JoeSchmoe

With the team sucking right now, I'd rather talk food. Here in Canada, all BBQ sucks (other than home cooked). Been crossing the river for many years for decent BBQ. I used to hit the now closed Kentucky Greg's in Depew way back in the day which was excellent. Now I'm exclusively Dinosaur. Been to the Brickyard in Lewiston and wasn't overly impressed. Was more like a Canadian level place. Any other places I need to try?

My brother has done a lot of traveling throughout the south but he still puts Dinosaur BBQ against the best of them. Granted I find the Buffalo and Rochester locations aren't as consistently good as the Syracuse one... Even still on a bad day they're good. But between the two of us, we've always found the Syracuse location to be nothing less than excellent.

Would love to see a comparable thread on BBQ.

I popped into this thread and first read Inky's Kulich post. I went straight to the scoresheet to check Kulich out and in doing so saw a G beside Strauss Mann. Thinking it was in error I came back in here. I'm surprised the goalie "scoring" in the 1st period isn't a bigger topic of conversation. Has that ever happened before in the NHL? I wonder if Strauss Mann would take any pride in that given it was just an own goal? Didn't look like it in the clip I guess.

Just wondering what fancy stats show Clifton to be a good signing, or are you just going by this year's play? Granted I'm not an expert, but all the stats I've looked at are average to below average which is really hard to do on a team that was a good as Boston. He's sub 50% for 5 on 5 Corsi. His expected goal % was 50.7 on a team that had a +128 goal differential. His actual goal differential (+/-) was 17... which is better. But that's not necessarily a fancy stat.

His advanced stats on Boston last year were not good. Take him off one of the best regular season team of all time and put him on a team that struggles defensively, you'll get what you're seeing here. It was a terrible signing. Adams should have traded forward depth for a legit #4 solid defensive defensemen.

What about Lundqvist? Just googled it... Add Barrasso and Vernon to the list.

I 100% agree with the approach. The difference here is I'm less sure of Power's ability to live up to the contract as I was with the other guys. I think we're partially paying for the 1st OA even though it was a weak draft. Lets hope it works out!

This is the riskiest contract yet. I hope it works out!

So are we just going to assume Ryan Miller, Daniel Briere, and Michael Funk don't eventually get the nod?

Looks like "your" missing the point. The grammar is fully emblematic of the content.

The grammar of this post says it all.

Friend of mine works for Rich's. Creamer apparently is a very, very small part of their overall business. They're a food services company. They have factories all over North America making anything and everything food related. Their customers are grocery stores, restaurants, gas stations, etc... You buy "fresh" bread at the conglomerate grocery store... there's a good chance it came from Rich's frozen bread dough. You buy pizza from the gas station... Rich's made it. You eat the pulled pork from the chain restaurant... there's a good chance it came from Rich's factory sized smokehouse and packaged up to the restaurant spec. Other than good ma and pa restaurants, nobody makes anything from scratch anymore. It's all stuff from food service customers like Rich's. That's why my friend won't eat out anymore unless it's a better non-chain place.

Didn't like his defensive game either, but had higher hopes for him based on him being more highly touted. Also he started a year younger, played for a far worse team, and was put into much higher leverage situations given there was no one else really besides him. Edit: I would have taken 7 or 7.5mill a season over 8 years when he signed his bridge deal.

From what I've seen of Power so far, I project him being worth about $8 or 9 million a season when he peaks. His draft class was seen as weak overall, and in most years he might have been in the 3 to 6 OA slot. My opinion is it's only his #1 OA pick that has him projected in the $11M ballpark. If starts using his size defensively, and greatly improves his shot, I can be proven wrong. Given he still played smaller than what he is in college, I'm thinking he doesn't have the big dog mentality in him.

Two comments... 1 Even though I'm happy he's signed, this one may set a precedent amongst the players and the days of us getting team friendly deals like the last 3 big ones might be over. 2 I'm not signing any long term contracts with Power until he shows he can play better defense. Picking up the defensive side of the game can take a few years for a young D, but I wouldn't want to take the risk given what I've seen of him so far. He needs to work on his shot too.

Tonight VO earned the spot he already had. Keep him. Benson makes the team. Greenway would be easily replaceable. Don't like his game at all. Love the spark from Krebs, but I don't see him staying ahead of similar talent in the pipeline. I don't think he's around when this team wins the cup.

I don't think that line would fly in this day and age of the analytics era. Back then you could kind of say what you wanted, and if it sounded good, it would stick. No one questioned it. Fuhr was in the right place at the right time on being on maybe the best offensive team ever. Unfortunately, we lost Andreychuk due to the old hockey trope that Fuhr knew how to win.

The Sabres lost every game by a goal against Mtl. 3 in OT. They were the eventual cup winner. When I first heard about the trade I was irate. Not because I knew Hasek was going to the the eventual GOAT. I was mad we lost our #2 goal scorer. Andreychuk had 54 goals that year. All this to pick up a goalie that was statistically worse than Hasek. The line at the time was Fuhr "knew how to win". Who the F$&! couldn't win on those Oilers teams?!?! Sabres win the cup if that trade doesn't happen.

Easily the worst trade in Sabres history, when you consider the Sabres probably win the cup with Andreychuk and Hasek.

Just some additional context... xg stats always seem to devalue big shooters like VO. I think his value is greater than his advanced stats. On the flip side, the eye test shows he generally isn't very good at making plays or playing defense. I will say though, there's been times he's looked VERY good as far as playmaking and forechecking goes. He just doesn't seem to have the natural drive to do it on a consistent basis.

Had the floppy drive, had the 13" B&W monitor, but never the printer. I would have really envied you back when I was 11 or 12 years old! My friend had a Texas Instruments computer back then too. Together we got kind of good at programming in BASIC on our respective machines... At least as good as kids our age could have got. Edit: Sorry about the thread hijack!

My first computer, an Atari 800XL had 64kB. No rads, no pumps.

Right now the mindset is you can still get a better deal on the secondary market... and there's no benefit in purchasing way ahead. Until enough people get stung by not getting their tickets upfront you'll see the box office tickets sitting there. That will happen at least a month or so after this team is a legit playoff team AND the Bills/Sabres fans go into full hockey mode after the Superbowl.