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Breaking: An outraged King Geoffrey has just issued a Giraffatwah against tonight's officials and is offering a million acacia leaves as a bounty. Many of the violent and terrifying group known as the Giraffenians are on their way to Buffalo in an attempt to collect:

You're Artie Lang???? (I'm not putting the photo up because everyone here probably had a big Thanksgiving diner and... you get the picture).

Here is what I am thankful for:

RETURN OF THE GOAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Botts really was an Ed Johnston/Mike Millbury level clueless moron as a GM. It's insane looking back at all the damage he inflicted on this franchise with his stupidity and he somehow got hired by Seattle in a non zamboni driver position.

Thompson is going to be an all star who interestingly enough should be the cautionary tale about trying to force someone out of their depth at this level. If he had been handled correctly the breakout likely happens a few years earlier.

You just described our entire system with that last sentence.

Cozens has been one of our most effective players. All those other guys are faring real badly which is why we are about to lose 10 games in a row with many more losses not out of the question. Giving guys spots without making them earn it was and is a terrible idea and this is generally the result.

Those two were 1OA picks so the learning curve is going to be different. Throwing guys out to get crushed and eaten alive on a nightly basis by actual NHL players is the exact opposite of development. Putting guys in a position where they are totally out of their depth is a surefire path to failure. We literally have a team in Rochester whose entire purpose is developing players and that's where a lot of these guys belong because they just aren't ready to play in the NHL.

Got a size 52.

If you are at the game and want a goatshead jersey I'd suggest grabbing one as they are on a significant back order. Just got mine over the phone.

I have seen it pointed out that by law he was forbidden from contacting them which would seem to make doing so very complicated. He did in fact apologize to the victim in court.

POV: You are the Blackhawks goalie:

The National Hockey League is over 100 years old and only one team has EVER missed the playoffs for 11 (soon to be 12 and counting) consecutive seasons. Before saying the market is no longer an NHL one maybe recognize the problem is that for over a decade the Sabres have been an NHL team in name only.

The single biggest factor in STH value is playoff access. The team has all but put up giant advertisements saying "We have zero intention of making the playoff this season and probably the next". Shouldn't be surprising that Sabres season tickets are selling like cans of herpes (the embarrassingly crappy "benefits" are the icing on the crap cake).

Well it WAS a strong hockey market (past tense).

The Avs lost at home to a team trying to be worse than the expansion Caps that plays their home games in an arena roughly the size of the one in Elmira where an FPHL team plays.

Too many people I know are Human Slinkys in that they should be pushed down a flight of stairs.

30 minutes from downtown Buffalo on a Greyhound bus I boarded in NYC at 1:25am.

Lose lots of games and force his way out of town?

DEATH BY GIRAFFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Huge acquisition today: