That Aud Smell

Dear God. That was Dr. Dirty? He’s top notch, for that varietal. Which is corny as hell.

If this team didn't have bad luck ....

I'd have thought it would creep into double digits.

I hear you. But given the nature and quality of the kinds of people who generally write and arrange these kinds of songs (jingles), I would not be surprised if a similar undertaking from 1996, 2006, or 2016 sounded quite similar.

Jesus Christ on a popsicle stick.

Ah, sorry. My phrasing confused the matter. I was reading that what Eichel did might have looked like drifting back into the play, but it was actually getting back into the play.

Wait - so was Eichel drifting back onto that play tantamount to Colon hitting a home run?

Only if I get to be ... um, That Aud Smell.

^ I was more looking at the digital media department's "another juggle to our lines" take. Just ... bad. Not good. Not clever. Tends maybe to throw shade at the hockey ops.

What in the actual funk.

Just posted to Twitter. So frickin' odd. Buffalo Sabres@BuffaloSabres Another juggle to our lines. Kane-Eichel-Pominville Pouliot-O’Reilly-Reinhart Girgensons-Larsson-Criscuolo Nolan-Josefson-Okposo Moulson, Griffith extras Scandella-Falk McCabe-Antipin Gorges-Beaulieu Nelson extra #Sabres

I guess this is a matter of taste. Like, there are people I know and respect who HATE mayonnaise. HATE IT. I like mayo just fine. So I'll stand by my take that he's a chinless derp with marginal writing talent, little or no insight to offer, who's made a shtick of badgering coaches, GMs, and owners (which, okay - fine) and, more to the point, chronically condescending to people in the Twitter-sphere (not just the trolls, mind you). Effing eff Mike Harrington with a broken champagne bottle. Maybe it just feels good to say and think that. Ironically, I think he would have had it right in saying that Eichel was demoted prior to last night's game. And then 15 played his way into leading the team's forwards in TOI.

I don't wanna be constricted by gender here. MODO should take over for Ms. Hall. /whistles

Rly? Days gone by, I called for PSE to ensconce Josie as their artist in residence. That would hold here as well. All of those images, drawings, paintings, or whatever that adorn the walls in and around the arena, plaza, and atrium -- those could all stand to be Josiefied.

He was on the ice for 2 minutes during a power play. I suspect he did a fair amount of standing around during that time. I'll defer on whether and to what extent Eichel had his defensive cover responsibility in mind when he started gliding through the neutral zone. I have my doubts. I did see Eichel give a couple of strides when the play went the other way. Good job there, I guess. I saw him resting while the player with the puck dipsy-doodled for a crucial 2 extra seconds and roofed the puck. Your analysis above seems cogent, and quite plausible. I'm just not convinced that's what actually happened, insofar as Eichel's thought process is concerned. Maybe it did.

Wait - is Harrington retiring altogether? Or is he hanging around to write his dipsh1t baseball columns? He's a persistent, incurable as_hole, so he definitely had a way of badgering people -- and sometimes they even deserved it. As for twisting up Housley, the whole thing was revealed as a total fart in a bottle after Eichel -- the "third line center" -- got the most TOI. I'll back off this a bit on further reflection. I echoed someone else's pre-game take that it was a demotion, a message, and that Eichel would have a chance to earn more time with his play. That is probably what happened. Adios, Mike. Please don't call, and please don't write. Like, ever again.

Beg all you want. For starters, his o-line was absolutely horrific in that game. My memory is that, through the first half, he was something like 12 of 15 for 120 yards and a score (plus a long run of ~20 or so). The Matthews fumble was a killer. He eventually got going again in the 3rd, and then O'Leary fumbled. Taylor was fine against the Jets in Week 9. Not great. But he was fine. Normal Taylor.

I think that many of the faithful had convinced themselves that was sustainable. It was not. And it almost never is.

Well, at least Eichel led the forwards in TOI. The lemming media group think that related the lines as a scandal, demotion can go suck an egg. I fell for it, myself.

Hahaha - yes! Ahhite. Guess it needs to update for me.

It’s absolutely “Dooooooougie.” How’s that player usage shaking out? Score app indicates Eichel is playing 3C minutes.

Except both captains skipped that process entirely.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. It read as borderline jibberish to me. But thanks for showing up with a predictable defense of Harrington. I know who Tennyson is — am unfamiliar with that phrase from him.

Tyrod played just fine against the Jets. True story. (I meant in the away game against the Jets.)

Well. That’s ... something, anyway. Still a terrible look.