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My understanding is police said it started over whose bottle of vegemite it was...

His shots may be from low percentage areas but as you will hear all the time. "100% of the shots you don't take, don't go in." So, I appreciate his willingness to get the pucks to the net rather than circle around for a perfect opportunity that may not come. If you do it right then you have guys crashing the net while he carries the puck and you increase the odds of scoring. How often do people complain about players who can't get shots through to the net? At least he can. I can appreciate why you are saying what you are saying with regards to the 50 goal scorer comparison. It's nice to have aspirations and targets to work toward. It's been said of his game that he would benefit from a little more east-west in his style. I have seen a bit of that lately as well. Perhaps it comes along, perhaps not. But I certainly appreciate a guy who will carry the puck straight up the ice and run over anyone standing in his way. Not to be confused with speculaas which would be so much sweeter.

As was posted by JJ, and has been upheld in many articles on concussion, the awareness of a person with concussion will vary greatly. He wasn't skating all over the ice to find something to hit. Everything i saw immediately after the hit indicates he was operating on instinct. All players, when banged up, head to the bench. All players know there can be contact near their bench doors and he saw a body near the door of his intended target (his bench door). Players are trained to engage in body contact with those targets. He did so and it happened to be a ref who wouldn't be expecting such contact. "Down goes Frasier." I don't even mind the 20 game suspension. "Stuff happens". But the fact that his team let him back on the ice after a player who just took a shot to the head and one who has "no history of these kinds of actions" that just jacked an official chose to ignore those signs and place him on the ice is disgusting. The fact that the league is holding themselves blameless in this is disgusting. I am hoping that Wideman chooses to pursue this issue further and even goes so far as to bring a lawsuit against the Flames and the NHL for not following their own protocol and for putting him back into play with the potential to suffer even greater head trauma.

See, your problem is that you forgot to take into account TMF when creating your advanced statistic. TMF = Troll Modification Factor. The Troll Modification Factor is a percentage modifier to a real world statistic. It is calculated by dividing the troll capacity by the troll's perceived value in the world and subtracting it from 1. The modification factor is then multiplied by the real statistic to produce the desired fancy stat. Example: Evander Kane Shots = 197 Evander Kane games played = 47 Troll Capacity = 98% Troll Perceived Value = 1 (it's always 1 as trolls believe they are the best) 1 - (.98/1) = .02 Kane S/G = 4.2 TMF S/G = .084 Therefore, he always misses the net.

He's the biggest PeeWee on his team too. I mean, they say holding kids back so they can be successful can really help their confidence levels. I'm looking forward to him being a Bantam so we can start checking the other kids though. At 36 I think he'll really be able to lay the hurting on the other team. :rolleyes: He's basically 12. (a few weeks from it)

FW is not just aged beers. Easy Jack is one of my favorites... they just happen to also be excellent at bigger beers as well! By the way Port Brewing/Lost Abbey is probably worth the stop.

Not to be a me too with Tom but.. me too. I don't look at stats. I am looking at his play on the ice. I think the defensive problems are real but they should not be laid at Pysyk's feat. I'd look at McCabe and Bogosian first. Bogosian just hasn't been all that overwhelming this year to me. The D corps is thin. If the Sabres are moving Pysyk it has to be part of a multi-player deal that would net a better D in return.

Did Chad Johnson's value just go up?

Go to Firestone Walker if you can (Casa Nobles). They aren't smaller but love the beer and I've heard their tasting room/tour experience is excellent. If you are in Orange County you should go to The Bruery. It's an awesome stop as well. If you are in Portland hit up Bailey's Tap Room. (They feature all local beer, or at least did a few years back when I was there.)

Ever see a 12 year old who has one parent and younger siblings? They can be awfully mature as well. This analogy is pointless. Stick Evander Kane in the middle of a battlefield with a weapon and people shooting at him and I can guarantee he'll be behaving a lot differently than a 24 year old with millions of dollars and having people cater to him all his life. If you want to hate the guy at least choose better supporting evidence.

Practice canceled tonight = Watch Sabres game for me! Hooray!

So while driving to Pittsburgh this past weekend for our hockey tournament we received a call from the Amerks. Apparently my son won some reading contest in conjunction with the Amerks. We got 6 suite tickets for the game on the 21st and he's going to get to drop the puck at the start of the game. I have a hard time typing this and repeating it each time thinking about what this means to him. He's beyond stoked.

That's a very positive spin. Now they just need to show how a player can do that and get back to practice on time. :) Well done. I think less of him as a player because he allowed his personal life to interfere with his profession and his responsibilities. I would prefer to see a player with his ability respect that more and be more responsible. That said, it's a team issue and not something I am overly concerned about. If I were Murray and Bylsma I would have a different reaction.

Can we just get a filter to always translate Montreal to this? It work for Pominville. Go Sabres!

No thanks. I just don't believe Drouin is that good. The Sabres are thin on defense and trading away another defender, especially a young one with talent, is a huge mistake.

If he keeps fighting like that the only resemblance to Pronger will be the concussion syndrome that causes him to retire. Kane is flat out a high energy guy. His hands were flying. He might be in trouble if someone gets him tied up more but it will be tough to get close enough to do it.

A few thoughts. If you have to take on another job I would call it responsible. That said, if you add on the extra hours then you are working 6 days a week not 4. The easy schedule of your current position may change. You said there are growth opportunities and one wonders that if the growth that occurs would require more operating hours and as such would lead to greater pay but at the expense of more hours worked. When you balance it out, figure out how many hours a week you want to work and how much you want to make during those hours. That will give another perspective to the perceived benefits of higher pay. The interview is the key. If the growth in your current facility has a high probability then would it be worth it to push that harder with the goal of achieving higher pay in a better environment, one you've been in for quite awhile? Not easy to decide. Glad you felt you could share with the board.

Someday when 56, 54, 50, 95 has become a perennial All-Star (not via fan vote) we can all recall when he was recalled and call it one of the most exciting times to text or DM your friends about the situation. Until then, I'm going to raise pigeons.

Sometimes in a trade it's not always the talent of the players that leave but the number of players. What do I mean? Well, if the Sabres removed 4 players from their roster (Stafford, Myers, Lemieux, and Armia) then who did the Sabres gain with those 2 open player slots? Even if you wash out Stafford/Myers and Kane/Bogosian and go purely on the remaining players it might be argued the Sabres were able to sign or keep two players they would not have been able to keep while Lemieux and Armia remained signed with the team. I think it's safe to say the players have contributed to their respective teams in much the same way they had prior to the trade. However, the Sabres needed players like Kane and Bogosian more than they needed players like Stafford and Myers. Armia is still Armia.. he's not doing anything different. The Sabres outlook on him was.. "meh" and he's still "meh". However he's now Winnipeg's "meh" to worry about where as the player now filling his role in the Sabres might be "meh +1" or even "has serious potential".

It is, but it makes you wonder how a player with the talent he has shown can fall off so much in such a short time. Are there other factors going on? Some kind of personal issues? Does he not fit the play style of the coach? Even then, he's bound to show something every now and then. At the moment he seems to be lagging behind the game. Then again, he might just be the biggest byproduct of his surroundings and given the changes he'll never recover. Go Sabres!

Nope.. This is.

That was the third breakaway in a row. Hagelin scored on the third goal, Crosby on the 4th and 5th on breakaways. Porous defense by the Quackers. And yes.. he's good.

When the GDT opener is more entertaining the the game itself.

So much for Stafford's raise next year. :)

To not have NHL success is not because they don't know how to win. The talent level is different and they may not be good enough to win but it's not that they don't know how to do it, they just can't. It's not a matter of working out right, eating right, playing the system right. It's a matter of them not having the ability to put all of it together.