MattPie

And that 716 store to start making t-shirts.

You're playing into the anti-tank crowds hands with talk like that. It's "a loss is a win, and a win is a "hey, the Sabres won a game! Woo!"". That's the appropriate attitude for this season. All contrary thoughts will be dealt with accordingly.

Last year, yeah. This year he seems to be playing better. Certainly better than Balls and Mezzer.

Joke alert: not the American populace, just his listeners. Hey-oo. But to the point: the government shouldn't shut him. But the idiocy that comes out of his mouth makes the reasonable, intelligent conservatives look dumb by association. Just like the really annoying liberals get trotted out by the conservative press with "See! They're all like that!"

Thought: that may have more to do with more ladies coming to the games. I'd think back in the Aud days, the crowd was a lot more male and the moms stayed home. As a second thought (two in one day, I'm on a roll!) it may also be the attitude that moms get to still have a life that's a lot more prevalent these days. Both of these things are good. Other than the noise, baby hearing is sensitive.

#BecauseObama

How are you sure the commonly-used pistol pronunciation is correct? This is submitted from Russia: http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/Makarov (turned up in a link, there's also a Gun-forum post discussing the same thing)

In Philly, they just show real footage of beating up opposing fans.

If that were true and not scuttlebutt (do people still use that term?), why didn't Fox News have it on 24-hour rotation for weeks straight? Or a press conference from the White House (assuming the time frame was before 2009)? "See, look! We were right!"

You could argue that he's a beer snob, just with different preferences. :)

If I remember right, the London needs to either trade one of the other imports and bring Zadorov back, trade Zadorov, or wave his rights. Only the last item lets him play in the AHL that I know of, but the trade/refuse to report scenario is interesting.

But those two players have scored two goals , EACH!

Probably. Upgraded to "No doubt" if the "no tank talk" guideline takes hold. This terrible team is coming at a good time for me. I really don't have the hours to sit and watch whole hockey games right now, but with this team I just put the game on and monitor the situation. Works out perfectly.

It is when Buffalo plays in NC!

I think the end of trading for draft picks is close unless that's the only offer for a player. If/when those folks (and I don't think Myers is on that list) are moved, we'll see more trades for players like Carrier or Deslauriers that are in Juniors or the AHL and look ready to move up. Good teams (the kind that might want a good-playing Stafford or Stewart) are looking at deep play-off runs*, which means they should have players that are ready for the NHL but can't break in because the team is good on talent already. * We don't need to get into whether Stafford or Stewart will be helpful to a run. :)

That's fine, the Flyers don't see the Sabres as rivals either.

Pulled from the archives. :)

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

I'll play this one straight: Canadian Thanksgiving. Kinda curious that they'd put two American teams in it though, although maybe they're believing the line that southern Ontario bleeds Blue and Gold.

No one really knows that Girgensons is going to turn out to be. His stats from last year: 70 8 14 22 -6 14 0 1 1 115 7.0 70 games, 8 goals, 14 assists. Even if you accept the "bad team" factor and *double* those numbers, that's 16-18 goals if he plays all year (by that logic, Hodgson will have 90 points on that good team, so take it with a grain of salt). I like Z/Gus, but he's not the savior of the team's scoring woes. If you filled the top 9 with guys like him, the team would score (using that questionable 16-18 goals number) 162 goals from those guys, and maybe 40 more from the D and 4th liners (2ea from the F, 6 each (!) for the D), you end up 28th goals for the season.

Where are the charts?

They've been sitting on the tech for years, they were afraid to put it in to practice and jeopardize Jeter's HOF chances. :)

SisterPie comes up big with the outfit for RosePie last night: She's gonna have to hit the weights to fill that out by April though. (last baby picture, promise)

I don't see that anyone has to be positive for the losses. "Eh, one more game until the draft down" is all you need and then move on to the rest of your life. If you want to get fancy, "Myers had a couple nice rushes and wasn't terrible in his own end", "It's nice to see Weber stick up for Samson, even if it was a clean hit", "Good god, Zemgus, keep doing that". See? Not so hard. I'll settle for the best product averaged over a decade, thanks. Finishing 30 30 18 14 3 7 6 2 1 5 1 looks a better to me than 20 15 10 19 12 8 18 11 15 7. Even if the tank doesn't bring a cup, I think the numbers will look more like the former (substituting 2..6 for the 1s) than the latter. (And no, I didn't actually average those to see if they fit my point) It's more nostalgic than refreshing to anyone that was around in the late 90s watching.

+10.