sabremike

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:

Will be at the opener and recall Key Bank customers got a discount. Does anyone know if this is still the case and if so how much is it? Also on an unrelated note is the Ted's on Chippewa still open as last April it was "closed for the season" (the Mighty Taco location was gone much to my dismay)?

My favorite part is the idea that we simultaneously have the deepest and best prospect pool in the sport by a country mile and must finish in the high lottery again to add to that pool. Dom is really the most crude stereotype of fancystat types who think the sport is just a math problem to be solved.

If you want to have some fun google predictions for the post lockout season and see what people thought of us (Spoiler alert: Very similar to what they are saying right now).

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiT74J6vlF6/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

As bad an overall game as Burrow had with the game on the line he essentially won it twice but it all went to ***** because our starting long snapper got hurt.