That Aud Smell

I'm grateful for the Yzerman quote above. I now better understand - or can better articulate - why Adams' "don't block the kids" philosophy bothers me so much.

This is always the case when a Canadian team visits.

People are so dumb.

I followed the game on an app while watching my kid play soccer in Rochester. I don’t plan to do that again tonight.

How’s this work? If you’re in greater Buffalo, can you watch on ESPN+? Sorry - I should obviously know this by now.

Yes, yes. Of course. That said: People who act in a bizarre or irrational way can, at the same time, be acting in good faith. Someone who’s mad as a hatter can act with honesty and sincerity. So, in addition to good faith, there should be an expectation of reasonableness. Volunteer or not.

I don't know that I have ever posted in this thread, but I sure as fu*k am posting here today to complain that @PASabreFan's thread locking thread was merged into this thread (which opens one day a week and is generally intended, I think, for ephemeral gripes and is therefore not an appropriate repository for a stakeholders' discussion of how this board is being moderated). Erratic moderating is hurting this board.

I've come to conclude that Granato is a very good, possibly great, development coach. That doesn't make him a loser, imo. It does make him an ill fit for being a HC in the best league in the world. And I think the "juicebox" jab is overstating things - but, hey, that's what hyperbole is for. I'd still like to see what this roster - with some tweaks - can do under a new set of coaches.

Are you kidding? You're not kidding. What in fresh hell is going on around here? I trust you have the Lindy Ruff nursing home story stored locally on your 'puter.

I did. I posted there. If the thread sucks, then let the democratic process of inattention do its work. The thread will just fade away, if, as you say, it’s not a worthwhile thread. Also, is that the criteria for locking a thread around here, @SDS? A mod’s subjective belief that the thread isn’t worthwhile? I’d have thought the criteria would be more directed to inappropriate content (abuse, demonstrable lies, misuse (selling something)).

I have no earthly idea why the Roenick thread was locked yesterday. Are there written standards that govern the matter of thread locking? Also, @spndnchz: What was the reasoning in your briefly locking this thread?

There seems to be something non hockey related underlying at least some of the burning white hot hatred that certain hockey dinosaurs and as*holes maintain for Skinner.

These days? Man, that is a tale as old as the hills. It's just that the methods of delivery have changed. Sometimes, people have to use what they got to get what they want. So on brand.

You're welcome, Inky.

Rick Bates? That ... that is so damn strange. It's creating cognitive dissonance in my brain because I 100% expected this to be an accusation of domestic violence or sexual assault. But it's a claim that Hill was playing too rough in a backyard game of 2-hand touch football?!?!?! In fairness, that chick appears to be quite normal sized ... quite fit (attractive) actually ... and almost definitely @inkman's type.

Yeah. There's a bleacher report clickbait BS thing out on Twitter (announcing a trade of Douglas to the Lions). Other than that, there's Beane's quote from the combine in which he says nothing to report on potentially extending Douglas. Let's try to keep things sourced and linked here. Otherwise, we are causing people to worry needlessly and waste time chasing down baseless rumours.

da fuq - no way they should be letting go of rasul.

elegantly put.

Agreed 100% -- I definitely played along with those initial highlights (was it the stadium game?). But someone - was it a guy named Olivier (?) - just effing fed him the other night. No bueno. I feel like he needs to be protected from himself. Also: I acknowledge how times have changed. I think about the gladiator vibes that I rabidly supported for a guy like Rob Ray -- who, yes, was a very tough guy, but he was not, in fact, a true heavyweight (the tie-down trick was ingenious but also necessary to give him a better chance against some of the monsters he fought)). I just don't get down like that anymore.

Agreed. And I've grown leery of those who are gassing up the kid for taking on all comers (which, thankfully, does not include the Rangers' social media team).

This is also fair. And I appreciate it. But my better angels - or at least what I think I'm hearing when I listen to whomst I think they are - counseled me to remove the pejorative term. Thanks for doing the same.

Getting this thread back on track: Rempe sporting a frickin' shiner at today's practice. The kid needs to learn how to protect himself and pick his spots.

This is fair. More than fair. As I think you inferred, I was attempting to deploy irony there in order to make a point. But irony isn't a license to drop a slur. I'm going to edit my post. If those who quoted that post could do likewise (@LTS, @Weave) , that'd be great.