Claude_Verret

Correct, it may get better next year, but likely worse depending on who we part with this week. Tank on my brothers and sisters.

I forgot that I played a round of miniature golf with Ric Seiling at a charity event. Nice guy. Growing up in the southtowns my most memorable encounters were with Bills players both obscure and of HOF caliber. Bruce Smith carrying two cases of Genny in the Tops parking lot at McKinley and Southwestern. Talking to Darryl Talley and rookie Bruce Smith at a gas station in the village of Hamburg while walking home from a street hockey game. Turning around at mass at St. Bernadette's in OP to offer the sign of peace to.... Jim Kelly. I saw him quite often at Saturday mass, but he usually cut out right after communion even though people pretty much left him alone. Driving down a deserted California road one morning and being passed by a speeding Ford Bronco (doing at least 80 mph) driven by Jim Kelly. One of my friends in grade school was neighbors with safety Len Walterscheid, he would sometimes toss the football around with us. When he left the Bills, TE Ulysses Norris moved into the house. Byron Franklin and Booker Moore came to my 5th grade gym class for a community appearance, Had multiple beers at a bar in Hamburg with Bills DC Ted Cottrell. It was during the preseason and the Bills had just brought in Ted Washington. Cottrell couldn't stop talking, in very colorful language, about TW and what he was going to bring to the defense, and he turned out to be right. Saw Bruce Smith many times at Pure Platinum in Ft. Erie. One notable time it was a few days before the season opener in 1998 and Bruce must have had six or seven of the hottest strippers all to himself at his table. He got up more than a few times to go for private lap dances in the back. Then he didn't play in the season opener that Sunday against SD even though the Bills doctors cleared his knee to play. In contrast to Bruce, I saw Phil Hansen a couple times at the Hamburg Public library surrounded by financial periodicals and reports. Steve Christie came into the place I bartended at in Amherst. When my parents lived in OP Marcellus Wiley was their neighbor. My dad would always gripe that he never mowed his lawn. Also talked to Jim Ritcher at a Canes Sabres game for an entire intermission. It was when the Bills had just brought Levy back as GM and he really thought Marv would be good bringing in "that gray beard experience"

I think most of the Canes die hards are actually very hockey savvy, they just tend to be bandwagoners / team swapping whores. To me being a casual but ignorant fan is no sin, but a team swapping ###### is the lowest of the low.

I was never a regular there, but my now brother in-law was when he was dating my sister in the 2000-2002 time frame. It seemed that every time I met him there, Rico was there too.

Sat at the bar alongside Rico many times at Finlocks in Clarence.

Yeah. He tweeted it out so its already out there.

Workers of the world, unite!

Im exhausted. Ryan Miller can't become an ex-Sabre soon enough.

He's from Ottawa and a PGA Tour pro. The Sens sponsor him on tour so he is friends with many of them, and he maintains a relationship with Alfredsson too. So he's torn, but still rooting for Canada I'm assuming.

Go Sweden? :P My Canadian brother in law just tweeted a text exchange he had with Erik Karlsson. He's torn...

It's Jimmy Howard time.

Let's get back to the real business at hand, selling off our last remaining assets and completing the 2014 tank successfully.

If your intent is for the Sabres to continue to pick in the top 5 for the next five years, then I agree. If not, then this assessment is Exhibit A on why you don't make decisions based on anecdotal evidence.

Excellent analysis. Friggin' Quick.

I blame Quick.

At an extended liquid lunch for this....intense.

Hosers... all of you!

I guess I just watch these types of shows for the mindless empty entertainment calories that they provide. Just like how I wouldn't try to dissect the musical nuances of a pop radio song or the culinary wizardry of a Big Mac.

When I travel to Buffalo for my yearly bender on Bills home opener weekend I'm not feeling like myself again until the following weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAQ9QGrvVoA&feature=kp

My brother in law is Canadian. There has been radio silence between us since the match up was set yesterday and I'm undecided if I will launch a preemptive strike or just let the game play out.

In Asheville Wicked Weed Brewing is a must stop. Fantastic beer and food to match.

Excellent. and he tends to get leaky late in the 3rd.

So you guys want the tank to go another five years then?

Gaustad netted a 1st rounder. Paul freaking Gaustad. Remember that as we get to deadline day if TM hasn't pulled the trigger on any deals yet. Values for veteran assets will skyrocket as we get to the final hours and minutes before the deadline.