Doohickie
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When i was in 3rd grade The Babe Ruth Story with William Bendix was shown at my elementary school. It didn't mention anything about his drinking and adultery. I grew up thinking he was an inspiration and a great symbol of achievement. Was that wrong? Or was the message the important thing to remember?
Actually when you bring those into it, the story is that much more inspiring.
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My wife's job makes her absolutely miserable, but she loves it.
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I'm not sure if he even says that anymore. I haven't noticed lately to be honest.
Living here in Texas though, there are a lot of people who speak with "regional colloquialisms" that are every bit as infuriating as our favorite color analyst.
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RJ is not the abbreviation for Raptor Jesus.
No, you're right.
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I'm getting close to hoping he does.
He needs to play a bit before he'll have any trade value at all.
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I, for one, embrace our new Swedish double-headed monster overlords. :worthy:
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I remember reading that Ottawa's condition of the Lehner trade was that Legwand had to be a part of it as part of a contract dump. That was all Ottawa and not GMTM.
I remember hearing that at the time, but who knows what happened behind closed doors. Remember he's a former member of that staff. He may have wanted Legwand, knew that Ottawa wasn't happy with the role he was filling, and pulled him over, graciously letting Ottawa insinuate it was just a cap dump.
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Oh, you're both right I realize that. It's just that there's a discontinuity in the team's heritage, something that (to me) goes deeper than the tank. There is no "apostolic succession" from the greats of the past to the team that's here now. In a very true sense this is an expansion team.
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It is working out that Gionta and Legwand are turning into some excellent mentors.
It makes me sad that we tanked so hard that we had to bring in mentors from outside the team. (I guess it was inevitable when Drury and Briere left and there was no one left to fill the vacuum.) There is no real connection between these guys and the Sabres organization other than a few contract years at the end of a career. I hope the franchise can maintain leadership going forward and never be so devoid of it again.
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My dad is still suffering pretty badly from the aftereffects of his radiation treatment. His last one was Oct. 20th, and we thought he'd be improving by now. He's also losing weight because he can't / won't eat since it's painful and he's feeling nauseous a lot of the time, which doesn't help recovery.
My stepmom, who is the only one able to work right now, lost her job yesterday when Highmark laid off her entire department after outsourcing their jobs to India "to remain competitve in the marketplace." She hated the job and they knew this might be coming, but the timing is terrible. Thank God she's supposed to get a severance package that *should* include 7 months pay and the ability to keep their insurance for now.
Oh that's just awful. I hope things get better for them soon.
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Legwand was never on a team that Murray was associated with, if that's what you mean. Legwand went to Ottawa the same time GMTM joined the Sabres. That said, I think Leggy's record during his time Preds, where he was essentially their Gilbert Perreault, speaks for itself.
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Don't know if he lost any endorsement deals but he may have a case against them depending how the contracts were written.
They pulled his likeness of the NHL 16 packaging, didn't they? There was probably some coin involved with that.
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There's a really cool example locally. They're a BBQ place, which was kind of a dime-a-dozen kind of restaurant around here. Burgers and hawt cuisine have kind of pushed the BBQ guys into the background. But this guy who was working as a security guard and his wife who worked as a nurse's aid decided to take all the money they had in the world (a few thousand bucks) and buy a BBQ smoker and a food trailer. They source their beef locally and set up in the parking lot of a local bar. They started out just working weekends, smoking a bunch of BBQ and serving it the next day starting late morning until it was gone. Word of mouth spread their reputation. They did a kickstarter and raised enough money to buy a large steel tank which they're having made into a smoker. While all this was going on, one of the local car dealer families who happens to be diversifying into retail and restaurants decided to have them cater a bridal shower and while they were talking, they decided to offer the BBQers one of their retail fronts for a below-market-value price in a very trendy area. To tie it into this thread: my complaint is that their brick-and-mortar store isn't open yet; they won't open until the spring.
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Not if he wears the new brand of athletic knit underwear!!!
Not if he wears the new brand of athletic knit underwear!!!
For a minute I thought you were Sabres Fan In NS.
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Thank goodness there are exceptions.
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Bleacherreport has Ullmark in the running for calder :P
Wich isn't to far fatched to be honest, if he performs well he might become our #1 goalie, and could warrant being the calder race.
A save percentage above, say, .915 and enough wins to put the Sabres into the playoffs? Yeah, maybe. I wonder if that would chap Eichel's ass?
@erlendssonTBO: Lines this morning
Palat-Stamkos-Filppula
Killorn-Johnson-Kucherov
Namestnikov-Paquette-Callahan
Brown-Boyle-Condra (McGinn)
#TBLightning
@erlendssonTBO: Paquette a game time decision, will take warm ups as will McGinn,
@erlendssonTBO, Vasilevskiy to start in net
Wait. I thought Namestnikov was a poster here during the Soviet Era?
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Very true on the first part. I couldn't agree more on the second.
And why do so many good businesses go out of business?!
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Två-huvuden goalternderen vidunder, as it were.
Bort-bort-bort.
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Best case scenario is Linus holds down the fort until Lehner returns, and it turns out Lehner is also a top-rate goalie and we have a two-headed-Swedish-goalie monster.
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GMTM may have won the Lehner trade, not because of Lehner, but because Legwand may be worth a late first rounder worth of leadership.
I think that's the point of GMTM trades. They don't win on paper perhaps, but there is another level to his trades that can't be assessed with facts and figures. He's not winning trades, he's building a team. I know that since the beginning of the season my opinion of Leggy has changed (to be more inline with what I thought of him earlier in his career).
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I'm surprised at all the love Linus is getting from Bylsma.
It may be an evaluation thing. What better way to judge talent than in the bigs?
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Well ###### practice reports and game previews then, I'll fix the intro
The One! :wub:
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Yeap. And I think many posters here had the right idea: Samson will be ineffective on a line with grinders.
It depends what you mean by ineffective. If the goal of a grind line is to grind out minutes while not allowing the other team to score, they did fine. Better than expected, since they chipped in the winning goal. One might argue that this line was more effective that Larsson-Eichel-Foligno who were all -1 on the night.
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PAs been around a while. He knew what he was doing.
Yeah. He was trolling. He got me. Well done, actually.
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Well if you want to call HS juniors children, then yeah.
She was telling me that one of the candidates for National Honor Society, well, flashed someone (pulled her shirt up) who took a picture and posted it to social media, so.... well now she won't be in NHS. (My wife is the sponsor for NHS.) Funny but kinda sad all at the same time. She works in a school where she makes a difference just by being kind of normal.