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  3. OT Star Wars Rise of Skywalker

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    I don't have any quotes from TROS yet. Well, I have one, but I won't play it until it's appropriate in a hockey sense.

    It met my low expectations and I had fun watching it. But goodness golly, in a series where suspension of disbelief and writing-by-the-seat-of-your-pants is a badge of honor, this one...  It is so very retconned and disjointed and is wearing the biggest pants ever. Everyone can say what they will about the The Last Jedi, but it did sweep the decks clean for a Rey-Kylo story to close it out. That story is in TROS sort of (with some very good and some... well, some not so good).

    I guess my summary is this: this is what happens when you don't have source material and three different people write different sections. George Lucas made up the original and he made Leia and Luke siblings after Empire and so it's a bit messy. Then the prequels were pre-ordained, just oddly crafted. But this sequel trilogy just doesn't have an end-to-end cohesive story. And that's sad, since Star Wars was once the simplest story of... ever.

  6. Buffalo Bills 2019-2020

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    2 hours ago, inkman said:

    Waaaay too many people poking the bear that is the Patriots right now. 

    The rest of the civilized world is eager for them to fall. Once the poking is done and they're down, then they're going to get kicked. Right now, Buffalo is the team to do it. Come playoff (regardless of outcome in weeks 16 and 17) it'll be whatever other team is playing against them. Someone just punt them into the stratosphere already.

  9. Favorite Christmas song

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    O Holy Night, Silent Night/Stille Nacht, Carol of the Bells, While Shepherds Watched, and What Child is This are all up there for me. I like the moodier ones that are good for drinking cocoa and reading/writing while snow falls and a fire burns. Album-wise: Tony Bennett's Snowfall, Elvis's original album, George Winston's December, and Vince Guaraldi Trio's Charlie Brown, and the outlier Christmas Sing Along with Mitch.

    But I also unashamedly have these on my xmas playlist:

    Wesley Willis - Merry Christmas
    Wesley Willis - The Chicken Cow
    MST3K - Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas
    Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
    Ani DiFranco - Welcome To
    And a large swath of Jeremy Soule's soundtrack to Skyrim

  11. GDT Dec 17 2019 Sabres @ Leafs. 7pm ET. NBCSN

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    23 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

    It did warp my mind. Have a question for you. Are Eichel's rear panels supposed to function as force field deflectors or are the panels themselves deflectors?

    He may not look much (different from last year), but he's got it where it counts. He's made a lot of special modifications to himself. Namely, he's upgraded to an ion cannon that renders the goalie inoperable, beyond his usual turbolasers. He also has a planetary shield that he showed in Nashville where all defenders were forced up to 10 feet away. Finally, rumor has it that he has in fact installed a new "Jagr" rear deflector shield. These are a deflector shield, and the panels themselves are still susceptible to damage if the shield is down or compromised.

  14. Casey Mittlestadt has been sent to Amerks

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    Casey will be back in the big league. I have seen it. (Besides, I have big plans for Petula Clark auf Deutsch.)

    Some guys just take a bit of time to get their game and strength to sync up. And the AHL is perfect for prospects to figure that out. It's still rough and tumble, still filled with powerful grown men, but it's just a step slower on the ice and a few more gaps in between games to rest.

    Reino was in a similar during his 9-game tryout his rookie year, and it took him a couple seasons to stay on his skates. Same with Girgensons... he was still ending up on his butt all the time for 2 or 3 seasons. Now, Girgs is good along the boards and Reinhart routinely makes those nifty passes along the boards but now he stays up the whole time.

     

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  15. Casey Mittlestadt has been sent to Amerks

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    8 hours ago, Ogre said:

    Uhhhhhmmmmm. Didn’t he become a quadruple amputee after that speech?

    (fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to mentioning the last two years of failure which leads to a Jedi slap in the back of the head)(jk)

    At the very least BCA is gonna sell the hell out of some tickets for a game or two.

    Well, yes. But he did get "evil" enough to change his eye color. Miitts will help the Amerks, and he shouldn't be back with the Sabres until he can hold his own along the boards. In the meantime, the one skill of his the Sabres could miss is the shootout skill (if they could get through an overtime).

  19. Rochester Amerks 2019-2020 Season

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    46 minutes ago, shrader said:

    Right, and many guys don't know when/how to walk away.

    True. It's just as daunting for the guy who's hung on and loved the game and the camaraderie but doesn't have a "regular" job or lead or whatnot to go on to (and no savings or big salary) as it is for the great player who's had a full career never known anything else.     (Unless this is walk/how comment is a dig at my quad-amputee status. ;-]  Then....  heyyyy! )

  20. EDIT Bogosian Requests Trade, Now EROD wants One As Well

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    Bogosian needed start with a rehab assignment. Have him play 4 games in Rochester to knock off the rust and get back up to AHL speed first. Instead, he's been much too slow to be showcased and he's been outshone by our young puck-movers and revitalized Risto. Add to that the misses on assignments, is still getting up to speed with the new coach (no camp, etc.), and not being as tenacious as he once was...   The best thing Bogo could do is be overly physical for a little bit, if his body is up to it, to try and catch a GM's eye who thinks their team lacks grit and might overpay for it and some depth.

    Miller (3rd pairing in LV) was for a 2nd and a 5th and had years of term left. But he's healthy and has high-end shot and could be a 2nd PP guy.

    Bogo is an injury-prone 3rd pairing, who never gets PP time and is on a bad and expiring contract. Maybe a 4th? Maybe a prospect who needs a change of scenery? Putting on my "Other GM" hat, I'm not giving us anything for Bogo.

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