MattPie

It'd interesting to expand this out further. Would a felony traffic stop be grounds to cancel a player's contract? I'm sure none of these guys would ever take their sports cars up to 110MPH on the thruway.

In addition, seems like many teams have 1-2 young guys that either break out or play over their heads during a cup run. Since they're on ELC they're almost "free" in terms of cap space so the team has better vets with the real money. Three years down the road I want the Sabres to have a few good-looking prospects to plug into the line-up to make the team better without making the cap a mess. That's harder with a bunch of 2nd through 7th round picks than with 1sts.

How about the Chevy Vegas?

I'm thinking either "Pepsi" or just "Cola" for short.

4K is more pixels Aka resolution. A 1080p TV is 1920x1080. 4K includes a few resolutions, but it looks like TV is mostly using UHD-1 which is 3840 x 2160, which means for each pixel of a 1080p tv, there's 4 on a 4K TV. Cinema 4K is 4096 x 2160 which is where the name comes from (4K in computer terms is 4096). In short, for the same size panel it'll look sharper, but as someone mentioned up-thread, if you're a certain distance from the TV your eyes won't be able to tell the difference.

Nobody is lying low, since from what I hear, Nobody knows what Tim Murray's FA moves are going to be. He's just not telling us.

Riverboat Gamblers. Wheeler Dealers.

It'll be interesting to see what this does for the Kings' cap number. If the NHL allows the Kings' to scrub his salary I wonder if you'd find subtle language being included in contracts to make this kind of thing more likely.

Yards makes a few "Ales of the Revolution" as well. They're interesting and good, but not great beers. The spruce is the most interesting, and the porter is probably the best. The tavern ale is fine, but a "normal", not hoppy ale. http://yardsbrewing.com/ales-of-revolution

Take out the tables, it looks like a regular season game.

Not exactly, two ties equal a win and a loss, which makes perfect sense.

I thought that was Osgood.

It is. For the right people.

I always saw it more like:

Tuk Tuk Real is closing this weekend and I never made it down there to try it. Seize the day, people! Seize the day! http://tuktukreal.com/

M'aulkin, a contraction for McAuley Caulkin Replacing Patton with Sherman probably makes for a better analogy since it's the same era. Can anyone not see Tim Murray marching an army to the sea, burning all that comes before him and driving everyone in his path to flee?

A friend of mine used to have a Sandwich Artist in Residence: his live-in girlfriend.

Zadorov was contractually obligated to go the KHL if he was transferred out of the NHL, if I remember right.

We should be weary. And wary. (best mistype ever, BTW)

Or, NBC plans on featuring the Sabres a bunch with American golden-boy Eichel on the roster.

Personally, I don't like Sam Adams Lager and most of the seasonal rotation, they just don't taste good to me. The rest of their beer is OK to good, but nothing special in terms of craft brew.

What about Pizza Planet on Transit and Sheridan (I think)? Great beer, good food. No one ever talks to me when I'm at a bar alone, so I don't know what "no one will bother me" means. ;-)

I agree, but that line only really worked in the two years the NHL wasn't the NHL. Maybe you can do it with different personnel this time around, or maybe not.

I'm sure New Yorktucky is an interesting place to live right now.

I thought this was a pretty good read, includes many civil war statements about salvery and the south's protection of it. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/ Granted, like any other politicians they're going to pull at the heart-strings of their constituents to drum up support for the war. On the Emancipation Proclamation: It's interesting that it didn't come out right away, but on January 1 1863. As others have mentioned, the North wasn't 100% opposed to slavery continuing if the Union was preserved. I've read somewhere that part of the timing was to keep England and France out of the war. Both of those countries had an interest in weakening the US, and what better way than to split it in half (ish). While neither did anything official, British ships were attempting to run the blockade of Southern ports to bring goods. I wish I could remember where I read it (it was a long time ago), but by Emancipating the Slaves, Lincoln made it politically impossible for England or France to provide any official support to the confederacy.