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That's what it looked like.

This game reminds me of every other Bills game from the last 15 years.

No, this is their new "Golden Saturdays" thing that they just started. It's brutal and wrecks a pretty cool uniform.

So far, so good on Linus's double hip surgery.

Franson is atrocious. We need Bogo to get healthy and McCabe to step up ASAP.

Andrew Peters is the Andrew Peters of radio.

Mark Pysyk just called Chad Johnson "Ocho Cinco" in the intermission. It's on.

Good first period. There are lots of empty seats in the 300s though. Not a good sign when it's the second game of the season and we have 10 more afternoon games to come.

He was terrible last night. I'm glad he thought so too.

Please no. I hate when we rush our young players for short-term needs. Reminds me of when we kept Grigorenko in the NHL because we forgot to have any other options at center. Just get a warm body with NHL experience and let Ocho Cinco be your starter for a month.

He had a lousy game. So did most of our players not named Kane or Eichel. Our defense looked insanely terrible. They were slow and really tentative to jump in the play (aside from Risto).

Yes. This song could easily be the Sabres version of the "Shout" song. The lyrics are perfect for our team (especially after a goal) and it'd be easy for everyone to sing along to after hearing it a few times. If you're in Chicago when Chelsea Dagger plays after a goal and the crowd joins in, you get goosebumps. This would have been the same thing in B-Lo. Let Me Clear My Throat is just a generic hip hop song. You could put basically any hip hop song in its place for game 2 and I doubt anyone would notice. Lame choice by the fans who voted and I suspect they just wanted whatever sounded more modern. This is the type of thinking that had the Sabres switching to black uniforms 20 years ago. Bleh.

GREAT job, NHL! Please do this every time these head shots happen from now until the end of time. It'll make a difference.

Yeah, I think you're really overreacting. The "goody white daughter" skipped class on her own; he was surprised to see her there. And the "artsy, super-talented kid with a rebellious streak" is a trope but not really a negative one. He and the daughter were both about equally goody/slightly rebellious. Somehow I doubt the kid who fell asleep in class was supposed to represent all black people or any specific commentary about them. If anything, I think that scene was more about showing the dad character was good at his job and actually cared about his students. That is, building out who he is *before* the apocalypse so that we can compare later when everything goes to hell. The drug dealer "couldn't have been worse"? If you enjoyed Gus Fring on Breaking Bad, wasn't this just a teenage version of him? Outwardly he's a pillar of the community but he's secretly a monster. I'm also wondering which races you're OK with as "wicked drug dealers" in fiction. It's weird that a pilot episode that featured the positive portrayal of two interracial relationships and three very different black characters (boyfriend, principal, and drug dealer -- the kid in class wasn't really a character) is somehow wildly racist.

This seems like a stretch. The daughter's boyfriend came off like about the nicest, most likable "teenage boyfriend" character you could have on a TV-MA show. The kid sleeping in class was smart enough to have the answer when the teacher woke him up. And the principal came off as a generally good, competent guy. The fourth one was a drug dealer but that was shades of Gus Fring from Breaking Bad in that he had a completely different public persona when the parents came to visit him. He seemed intelligent. The worst part about his character was that he was inexplicably overpowered by a junky who escaped from the hospital, but I guess anything's possible when two people are struggling for a gun. And none of those four characters were as grating as the drug addict they cast as the lead for the show.

I don't think people are. Is anyone else really encouraged by the notion that a 19 year old Reinhart can outclass an 18 year old Eichel? The vibe on this board for a couple months has been that our franchise is basically "Eichel and others" -- especially as it comes to prospects. How much better shape are we in if we have another center that can go toe to toe with him? I'm thrilled that we have both of these guys.

It's 2015 and this is the internet. You really want to say something controversial like "Let's wait for the facts"?

It'd be hell for him to sign with a team in a city that can put 17,000+ in the stands for a scrimmage in July...

I didn't take it as a comment on his effort. Just a comment that he'll games like yesterday's (scrimmage) will illustrate how far the gap is between college superstar and NHL superstar. I don't think struggling early is necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes good habits develop out of trying to avoid repeating earlier failures. I think we're seeing some of that from Reinhart now (not that it was his fault he wasn't ready for the NHL at 18 but it seems like he's using that as motivation).

It's his mouth guard. He hangs it half outside his mouth and gnaws on it during stoppages in play. Not sure why they picked that image for the background, but I guess it gives us some personality.

Yep.

Jim Nill would look pretty good if he pulled off last night's trade and then turned around and signed Oduya.

Wait, wait, wait.... now you're telling me Sam Reinhart is someone we should be excited about? I thought we were trying to trade him!

It's DEFINITELY OK to hit robot Richard Simmons. I don't want to live in a country where these Richard Simmons robots are walking around stealing our jobs and just taking over with jazzercise. that.

So do I. :ph34r: