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I don't get very many choices out here, and we only get Molson because it's on the [Molson-]Coors distribution.

Saturday will be the most Canadian day in a while: Go get some poutine at a local Montrel ex-pat diner. Go play hockey. Go to see Rush at the Forum. Reminds me that I should pick up some Molson for tailgating.

I was particularly inspired by this old Colbert clip.

We should move forward by playing our young guys. He should move forward by building a house in Clarence.

I force-started the upgrade last night. Had to update graphics drivers to achieve max res. Had to alter sound device settings to get any output (surround 5.1 on the optical out failed output test, needed to drop to 2-channel high rate output). Now have run into the problem that mp3 format isn't recognized in the music app or windows media player- files are listed, but not playable due to unrecognized format. Files played fine in WMP on Windows 8. I hope we all didn't just fall into a DRM punji pit with this upgrade. I'll keep looking at it.

And this isn't a knock against ROR, but Pommer was never a up off the ice. No attitude. He may or may not have been a leader, but he was a professional.

Looking at his player usage, he's consistently been tasked with playing defensive minutes. He's responsible. His quality of teammates dropped substantially from NSH to DET to OTT, resulting in an expected drop in point production, but his quality of competition also dropped, which is a little alarming. He'll still play well defensively, but without good line mates, he could struggle to contribute depth scoring. He tops out at 45 points, but on this squad, it's difficult to see him posting more than 35 points as a bottom-six defensive forward.

I have a distaste for Fox Sports branding and production. MSG branding is tolerable (and the production is very much enhanced by our on- and off-camera crew). Watch Fox Sports PTDucks sometime. Brutal.

I know this feeling well. Every time I come home from travel, I pull the car cover off and it's like Christmas. I love my car.

Hell naw. I go high heat, low cook time to sear the outside of the burger and seal IN the flavor to a nice medium rare. There's a little drippage, but not much. Not as much loss as frying.

There's wind whispering that Pegula might start up a regional sports network, like Empire Sports Network, that would broadcast all non-national Sabres games, Bisons games, Bandits games, local college hockey and other college sports (UB football?), and possibly other regional teams like the Americans, in addition to covering the Bills (they wouldn't get NFL games, but could do interviews and coverage). That'd be a good job for Ted Black, as he was Sr VP/GM of FSN Pittsburgh with noted success. Here's a writeup from back in May: Pegula hired a well-known consultant to think through what to do with Sabres games and related sports media.

The porcelain's only there to prevent the crappy iron underneath from rusting. It's ok. Use a grill brush that has brass bristles, as it'd soft enough not to rip apart the porcelain. Do not use a metal scraper on porcelain.

Hit them with the heat. Then the wire brush to scrape off the carbon. Then, if desired, you could wash them by hand or in the dishwasher.

I'm an advocate for his and hers long guns.

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Well, that's the answer. I think you can break down the reasons kids don't immediately jump into the NHL at 18 into four conceptual weaknesses: strength, skating, decision making with the puck, and play away from the puck. I can't speak to the latter two abilities for Guhle, but it sounds like his athleticism has made him close to NHL ready in the former two. Sounds we're getting him in the pipeline and learning the mental side of the pro game asap.

Five national games sounds low for us. Usually we're up more than 10-12-14 games. I mean, I know we were (are?) bad. I guess by comparison, Florida, Carolina, New Jersey, Columbus, and Arizona only have one game. Edmonton and Toronto only get one game, and the Flames, Jets, Sens, and Canucks getting NO games is pretty bad. With Montreal in six games, that makes a total of eight games of the 105 scheduled so far involving Canadian teams. I understand the economics under the current TV rights, but it's still pretty stupid to ignore one fifth of the league. Combined with above, that's only seven games for the 11 teams with fewest games. And also, wtf, Philadelphia has 19 games. Pittsburgh 18. Detroit 16. Anaheim has only four. Nashville four. Dallas three. As expected, it's all about money.

I knew I was forgetting something! My Dad used to use lava rocks in his little Sunbeam tabletop grill all the time back in the day. I should get some- those little Walmart grills are NOT very good at even cooking.

I'm in the same boat. I do enjoy a charcoal-cooked anything, but the speed of propane trumps. Maybe when I have a house and yard and all damn day, I'll opt for perfection. Until then, I'm in on and off in 25 minutes.

I emailed/texted with Black a couple of times. He always seemed very committed to getting the fan experience right (from all angles) because he had an enormous amount of respect for how much the fans loved the team. He'll probably be remembered for the jersey, not handling the Buffalo News jerks well in a presser, and the revenue sharing thing, but he should also be remembered for having a hand in the improvement in the broadcast quality (especially straightening out MSG's when the Sabres played in NYC/NYI/NJ) and broadcast personnel (moving out Danny Gare, bringing in Brian Duff, convincing Rick to stay, bringing in Dan, putting Kevin on the radio), having the owners/front office/players deliver season tickets, bringing in several world championship tournaments, bringing in the draft next year, securing the combine (and nailing it), and probably a whole list of other things, some we'll probably never know. I think the Sabres have become a better franchise off the ice in recent years, and Teddy helped that. He also never seemed above of doing anything he could do to help: I'm sure many of us saw him take tickets or hand out programs in the atrium before games, simply because they needed an extra hand or he wanted to learn the different jobs and experiences in the business or he wanted be with the fans and see what they saw. It's easy to dump on the guy for high-visibility shortcomings, but he did a lot of good work.

Can confirm: most any Brinkmann three burner propane grills work pretty good. Good hot heat when wanted, pretty even, enough basic features, constructed well enough to keep you happy for a few years if you take care of the grates (different models have different grates: iron, porcelain, etc; I like porcelain). If you're patient, you can usually find them for less (sometimes much less) than $225 all in. That'll leave enough dough for a decent charcoal grill and accessories, if doing that once in a while is your thing. Right now I use a small footprint two burner for my tiny patio, like this. The bomb fits underneath and the wings fold down, so it doesn't take up much space at all. It's got plenty of heat for its size and it has enough grill space for my uses. I use this style for tailgating, camping, picnicking, etc. This is the grill I go cheap on- you can find a supercheapo made-in-China tabletop grills at Walmart any time for $25.

"The secret's on the moneyMighty Taco placemats!"

Brian Duff is a regional treasure.

Ask yo mama. :lol: We can figure the n-body problem numerically AND analytically, but the analytic answer is really, really, really inelegant and difficult (like the power series solution, blech). So much so that we just examine it numerically for ease of characterization and understanding.

Don't know if anyone caught it, there was a nice half hour on the 2014 Bills on NFL Network. Something like "2014 Buffalo Bills: One Buffalo." It was a bit weird though, since it was highlights of 2014 mixed with soundbites from Rex Ryan and Doug Whaley talking about moving ahead in 2015. They didn't have anything from Marrone. I felt like they could've done an hour to highlight the story lines of the season better, with Ralph passing and the team being sold to Pegula, how the fans really rallied behind the team, Jim Kelly, and the Pegulas, and then the front office changes and free agent pickups for the future. It seemed like they were torn on what to cover, on field or off field.