Bmwolf21

I've never really paid attention. I'm too busy stabbing.

Ugh.

JVR using Sabres as pylons.

Yes. I don't think it is too slow. I think the Brits are too tenacious and too fast. It bothers me more that they are down every damn alley and every damn side street.

I'm playing it now but I am not sure what you're talking about.

Coworkers who are dead wrong on something (at least in my opinion) and then want to argue strenuously about how I am wrong.

ESPN listed five teams right off the bat: Islanders, Avalanche, Jets, Blue Jackets, and their long shot was Philly.

Hoping I can get out of work and then home from my kid's practice in time to catch some of the game.

Watching St. Louis - Colorado on the NHLN and this is a clear example of a goalie literally keeping his team in the game. Varlamov is standing on his head in this one. Blue outshooting Avs 9-2 after one and 24-10 going into second intermission.

Lindy's a class act, and a true Buffalonian. I hope that he takes a step back, enjoys his family and life, and then returns to finds more success - like The Chimp says, wins a Cup the year after we do - but hopefully somewhere not named Toronto, Philly, Carolina, Ottawa....

And according to guys who have coached with him you are absolutely dead wrong - great coach, creative, etc. Guys who not wired to coach today's athlete don't get invited to coach on Olympic Gold Medal teams. I'm sure you will see a difference in the team - new voice, new approach, new attitude will change things. Doesn't mean a damn thing in terms of your ridiculous assertion that he can't coach today's athlete. Same here.

Stafford's not. I believe he was considered part of The CoreTM. In any case, even though the other three are playing pretty well and and pretty consistently, a little extra kick in the ass might not hurt.

Sounds like The CoreTM is sufficiently shaken. That alone is a good reason to make the move.

Not according to his contemporaries: "Lindy is going to have lots of choices," Hitchcock said. "He’s a great coach. For me, he’s a really creative guy. I really saw that at the Olympics." Team Canada 2010 head coach Mike Babcock also enjoyed getting to know Ruff as part of the Olympic process and, like Hitchcock, felt for his colleague on Wednesday. "The big thing for Lindy, as a player and then as a coach, he’s had an unbelievable run in Buffalo," the Detroit Red Wings coach told ESPN.com on Wednesday. "His family has grown up there. He’s always going to be part of Buffalo. In saying that, Lindy Ruff is a very, very, very good coach. They had a hell of a team there at one time. Their team is not as good as it used to be. He still found a way to be competitive. You know it’s going to be a tough time for his family, but he’s going to move on and be excellent somewhere else. Someone is going to get themselves one hell of a person and a great, great coach." http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/22226/firing-likely-not-surprising-to-lindy-ruff

Don't taze me, bro!

As others have suggested...it was Darcy's plan all along. The Lindy move was a smokescreen to distract us from the McCormick move.

Unrelated note: I am loving the little spats that are flaring up all over the board, but mainly in this thread. It is definitely entertaining.

I thought so. I didn't pay great attention to the first couple periods of last night's game. Like the Sabres players. EDIT: SIX! WE MADE SIX!

Yes, but there is only room for one Cody on the roster at this time.

Didn't Kaleta take Staff's place on the 2nd line last night? Or was I misinformed?

We're getting this to six, ######. McCormick should have been playing on the second line instead of Kaleta. Discuss.

We'll see.

It makes me feel dirty, but I agree with you. Agreed.

Normally I'd agree, but in this case I feel like the two are too intimately intertwined. Time for a clean sweep.

I wouldn't actively shop them, but of the three Vanek is the only one I wouldn't entertain trading. Miller or Pominville? Yeah, for the right return - absolutely. I'd also argue that the biggest components of The Core are standing behind the bench and in the GM's box.