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Well, in this case it's accurate. You get pass. ? Indeed. Ahhh yup.

Yeah.. and you can take it down even further. I played against a kid from Ohio State one year (when I was 23). He never played professionally anywhere and still made us all look stupid on the ice.

The good news with self-publishing is that you can start and no one else has rights or control. There are quite a few authors out there who started that way and then grew their business. It could help to seek a few out and potentially get their feedback or read on their experiences.. Since I don't know any publishers, it's the best I can offer. ?

I'll be there tonight. Taking my son and 3 of his friends to the game as part of celebrating his 16th birthday. Lord help me the 4 of them (friends in life, hockey and baseball teammates) are insane when they are together. I'm looking forward to it. Hope the Sabres win. That would be nice. ?

Might be that every thread doesn't need to have the management pulled into it? I mean, this can very well just be a conversation about the salary cap right? This is what permeates this forum. I get it, people aren't happy, but when every thread devolves into commentary about management, it starts to lose its shine. I fast forward through most threads now because they all seem to boil back down to complaining about the situation at hand. It's not just you, but in this thread, it was you.

For me, people who do this, about anyone, only succeed in getting me to dismiss them as reasonable. It's shallow to do.

That's how I see it working. I think Biden will get the nod. And boy won't that be interesting to watch those two sides go at each other. Hoooooooooo

Who's the author? Has she considered self-publishing?

All the pep talks in the world don't overcome the reality that you aren't making the playoffs...

Sucked that the Sabres played Colorado who have won 7 straight and then Vegas who I believe had a winning streak going but are 8-2 in their last 10. You go up against hot teams, it sucks. Arizona was the game they had no excuse for... they started out well and then bombed... big time.

Everyone thinks it is the worst possible outcome, until someone else set a new low bar. We thought the Sabres points in 2013-2014 was awful.. a points % of .317. That's awful... but that's only the 46th worse points % season in NHL history -> https://records.nhl.com/records/team-records/standings-points/fewest-points-season-70-game-min The Red Wings this year are at a .257 pace.. only 35 points.. yikes. I mean.. it's not good, but someone will come along and make it not seem so bad. You just have to wait. ?

And has been mentioned before.. what if that problem is #9? He seems to be better this year.. but in the past there were plenty of reasons to think it might be. It might still be for all we know.

Hah. We'r a bit out from practice. I don't really coach anymore, too busy. Just on the board now. Of course I'm not at the board meeting because rather than go there I had to stay home and work all night. So this is my quick break before I get back to working... MF'er.. that's what I get for complaining about missing the game for a board meeting...

I will be in the middle of what will likely be a 3.5 hour long youth baseball board meeting. I'm pretty sure I would rather watch the game. Oh well.. I will be at Thursday's game.

You ever go out and win a shift 1 on 5? Nope. That said, plenty of players have stretches of bad games and you know they do.

Curious.. who signs up to be the disaster goalie? What's the salary on that? Does it count towards the cap? Add one more body to transport to every away game. One more hotel room, food, insurance, salary. Do the owners want that?

This team is not fundamentally flawed any longer. In that situation, the exchange of 2-3 players can go a long way to taking that next step and improving the team. Having played hockey I am surprised you have not experienced this. You cut off the bottom and add to the middle and top and get stronger. Of course the question will be.. are the deals available and do UFAs want to sign here. If a UFA doesn't want to sign here then you have to ask, is it the GM or the owner/franchise? If it's not the GM, then it does no good to complain about the GM. I would suspect that the D gets a sleight overhaul with 2 being moved out in trades. The telling sign? Do Larsson and Girgensons get offers and do they sign here? It's their choice and if they don't then it tells you something about where they see the team. They will get offers on the market, there's no doubt.

No goaltender will fix the defensive zone coverage problems the Sabres are currently exhibiting. It's the same poor coverage during their losing streak earlier this year. They are losing coverage on guys behind the play. Those are easy tap-ins.

One more anti-Botterill thread. I don't know what spreads worse, the angst of Sabres fans or COVID-19.

I mean.. they scored two goals last night, but I get what you are saying. Another game.. guess I will watch.

With less people getting into officiating and those who have dropping out at higher rates (across all sports) you are bound to see a decline in the pool of people who will rise up to officiate at higher levels. Those that do could be those who are insane enough to make it through dealing with spectators at the lower levels for the time it takes to earn their way up into the more selective leagues.

He wasn't already called a bust? I'm kind of disappointed. I would have expected that as the number 2 post in the trade thread.

Not really, they exist somewhere on the gender spectrum and ideally you will let them tell you where.

It's how business works, so that's how you talk. When you listen to analytics people on here talk it's the same kind of jargon, but focused in their area. The same holds true for physics, engineers, etc. Doctors talk about all kinds of stuff in ways no one understands. I'll disagree here. I was a Poli Sci major in college and have an MBA. I definitely did not learn the speak from my Poli Sci era. The question isn't why is it suddenly worth more, it's that it was always worth more and why weren't they charging for it? This is pure business and pricing theory. Granted all people see is "price is going up" and I don't blame them. However, if they raise the prices and people buy the tickets they are vindicated. And yes.. society needs all kinds of whoops and boops because the next generation is being trained to have a much shorter attention span and learning to be inundated with information from a variety of sources at the same time. You have to tailor the experience for them or they will find it boring. Those of us who grew up before each news station was a collection of scroll bars with information will have a hard time grasping it. Kids though, they are on their phones with 150 notifications per second, watching 6 second clips of 35 different things.. continually jumping from one thing to the next.