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He will get hurt in the Library, by the Butler, with a pipe wrench with a blow to man town. Missing 2 games.

All I know is this is the best group fighting for 6 spots we have had in it seems like forever.

I don't know about that. The comment about a positive attitude in the locker room I thought was a good barb to ROR.

An ice cream truck outside UB?

How many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to hold the bulb and another to drink till the room starts to spin.

One things for sure from that audio interview, Jack wasn't heartbroken over ROR getting traded. There was no *he was a great leader, it will be a hard time filling his role, where going to really miss him....* We sucked, he's gone, time to move on and there is a new positive attitude in the locker room ... that's what i got out of it.

I wish they would trade him for a bag of pucks, but he is cheap injury insurance for a injury plagued back end.

It's hard for me to see, but he shot it over the net and out of play right? What is really hard to believe is that the Sabres where up 2 zip.

This and where it is a two year contract that White is referencing. Not sure if any of it's true, but if anyone has any other news to offer I would love to see it. We are in to mid August now and no new rumors of being close. I would think that if Botterill was offering a comparable contract that was signed by players of Sam's age and output they would be extremely close to signing and not far apart as referenced again here.

He is dealing with Reinhart as if he is not part of the core. Botterill obviously has reservations above Sam and whether there should be a long term commitment. I feel the same as Botterill and am glad he is taking this approach.

If Botterill is holding firm, and I have no problems with that, then there's more to the core change he believes is needed than just Kane and ROR.

That's hilarious. Not sure the new guy is even in Buffalo yet and there's already drama.

I give him 4 years.

Seems like a nice guy with an upbeat attitude.

I hope things go well for Zack and Buffalo and he heals nicely this summer. He has a good healthy year and is considered a good value for his contract type player. A little good luck is due for both team and player already.

He is the poster child of it isn't he? You didn't even need the emoji! If a comment like that was ever the worst part of my day my life is just outstanding.

So was Moulson. I just don't use that he wanted to come here to give allegiance to a player. He earns it over time and his play with me.

I believe he knows who his three big bread winners are and the rest are revolving pieces. You don't give a long term contract (aka the Moulson Contract) to a revolving piece.

He gets a pass from me personally for the first 2 months. Sorting this almost whole new roster out will take a little time. The last 2 months this team had better be on fire and a blast to watch, if it's not.... Then his bottom side will be very toasty.

It makes me wonder what this team would look like if we had Botterill at the helm in place of ExGMTM.

I think they wear on a players passion for the game. Getting booed or cat called on your home ice makes your *game* not as much fun. So going to a new and better situation is looked favorably upon by the player, to the extreme end where he demands a trade. So, yes, I do believe it happens.

Self induced stupid drama... the best kind

Out side of the top 10 picks I still believe that it's not the pick that matters, but the number of picks. They are all very knowledgeable (scouts, GMs) and given more chances to succeed they will succeed. A good GM gives himself lots of chances to succeed by acquiring the highest draft picks and many of them, that GM will be the most successful.

ass-driver from Stoke Newington. Ann Field talked to the azzes of Jack-azzes all day long. No way she was going to verbally spare with Elizabeth, Ann was out of her league!

2014 was the year of the women, so I had to google one. Elizabeth Wilkinson-Stokes, Boxer In June 1722 Wilkinson challenged Hannah Hyfield of Newgate Market to what may have been the first female prizefight in London.[3] Her advertisement in a London newspaper declared ”I, Elizabeth Wilkinson, of Clerkenwell, having had some words with Hannah Hyfield, and requiring Satisfaction, do invite her to meet me on the Stage and Box me.” They went on to specify that each woman would grasp half a crown in each hand, a rule that prevented the gouging and scratching common in eighteenth-century boxing.[1][2] She then went on that year to fight a fish-woman named Martha Jones, who she reportedly beat after twenty-two minutes.[3][4] Wilkinson became a fixture in the boxing venues of James Figg. Though Figg was the most prominent promoter and male boxer of the early eighteenth century, Elizabeth was the more popular and famous boxer at the time.[2] In October 1726 a fight was announced between Wilkinson and the Irish Mary Welch, to take place at James Stokes’ amphitheatre. A note at the bottom of the advert states “They fight in cloth Jackets, short Petticoats, coming just below the Knee, Holland Drawers, white Stockings, and pumps.”[2] At the time it was more common for women, sometimes prostitutes, to fight topless. By competing fully clothed Wilkinson and her opponents defined themselves as serious athletes.[1] In the newspaper featuring the advert, Welch describes Elizabeth as “the famous Championess of England”. In her response Elizabeth claims to be undefeated, “having never engaged with any of my own Sex but I always came off with Victory and Applause”.[2] Wilkinson and her husband James Stokes were often challenged as a pair, with her fighting the woman and him the man. The first of these were from her former opponent Mary Welch and her trainer Robert Baker to challenge “Mr. Stokes and his bold Amazonian Virago” in July 1727. Thomas and Sarah Barret gave a similar challenge in December 1728, calling Wilkinson ‘this European Championess”. In their response James Stokes notes that Elizabeth was “thought not to fight in Publick anymore” but “my spouse not doubting but to do the fame and hopes to give a general Satisfaction to all Spectators.”[2] In addition to being a boxing champion, Wilkinson acted as an instructor.[2] Wilkinson was a keen self-promoter, and famous for her entertaining trash-talk.[1] In a published acceptance of a challenge from Ann Field, an ass-driver from Stoke Newington, she told readers that “the blows which I shall present her with will be more difficult for her to digest than any she ever gave her . Have to love learning something new....