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  1. Robviously
    No, but here's what happened: http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2015/3/21/8271195/sabres-player-loses-teeth-blood-after-taking-painful-stick-to-face Tough to watch.
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    The Jets should definitely give Drew Stafford a ton of money. What could go wrong?
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    Discretion is the better part of valor. Openly cheering against the Sabres at the home games is counterproductive, and I say that for the same reasons I was against booing the team when we had that big debate two years ago. How does it help? Buffalo's selling point as an NHL city is that it's a great place to live and play hockey. Take that away and what do we have? And even the players that like it here weren't necessarily thrilled to come here at the time. When I've gone the last two years, I've cheered the goals but quietly hoped we'd lose in regulation. We have five more home games left this year -- and in the Tank in general. Let's avoid turning our arena into a toxic waste dump for these players and just muddle through the rest of this season.
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    2012. All of it. The Sabres stunk, but then had their usual late season "Hey, the team is coming together and building a winning culture" run to the 12th overall pick. Then they used that pick to prove they could land a top-line center with Grigorenko (the Sabres' equivalent of being forced to address a position of need at the wrong time after neglecting it forever, the way the Bills were when they took E.J. Manuel). The team suddenly rushing to prove they could address their needs at center was a little sad, and they promptly wrecked Grigorenko's development as soon as they signed him and forced him into the NHL. Think about how demoralizing that was. Then there wasn't hockey until 2013. Basically, the team was terrible but not terrible enough to land impact players and there wasn't any end in sight. And there was no plan in place to make that team a contender. They picked Grigorenko to be their future star and then treated him like a marketing gimmick instead of a human teenager. How can you get excited about a team that obviously has no idea what it's doing? As bad as this season is, we at least have enough intriguing players in the system that there's reason to be hopeful next year and beyond. Murray, in his first season and a half, already clearly has a vision for what he wants to do and it has some promise. Overpaying for guys like Deslauriers, Kane, and Bogosian to build a "Western Conference team in the East" is a nice change from the rudderless era under Regier.
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    How significant a portion? I'm not sure how many casual Sabres fans are watching the draft or hoping we finish dead last this year. And out of everyone who is, how many will still be fired up about it 2-3 years after it happens? Or, from a practical standpoint, are fans going to cheer for them less or call in to WGR more to complain about them? I just don't think the draft gives you that visceral player-to-player connection that you'd get if we swapped players in a trade and the guy we got was a disappointment.
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    "Interesting" is overrated. The Bills have given us lots of interesting QB talk the last 15 years and it hasn't been awesome by any stretch. You know what isn't interesting? Patriots QB talk. That said, if we're no.3, I think my pick is Strome and we try to have the best group of centers in the league (Strome, Reinhart, Girgensons) for the next 10 years. Probably not as interesting as Hanifin plus a trade, or "Mitch the Magiciain" Marner but it would hopefully set the Sabres up at center like never before.
  7. Robviously
    Indeed. But a month ago we were 8 points back of Edmonton and 12 points back of Arizona (or thereabouts). And I remembered thinking "Why was I ever so worried? Good things can happen." I embraced the idea of a perfect outcome and now I have to be ready to abandon it again. Now here we are -- 3 points from disappointment. We're in the "lead" but this feels like the Bills are up by 1 and Brady is getting the ball back with 2:10 left on the clock. We're Buffalo, and we know how this ends. Give me Dylan Strome and tell me he lives up to his "no.1 center, Nicklas Backstrom-type" potential and I'll be content.
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    "Way ahead of you." - America
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    I'm desperate for things to feel good about....
  10. Robviously
    Interesting choice of words. The current "greatest goaltender of all time" was also traded to the Sabres for peanuts once. I'd accept blowing the McEichel sweepstakes if we somehow lucked into Hasek 2.0.
  11. Robviously
    Probably after the lottery. Until then, it's just a grim resignation to the fact that we're going to blow this.
  12. Robviously
    "Can"? I'd say 100%. Definitely doesn't mean he should.
  13. Robviously
    In a cosmic sense, we're all irrelevant. And nothing matters. So cheer up, everyone. There's always that!
  14. Robviously
    Yes, they can. Assuming their two games against us are regulation losses for them.
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    "Yes, I am! Mom says if I keep drinking milk I'll grow up to be big enough to play in the NHL someday!"
  17. Robviously
    Said everyone at the end of the 2010-2011 season, and the at the end of the 2011-2012 season.
  18. Robviously
    "Yeah, you should definitely tell yourselves that tie-breaker is going to matter." - The Coyotes
  19. Robviously
    "Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you!"
  20. Robviously
    "Everything is proceeding exactly as I have foreseen." "Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive....."
  21. Robviously
    He has. But it's still disappointing that the TV show will be what wraps up the story in the next 3-4 years. The TV show can be great but it also does inexplicable things sometimes as well (Jaime and Cersei's "reunion" scene for example). The scope of the show is also limited by its budget so it is forced to cut out characters and subplots. (Sounds like the entire Ironborn plot from Books 4 and 5 is getting axed, pun intended, from the show.) Not to mention all the flashbacks/memories you get from the book since each chapter is written from a single character's perspective. If GRRM gets hit by a bus today, his greatest work will always be incomplete even if the TV show takes the story to the end. More than that, though, if you're working on something you're really psyched about, you'd think you'd be in a hurry to finish it so that people (i.e. your fans) could experience it. I wonder if the weight of the expectations for each book is taking the joy out of this work, or if he's just struggling with bringing all his plotlines to a satisfying conclusion. If nothing else, maybe the TV show finishing first will ease the pressure and he can just finish these things in the next few years.
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    There's basically no way to wait for the remaining books to see what happens. GRRM has said Book 6 isn't coming out this year, and he takes longer with each book. (ADWD came out in 2011.) The TV show is going to blow by the books starting this year and I doubt anyone will be able to avoid spoilers for the next 10 years waiting for the last two books. And let's face it, he probably needs 3 books to wrap this thing up from where it is at the end of ADWD. It's not even slowness at this point. He says he can only write from his home, but then says he's not home a lot because he gets invitations to appear all over the world now that the show is such a phenomenon. I want the guy to be able to enjoy his success but the completion of his life's work is now taking a back seat to free vacations. You'd think he'd want to bear down and finish the story.
  23. Robviously
    Come October, all the wounds from this season will mend instantaneously when the Sabres score their first goal of the 2015-2016 season and every member of the board celebrates together without reservation. Until then, anyone who is anti-tank is just a pathetic little baby with a poopy diaper.
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    "You're welcome." - The Goalposts
  25. Robviously
    He already did. That means he can't have another. #twomarshmallows
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