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  1. 2024 NHL Playoffs - ROUND TWO

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    3 hours ago, Jorcus said:

    Ducking a check on the wall (if it was a duck) is bad form but anything to stop the Truba's goon moves are welcome. 

    Ducking a body check may be bad form, but ducking a match penalty for elbowing seems fine by me.

    3 hours ago, inkman said:

    Bad form?  He saved himself from getting taken off the ice on a stretcher.  

    I mean, holy hell.

  2. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    3 hours ago, SwampD said:

    He might not be very good, but do people really believe that Jeff Skinner doesn’t play with heart? I find that weird. Early in the season, I felt that he was often the only one on the Sabres that played with any.

    He can certainly look busy out there.

    For the most part, it's sound and fury signifying nothing.

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  4. Buffalo Bills 2024 Thread

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    14 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

    Love Keon... but dude. Georgia would have rolled you. Let it go.

    Says the poster who then went on to write ~275 words on the subject. Lol.

    I do respect your admiration for UGA foobaw.

  5. Buffalo Bills 2024 Thread

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    2 hours ago, Demoted said:

    You ran out of narrative facts?

    At no point in this exchange have I pushed "a narrative" regarding Diggs. I've asked that we hew to the facts.

    Also: NARRATIVES INCOMING!

    2 hours ago, Demoted said:

    Diggs became a cancer who would rather go to Coachella instead of being with his team.

    +++

    2 hours ago, MISabresFan said:

    I hope his play is half as good as this interview.  Agree, he seems like a special person, night and day difference from Diggs.

    At this point, I might even take his play being 40% as good as his interview vibes. At least for starters. He is a ray of goofy sunshine.

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  7. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    28 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

    No, actually I think the Greek gods thing holds up.  The gods of Greek mythology were frequently fallible.

    Lol - I am sure that Marner had that nuance in mind when he likened himself and his teammates to gods.

    26 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

    I think the term you're looking for is "Jeff Skinner."

    He is an unserious professional hockey player, that's for sure.

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  8. Buffalo Bills 2024 Thread

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    26 minutes ago, Demoted said:

    8 100 yard games in the past 25 games is not good for a guy who was supposed to be the number 1 WR.

    IMO, this is what you should have said initially. He wasn't "bad" for the past 1.5 seasons. He'd had games and even windows of time where he was a true 1 WR. 

    27 minutes ago, Demoted said:

    The facts are real he disappeared in the playoffs and dropped a ton of passes.

    Over that same 1.5 seasons, he had a 7/110+ line against Miami in that wildcard game. He stunk out loud against the Bengals, as did the entire team, really. This past season, he was definitely a non-factor. Did he drop a ton of passes in the playoffs? He definitely dropped one biggie. I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back and prompted the team to move on.

    32 minutes ago, Demoted said:

    Shakir outperformed Diggs down the stretch.

    F'sho. We need him to continue to be that guy in 2024.

    32 minutes ago, Demoted said:

    I guess you don't like facts a narrative when it's they don't not supported by your narrative facts.

    It took some doing, but I FTFY.

  10. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    36 minutes ago, Thorny said:

    Hoser 

    What an evergreen thing to say.

    Shoutout to this song, which introduced me to the term (and the related usage hosehead).

    gwn_takeoff.jpg

    WAIT!

    I just realized you were answering my question.

    Lol.

    Marner's a hoser. Got it.

    Take off, Mitch.

     

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  11. Buffalo Bills 2024 Thread

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    51 minutes ago, Demoted said:

    You mean disappearing in the playoffs and dropping a ton of passes last year? Yes... it does.

    No, I meant what I typed upthread.

    I'm not here to stump for the guy. I am, however, here to ask for fairness and accuracy when people proffer facts. I get the sense you're not into those things.

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  12. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    1 hour ago, Thorny said:

    I feel like the reaction to his quote is somewhat blown out of proportion. Isn’t the reaction somewhat due to that thing everyone seems to hate where, the quiet part gets said out loud? He’s getting lambasted for essentially telling the truth? He’s not a complete dunce, he’s not using “god” in the sense of benevolent lords, but more so using that word, in a pinch, in more of the greek god sense. A little bit more dime a dozen but still nonetheless endlessly talked about as the centre of a mythology. Players in Toronto ARE the centre of attention 

    the gotcha on using the term gods is IMHO sort of feeble 

    In that at least to me his meaning was rather obvious 

    There's merit to what you're saying. But I think the crux of the problem here is that Marner was making an observation that is often true, would be freely and widely admitted as true, but is not true at the moment. And one of the main reasons it's not quite true and not quite accurate, at the moment, is because of Marner himself.

    That's the sense I get from Leaf fans online, anyway. Reactions in the nature of "Dougie Gilmour? Wendel Clark? Darryl Sitler? Mats Sundin? Yeah, bud. THOSE guys are Leaf gods. YOU? YOU?! Bro, get a hold of yourself. You're not one of our hockey gods. You're a pigeon."

    I don't know if I used "pigeon" correctly there. But you get the idea.

    Edit: "Pigeon" is absolutely not what I'm looking for here- I looked it up. I need a hockey insult for someone who's a high-end talent with no heart. There may not be a hockey term that fits.

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  14. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    Marner is rightly getting buried for that comment.

    Part of me wants to chalk it up to him being a hockey player and hockey players not being the most articulate cohort.

    OTOH, there's so many different things he could say there. Simpler things. "Obviously, you're playing in Toronto, this is a town where your fans just live and die with the team. Hockey's so, so important here. So we have a lot to live up to."

    And so on. But he went with "we're ... kind of gods." By which, I think, he just meant "we're gods."

    From everything I see, the fan base wants him gone.

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  19. Per Tim Graham a stake of 25% of the Buffalo Bills is for sale

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    1 hour ago, PASabreFan said:

    The intro presser was interesting. Terry said he wasn't sure who Mike's favorite team was. He also had to awkwardly urge his son to stand up and be acknowledged. "I know," his dad said.

    I am not proud that I recall these details.

    What’s the context and implication of the bolded?

    I also did some Googling. It would appear that there’s some distancing, at best, and estrangement, at worst.

    And I’ll allow it: It’s notable that Jessica was on record as saying that her mom had plans for her in the sports ownership/management realm, but that her tennis career would come first.

    Maybe that’s still the plan. It will bear watching, I suppose.

    I’ll add: Are there ways for a wealth of this magnitude to be gifted or bequeathed to the family’s next generation? There are family ownerships acrosst the NFL. But the Bills were sold out of Ralph’s estate, yeah?

  21. Per Tim Graham a stake of 25% of the Buffalo Bills is for sale

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    2 hours ago, Flashsabre said:

    Who is he? I just saw the tweet and thought it was interesting but I have no idea who that guy is.

    No idea.

    i was reacting to a few things.

    He had some of his facts wrong or stated misleadingly.

    When I read through the replies where he was active, his vibe was prurient and gossip page-ish.

    He seems to be engaged here for clicks (for profit).

    2 hours ago, Brawndo said:

    I thought it was interesting that Tim Graham re tweeted the post. 

    Hmmm.

    Graham does know stuff. Graham is also a d1ck.

    But, I mean, the theory about Jessica having written that story against her Dad’s wishes would be an atomic bomb game changer. Yikes.

    43 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

    Thumbs down pending further explanation.

    Fair.

    You may recall that I was sort of on the other side of this matter when I argued that Bills and Sabre fans (and WNYers generally) had a right (arguably) to some information regarding Kim’s medical condition back around when the news first came out that she had suffered some kind of medical incident.

    So I’m far from being a prude about getting the skinny on Pegula Land.

    This guy’s vibes just seemed off.

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