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By this standard, Dan Bylsma should never have been fired because he coached a team to the Stanley Cup. And then Ted Nolan was our next best coach after Bylsma during the Dastard Decade because he has led two teams to the playoffs.

I always felt that defencive responsibility is something anyone can learn. You see a lot of excellent scorers who are very bad initially in team-relative +/- in their early years who become much better defencively in their later years. Well-known examples who were Sabres are Gil Perreault, Rick Martin, Dave Andreychuk, Pierre Turgeon, Dale Hawerchuk, Pat LaFontaine, and Alexander Mogilny. And that's just off the top of my head.

Agreed. You never see this except for a GWG or an insurance goal very late in the game. Losing the game is probably punishment enough.

Guaranteed above DeLuca .500 this month.

Oh, yeah. You have got to bring in a vet -- preferably more than one.

I want the Sabres to pass Chicago and Detroit. Let's go, Buffalo.

I really, really would resist moving Samuelsson unless I am getting someone comparable back.

Why not?

A Jay McKee or Toni Lydman would also be welcome. Going back a few years, James Patrick.

CC was the answer for Niles in season 6 of "The Nanny"...

Maybe Jack Eichel would be happier being this kind of knight.

I am figuring our young D not named Power and Dahlin to be moved for veteran RHD -- potentially more than 1 player in and out.

My wife is far more literate and far better read than I am, so I need to know these things offhand and where to find them.

Welcome to the board! We have lost a lot of great posters in The Disastrous Decade. I hope they come back when the team warrants their attention.

According to Strunk and White, no. You are correct.

There is the famous 15-0 shellacking of the Rangers by the Red Wings at the Olympia during WWII. Edit: after looking it up, this is it. 23 January 1944.

Now you know why I'd rather go with a 4-headed monster of Pekka-Lukkonen / Levi / Portillo / Subban that getting Georgiev. I dislike his play that much.

No one likes Darlin' as much as I do. You and all your Pissick and moaning. Might an Asp lunge at Cleopatra once?

You mean it's not a case of situational ethics combined with the NHL ignoring every other rule in the playoffs so why not that one too?

Monochrome Waistcoat.

The worst version of Anaheim's uniform is the one I call "Stupor Duck" which has that duck breaking through ice holding a hockey stick and in trying to look like a teal and burgundy Superman. IMHO, it is right down there with Boston's teddy bear, The Slug, and the Vancouver "V".

Welcome to the board!

It really sucks that the team had been so bad and so unlikable for so long that even RJ suffers for it.

I want a DeLuca .500 in April this year too.

My siblings got me 2 tix for Christmas. It is truly melancholy. I am glad to have heard the greatest announcer of my life for 50+ years. I wish the team had been better for his last years.