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I didn't realize there were so many Hunter Biden supporters here. Must be the local NAMBLA chapter.

is that your attempt at irony? I wanted to remind you that you are a moderator. I asked for help with something and this is the help you give. Great.

Where's the Hunter Biden designed cap?

Sabres will finally get rid of Risto and overpay to reacquire Zadorov. Anyway that's what I'm hoping for. Buffalo needs to be more difficult to play against. Zads is not a great player but he's a big hitter and enforcer and the Sabres need protection and they need to go on the offensive in many ways .

Girgensons will stink this year and then will get hurt again, missing lots of time. The huge investment in him will be proven to be a waste. Ullmark will get hurt again and miss lots of time. The Sabres will acquire Christian Dvorak from the Coyotes, who will successfully reunite with Reinhart. Skinner's problem was his hands were hurt. He'll bounce back with a 25 goal season this year. Granato will lead the Sabres to the most improved record in the league. Eichel will sit out the 2021-22 season. Ralph Krueger will shave his head, get divorced, get engaged to AOC and then become a big wheel at the U.N.

I read that Landeskog is disappointed that there's only a couple weeks left until he becomes a free agent...He has better than Reino numbers but of course he was surrounded by a much better team. https://www.tsn.ca/colorado-avalanche-gabriel-landeskog-nhl-free-agency-1.1667687

Hubris From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré (1866). The spiritual descent of Lucifer into Satan — one of the most famous examples of hubris. Hubris (/ˈhjuːbrɪs/, from ancient Greek ὕβρις) describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride[1] or dangerous overconfidence,[2] often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance.[3] The term "arrogance" comes from the Latin adrogare, meaning to feel that one has a right to demand certain attitudes and behaviors from other people. To "arrogate" means "to claim or seize without justification.... to make undue claims to having",[4] or "to claim or seize without right... to ascribe or attribute without reason".[5] The term "pretension" is also associated with the term hubris, but is not synonymous with hubris.[6][need quotation to verify] According to studies, hubris, arrogance and pretension are related to the need for victory (even if it doesn't always mean winning) instead of reconciliation, such as "friendly" groups might promote.[7] Hubris is usually perceived[by whom?] as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group, although the group the offender belongs to may suffer collateral consequences from wrongful acts. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities. The adjectival form of the noun hubris is "hubristic". The term hubris originated in ancient Greek,[8] where it had several different meanings depending on the context: in legal usage it meant assault or sexual crimes and theft of public property,[9] and in religious usage it meant transgression against a god. the hockey gods Finally, this from Craig Custance: There’s also an inherent risk that comes with tanking and that’s building in a culture of losing into your organization. You can bring in all the young talent you want but if there isn’t an established culture and veteran players teaching those players how to win, it won’t work. I think it’s harder to turn around a tailspin if there’s an implied message that it’s okay to lose for a year or two.” Additional commentary: You don't tank when you don't know what you're doing. Tanking is fundamentally dishonest and against the fans. Tanking has only been successfully pulled off a couple times in NHL history. Our tank was predicated on building around cornerstones Ekblad and McDavid. Wrong again, Pegulas.

Although the video of Pegula ten years later is ironic, I don't think it qualifies as a feel-good video. We're in great hands, eh Bettman? It makes me feel bad that this is our guy. Who is Pegula's speechwriter??

Feel free to post feel-good clips about the Sabres...we need to feel good about this team again. To kick things off...we all know about the Buffalo Bills' greatest comeback...but how about the Sabres? Or this one? Or this?

Ed Wood's "Bride of the Monster." All great movies end with a great big EXPLOSION. "He tampered in God's domain."

I remember working retail in a small unassuming place when our manager gave us a pep talk how the place was a "rocket ship." I still remember that speech and not in a good way, as the place is now out of business.

https://causewaycrowd.com/2021/07/10/boston-bruins-jack-eichel-intriguing-comments-recent-interview/

About Eichel's recent interview and his stated wish to play for the Bruins...this was not advisable to say while still a member of the Sabres. It's not a big deal I suppose but in context of all of his high drama over the years, this was a bridge too far. Too many Buffalo fans hate the Bruins going decades back. Some people say he wears his heart on his sleeve. I say it's too bad he has a million dollar body but a 5 cent brain. And he's still immature. I'm not going to place all the blame on Jack. He's just another ill-fitting piece on a badly constructed team and last I looked, the Pegulas are still incompetent in the hockey business.

They should decrease the price of the tickets. Just go drill another oil well.

In all fairness, I was having a conversation with a marketing research guy who said that all polls with less than 400 participants are meaningless. Apparently under 400 is too small of a sample size to draw any kind of meaningful conclusions. But here, it's entertainment.

Nobody knows what really happens behind closed doors in Sabreland. The Black Widow probably had something to do with it...she always does.

I wouldn't mind overpaying for Zadorov to take care of Eichel if he bolts to the Bruins.

Don't get my hopes up!

To maximize the return I think the Sabres should table Eichel's trade until he is able to play. If that means sitting him for 2021-22, so be it. Otherwise, we get Danny O'Regan back. So no, IMO he won't be traded now.

I'm on an LA Angels thread and have been interacting with a longtime fan. Arte Moreno mirrors the Pegulas with his expensive, aging free-agent acquisitions...Pujols ($25mil/yr@ 10 yr) and Anthony Rendon (30) , who also has a multi-year $250 million contract are two examples. Of course MLB is crazy money compared to the NHL. But this is what the guy said and I think it's relevant to us as Sabre fans:

Sorry Woody. Must be so frustrating for you. Rest up and get well soon!

I'd love it if Buffalo could dump Girgensons, Okposo and Skinner. Those three are useless disappointments.

John McGraw by Charles Alexander.