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Yea, I've been all over online. Caught the YouTube video of the guy in Maine that had one refurbished. Called Bobcat of Buffalo, they even sent their guy to the house, he destroyed my brand new carb. I just replaced it 😞 called Anderson equip., RB U-REN, and several others in heavy equip locally, no go. I've already used her, but the refurb is needed. Thanks for responding and sharing though. I thought of doing it myself, I've already replaced a bunch of electrical and starter parts. Points, coil, plug, new cables, new throttle cable, solenoid, battery. I can have the rear arm hydraulic lines, but I'd really like her all pulled apart, sand blasted, repainted, new ring seals in arms and so on.

Hello all, I wasn't sure where to post this, so if it's in the wrong forum, my apologies. I picked up a 1971 M-371 Bobcat recently for $2,500, could not pass that up. Has a single piston 14hp motor. It runs, but I'm looking for a complete refurb on it, sandblasting, repaint, rebuilt hydraulic piston arms, new Predator engine install, new hydraulic lines and tires. Is anyone aware of a shop in the WNY area that'll take on a task such as this? Any input much appreciated, and thanks.

I'm still wiping the beer from my nostrils after I read this. 😄

I am cautiously optimistic, but I to am asking if we could be looking at the start of a run.

Well, it's obvious, Reinhart is a lurker of Sabrespace. Once he read my post calling Olofsson better than him this season based on stats he said "the hell you say".

They looked much more composed. Could this be the start of a run? I hope so.

Agreed.

Agreed. Not familiar with Rumore outside of what is reported. I will say this, a bit off the beaten path, teachers should be high on the vaccination list. Get well pi. Very sorry you caught it.

The scoring statistics say your wrong. Just pointing out the obvious.

I realize it's crued, harsh and simplistic, I do not mean to come across as crass. But it is what is in my opinion in any event.

I'm not trying to ram anything down anyone's throat. merely stating the facts based on statistics, on ice play visually and their projected expectations given their selection positions.

Baking? This isn't Culinary School, this is hockey, at the professional level at that. Olofsson is most certainly out performing Reinhart when finding the back of the net. And if you choose to believe it or not, Reinhart was drafted with the expectation to find the back of the net as well. So far, Olofsson has outperformed Reinhart, and the proof is on the score sheet.

The "parents" pay the school taxes that make the payroll for educators possible, so yes, they should be there for the students. It's what they are paid to do. Paid by the parents, did I mention that? It's kind of rather REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT. So what if they did? They pay the payroll.

When your paid to score goals, guess what, you score goals. Stafford is nothing like Olofsson. It's apples and oranges. Olofsson was brought in specifically to score goals, it's what he's doing.

He's freaking awesome! If trades are made, you build around Olofsson. He's better than Reinhart, and it's not even close given their expected projections in to their careers to be honest.

what difference does it make if a good player is available or not? Given the Sabres current culture, they would come here and their career would die anyways. This is truth.

Paging Dr. Phil. Please report to the red loading zone.

This is coming most likely.

This is a tragedy.

Lindy has the Devils playing some good hockey right now. There is no way this Sabres team is beating them imo.

True, but I had no problem with Darcy being ousted. If, and yes, this if failed miserably, but if the person replacing Darcy had vision. For all of the griping about Tim Murray, one thing I will say, he had vision. He wanted a hard nosed, hard to play against, mix of vets and youth team that played fast and hard. Kane, Bogosian, O'Reilly, Scandella, when combined with Eichel, Reinhart, Risto, was, for better or worse, a vision. Mixing skill with hard nosed hockey players. Yes, I realize he sold the farm to put that together, yes, I realize it didn't expedite the teams conference and division standing as quickly as was anticipated, and yes, I am full aware these owners, the Pegula's, are not interested in the reasonings behind the lack of progress. It's a perfect storm for failure imo. And that all starts with the owners. They are very well intentioned, they want what we want, championships. But they have made devastatingly bad decisions at the management and coaching level, and the results are directly what we have witnessed over these past 8 years or so. To myself in any event, this all comes back to the Pegula's. I remember reading these boards and PA put up "The Trial of Terry Pegula" thread. Not for nothing, but PA was correct in his assertion that meddling by these owners has cost this team. They can't seem to get out of their own way to achieve success with this NHL franchise. But once again, they are well intentioned, they did it right with the Bills. They need to hire a President of Hockey Operations, a successful league commodity that has done it before, and step aside and let that individual do what must be done, again, imho.

I agree. I never liked the Ruff firing. Darcy? Sure, why not, new vision at the GM level, as long as it had experience with success. But Ruff was a decent coach, he wore his heart on his sleeve for this team, and it showed.

There is no hope, all is lost. The only path to take now is to trade everyone, the players, management, ownership, sabertooth, the anthem singer, the arena. Trade it all.

Give Olofsson the C. 😄

Just win. That's all that accounts.