IKnowPhysics
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Guess what trolls, if you're not a contender in the Stanley Cup playoffs, you're a lottery team. This isn't news. This thread blows. So here's some Joseph Decreux:
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The Sabres Hockey Hotline with... somebody or other?
IKnowPhysics replied to LGR4GM's topic in The Aud Club
Yes, Peters is cro-magnon. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEGuitm67Dc
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OH THE FOLLY! Just kidding. I'm glad he's doing well in his new opportunity. I also hope Bogosian keeps thumping wingers.
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Agreed, of course, and I don't think GMTM would tell Nolan flatly to lose under any circumstance. But a lot of coaches would say that player development and getting looks at players is within the realm of the coach's empire. If Nolan wanted to put the team in tryout-mode, where we start getting longer looks at younger guys, I think it'd help the tank and maybe even the rebuild. But it's separately GMTM's decision to install those players and Nolan's decision to play them more. Nolan may decide he can get the looks he wants with players earning their ice time in limited roles, and it would be his right to go that way. It'd be fun to bring in all the kids to play all sorts of crazy minutes, and we'd probably lose a bunch of games (to our long term benefit) doing it, but it just might not be in the cards for any serious coach to do that.
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Notable that Button has Hanifin down to 8th and Crouse down to 11th. For goalies, he's got Sandstrom (46th), Blackwood (60th), Booth (63rd), Montembeault (76th), and Vladar (91st).
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It doesn't have to be that way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCMzeP_LnUM
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We can only hope. We can only hope.
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Separation of coach and GM is still important. If GMTM crosses that line, and then Nolan is fired or quits, it'll get out to the media that Nolan was forced to leave because he wouldn't tank. And. We. Will. Never. Hear. The. End. Of. It. We've been under the shelter of plausible deniability about the tank. GMTM makes moves that he can claim "make sense for the rebuild," and he gets to deny the involvement in a tank. That changes if he tells the coach who to play. It also potentially threatens the ability to keep or hire a head coach if candidates believe that the GM will "meddle" in the coaching duties. The way to tank isn't to force the coach or players to do something they weren't bred to do. It's to cut the nuts off of the roster. Don't like who Nolan plays? Move 'em. GMTM had his chance to maximize the tank with roster moves before the deadline, with the exception of players on two-way contracts. The train has left the station, and we're all on board, wherever it's headed.
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#TankStrong
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From reddit: Here's Rex and Pegula in Boca Raton: Here's the real time flight plan, they landed about a half hour ago: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/XSR960 Um, I would like to approach the playoffs more than once?
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Kinda don't want.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
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I'm not familiar with the Bills' cap situation. Or Drew Brees' viability as a long-term starting QB. Should be we be looking at Brees?
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The Sabres Hockey Hotline with... somebody or other?
IKnowPhysics replied to LGR4GM's topic in The Aud Club
Ron MacLean syndrome. Except Peters isn't that funny. -
The Sabres Hockey Hotline with... somebody or other?
IKnowPhysics replied to LGR4GM's topic in The Aud Club
Petey's a player's player. His experiences, and maybe his competitiveness, will only allow him to see the world from the players' perspective. Players want to win all of the time. Players need to win all of the time. Players don't want to lose their jobs to the next young kid. As an alumni, he bonds with current players like brothers. He's not a GM. He's not going to say, "you know, maybe we need to cut this guy," or "maybe it's not as important to win these games as it is to secure the future." He, like Rob Ray, Brad May, and other former players, give valuable insight from the players' perspective about all sorts of topics. But when it comes to discussing the hard decisions a GM needs to make, he should probably just be ignored. His anti-tank stance is born from this perspective, but I think he continues to carry on about it because he's supposed to act the ham to KS's straight man. -
I forgot I had posted this and it's still funny to me.
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I'm experienced in the ways of cheddar-maple ninja-ry, but I haven't yet applied it to eggos.
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We could give him a look at wing. If he doesn't play well defensively, we might be able to get him moving forward there. Sort of like Hodgson. I think if the coaching staff hasn't decided to try that yet, they haven't yet given up on him at center. And if they haven't given up him at center yet, they probably still see that he's got some potential and developing to do. I mean, this is why we draft centers: they're versatile. The problem is that they've got to decide that he's worth a qualifying offer as an RFA. I think they will qualify him, but they might do some cursing at Regier, who allowed a year of his ELC to be burned early, without well-supporting his development that year.
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Hopefully he'll get it. He's gotta fight for pucks in the defensive end instead of, as one of the writers wrote recently, "waiting for others to get the puck to him." Also, I like Hoppe, but he's gotta stay away from the cliches. Sentence number two.
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We've had an M41 Walker Bulldog sitting across the street from the arena for years.
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I'm a grown-ass man and I still inescapably burn my tongue on any microwaved or oven-cooked pizza or pizza-like substance. And that's nobody's problem but my own. In this particular case, there's no right answer. Because if you try to go this route... ...you'll get complaints from some that it's not hot enough- and there's no easy way to fix that. Can't make everyone happy. The easiest solution is for people who want not-hot chocolate to literally chill out.
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Thread summary:
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Start selling "iced chocolate" and "luke warm chocolate" and tell them they should've ordered one of those instead.