Claude_Verret

Yep, another example of confirmation bias. If you think Pegula is a meddler you interpret those words as "those are the guys that he told DR to draft/trade for etc." I took it more in the sense that you do..he may have guys like every owner might, that he may have an affinity for, but I'm here to give my honest opinion on each and every guy regardless of that.

Agreed. 26CornerBlitz is a no nonsense information machine.

Let's get this tank back on track.

Agreed. I hope that I'm wrong and he ends up being easy to replace as some seem to think he will be.

:thumbsup:

The tank is still on folks. The run to nowhere cannot happen this year with this roster, let alone the roster we will see come next week. It just can't.

We stayed in Rapid City as our home base for three days while we visited Mt. Rushmore, Deadwood, Sturgis and other places. It really did exceed my expectations. If anyone watches Full Throttle Saloon I had a pretty good "celebrity" encounter with Fajita Mike in Sturgis.

I was in Rapid City last summer on vacation, it's actually a pretty cool town....... in the middle of nowhere.

Yes, it was Tripp Tracy the Canes TV color commentator. As a former goaltender he should know better.. http://hurricanes.nh...ge.htm?id=45362

440 on Boston.

Ok. Major tool. Especially after the nonsense he put out last night in the post game show.. Could this have been the last game for Ryan Miller as a Buffalo Sabre? He's been a great, great player here for many years and probably the best....well some will say Hasek is the best goalie in Sabres history, but there are many who will say it's Ryan Miller...

It really is because of where I grew up in the southtowns. Bruce Smith lived probably a mile from me in a development off of McKinley Rd. My friends used to see Shane Conlan and Marv Levy all the time because they lived in their neighborhood. They walked among us. :P My brother used to get the ultimate encounter experience for two or three summers. His friend was a big local golfer so he would get my brother in to be a caddy for the Jim Kelly Pro Am. I think one year he was caddy for Bernie Kosar and the next year it was Mike Pagel. But he got to meet and get the autographs of all the big NFL stars of the late 80s.

Not good for the tank, but if they have to win its always good against the Canes.

Yes play by play.Tripp Tracey is the color guy and he's kind of a tool.

More from stalking /encounters department.... John Forslund's kids go to school with mine.

According to RJ , put it to bed its Se-CARE-uh Not the canes PR guys' mangled way

The tank plan involves next year most certainly. Even if they wanted to avoid it, there isn't much that can be done to avoid another terrible season next year.

Others stories keep jogging my memory. Went to a Bruce Springsteen concert in Greensboro a few years back and stood next to Brett Hedican and Kristi Yamaguchi, who had special seats near the soundboard. Sat behind Curtis Brown and his wife at a concert my wife dragged me to in Buffalo.

Actually looking back on all the encounters I mentioned, in all the ones where I actually interacted with any of them the only one that I initiated was with Peters. I was in the concourse and saw him as he was walking by and I just blurted out "Peters". So he stopped and talked to us for a minute, I think he thought that maybe he was supposed to know me from somewhere.

The Canes were notorious for that kind of bush league stuff for awhile. They had a fan base in Sabres fans that they deemed unruly and dangerous for the home fans, so what do they do? Antagonize those very same "unruly" fans at every chance they get. Brilliant. They have toned down that stuff in recent years though. And to keep on the encounter topic. Erik Cole lived down the street from me when I moved into my neighborhood about 10 years ago. However, he had moved by the 2006 playoffs or I would have put a Sabres flag in his lawn.

Not so sure about Ward. He's been injury prone, costs the same as Miller and isn't as good.

Saw Muckler three or so years ago at Wegmans on Transit. He was wearing a Senators eastern conference champs t-shirt.

Ok, more Sabres encounters are coming back to me The Ralph story reminded me of talking to to Andrew Peters at the Bills home opener a few years ago. I also talked to Barnaby at the mall once. My wife went to high school with his ex-wife, so when they ran into each other I got the intro. Another Bills encounter. I was golfing at the town of Hamburg course with my dad when it was only 9 holes, we were on the 7th tee when two guys asked if they could join us for the last three holes. One of them was former Bills center Will Grant. We played the last three holes with them and then Will and his friend played ahead of us on 9. I was about 100 yards from the green while they were putting out. Will waves me on to the green, so I hit a wedge to three feet of the pin. He yells out "awesome fecking shot kid" and walks to the parking lot. The next day I heard on the radio that Will Grant got busted for pot possession.

I suspect Miller is much like Vanek at this point. He's saying all the right things to the media, but he's been long gone for quite some time now. Unless they throw ridiculous money at him, which would be dumb, then there is 0% chance that he re-signs. Trade him for whatever the market is.

I believe that Kelly may have switched parishes later in his career, but during the late 80's he was at St. Bernadette's a lot. A couple more Bills encounters that came back to me... I was in line behind Rueben Brown getting a sub at Subway in OP. Saw Biscuit and Tasker at Kelly's bar downtown the night they lost to the Steelers in the playoffs. Biscuit stood there among a throng of people and I watched as person after person came right up to him to say something...and he just stood there with a blank stare, not even acknowledging their presence. Tasker took a leak at the urinal next to me...anywhere else I would have said something to him, but I had to honor the code of men's room etiquette.