MattPie

I know plenty of kids of non-celebrities that have goofy names too. It's just a thing some people do. If you're going to restaurants where (and when) parents are comfortable bringing their kids, you're doing "being young" wrong. :) I know I guy named North, it's a great name. He comes by it honestly though, with a very common Swedish last name.

Paetsch used to play Wing and D. I remember reading after he was gone that the coach asked him, "Hey,. can you play wing? I don't have a place for D but I need a winger." to which Paetsch said, "Sure coach!". He hadn't played wing since midget or something. Guys will say anything to get ice time. Found it. http://www.oleantimesherald.com/sports/article_d168f3b5-66c5-5f8a-9efa-8b66020b3eed.html

There's some OK areas (the western part that isn't befouled by NYC), but yeah large swaths are pretty useless.

The main problem with O'Reilly is he shoots left, which as I understand it means he'd fit better on the LW. We have a lot of LW but very few RW.

94-99, so probably. I don't think the football team won more than a handful of games in that time though. Huh, they were apparently good in 96, 8-3.

I attended for 5 years and two bachelors' degrees, but I still feel guilty as I didn't attend a single sporting event while I was there.

Oh, duh: Makarov is hotter than a two-dollar pistol!

He doesn't seem like 1st line though, is he? I'm with the other posters, he'd be nice if at the end of next year we weren't having a contract fight looking for Toews money for 2nd (or 3rd!) line performance.

Pass to Varone, in all alone, Scores! and the shutout is blown!

He's aware of what's going on, so it's like the Ligenberg Uncertainty Principle. You can't observe the phenomenon without affecting it. Actually, that's not entirely right (the LUP is that we can't know Liger's postiion and velocity at the same time) but I can't not use that name because it's cracking me up.

- McCabe McClocked him!

Maybe no one has invaded because you gave them directions and they got lost. :) https://goo.gl/maps/sRTz1

The Great Boob-tini

He played 9 earlier this season. I'm not sure if that counts for the AHL or not though.

Nice. In Pierre mode if Foligno played goal, "DRRRIIIIIIIVEEEE! and Foligno says NO!" has a nice rhythm to it.

There's always a CHL. And for the most part, there's usually a team that's nearly as bad as Buffalo is this year. The Sabres haven't really been in it since the early 2000s, though save for the last two seasons.

Harry Pooter and the Sorcerer's Bone.

My gut says it's far enough away from UB that it won't be mobbed. Unless students have started to use the light rail to get places.

Well, they might have a few tips on what not to do during winter campaigns. :)

Don't let anyone here fool you, 4 ft of snow in 2 days almost anywhere in WNY is a big deal. Maybe not a state of emergency, but enough that people will be altering plans and travel. I know what it's like when people around here get snow, so I feel for you. Oh, that sucks. Nothing like breaking something on an "easy" job. My complaint: I don't do a ton of work on my cars, but I do the easy stuff like brakes. Somehow, despite seeing those two threaded holes in the rotors for the last 5-6 times I've done them, it never dawned on me that I could use those to pop the rotor off the hub when it's rusted on. I always figured they were for some puller tool that I didn't have, but find the right bolt and turn it in until the rotor pops off the hub. I've spent way too much time trying to pop rotors off. Last night it took me from 9:30 to 11 to do the left side, and only 45 minutes to do the other side and test drive the car. On the bright side, your beer doesn't get warm when you're working in the dark in your driveway and it's 38 out. :)

That seems unlikely, as more than half the people I know haven't gotten the flu. I might be reading that statistic wrong though. :)

Pittsburgh's lack of cups probably has more to do with Fluery than anything else.

La-La-La-La-La Fontaine is a great call, but I feel like there are some good calls for players lurking if the team is good again. - Weber really put the mustard on that one! (if Weber scored more goals) - Larsson just commited Larceny! (if Larsson played goal) - Benny put on the jets and blew by Chara! (yeah, I know, but there needs more non-tank content here)

You might want to chat with Hitler and Napoleon first.

This. The only equivalent to winning the cup is losing it, probably in a Game 7 OT situation (in Leafs-like implosion style). So close, so much emotion invested, just to have it taken away in an instant. Anything further out, like a game 6 loss or the ECF finals loss is close but no cigar. Not really. 15 games out you have the ability to initially hope that the team can pull together. They might even do it in the first few games. By time it's clear that the team isn't making the playoffs you can be totally numb to the situation and chalk it up to an injury and hope for next year. Maybe it's this parenthood thing that I've recently been thrust into (and am just starting to understand), but this season feels like watching your kid struggle with something. You (well, GMTM in the Sabres' case) could probably make it easier for them, but you hope that the struggle will make them a better person in the long run.