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Is there an ignore thread function? I don't like to ignore posters, but I would love to not have to click through these threads every day. Yes, I know i could go to the main listing, but using the next unread topic at the bottom is super convenient.

I agree. He's a seasoned front office hockey guy. I trust his opinion more. As I mentioned elsewhere, the public lives with years of failure, Botterill only has his history to live with and the team has been improving since he's taken over. Fans want a quick fix, but quick fixes don't happen all that often, especially when your best chance at a quick fix is being questioned about his dedication to the game without the puck and might be injured. I agree with him. Fans can choose to hate on it all they want, but it won't change anything. I'd rather just go with the flow and look for the improvement.

I hate Vegas. I've been there 3-4 times for conferences and hate going every time. The "high end" restaurants are mediocre at best. I don't gamble, period. The only thing I like about Vegas is watching the people. But that too begins to suck when you realize that what humanity has to offer.

The Bruins just screwed themselves and I am fine with that. Donato would have been a contributor for them in the next few years. Coyle gives them a chance to compete against Tampa and Toronto this year but it makes them an older team. This bodes well for the Sabres competition over the next few years. I like Coyle, but I would not have given Donato for him. Good job by Minnesota in my opinion.

We might have started drafting better. It doesn't happen overnight as you well know. The timeline before Botterill is only there for the fans to suffer. It's not Botterill's issue. Pegula only owns back to when he bought the team. Rookie owner making rookie mistakes, the fans choose to continue the suffering.

I'd be interested in checking out the Labatt House. Is it 716 pricey though?

He's lived up to my expectations. Those are probably different than everyone else's though.

I don't think I agree with that sentiment. The expansion of the game globally has produced a larger and more disperse talent pool from which to pull players. The European game was barely a thing. We only think guys on the ice are less talented because some of the players that play now are insanely talented and perhaps even more so than some of the best players back then. Those top stars, in today's culture, might have proven to be just as good. We won't know. However, I do feel confident thinking that the talent levels in the NHL, and really the game overall, are much higher than they were back then.

Look a game. Remember when Stamkos and Hedman were what made Tampa go? Now they are just supporting pieces. Think about that when you think about the journey of the Sabres.

We went to Cole's last year. It doesn't matter to me where we go. I am up for meeting after the game. As much as I might be interested in a 2nd hockey game, I do need to return to Rochester at some point and a second game would push the issue.

He said he lost it. That's different than what you had said. That's all. I'm not happy with the trade. I'd prefer to have a player of ROR's talent on the roster. That said, I'm not lamenting him being gone either. It was clear something was not right and I have faith that the people who are paid a lot of money to make it right knew enough about the situation to make a move. It might not be the move they wanted to make, but life is about decisions and what comes next. It's over. He's gone.

How many episodes of Hearts of Space will they need to play the full project? ?

I love that he said it. He tried to be nice and reporters kept hounding him.

So he lied when he said he lost his love for the game? https://buffalonews.com/2018/04/09/sabres-oreilly-says-he-lost-love-of-game-lacked-mental-toughness/

They are. Actually hits to the front of the head are usually less likely to cause concussion. Based on all the training we received about it in recognizing the kinds of hits that are more likely to cause concussion it's hits to the back, side, and top of the head along with any hit that causes sharp rotation. A punch to the jaw is the kind that causes a sharp rotation. Bottom line: it would be better to be punched straight on into the face than anywhere else. Not that it can't cause concussion.

Every person on here who has blamed Berglund for leaving? Exactly this. And for that matter.. the Blues are a better team than the Sabres. Just because they were losing in the beginning of the season doesn't make them a bad team. It just means they were going through a bad stretch. They had poor defense and poor goaltending. They've fixed that. They also got rid of Mike Yeo who has proven he can't lead a team. No, the answer is not fire Housley. Berube is able to do with the roster what Yeo could not. Housley doesn't have the roster that should be winning. It's time to move on.

Wilfully or through an actual ailment? The only reason I would say that is that I've seen him engage at times and other times he's just not doing it. Because the roster just isn't good enough and it's extremely young. They got rid of Claude Julien after 10 years. There's a minor difference in what you are suggesting. This will be how it is for the rest of the season unless they learn to play with confidence. They are lost because they lack that confidence. Things are not working for them and they don't have the answers. The people who compiled a large part of this roster are gone. There are a lot of aspects of this roster that are still there as a result of front office screw ups prior to the existing front office team. Every time you change, you reset the clock. Especially if there's no established base to work from. The Sabres are on a path. It just takes time. No fan wants to hear it, but that doesn't make it any less applicable.

There's a line in one of the articles.. the third maybe? I'll quote it. This is a phrase that you see so often muttered in politics and, to me, is the most damning. "The messaging". I don't need messaging, I need the truth. Messaging is a function of marketing which is a function of spin. When you hear things like this it becomes abundantly clear, again, to me, that someone is shading the truth and playing the word game to avoid talking about reality. Heaven forbid something tarnish that JT polish though. He can talk about quantum computers you know. Given how many "news" items these days are nothing more than complex "messaging" campaigns, I find it hard to believe anything. Hell, I could say I find it hard to believe that his administration is guilty of it as well. I'm just waiting for some counter-message event to occur that throws the allegation into question and makes it appear as a collaborative creation to upset the current administration. In short.. who knows what to believe anymore.

Politics. That's the reason. It plays well to be mad about someone else making the tougher decision to turn down what was sold as a major benefit for jobs and a community. I can applaud any politician who makes the tough decision and goes against popular opinion to do so. We're talking about a society that makes fiscal decisions with such intelligence that credit counseling is a lucrative business. We're the reason credit cards were invented. All they see is "so many jobs". What they fail to see is that the corporation still pays the same basic wage, pockets the additional revenue, and moves on. Meanwhile, you bring an extra 25k jobs into an area that is already overcrowded and what happens? Streets have to be changed. Housing costs go way up (as if they weren't already extremely high). There's a ton of other collateral damage that comes from it. If Amazon really wanted to make a difference, they could open their HQ2 in a place like Detroit or another area that could truly benefit from having a large portion of jobs created to help stimulate the economy. They could do it without all the tax incentives. As for the University of California comment, I have no knowledge of it nor can I see its application here other than to say the world is full of very stupid people and somehow they find a way to get their names into the headlines.

I think Eichel has the right to call people out on the team. He should. if someone points out his flaws, he should own and accept them as well. That's holding each other accountable. If no one says anything, that's a much bigger problem. That's giving up.

I could go through the video of the last game and clip quite a few instances where Jack's lack of urgency was rather apparent. When he has the puck he's very talented, perhaps also a bit arrogant (something I recall writing two years ago about him). He's not lazy with the puck. He's lazy, at times, when he does not have the puck and he's expected to play defense. His game is not at the level it was earlier in the season. Early on he was on bodies and taking pucks from people. He's back to playing a perimeter game, reaching, and not really putting forth the same effort. Is it really safe to assume there is a coach who is going to change him? If Eichel persists in this way then the right course of action is not to replace the coach. That said, I'm not at the point where I am 100% saying it is him. I think there are other issues. However, I do see instances where he's definitely not setting the example he has shown the ability to set. That's my biggest problem at this point.

I think people were onboard with Amazon HQ2 until the number $1.2B was thrown out there with regards to the tax breaks they were getting. That's pretty damn significant for a company of Amazon's stature. It's not a healthy way to try and grow. But that's a different topic. I do agree with the media influence. If only media were truly unbiased. I've not found a single unbiased one yet. Even NPR, who people like to point to, has a pretty clear agenda. At least in much of their news programming.

It's getting to be time... where candidates from parties rip each other apart, then only 1 wins and suddenly their former opponents are the greatest thing ever. Bernie... sigh.

These are good points. From a scoring perspective, I think when you watch him play you can see how close he is to being even better than he is now. Whether he can get to that next level remains to be seen. Perhaps when the team has a few more players. The big knock is his play on defense and away from the puck. I think this translates into people being down on him overall. It's not necessarily wrong either.

That only works if the new guys are the ones that are lazy. At the moment, I see Eichel as the poster boy for lazy. In reality, who else can you pin it to? Ristolainen and Bogosian? They aren't new. I'm not putting it in Dahlin (first year), Pilut (first year), Mittlestadt (1st year), Thompson (1.5 year), Sheary, SKinner? (not lazy). Sobotka just isn't good. I don't see lazy out of Reinhart, Rodrigues, Larsson, Girgensons. Pominville isn't lazy, he's just slow. Really, as I keep thinking about it. I see one player truly being lazy but it's so prominent that it casts a shadow over the whole team.