That Aud Smell

I think this is correct. It took a 9OA - presumably a top prospect - to bring back a 3C (and an AHLer). What would it take to get a top-6 forward? An unprotected 1st in 2025 would presumably be part of the package. The price is likely too dear for Adams.

I appreciate that Oiler fan’s sentiments. But as the replies note: The guy is 24 and soon to be 25 (not 23). And the Oilers are in a cap crunch — something had to give.

For those who are fans of the Scottish name: This new centre calls to mind the chorus from a Scottish version of a famous Rolling Stones song: “Hey, McLeod, get offa mah ewe!” (lol - bestiality joke.)

Sabres Twitter obsessed with “winning the trade” or at least getting what they deem fair value. There should be a program where Twitter accounts like that just get spammed with replies from @PASabreFan

Sabres trade a highly regarded prospect from their over filled pipeline for a solid 3C. F**k and Yes.

Trigger warning for @PASabreFan: There be stats. Jfresh’s model predicted the Sabres’ point total within 1 this past season. Average margin of error league wide was ~10 points. For the upcoming season, Jfresh has the Sabres modeled at 82 points.

Yeah - that’s all I really meant. He scored a lot of dirty goals. Good summary of additional deficiencies in, limitations of his game.

Skinner’s failings are known. Dude went to the net like a fu**ing maniac.

With you, I always have Selma Hayek in mind.

Was Boughner ever a 6/7 dman? I guess I get it now. Gilbert will be available for when the team needs a more pugilistic vibe. This roster reconstruction is starting to feel a bit ham fisted.

He’s from Buffalo. Definitely GILL-burt.

What an odd thing to say. I hope she gets plenty of coverage. She’s too thin to be @inkman‘s type, but she could put me through a bag skate any day of the week. (lol - just kidding. I’d die if I had to do even the lamest, easiest bag skate.) (also, please don’t cancel me for finding her attractive.)

Wait - I reflexively thought this was a riff from May Day. But no. Is this an actual call?

Does/did Kelly in fact possess a tremendous football IQ? I think the Bills would have a Super Bowl if he did. Jeremy Jacobs somewhat infamously confessed to a group of colleagues that he marveled at how … well … how dumb Ray Borque was. I presume that Borque had excellent hockey IQ?

It appears that 4-6 weeks ago, there were reports saying she was likely to be hired by Bylsma as an assistant coach. Now it's happened.

Well - I feel like the Kraken announcement regarding this female coach was made 4-6 weeks ago ... now it's being made again?

fair point.

Adam Creighton!

I'm glad I caught tweb's post - I'd missed it initially. Which is to say -- Opie Adams has been in a Tijuana brothel for four years, but he's still struggling to figure out how to dock his d1ck at a receptive port.

Better late than never. I accompanied my better half to Sarah McLachlan's show at Artpark last month. (It was a billion degrees out.) It was a great show - she was featuring the entirety of her Fumbling Towards Ecstasy album. One thing that surprised, and frankly delighted me, about McLachlan. That gal's got a potty mouth. So, when she dropped gratuitous f-bombs during her between song banter, and that vulgar language stood in contrast to her ethereal beauty (see the pic), I must say ... I was digging it.

Hmm. I hadn't previously considered this. It would explain a lot.

In the beginning, there were 4 lines. Then we had top 6, bottom 6. The concept of middle 6 emerged at some point. At one point, I recall seeing talk of the top 9. Is top 7 a thing now as well? And whodat? Is it that player who resides just outside the top 6 and is ready to move up the lineup when needed? If such a player were a centre, it would call to mind Derek Roy circa 2005-2007 (iirc, he centred the third line (that thing was deadly) but then would slide up to play wing with Drury?).

Effing awful is what it is. JFC - can this franchise catch one gotdam break.

What about Colter? Colters have started to emerge. I think it's a riff on Colton? Same with the name Bodie (which, if I write it as Bodies -- it looks like a very different word). I feel like Brody came before Bodie. One of my all-time favourite stupid human moments in the last several years: I took one of the kids to an accepted students day at a college, and there was a current student who was leading some sort of activity. His name was Brody. But they'd printed his name tag as Body. I still talk and laugh about it.

I will not soon tire of -- nor fail to capitalize on -- SDS's having granted me (us) license to compare Kevyn Adams to a virginal young man who's lived in a Tijuana brothel for the past four years.