Doohickie
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I'll take Des and Gorges over any of their replacements, any day. Carrier has a place on this team............ just not right now.
It scares me when I agree with you, but you're spot on.
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With the injuries this year, we've had a peek at what's down on the farm. We've had many, many threads about which players constitute the core of the team going forward, how much to pay them, etc., but a team is much more than 5 or 6 key players.
While most fans would like to see some additions to the current core (maybe a winger and a D or two), I thought it would be interesting to examine what I call the accessories. These are the players that aren't part of the core. If we peel the onion down another layer, which members of the accessories are worth keeping around? Which really need to be upgraded by someone else?
Take for instance Grant. He's been on okay fourth line center. As the Sabres tune the team, can anyone see him as a key part of a contender? He's been effective at times but lately he's caught a lot of flack for mistakes he's made.
Then there's D-Lo. Does he have a place on the Sabres of the future? Is he just another winger whose spot will be filled soon by a prospect, maybe Carrier, maybe Baptiste?
There are also players that might not be quite part of the core, but they are definitely valuable accessories, players like Foligno, Larsson. Valued members of the team perhaps, but not part of the inner sanctum of stars.
Maybe before we get too deep into this discussion, we need to agree which players are members of the core- Eich, O'Reilly, Reinhart, Risto, Okposo, McCabe?
I guess I bring it up because for much of the tank, we've been "top focused," looking at improvements coming from very high draft picks. As the Sabres mature, those high picks will come to an end and improvement will begin to come from incremental "tuning" of the team, in terms of system (coach) and acquisitions. Assuming no blockbuster moves are made, what incremental moves do you see coming down the pipe?
Who's core? Who's a complementary piece? Who needs to be replaced?
Discuss.
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I know. Just sayin'.
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I believe if we do a) he would have to clear waivers, and b) most of his salary would remain on our cap.
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I used to corrupt text files on purpose when I needed more time to finish something. Prof would email me that they had trouble with the file, then I'd "resend" it.
Yup, did this too. Especially easy back in the day when we had floppy disks
Yeah.... I don't think this happened. He was pretty shocked and panicked that he had a zero for that assignment.
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Love John Scott, we should bring him back for literally anything.
"Professional Interview Photobomber"
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Rex needs every win to convince Pegula there is positive improvement and to keep him on another year.
I think Rex has already shown the Pegulas all they need to see.
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Also don't forget that Fedun himself is injured at the moment. So it points to both Guhle, Burgdoerfer and/or Falk leaving.
Do we have any healthy scratches? Doesn't a team usually keep an extra forward and and extra D? If the three named people return, perhaps one of Falk or Burgdoerfer, and one of either Grant or Carrier, spend time as healthy scratches. Or maybe they just run lean and send them down to get more experience in the A.
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Re grades and such: My son is taking an online class and this weekend he saw he had a 0 on a project he turned in weeks ago but the instructor just got around to grading. He's scored As on all the rest of the work in the class. The instructor said she couldn't open the attachment from the online submittal, which my son can show when it was submitted (there's a time logged). Apparently the rule is that all work has to be submitted via this tool and he can't simply send it email (school is afraid of attachments maybe?) So now he's stuck waiting on the IT people to figure out how to open a Word attachment that somehow got corrupted when he submitted it....
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John has an engineering degree, so that either improves or degrades his ability to write coherent English.
I have an engineering degree and I rite guud.
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Providing of course the world doesn't descend into anti-intellectual nationalism and start burning scientists at the stake.
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I used to love snow and had a romantic vision of moving back to WNY someday. The longer I've been away, the less compelling that vision is. After the 6 feet of snow in a day episode a couple years ago, I have zero desire to ever live back there again.
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Hey, it worked for Jeff Skinner.
Or was he a ballerina?
I think you mean ballerino. Unless Skinner had reassignment surgery.
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Not to say I'm totally sold on either but this idea that we gave up a lot for Lehner. Go back and do history of lower first round picks and don't think it was that great a risk compared to who we may have picked at that spot.
I get tired of hearing this. We gave up a draft pick for Lehner. At this point, SO WHAT? He's on the roster, and any speculation about whom the Sabres may have chosen with that pick are irrelevant. The fact that we traded a pick for him doesn't affect whether we should keep him either. The price paid in the past has no bearing on future value.
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Winter has finally come to north Texas. First hard freeze tonight; will get down to the mid- to low-20s with winds out of the north at 20 mph.
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That's funny.... when I was in college we used to go to College of Saint Rose to pick up girls for parties. Back then it was a female-only institution, and RPI was 80 Male/20 Female (or worse). So our fraternity would "import" girls from other schools.
I almost want Boston to win this game.
Sorry, I just couldn't.
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Two things I like better about Nilsson-
1. Better shootout performance (which explains better W-L for similar stats?)
2. Better rebound control (which is why team looks more comfortable with him).
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Apologies. I needed to ventilate.
Sorry to get you spun up.
Doohickie and Taro got me thinking...in an accident of history, could the injury be good for Eichel's development? His skating and explosiveness not only allows him to compensate for mistakes, but to simply overwhelm defenders. Without that explosion, he's forced to slow things down and think a little differently about how to attack, and work on his in close stick handling. The finer technicalities of the game that maybe didn't need as much attention because of his physical gifts.
This. Exactly this.
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Jack doesn't have ADHD because he is looking around bored during interviews. Holy ###### hell.
Duly noted.
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The dude with the headband playing guitar is pretty awesome.
Dude? What dude?
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and then another say something like "yeah, I've thought the same thing", and I just ... despaired.
Why? For the record, I was "another" that chimed in. Do you despair because we're judgmental? That we're armchair diagnosing? That "our hero" may be flawed?
To me, it was just an observation that I'd had previously but never mentioned until someone else did. I will admit that I have no special qualification to diagnose anything like that. I don't think I was being judgmental; to me it's a neutral- if he has ADHD, he does. It might be part of what makes him the great player he is. It's also entirely possible that I'm way off base and that's fine too.
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And I can't seem to watch hockey and post in forums at the same time.
I'm running into that too lately. I used to watch while seated at my computer, and I still do sometimes, but I can't keep the banter up and pay attention to the game. I can't multitask like I used to.
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Yes, I realize that.
I think we're just looking at it from slightly different angles is all, but the conclusion is the same. An inch here or there and the game is quite a bit different.
Could say the same about the previous game; if one of those goalmouth scrambles results in a goal, the Sabres could have won that too.
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Yeah, you think about the minute difference between Samson's shot not quite going in, and Risto's shot going in, both after heavy post hits. They're both sniping; Risto got the puck luck.
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