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I wasn’t crazy about Guardians 2 after my first viewing thanks to over doing the comedy. It has really grown on me. The story about family in there is really good. Tone down Drax a bit and it’s really good.

I read that as “Pixel Shrader” and “Vertex Shrader” and was all ready to tell you to leave me out of this.

This might just be the most confusing exchange ever. It’s like “who’s on first” except not the least bit funny.

If that’s all we have to go on here, this whole conversation is ridiculous. Labeling people as domestic abusers based off of absolutely nothing but some random story you heard from a friend, that’s a slippery slope that lead down an ugly path. Save me it for another day, not this one that is supposed to give some hope to those who are suffering.

I think that whole speech was the perfect example of who he has become. With everything he’s going through right now, he talked more about Hunter than anything else. Those eight years changed him.

Me? If I told people about a team who sold a ton of punter jerseys and that they missed the playoffs for almost 20 straight years, I'm guessing most wouldn't be surprised. They sucked for a very long time. There's no denying that and there's no quest for fault here.

It sums up that era of Bills football perfectly. I'd say they made the perfect choice.

It happened earlier in the week, but I just saw the story now. David Quinn hired former rival BC's associate head coach, Greg Brown (former Sabres draft pick), to the Rags coaching staff. It's a nice parting shot to your top rival. Try to picture coach K agreeing to coach in the NBA and then hiring who was potentially supposed to be the next head coach of UNC, even though they've never worked together. That should make for some interesting banter between the two schools. Crap, I just used a bouncyball analogy.

This might just be the greatest example ever of a summer topic.

My guess is ECHL.

He also signed a few years after Baptiste and Bailey (too lazy to look up whether it was 2 or 3 years earlier). Even if they were maxed out, that cap only goes up over time.

Did each accept their qualifying offer? If that's the case, it shouldn't be quickly labeled as all a part of Botterill's plan. The players have to actually agree to it. So maybe Smith wants a longer contract and it isn't just about what Botterill wants.

It's hard to pin point an exact moment, but it started before McDavid. The recent draftees have been getting to the league right away for a while now. There's obviously going to be a dud draft here or there, but the younger guys making it right away is always going to add to the influx of talent.

Like if a muslim astronaut dies on the international space station. Good luck figuring out that one.

Are there many newer arenas around the league? Admittedly it's a short list, but every AHL arena I've been to falls into the outdated relic category. I'd be curious to see what the modern mid-sized arena looks like. Does it wind up being more like what Pegula built for Penn State? I haven't personally been there but I know the building it's modeled after. I feel like you still run into the restrictions from the roof height there.

I had a feeling it would. I knew it was a bad sign when I looked at theater listings a week after it opened and it wasn't at either of the theaters I go to. Any redeeming qualities at all?

No doubt. Everyone in the league was aware of his background. It was pretty much the first thing anyone said about him as he entered the league. I remember randomly turning on the AHL all star skills competition a few years before that, right as Emery had entered that league. I had no clue who he was, but even at that event, each time he was on screen the announcers were telling his story.

I'd still love to hear what was running through Marty's mind as he left his crease. Knowing him, he was probably singing along with some random song. Were they using street fighting man at that point or did it come along a few years later?

JJ, a friend is originally from that part of the state. He works in fertilizer sales and can identify just about everything even when I give the crappiest descriptions possible. If you're ever trying to figure out what something is, feel free to shoot me a private message here and I can pass it along.

I would have guessed a bit older. I was surprised when I saw 35. It feels like his career was ages ago. It goes with being a Sabre fan I guess, everything feels like it was about twice as long ago as it really was.

"I think"

Is it really a walk back? The comments pointing the finger at McCoy were from the cousin and friend, weren't they? There's some suggestion from the original lawyer statement and this most recent comment is pretty much right in line with that, suggesting it was him but not being able to outright say it.

I just got an email from the Hurricanes telling me that if I buy group tickets like I have in the past, they will let us wait in the walkway and high five the Carolina players as the enter the ice at some point. How awesome would that be, to be right up there front and center on the jumbotron, wearing my Sabres jersey and completely ignoring each of their players (except Stempniak, I can't do that)?

So how are those new politics clubs working out so far...

I challenge you to find even one incorrect thing that Zetterland has ever said. Watch, with my luck, it'll turn out that he has the world's dumbest twitter account.