That Aud Smell

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.

Are they, in fact, prepared to shuttle Reimer between Buffalo and Rochester (and expose him to waivers each time)? (Nobody else wanted him as of July 1st, but that's bound to change once other teams' needs start to change.) Or are they poised for a reboot of carrying three goalies? In either event, it's again starting to feel a bit like Adams is fumbling for his d1ck in the dark.