Claude_Verret

Lost a very close life long friend to cancer a week ago today. From diagnosis to being gone forever was exactly one month. It's still surreal and I'm going to miss the hell out of him. Another friend of ours was able to attend the Sabres 70's night, get a throwback pennant signed by some of the old timers and sent it down to our buddy in Florida before he passed. He said that Tony McKegney took a good long time talking to him and wished our friend the best. Tony mentioned that his family has been hit particularly hard by cancer.

Still this.

Even when the Bills were good, and yes I'm old enough to remember...I didnt really play the what if game with looking down the schedule. Now that they've been irrelevant for two decades I've been largely apathetic for most of the time, but when they do put together the odd early season promising run like this one I'm in the "show me the final second ticking off the clock in a playoff clinching win" camp.

I understand the sentiment, but as a long time member of this forum I'd think that I have established the credibility to not be full of *****. This is not information that I received from joe blow on the next bar stool.

I have it from a very good source that it's not the hip(s) injury, but a different significant injury that Bogo is suffering from.

Not his best, but hung out to dry often.

Ugly. Since last 5 minutes of the 1st they look like the depths of last year ***** show. RK needs his world class leadership skills to light a fire under their ass during intermission.

That shot on it's own is worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Ovie and Stamkos..... or at least Marty thought so on the post game yesterday.

After last year you believe/hope/delude yourself into nothing. Absolutely nothing. Unti it happens.

80 to go, but damn...how about these Sabres?

It's highly unlikely that the Bills win this week, but let's not pretend that the Pats* have been put to the test at all this year either. The Bills, warts and all, will be by far their toughest opponent so far this season.

I've had the beyond burgers too and yes they've done a decent job replicating the taste and texture of real meat. The problem is that they are at best marginally healthier than the real thing. The ethical and environmental benefits can be argued as real, health not so much.

Marcel Dionne vs. Mike Vernon.

Cheers. BNL, the Low and the Headstones were the soundtrack of my mid 20s. Such huge bands in Buffalo at the time. Went down to the cemetery..looking for love...

For you youngsters Billy Smith has to be in the top 3 dirtiest players to ever play the game. Also, before there was a Linesman, Lemieux or Dale Hunter there was Tiger Williams, I'm surprised he hasn't been mentioned yet. The infamous Lindy Ruff incident was par for the course for Billy.... that dirty SOB.

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Awesome as usual. I've seen JI probably four or five times now and he often gets labeled as americana or country....this is not true of his live shows at all. Jason and the 400 Unit put on a good old fashioned rock n roll show. I must admit that I was little disappointed that his wife Amanda who usually plays fiddle wasnt there for this one. She is quite easy on the eyes.

I watched the draft video for Joki on YouTube yesterday. The commentary right after the Hawks made the pick was that he was a prospect that had moved up draft boards late. It seems like he has continued that trajectory throughout his development in Chicago thus far. Nylander not so much with us. Can Chicago fix Nylander and can we F up Jokiharju? Let's plan on drafting a preliminary report circa January 2020.

A hockey coach who meddles in non-hockey matters?

Ugh that intersection is a nightmare in the best of conditions.

I'm in Buffalo this week, but I heard that some pretty nasty storms rolled through our area yesterday. It looks like some of my neighbors had trees down and property damage. Did you come through it ok?

Meh. No matter what happens Aho will be skating for a team that I hate next year.

Whether you agreed with the tank or not, you shouldn't have been under the illusion that the winning or even watchable hockey would start immediately upon ending trying to finish DFL. Has the timeline for icing an at minimum competitive team been too long? Yes. Does TP ultimately have to answer for hiring people who botched the overall rebuild? Yes. It's been said before, but honest tank supporters fully acknowledged that tanking as part of a rebuild could result in a downward spiral of losing that can prove difficult to pull out of..... and here we are.

Cozens hand injury looked kind of gruesome on the Twitter video I saw.