MattPie

You say that like every single fan in the entire place is rooting against the Sabres. I heard cheers for the Buffalo goals too, did you not? I'm guessing it's 20% actively cheering AZ and 80% sitting quietly on goals. On the Sabres goals, probably 50% cheering. The 30% that aren't cheering either way are like me: conflicted about cheering for either outcome. Next year, if you finish last, you're only slightly better than a coin-flip to pick in the top 3. 40% chance that you're picking 4th. That's pretty F'N drastic already.

I thought that was part of the Reebok jerseys, of which Buffalo was one of, if not the, first unveiled. I think they all were going to look like that until the reception was so bad they canceled a bunch of the planned redesigns.

According to my orders, after this season we start bickering over Ted Nolan, whether he's behind the bench next year or not. It would depend on how many beers I had and how dark of a mood I was in. I was watching one of the Flyers games in a bar this year and when $FLYER broke in short-handed on Buffalo I was yelling for the shortie. Not because I wanted Buffalo to lose, not for McEichel, but because that's what happens to Buffalo teams and I wanted to get out in front of it. They lose in ways they shouldn't. I "called" the Music City Miracle. I had friends over at my house and they (not being long-time Bills fans) were cheering and yelling, all I said was, "They're going to run the kickoff back." They looked at me like I was crazy, and then in awe when I was right. I didn't cheer or anything; I just drank some more beer. It's how it goes.

I can't not laugh when I see that.

That's my take on it. I haven't done much looking though, I'm not sure the Sabres would truly want both of those players, but I suppose you could flip one of the two to another team for a different style of player.

Awhile back, I put forth the idea of EDM (when it looked like they might end up 29th) wanted to trade up could package Eberle and Hall + #2 for #1. Probably more (EDM 2016 1st, etc.). While I don't know I'd do it, it'd have to be considered. McDavid will be very good, but in the last 9 seasons, 8 guys not named Crosby lifted the cup as their team's #1 center. Insanely great vs. Great plus filling out the rest of the first line.

I think it's you, to be honest. It didn't seem any different than the cheer that any other player gets when he's down on the ice for awhile and gets up.

I can't stop watching Borgia. Luckily I'm almost done at which point I'll start doing something useful with my time.

I cracked this open earlier without looking at it. A friend left it here last weekend and I hadn't taken a close look until now.

Didn't mean it to sound that way!

Someone posted a twitter / Buffalo News item about it here.

By Milbury or Khrushchev?

Not quite. If you order the Eichel and wait 15 minutes, you get it. If after 2 minutes you start banging your hand on the bar yelling for your drink now, you get a Marner.

I moved that around to be more correct.

The article mentions a salary cap of $270000 per team, so that averages $15k per player. The best players could probably make a go of it as a full-time gig ($35k?), but that means others are going to be working for beer money.

Let's try to keep them out of the realm of fantasy, There's no way Cy Hgsn is on the ice in the 3rd; he gets his 7 minutes in the first two periods.

They try to drop, but then always land on their feet.

Besides the NHL isn't "sending" anyone anywhere, Pittsburgh was in pretty dire straights before Crosby showed up. I think they were the perennial "where are they going to move?" candidates.

I assume they're going to tie a lion in there with the black-gold color scheme. Those are scratches.

Ah, that makes way more sense.

I was thinking there'd have to be contracts and whatnot signed pre-draft, but man would it suck to give up a great job for nothing because you had to go play. As a side note there, I wonder how they'll deal with walk-ons. As a player, I might not declare for the draft, finish up college, and then try to walk-on to a team based on where I have a job or even plan it out that way (I want to play in Buffalo, so I'll walk-on when I get a job there). Actually, why doesn't that work for the CHL/NHL? Is declaring yourself eligible for the NHL draft part of the CHL contract for players?

The one thing I wonder about is the draft of Juniors. It works in the CHL/NHL since there's enough money to make it worthwhile for the players, but I'd be hard-pressed to move to another city for what (in their own words) is a part-time job. What if you have a job offer in Boston for your field but Buffalo drafts you? Does the team get compensated somehow if you won't play?

Witnesses report Boyton said, "Ah-yoooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuu [chomp] yip yip yip."

So what you're saying is you wish the media would not be a negative towards white males? That sounds like you're hankering for some Political Correctness. :) Complaint: "We're moving your VMs to a new internal cloud and shutting down our cloud; you won't see any difference other than the web interface to manage VMs" has been misinterpreted as "we're shutting down [my team] entirely and your servers are going to disappear" and customers are out buying hardware because they think we're leaving them high and dry.

I think you're overstating things, but I generally agree. It'll put the Sabres into contender but the Pitts show that they might only get one cup. :)