X. Benedict
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Pavlovian conditioning says you learn to love it.
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So Kaleta's hit was 3 seconds after the player passed the puck and he ran him from 60 feet away?
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Woo woo woo. Easy kids. The sky is not falling. The kids are progressing. The vets need to step up yes but the team isn't a train wreck. We may miss the playoffs but we won't be a favorite for Matthews. Also a 5 game win streak puts us back in the playoff picture. Just relax. It was always going to be an ebb n flow season.
I agree.
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I'm really not seeing a lack of heart. I'm seeing a team that can't generate a thing on the left side. Esp. Left point.That's not exactly what I was thinking or what I thought pA was trying to get across.
We have a very skilled and dedicated teacher/coach, but he seems to lake the ability to get his troops fire up before battle. Something Nolan excelled at. DDB needs to put a little disco into his pregame pep talk, and less x's and o's.
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Unacceptable. ###### Dan's system. They needed more of Nolan's heart tonight.
You prefer 2-1 loses with 15 shots?
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Lindy to the best as I could see throughout the game wasn't playing a 1-2-2 defensive game. Send 1 forechecker in to the O zone, use the other 2 forwards at the red line to make are the first pass out of the zone is along the boards and bottling up the neutral zone. That is what the Sabres where doing. Something a coach would do to try and even out the skill differential and keep the game low scoring and hope for a lucky bounce. #TedsNolanHockey
Yep. It was bylsma more than Ruff playing bottled.
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Sabres are better. The game is dull.
This is league wide.
Leads don't change.
As for Buffalo this wasn't going to change overnight.
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Reading between the lines, I take it the Bills' clock management will again put their coaching staff in the crosshairs. Dan Bylsma deserves some scrutiny this morning as well.
St. Louis' second goal came after a close play at the blue line that was clearly onside. Enough time passed to ensure that whoever watches these things upstairs should have had several good looks at it and should have advised the bench not to challenge (and there's also enough time after the goal to take a couple of more looks at it). I don't know what info. was given to Bylsma, but he challenged.
Here's the troubling thing: Bylsma apparently didn't think it was offside.
“I was pretty confident it wasn’t offside, just six and a half minutes left, the next goal was worth challenging,” he said.
This makes me question his judgment. He threw away his timeout on a wing and a prayer. That timeout could have come in handy when the Sabres had a two-man advantage later on. What's worse is that he no longer had the ability to challenge a call. Sometimes, hockey is a game with rapid-fire goals, or so I've heard. The Sabres could have tied the game on the next shift and St. Louis could have re-taken the lead shortly after that on a play that was an acre offside, or involved obvious interference with the goalie, and Bylsma would have had no recourse.
If Nolan had done this, the dumb-dumb comments would be flying around for sure.
It's a good time for a time-out anyway. So I'll say it isn't dumb. I would have done the same thing.
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Turkey shoots down Russian jet.
This could get interesting.
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I have a double losing hangover. Time for a run of luck.
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Give him the 1st shovel, Dirty Dan!
he needs the first shovel.
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Of course not.
Thanks. I was puzzling over your response. From what I can gather Jeb Bush and Cruz seem to favor a religious test, while Christie says that he'll just ban immigration from Syria. Trump says he'll even send the ones already here back:
Not sure where Rubio stands.
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One might also wonder about the "side" taken by a poster who doesn't bother to criticize, in a thread about an act of mass murder, the murderers themselves, and instead chooses to criticize corporations, climate change, the Christian right, Republicans, etc.
So, do you favor a religious test to enter the country?
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Fair enough, but this time he looked right at Eichel. In any case, I would stop short of describing it as selfishness, despite the puck hog attribution. More like overconfidence, wanting to be the man, etc. Here's a screen shot:
Whoa. I saw EICHEL open, but that looks like major pucksluttyness.
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Did anyone else notice a play in the second period when the Sabres had a three on two and Kane took the puck toward the Dallas line and ignored Eichel all alone on the far side? A quick pass and Eichel would have been sprung. Instead Kane carried in and took a shot from the high slot through traffic while Eichel remained statue-like at the blue line. Kane was a puck hog, but I thought Eichel's reaction was troublesome as well.
Kane. Doesn't have good peripheral vision. That's his weakness. I don't think it is selfishness.
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As of this morning, Toronto is tied with the Sabres in points for last in the division (albeit with 1 more game played)
Also, they have a better goal differential. (Sabres are -9, Toronto is a -8)
Toronto is even playing better lately, winning 6 of their last 10, and 4 of their last 5, in the last 10 games, 2 of those wins are against Dallas and one at Nashville.
I'd say that Buffalo has had a much harder schedule, but with TO coming away beating Dallas twice (once on the road) and at Nashville, I'm not sure.
So is Toronto on a 'hot streak' that is likely to end? Or are these 2 teams very close and are likely to be neck-and-neck in the standings all year? Or is Toronto improving so quicklly they are going to be better than the Sabres this year?
The Leaves have had a hot stretch of goaltending and are well coached. I expect them to be a outside the playoffs and comfortably so.
But they will win some games.
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The original Buffalo 41 is their Rob Ray? Hadn't latched onto that. How long has he been in that role?
Not sure. He's one of their studio guys.
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Dallas is the better team. No need for scapegoating here.
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Missing the net was worse than taking a stupid penalty. At least the stupid penalty didn't result in a 2 on 1 seconds later. WTF Gionta?
Can't miss there. Grrrr.
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Took the train. Cheaper than parking. Sitting next to jsb and met sabresouth.
Nice.
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Lucky to get out of that one with a 1-0 score.
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I was just going to post about that. I'm watching the Dallas feed and they're one of the best combos I've heard around the league. It's tough to beat Strader, he is one of the best in my opinion. Reaugh tops it off nicely.Something annoying about their feed, about once every minute the audio skips.
Nice to see Stu again too.
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Dallas has a good broadcasting team.
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I don't see how you can have a GDT when Liz and Dembe have been arrested.
Hey now. I haven't watched it yet!!!! :censored:
Who is Rhino?
in The Aud Club
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Samson. The kid's name is friggin Samson.
How many Samsons will the Sabres ever have?
Case closed.