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He'll get knocked over once and people will say we should trade him for someone who gets 450 PIMs... because "culture".

People can't handle losing and become irrational. You know, it's what fans tell themselves is acceptable behavior. "I'm a fan, so I'm supposed to be irrational." You'll live longer if you just ignore the insanity people are spewing at this point. Trade anyone, fire everyone. People forget that happened once before... say right about the time the team last made the playoffs. Everyone has the answer, but to date no one has had the answer. People are nuts. It's how it goes. Last night the Golden Boy #9 had reverted back to the Eichel of last season. Smashing his stick in the corner and then causing an offsides because he was whining. The team clearly is not playing the way it needs to play, but you can't have your "C" smashing sticks in the corner just because he missed the net with a shot. The Sabres have shallow depth and have lost more man games to injury this season. Those are bad combinations. They also play in a loaded conference in a loaded division. They aren't good enough. They weren't going to be good enough. People want to continue to hang onto the fact that trading Eeyore to the Blues was the problem. That somehow Eeyore would have saved the franchise. The same guy who felt Buffalo hated him.. (hmmm).. yeah. I am sure it would have been great for him to stick around. His last year in Buffalo the fans made Eeyore feel like he didn't love the game, that it was all his fault. That's the mentally strong player you want leading your team. The one who could overcome the crushing despair of the fanbase. The fans are being asshats and directing their ire in the wrong places. There's only 1 name that belongs at the top of the list as to why the Sabres are where they are, Pegula. They screwed up the franchise with their ineptitude as owners. They're learning, but the damage takes a long time to recover from. But people want to ignore rational thinking and want to roast everyone at the fire. A large portion of the Sabres fan base has gone off the deep end and are having their own versions of the Salem Witch Trials. Meh. All I can say is, tune them out. You'll be happier.

I get to watch a game.. so I am excited. (you can snark respond to this, it's okay. If I were watching the Avs game I would have found something else to do after the first two goals were scored). It's how I roll.... Go Sabres!

Well.. I might see this game at the bar before my kids plays tonight... Go Sabres!

If I tried to pay attention to this my angst would only grow. Watching party candidate hopefuls tear each other apart is ridiculous. Let's all trash each other but when one person is picked let's be expected to throw our support behind that person... yeah, the one we just said was unfit to be picked. Could anything be more asinine? And its both parties... just depends on the year.

Fair, but as I said.. a guy has to want to sign here. Why would Lou have signed here? The team wasn't on the verge of winning, the Islanders were. Why would Trotz sign here? The team did not have the right players, the Islanders did. Most importantly, and I don't think this should ever be underestimated. This team, in its first years under Pegula showed incredibly instability. Established hockey guys aren't signing up to come in and work under an owner trying to figure his stuff out. I have no doubt that LaFontaine incident really stung the organization.

A little too much credit to Lou frankly. Look at that roster. The only players on it that were acquired AFTER Lou took over are: Kuhnhackle Varlamov Komarov Martin (who had already been there prior) The strength of that team existed before Lou ever stepped foot in the door. Lou might prove valuable, but I don't see how you give him credit here more than bringing in Trotz. But the coach makes the players better and Trotz managed to do that while losing the best player on the team (at the time) in Tavares. The Islanders went from giving up the most goals in the NHL to giving up the least. The GM doesn't do that and he didn't even bring in players to make that happen. Trotz made it happen. Sure, it takes a GM to get a coach. A coach also has to want to sign in the city. Hell, the GM has to want to sign in the city.

Trotz is one of only a very select number of coaches who have an immediate impact on a team. That was the single best move the Islanders could have made.

I'll listen while driving to Brockport for my kids game today. Miss most of it while I am there. Glad to see tickets prices have gone to the floor so I can pick up a few games and take my son. It's hockey.. and as frustrating as it is and as much as I want them to be better, I'll still go if the economics are right. If they get you down, tune out, why let them impact even a part of your life negatively. You can still be a fan and not pay attention.

See, that's a smart thing. Coming here to read and post, if you are already agitated, is only going to agitate you more. Best to just step away and find something else to fill in the time so you can stay a happier person. I applaud you.

For all those who said they can't see that far into the future... please remember that vote when you call a player a bust. ?

Well at least it gives people something to talk about. I mean lord knows if this didn't happen people would have to resort to spending their time complaining about the team day in and day out. Who wants to do that?

Well... I'll watch the game.. until I don't feel like it anymore. Then I will do something else. And I won't even be the slightest bit upset or worried about it. Go Sabres!

I just want to say... If energy is neither created nor destroyed... And if we are comprised of energy... Then when we die, our energy is transformed... And we are reincarnated into whatever feeds on that energy... After enough cycles, perhaps that energy reassembled itself enough to feel as though you've had a past life... Because your energy has been around for eternity.

This is perhaps the most common way trials work these days. This is also why subscription buying is the trend. People buy everything via credit card and don't bother to look in detail at the transactions. So a little $10 here, $140 there and people miss it and forget about it. Everyone thinks they need Netflix, but if they were to truly look at their viewing habits they might be surprised how little they watch at times. Some people watch a ton of it though.. but those who don't end up paying a lot of money for only a few hours of entertainment.

No. I also don't see colors when I hear sound. I'm not sure why you chose to respond that way. If you did not understand my point it would have been better to just say as such so that I may attempt to clarify for you. Super simple version: Entity A sucks at A,B,C Entity B sucks at A,B,C,D Entity C sucks at B,D,E,F,G,H,I The order in which the issues above appear are their importance to each other. Each letter is the same in each group. As such, "I" is not as important as "B" however, and "D" is not as important as "A". However, Entity B sucks that much more than Entity A and Entity C, while doing A and C well, apparently sucks at a lot of other things. Now, if you applied a general value of importance to each you could calculate just how much it matters. Which is to say, if "A" had a value of 100, but "B" was 10, and the remainders down the line even less.. then Entity C, while doing more things wrong actually sucks less than Entities A and B because at least they do the really important thing right. See, it's easy. I can use colors if you want. ?

In your circles I can believe it.. you might unconsciously distance yourself from the kind of person that would believe the NE.. but people did. (I also was not around people like that). The only.. ONLY way this falls apart for the Republicans is if the constituents in the states of the Republican senators begin to show signs of not supporting their Senator for re-election in 2020... otherwise it's party line all day long... despite the obviousness of what has happened. In the end it's not even about whether or not Trump did something wrong and broke the law. The GAO has already basically said he did. It's a question of whether any of the 53 Republican Senators will actually vote to the law as opposed to the party line. Sad does not even begin to describe our political state at the moment...

Well.. let's think about that for a moment. Let's say other teams make the mistake, but overall that misspelled nameplate is only the 7th finger you can point at that organization. Whereas, with the Sabres, it might be the 14th finger you could point at them. So yes, it's way down the list... the list that is longer than most other teams when it shouldn't be. So, in one way, it's less important than other issues with the Sabres, but relative to other teams, it's worse because it adds on at #14 and not #7. They may share in some incompetencies, but they exceed them overall. Not the race you want to win.

So if you never ate it... are just judging the concept of it? Are you dismissing it by simply looking at its packaging? Are you being prejudicial based on its appearance? Are you not even willing to sample it so you can definitively say that it has no redeeming value? I mean.. it is one of the worst things ever invented.. but it's also kind of good. I'd eat that over vienna sausages all day long. or Spaghetti-O's... w/ hot dogs... ohhh now I am gonna be sick.

53-47. It's all you need to know. And yes.. it's all complete BS, but people in this country have been eating up made up news and information for decades. National Enquirer anyone? We're doomed, but it's cool, no one believes it because people on the TV tell you otherwise.

I'm surprised the alumni even agreed to wear those sweaters... maybe they never looked at the back? No way I'd accept that. Terrible.

Yeah.. there's a basic distance calculation that tells you what size is optimal. I was replacing a 55". Technically 58" would have fit, but they stopped making those. If I had a long room I would go in for a much bigger screen, but too big and it's actually a bad thing. It's the same number of pixels, just spaced out more. The detail if you are too close really suffers... even at 4k.

Nice.. the forest trail will be amazing I am sure.

I upgraded my main TV to 4k in December when I got Disney+. It was so worth it. I kind of wish I was constrained to buying a 55" screen, but the additional money to revise all the surrounding furniture would have negated the value of the screen itself. Still... wow. I don't even game on it (no 4k console anyway), but yeah.

The second game in the Dad's trip and last game before a 10 day break. The Sabres are in Nashville, where you won't have to see Peter Laviolette's face behind the bench. They've won a few in a row and it would be great for them to win tonight so the Sabrespace happy meter is high enough to withstand 10 days of no hockey. You've got long way to go to hockey tonight... pace yourselves.