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The problem with goaltending is that the position is so volatile and consistent goalies are incredibly hard to find. For example: in 5 years Jordan Binnington went from Stanley Cup winning hero to albatross who may soon be out of the league. Bob got a gigantic contract and besides the last playoff round has generally stunk out the joint and he was seen as a top 5 guy at the time signed. Giving up legit assets for a goalie is incredibly risky and I can understand why KA is very hesitant to do so.

No, don't have an athletic bone in my body. The Brewster Ice Arena is literally in the middle of nowhere but can lay claim to hosting the only "pro" team to ever play in Putnam: The FPHL's Brewster Bulldogs.

Actually it's in Pawling which is in Dutchess County. Daryl's Place is roughly a mile north of the county border with Putnam (I myself live in Brewster).

If any of you are in the NYC area there's a place on 23rd and 8th called Lions, Tigers and Squares that sell authentic Detroit style pizza. One interesting thing they have is the Mustard Pie which has mustard instead of tomato sauce with corned beef and sauerkraut (essentially a reuben in pizza form).

I Saw Gaslight Anthem open up for The Misfits last week at Pru Center. Sitting upstairs the vocal mixing was awful and you could barely make out even stage banter. The Misfits set was much better as the crowd sang along with every song and served as a de facto sound system.

At last: Vindication for Charles Wang and his sumo goalie proposal.

He was forced to make those moves and had no choice in the matter.

There is a part of me afraid that the downfall of KA is going to be his risk aversion/unwillingness to make significant moves. If we fail to reach the playoff this coming season his vibes are going to go to ***** real bad.

People today don't understand that at the time state loyalty superceded national loyalty. Perfect example is that the dead of Gettysburg are buried in plots by state. It was originally proposed to bury all the dead with no regard for which state they were from but this was shot down immediately.

Message to the HHOF:

Did you know that there are only 117,000 giraffes left in the wild? Do your part to save these gentle giants and #StandUpForGiraffe

Read the whole thing.

The vast majority of teams agreed with our doctors, which is why there were so few suitors for a trade to get a player of that caliber.

I for one can't wait for an entire offseason of the dogshit hockey media shitting all over us like a Taco Bell toilet and rubbing our noses in it with cackling glee.

And conversely all the fans of opposing teams who used to ***** on the guy as "GM Jack" and a spoiled brat who was handed everything without earning it who now lionize the guy for sticking it to those mean no good Sabres.

Storytime: I was a longtime Isles STH and sat with a group of friends that included a friend who is in the hockey industry (when the Isles commissioned a 50th anniversary book he was one of the people who was interviewed, many years back he actually did pbp for the Bingo Whalers) primarily at the youth level. The first year at Barclays he tells me that Jack is (and I quote) "Dumber than a bag of rocks" and he proceeds to tell me a story of him in a youth tournament doing something that was a very serious and immature breech of etiquette (don't remember the exact details as this was close to a decade back) and he actually went up to him to explain to him what he had done wrong. The point I wish to make isn't just that Jack had Lindros levels of immaturity and that this was obvious to anyone who knew him, it's that the Sabres had to know this as well. If you know this your primary objective in roster building should be to get numerous high character vets to make sure that the kid you are building your franchise around will grow and mature. You need a competent head coach with a progressive mindset. So what did GMTM do? Goes out and acquires Evander Kane at the draft before the deadline and hires Hockey Barry Switzer Dan Abysmal as the coach which helped lead to a hockey version of Love Canal. Jack had obvious immaturity issues but it was the job of the organization to put him in a position to grow and mature and they failed miserably.

The reason is obvious:

Good night:

The other good argument against UFO's is the idea these beings could create this insane technology yet keep crashing on Earth.

Every time you bring this topic up it reminds me of how conflicted I am about Matt Martin: A no talent lunk who threw the cheap hit that caused the neck injury to Jack but also the son in law of just about my biggest childhood sports hero.