That Aud Smell

Oh, and in answer to your question: By ceaselessly throwing human suffering and death at obdurate opponents (who were doing likewise), and then, probably more importantly, first developing and promptly unleashing a weapon that had the power to destroy the planet.

Interesting stuff here. I had occasion to peek at the Amerks' D corps - that Cole Schneider fella puts up some numbers (almost a PPG) and shoots left. Is he just not cut out for the NHL? I infer as much, as it looks like he's been in the A for a while.

You're (still) funny. Haha - I can't claim credit there. "Blissed out" is a phrase I picked up somewheres or another.

^ NICE.

Oooooh - man. I like it. (That said, I am not sure Reinhart gets a max deal.) It's a pity - I really used to enjoy Hamilton. But he really has become an extraordinary crank. Didn't he mention in the recent past that O'Reilly's leadership has been a huge disappointment?

And yet, so much has, hasn't it (innit)? It must be my age, the deaths in 2016 of some loved ones (who loved the Sabres). I've become much more philosophical and blissed out about my fandom. Destinations are uncertain and, once you're there, generally overrated. It's the journey that matters.

Looks like it's time for Jack & Co. to go GROCERY shopping.

Well, credit to GM TM for staying active. What's this guy apt to be about? Third pairing?

Thanks, NEO!

Sounds familiar.

As bad as he is defensively and on faceoffs, I don't think I want to see him get 1C minutes just yet.

Oh there's a gap alright.

i know some will tire of being reminded, but, back in '07, PA wrote an imagined story about lindy as an old man that just about made (makes) me cry. the old saw of "so when did you stop beating your wife?" is a widely known, even proverbial way of alluding to the idea that a question has been unfairly framed as an accusation of sorts.

Wow - that really is it, in a nutshell.

:huh:

Ah, c'mon. This is a bit of fun. It's a transparent attempt at a nose tweak, of sorts. I chuckled.

We must be in re-runs. Again. If anything, I would turn that number on its head and venture that almost 80% of the people responding to the poll have read enough of each writer to have an informed opinion on whether or not they're worth reading. I know I have. I was genuinely irritated with Sullivan this past week. I had returned to reading him for weeks, maybe months. He really does write well. And the pieces I read were fair enough (and certainly suffused with his typical cynicism). And then he Tweeted that absolute steaming turd of awfulness, and flung it at the faces of fans who have suffered more than enough without a pencil-neck-geek writer taking a gratuitous shot of his own. He made me, like, Mike-Harrington-level angry with that content.

^ Hahaha - that is amusing. @Eleven: Sullivan wrote a column in mid-February in which he advised the Bills to do what Belichick would do, and let Gilmore walk. :o

Yeah - Malkin had to answer the bell for a cheap hit. As did Campbell with Umberger (edit: not to suggest that hit was cheap). fair point.

Strikes me as the standard captain talk "each guy needs to look at himself in the mirror, and then decide to do better, this all starts with us, etc."

Urban legend on Gilbert had been, at least in my home, that he had 1 NHL fight, that he one punched the guy, and that was the end of that. Ask McDavid if it makes sense to fight. I have no need to see Jack drop 'em. None.

Had gone back to reading Sully for a stretch, until he dropped his bit of unbidden sh1ttiness on Twitter: "When the next Derek Carr or Russell Wilson emerges from the 2017 draft, I hope Bills fans remember how happy they were about keeping Taylor." God. What absolute contempt for the average fan that thought exhibits.

Nicely put. He is the biggest turd out there. Plus, he lacks a chin.

Which Dreary Dan do you agreed with? The one who said Jack should be turning it over 5 times a game? Or the stick in the mud who benched his 20 year-old emerging superstar for trying to make a play? Eichel needs to pick his spots better, sure. And learn to grind things out. Play the game the right way. Finish his checks. Blah dee feckin blah dee blah. The kid's a phenom. Insist that he play a responsible game, sure - but, please God, don't turn him into a disciple of the Church of Dreary Dan and Good Spot Picking.