DarthEbriate

Highly recommended! Maybe visit in later May so it's just a touch warmer, but before the summer heat and tourist season mayhem. Or in autumn.

All the locations were great, but I did like Slovenia quite a bit. We only passed through Ljubljana but I thought it was really charming and would've loved to go to college there in an alternate timeline. Bled and the Postojna caves were both nice. As to the statue... we did have a guide give us a 10-second side note on it, but in the same breath mention that the President/First Lady basically treated their country with disdain, at least from a Slovenian point-of-view. I didn't hear anything about re-erecting said statue.

True. Maybe take Laaksonen instead of Bryson in the 4th after a Farrance pick. Laaksonen is still only 22 and was a definite long-term project pick so the jury is still out. He's also only listed at 172 pounds and 6-2... he needs to drink more beer. He had the 2nd most points as a D in ROC this season. It's just disheartening he can't get into the lineup for the playoff experience on a team with a famously thin D-corp this season (once Muel and Fitz were gone). Not even as a 5/6+PP specialist.

Doing some after-the-fact follow-up... Not a good look for Laaksonen to get scratched when the team is dressing 7 D because Weissbach is hurt and Samuelsson is also injured. Do we know if Laaksonen has an injury as well?

Three really wonderful weeks in Italy-Slovenia-Croatia. Minus some COVID for folks in the traveling party and COVID tele-health host no-show shenanigans. And a Happy Ramadan! (if that's an appropriate salutation) for your time away.

Power finished the season +3. He'll be a career + player for us.

The odds: tell me! Gimme gimme gimme all the odds.

INTERIOR: SabreSpace Cruiser. A blast door slides open. Ebriate walks in and sets down suitcases. So! What did I miss? Nah... I'm kidding. I lurked the 'Space and y'all kept me entertained in the downfall of Jackikin Eichwalker and the collapse of his new Empire Knights.

Own goal. In my experience there's no such thing as luck. But tonight the bounces have been Blue.

Seriously this could be 6-5 Buffalo in the lead.

Tarasenko's a pretty player. Now I can start worrying....

Still no worry, but the chances are high quality and it'd be nice to start burying some of them.

Butcher, Butcher, Krebs...

Ok... go get that one back. No need to worry or hurry.

The Sabres are getting lots of deflections tonight. In the dark times November-February this year it felt like the opposition was getting 3 or so good deflections on us each game. Tables... turning...

Power's first assist.

Blerghitty blergh.

I'd like to see Krebs shoot there. If he learns to shoot to the pads for a rebound as an option, his vision and moves could open up even more chances.

Based on some recent charts... articles... podcasts... Asplund is dynamite defensively. If he scores routinely... and the Sabres make the playoffs, which is a prerequisite... sneaky Selke votes.

Career + Owen.

What ... that's icing? Wave that junk off.

Oh! Asp.... almost.

Gooooooool! Asplunder! (And Sabres lead 6-1 in faceoffs) Two seasons ago when Asplund was with Eichel and Reinhart he displayed some really nice hands... if he can build on this... that's one more brick in the wall.

I remember when Thompson's seemingly only move was a curl-and-drag into a snap shot. Growth of young players is fun.

It's my final game of the season before vacation kicks in, so let's go in Sabres and go in full throttle. Hope you have the mildest of mild symptoms and perk right back up!