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Doohickie

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  1. In my day when someone scored a goal, we'd all fart loudly and hummed "Lady of Spain" and we liked it!

     

    Yep.  That's the way it's done.

    You don't know for whom the bell tolls by Metallica?!?  Go, go now and look it up.

     

    I never really listened to Metallica.  Not saying it's a bad choice, just saying I don't know it.

     

    EDIT:  Yeah, it's okay.  I could get behind that.

  2. Why so aggressively disinterested in the Terminator?

     

    Why so aggressively advocating for it?

     

    I'm not so much disinterested in the movie itself; it's more that if someone pushes something on me, I tend to push back.  It's just basic human nature (and how wars start).

     

    I'm not big into movies, to be honest.  And out of every genre, I'm probably least interested in action movies.  I kind of feel like it's all been done, and everything now is just hyberbolic interpretation of all that preceded it.

  3. Bucket list.

     

    Nope.  No desire to see it.  If I'm gonna waste time on something, it's gonna be something I actually want to waste time on.

    Oh, and at some point in this line of conversation I'm sure I'll utter, "Get off my lawn you rotten kids."  So let's just get that out of the way now.

  4. I really think this is for in-pack autographed cards.  I suspect that he's allowed to sign anything you put in front of him, if he wants to.

     

    I'm not so sure.  In fact I'd be surprised if that was the case.  If I were a card company and I wanted to have a competitive advantage over the other companies and I could sign a rising star to a deal that said he couldn't sign other company's cards, I would do that. It would make my cards potentially more valuable than other cards and collectors would be more likely to by mine.  Thus it would increase sales.

  5. 5 years varsity wrestling. NEVER pinned once. Not in a match... not in practice. Not by anyone in my own weight class... not by anyone 2, 3, 4+ weight classes above me. You'd have better luck seeing Big Foot than to see my shoulder blades on the mat. :nana:

     

    They never shot you with a tranquilizer dart, did they?  :devil:

  6. concept of girgensons...? This isn't kassian where he never did what we thought he could (a power forward with scoring potential). Hes actually doing everything and more we could expect of a two way forward who turned 21 this year and finished his second NHL season on a historically bad team.

     

    I take anything critical of zemgus TO HEART!!!!

    I guess in my Buffalo sports context, it's hard for me to accept that he's really that good. It could be that he's good, but looked much better compared to the overall talent level of the team.  Now that the level has dramatically increased, let's see if he still stands out.  I hope he does, but part of me feels that a letdown is inevitable.  You don't overcome a half-century of Buffalo sports in one off season.

  7. We have so much depth now we don't really have a true 4th line.

    No, that's not quite accurate. We finally have a quality 4th line, something we haven't seen in so long we forgot what it looks like. The Red Wings old Grind Line of McCarty, Draper and Maltby was a quality 4th line.  Very difficult to play against, but not terribly dirty.  A good combination of speed and grit, with the occasional timely goal (the Wings first cup in 42 years was won on a McCarty goal that was kind of reminiscent of the MAY DAY goal).  The Sabres have been so short on talent, the 4th line has been considered nothing but a checking line staffed by NHL bangers and nothing more.  On a top tier team they are often much more than that.

     

    I think Legwand will be the extra forward sitting out.  Larsson IMPO is a better option.

    I would like to see that as well. I think it might be too much to ask. It would be good if they at least platooned each other until Larsson is comfortable in the shutdown role.

  8. Larsson could find himself odd man out.  You can't put too much responsibility on a truckload of kids and unfortunately for him, he's still a kid with 2 kids with higher upsides looking to get developed.

    Interesting fact: Girgensons is on Eichel's line as a veteran presence to protect him. Larsson isn't viewed as capable of that role. Larsson is two and a half years older than Girgensons.

     

    When it's all said and done, I wouldn't be surprised if Larsson is the better player, but we've fallen in love with the Concept of Zemgus. When we were suffering through the tank, Zemgus was the one indication of a brighter future.

  9. I wonder if he sees himself in the grinder role long term, or if he thinks he can be more of a skill guy. We've been down that road of trying to force a player into a role he didn't want to accept.

    Things change when the team wins.

     

     

    Its a long season, no reason to let anyone go.

    Yep. It's been a long time since our roster runneth over. Will take some getting used to.

    Whoa.

     

    Eichel looks really freaking good.

     

    And it looks like Moulson could cash in quite a few goals from the doorstep off of feeds from Eichel.

     

    We could have something here.

    We've got chemistry here.

     

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