That Aud Smell

true true. cloudy af though.

I saw that the shots were fairly even in last night's Flyers-Leafs game - around 36 for each team. And prior to that, the Flyers had won four straight? Any sense of what the Flyers are right now and what they're apt to be tonight? Go, Sabres!!

he had some juice. a little corny. ... wait. juice? corn?

I wish John Murphy a full and speedy recovery. I wish him every happiness in life. I will not miss him calling Bills games when he's done doing so.

The Bruins are up there for me as well. But the Flyers are probably my #1 most hated team as well. Let's Go Buffalo!!

I just love this team. Growth is needed (i.e., the baby wingers). There are flaws (goaltending is still iffy at times). But they are so fun. And they play with such heart and fearlessness.

Just incredible. Incredible!! I'll hop in to agree with this entirely. I'm an observantly faithful person (Catholic). I pray a fair amount. I actually meditate more, which, the more I do it, feels a lot like prayer. The idea that prayer is meant to be, or that it can be, a literal intercession - a literal request for an omniscient force to intervene in our temporal affairs - is deeply problematic to me. Because, if we can do that and God will (may?) thusly respond, then what the funk can be made of the awfulness and suffering that does occur in our world? Aw, hell naw, I say. Prayer can be good for a lot of things, but the idea that prayer can persuade God (or a god(s)) to do something that you desperately want to happen is grade-school-spirituality, imo. Again, because otherwise, were that so, that same God (or god(s)) would be the cruelest mufugger(s) imaginable, given all the awful things that happen (are "allowed" to happen) on this big blue ball.

Presuming week 18 wins for Bills and Chiefs, and if the league went the "neutral site for Bills-Chiefs championship game," then I think they'd reserve Indi's facility and only sell tix if and when the game materialized. Simple enough. absolutely

fascinating.

He'll need help. I trust he'll get it. When you're talking multiple mills given for a charitable purpose, you're apt to have the charities bureau of a State Attorney General watching as well.

Among other matters, Hamlin's gonna have ~$7M+ in donations to manage for charities of his choosing.

And the good news definitely took an uptick just now. I still think there'll be no resumption of the Bengals game.

Wonderful, blessed news.

I think this is what happens - “no contest.” I saw an intriguing Tweet about how they could play a Buffalo-KC AFC Championship game at a neutral site (Indianapolis seeming the most likely). Interesting thought.

What he's doing is absolutely bonkers.

It is equally bizarre that the big picture parallels with Josh Allen's unprecedented development have continued to track.

Good stuff. As for Thompson, I'm not sure. He's presumably got some cold streaks coming in his future, but I don't think he's at his ceiling yet. It's especially exciting to realize that he's doing this over a significant sample size of games, after opposing teams have had a full opportunity to scout him, and generally against the opponent's best competition. Oh, and add to all of that his intangibles of being a super grounded, likable player and teammate. Incredible. Dahlin and Samuelsson generally had a rough night in their own end. In this regard, see your note about that guy who wears #8 for the Caps. Him and his line were pretty good. As for Power, maybe he's got a weird and/or wicked correction. Not everyone is a candidate for lasik. As for JJ, I don't disagree but I thought I also noticed the baby wingers getting banged around quite a bit. And I believe he and Quinn got stapled to the bench in the 3rd against ... Ottawa? Granato is sheltering them. Which is fine. One more thing on Power: At least we've moved past the era where they'd have to stop the game to search for a player's hard contact lenses. Good God. Remember that? (I don't think anyone actually has to wear hard contact lenses anymore (?).)

Let’s go, Buffalo. Happy New Year to all those who frequent the best Sabres message board there is. #SabresTwitter just doesn’t compare, imo. And shoutout to the anticipated return of @X. Benedictand @deluca67 for the playoff run.

He resurfaces occasionally. He was hand in glove with his gf Josie on this board. Once they were no longer together, I got the sense that this board was sorta of a weird place to hang out. Which would be understandable. He was also at a significant life-change crossroads — maybe it was just time to focus more on stuff IRL.

Shades of Bill Hajt. I don’t give a damn whether and how much he scores or records points.

Harrington’s report from the game indicates that Granato gave an empassioned pregame speech that the arena production people then rebroadcast via the jumbotron. Anyone have a link? Sorry if it was posted upthread and I missed it.

Hmm. Not totally unfair. Mostly wrong, I maintain. But there’s something to this. A small thing.

Hear, hear. Puck luck is bound to come looking for him. But I’d bet dollars to donuts that his underlying metrics would generally show him to be unlucky. I can’t help but like (love?) his game. He is among the team’s most consistent players when it comes to *playing his game*. And I love how that game is characterized by tenacity and joy. And edge work. RaKru probably wins the award for the franchise’s worst coach of all time. That he damn near ruined Dahlin is really all the proof we need. His effect on Skinner is perhaps the next case in point.

Growing pains. Also, this is another reason that grabbing Jost off waivers was in-line with what KA and DG are trying to do. Jost has the skills (or at least should have the skills (or used to have the skills and maybe will again)) needed to play up/across the lineup like that. I also approve heartily of the accountability that this bespeaks.

Fair fookin' point. More than fair. I like the idea of bringing in a good checking centre and/or a minute-eating (or better) d-man.