That Aud Smell

Let’s Go, Buffalo!! I’m hoping the team didn't get after it *too* hard on their off day. Thompson scores and has a multipoint game.

Not sure whether it's mentioned upthread: The Sabres are currently at the top of the league in overall shooting % (15.1%) and 3rd in 5v5 shooting % (10.6%). Last season, the Blues led the league in overall S% at 12.4% and 5v5 S% at 9.6%. So, while I presume that the Sabres' numbers will regress a bit, it's not inevitable that they'll fall off a lot. Keep going, boys!

after watching the condensed highlights of the canucks game, this popped up - a lengthy talk with jim rutherford after the canucks' loss to the sabres. the talk was very enjoyable. has something like this ever happened in the buffalo market? markets outside canada? it was cool. what is going on with hamilton?

I ventured over to a Canucks message board to get a flavour for the team’s struggles. Some interesting stuff there. Mostly, though, I lol’d at the fact that someone posts there as “Blob McKenzie.” http://canuckscorner.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12566&sid=e2bfd03d8f65a4817c3db42f260a7e54&start=15

Bro, where’s the trigger warning. Isn’t that what the law of averages would dictate though? (Predictive not determinative.)

Let’s Go, Buffalo! I’ve got to be up at ass o’clock on Sunday, so I’ll be catching the condensed game highlights for this one. The Dahlin train keeps rolling, I predict. It’s a multipoint night - but I’m not sure whether he scores his 5th.

Pilut should be steady. Hoping Joki heals quickly and fully.

Good post. I especially agree with the term bolded above. I think that Dahlin used it in his post-game interview -- or maybe he said that the d-corps can be calm because of how Comrie plays (he'll get the first shot and then they just need to focus on dealing with any rebound). I also liked Bryson's game a lot as well - what I saw of it.

Did you watch the video? Devine asks the question of the decision making group. Regier responds in the affirmative, as does Terry.

It's there after all. That's Terry obscured by Devine. Not sure who the others are. "I think so. That's the route."

Remember when Kevin Devine orchestrated a draft where the Sabres took both Ristolainen (sp) and Zadorov? Devine must have had zero radar for - or given zero effs about - hockey IQ. I wish I could find that clip of Devine asking Terry if he wanted to get harder to play against before the team took the sliding Zadorov. It does not appear to be in the official Blue and Gold video about the 2013 draft.

Same. On further reflection, that was some low event hockey in those days. FFS - they're icing Lucic out there. I'll take it!

Holy sh1tballs that was fun.

I didn’t use it as you suggest. I used it to observe that it’s in-line with current fashion — “clean,” as the high school boys whom I drive to practice say … so, yes: Targeted to those who are about that style.

Well - I learned the term from a guy who was in his 70s in the 1990s - so you’re eligible. (It just means fashion of the day/moment.)

FWIW - that mostly white look is de rigueur. I don’t think we’re the targeted demographic.

Let's go, Buffalo! Dahlin with a multi-point night and, naturally, the GWG. Thompson also gets one.

/stick taps

Fair, fair. But I mean - there were high marginal tax rates applied to a lot of those earnings and there was some spend down as the money was earned. I'm guessing he's sitting on a 6-figure pot (but probably < 750K). That'll set up nicely for retirement - probably an early one. But some cash flow in the meantime is probably needed.

For sure. Once he's done, he'll have grossed ~$2.5M (hard to say exactly as those veteran AHL contracts often don't have reported value) in exchange for ~10 years of professional play. And like I said - he's been smart with his money. That'll be a sweet nest egg to sit on while he figures out his next chapter.

No shame in that. Far from it. The A is (arguably?) the second best professional hockey league in the world. A friend of mine has a kid (no longer a kid) who's made a career in the AHL. There have been probably fewer than 80 (?) NHL games along the way for him. The guy's into his early 30's now, has worn a letter for at least one AHL team, and has been smart with his money. Perhaps he hasn't lived "the" dream, but he's lived "a" dream.

This guy's been around a bit, I've heard. And it looks like he's about to be everywhere. For good reason. His new album is excellent. As much as anything, I love a musical artist with a sense of place, a sense of their home, where they're from, what it feels, sounds, smells like to be from there, to be of there. Noah Kahan is a special talent. This song is a sparkler.

Let's go, Buffalo! I like the idea of the team's emerging breakout player - Cozens - returning to Edmonton to frustrate the best player on the planet.

I cared more about his 17/85 line carrying a cool, even 5.0 YPC. There's a lot of post-game talk about Allen, Diggs, Davis, Knox, Miller, Taron ... and rightfully so. But Singletary's - and his blockers' - performance was quietly one of the most encouraging parts of the game. (And yes, we were all yelling at the TV to go forward rather than lateral in that moment.)