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    I'm hungry for some potato rolls for some reason.
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    I'm confused by all the Pouliots.
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    Totally random hockey trivia... Bailey is the only African American player in the NHL. There are four half-black American players (Okposo is one).
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    Goal!!!!
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    Must. Win. :mellow:
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    We have to be about the same age. Chalk and a pencil and voila, legal in Canada! That was back in the era of open borders where they'd ask two questions at the border checkpoint, then send you on your way: 1. Where do you live? "Buffalo" 2. Where are you going? ....An acceptable answer to #2 was "GTR."
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    McDavid is pretty good: http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl/news/connor-mcdavid-completes-insane-assist-against-chicago-blackhawks-edmonton-oilers/1twjfx8min9ok15xie9flrh98y
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    Every time I come on here and post a strong negative opinion about a player he goes out and has a monster game. Expect a multi-point night for Samson this evening. ;)
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    Matty Mo's cap hit. $5 million. Ouch!
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    ...if only the board knew what I did for a living. :D I totally agree that we can look at a million different stats, but they can never tell the whole story. Trust your eyes. ...and the only stat that really matters is wins and losses!
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    American teenager Weston McKennie is on the bench for Schalke to start this game. He started the last few games, so there is a chance he comes in as a second half sub. EDIT: this ref also did the Women's World Cup final game (USA v. Japan)
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    I realize it's all the rage to call +/- a useless stat. But the stat has some merit in a relative sense (i.e., within-team, not across teams) when standardized for minutes played (i.e., over 60 minutes) and when eliminating non-even strength inputs. Not a perfect measure of within-team impact by any means, but not completely useless as the non-statisticians like to argue. It does contain a degree of diagnostic information when looking only at 5-on-5 +/- and standardizing TOI over 60 minutes and considering it over the long-term, which washed out much of the short-term random noise. There are many nice adjusted +/- models out there (e.g., MacDonald 2011). With Samson thus far in the young season it is pretty simple. We're not scoring when he's out there. Obviously we're only 7 games in, but it is a concern IMHO.
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    I'm still not sold on Reinhart and never have been. He has good hands and vision, but he doesn't win enough puck battles... doesn't show enough desire and "want to" in his game shift-after-shift for my liking... personally I don't see a guy who competes at the level that it takes to win consistently. The guy has the worst +/- on the team and I'm not sure that is just a random coincidence. Given he is young and skilled, I think Reinhart could bring a lot back in return were he to be traded. And, IMHO, we need a top-4 defenseman much more than a scoring winger or 3rd line center (depending on how you see Samson). Of course, after saying all this, Samson will probably go out and score a hat trick tonight! :D
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    Was listening to some former USA soccer players talk about the breakdown of Team USA in not qualifying for the World Cup. And, their position was the fire and passion and desire and "want to" has to come from the players themselves, not the coach. The desire to give 100% isn't something a coach should have to, or really can, coax out of a team. I think that applies to hockey as well. You can't have a coach motivate guys for 82 games. You're either the sort of player who will play hard every shift (a guy like Adam Mair comes to mind) or not. No system can fix lack of effort. On that note, I think lack of effort is coming from some of our most talented players (Risto, Samson, etc.). That's a big problem and one we've seen before in Buffalo (e.g., the team in Lindy Ruff's last year was full of drifty drifters... and was captained by Pommer).
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    Probably justice that Vegas got the OT winner. They were the better team all night.
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    Vegas doesn't have much 3-on-3 talent beyond Neal.
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    Nice comeback... after being dominated for 50 minutes by an expansion team.
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    Huge cheer in that place when they announced the goal. Tons of Sabres fans in that place.
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    That's a good goal. Count it.
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    Kane ties it! Wow!!!
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    Yay. Garbage time goal!
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    Nice shot by ROR with the screen in front.
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    Weak call. But, there have been a lot of those in this game.
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