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Frankly, I'd just like to commend Ehlers for trying to fend off the morons who always want to fight right next to the helpless player on the ice. Falling on him, stepping on him with skates.. all kinds of things can go bad there. Ehlers has his arms out protecting Evans from what could be even worse.

Now we argue and debate for another 7 weeks....

Well played... I see what you did there.

Imagine being the person who has to write up what gets said for each potential pick spot for each team. How much fun that has to be... 🙂

I'd trade Skinner and Risto for Marner 🙂 Skinner might actually waive his NMC to go to Toronto. 🙂 Imagine.. Skinner being a regular season dud but a post-season stud and it making a difference in Toronto? Oh man.. I should not have started drinking so early.

I like Marner too, but I don't like very many players for $11M AAV. I think I like McDavid for that... and I am done.

People are arguing over many other things AND Johann freaking Larsson. I think the real takeaway here is that they are arguing.

I remember catching one of her first games. She wasn't very good and I think the twitterverse slammed NBC for using a female analyst (I know, I was SHOCKED too!). I didn't catch another game she did for awhile but it was later that season and at that point I noticed how much she had improved. Frankly, I've really enjoyed her work when I catch it. I'll take her analyst skills over the insanity that is Pierre... any day.

If the Sabres hit 20 years of frustrating seasons you'll find someone that will skyrocket up to the Josh Allen level. It's a good point. I'd also say that our unwillingness to take time to come to a decision plays into that. We need to process and compartmentalize every action within 5 minutes (or so it seems) when decisions and processes actually take a lot longer to occur. For someone like Kevin Adams, making decisions on the action of the team is his primary focus. He will spend countless hours, days, weeks, going over possibilities while handling the constant changes happening within the hockey spectrum. For fans, they are doing the same thing, but they are also looking at everything else happening around them, including their own jobs and lives, and then try to reach the same level of decision making Kevin Adams makes but doing so with 1/1000th of the time to invest and 1/100th of the information Adams has. People gotta go with the flow, and stay in their lane. It's all cool to discuss but commentary on here reaches feverish pitch faster than a Ferrari reaches 60 and then it's a straight NOS shot to the hyperbole.

Yeah. Hall played the odds. He got paid good money and had things really taken off then he was in a good position to keep making good money whether the Sabres offered him a contract or as an UFA. If not, he knew he would be traded and he could control where he wanted to go and potentially still be in a position to make good money. Once it was clear things weren't going to work it was easy for Hall to just wait for the trade. From the Sabres viewpoint it was always a stupid move and they handcuffed themselves.

Also posted by someone on Twitter.. 17 of the top 18 highest paid players in the league are out of the playoffs. I think things will change, the dominance had been from teams with older stars who had signed below the $10M AAV. Still, there's something to be said for doling out all that money into a few players, especially the way the Leafs have done it.

Sadly it's not just this fanbase. People are just negative in general these days. This place is pretty bad and even long time posters who don't have a track record of acting in a detrimental fashion have shown flashes of it. It is tiring.. I don't think people even realize how combative their interactions are these days. The Sabres off-season is months long but on here their entire history is rehashed almost hourly it seems. I'm about ready to go enjoy summer and come back in the fall.

Well.. this was a rather exceptional end to the day. Bring on June!

I'll have to admit I have not been downtown to hang around much.. but I've been to the Pittsburgh area many times for hockey. Duquesne Incline is a nice experience. Burgatory is an experience (now a local chain) North Shore Riverfront Park is a nice area, ate at The Foundry and had General Tso's Cauliflower, one of the best things I've ever eaten. Mindful Brewing Company.. south of Pittsburgh is a great location. Coraopolis is a quirky little town undergoing a conversion. It's near Robert Morris University, NW of Pittsburgh. It is home to Tootsie's.. a very tiny breakfast diner where I've had some incredible breakfast food like a Pierogi Omelette. I guess if you consider just Downtown Pittsburgh that's one thing. There are lots of things I don't like about Pittsburgh too, but I've definitely had some real good times there.

Frankly the longer you let the dude live in your head the more he wins. Taylor Hall is irrelevant to me that I won't even bother to hate him.

Doing anything they can to try and boost the team. Without doing any research my guess is that the only thing that's changed since the last game in Toronto is that the Leafs choked. It's all about the science right? The science of winning I presume. 🙂

The thing for me is that I just don't need something to look like meat or taste like it. I've had plenty of vegetable patties put into a what would otherwise hold a hamburger and have been plenty happy with the taste and experience. No, it's not meat and I am okay with that.

What you are asking is the ability to express oneself without repercussions. I don't think that's a reasonable ideal. This person was free to express themselves by wearing the jersey, and then they were free to suffer the repercussions of their action. Granted, it's an absolutely ridiculous policy, but that's what it was. To your point though, people, in general, cannot expect to walk around spewing whatever nonsense they would like unless they are also willing to accept a response from someone they offend with their nonsense. As always the balance is in what the response and overall interaction become.

Yeah.. he would have said yes to Tampa or Colorado I bet. Not necessarily ANY other team. Ultimately he's full of crap.

I'm at the point where I don't find myself blaming Adams. He was the GM that was brought in because they needed someone to help the coach enable his plan and nothing more. I truly wonder how much Adams had his own say in what was happening. Frankly I think Adams made his power play during the losing streak and especially when he was asked if he had full authority and indicated he did. At that point I am sure he went to the Pegulas and said Krueger's plan is crap. You can back me or back them but right now we're look like crap and every move he made has not panned out. Cue where we are today. I just cannot blame Adams except that he took the job in the first place. but everyone has to start somewhere... he might have already known Krueger was going to be a huge miss.

Well it's clear from your response I simply don't have a damn clue about MLS. 🙂 Appreciate the information.

The list of ingredients, as I understand it, is actually quite small. The ingredient that is the biggest question mark is "heme". That's the secret sauce. I have no idea what's in it, but at some point I suspect we'll be told it's a carcinogen or something. Perhaps it's 100% safe... I have no idea. I've not searched out any of the meat replacements. I'm not sure I care enough to do so at this point. I suppose I'm intrigued, but there are a few places in Rochester that create their own veggie burger and I find those amazing. Sheffield Tavern is one, they make it with chick peas and mushrooms. I had no problem eating that instead of a burger.

Oh, undoubtedly they would try and go down that path. But I would expect they would be shouted down just as everyone else who has tried to support the personal choice camp. Our company just ended the COVID pay policy. Until yesterday if you were out due to COVID you received full salary and it did not decrement PTO/Sick time. I would imagine that whatever CBA our Union people have it probably did not address something like this anyway. It's not the same as mandating a vaccination but it does speak to not paying you if you contract COVID. No idea how any of that is covered in the NFL CBA of course.

Personally I stopped looking at new houses, but I could see the allure. (Multiple Listing Service) 😉 For whatever reason I feel like I never know when soccer seasons begin and end and the teams always seem to be different with the MLS.

Yeah, I don't understand why this car can't be faster... the dude and the team have absolutely dominated F1.. but I guess that level of expectation is what gets and keeps you at that level of dominance. The drama is so manufactured as well. This whole Fernando Alonso thing about his P2's not being as celebrated as Carlos Sainz's was. Pure rubbish. These drivers all have their own sponsors and they have to continually make themselves relevant (while they finish 15th). This is how they do it. Absolute posturing... some of it 100% feels like a soccer player lying on the ground acting like his leg is broken when no one touched him. 🙂