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And has been for quite some time.... in the mid to late 90's I knew a couple of girls who were dating some Sabres and the stories... platters piled with it. Of course I'm seeing this posted everywhere now.

As much fun as it would be to see an open practice... I'll be seeing Stockholm.. and that $15.50 will be put to better use for me. Locals will love it though. ?

Not true. He missed seeing The Waterboy. Why would you lie to him? ?

Any other options? Asking for a friend.

This my story with stone fruits basically. I grew up eating plums and cherries like a maniac. Now, I can't really touch them. I can eat them cooked, but if they are fresh and I eat them I will have an allergic reaction. I don't miss the cherries, but plums... damn plums. I think it's OAS - Oral Allergy Syndrome, not so much an allergy to the food, but no amount of cleaning, etc. can save me from the reaction to the raw fruit.

I'm closer to 50 than 40... I'm still waiting for the day I grow up.

I totally agree. A good 2C is what, at worst the 5th best player on any given team? You figure, 1C, a top winger, a top D, and possibly a goaltender could rated higher. The suggestions that Risto, alone, brings back a good 2C are quite hopeful. It'll have to be a package deal, one that potentially moves a few players and the Sabres aren't even in a position to help a team out with a salary dump as they are over the cap as well. Settle in that any Risto trade is likely to get a serviceable player and potentially a pick that can be used to improve the lineup later. Yes, later. Much to some people's chagrin. Between the Lightning and Leafs loading up this season and the Bruins probably going all in trying to get as much in the waning years of their super stars, the Sabres, even with a 2C, are fighting a steep uphill climb into the playoffs.

I was educating my family about this last night. I made a corn just off the cob/tomato salad with avocado, scallion, cilantro, lime juice. And I mentioned how much it would suck if cilantro tasted like soap to me. At first they didn't believe such a thing existed, much less that it was pretty common. That said, if it has always tasted like soap, you really aren't missing it as much as if you at one point knew how awesome it was and then had it taste like soap later. Unlikely to happen... and I am sure my commentary on the awesomeness of cilantro is not really helping you right now. ?

I'm loving the responses... you know.. The Ducks had gold before Vegas had a shot at a hockey team. The Stars... the list goes on. This response was pretty golden:

Can't each of us just like it or not like it without resorting to insulting each other over our choices? No need to perpetuate the Internet stereotype. Frankly, I think they are amazing. Great job.

No, it's the strawman that people use to break everyone else's back. But, let's use a single situation, in a single year, to define decades. "It's totally irrational so it must be the right thing to do". - The 21st Century Schizoid Man.

Me too, although you deserve it. ?

Unfiltered, orange juice looking beers.

It might be frustration to a certain degree. I tend to think that he has trouble following all the moving pieces and gets fixated and pulled away from where he should be. Basically, he lacks the vision to see everything going on and he's being asked to do more than he's capable of doing. Perhaps a better role is for him to stand in front of the net and clear the crease of anything that comes near it? I'm curious, do these charts account for the lack of defense played by the forwards who are on the ice at the same time as the defense? Given that covering a zone once an opponent is established basically turns into a five man initiative, if the stats don't account for the forwards it seems like it would be missing something. I am sure there is some relativity in saying that OTHER defenders might not have had that problem? I honestly don't know. Asking for education. There's a point in a game/shift where a player may reach a certain level of physical fatigue or exhaustion that results in them either not being able to make a play, choose to make a lazy play, or due to fatigue make a poor decision. It's a reasonable question. I don't think it's the difference of playing 28 minutes to playing 8 minutes and the line may not even be there, but the concept is solid enough to be discussed I would think. I also think they just ask him to be a player he's not able to be.

Trust this.. Ristolainen is out of position, a lot. Perhaps he's been told to try and be more physical just because he's the only D who can, but he shouldn't be told that. His positioning issues increased the more he went after being the "tough guy D". They need to settle him down and change him from the mindset that he needs to be something he is not, despite his size.

Indeed. Luongo should have his number retired just for his Twitter prowess. ?

Just curious, did you typo here or did JBot say he liked how good the Jokiharju was for Sweden. Just asking, because he's Finnish, not Swedish. Don't care if you had a typo, but if JBot said Sweden... hoo boy.

I was thinking more Captain Jack Sparrow.

I see this was started on the 29th... This was my view that morning.. sorry, I was busy. ?

A great many people do not want to have to work hard, at anything. Thinking included. Most want to live their lives in their peaceful bliss, watching TV, streamers, clicking like, swiping right. Whenever anything gets in their way they whine about how someone else should fix it. I'm not at all surprised.. any more.

Someone just walked into my wheelhouse. Let's be clear, the surveillance of United States citizens has gone on far longer than any single Presidency and has occurred regardless of which party is currently in the Oval Office. https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-11-07/history-electronic-surveillance-abraham-lincolns-wiretaps-operation-shamrock https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html https://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-lets-nsa-hide-and-surveil-in-plain-sight-the-intercept-reports/ It has long been speculated that the NSA can break heavy encryption algorithms already via brute force. The amount of compute power they have is incredible. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-the-nsa-can-break-trillions-of-encrypted-web-and-vpn-connections/ As for the hardware manufacturer's installing surveillance technology, one only needs to look at the recent case against SuperMicro. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/new-bloomberg-report-says-backdoored-supermicro-hardware-infiltrated-major-us-telecom/ The interesting thing with the SuperMicro case is just how much pushback there was on the Bloomberg article. In many circles, it's believed that the louder the rebuttal the more likely it was to have occurred. In general, when we hear things about "flaws, glitches, bugs" its hard to not believe that these are very well hidden back doors that were intentionally put in and left to operate until some researcher finds it. Then it's denounced as a bug, a fix is put in, and that loophole is closed. A new one is usually opened somewhere else, or has been there. US Citizens entering the country can be subjected to the following. https://papersplease.org/wp/2018/01/05/new-dhs-policy-on-demands-for-passwords-to-travelers-electronic-devices/ It's easy enough for the agents to confiscate your device, image it, and send that to the NSA to be decrypted. All of this pales in comparison to the amount of information people provide to corporations, every day. Cell phones are the single greatest tracking device ever invented. People willingly attach a GPS unit to them and allow their every action to be tracked. The extension of "smart home" devices and personal assistants eroded the last barrier of privacy and still people are willing to put them in their homes. (I have them too). Every bit of the communication path your data travels is harvesting information that is used to track and model you. Your ISP has incredible amounts of data on your habits despite most web traffic now being encrypted. Meta data is an incredible source of data from which you can accurately determine the hidden data that people believe is safe via encryption. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/23/anonymous-data-might-not-be-so-anonymous-study-shows.html In short.. I stopped worrying about being tracked and identified a long time ago. The only way to avoid it is to go completely off the grid and leave the country. I know I am being tracked, recorded, having my data collected, and being modeled by AI/ML. I accept it. Of course I avoid things like that stupid Aging app that made the rounds the past few weeks. The concern that a Russian software developer made the program raised a lot of security concerns. It was talked about on news outlets. The focus, naturally, was on the fact that your picture could be sent to Russia. It was the wrong focus. The real focus should have been in the EULA that grants the company Which basically means that they can take your photo and use to create political misinformation ads and you can do nothing about it. But hey, its awesome to see how you'll look when older right? Sigh... the world we live in. Oh.. one more thing.. I have not watched it yet but plan to. The Great Hack on Netflix. I hear great things about it. https://www.wired.com/story/the-great-hack-documentary/?verso=true

Strangely it's the same as real life. 000 games played, 000 goals, 000 assists. ?

Thanks. (and to the others that chimed in).