Claude_Verret

Of course youd never hate the canes when you're someone whose entire board schtick is predicated on being the enlightened contrarian.

Most dont need to go this far to find reasons to hate the Canes,but if you dont hate them already then you've never been to a Sabres game in Raleigh. If you attend a Sabres game here in Raleigh i promise that you'll find yourself hating just about everything about the Canes organization. *****, just come work here for a week and engage in some canes water cooler talk with your coworkers. You'll find dozens of reasons to hate them. Oh and I dont think anyone mentioned Ric Flair yet. Go Bruins / Blue Jackets!

Indeed, that was my point.

I dont mind the casual or non-fans that get caught up in a playoff run. I completely get and understand that type of bandwagon fan. What we have here in Raleigh to a large degree are the team swapping bandwagon fans. Those fans who moved here from somewhere else, go to the regular season games wearing their Rangers, Flyers, Red Wings etc. jerseys, but who are now suddenly woo-wooing to Ric Flair alongside the 6000 true caniac diehards. Nauseating.

It was. Brian Campbell who played 30 minutes in that game at a time in his career when he should have been playing half that.

The Lehner turnover was vintage Canes puck luck. A great play by Aho no doubt, but give him 10 shots at knocking that puck down and he does it maybe once. I understand that all teams get bandwagon fans when they start winning in the playoffs, but I swear to the almighty that this town has to be among the worst. It will now be insufferable around here for the next few weeks. Oh what sweet karma it would be if Canes dmen start dropping like flies just in time for the ECF......

Do the canes have some great fans? Sure they do, I know some of them personally. They've had season tickets throughout the whole 10 year no playoffs drought. Do they have a great NHL fan base as a whole? Absolutely not, in no way, shape or form. Fair weather fans at their finest. I'm still not convinced that they dont pipe amplified crowd noise through the house PA either. Edit to add that not only were game 7 ECF tickets there at the last minute, so were game 1 tickets to the friggin Stanley Cup finals hours before faceoff.

The only Bills game that I really care about is the home opener as I always go to that game and meet up with about 20 family and friends for the weekend. As a whole it is one of the highlights of my year usually right up until the actual game. I dont gamble or play fantasy football and the Bills are the Bills so I have a hard time getting excited for anything NFL related these days.

Just because it's not a leading question doesnt make it a loaded one. In a random sampling of Sabres fans I'd wager that the vast majority are already aware of his role in Harbor Center and canal side and also that a vast majority are not already aware of things like wooing NYS officials at the arena on the benefits of fracking or that he donates regularly to republican political campaigns. If you want to give that information and ask them to see if it changes their answer it would be appropriate with a follow up poll question.

A good synopsis of the statistical considerations when conducting a proper poll Liger. I had something similar drafted, but you did a better job. Beyond these mathematical factors in polling you also have to consider the phrasing of the poll question. This is obviously a poor one, as its predicated on something that's from fantasy land (fans voting to fire owner) to result in something that's extremely unlikely (owner removed or selling franchise). A better set of questions paired with a true random sampling of Sabres fans that also parses out performance as owner of the hockey franchise from outside activities would be: 1. Do you approve or disapprove of TPs performance as owner of the Buffalo Sabres? 2. Since taking over as owner of the Buffalo Sabres do you approve or disapprove of the overall efforts that TP has made outside of his role of owner of the Sabres/Bills to impact Buffalo and WNY? My guess is that question #1 would be much >50% of the fans disapproving of his performance, because you know the team has sucked ***** for a long time. It would also be interesting to poll a random sampling of fans in other markets where their pro sports franchise has endured equal suckitude. I'd expect the results would be very unremarkably similar. At the same time I'd guess that >90% would approve of activities outside of his role as sports franchise owner.

Creating a thread with a non existent, impossible scenario in order to fulfill an 8 year long fantasy that everyone and their brother knows will never happen until TP passes on. Nah, not a crusade at all.

Ovechkin destroys Svechnikov. Tripp Tracey on the local telecast saying Ovechkin with the cheap shot forcing his head into the ice. The kid was out on his feet with that bomb he caught on the chin... he was going down hard regardless.

Its simple. The Pegulas dont spend all their time in Folrida on their yacht only signing the checks. Any involvement beyond that makes them bad owners.

They will release of video of the draw. At least they did last year.

I agree. I think they went too far to combat tanking with this current system, but dems the rules for now anyway. While moving up last night would have been nice, it wasnt crucial to the rebuild IMO. We already got what we needed out of tanking twice (franchise center #9) and sucking and having lady luck on our side (franchise defenseman #26). Those two pieces are the hardest to obtain in building a contender for the long run. The rest of the rebuild has been cocked up to this point obviously, but Botts can still get the pieces required without being a lottery team, let alone finishing DFL.

Thinking its rigged goes hand in hand with not understanding basic probability.

I'll take what we got...1st last year + 7th this year vs. dropping to 4th last year and getting 1st this year. In other words, we all should still be over the moon that we have Dahlin. Although I wont hold my breath, this result should also hopefully once and for all remove the term "tanking" from the NHL lexicon. The system was put into place to discourage the practice, and no team in their right mind will engage in it going forward so long as the lottery continues to follow the immutable laws of probability and yields results like we observed last night.

Yep. This should only reinforce how fortunate we were to finally beat the odds to land Dahlin last year.

It's a free country, root for whatever team you want..... But the friggin Canes coached by Brind'amour no less. Really? No memory of 2006? Maybe the Bruins can hire Brad Park as coach next year and I can adopt them as my "second team."

I will not watch. Didnt watch last year and my phone blew up while out at dinner with DAHLIN!!!!! texts.

The streak. That is all. Everything else is forgettable.

Yep. Babcock.

Reminiscing on Risto.

Lol. Typical.

I'd turn it around and just say that a win is not helpful at all going forward.