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Well, non-playoff teams are going to be likely to deal. What do you think Arizona would give for ROR right now? Would they give up OEL? Would they give up more? With his "girlfriend" right? Not his wife? He's not married? Lots of other sports figures have kids with lots of girlfriends too. I don't see ROR is that kind of guy, but the truth is that having a kid does not kill the partying lifestyle for some... (for some of us others it certainly puts and end to things.) :)

Sure.. I liked what I said.. because it made no sense. Yours makes sense and sounds all scientificky. :) You walk into a coffee shop and two people are talking. I will let you apply any characteristics you'd like to the two people. You overhear a part of their conversation but during the blanked out part someone sneezed and you missed that word. What word was used? Does the word you missed change if you happen to picture a certain set of characteristics? It might not in this case because it's really a harmless conversation. In other scenarios it might invoke a stronger response. The phrase "You f _ _ _ e d me pretty good the other night at the party." will be construed different by different people. By the way, the missing word above is f o o l e d. Shame on you if you thought something else. :) Also.. hockey is happening.

I can't even begin to care about the line combinations at this point. You could speculate Housley is an idiot. You could speculate it's for trade showing purposes. You could speculate a lot of things. Until we ship out the players via trade I'm not worried about it. Even after that happens I am not too concerned because this is not the roster it needs to be. Next year? I'll be more concerned.... until the point where I shouldn't be again.

Pure hypothesis.. what if the problem is ROR vs. Kane? What if they can re-sign Kane if ROR ships out?

Everything is available for a price. Gotta do something to make the stats geeks freak... :) Despite people not wanting to accept it, stereotypes by and large are created out of a preponderance of factual information that apply to a particular grouping of things. I am leaving it generic because it really can apply to all kinds of things and not just people. There has to be an exception to it at some point and then at some point the preponderance of exceptions make it no longer a stereotype... (even if uneducated people continue to use it). In fact, if you want to insinuate that stereotypes are bad aren't you now creating a stereotype about stereotypes? Meh.. the Lightning just had a weekend party. I'd expect them to be a little off. :)

Hope to be back from some other commitments in time to watch the 3rd period. Grr.

It really seems like the bidding war for Kane will be with Nashville and St. Louis. The Islanders don't need him. They have no problem scoring right now. It seems likely that Nashville is the primary choice as Housley knows the players that could be offered. They have a problem keeping pucks out of their net. They need a goaltender and they need one for more than this year. Greiss is signed longer term and they can't feel confident with him. They could use Lehner. The question is what can the Islanders give up for him? Certainly send Halak back in a trade. The Sabres are fine with that as they just need a goaltender for the rest of the season, but who else do the Islanders provide?

A little pre-Olympic prep? Curious.. once the Olympics are over can those players sign contracts in the NHL? I'd have to believe they could. Might be interesting to see if Gionta finds any takers for the last month of the season and the playoffs?

Will it shoot Himalayan Pink Salt? Table salt isn't good for you. ;)

There have been no less than 60 stink bugs who have met their demise in my house in the past year via this method. Chuckling... just quietly chuckling. Seriously, my house is my house. The only bugs I don't kill are the spiders and that's because they kill other bugs. Anything else gets deported via the flush tube to the septic system where they can help fertilize the great outdoors. Except flies... those hold a special place in my heart. I use the rubber bands from celery to shoot the flies. They are very strong bands, they are very wide, and the very much squash the guts right out of the fly.

Nice. I was aware of their brewery but I didn't have the desire to seek it out. I can probably alter my drive from Rochester to Franklinville to put that at least close enough to the route to stop in and check it out.

I think the players know at that point what they need to do.

The objective is to win. Killing a minute off the clock and THEN getting a man advantage provides them the best chance to win at that point. Heck, they could have skated the puck back out of the zone on the ensuing face-off and killed another 2 minutes. That would have been 3 minutes of the remaining time that Vancouver would not touch the puck. Your opponent can't win if they don't have the puck. Just because your foot is on the gas doesn't mean you are only going in a straight line.

I am using CyberLink Screen Recorder. I have the full Director Suite. I need to update my computer to be able to do better editing but I was able to knock that one out today with only a little hassle.

PA started here.. I'll post it here and it's in his keep away thread. For those who want a quick review of the delayed penalty keep away.

Screw it.. it seemed too awesome not to do. Just for you PA.

Sigh.. if MSG and the NHL both didn't require Flash Player I would get you an excerpt of the keep away game. But they both require the use of that crappy technology so I can't.

I watch how players interact when goals are scored and other events. It usually very business like between those two as opposed to between Eichel and others and ROR and others. Just a general sense in body language interpretation. I have no idea what Jeremy White said so that had nothing to do with it. IN fact I did not even see the event on TV.

I had no issues with Okposo and I still don't. He's looking like a great fit with Eichel. They seem to work off each other really well in pressuring the puck and the passing is generally there as well.

I think PA summarized it well. However, it appeared that Risto was the only one to celebrate the goal. He then went back and gave Lehner a fist bump. I wouldn't think too much on Kane and Bogosian. Kane had some chances and overall that line has had pressure. It might be that the Sabres found a way to spread scoring out to 4 lines just enough that teams can't focus on just two of them. Bogosian might help against better teams where Antipin is serviceable. That said, I like Antipin and his game a lot. I am also pretty high on Falk. He's not a top pair but he's pretty good at making it rough for opposing players and he's not a mess defensively like Beaulieu. I do think the Eichel/ROR relationship is one of those broken things in the locker room. I do think ROR will be moved off this team either at the trade deadline or in the off-season. It's unfortunate because I think O'Reilly is a really good player. I think what we have to hope is that moving O'Reilly nets a similarly effective piece for the Sabres that improves the locker room and the team.

Totally worth staying up to watch. Plenty of thoughts but they can wait until later today when I wake up. :)

At least Risto enjoyed that goal.

Beauty, eh?

Totally enjoyed watching that. Brilliant.