JoeSchmoe

We just checked into a cabin in the Adirondacks for a week. For many years I've rented cottages here, camped in campgrounds and throughout the backcountry, stayed in hotels and ski lodges and never had less than a great time. All four seasons of the year (ok, maybe not spring mud and bug season) this is the best vacation destination within a tank of gas from Buffalo, and AINEC IMO. What do you guys have?

While not voting for my own song which is the far and away winner, two stand out as the 2nd best picks so far. Dookie's "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"... especially the opening riff would be awesome and just begs for some hockey stick goal celly guitar. Broken Ankles "Sabotage" says LETS ROCK! Blitzkrieg Bop and The King's are also acceptable choices, both with fun riffs. The rest of the choices... Including some songs I REALLY like (looking at you Spirit of Radio) can languish in goal song HELL!

It is a repeat topic, but gives me the chance to change my song.

These ELCs are seemingly boilerplate. I'm surprised the entire 1st round isn't signed within a couple days.

I'm a capitalist at heart, but I very much hate to see the increasing spread between the rich and poor. The example I like to quote is back in the day, there used to be a work boot plant in Port Colborne, just like there were similar manufacturing facilities in seemingly every town. Eventually it shut down as goods like work boots are now made pretty much exclusively overseas. Problem is, the price of work boots never, ever went down as a result of offshoring. The only thing that happened was shareholder profits went up. Definitely not how Henry Ford would have planned it. Anyhow, it'd be good if people spent their time boycotting companies with gross disparities between CEO and employee salaries rather than these left or right wing inspired efforts that seem to grab all the attention these days. Like Trump or hate him, I think his promise to try to bring manufacturing jobs back was the right call (however ingenious or disingenuous it may have been).

Our gas line into our house was leaking. It was buried behind a wall and floor and there was no way to get at it. Gas company shut the gas off and we were desperate. I had worked out a plan to bypass the in wall/floor stuff and run a whole new supply in the house. First quote came back at $3000. This was $180/hr for the senior guy and $120/hr for a junior guy plus supplies. We almost paid it, but I called an acquaintance that did it for $800. Still, it took him 3hr and less than $100 in supplies. 99% of all college grads will not make the kind of money that the first contractor quoted me... Especially if you consider the lost income and high costs while going to school. 80-90% will not even make what my acquaintance charged me.

As a Canadian, I can't understand why anyone in the US would go anywhere else other than a state school. The price discrepancy for a 4 year degree is massive, but the quality of education is similar. My friend went to Syracuse on a full sports scholarship. Her teammate who I got to know didn't get a scholarship and will be buried in student loans indefinitely. She could have went to UB for a fraction of the price and got the same degree.

Sorry... I meant for pizza dough, not bread. That Fleischmann's yeast is my go to, but I've never been blown away by the results vs what I can buy at the store. I typically cook at a long preheated oven at 550F or a Kamado BBQ at 600-650. I've always used bread flour in the past... never 00 dough though, so that's my next move. I figure though that someone here has a recipe for really good Buffalo pizza dough. Any thoughts?

Or was it just they were cheap MF's? Mostly out of necessity, but cheap no less. Maybe after another year or two in this economy, my inflation grandparent diet I seem to be forced into eating will get me that beach body I haven't seen since my early 20s!

I think Aud was talking about Duncan Hines cake mixes. There's no preservatives in cake mix... I tend to agree with what he said. I also agree with what you said. I hate the taste of preservatives in baked goods. I think the real game changer between store and handmade would be if the handmade dough had some special yeasts. On that note, does anyone have any yeast tips for homemade dough. I've always thought my effort I put in to make home dough have been largely unrewarded for the same reason Aud suggests. If there was a secret ingredient, I'm thinking it'd have to be the yeast.

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but a bunch of my Canadian friends from further north planned a bachelor party for one of the gang at a Sabres / Leafs game. We hit Pearl St beforehand and ordered the usual pizza, wings, and beer. One of the friends liked the pizza so much he brought his girlfriend back the very next weekend from 5hr away. I want to say it was the stuffed banana pepper pizza. I had another friend from Toronto (who like many Torontonians leans towards the uppity side) claim that the Pearl Street Buffalo Finger pizza (or Buffalo wing... don't recall) was the best pizza he ever ate.

I thought he took a couple digs at Buffalo which might rub people the wrong way. I'm wondering though... Is that closer to a Detroit style pizza than a Buffalo style pizza? For starters, most of the Buffalo pizza I've had is round... Not a sheet. In NF, I usually get a sheet (or a half sheet when ordering one pie, or a full sheet which is two pies 😏). Is there really the stress to get the toppings right to the edge? Usually I see it kind of fade out towards the edge. I also question the oil usage. Thoughts?

While I 100% with the sentiment of what you're saying, I need to add one caveat. I've been to so called wing joints in Canada north of Toronto where Blue Cheese isn't even an option. Instead, they push a "dill sauce" which is nothing less than a cheap substitute for the real thing. Completely unacceptable.

Getting a 1st rounder for Risto and Gaustad have been my two favourites.

Tried Gangster's back in the Sammy's days and liked it... Just not as much as Sammy's. It might be time for another visit. Never tried Buzzy's though. That might be the next place to go.

Don't listen to him. He'll just offer to buy you booze.

Coming from Canada, we like to hit the pizza joints of Niagara Falls, NY (as it's closer than Buffalo proper). Most are hole in the wall type places that all serve good pizza and wings (esp compared to Canada). It seems everyone has their favourite. I may have mentioned before that WAY back in the day, nothing could touch Sammy's on Hyde Park Blvd. Then maybe 15 years ago the quality went down. Last weekend we tried Joey's in the LaSalle neighborhood. It was good enough to go back... But still no old school Sammy's. Any others hit the NF pizza joints? Any new faces on the scene in the Buffalo area?

Andreychuk... Especially given losing him also meant we'd be playing Fuhr instead of Hasek. We win the cup if this trade is not made.

Still no #4D but we have the deepest group of #6, #7, and #8D... No one can touch us!

I would go a step further and say 1st round.

Super pumped about the pick, but there's a nagging voice in the back of my head that remembers Grigorenko falling down to us... And the sentiment he was a steal where we got him. Tell me why the voice is wrong... 🙂

I'm tempted to reply to it. 2014 would be a nice little thread resurrection.

Baker's dozen: 2 Long johns 2 Apple fritters 2 Blueberry fritters 2 Walnut crunch 2 Boston creme 2 Dutchie 1 Strawberry jelly

There's 10% of people that are too far left, and 10% of people that are too far right. Whatever end you're on, don't be a 10%er. My take is any jersey worn for warmups other than the real jersey is kind of cheesy. I said in a different thread that the meatheads on ATW actually got one right. Send the players that really care about the LGBT community in and do something really meaningful. Something better than wearing a jersey for warmups. Maybe a big road hockey game or something.

Road trip?