Derrico

Going for the repeat!!

Oh ya. Just started booking some spots and holy the park admissions are expensive. We're gonna do 3 days at Disney World and one day at Universal, SeaWorld and Lego Land. Almost $2,000 for ticket admissions. Ouch. Hahhahaha, man I'd love meeting up with another Sabrespacer. We leave 3/18 but won't be in Orlando until the evening of 3/19. I'll be coming off 24 straight hours of driving with two young kids......If you're around the next weekend I could be up for it if the kids haven't driven me crazy. Actually, that's a good excuse to get out for a couple of hours. Very nice!

Going to Disney Land!! Long story short my wife just got a new job and gets zero vacation for a year (paid and unpaid). She doesn't start until April 18th. We had a trip booked to Myrtle Beach in May that I cancelled (and only lost around $10 on deposit which is great). So we decided it, let's take the kids to Disney before she starts while we have the chance. I'm trying to book everything last minute as we leave next Friday for 2 weeks. So F'N excited! Only downside is I'll be missing some Sabres games.....

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5 pointer

yep

That's a pretty big assumption he will still be there at 8-12.

#cokeproblem #methaddict

Based on proximity and the good young pieces on both sides, I could see this being one of the best rivalries in the NHL over the next few years.

Good to hear he's back.

Didn't you get a jersey for the TW contest as well? Two new ones and no cost to you? Not too shabby at all....

Hmmmmm, maybe I'll toss some on the plastic then. Thanks for the heads up on that.

Took out $300 American and it cost me $417 Canadian. Ouch.

Buffalo weekend!!!!! Finally trying 716 tonight for dinner. Rare lower bowl seats for the Wild game tomorrow and some Walden Galleria shopping. F'n Fantastic :beer:

I listened to the interview on the way home. It was in regards to the trade deadline. He was asked about how he viewed this years deadline. He went on to say he had a deal he could have made for another player but at some point the pick is too low and too far out to be worth trading that player. He said he had a deal in place but decided not to do it and then that player/pick was traded to another team for similar compensation. The quote was not in reference to our first round selection or tanking/not tanking in anyway.

The first bolded sentence would shock me. The second wouldn't shock me but I would still be pretty surprised.

Wow, the boss even comes out and says your underpaid? I guess it's good he actually recognizes it but that's a piss off. My complaint: gout. Don't know if anyone else on the board has gout but it's unbearably painful. Lasts about 5 days and you usually get the pain and swelling in your feet. Seriously feels like razor blades cutting you every step you take. Even shittier is we have tickets to the Sabres game against the Wild on Saturday. We're staying tomorrow and Saturday in Buffalo and God knows I'm going to be drinking more beer and eating more wings than I should. Hopefully the pain subsides sooner than later.

Agreed. As NS said, this move screams Gary Bettman.

I agree with this but I think the writing is on the wall that NHL will be pulled from the Olympics and this will be the replacement. Hope I'm wrong on that though.

I think the idea of the Team North America and Team Europe is to make the tourney more competitive. If those teams were replaced with say Slovakia and Germany then you would run into those two teams getting demolished every game. Also, some really good young NA players and Europeans not born in Finland, Sweden, Czech or Russia would not be in the competition. I think one of the focuses of the World Cup is to grow the game and having 2 teams get demoed and highly skilled guys miss out on the opportunity is counterproductive. Having said all that, I'm not sure I agree with the format. To me the World Cup should bring out a big sense of National pride. Being Canadian, if we were to lose to say the Russians (or Swedes :flirt: ) in the finals then there is that whole 'well we really should of had McDavid on our team.' It'll be fun watching the young guns team but then it gets conflicting with who to actually root for. There would be more national pride if Canada were to win so I'm not sure who would actually be cheering on the young guns to win from the beginning.

This is my biggest concern as well. I'd be shocked if they let him go after this year so we're dealing with the same stuff next season as well.

ISS releases updated rankings. Chychrun falls out of top 5. http://www.isshockey.com/iss-hockey-releases-iss-top-30-for-march/ 1. Mathews 2. Puljujarvi 3. Laine 4. Nylander 5. Tkachuk

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Good to hear. Very generous of Tom to run the contest. Thanks again for doing it.

Thanks for the write up TB.