JoeSchmoe

I used to ride a lot in my 20s on my mountain bike, mainly for transportation purposes. Once in a while though I'd go out and do 20 or 30 miles. I had enough close calls that I'd never consider cycling as a sport. Hats off to @Doohickie and the rest of you guys that are still at it. The worst are the transport trucks. They don't pull over AND they blow up tons of wind. They blew me onto the gravel shoulder so many times... Some of those times I would have gone down for sure with road tires.

How did this thread get to 9 pages? I listened to the podcast last night while I was mowing the lawn and the whole show was Friedman giving a preview of all 32 teams as a welcome back to the pod (new season and after the Marek departure). It was clear to me that he had nothing on the Sabres and this was the best narrative he could manufacture.

Not sure if this is a thing in Texas, but I live in an area that's really popular with weekend cyclists. Does that law allow them to ride side by side, as some people do around here? It's the exception rather than the norm, but sometimes you see people not wanting to share the road and they'll back up cars behind them when there's plenty of room to go single file.

I think comradery makes a team better and improves the chances of winning. Our perennial youngest team in the league just has never had the horses to win. Unfortunately, barring a major upward trajectory compared to last year, we will have a hard time improving on our 23rd in the league GF... especially after losing two of our best guns. Hopefully the Lindy factor is real and our fastest in the league 4th line can make up the difference (and more). I'm still doubtful. That said, if we get another top 6, I'm officially on the going to the playoff bandwagon.

If McDermott is running the D today, do we fare better?

On notice?!?! 🤣😂😅🤣 🤣😂😅🤣😂😅 🤣😂😅 🤣😂😅🤣😂... 😢

I'd like to see Lindy rip Greenway a new one for playing like he's 6'1 190lb when he's really 6'6 230lb. If he doesn't get it going, maybe we could give his spot to one of the youngsters who's hungrier and has a lot more upside than Greenway's 10 goals a year.

Haha! I thought about that reference... But didn't pull the trigger.

Maybe he can get the guys I mentioned playing to what we saw two years ago. If so, we've got a chance. I just don't like losing Skinner and Mitts... And Byram was a net negative expected goal % guy on the Avalanche which is pretty hard to do on a team that good. Unless you're telling me he was the guy who took on all CO's prime defensive matchups, him getting a lot of ice time next year (as expected) will not help us.

Our leading scorer was on the 3rd line last year until he was traded. Unless Cozens, Tuch, and TnT all play like 22-23 and our other young guys take steps forward, we're weaker on every theoretical line except our 4th line. But since I don't know for sure who's playing 3rd line, I can't answer the poll question. I do hear voices though and they're scary as *****!

If it's $2M kept, you gotta do it, but top 10 protect the 1st.

If the Sabres are actually good... wouldn't it be possible that the secondary market would be more than the box office? I think for the two games I paid to go to last year it was pretty close, and I'm pretty sure I paid box office price.

A lot of us use Sabrespace as our primary source for Sabres/NHL news and links. Just be accurate. Thread titles are like news headlines and when they're misleading it's annoying. As I said in a previous post, in time of crisis, people will get hyperbolic and overreact. That's natural, but as an engineer I live in a world where facts need to trump emotion. Now for the thread drift pet peeve rant- All this is not unlike during the COVID crisis, when more facts about the disease became known, we as a society (especially here in Canada) were unable to rationally discuss the merits of completely shutting down society to protect what was mostly senior citizens who were at or near their end of life anyways. Maybe it was worth it... But there was never even a discussion- emotions were just too high. Meanwhile, our world is angrier, more divided and more distrustful than ever. Children across the world lost out on their education. People lost their homes, their businesses and their livelihoods. The economy has never been the same since. And in the end, it was the virus mutating, and not a vaccine that ended the pandemic. Had we not shut in for so long, perhaps the mutation would have come sooner. Sadly, emotions ran too high to even discuss mutation as a way out... Meanwhile we had a large segment of the population (healthy people under 50) who were largely unaffected by the disease who could have served as vectors to speed mutation. Maybe you disagree with all of this, but my pet peeve is that people get too emotional, and put their backs up to even consider the facts before making a rational decision. Back to Gaudreau... I talked about what happened to him off this board. I discussed the dangers of bike riding with my kids and reemphasized the importance of defensiveness on the road. My wife and I talked about how awful it was for his sister, wife, and kids. I just don't feel I have a lot to add by posting about it here. It seems a lot of other posters felt the same. That said, there were others that felt like posting was the right thing. There are no wrongs or rights here.

EDIT- deletedy post. Reread the context of the quote and figured my post was not necessary.

Again, he deserves to be locked up for a very long time... Hopefully for the maximum that the law allows since in addition to the drunk driving he was also driving aggressively. However, there are no murder charges being laid here. In times of crisis, it is instinctual to act emotionally and hyperbolically. Hence the fractures in society we saw during COVID that still linger to this day.

This is a very good point. To suggest it's murder undermines the fact that someone who gets behind the wheel drunk is very capable of mistakenly killing people. All too many times people think they're ok to drive when they're clearly not.

I think we can be terribly saddened by this (as I am), but still want accuracy in the thread title. Seeing the headline below implies something completely different than what happened (unless it is later determined this was premeditated).

This is a really emotional event, but if you tried the driver for murder, he definitely walks based on the legal definition of the term. My point is if we post a thread title on the main page, we should try to make it as accurate as possible for the person clicking through.

I see the thread title changed. This was a horrifying, emotional event, but to call it murder implies intent to kill. Unless there's news I haven't seen yet, I don't think this is the case. The current accounts imply this was a drunk driving incident. The correct title would say something to effect: Johnny Gaudreau Killed by Drunk Driver

I agree with the title change and the anger... But it's death by auto and not murder. Nonetheless he should be put away for a very long time.

I think if he had any kind of underlying skill, I'd be more apt to want to believe in him. But the only positive I've really seen out of him is a bit of grit. Too bad he doesn't have the size to back it up.

Some guys have it. Some guys don't. Krebs turns 24 in January and doesn't have elite size or a crazy shot to fall back on like Tage. If he had it, we'd already know.

Whoever we had in the Byram spot would get a few goals too presumably.

Imagine if we still had Skinner and Mittelstadt.

No Mitts or Skinner on the PP2... That's going to hurt. Skinner had 8 PPG. Not sure of Mitts numbers. Maybe Quinn stays healthy, and no other key guys go down. How likely is that though?