woods-racer
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You are in the worlds most northern year round open water port right? There's this Atlantic warm water current phenomenon and stuff..I have the great ability to remember stuff that usually serves no useful purpose to my day to day existence, but occasionally I'm able to use it for causing trouble...
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- 14C ... -26C with the wind chill.
That's ... 6F and -15F, for you folks on the old fashioned measuring stick.
It was -24 Deg F, not sure wind chill factor, this morning.
And your telling me it was -6 deg F, 3000 frickin miles to the north of me, about 10 ft (3.3 meters on the new fashioned measuring stick) from the center of the North Pole in Halifax and your almost 20 degrees warmer...That's not right, just not right.
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I don't recognize that name. To many *O*s and also a *D* in that name. No way he's a Sabre.
I do know they have a Cy Hgsn on the roster.
Some think he is Welsh, but I'm going with Norwegian.
That's more like it....
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Neuvirth brings a 4th rounder at best. I am sick of those kind of trades. Just sign him now to a fair deal and it is one thing less to worry about this summer.
One quick thing on Fucale and Subban. Most on here say it is not worth a 1st round pick in a goalie. Yet, trading for them has been brought up. Fucale could have been picked by us in the second round. You think we get him for just a 2nd now? Doubt it. Who would be more valuable in our organization now - Fucale or Compher? Big mistake that draft year.
Not going to debate the fourth rounder at all, I think that is about right. I just don't see GMTM signing him (his preference for big). So a fourth is something, compared to just letting him go for nothing., and I don't see GMTM not getting something.
GMTM seems to be stock piling goalies, big goalies, a late round Miller find may be what he is looking to achieve.
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-15 deg F this morning here and I'm not that far down the lake...Good news is there should be only a few people at canal side if you want a nice skate before the game.
My hope over the few weeks is Neuvirth plays him self into trade-able, so I hope they do play him often and he performs well. Then start bringing up the young ones.
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If the Sabres had a Kessel type player with one-tenth the offensive out put he could be called Hodson, Hodgy, Hodgson, Coney, Cody, HaHd-Son, Hahdey, Hodgey. The Mini Me of Kessel? Min-K?
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JJ,
For what it's worth, we are all Sabre fans here. We wouldn't be here if we were not. Sometimes emotions get the best of us.
I am fine with your avatar and your cheering for the Panthers.
I have ties to Montreal and cheer for them, but, like you, the Sabres are my team.
What is this? Who kidnapped the Halifax Instigator and wrote this post?
Fucale is very over-rated for some reason. He's definitely not a top 5 goalie prospect, he's on the border of top 10
this is how to do it...
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Toronto isn't catching us. No way. They're going to win some games if for no other reason than Kessel isn't only scoring 5 over the final 28 like he has the previous.
I hope your right, it would be Hockey God karma to do that to us, ruin our run.
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AAAAHHHH, all is right in the world nowYep. Once 2 can't catch you, you have clinched 1. How's that for the 'moment of Zen.' ;)
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Not just one injury, but I thought I heard a broken bone in his foot, a broken bone in his hand, and the shoulder. He just couldn't work through the pain and loss of strength from the shoulder injury any longer, hence the surgery.
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Good call Heimdall. The best refs or linesmen are never talked about as they are opaque to us fans.
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Bucky's a moron.
...I miss Jim Kelley. :(
YES, Yes!
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Stanlee looks like the winged dude from that old Flash Gordon Movie with Sam Jones(?)
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It's a good thing you guys don't get caught up in minutiae .
You two are making my head spin. It took us all long enough to figure out this bizarro world CHL language where up is down, now you guys are debating the made up RPTC stat from the invented reverse standings where a win is a loss. :unsure:
CLEARLY the post of the year!
Clearly the thread with the most nominated posts of the year!
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Pulling off the first blockbuster trade of the NHL season, on paper the Buffalo Sabres gave up a lot.
In acquiring volatile top three forward Evander Kane, defensemen Zach Bogosian, and a goalie prospect for Tyler Myers, Drew Stafford, Joel Armia, Brendan Lemieux, and their worst slotted first round selection in this summer’s draft, it seems the Sabres gave up a king’s ransom for two players with all the potential in the world and little to guarantee they will achieve it.
However, a deeper look reveals the trade isn’t about Kane or Bogosian.
It’s about Connor McDavid.
McDavid, whose talents and contribution to his future NHL team may rival Sidney Crosby, Mario Lemieux, or Wayne Gretzky; is the undisputed top ranked prospect heading into the 2015 draft. Jack Eichel, who is a poor man’s McDavid, has also been forecasted to have a similar effect at his new NHL home. They are both once in a generation prospects who can alter the course of a franchise on talent alone. Take them out of the picture and there is a huge drop-off.
Hockeyprospect.com, ISS Hockey, and NHL Central Scouting Mid-Terms all have McDavid ranked 1st and Eichel ranked 2nd. After that there is no clear consensus pick. No franchise-changer. No one worth tanking a season for.
If the Buffalo Sabres finish last in the league, they have a 20% chance of securing the first spot, and are guaranteed the 2nd pick. Either selection will give them a building block at Center that they don’t have on their roster nor will be available to acquire on the trade market.
Finishing second-to-last gives them a 13% chance of landing the number one pick and a 66.5% chance of falling to the 3rd pick. The Sabres are currently four points behind the Edmonton Oilers for the worst record, and ten points behind Carolina with two-thirds of the season gone.
Simply put, General Manager Tim Murray is playing the percentages and he’s not taking any chances.
Stafford is a UFA at the end of the season. His 31-goal season seems like an eternity ago, and his 10 goal average over the last three years has frustrated fans and coaches alike.
Myers has been a huge disappointment since his Calder Trophy campaign when he lead the Sabres defense with 11 goals and 48 points. Over his last three seasons, he has 42 points combined, which is underwhelming production for the seven-year $38.5 million extension he signed in 2011.
With Stafford being the team’s third leading scorer and Myers leading the team in minutes played this season, Murray is giving up two players who are major contributors at the moment. Consider that Bogosian is the only piece who can contribute this season; the trade makes the Sabres less-skilled on paper for now.
Mission accomplished.
AJ Jakubec from TSN reported that Lemieux’s dad Claude told the Sabres point blank his son wasn’t going to sign with them. That makes his inclusion in this deal a little easier to digest. Although Armia is reportedly on the verge of being NHL ready, his success at the next level is a crapshoot. A late first-round pick is years away from being NHL ready, if ever. The Sabres farm system is ranked first in the league by Hockeysfuture.com. What the Sabres sent to Winnipeg shouldn’t be a deal-breaker considering Buffalo’s depth.
Safe to say all 30 NHL teams would have traded the entire package Buffalo gave away on Wednesday for the rights to McDavid or Eichel alone. If you add in Kane and Bogosian, one could say Murray got the steal of the century.
Any team who isn’t challenging for last place and a chance at McDavid or Eichel wouldn’t be able to receive the same value as the Sabres. That’s what makes Buffalo’s situation so unique.
Despite the song and dance that Murray slings across any interview or press conference, there is a method to his madness. He will blame himself for the team being bad. He will blame himself for the team losing 14 in a row. He will stomp his foot and pound his fist about how the players are not trying to tank the season for the rights to the next hockey messiah.
That’s because he is doing it for them with a grin and a wink from owner Terry Pegula.
Murray’s excitement is building as he prepares for this summer’s draft. He did throw a bit of shade on head coach Ted Nolan during Wednesday’s press conference regarding the Sabres recent play, which in my mind is laying the foundation to bring in the guy he really wants to lead the team, Luke Richardson.
Murray’s work isn’t done. Arguably he has some huge pieces still in play--led by forward Chris Stewart. I also believe that the underachieving Cody Hodgson, Marcus Foligno, and Mike Weber will all be moved as well. It’s an easy sell to say all three of those players would be more productive in different environments. It would also fit in Buffalo’s plan to become weaker now, in order to be much stronger down the road. Their loss wouldn’t put a dent in the team’s character, either.
What Murray does next is anyone’s guess as the March 2nd trade deadline approaches. Whatever trade he pulls off, you can bet he has one thing in mind that’s music to the ears of Sabres fans abroad.
Sacrifice this season in order to quicken the rebuilding process for the future.
And that will speak much louder than anything he says to the contrary.
Welcome to the Forum!!!
See people, this first, then all of the above should come after. Your Mothers' would not approve of this behavior...
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The grate one
Had to read through the thread again to get that one, well done, well done.
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I feel your pain! Took me hours to figure it out, but I just couldn't post with Timmy starring back at me all the time. It's almost as creepy as someone preferring Rosie O'Donnel starring back at you :unsure:It could be worse.. You could be so inept and not be able to upload a new avatar . I had the perfect blue medical grade tank to calm me as I hope for the hockey blackout to lift.
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Wth... no Pong fans? :P
Hey Hey there buddy, you making fun!
Pong, black and white tv, Mom "your to close to the tv ...you'll ruin your eyes!!" and dead serious .
The Era....as grade schoolers they would line us up and march us to the basement of the school (following the FALL OUT SHELTER signs) so we could properly learn how to put our head between our legs and kiss our ass good by during a nuclear attack.
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Cody is going to get a second chance next year on McEichel's wing with a coach that understands his game...
He'll be gone in five years in a deadline trade for a 35-year-old Drew Stafford.
Sarcasm? ..... rrriiight?
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This is holding up as the post of the year.
Yes, yes it is.
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I just don't want to be Edmonton Redux, how to ruin a bunch of very talented kids. I may not like it, but as longs as Sabres management does best by their development, I'm good with any scenario, cause it's way better than this year.
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Party pooper LTS, you brought logic, reasoning and level headed-ness, just when things where getting good..
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Am I the only person who doesn't think Reinhart goes to Rochester next season?
Nolan and Murray seem to both have a very strong belief that kids ride the bus, so I believe only one will stay, either McEichel or Reinhart, but that is assuming Griggs is up here for contract reasons. If they trade Griggs, all bets are off.
Cody Hodgson
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Sounds right to me. If Cody didn't want to hear it from Nolan and tuned him out, there was nothing Nolan could do. If Cody warmed a little to Nolan, then hopefully Nolan talked and they are trying to work it out. Sounds like they should be on a Jerry Springer Show.