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No, nothing disparaging about women in that at all. If you like women's hockey that's great, but the point was it's a different and gentler game and that's how the Sabres play. We don't finish our checks, we don't initiate contact, we don't battle for pucks hard in the corners or the net front. It is like women's hockey. It's all similar to hockey, and there's still lots of skill, but it's a different game entirely. Think about how we play compared to teams that are winning. Consider the differences and then get back to me with a discussion rather than trying to spin this into a false judgement of me.

haymakers? The whole thing was embarrassing on both sides because both teams are a bunch of pussies. Leafs want to act tough so they can look playoff ready but have you ever seen so many guys involved and yet almost nobody actually drops the gloves. Like a bunch of preschoolers all 10 of them.

I'm starting to think that Granato learned all his hockey from watching Cammi play because this team plays like a girls team. A junior league girls team.

Personally I can't really answer that. We've had bad teams before (most every franchise does) and there's the tank and all that but this thing is cumulative so while this team might not be the worst it still feels like the worst and it's the franchise that stinks as a whole since Pegula bought it. I have trouble un-disliking them until they actually change.

Thanks Terry.

So? You should realize that even if we win every single game left all Washington has to do is play .500 hockey (which is below their season play level) and we still miss the playoffs but sure keep dreaming.

This is my actual choice as well. Truly 50/50. Or 60/40 at least. Ideally every D pair is a puck mover with a rock solid defender so 3 and 3, and the bottom 6 really hard to play against or if you prefer mixing it top 3 lines of sniper-playmaker-gritty 2 way guy on each and then a gritty 4th line so still 6 and 6. This mix is not only the best roster, it is the more sustainable model if your stars demand big paydays and you want to stay cap compliant. Consider the best teams in the NHL. They all fit this type of roster model closer than to what we are doing.

We can easily win this in a tight checking low scoring 9-8 affair.

Didn't say he sucked but did say he is a true underachiever and he could be so much more if he was actually fully engaged and used his body. But he isn't and he doesn't. Did say I'd trade him and I still would. I'd have kept Mitts (unless the salary ask was ridiculous) and traded Thompson (not for Byram, for more) and I stand by that. never questioned his ability to snipe and score. Talent was never the issue.

Pretty sure we don't retroactively apply laws either (with the exception I guess of aboriginal related land claims and reparation type things which are somewhat complicated) but we do pass laws differently with a Parliamentary process so it could be "retroactive" to the date the bill was introduced in the house to when it was actually made into "law" through the Senate and the technicality or Royal assent. Tax laws were already on the books, it was just that many of them were not being properly enforced.

I agree with @inkman this was not an impressive win by any means. NJ is playing less than inspired. Clearly knowing their season is over and they don't even know who there coach will be or what direction the team will take. They are playing out the string. We were okay but not great imo and any late season flurry, even if we have one, doesn't change a thing. The organization, top to bottom is a flaming pile of garbage.

I've not been to Invermere but Penticton is quite hot in the summer. Too hot for me but if you like that sort of thing it's nice. Nelson is really nice for a visit. Real hippy town and very left leaning. Kind of a weird enclave in the middle of nowhere. Built on a mountain though. You'd have to get used to walking up a lot of slopes, much like San Francisco. Nice place though. Some great craft breweries and lots of weed shops. I've gotten used to the rain and don't think about it much. It's off and on all the time so you get a shower and then it's fine and then later another shower and you just sort of start to ignore it as most of the time in the day it's gentle drizzle. Not many thunderstorm downpour type things. Lots of gray skies though. I personally have grown to love the mild winters and not hot summers but as I said, everybody is different. You'd probably like living in Kelowna or outside it. Or for a really cool small town Smithers. Bit cold in winter but it's an awesome small town.

Two teams that basically play the same game and are just about the same. Sabres had more jump after a slow start so they came out on top. Woohoo?

This would be a great night to fire Granato and hire Lindy Ruff as his replacement. The underachiever bowl.

I would hope for that but he did sign that extension and gets some big NJ money for doing nothing so he might just want a vacation. In the very least we'd have to offer him term to get him to walk away from that I'd think. I just don't see a better option right now. The optics and the optimism this would generate would also be good. Promote a whole return to glory thing.

I'm going to leave the rest as it's going to get too political but the city conversation is interesting. There are many factors that go in to that and different places are better for different people and their age and lifestyle. Now I grew up in Hamilton and used to spend a lot of time in Toronto, which was great at that age, and some time in Buffalo. It was good for that over the border underage night life. Back then Buffalo was similar to Hamilton and Toronto but a little dirtier and more run down in places. I imagine they are still pretty much the same so if you don't hate the snow (Buffalo gets so much more) it's not a bad city. If I had to live in the U.S. I'd either stay west (Seattle, Portland, etc) or move into that upper New England and New York State area. Both areas are closer to Canadian in terms of the people and the general attitudes. Southern U.S. ain't for me. I've seen a few studies that name Raleigh as the best city in the U.S. but they usually factor in the cost of real estate and that is an issue that changes a lot of things. In Canada, for example, you can go live in Edmonton or in New Brunswick for dirt cheap but I wouldn't choose those places unless I had to. I live just outside Vancouver, and although it is expensive as hell, it is without a doubt the nicest city in North America IF you don't factor in that housing cost. It's expensive for a reason. I enjoyed my years in Nanaimo on the island where @bunomatic lives and it was a good place to raise small children but it's a little cut off from the big city and so I like the short drive down the highway better but I can see the allure of that area for sure. It's just gorgeous there. idk I'm just rambling here (I have this high taxed worry free lifestyle :)) but city choices (or rural choices) are a really subjective thing so it would go back to happiness. If you hate snow you'd hate Buffalo. If you hate rain you'd hate Vancouver. If you like basically no snow and mild winters you'd love Vancouver. It's all subjective, but back to hockey, if you are rich, as players are, I doubt there'd be any Canadian hockey player who would hate being traded to Vancouver.

haha - you've eaten up that Fox News propaganda I see. Good luck with all that. Meanwhile, while I hit 65 this year the government's going to give me even more free money. I don't need it, but I will enjoy spending it. Worry free retirement gives me lots of time to waste on Sabrespace 🙂 Research a little deeper. Let's leave it there.

Maybe it's because Buffalo hits so little that when they do it stands out and gets noticed.

Good point but I don't think it's coached not to hit. What I think it is, is they do not feel their team mates have their back if they do hit and get challenged by the other team. Clifton leads in hits but he's hitting way less and a lot softer than he did in Boston. He played big and brave there. The team as a whole doesn't have enough toughness on it, no real toughness, no Foligno types even. Nobody to get your back if it gets tough so they back off and don't initiate much. I was watching Philly lose to Montreal tonight and although they are behind us in their rebuild (slightly) Montreal is so much tougher (and so is Philly although that's more obvious). As a result players on those rosters play bigger and their versions of Tuch do hit like that.

This was the critique last year too. No way that can survive the playoff grind. Same still holds for Edmonton imo. You need real solid depth for a deep playoff run.

Using a phrase like "media agenda" plants you into the right wing conspiracy camp. Good luck with all that. When it comes to "agendas" just follow the money, not the rhetoric and propaganda. It'll get you closer to actual truth and facts. Right wing think tanks pump out tons of stuff like that all the time. Any study they can come up with to fuel their machine and their agenda gets funded and published and promoted heavily. They have done that for years. It was all laid out in 1973 by the Trilateral Commission but nobody reads that sort of thing do they. Anyway, it's part of their managing of democracy strategy but we are getting political so let's leave it there. Look into it if you want, if you don't want to don't. Happiness is a real thing though. Think about it objectively. If Americans were "happy" like those Swedes and Finns, how could a MAGA movement exist? It's based on returning to happy times for people who are unhappy now. The target of anger varies on the left or right but the unhappiness has to be there for the anger to continue. That's just simple logic.

It's the player's association. That's the maximum number the league is allowed to give so they do. When they give the maximum they are sying we'd like to give more but we can't. It's in the agreement.

With the funding they have you really want to argue that right wing think tanks haven't already put everything out there that supports their view already out there? You can quantify everything these days. Look at hockey analytics. Everything is quantified. If people are happy, they are happy. You need to consider why that is.

Your bar is very low.

I see it as the moment this franchise broke.