weren't looking 3-4 years down the road in 1999 and you weren't doing it in 2006. You weren't doing it in 1975. The Sabres might not have been successful every year forever. Not many teams can go on a Detroit Red Wings type run of playoff appearances. I get it.. you have to wait, but don't throw this crap out there. It's a complete farce.
Really? REALLY? Miller isn't even the best Sabres GOALTENDER in history and you are comparing taking #30 to a guy who was honored by having his number retired throughout baseball? Take a step back.. seriously.
I didn't compare them at all. Please manufacture your outrage for someone else. My point was that I didn't like it that even one of MLB's all-time great players (Rivera) wore a number that was honored, retired, reserved and associated with one of the most important players in the history of the game. I don't see Rivera as disrespectful, but I think it cheapens the gesture of retiring that number. If the Sabres team and the players around it don't think it's a bit soon to re-use the number of the departed 2nd best goaltender in franchise history, no big deal. I am entitled to my own opinion and if I were in the locker room I might ask Neuvirth to hold up.
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Absolutely. But Darcy was a fool and thought he could tweak. The writing was on the wall when he lost Briere and Drury for nothing. We'll be best served to remember this example of what not to do.
It's funny how it might have been one of his singular worst moves to keep one of his best players... But it turned out that way. Vanek couldn't lead the team and neither could the rest of his generation of teammates. Again, face-saving move to stave off fan revolt.
Now Darcy's looking for work in the league, fan morale hit its all time low this year, and Vanek has been traded twice. Couldn't have scripted that one.
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Agreed why I'm not really upset, you think we should try to resign Hank after this season? What would you offer him a 1 year deal?
Sure, why not?
I don't know if they do team options in the NHL but if so I'd see if he'd take one with a raise... if it's working out, if the kids aren't quite there yet, or if the team is playing above expectations.
Thing is, he has to want to stay. That's no sure bet.
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In retrospect, I'm glad we got rid of Vanek. F him. :pirate:
Why?
In retrospect, I do wish they hadn't matched that offer sheet with Edmonton, though. The worst kind of face-saving move. They had already lost Drury and Briere. It was time for the tank right then and there. The team could have been set up by 2011 with all those draft picks.
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I must say overall I'm pretty happy with how Tim Murray did today if these are guys that he really liked I have faith in that they will become valuable to us one way or another...The only thing that kind of irked me is we gave up a 3rd in that 2015 draft that's supposed to be so deep because we couldn't give up this years 3rd due to it being in the condition with St. Louis...Kinda BS that that's the only reason we couldn't give up our 3rd this year would've much rather given them a 2014 instead of a 2015
Would've liked to get a draft pick out of Tallinder but considering we gave up one of our if not our worst prospect in the whole organization for him can't really be that upset
I don't mind keeping Hank around. Getting rid of him the first time around was a sad move. He can help bring up the youngsters. And even though Myers isn't going gangbusters he is playing better in HT's company.
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I like Moulson. I feel like they didn't get a king's ransom for him but as others have said, it seems like these guys weren't moving for a premium at the deadline. The return for Miller / Ott and for Vanek softens the blow.
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BTW, for all the crap we've given Darcy and for all the celebrating we did when he was finally fired, Vanek to the Islanders is still BY FAR the best trade we made this year*.
[*Unless Fasching or one of the other prospects Murray traded for later turns out to be a star or something.]
Darcy made some excellent trades during his tenure. Many, actually.
He just didn't know f--- all about how to build a team in the past 7 years. He actually seemed to have an excellent plan post-lockout of 2004, but nothing much since.
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I agree the number issue is on Neuvirth, but we as fans still don't have to like it.
Miller is an all time great Sabre who led the team to two conference championship games. The fact that he's only been gone a week doesn't change that,
Hell, I didn't like that Mariano Rivera wore 42.
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Can someone please fill us newer fans in on tr legend and history of this man?
If he likes defensively responsible hockey I have a feeling half our team will be sitting. I think Girgenson and Ott are our only capable forwards in their own zone (am I forgetting anyone else?)
I think the job is to help these guys become defensively responsible. There's going to have to be some trust, some recognition that there will be failures along the way, and some semblance of putting people in a position to succeed.
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I agree with the OP's sentiment, and I'll add to that that Ted was a solid coach while here... and has done and experienced a lot in-between his stays. One would think it can only help. He's got the interim label, which I am also glad about. Nothing should be a given at this point. While they find the right hockey guy to work in concert with LaFontaine as GM, Nolan should be able to get these guys to work.
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I think it goes neglected how much of a beating Vanek takes in front of the net to earn good position to score some of those goals. The people calling him soft must be watching other parts of the ice.
I don't get it.
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I love how a guy who might think losing sucks and that the team isn't serious about winning is a "malcontent." The guy did his job and produced.
We don't need to tar and feather a guy just because he's left town. Thank him for his service and move on. He's been an excellent Sabre.
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Well, the old core is truley broken. Four traded, one on the fourth line and one peppered with more shots than a soldier. Time for the kids to inherit this team. Let's hope they step up. Myers and Hodgson need to be the mentors now. I wonder if they can rise to it
Thank goodness they still have the guys that matter, like Stafford.
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Maybe Moulson and Miller can be packaged in a trade for a Guinness.
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I've got to believe Moulson is going to be traded, too.
In a vacuum, this is the right move, but it doesn't change the fact that this team is serving its fans and its veterans a double-decker sh-- sandwich.
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I haven't seen the guy at all but I read this and I think of Drury.
The 21-22 HC of the Sabres will be?
in The Aud Club
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I think this guy would look as good behind the bench as he did in any Sabres colors.