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Looking back on the thread, this post is pretty funny today.?

Ref kind of trolled the crowd a bit with the way he announced it. Funny.

There's a very large following within the college hockey community that typically buys these tickets up right away. Those tickets then get bounced around in the secondary market depending on who makes the field. Ultimately, I'd say there are two main factors for the final attendance, once of which is an immediate loss for the games in Buffalo. 1. Are there any local teams in the field? 2. Is North Dakota in it? You might think I'm joking on #2, but I'm dead serious. Their showing is like nothing else I've ever seen.

Isn't the essentially the plan of every single team if you swap out the names? So you pretty much nailed it when saying that the team building process only works if: So that takes it right back to what I originally said was my whole issue with the "what if" scenario. These things only work if the talent evaluation is accurate. Now you've also added in the idea that the talent development also has to work out and I'm completely on board with that. We don't yet know whether or not Boterill's "plan" is working, but it does seem pretty clear with Murray that it was lacking in both of these aspects. I'm not quite sure if we can pin the lack of development on him given the short tenure, but we at least say that his guys have not developed properly so far.

Was he wearing the neck roll?

It's a bit of a weird topic in general though. Imagine the defense forcing a turnover and handing you the ball on the five yard line, then the offense punches it in. Now technically that is the offense putting up the points, but I'm mostly crediting that one to the defense. The 5 yard line's a bit extreme for obvious reasons, but where is that line where you'd start to give most of the credit to the offense? I'd like to see the exact quote that True* referenced. That word "threat" is what's making me wonder. If there's more to the comment, like maybe being a threat to put up 21 from your side of the field, I might be willing to mention. *Have we ever created a shorthand name for TrueBlueGED. I wanted to say Blue, but that's reserved for LabattBlue even though he's gone. I don't dare you call you TB because I don't want to associate you with that jackass QB.

And I bet you watched a couple hockey games in there too.

No I completely understand that. But the point is that every single team can put together lists like this. When everyone is making the same decision, it starts to point you towards realizing just how unlikely it was to actually make that so called correct pick. And you know what's even more unlikely than hitting on a very low probability event? Hitting on 2 or 3 of them. I always hate the what if game for this reason, but the article misses on one very big factor in why they are where they are today. It ignores who they actually brought in, who they actually drafted. My example above is the perfect one. They passed on Point several other times even without factoring in the traded away pick. So is it really the trades themselves that are the issue or is it the evaluation of talent?

Every single team in the league could use the same exact what if scenario. especially when you get past the first round picks. The Braydon Point inclusion is the ultimate in hindsight. The Sabres still had two more picks within that unusually large 19 pick window that the author offered, drafting Jonas Johansson and Brycen Martin. It's probably a safe bet that they weren't taking Point and it's not the trade that caused that. And you know who else passed on Point in that draft (3 times)? Tampa.

That's the typo you choose? I'm more worried about the practice of shaving players that they apparently have in Edmonton and Colorado.?

My favorite part of the what if game is that it ignores the people they actually did draft. Those aren't looking so great either, so that doesn't exactly suggest to me that if they had more picks they would have gotten those right. Also, of the actual players they traded away, Compher's really the only one that leaves me wondering.

I’m shocked to see that he’s actually younger than me. It feels like he was here at least 15 years ago. And now as I look up his stats, oops, he was.

Sounds like we’re due for another great board crash of whatever year it was. I can’t wait for all the posts complaining that their post count isn’t high enough. It’s the board upgrade that keeps on giving! Maybe their will be some quirks and a few more gems with a Moosehead name in caps and exclamation points will fall through the cracks.

When the Sabres are in the crapper, we get posts about the definition of the crapper. It always comes down to semantics on/in this place, doesn't it?

You somehow get into the toilet with your tablet?

Come this time next year, he'll be a Montour de force.

Is there any indication of who goes into the lineup after the Guhle trade? Is it just Pilut or has he already been there long enough for a game or two? I really have no idea where that team is in terms of available bodies and injuries.

Don't turn around.

There's a group of 3 women in the office next to me right now talking very descriptively about doctor appointments for their lady parts. I can't find my headphones quickly enough.

If you think that's the only thing that has changed, you should probably avoid looking at your credit card balance.

It needs to be alliterative. I've got nothing.

Something needs to be said for having realistic goal. If the only goal is to win the Cup, that's a 97% failure rate league-wide. Truth be told, for the majority of the league, the Cup is not the goal. At least half of the field must know at the start of the year that it's not happening. As you're suggesting, they need to set in place those building blocks that will hopefully get them to that Cup eventually. For a team that hasn't sniffed the playoffs since what seems like the Clinton administration (oops, that was the Bills), just getting there does sound like a good place to start.

Shut it down now before someone takes the bait that's dangling out there in a couple threads now.

I love how the wind chill is at that point where the two scales cross over, the rare temperature where it doesn't matter which units you're using.

Was that really necessary?