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I think Allen hurting his arm against the Jets was a big deal to this team. They have issues down the middle on D, and the OL I think has been below average for the past few years, but with a healthy Josh Allen, IF he is fully healthy, they are as good of a contender as anyone. Allen got hurt in that November game against the Jets. As a reminder the Bills played 11 games from then until the end of the year, including 2 playoff games. In those 11 games: Team was 8W-3L with 26.9 points per game. Allen completed 60.9% for 2701 yards, 19td, 11ints. For comparison, I looked at the previous 11 games (including 2 playoff games) before the injury (matching the 11 game number to get the best comparison): Team was 9W-2L with 31.1 points per game. Allen completed 69.4% for 3074 yards, 30td, 6 ints. Oh, and before the injury 3 games against the consensus best team Chiefs, all on the road at Arrowhead, 2 wins and the only loss being the 13 second game. To me, that is a big difference and many of the problems this team has can be 'solved' with a fully healthy Josh Allen.

The couple is fully embracing everything about Texas including the heat. I think they had an opportunity to move the wedding inside but they elected to have it outside. They're both from the Northeast, yet since they got to Texas, they want that lifestyle. They want the outdoor wedding, cowboy boots and cowboy hats are part of their everyday attire - even at work, drive, big full size, pickup trucks, etc. It's not for me and I would have moved the wedding inside for sure but it's their big day and something they want to remember for the rest of their lives.

Coppell. I haven't visited them before but I think that's the name of the suburb they are in. Wedding venue is about another twenty or thirty minutes away from there but I don't know the name of that town. Everyone is flying into DFW airport. I lived in Florida for quite a few years. One reason I moved back was the weather. I got used to the heat in the summer but I never liked it. I'd rather deal with about three very cold months per year, four months of light jacket weather, and five months of beautiful weather.... Rather than oppressive heat for 6+ months per year.

Family wedding this week about an hour from Dallas. Temperature is supposed to be about 110° and fully sunny outside. And it's an outdoor wedding.

Patterson I think is the most underrated star in the league right now. When I watch him play I see an elite talent that is on the border of getting into the mvp conversation very soon. I really think he's that good. If healthy, Thompson Can be in the conversation to place anywhere outside of the top two or three in that list. IF fully healthy.

I don't agree with the near universal view that Cale Makar is the best defenseman in the league. Top ten sure, top five probably/maybe. I also realize that many of the people making a list like this watch him play more than I do, but when I watch him play, he is average defensively. Not awful, but he often leaves his position early to set himself up offensively. I certainly don't watch every game he plays but I watch every time he plays Buffalo, and a handful of other games plus the playoffs, and I just don't see a universal consensus number one guy in the league.

The Sabers are not a big-hitting team. I won't deny that, but 2 points to keep in mind: Buffalo is almost notorious around the league for the official scorer in Buffalo Not crediting many hits, for both the Sabres and the opponents. At least a portion of their lack of hits is due to half their games being played in a place where hits aren't awarded statistically. There is a school of thought that sometimes turning away from the hit at the last minute is better than finishing your check, If finishing your check takes you out of the play. Analyzing Patrice Bergeron's game shows that he would turn away from a lot of hits, but often it got him back into the play quicker. I think Granato may favor this style of play and I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing.

I liked him for a while, but to me Cherry had an act that wore a bit thin. I know others loved him, and I watched him for years but once he was off HNIC I didn't really miss him. I guess I just didn't think he was objective enough. For the most part the 'good ole canadian kids' were the best players, could do not much wrong, but if you were from overseas someone better help you big time if you made one mistake in his eyes. Again, he knew his audience (it was hockey night in CANADA), but I prefer a little more objectivity and less homer-ism.

Preseason games are next to meaningless to me. Other than who came out of the game injured, I don't think anything means much of anything. I'm sure the coaching staff didn't like the penalties, but their reaction to them might simply be you put a microphone in front of them and they have to talk into it so they talk about what happened. From hearing what we hear from coaches and players over the years, and seeing simply how someone who looks great in the preseason might not make the team, and 'vets' who look bad in the preseason turn into their usual selves in the regular season.....well I probably think 60 random plays run in practice not open to the public mean as much (or more) than an entire preseason game.

I liked him also and don't like this trade. Maybe his injuries happened too often, but it seemed to me when he was healthy he was actually a very good 3rd pair guy and even a good 2nd pair guy (2nd guy in the pair, stay at home type). Again, his play was inconsistent, but I still would rather he be here than not.

Maybe. But maybe not. Often times the prospect (the lottery pick) is traded for a player that might be better now, but is on the dowside of their peak, hasn't come up through your own system, and often times is overpaid (certainly more than a prospect in their first few years).

As others have said, none. There is a case to be made that prospects are overvalued, BUT that doesn't mean they have no value and can be just thrown around for the sake of making a move. All of the above options to me are very close to 'making a move' for the same of wanting to make a move. Someone posted something a little while ago saying how fanbases and teams tend to love their prosects too much, and that many of them won't turn out to be something great. You can use that to support NOT trading them. If only 1 out of 3 or 1 out of 4 of them work out, you can say you want to hold onto them so you that actually get the ones that work out. If your team is constructed properly, you don't need all your prosepcts to pan out, but you want to have enough of them that the ones that do work out are there to plug into your lineup going forward.

Every week something happens to me during the week I just want to complain to someone about....maybe on a Monday or Tuesday night and I can't wait to post it here on Thursday. But then when Thursday morning comes, I forget what it was! That is my complaint for the day.

Edmonton - Just too far away from everything else Rangers - Don't want to deal with everything Manhattan (traffic, crowds of people, etc) Arizona - Middle of no-where, don't want to live in an area surrounded by so much desert, heat (I could put Vegas here also)) Florida - I lived in Florida, disliked it greatly. The weather, the culture, everything about it. I spent years living there and dread every moment I go there to visit relatives Tampa - See above

Columbus, Minnesota, Boston, Philly, Vancouver. (not in that specific order) Simply because of all the places I ever visited in my life, they are the 5 NHL cities I'd want to live in the most.

Probably, but the question is...he is isn't a top 12 guy, do you still want him playing in Roch getting minutes? I always think the 13th guy should be a vet that can 'step in' when needed (Like Hinestroze) or a very VERY young guy getting his first look (18 or 19 year old first rounders who can get something from 'just being around the team in practice'). Maybe as the 13th guy you keep him around but he routinely subs in on the 4th line. Every couple games someone comes out of that line and you put him in (I guess you'd have to trust him to play multiple positions for that though).

Its a boring answer, but it all depends on how he does in camp/preseason. If he's one of the 12 best forwards, you find a spot for him on the roster. If not, he goes back to Rochester.

Could be gender neutral..but the more I think about it, the more I feel it is just about all women that I come across. I'll add one thing I see the 'guys' doing that is similar....usually people who are 'older': You have a couple walking the aisles shopping, when the women is pushing the cart the 'guy' with her tends to just aimlessly wander, but also not paying attention to surroundings. So in this case it seems the 'woman' is doing the shopping, and the guy is just 'along for the ride' but really walking side by side with the car and looking at everything EXCEPT who else is in the aisle shopping or trying to pass them.

What I see a lot (usually, not but not all the time women), push their car right down the center of the aisle. Stop to look at something...Not enough room to pass them on the left, but with their cart in the middle, they keep on hand on the car and use the other hand to reach for and read the label on something on the right...completely oblivious of anyone else in the aisle or anyone else behind them as their cart and their body becomes a full roadblock.

We have a cat that practices this better than any people. He can't walk in a straight line. If he looks slightly to the right, he ends up walking slightly to the right. Turns his head while walking slightly to the left, and his path changes slightly to the left. I swear I haven't seen this cat walk in a straight line. People can learn from animals.

Its the society we grew up and and are surrounded by. Most billboards, ads on tv, social media posts, packing of our favorite products.....the way we are sold 'stuff' and 'services' is by telling us, No, TEACHING us we deserve it. We are as good as anyone else. Don't let someone else have what you don't have. Get people around you to be jealous of you. That has led to a 'me first' attitude, an attitude instilled in us to 'look out for number one'. Over time, that leads to the selfish behavior you are talking about. It spills into sports....MY team is all that matters. Into politics...If my side can't win than I'll take pleasure in 'your' side losing...etc. There may be other factors, and some can tune those things out...but overall it is a large part of who we are and the way we act.

Maybe this is a story for another thread, but its close enough I figure i'd bring it up... I talked extensively with a friend of mine who spends a LOT of time in Europe (he lived there in a few different nations for his job and travels there frequently) and he brings up to me that people from Europe are amazed at the cost of programming here in the USA. The thing he brings up is....you pay for TV if there are no ads, but if they are going to show you advertisments, why are you paying so much on top of that? Many European sports do not show ads during the broadcast at all. F1 races have few (if any) ad breaks. In some European leagues hockey and soccer may have few, or no ads. I think he brought up Denmark...many local shows have no ads at all. If you are watching an 'american' show, you might watch the entire show (22-23 minutes) and then they show ads in the 7 minutes straight that are left until the next show starts. France, Italy, and I think Germany he said have ads on some station, but far less than here. Again, maybe you are getting lower quality programming, maybe not. But the big thing he hears alot is he doesn't understand why we pay so much for Cable TV and then sit through 10-15 minutes of ads for a product we pay for. We 'pay' for the 'right' to watch 20%-25% of our screen time with ads.

I'm moving in the other direction. Now, I don't like the offseason where we talk about the same minor stuff over and over and over...I want the season to start. BUT, for me I like talking 'between' games about what we saw. I like player movement in the season. Talking about Line changes. Watching the standings. I do LIKE watching the games, but to me the discussion of the game and the 'strategy' and discussion of what happens next is more fun. To me, what happens between the games is more 'different'. Teams are different. The way the game is played is different, thoughts on how to build a team evolve so there is always something to discuss there. As far as the games themselves...there isn't much in each game that I haven't already seen, so other than some minor changes it just doesn't excite me as much as it used to.

Its about having courtesy for others. When you are impacting other people, have some courtesy. When people drive on the highway, the speed LIMIT is 55 or 65...if someone drives 40 or 45 it isn't against the law, but it would be not too courteous to others. There are a bunch of other examples. What is my hurry? My hurry is that I might be on my way to work, have an appointment...and I have given myself enough time plus a little extra to account for things so I'm not late, but I would not anticipate getting in line at a grocery store and waiting 2 to 3 times as long as expected. What I described isn't any less 'annoying' than just about any other complaint in this thread.

The 'old women at the grocery store' issues, there are so many. This is the one I love the most... Express line, this time she is in FRONT of me. I have 3 or 4 things I just want to check out with.. -She has more than the limit -Her bill comes to something like $35.27 -AFTER the Cashier tells her what the bill is, and she asks 2 more times just to verify the ammount.....then she SLOWLY goes into her purse...digs around for 10-20 seconds...pulls out the change purse....slowly digs around in there, looks up and asks for the 3rd time how much the bill is because she forgot...then digs around some more for exact change, and I mean EXACT change down to the penny. Counts it out SLOWLY to the cashier...but nope, she thinks she gave the correct ammount but the cashier has to correct her and tell her she gave the wrong ammount. Looking confused the customer digs in the change purse and eventually gets it correct... then when the tranaction is done, there is no moving on to make room for the next person..nope..puts that purse right back on the little ledge, takes the change purse and slowly packs it away in the bigger purse, zips it up and THEN moves on to make room for the next customer. I swear, I know people get older and sometimes take a little more time to figure things out, but a debit or credit card is made for stuff like this..one swipe and you are done. I don't know what is worse...getting in the express line and having that happen on occasion, or going to the self checkouts where all 4-6 of them are occupied by older people who just can't figure out how to use them or non-older people who just take their time because they don't care. -