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@BuffaloSabres are proud to announce a new concessions special: buy three beers, get a free box of Timbits.

The things she could do through a hole in a sheet... yowzas!

Alright. alright. Advanced stats time. Head on over to the player usage charts. Select Chicago. Examine the past three seasons. Along with Harjljjljmasssson, Oduya played the toughest D minutes on the team and his Corsi On was good. They've both been playing in a top four shutdown role since 2012: three full seasons like this (two of which won the Cup). Objectively, he plays hard shut down minutes on about as top of team as there is, and he does it well.

Very nice.

I'm surprised no one has done a metal cover of the Erie Canal song. I looked.

I'd pay Oduya $1M per year not to play for Boston.

Variable ticket prices have been announced. Release. Individual ticket prices according to game colors. Home schedule with game colors. Bonus analysis, broken up by days of the week: Platinum games are the home opener and the home game against the defending Chicago. Gold games are mostly Friday night games (EXCEPT teams like PHI, ARI, and OTT), PLUS a Saturday night against LA, a Sunday matinee against PIT, and a weekday game against WSH (the Christmas homecoming game). Silver games are mostly Saturday games (EXCEPT the Hawks and LA), PLUS weekday games against Connie McRancid, TOR, NSH (before Thanksgiving), MON (day before St Patrick's Day), NYI (Tux N Pux), and a Sunday matinee against COL. Bronze and value games are weekday games.

WNY has a significant fault line in it, FYI. Little writeup.

A pretty good distinction was made on GR this morning, later on in the Kevin and Beans Show. No one should excuse O'Reilly for his (alleged) activities, but we should be willing to try to forgive him if he follows through with his punishment and tries to improve himself. Don't excuse, but consider forgiveness. Maybe that's some well-known Catholic pulpituity and I don't know.

He probably tried to do a donut in the parking lot and ended up doing the parking in a donut lot.

Maybe some of you should be so lucky to have someone in your family killed by choking on a donut.

So... Eichel crashes into ROR's house next? Naw... probably an O'Reillys Auto Parts.

Maybe if they had his presser on time, he'd be in Buffalo, and not playing chicken with a Cafe and Bake Shop while hopped up on Molson Ice. ...where he could smash a Theodore's while pounding Blue instead.

Tweet Joe Sakic and ask him if he's still covered by the warranty.

Actually, posting that makes me think it'd be nice to have a running Sabres/Amerks/HarborCenter jobs post in the Q&A forum.

I mean, he already has an agent that will: 1) Get him paid with little chance of buyout. 2) Be smart enough to shut off his twitter before the news breaks. Ryan O'Reilly will be fine.

Keep calm, the Tim Hortons was in Canada.

The sign said Drive Thru.

Overdosing on Crown and Timbits.

It's like a $1000CA and you have to say sooory.

It's got momentum on r/hockey, and has now spread to hfboards.

Shut off his twitter account.

#Sabres #BlackHawksCapHell #FuelTheJet

Sunday Ticket's a great example of how this can get out of control quickly with no competition and no regulation. For DirecTV, it's $252 (ugh!) for Sunday Ticket, which is $18 per game if you're only watching the 14 regular season Bills games that aren't on ESPN or NFL Network. If you watch every single game league wide (averaging 14 games per team not nationally broadcast), that's $1.12 a game, which means that a single-team viewing option, it could be argued, should cost as little as about $16 per season. I'd probably pay four to six times that amount to guarantee that I see hot, sticky Bills action all season long, evening knowing that some games on CBS and Fox (in addition to ESPN and NFLN) will make it to my market without Sunday Ticket. Wishfully thinking, if the NFL, which doesn't pay taxes, weren't operating like a monopoly, we could order team coverage a la carte, and see some significant savings. And always keep in mind that we're paying for television coverage of a sport that features 11 minutes of game action and 63 minutes of paid commercials per game. Again, only watching the 14 Bills games, that's $1.63 per minute of game action, which is more than most phone sex lines.