pi2000
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I suffered a mild stroke when Moulson scored to put them down one...but the Shart is strong in this team. Had a home depot bucket by the couch in the closing minutes. This game on Thursday should be a good old fashioned CHL barn burner. Huge that ARI cannot claim 30th with a regulation win. Even huger if ARI can somehow pickup a point tomorrow in DET. Cmon hockey Gods, you owe us!
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Damn another loss. Thought the Sabres had this one in the bag. Should be a W on home ice Thursday against the Coyotes.
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You're talking about hockey right? This is the GDT?
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PP goal! Noice
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I like Razor too, he has some interesting analogies. he said something about the Stars needing to "mow around the stump" tonight meaning the Sabres like to collapse in their own zone or something..
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Swimming in a sea of suck.
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Damn, Linbergh has to make that save there. Decent road period tho.
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Nice play by Grigorenko! Go Sabres!
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The Dallas guy just called Lindback Hedberg and then Lindbergh before correcting himself.
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This is the GDT... Right??
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Just turned on the Dallas feed and hear ... "...the Stars are playing their best hockey of the season...." Here we go!
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I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I've been watching the Coyotes for the past 3 months, just about every single game. There is no explanation for the bonehead decisions they're making over the past month when presented with absolutely glorious scoring chances. Passes directly to the other team, but most notably shooting wide on 9 out of 10 point blank opportunities. Even guys like Erat and Gagner are blowing prime scoring chances. -
Maybe it's just a Buffalo media thing? Outside of WNY (I'm in California), the perception is that Buffalo just sucks and has sucked for several seasons. The Tank talk comes up most often when discussing ARI's freefall since the trade deadline, and Toronto. People understand what Buffalo is doing, they've jettisoned the previous core and are attempting to build a new one... that's not Tanking, that's rebuilding wisely.
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Rebuilding is a multi year proccess of tearing your team down tactfully, getting good return for your expiring assets and drafting wisely. Tanking is intentionally throwing games over a short period of time in a desperate attempt to improve your draft position. If anybody is tanking it's the Coyotes.
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This. Tanking would be calling up and starting an ECHL goalue and sitting Ennis and Risto down the stretch. The Sabres are just bad, they aren't intentionally throwing games by scratching healthy players.
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This is getting tight. Let's say BUF gets a CHL loss tomorrow. That puts it at 1 point heading into the first ARI game. I could see BUF losing the lead here this week, but will come down to the final week, could go either way, but I trust GMTM has something up his sleeve.
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Lawler's Law here soon for Buffalo. Really thought ARI was gonna squander some points on home ice. Tough when your own goalie is putting the puck in his net. EDM dropping, and with 3 more games left on their homestand they could be out of contention by next weekend. These BUF/ARI games are shaping up to be gimungous. I see both games going to OT with zeros on the board.
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11-4-4
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Rack up another 2 points for the good guys! Can we already count tomorrow's game as a win? No way in hell BUF is even in that game. Hackett should get the nod but wouldn't be surprised to see him get pulled at some point.
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Damn another loss. Thought Lindback was OK. Larsson and Ristolainen both are looking better and better every game. Weber is not an NHL defenseman. Needed more from Foligno and Grigorenko.
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Deal
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Who will the bottom 2 teams be? ARI with Eichel or McDavid will be better, EDM is already getting better this season. CAR? CBJ? Both teams are better than Buffalo and I don't see Buffalo passing them next season without McEichel. A full season with Lindback/Hackett? Reinhart will be a rookie, there really isn't anybody else in the pipeline that can provide immediate help. And they may have a new head coach as well. I just don't see any team being worse than BUF. BUF is just hitting rock bottom after the deadline, they have no veteran assets left to trade for picks and whatnot. This is the bottom, it's up from here, but I don't see enough changing over the summer for this team to climb itself out of cellar just yet. Reinhart needs AHL minutes, so does Bailey and Compher and Fasching.... those are all key pieces, but not next season.
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That if they don't get McDavid or Eichel they'll be bottom 2? Sure I'll bet something, what?
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Think of it like this. Whoever gets Eichel and McDavid will be better next season. If Buffalo doesn't get either of those players, they'll be in the bottom 2 next season as well so... uhh.... where was I going with this?
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ARI will NHL win their next three games (all at HOME). BUF will NHL lose their next three and the spread will be up to 9 when we met them next week. Everybody needs to just calm the down.