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That's a Gordon Lightfoot original, son.

I was thinking Ronald Reagan, a la "Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR. DOWN. THIS. WALL."

Haha, I've actually talked to the ###### that sell that ###### at car shows (one of my friends is a dumbass, he was sort of interested in it, I had to take the five minutes to explain why it was stupid). The sales guy was happy to try to explain to me how it worked until he deduced that I had any inkling of knowledge about chemistry and internal combustion, then he immediately stopped talking to me and wouldn't answer any more of my questions.

Physicist here. Andrea Rossi's an A1 scumbag. He's a snakeoil salesman that spent a few years in the klink for tax fraud after he sunk his company by dumping hazardous waste into the environment. His cold fusion sideshows are unverifiable garbage because he refuses to let his work be peer-reviewed in the name of protecting his "intellectual property." For a soapbox, he owns and publishes "The Journal of Nuclear Physics," a blog meant to resemble a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is neither peer-reviewed nor scientific. He is the L. Ron Hubbard of physics and he's trying to sell Dianetics. And just so there's some redeaming value to this thread, I'll add a pretty good read for those to enjoy reading science, even especially if it's only in the news once in a while. Highly recommended: http://quackfiles.bl...us-science.html

Cough Ehrhoff cough.

Quiznos was closed to so I had to go to Subway. #firstworldproblems

As a player, I can imagine being in Keith's position. If I'm trying to pick up my glove and someone (intentionally or not) attempts a slash on my bare hand, if I'm not friends with the guy, my first thought might be "intent to injure," and then I easily see myself taking a shot at the guy. I don't personally think I'd tomahawk the guy, but in an emotional game and a moment where there's any perception of intent to injure behind the play, it's easy to see someone lose control for a split second. And that's what happened to Keith. He snapped for a half second, got his stick up, and it cost him four minutes. At the end of the day, actions are actions, and rules are rules. The move was provoked and undertandable, but not free from penalty. If Carter contacted Keith's bare hand, that should've been two minutes also. Should Keith be suspended? I don't think he should be.

Agreed. Even from a graphics design standpoint, they're not very well executed. They took the styling of the "D" in the "Dallas Stars" word mark and applied not to the outside shape of the "D" in their primary logo, but to the inside shape. And the inside shape is just black. On a very detailed level, it's confused. The simplicity's nice, and it could have some longevity (like the Canuck "C" rink), but the secondary logo with circular word banner is definitely overplayed this decade- mainly because it's used in markets where people don't know what team the logo is for (Florida, Columbus, et al).

I enjoyed this.

I get the impression that someone would pitch this idea for any move Regier made, in perpetuity, until he no longer works here.

I don't despise Regier. I also don't project the vitriolic routine of this message board onto the beliefs of the broader Sabres Nation, even if it's re-shouted by the yokels at TBN. Who would I be to put words in another fan's mouth, let alone "Sabres fans in general" or "in their entirety" ?

Pile it on after Ruff's already been fired. Classy.

Absolutely is. Feaster is one. Mike Gillis is climbing fast. Doug MacLean must have been way up there. I'm sure Garth Snow doesn't have many friends. And that's just NHL GMs, not even beginning to consider other positions (Charles Wang) and other sports (Alex Rodriguez). Ridiculous to think there's not.

I would t wat all day for the Sabres. It's t wat, right?

Maybe just hire him as the PR guy. "This the Buffalo Sabres post-game press conference. All of your questions are ###### stupid. Don't you dare try to coach this ###### team. Proceed. Anything more? No? Don't waste my time. We're done."

A part of me would like to see Tortorella destroy Gleason, Sullivan, and Harrington at a press conference. That's the only positive I see. Stop counting. That's advanced statistics hoopla.

USPTO doesn't seem to indicate new logos.

This whole post is stupid because I've been convinced that advanced statistics are complete horseshit.

Right up top there kids:

Physicist here. 200mph winds generate a pressure of about 100lbs per square foot. The effective area of a the average-sized human from the front, accounting for the drag coefficient, is close to 9 square feet. That means in 200mph winds, your body would experience the weight of 1/3 of a Toyota Corolla on you, trying to push you sideways, which it would do very easily until you also started flying really quickly. It also means that on a wall or something with the area of a standard door, those 200mph winds are equivalent to dropping the whole weight of that car through the door. So that's why a lot of stuff gets destroyed. Then you factor in, with great importance, that objects with mass are also flying around in wind like that (like trees, animals, phone poles, roofs, and cars) and the chance that the Toyota Corolla actually comes through your front door goes up considerably. But's that's only based on wind speed. Damage doesn't exactly care which way the wind blows. Here's the difference between hurricanes and tornadoes with respect to damage and wind ratings: Tornadoes are very tight (< 3 miles wide) and have high sustained wind speeds. An EF-5 tornado has wind speeds greater than 200mph (like this one observed in Moore, OK, 210mph). Everything in its path gets wrecked, but the area is much smaller than a Hurricane. Hurricanes are very wide and have high short term wind speeds (gusts). A Category Five hurricane (like Andrew, 1992, 175mph) can have gusts up to 200mph. Not as devastating per square mile as a tornado, but the damage area can be enormous. Then tack on storm surge in coastal areas, flooding, etc. In general, hurricanes are more costly in terms of damage dollars because of flooding and enormous damage area. In general, tornadoes are more deadly because of the limits of advanced warning and the concentrated potency of destruction. Andrew was an extremely devastating hurricane, with 26 lives lost. The last EF-5 hurricane to roll through Moore, OK occured in 1999, with wind speeds of 302mph, and cost 36 lives. In general EF-5 tornadoes (9 in the last six years) occur with more frequency in the US than Category 5 hurricanes (2 in the last six years). Best you can do, in both cases actually, is be prepared and have a good warning system.

That blows.

Go back to your home on ###### Island. edit: Whaaaattt!? W hore is censored?! FACISM.

But but but he was supposed to land that unnamed #1 center with size, speed, grit, and leadership that solved all of our problems and he didn't! Then he threw Lindy under the bus to save his own job instead of resigning like a "real man!" I'm just so angry that he still works for the Sabres after 16 years of what I remember as a tremendous no-Cup-winning failure, despite the fact I've heard from management one hundred times that he'll be judged on his performance since 2011- I just can't cope with the fact that I have no managerial input into the team, so I'm really thankful that the local sports columnists argue snidely on my behalf as a ticket-buying fan! My only choice is to continue buying tickets and continuously post defamatory remarks on an internet message board that breed an unfounded narrative surrounding what I perceive to be incompetence on behalf of the Coach, General Manager, President, and Owner, and to finish it off, I'm going to get REAL butthurt when I read opposing opinions, many of which are well-supported by facts. Welcome to the Off-Season Show, where, because of the lack of news, we have nothing better to do than what's about to happen in this thread.

Without having listened, I'm not surprised that's the answer. Best off-ice acquisition of 2011. I hadn't noticed on his resume that he's been doing lacrosse play-by-play off and on since 2001. He excels at everything he's been asked to do on-air, and I thought a lack of practice was the only barrier holding him back from working in the Sabres booth as a color guy, but that's not the case. He could be the new Jim Lorentz.

His meager salary's worth keeping the bitch-assed from ###### with the kiddies as they grow up.