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I just have a massive passion for that type of sci-fi. The old fashioned corny space exploration stuff. Sign me up all day I’m currently on IV: The Voyage Home in my Trek rewatch

The Matt Leblanc version isn’t even that bad

It’s so stupid

It’s a good point. On the one hand, injuries will continue to be a factor. I generally caution against “once we get our guys back” logic in that a) rarely if ever do you have all the guys and B) often guys missing games have a proclivity to miss more games to your point, Tage specifically being the guy that’s out creates some potential, there. On the other hand, the Ewing affect across the board with him gone has been good on the other, other hand and to your point again: McLeod has been simply awful metrically the more he moves up the lineup. Even getting him back into a second line role would help a lot metrically

Yet another board “main character” who burned bright, and burned quick

And it’s something I think potentially serves us even better in the playoffs. I get that many are concerned with how, say, our physicality holds up in a playoffs environment and that’s certainly fair: personally I’m super excited to see how much ice time we can monopolize with 2 or 3 of our D men

16th in the league right now, 8th in the east by points %, and Boston is 17th and 9th. Pretty fun tbh results are reasonable so far: we are in a playoff spot, that’s all I ask - - - the underlyings suggest caution.

It’s insane not only how good Rasmus Dahlin is, but how underrated he is, not just league wide, which I get, but around Sabres quarters as well. Once again finds himself at the top of our scoring list, as a defenceman, in second right now. But he does that WHILE being the best defender on our team, and playing the most minutes. While wearing the C. He gets piled on re: that C when we lose, what about when we are stringing some wins together? Does he get credit for leadership? MVP far and away Averaging a whopping 24:45 per game. Next closest Sabre is over 2 minutes less

How much would you trade for a wood-chuck Tkachuk if a Tkachuk would chuck-wood here?

So we aren’t cursed forever?

We aren’t that team. Let’s just make the playoffs

What? We better not trade this guy

Dahlin played

Ducks seem to have no idea what they are doing 3 V 3

“They were going to name the internet “Rob”, but then they named it “Internet.” thanks, Dan

Sabres have been on their heels basically the entire period. Power has had an excellent game

J. Ewing Hoover

I kinda liked it better when they had eclipsed the Cubs steak of championship-less seasons when accounting for the fact the CFL only has 8 teams John Milton-Esque reign They are very nearly the new Bills

This post touches on a lot of things. I love this board, and the interactions it produces far more than the national hockey league product. I don’t really even watch it. I used to love it. I don’t even know if the Sabres killed it for me, or if the league killed the Sabres. Don’t really know which way is up. My loyalty is to the crest. I don’t live in Buffalo, and never have, but if the Sabres left Buffalo there’d be no more hobby anymore. Because they are the BUFFALO Sabres. The crest is a buffalo, between two sabres for jeepers sakes. I can love them and i can hate them and sometimes that’s a very fine line but the sport would be barren, for me, without them

Good breakdown of how Ewing theory manifests

I don’t think I’m prepared for the amount of red X / green vomit one-two punch combos I’d find coming my way, but you are a gentleman and scholar - and I showed my mom your post. It’s going up on the fridge!

Never know. We got a team back here in Winnipeg when they said it would never happen

Often a team missing their best player elevates due to the loss of one player but the combined increase in output of the “rest.” I’d imagine it’d be even more prominent in hockey as one player makes much less difference than in basketball And Mario Lemieux’s points per game dropped by 15% in the playoffs. He’s missing something! Good player tho. Not everyone can be the epitome of intangibles and elevated play like Jack Eichel is, for example, putting Mario to shame by INCREASING his points per game in the playoffs by 16%

Ewing theory. Yes, it predates Auston Matthews

More goals than assists every year as a negative? I do see the bias you mentioned considering TT haha As for talk of Matthews “missing” something intangible: that’s absurd