wonderbread Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Scotty Bowman is 78 years old now. Maybe we could clone him with his fingernail and hair clippings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 thought this was a call-out for our board's fearless leader, not a call-out for the BMOC at the transit valley country club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Maybe we could clone him with his fingernail and hair clippings? It is unlikely, but maybe Mr. Pegula could convince Scotty's son to come home from Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfreeman Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 ...in before the merge (which I hope is coming). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderbread Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 It is unlikely, but maybe Mr. Pegula could convince Scotty's son to come home from Chicago. Highly unlikely. It would go something like this... TP- "Hey Stan how are you?" SB- "Hello Terry, quite a beating we gave you guys last night. Are you calling about the Guastad injury?" TP- "No actually Stan we were wondering if you would be intersted in coming back to Buffalo to help straighten this thing out" SB- "Ummm, Umm I gotta go I'm helping my kids with their homework Terry. Good luck in your search." TP- "Stan don't go. Please", "I have a Jet" "Stan are you still there?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-9 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Scotty Bowman is 78 years old now. Which would make that metal plate in his head, what, about 60? GO SABRES!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowPhysics Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Maybe we could clone him with his fingernail and hair clippings? The Blackhawks already did that. His name is Stan Bowman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJFIVEOH Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Good post Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpandean Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Well Carp I never said you nor Shrader were afraid of anything. Many people and Darcy (it would seem)are though and this team and their fanbase need to move on from that. This team will never succeed with that thinking. Yeah, my bad on that one. It was one of those cases where I started reading a post and decided my reply before I actually read the whole thing. Probably stopped reading right before you said "I'm not talking about you Shrader ..." It seemed like you were responding directly to our discussion. Mea culpa, mea culpa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChimp Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Exactly, you don't lose credibility by making a change when you said nothing would change, you lose credibilty when the ship is sinking fast and you don't do anything to right the ship. BINGO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabattBlue Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Cody McCormick contract.... Don't get me wrong, he is a pretty good scrapper for a middleweight, but why was he signed to a 3 year deal for 1.2 mil per season when he was making 500k the previous two years? If he had signed a deal with a modest increase(say 700-800k per year), that would have seemed more in line. I know we are only talking about 500k difference in cap space, but for a team that is right up against the cap, this money may have come in handy. This is just another case of DR not being able to determine market value. Anyone remember when he gave Peters a 2 year, one way deal? Any moves DR makes between now and the deadline should be to sell pending FA's for picks or prospects, and even then I hope Black/Sawyer/Benson approve any moves he wants to make. The Sabres last game in on Sat 4/7. Press conference to announce Darcy's firing should be on Mon 4/9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Crotch Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Cody McCormick contract.... Don't get me wrong, he is a pretty good scrapper for a middleweight, but why was he signed to a 3 year deal for 1.2 mil per season when he was making 500k the previous two years? If he had signed a deal with a modest increase(say 700-800k per year), that would have seemed more in line. I know we are only talking about 500k difference in cap space, but for a team that is right up against the cap, this money may have come in handy. This is just another case of DR not being able to determine market value. Anyone remember when he gave Peters a 2 year, one way deal? Any moves DR makes between now and the deadline should be to sell pending FA's for picks or prospects, and even then I hope Black/Sawyer/Benson approve any moves he wants to make. The Sabres last game in on Sat 4/7. Press conference to announce Darcy's firing should be on Mon 4/9. Even worse... anyone remember when he picked Andrew Peters in the 2nd round, 34th overall?! (that's ahead of guys like Brad Richards, Mike Fisher, Erik Cole, and Brian Gionta to name a few) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Even worse... anyone remember when he picked Andrew Peters in the 2nd round, 34th overall?! (that's ahead of guys like Brad Richards, Mike Fisher, Erik Cole, and Brian Gionta to name a few) No I didn't remember. Thanks a whole hell of alot for reminding me. I like Peters, but to select him ahead of any of those others ... DR should have been fired then!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 No I didn't remember. Thanks a whole hell of alot for reminding me. I like Peters, but to select him ahead of any of those others ... DR should have been fired then!! Well then fire every single GM in hockey because that same kind of statement can be made about ~95% of all players in the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerme1 Posted January 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Well then fire every single GM in hockey because that same kind of statement can be made about ~95% of all players in the league. To be fair haven't all the others been fired since then? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 To be fair haven't all the others been fired since then? :rolleyes: I'm kind of curious now, but not curious enough to actually look it up. I know Ken Holland's been around just as long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabattBlue Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I'm kind of curious now, but not curious enough to actually look it up. I know Ken Holland's been around just as long. Lamoriello is in his 25th season(New Jersey) Regier is in his 16th season Holland is in his 15th season(Detroit) Pleau is in his 15th season(St. Louis) McPhee is in his 15th season(Washington) Poile is in his 14th season(Nashville) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKnowPhysics Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Stick to physics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spndnchz Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Decent read http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/opinion/2012/01/big-deals-dont-always-pay-big-dividends.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobody Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Stick to physics. Maybe he was hanging out too close to a particle accelerator and got hit by a few too many quarks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfreeman Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Decent read http://www.cbc.ca/sp...-dividends.html Good article. Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Lamoriello is in his 25th season(New Jersey) Regier is in his 16th season Holland is in his 15th season(Detroit) Pleau is in his 15th season(St. Louis) McPhee is in his 15th season(Washington) Poile is in his 14th season(Nashville) Except for the two obvious ones the others have very similar track records as DR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Lamoriello is in his 25th season(New Jersey) Regier is in his 16th season Holland is in his 15th season(Detroit) Pleau is in his 15th season(St. Louis) McPhee is in his 15th season(Washington) Poile is in his 14th season(Nashville) Thanks for that. How could I forget about Lou? Anyway, that Nashville scenario is by far the most interesting one. They've never had another coach or GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazielSabre Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 No I didn't remember. Thanks a whole hell of alot for reminding me. I like Peters, but to select him ahead of any of those others ... DR should have been fired then!! or Briere/Drury, or the fax machine incident, or, well any number of other times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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