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It's the off-season.. I need ridiculous trade proposals in my life! Leafs fans that think JVR is worth Noah Hanifin.... you don't get that around here :P

Printers in general suck. I constantly get into fights with mine at work. And I frequently lose.... Tonight I can't visit hfboards without getting a crazy "you're a lucky millionaire winner" pop up. Some sort of odd hack, maybe? Can't exit out, it basically takes down the whole site.

Wasn't me! They gave away tshirts at the game, so I was rocking one of those. Every seat was draped with one. They are the softest shirts I've ever felt in my life, yet some people left theirs behind. Maybe because of the heartbreaking finish.. anyways, I'm the proud new owner of 6 "March With Us" shirts haha.

Dumb reaction from Holtby. But also quite a dive from Kadri. He just crumpled

Right there with her! Replace the skates with black dress shoes, and that's exactly what I did. For the record, I haven't worn those dress shoes since.. I'm still mad at them for not gripping the ice better.

Tell me about it... If it's close in the third, I'm walking to a bar to watch

Rangers-Habs is an absolute track meet so far. Grabner was just shot out of a cannon and scored on a breakaway, pretty slick goal. Also, one of the commentators just said that "the complexion of the team changed" in reference to the Subban-Weber trade. Poor choice of words there, eh?

Sam for Hanifin makes a lot of sense to me. I'm very intrigued. Although I will add: my willingness to move Sam would plummet if Okposo is out longterm with something serious. I'm not operating under that assumption because it's all pure speculation right now. But something to consider if I'm GMTM. I think Carolina would be wild to move Hanifin for Duchene. They'd only be getting his age 26/27 and 27/28 years for $6M a piece before he hits UFA. Reinhart actually outproduced Duchene last year. Granted Coloroda was baaaaaad, but I think there are several teams that would offer younger, more cost-controlled and term-controlled players. And that's IF the Canes even look to move him at all.

And the population of Sabres fans in Ohio goes up by 1! Sounds like a pretty sweet gig at OU. It's neat that most places you go in Ohio, everyone knows UB because of the MAC. Obviously OU will be no exception.

26 Shirts is awesome. Now I'm really excited to see this! October sounds like a big Sabres release.... :)

Take solace in the fact that you didn't own Cory Schneider. I picked NYR to go far last year and they burned me. This year I have MTL dropping them early. So they'll at least go to the ECF :P

He was only taken one pick before Bogosian. How much can the guy be worth....?

The Canadian anthem singer was into it. I mean really into it. I was entertained.

How does McAvoy look early on?

Looks like a team party, yes. In a very nice neighborhood. Basketball court in the back yard. Guys I spot: Eich Risto McCabe Kane taking the video, partially in selfie mode Zemgus I think Sam Tons of others there, shooting hoops or lounging on the porch. Too far away for me to ID from a video though. Looks like a good time, wish I was there!

Try again, maybe 5 minutes later. I intermittently get that same screen, only for it to work a couple minutes later. A mess, indeed.

I haven't yet bought a Jackets jersey. When I go to non-Sabres games here, I just wear street clothes. But I think I'll take the dive now and get one. It will definitely be a cannon-third. Probably Wennberg

I have a love/hate relationship with the cannon.. first game I went to, man oh man did it scare me. I knew they did it for goals, but I didn't know they fired it as part of the pregame ceremony. And from only watching on tv, I had no idea how loud it was. I jumped so high that I probably almost hit my head on a catwalk :P But I think the cannon is awesome, and I LOVE their third jerseys with the cannon logo. I also wish Boomer was their fulltime mascot. He only lasted a very short time because apparently he was too phallic. RIP Boomer.

Got tickets to game 3 in Columbus. It will be my first playoff game (decide for yourself if this is because the Sabres stink, or I'm a youngin) Jackets-Pens is a pretty big rivalry to Cbus fans. The atmosphere should be great.

It won't let me name my bracket EichSnipe because it contains the word "nip." Thanks, NHL.

Just follow these simple directions to find the league: Or follow this link: https://bracketchallenge.nhl.com/leagues/sabresspace

Fun fact: I saw Lindy boarding his flight to Dallas back at the Buffalo airport in the summer of '13. I don't plan to be in the Dallas airport anytime soon, so I'm of no use this time around.

Watching a Cardinals game, and there's a backstop ad for Farm Bureau Insurance. Their logo reminds me of the Braves logo.

At least they gave him a game misconduct. He's done for the night. Lord knows he deserves a suspension, but I won't hold my breath.