That Aud Smell

With regard to that video: While the lyrics call out "the likes of Luce and Ramsay," the corresponding video footage appears to show a different #20. Maybe Brent Peterson? I just don't recall Luce ever having that combo of hair and moustache.

Pegula was a speculative oil and gas man who took huge risks and got extraordinarily lucky. As for the Bills, blind squirrels find chestnuts too. Before he hired McDermott, Pegula got bamboozled by Russ Brandon and Rex Ryan. (And it was McDermott who hired Beane.) Pegula has ruined the Sabres.

Putting clichés under a microscope and divining meaning from them. Sabres Fever: Catch it!

i hear you. it helps to have credible WR’s opening up space for the shakir-friendly routes. hopefully cooper can go.

~350 words later": lol - kidding, sort of. i appreciate the effort!

As a dude trending toward being an old, I occasionally wonder: "When am I getting off the train?" Metaphorically, that is. With social media, I added and used apps as my kids became teenagers and started using them (so that I could keep an eye on them). In that regard, SnapChat was where I got off the train. I couldn't do it. I didn't get it. This chart here? This chart is probably where I get off the train with #fancystats. I have no earthly idea what that thing means. And, as I found with SnapChat, I probably won't do the work needed to understand it! If they want to make the playoffs, they really and truly need to win 3 of the next 4 or 4 of the next 5 or 5 of the next 7. Something like that.

It's probably stated upthread, so sorry for repeating it. The good guys definitely had good jump and jam and were playing with terrific confidence (and I think the latter generally follows the former). That said, it stood out to me how bad the Rangers looked. It's hard for me to sort out whether and the extent to which (i) a hockey opponent looks bad because your team is playing great and/or (ii) a hockey opponent plays bad and as a result your team looks great. Go Sabres.

Ideally, for me, the future of the franchise would imminently involve Lindy as president of hockey ops and, following interviews led by Lindy, the hiring of a GM with real credentials. That GM would then hire a new head coach.

Lindy's the clear Alpha now. I wonder if Adams feels a bit like he's being told to go get his shine box when Lindy puts one of Adams' foundational d-men in the press box for multiple games.

complete sh1t show.

Is this the new SOP in the NFL? Reliable vets who aren't on playoff teams or don't factor into their current team's plans get released in early November so that they can find somewhere else to play? I wonder what Phillips and Jefferson have left in the tank.

MIKE PECA SMEHLIK ZHITNIK! Can never resist trotting that one out.

Quinton Jefferson too. Hopefully, those guys can each play a limited # of effective snaps and give us some solid beef in the middle.

Fair. I've decried them here as well. But, lord this group tests my patience and better angels. The juxtaposition of Lindy's "you know what? eff the 'good things' we've done" with Tage's and Power's "ya know - we've done some good things" is striking. When it comes to Gen Z, there are, imo, cultural tenets holding that it's a bad idea (or even verboten) to focus on anything negative and that, if you want improved performance or better results, you must instead encourage things that are being done well. In fairness to the Gen Z'ers, this is as much (more) their parents' fault as it is theirs. My wife works at a private high school. She's often reluctant to drop a failing grade on a kid or issue a detention slip because she knows there's a good chance those negative consequences are going to mean hours of dealing with the kid's parents (and, in turn, with her school leadership who may or may not have her back because, y'know ... they need enrollment).

Gen Z slang. Thus, Power's and Thompson's quotes of "we've done some good things" is [are] giving Gen Z ... but not in a good way.

the kids don't want it. ... they don't hate to lose.

It's giving Gen Z, and not in a good way.

there's a covenant here at the office about people jumping into a nearby body of water (not lake erie) if the sabres manage a 5-game winning streak. the deal may need to be lowered to 4 to have any meaning at all.

This is getting tragic, and may eventually be comical (comedy = tragedy + time). Here's a snippet from Lysowski's piece on the Sabres being worse statistically - in almost every measurable way - than they were this time last season. I think I'm getting more "out there" than @Stoner when it comes to the Sabres being cosmically misaligned, etc. +++ “Not accepting that’s good enough,” Ruff said, describing how he is pushing his team to play its best for an entire game. “Not accepting that we’ve done a lot of good things. We’ve got to win games. That’s the key. Raise the standard, raise the expectation." .... “We’ve done a lot of good things,” Sabres center Tage Thompson said.

I think about this a lot. And when I do, I also think of Adams' career progress following his retirement as a player. In 2009, he retires to become a player agent. In August 2011, a few short months after the Pegulas became owners, he became an assistant coach for the Sabres. How'd THAT come to pass, by the way? How'd he so readily worm his way into the Pegulas' confidence? Did he know that Terry loved expensive red wine? Less than 2 years later, he's fired in the wake of Rolston taking over. But fear not! The Pegulas find a soft landing spot for him at Harborcenter, where he works for 6 years before being brought back into the Sabres organization as the Pegulas' mole in 2019. Less than a year later, he's appointed the team's GM. I don't have the research to back it up, but fuggit. He is, I would venture, the most unqualified GM in Sabres' history and likely in NHL history. When I've sounded off to this effect in the past, there are some who've observed "well, he's had the job for 5 years, so he's no longer totally unqualified." To that, I say horse feathers. His results speak for themselves. He got all bricked up when a young team had an outlier of a year and so he started handing out long-term deals like they were penny candy. The picture of Thompson and a concave-chested Cozens on some Caribbean beach followed. And here we are. The Sabres once had a rotten core. Now they have a fraudulent one. Papier-mâché. Firmly poke the team's exterior and you'll get little more than a cloud of dust and your finger probing a barren cavity. And don't dive in, baby. They're just a puddle.

Absolutely. DC is lousy with them.

There is no end to #SomeSuffering No end. Thanks for coming back for an emeritus farewell, Lindy. I'll always be fond of you. I've already written off the season. If this team were to somehow string together a 6 or 7 game winning streak within the next few weeks, I'd tune back in. Barring that, I'm done. I don't imagine that Pegula will fire Adams. The Seth Appert succession plan must be permitted to come to fruition.