Doohickie
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Just to make it official, I'm coming out. I'm a flaming heterosexual.
Oh, and the reason I even visited the thread was to point out that I'm changing my avatar back to "A New Hope." The way they've been playing lately warrants it.
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More reason to love Pysyk.
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He's already done more than D'Augustini.
Incorrect. He drew a penalty that led to a critical goal. D'Ags has done a helluva lot more positive than that.
After sitting on it a few days, I will say this: Nolan had done a pretty good job of sorting out the lines and establishing some team chemistry. In the second Bruins game, though, suddenly that chemistry was gone. Was the insertion of Omark? I think that played a part in it. He might have a lot of talent but maybe he just doesn't play well with others. We'll see.
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No, Ennis is by far the better player to me.
However, consider that this was only his first game with the team. I'm open minded; I think he will improve. I will say that the work ethic was there. He skated hard, played good defense. Yeah, he wa guilty on the hook, but it was embellished by the Bruin who held onto his stick a bit. Not a heinous penalty but the Bruins did score so it looks bad.
I think it's okay that he didn't have a huge impact. Look at all the players who scored in their first game in the blue & gold and weren't with the team a year later.
This is the perfect spot for him. If he's NHL caliber, we'll see it soon. If not, he'll at least be able to say he got his shot.
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Members of neo-Nazi groups use the number 88 as a sort of signal to one another. H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, and 88 stands for "heil Hitler" among the loonies.
That said, I've never heard of anyone in any sport changing his/her number because of this. Lindros wore it, and it's pretty common among wide receivers in the NFL.
Really? Not wanting people to use it because of that, when most people don't even know what it means, is BS.
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Why is there an issue with the Jewish community? I've never heard that.
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1) Enroth
2) Horton
3) Robataille
4) KORAB. Duh.
5) Ramsey
6) Schoenfeld
7) Martin
8) Lorentz
9) Roy
10) Ramsay
11) Perreault
12) Savard
13) Kozlov (mostly remember him from his Red Wings days)
14) Robert
15) Meehan
16) LaFontaine
17) Foligno
18) Gare
19) Connolly
20) Luce
21) Stafford
22) Ruff
23) Carriere
24) Pyeatt
25) Andreychuk
26) Vanek
27) Peca
28) Sauve
29) Pominville
30) Miller
31) Puppa- I attended RPI when he was playing there
32) Ray
33) Brennan
34) Butler
35) Conklin
36) Kaleta
37) Ellis
38) Paetsch
39) Hasek
40) Lalime
41) Barnes
42) Gerbe
43) Biron
44) Zhitnik
...then I got tired.
Honorary mention:
3) Taro Tsujimoto
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Feels like they stole a player for a 6th round pick. Be interesting to see if his showboating ways will be tolerated under TN
My thought is that, hell yes they will be tolerated.... as long as they don't lead to costly mistakes. This team is just finding itself, nothing wrong with giving it a little personality.
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Ahh, quite so. Interesting point of perspective.
On the other hand, I ran into Brett Hull a year after the Sabres Cup loss to the Stars and we had a very congenial conversation, no punches thrown or anything. So there's that...
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There's an extensive list of "Mickeyisms" for those who've watched the Red Wings over the years. They jump up into my consciousness from time to time. He would describe someone like Myers as "a tall glass of water" and a nasty slash on the hands was a "B.C. two-hander" (I guess hockey players from British Columbia had a nasty reputation).
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I love Pysyk, but a stint in Rochacha won't hurt him. Let's see what we've got in the AHLers and whether they are ready (or close to ready) for the NHL. The best way I would characterize this season is "triage." Bringing in some D'Agostinis and Ellises to fill out the roster is better, think, than trying to bring all the AHLers up at once. If you have all the kids up at once, it puts too much on them to succeed without giving them the tools.
My only frame of reference for this hockey-ism is Robitaille (in fact, that's generally my source for such phrasings), and I know he uses "cup of coffee".
When I lived in Detroit, Mickey Redmond used the term "going out for a ginger ale" as a euphemism for going out and getting drunk. I was really just muddying the water with that line.
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In the NHL, isn't it "going out for a 'ginger ale'"?
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Great line!
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It's a constant reminder of the existential uncertainty in life.
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I hear ya, before I began homebrewing beer terminology was all a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me. If you brew a few batches it all begins to come together pretty quickly....after all there are only four ingredients in beer.
Oh, and the homebrew guys keep trying to recruit me into their ranks.too. I do a lot of bicycle riding and twice a year they do a bicycle swap meet at the Rahr Brewery... naturally, the taps flow. Hard to think of a better way to spend the day.
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Just an arrow pointing down with the words "here be dragons"
"here be Slugs"
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We have two local breweries (Rahr and Martin House) and I have a few friends that work at them (work often means unpaid part-time positions). So I have more than adequate exposure to beer snobbery. I like a fine beer as much as the next guy, but trying to stuff brain cells full of the intricacies of beer characteristics while I'm simultaneously trying to kill them never seemed like a good idea. So I look at what my beer snob friends are drinking and order the same thing. Once in a while I end up with something I don't like so much and try to remember not to get it again.
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Another consideration: Let's say the Sabres get the #1 pick. What do you do when your rebuild is centered around him and he blows out a knee? This whole concept of needing a top pick in order to excel is deeply flawed. Build a great team by getting the best players you can. But if you purposely tank to get a top pick, all you're doing is instilling a culture of losing. I don't want to see that in my team.
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Currently drinking a Hans Pils by Real Ale in Blanco, TX. Easy to drink, but much fuller body than the pilsners you get from the big boys.
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Do with what? (There are a lot of comments upthread; not sure what you're referring to.)
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Apparently I'm not the only one who's noticed him: http://www.wgr550.com/Pysyk-s-game-standing-out-among-young-Sabres/17879837
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No, I don't trade him. I really think he's one of the pieces you want to keep. I think trying to build off a top pick is just bad policy, and tanking to get it even worse And why trade away one of your best young players when he fills his position so well?
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Yeah, it's still early. But it just seems like he's already over the learning curve, so to speak.
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Our younger son "failed out" of nursery school. At the time he was about the same age as your son. If you ever saw the scene in Mr. Holland's Opus where they find out their son is deaf because he was throwing tantrums cuz he couldn't communicate? My son was like that a lot. He was diagnosed with "autistic spectrum disorder"- not full-blown autistic, but in that direction.
My wife strongly advocated for him to get the help he needed, but the other side is she also made sure they put him in the highest functioning environment possible. She wanted to make sure he didn't get "warehoused" in a classroom where he wouldn't be given what he needed to improve to his potential.
So from almost three, he went to a full-time early intervention setup with speech therapy, occupational therapy, all that. From that he transitioned to where he was in the same school with our older son, but was full-time special ed. Then, to part-time special ed. By the time he got to middle school, he was able to function without special help. By high school he took some AP classes and he actually graduated college this past month.
We really had to fight at times to get him the right treatments, therapies, placements, etc. The school districts want to just put the kids where they don't cause trouble; you have to convince/motivate/work with/push them to get what's best for your kid because they're not nearly as interested in outcomes as you are.
One thing that my son got when he was about 5 or 6 was a program called Fast Forward. As I recall, it was a computer program that helped him learn how to catch up with the aspects of speech he didn't learn the first time around. It monitored his progress each day, and the following day's lesson was tailored to the results from the previous day. If you can get the school district to pay for it (or if you have the means), look into Fast Forward. It made a big difference for our son.