shrader

Dude, turn the phone sideways!?

You've definitely traveled more in the past year than I have in my entire life, so our scales are different, but I don't think we're all that far off on our views of Vegas. I'm not itching to go back as there are a million other places ahead of it on my list, but if the opportunity presented itself, I would go and find a way to keep myself occupied. And this is coming from a non-sloppy drunk who hates gambling.

Teams don't typically send down a guy who has spent the full season with the big club. Now specifically when you look at a guy like Mittelstadt who many say it looks like he's hit a wall, you don't send that guy down and gas him even further. Out of curiosity though as to your line of thinking though, if you're sending down the first two, why wouldn't you be doing the same with Dahlin?

I just want to be able to circular logic our way to crowning a one win team as #1. That would be fun. On a college hockey board I used to be a part of, they'd do something called the title belt. This guy with a lot of free time tracked it over the full season. So you start with with the pre-season #1 and then they lose the belt whenever they lose a game. Thanks to conference tournaments and the frozen four, the overall champ usually wound up with the belt, but every now and then a fluky finish would leave the belt in the hands of some team who didn't qualify for their conference tourney.

But then there's: Bowling Green beat UB Miami of blOhio beat Bowling Green UB beat Miami of blOhio So now what, 3 way tie?

I'm good with all of this, but keep in mind that he's talking about the people who want to goonery in the game. Lumping the three together is a bit more of a cliche as opposed to actually equating them.

My wife was actually brought up on stage at a Penn and Teller show in Vegas. We have a cell phone video showing us exactly how they did the trick, so it's a cool little memory. It's amazing how many people have posted their video onto youtube. So yeah, there are still plenty of options out there if you're not into the gambling and drunken shenanigans. I'd do another 3-4 day trip there some time.

Sweet, Coyle can go back to disappointing in Boston.

That giant ferris wheel was awesome at night. We lucked our way into being the only people on the drink car, so the bartender wound up pointing out all of the ideal views/pictures.

Man what a crappy story. Unless you absolutely have to, stay in your car, folks. Get beyond a guard rail if you have to.

If the game can evolve to that gooner and grit as you suggest, doesn't that imply that it can also evolve beyond it? Evolution doesn't have an endpoint. That's not to say the game should/would evolve that stuff out of the picture, but there's definitely more to be had in addition to it.

B = bowel?

You're all missing the point where Hoss said the vet needs to be "actually capable on the ice". You need more than just a voice. It needs to be a voice who can actually contribute. A name like Justin Williams is what comes to mind, granted this team would need someone a bit younger. But yeah, someone like that when he was 32-34 years old.

How long is your stay? I've only been there once, but 3-4 days seemed perfect to me. Anything beyond that and I probably would have lost interest.

I've been in this same boat for a while. Okposo should have been that guy, but his play went off a cliff. I was always on him for being overrated, but the exact thing this team needs right now is the Chris Drury type.

How exactly would you list that one though, day-to-day: pants?

Goalie stats are so tough to figure out and compare. I think Richter would find himself way behind others in line for the HoF. He was never really considered to be among the best goalies in the league in any given year. I know the Vezina may not be the best way to measure it, but Richter's top finish in the voting was 3rd place, and that was his second season. Other than that, he never made it into the top 5. If you can't beat out your contemporaries, you don't belong in the hall.

She was probably looking at the US hockey HoF list because Richter is not in the HoF. The only american is Frank Brimsek. His career ended in 1950, so PA is the only one around here who may have seen him play. Quick is 71 behind Miller. He's 33, so yeah, health and quality of team are probably the only thing that would stop him from catching Miller.

He used to work for them. He's probably begging for a job.?

My mind jumps to Ken Dryden and Eddie Belfour as Americans since they went the college route, but they're not. And it's funny that you mention the europeans because there's only two of them in Hasek and Tretiak. I'd imagine that Lundqvist will be added to that list someday, but I'm not really sure who else might be the next one. I would have suggested Rinne if he could string together another 4 years or so, but now as I look, he's actually the same age as Lundqvist. And back to Miller, he's probably just keeping that American throne warm for Jonathan Quick, unless LA stays in the basement for a while (if he stays there).

My company moved to a new building in December. This place has some sort of smart glass that automatically tints to adjust for sun light. For some strange reason, they didn't put that glass on the east side of the building, where I happen to sit. Now what do you get on the east side? Morning sun. I'm completely blinded each morning right up until 9:15. That's running later and later each day, so I don't want to know what it'll be like by the summer. I'd love to know who that genius was who decided not to tint the east windows. There is a parking garage on that side that should shade part of the building, but my floor is the first one that is fully above the garage. There's also a big building off in that direction that eventually blocks the sun, but as I said, that's happening later and later each day. I'm sure their solution will be to move me, but that's just passing the problem off to someone else and also once the sun is blocked, this is a really good spot. So I'd rather stay here and find a solution. Oh, and before anyone asks, I'm in at 8, so it's not just 15 minutes where I have to deal with the sun.

It is kind of amusing though to picture the team going with only a combination of three goalies with zero AHL experience. To suggest that those guys are the Amerks future is to completely ignore the process they've been going through to rebuild that organization. I suppose it's nice that Cincinnati is winning, but it has very little to do with the Sabre organization as a whole. There are two people on that team who have contracts with the Sabres. Some might be on AHL contracts, but probably over half of those guys are signed by the ECHL team.

I was surprised when I actually saw that picture. The talking heads played it up like the team was shunning Lebron. From the picture, it's very clear that he chose to sit off on his own. Whatever the reason was, it doesn't immediately point to "the team hates/is sick of him" angle that was played up for a day or two.

Instead of focusing on people who left, I'd much rather figure out how to get rid of everyone else.