That Aud Smell

Das. ... Das a lotta flesh.

Ha. Everyone's %'s get re-defined, I guess? that guy makes chris drury sound like a barrel of laughs.

This is really just a definitional problem. Just define that 85% as 100%, and, boom, problem solved.

I watched the 3rd period and OT of the Canes-Kings game last night from the lounge area of a local youth sports facility. Carolina's frickin' good, man. But so are the Sabres! Let's Go, Buffalo!!

Not enough catch radius. Not enough winning contested balls. Not enough separation. Some of all of that. But not nearly enough of any of it with consistency.

i read that the consensus is that this is a weak year for WR's. so they may have to wait and take a shot at someone on day 2. I never make up my mind where my rooting interest lies until I am watching the game. And I definitely found myself favouring KC. I reckon I don't much like that Cincy team.

The numbers aren’t totally apt, as Chase competes for looks with 2 other legit NFL WR’s. Plus there were injuries for Chase this season?

Sir. Sir!

This conversation reminds me of a podcast previewing the NBA season. The conversation turned to the metaphysics of basketball. One of the analysts - a former player - offered that the super majority of defensive success is focus and effort, together with repetition and experience. I think that’s much the same in hockey, soccer, and all similar sports.

I heard him talk about this on WGR — his regular appearance being the only time the station discusses the Sabres apparently — and he referenced how sometimes the approach hurts timing and precision. He referred to the start of the Dallas game when the Sabres looked like the Keystone Cops. But he said, on balance, he knows it’s better for the team to be fresh. As others have noted: This is interesting stuff.

Triumph fu*king rocks. I pine for those early, early days of MTV when the fledgling network had, like, 62 videos it could show, 4 of which were live concert clips of Triumph.

It's the worst kind of intentional too -- guy was savvy enough to disguise it as unintentional. He knew what he was doing. He wasn't sure he'd find Cozens' face, but he was reaching for it with his fist closed around his stick's butt end.

I get that, for sure. I'm wonder if, medically/clinically, there's anything to the distinction I'm making about a jaw-related KO. There may not be.

That's not pedantic at all. I appreciate the feedback from everyone. I've been with two people who got KTFO by a punch or blow to the jaw area. Both made immediate recoveries and showed no concussion symptoms after the fact. Of course, that was the late 80s and early 90s. But isn't there some sort of sinus/artery sudden impact issue where you can get KO'd (or made woozy) without there being a concussion type impact to the brain? Absolutely. It's happened in hockey as well, I believe.

There is so much going on with this team that #10's play could be missed or glossed over. But him being a legit top-4 guy - which he most definitely looks to be - is a fantastic development. And he's cost-controlled next year as well, I believe.

Yeah - this is almost certainly true. And for someone who was as put-together, powerful, poised (didn't intend the run on P's, but there it is), and, I'll say it, attractive ("pretty" would have been too much there), I think it could be very, very difficult, damn near soul-crushingly impossible, to make public appearances, let alone lead a semi-public life, in a significantly diminished state. Effing Ugh.

Not sure it was said upthread - and I do know it was said on Twitter: That Sabres team looked like the gotdam Harlem Globetrotters out there for most of the night. Shades of 2006 and skating around the Flyers as though they were traffic cones.

The Cozens incident looked more like a blow to the jaw. Those can knock you out for sure, as boxers well know. I’m not sure they’re concussive though.

Btw - firing the safeties coach seems like such a random sacrificial lamb move. The unit under-performed, I guess? No surprise given that Hyde was out for the year, basically, and Poyer played most of the year super banged up.

My sense is that you're mostly talking past each other. For my part, my experience with and connection to the Bills underwent a seismic shift when I resolved - really resolved - that my fandom, and all it entails, was not predicated on them winning a Super Bowl. I think there are many (most?) fellow fans that would hear or read that and be like "dude - wtf? why bother then?" or, quite likely, say, type, or think things harsher than that ("that's fookin' loser talk!"). The New England playoff game last season helped me see my way forward. It was in my head amidst the bedlam and euphoria and near-zero temperatures: "This is it. This. Is. It. This is everything I need." And I later concluded that, to insist otherwise (to myself), was to needlessly buy into a false paradigm ("Super Bowl or bust!"). I just got off that train of thought. I still want them to win a Super Bowl. Very much so. But, once we completed the 20-minute walk from our seats to the car this past Sunday, I was pretty much done with complaining. We didn't play the post-game show (obvi). And by the time we passed the exit for the 400, headed east (north) on 90, we were howling over jokes about all the people who were henceforth banned from attending Bills games (started with the anthem singer, moved on to Kyle Brandt (?), and went on from there (and showed no mercy - lol)). The Bills will or will not win a Super Bowl in my lifetime. And I will essentially have no influence on whether or not that happens (save perhaps for being a loud fan at home games (that's not nothing, but it almost is)). How I choose to carry forward with those truths and uncertainties is entirely up to me. Go, Bills!

Let’s go, Buffalo!!

maybe. or maybe they see him as someone who can still be intimidated. both quinn and peterka will get through this phase of their career - of that i am sure.

Ha - what? It is such a crapshoot.

Funny you should mention that. There was a moment in the 2nd when the teams were scrumming because Dahlin had done something to aggravate the Blues (and the refs, clearly (they hate Dahlin)). And Peterka skated towards the scrum. And someone from the Blues - not sure who, but he had the look of a thick NHL veteran - just stuck a glove into Peterka's mid-section as Peterka arrived and sent him backwards onto the ice. It was kind of amusing.

Amen. I basically missed the first half of the game, saw a lot of the second period on TV, and then caught the rest on the radio. Probably the most compelling play I saw was Joki disrupting a would-be breakaway (player got no shot off) and then stooping to block the same player's effort to play the puck from behind the net and out into the crease area. Two excellent plays on D by #10.