MattPie

Canyonero!

He has a ring, he must be.

Are there free cookies for all of us?

The closet homophobes are going to love this; I wonder if Kane comes in here and hits and plays hard will open their minds: "Kane is easy to talk to and well-spoken. He’s open about how much he enjoys the “adult playground” that is Las Vegas and the fact that he gets a manicure and pedicure on a weekly basis (his cuticles are immaculate)."

I thought the human race couldn't possibly affect things on a global scale or something?

This comes around all the time in photography circles. AmandaPie and I had a pro friend of my wife shoot our wedding (shout out to City Lights Studio in Buffalo!). She gave us a friend discount, but still her normal scructure. It might be tough at first, but as others have said establish a rate structure and stick to it, albeit with a friends and family discount if you like. You're not only helping yourself out, you're helping the other artists in the area by not undercutting them. http://rising.blackstar.com/photographers-excuses.html

Except for my, and Vodka Bottle's, arguments, you mean.

I'm still not sure if you're serious or trolling.

Indubitably.

Of course, sorry about being so self-centered.

Except for my posts, you mean.

The Habs picked Galenychuk at #3 in 2012. They had a good team in 2011 and 2013 but they stunk up the ice in 2012. Fun fact, Grigs was projected #3 in that draft (according to Wikipedia). Preds picked Seth Jones #4 in 2013 and had the 11 pick last year. The Rangers do seem to break the mold, but that team for the most part goes the way Lundvquist does (pick #205 in 2000, BTW). Let's not pretend those former two have been consistently good for a long time.

That's a fair point, I really thought about leaving the life stuff out but being sleep deprived I left it in. :) But there is truth there: I have a friend that likes to say, "when a friendship is consistently more trouble or a negative factor in my life than the benefit I derive from it, there's no reason to continue it." I feel like some of the posters here are in that situation with the Sabres. I've watched (in some form) every game this season because I still enjoy watching. If that weren't the case, I wouldn't watch and I don't think anyone would blame me. Why devote something like 240 hours of the year to something that you hate doing (that is supposed to be entertaining)? Sure, some of the jerks might call the folks that disappeared the last two a bandwagon fan but screw them.

Please let this season be over before we have more ridiculous anti-tank ideas. - Move the draft lottery out a year: teams will just "tank" anyways, since they know there will be very good players at the top of every draft. Do you really think that the Sabres would have done something different last year? Or even this year? At best it throws a little variability at the scenario. At worst, a team that suddenly gets good (playoffs, even) from one year to the next still gets a great draft pick at the end of the year. - Loser tourney for seeding. You'd see some hardcore tanking from the bubble teams during the regular season. Realistically there will be a few teams that figure just missing the playoffs this year and having a great shot at McDavid (because they're the best of the non-playoff teams) is a good plan. Essentially, you'll consigning a group of teams to be perennially bad; the reward for having a terrible team is getting to pick 12th-14th where you're getting at best player that will be coin-flip to ever seriously play in the NHL. If you're happy with the concept of having teams that are bad and will always be bad, this a perfect plan. Most sensible people realize this is a recipe for having teams go bankrupt. - The no-trades for futures is an interesting concept, but I'm not sure how if solves these issues. The Sabres could have traded players away for the last couple years not for picks, but guys that have just been drafted and wouldn't be playing in the NHL anyway, so we'd be in exactly the same spot in terms of personnel. Except lots of trades don't happen and more guys end up walking in FA, further hurting bad teams who don't have assets to spare. Suck it up, there are bad teams every year. The Sabres a slightly worse than the average these last two years but I'm sick and tired of hearing the whining about it. This too will pass, and if this is really such a terrible thing in your life, you need to get outside and get some perspective on life's priorities.

Byfuglien didn't mean to fall on him with his stick across the back of his head; he was trying to hold himself up so he didn't fall on top of the Rangers player.

The guy is a failure of an evil genius if he doesn't have some sort of mind control or robot to turn the other key.

Sorry if I missed this, Deveaux, formerly of the Laffs, slashed the crap out of a guy in warmups in the Swede League. I have no idea what he was thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8vLuKmKZ-I

Fixed.

The home-away color system is mandated by the NHL, so there's not much the Sabres can do other than play more games opposite (I'm not sure if there's a limit on the number of games they're allowed to do that). If you like, discuss royal blue vs. the current midnight blue. I don't have strong feelings either way, but I wouldn't mind going back to royal blue. I don't mind the silver either. :)

I'm not a fan either, but I saw a few skits around Christmas time that were a riot.

Speaking of spectacular "flame" outs...

I've heard he's coming for us.

I didn't look at the contract status, so I'm sure you're right. No, wait: Chad Johnson!

The teams that are already in might start resting players, I think that's the theory.

I feel that way about most of Texas. :)