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###### that team. I'm a little in the same boat, being in LA. If someone likes another team in the Eastern Conference, I'm not friends with them. Period. Thankfully, though, most EC fans I run into are, in typical LA fashion, extremely fair weather. So even if they were fans of another EC team, I could tolerate them just long enough to out-shittalk them and walk away victorious.

Don't forget the injuries. I think both of those are challenging him, but are quite possibly only minor setbacks in his development.

If you want, I guess.

Maybe a difference between the casual fan and the die hard? Die hard fans will root for the team to lose in order for the team to get better and win and will generally stick around. Casual fans won't make that connection and will be scared away by losing? If so, that could be a concept that helps us: Florida, Nashville, and Carolina are all bottom eight. How can we possibly not tank if they're trying to win?

I'm ecstatic that the subtleties of my art are not lost.

Need a little bit of the old ultra violence?

DEFEAT! We're still in 1st place by 11 points with 12 games to go and one game in hand over Edmonton. The upside is the Tank has had a hell of a stretch. Of Florida, Nashville, Carolina, Islanders, Calgary, and Edmonton, six of the seven other worst teamstanks in the league, we only were DEFEAT'd by one of them. We also played Chicago and Montreal and had VICTORY. Edmonton was the last of the major battle of 2014. As we move forward, we'll experience small pockets of resistance to our Tank, namely the Predators, Devils, and Islanders, but the Tank's advancement should be boosted by skirmishes away at St Louis, Detroit, Philly, NYR, and Boston.

Gracias. There's no problem with speculation, except for its occasional treatment as fact by some that can't or don't want to differentiate.

I'm slowly running out of quality animated tank gifs on google image search. I need to broaden search horizons.

I have, but not in quite some time. I should probably go back to it at some point.

TANK ON!

You bet he would, that phenom scored on his first shift.

The first few minutes are pretty funny. Rob Ray's so hungover that he can't keep from just laying out exactly how he feels. "Have you seen our team play??"

Nope. For Buffalo, the penalty mysteriously goes up. Just like the draft lottery will change in favor of not tanking when we decide to tank.

I always wanted that to happen to someone, sign a one game contract and play one shift, maybe to start the 1st period or something. Absolutely life changing.

VICTORY BY FIRE!

Yep. Chris Butler and Paul Byron for Robyn Regehr, Ales Kotalik (salary dump), and a 2nd (44th overall in 2012, Jake McCabe). Complete fleecing of Jay Feaster (now fired) in our favor, despite Regehr not playing as strongly as he had in Calgary and LA. edit: Oh, good saves.

Haha, dink!

I am too, but... (nsfw) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu1JMbSLPvc

We're eleven points down with fourteen games to go. The tide of battle has shifted in our favor as we've been regaining ground in recent battles. We are within sight of claiming victory in the long, horrendous Battle of 1314. The Sabres war machine has stepped up production to provide the latest technology at the fastest pace. We are now operating in total war and we will BURN EVERYTHING IN OUR WAY. ONWARD! ENGAGE FLAME!

Bob McKenzie ‏@TSNBobMcKenzie 2h Ted Nolan's three-year contract extension with BUF in hands of lawyers. Contract language still being finalized. Not "done" quite yet.

VICTORY!

Can we replace the Sabres logo on the Tank graph with a small version of this?

Kings hosed on a late goalie contact call on the tying goal last night. They mad.