That Aud Smell

If the Bills trade up for DL in a reportedly super deep DL draft .... well. They’ll have Watkins’d themselves again.

Kyler Murray is pink AF.

Watching the NFL Network run-up. And I’m thinking yet again: Nashville is bumping.

i'll start with a personal GIPHY favorite.

^ Damn. Bugs 'bout to go to prison for that shaken baby stuff.

I don't think he's so much talking down to you as he is somewhat angrily talking at you.

They are great. All 6,429 of them. I think they're all part of the same Facebook group. Didn't Buffalo fans manage to score tickets to Game 7 of the ECF in 2006 on a fairly last minute basis? Having said those things: I do tire of this line of conversation. In North America, anyway, if a pro team is good, lots of fans will turn out and turn up. No matter the region. The Buffalo region has very good hockey fans and a lot of them. They've been beaten down and had the life sucked out of them, lo, these past 8 years or so. If the local pro team suddenly became a 98-point-paced squad that played with obvious heart? This town would be upside down bonkers for them. And the arena would be noisy. Except on those Tuesday games against Florida. No one gives a sh1t about those games.

Given how much, in what manner, and how intensively an elite-level young goalie is apt to have trained nowadays, it surprises me not at all when they need repairs to their hips at a young age.

I’m still pretty equivocal on the matter. I’d rather have Eichel and Dahlin than not. If you don’t build a proper team around them, though, you’ll be nowhere fast.

Not a validation of tanking for a few elite players.

Holtby letting in a couple of brutal goals is helping, a lot.

I think that's about how it played out. And, if so, it's a total shemozzle. This is a logical thought process. I still don't think it can justify the decision that was made.

Right, right. I just think the explanation that the refs offered made a bad call somehow worse.

This doesn't wash, though, with regard to the ref on that side of the ice who had a clear view of the draw. If he thought he saw a cross check to the chops - why did his hand not go up?

I don't know enough about this guy to join in the crying.

To make matters worse, Knights coach Gerard Gallant said the refs explained to him on the ice that Eakin had checked Pavelski in the face, “and as we all saw, that didn’t happen.”

I'm just catching up on that incident. Bizarre. I'm not sure how the refs can reasonably infer that Pavelski was injured by the crosscheck, as the crosschecking contact was modest (hence, no call in the moment) and he was clearly bleeding because some interior portion of his helmet cut his head (and, Lord, do those head wounds bleed).** It was as terrible a call in as big a moment as you could fear in the NHL SCP. That said, the Vegas PK just melted down there. I'd venture: What was worse - the call or the PK performance? I'd say the latter. ** I reckon an argument could be made that he cut his head like that because he fell from a crosscheck. But, again, the crosschecking contact was not a problem when it occurred for the official closest to the incident. (See below)

Yeah - Stratford is not the GTA. It's a little closer to Buffalo than Syracuse is, by way of context. And, FWIW, many Buffalo high school kids have shlepped off to Stratford for the Shakespeare plays.

Tuning in for the 2nd. Man, I can’t wait until the Sabres are playing at this level and in this sort of situation.

Ah, so. @Taro T wasn’t joking.

well-played. i'll add: even if dude was properly reminiscing back on a summer of '69 in which he was merely 9 years old, i'd call BS on him having nostalgic thoughts about such times. because he'd only having been fookin' nine years old. like, he was standing on some girl's momma's porch, exchanging pledges of fidelity, when he was nine years old? really? now, jack johnson is another story. yeah, not even born until 1975 - but plenty groovy and chilled out to have memories of the summer of '69.

oh yeah - murphy. but if it's him or another guy, then that'd be four RBs. they won't carry/roster four RBs, will they?

i understand that sentiment. another thing that was pointed out -- and i thought it was worth considering -- was that none of mccoy, gore, or yeldon will play special teams. that'd be quite unusual apparently -- to have 3 active RBs, none of whom play on ST's.

i read the die by the blade write-up on him. colour me intrigued.