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Mentally.. yes. This morning my ribs still hurt.. and sneezing is not fun. But I'll live. That's a bummer. It's great that we have so many sheets right around us. I'm less than 30 minutes from 10.. across 5 different arenas.

i survived! Somehow I blocked a shot with my right foot.. twice.. both times not how you are supposed to block a shot. Got the inside of the ankle bone and the outside.. the inside still stings and is bruised nicely. But that's not the worst pain.. nope. The worst pain? My ribs. As my brain said, dive on the ice to clear a loose puck... and my body, after the fact, told my brain, "You are not smart, and this IS a pain that is going to linger." So my ribs.. yeah.. they hurt. I'm old.. I misplayed so many pucks.. but it was awesome to be on the ice!

Buffalo fans endured the Bills being absolutely horrible for 20 years.. Buffalo fans bounce back. I suspect like all fans. I can't speak for those fans, but I know I looked at Amerks season tickets today... soooooo

I step on the ice for the first time in... 3 years? tonight. If I don't post on here tomorrow and then for the next year it won't be because I stepped away again. It'll be because I did not survive. But damn.. am I excited. Also certain I am going to feel how old I am.

As long as the service doesn't block known VPN IP addresses, yes.

Here's his twitter account: I wanted to make this thread next level.

Well at least one person tried to understand the actual role and event versus testing their comedy chops. https://www.zippia.com/video-coordinator-jobs/ https://www.nba.com/suns/news/feature_elvisinthebuilding_100816.html I would imagine the NHL life ain't much different.

Damn fun to watch. He's definitely a player you turn the game on for just to see what he does. I thought Ben Roethlisburger was similar when he started. He certainly did not have the speed but I seem to recall him barreling through people.

I'm just going to disagree here. I almost don't want to make a counter-argument, but I suppose I should. Tom Brady is an exceptional quarterback, I would consider him the best ever. But I would not consider him anything unique. He's accomplished unique things but much of that is related to the team around him, his coach, and other factors. Megatron? Perhaps you know something I don't? He was a great wide receiver, but nothing unique. Deion Sanders? I'd love to know why. Barry Sanders - possibly.. but we'll never really know what he could have been. But then, to say there will never be another is just wrong. First, Josh Allen hasn't accomplished much. He still shows potential. Imagine, we're all giddy about his potential but if you talk about the potential of the Sabres prospects people get all doom and gloom. Anyway, he's been good, but he's hasn't won anything yet. And even then.. there will be another like him, perhaps someone even better.

I don't think it's right to call Allen a unicorn. He's a player who, in the past, most executives overlooked because of some preconceived notion of what a "QB" is. Much like other players who have altered the path of the position throughout the past. There are other Allen's out there, and you'll see teams try and find them and they will be successful because right now there are youth football coaches looking at kids the size of Allen and thinking... perhaps he'd be a better QB than LB?

For those who stream, Fubo and DirecTV Stream are the only streaming services that have MSG. Fubo does not have ANY Turner Broadcast channels, so no TNT. So I will miss 4 Sabres games this year unless I get another service that has TNT. The cheapest option I know is to get Sling. You can also get Spectrum TV (in this area) and you'll get it all. You may also get boned pretty good on costs (cable box charge, broadcast surcharge, etc.)

These are the kinds of things that make that band so awesome. I saw them once, in Buffalo, back in like 1994. They were amazing.

I'm not predicting anything. But I am a Vinnie fan. I think the quote from Granato say a lot about him. We think stars are the ones who have to hold teams accountable but a player who knows their role and plays it can demand accountability. There's something about his game I really like and it predates his time in Buffalo. Eventually he will begin to lose playing time, but there are others that will first... starting with Bjork as mentioned above.

If you can get him for the right price, you get him. If he earns a spot on the team, perfect. If he doesn't because you have better players and you can flip him for a better haul than you gave up, you do it. You go after talent even if you have talent, if the price is right.

You don't know data is bad until after you use it and then analyze the results. You don't your model is good until it is proven. Getting something right/wrong once doesn't constitute a pattern. Decisions are made on the information and knowledge had at the time. They are judged on the information and knowledge gained after that fact. Claiming a decision was bad is easy. Claiming the person who made the decision was incapable of their job is a bit of a stretch without looking at why they made the decision and reasonably inferring they ignored non-debatable facts. Of course a pattern of bad decisions is another story.

Fair, but the question also remains. Would those fans have still felt the same if they had access to the same information the front office and scouts did? If they were immersed into the event itself so that they had a seat at the table it's quite possible they might have chosen differently or have been influenced to have chosen differently based on conversations/directives (not saying directives happened, just allowing for the possibility). Thus the real inability to completely analyze that DIY GMs and Scouts are more effective.

That's the Internet of today. Everyone questions the experts, because everyone is an expert. They read something on the Internet that made them so. Poor Holiday In Express, undermined by the Internet. But,there are plenty of fans who can play in the space. I mean, fans second guess coaching, they believe they know all locker room intricacies, etc. It's the nature of fans I suppose.. or at least a significant subset of them.

The great thing about the Sabres having built a solid prospect pool is that each player is on the hook to perform. I don't see any of these players having had the season that Thompson had that would demand a contract. Samuelsson will never demand a high dollar contract and is suited as a shutdown D. Cozens has the most to gain, but he's also the youngest and so has more time. Asplund is the one who needs to step up or I suspect he'll be traded. It won't be enough for him to just be good, he's going to have to be significantly better than the players coming behind him. He's 24, this is it for him if he wants something more than a 1 year deal. I'd add Mitts is in the same boat at 23. He's going to have to demonstrate he's got more upside than he has so far or I see him being replaced as well.

I took a year off and since coming back said poster has been negative in many threads. Often the posts appear as being contrarian as a matter of principle. The poster also has chosen an avatar that projects that same persona. Red was a no nonsense, crotchety father who often quickly escalated to the term "dumbass". If the vast majority of responses in threads by any particular poster trend towards contrarian then it would be natural to expect people to begin dismissing and downright ignoring that person. Differing viewpoints are often accepted, but not just because they are different, but in how they are presented. I think the board welcomes a wide variety of opinions, what it tends to not tolerate are those who don't further the conversation on the topic and demonstrate an unwillingness to consider the different viewpoints being presented against their position. Finally, I think it's just human nature that when you show up to the club you aren't immediately embraced as a long term member. I think some expect that it should not be the case and then fault others for not conforming to their expectations. That said, the Internet era has degraded our ability to engage in conversation. Even on a forum, where communication is not buried in a timeline nor subjected to character limits, people tend to opt for that style of communication. I suspect both because they have become accustomed to writing in short hand and their intended recipients have become big fans of TL;DR.

Perfect... I saw the rumored B&G goat heads.. but I think that would be tacky given the return of the B&R goat heads.. I would prefer them to go another route... we'll see.

So as the third jersey, that means they will be around awhile (seasons) and it also means they are not the reverse retro, is that accurate?

You don't need him until the playoffs when there's no salary ca.... oh, wrong sport.

Maybe it's because he developed a habit of throwing shade at people? Like he's throwing shade at the Bills by saying it was the most obvious thing in the world but you know Buffalo, they sometimes don't do the obvious. You know, it's so easy a caveman could do it, but if you didn't do it you must be dumber than a caveman type insinuation. Perhaps he used it to make his tweet longer and thus have it ranked higher on SEO? Damned if I know these days.

If I find out he heads your way I will message you... to make his life miserable. Well, assuming it was a idiot thing that got him there. 🙂 I was hanging out in Olean Friday for awhile, guess I will be down there more often now.

Moved my oldest into college yesterday. He's off to St. Bonaventure. Obviously I have very limited knowledge on what other colleges and universities do for their incoming first year students, but I can't imagine it being much better than what they do down there. The entire process with them was top notch. The attention to little details gives me confidence they are able to knock the bigger things (education) out of the park. Big changes in the house, for him, and everything. But it's awesome seeing your kid take their next step in life and feeling positive about the path they are on.