Robviously

Just wanted to chime in again this morning and say Stafford still sucks.

:o :doh:

Amen. I was SO hoping we'd trade him last year, or right after last year, when his value was at an all-time high. I just wasn't buying the "he figured it out" line about him suddenly having a terrific work ethic because that's what it takes to make it in the NHL. (Funny coincidence that he'd "figure it out" in a contract year.) And I've never forgiven him for his "we've got other guys for that" line about fighting. You're either a hockey player on this team or you're not. Also, can we just once trade a guy when his value is high? Just once? Darcy needs some foresight. Afinogenov led the team in points after 2006 but it was clear even then that he wasn't a guy we'd count on the a Cup run. Instead of trading him, we re-signed him and by the time he left, his value was basically zero. What are the chances Stafford is untradeable in a year or two?

He'd probably win, right? Enroth is magic!

I'd be shocked if they weren't.

This would mean more if this wasn't the first time it's happened. We never protect our own guys and our players routinely declare that "it won't happen again." And Gaustad is a ######. How long has he been on this team? Since the lockout? And how long has our team been soft? That entire time. Gaustad is big and strong but he never does anything with that when it matters. And it's not like he racks up points, so I guess he's just here for faceoffs.

The problem is that the show's logic doesn't work in its own universe. You know it's a show about zombies going in, so if you're watching it, your brain is not going to reject the idea that zombies could be real. But once you're watching it, you'll notice the zombies are all extremely slow and your brain is going to point out that these zombies really couldn't take over the world. So the show wants us to buy that zombies destroyed most of the world and killed most of its population, but then they gave us zombies that really don't seem up to the task. TV shows don't need to be realistic to be good, but they do need to make sense.

The show is a big hit because of the concept (which is great, and the only reason I keep watching) and the strong pilot episode. The actual writing has been terrible. Can anyone relate to any of these characters? Officer Rick just wanted to find his wife and son...and then he did....and then he abandoned them one episode later to go back into a city with millions of zombies. Andrea's only personality trait so far is that she really likes pointing a gun at other survivors, along with the baffling decision to hang out with her dead sister until she came back to life as a monster so that she could shoot her in the head. Merle, his brother, and Ed are all southern white guys so naturally they were all various degrees of racist hillbillies who hit women. T-Dog is a black guy so the only personality trait the writers could come up with for him was to have him named "T-Dog." They gave the black woman character about 1 line per episode before randomly having her decide she didn't want to live anymore. Oh, OK. Then there's the part where nothing on the show makes sense. A bunch of hispanic guys decided to pretend they were gang members so that they could protect an old folks home in the middle of a city full of millions of zombies??? And somehow they're doing fine but the military was completely overrun? That big zombie attack on the campsite where the younger sister died -- did every character on the show forget they were living in a post-apocalyptic zombie nightmare? They were all just sitting around a campfire waiting to get attacked. Also, the first couple shows made a big deal about how sound attracts more zombies but the writers apparently forgot about that a few shows later. None of the gunshots from the campsite zombie attack seemed to attract any more zombies, nor did Andrea idiotically shooting her sister in the head the next day. And none of the characters even expressed any concern about that noise. Oh well. Lastly, this show may have finally ruined slow zombies for me. I know they went out of their way to not have the running zombies from the 2004 Dawn of the Dead or 28 Days/Weeks Later but the zombies on this show are so slow that it's impossible to imagine them overrunning any law enforcement or military group. We saw some military guys bite it in the flashback at the start of the season finale when one guy was standing with his back to a door that a zombie burst through (he then accidentally shot his friends when attacked). Assuming the rest of the world's military is smart enough not to stand with their backs to doors in buildings full of zombies, I think I'd put my money on the living. At least running zombies make a rapid outbreak/fall of society seem plausible (see opening to 2004 Dawn of the Dead or all hell breaking loose in 28 Weeks Later). Maybe the new writers can make this thing work. The first batch definitely didn't.

He would have scored 50 goals a year if he knew how to finish on breakaways. :worthy:

Excellent post. I'm much happier watching the 20 year old and the 22 year old, even if they're going to make mistakes. They're going to get better.

Plus/minus isn't telling the whole story here. Neither one of them had anything to do with that first goal -- it was just ridiculously soft and should never have happened. The second goal was all on Weber. It's another 'minus' for the other four guys on the ice (including Butler) but not their fault at all.

I would have agreed with you right after we were eliminated last spring, but after our terrible summer of not-improving the team, my expectations for this season were pretty low. A fresh start with Pegula sounds amazing right now.

I'm just saying most of our team sucks. At least a guy like Weber should improve (and, really, asking him to NOT make the worst passing decision in recent memory is not asking a ton. He should be able to learn that quickly.) I'm more frustrated that half our roster is veterans who used to be good but give us nothing now.

I think he's +7 for his career. Also wasn't his fault that Ryan Miller let in one of his softest goals ever in the 1st. Are we throwing him under the bus too?

So? Look at the season stats, the Sabres get NOTHING from most of their veteran players. We're supposed to throw a rookie defenseman under the bus because most of the team is useless?

He's 22 and this was his 31st NHL game.

We can blame Weber but Roy had the best chance he's ever going to have in OT and choked. Team loss.

Roy needs to bury that.

Is giving up on a tied game late in the 3rd also a hockey fundamental?

His 31st NHL game and he's a career +9 heading into tonight. Let's calm down.

It's not just important to win this game, it's important to win it in regulation. That was profoundly stupid.

Vanek's definitely was. I don't want to hear any BS about that being lucky or ugly. He knew exactly what he was trying to do and made it happen. Adam did exactly what I want him to do -- go in front of the net and cause problems. That's what his goals are going to look like. Hopefully he scores lots of them. After cheering for a team of midgets my whole life, I definitely find those goals beautiful.

Love when visor guys decide to fight. <_<

LOL. First thing I thought of when I saw Versus was "DRIVE!!!!"

Flying down the ice with blood coming out of your mouth and then blasting the puck past the goalie? Awesome.