MattPie

Lord Stanley never won a hockey championship.

Not really. You could look at setting up separation waivers to void the contract, but somehow I don't think Tage would clear, lol. Yeah, no way KA starts paying Tage more out of the goodness of his heart.

FWIW: https://scores.nbcsports.com/fb/tmleaders.asp?type=Receiving&range=NFL&rank=232 Bills are in a 3-way tie for first with 25 drops, there's a 3-way tie for 16-18 at 16 drops, so the Bills average less than one dropped pass more per game than the middle of the pack. Really need a fancystat drops per attempt or something, since you know the Bills are throwing more than some other teams.

I don't think anyone had Skinner for the second major, right? 🙂

I was thinking more along the lines of early-90s Bills and Dolphins, with the Bills playing the part of the Dolphins. Miami lost 3 of 3 playoff meetings to the Bills during that period. I think the difference with the Bills/Pats is Buffalo was never good during that era. The Bills haven't lost to the Pats in the playoffs since 1963, and only played them one other time, last year.

I clicked on the Bills Facebook post with the final score today, and it completely validated why I read zero football-related media outside this thread. However, my entire spectator sports consumption is this board and watching Sabres and Bills highlights on Youtube, so I'm an outlier.

Yep, and it's hard enough to reply to the OP (other than going back and finding the original blocked post) that you're not tempted to engage. I have one user on block; and they have posted in this thread. They might be the only person I have ever blocked, back in the day I wasn't as even-tempered as I am now. Even FIRE LINDY RUFF NOW.

Good to very good teams. I don't think the Sabres today are capable of being a top-10 team in the league with the 1-2 questionable D pairings and goaltenders not named Anderson. Maybe if Comrie comes back and lights it up, but that's a lot of if. UPL isn't going to cut it at this point in his progress, and Anderson can't play 56 straight games to close out the season.

I get what you're saying, they're not out of it. "Get 13-14 points in the next 10", is a good start, because they're going to have to get 13-14 out of the next 10 for the rest of the season. No slips, no "well, they ran into a bunch of good teams and went 4-5-1"; for the rest of the season it's crunch time. I don't think any team can play that way for 6 months with out a drop-off.

Right now it's .652, so close. Still a lot to ask. Doing the math, they need to play at a 107-point season pace to get to 98 points. That seems like a big hill to overcome. Even dropping to a more historically normal 94 points, that's still a 101-point season pace. That's 0.616, so not impossible based on before the losing streak. Suffice it to say, the Sabres losing streak ate up all the losses that bubble teams have and still qualify for the playoffs. They now have to be a good to very good team for the rest of the season to realistically have a shot. I don't think Anderson/Comrie/UPL get it done, unfortunately. I think Anderson is the only one that has shown that level so far but there's no way he can play the rest of the season and not break down again.

Stick tap to LGR and fancystats on this call. They nailed it.

Not related to today, but this house is awesome except it doesn't have an outside faucet for a hose. There's one in the utility closet in the garage where the well is, but I had to rig up a couple hoses with quick disconnects to run out through the garage. But, I can't leave it with doors open all the time. It's a minor hassle in the grad scheme of things, but if I owned this place I'd be drilling a hole through the utility closet exterior wall the day after I took possession.

Paging KA, available goaltender alert!

Or the KHL.

That will happen as soon as the Sabres GT situation resolves, just like Eichel has been TNT'd.

Oh, absolutely. The AHL is frankly for young single dudes that don't have responsibility. Plus the pay in the other leagues is a bunch higher than the AHL.

Meh, looks OK, but apparently didn't understand her husband's job. Or to be honest, other jobs too. Once upon a time, I was told, "I don't have any work for you. There's a position in Maryland or you can stay and hope you don't get caught up in the next round of layoffs." There was a round just before I got off the project I was working; I took the job in Maryland. Binghamton wasn't a thriving job market and I was single with zero attachments to the area.

No, this is still HORRIBLE! The Sabres are so awful the guy would rather live on the streets trading wrist shots for old bread before staying in the organEYEzation.

MORE WIND!

Alternatively, Sheahan refuses to report and the Sabres suspend him, leaving him in limbo without pay or the ability to find playing time elsewhere. Player eyebrows around the league raise.

I'm curious if that bump after 37 on offense is that all the average players retire leaving only the aging stars who were beating the curve all along.

I mean, this guy slipped, fell, and caught his beer; don't be a quitter. 🙂

I can't image there have been too many times a team has played as the home and away team in consecutive weeks on the same field. I suppose the Jets/Giants have the best bet, I think they're still the only team that shares a field. Oh, and for the 6-4 stuff? that's 0.600 points pace, which works out to 10-7 for the season. Every 10-win+ team was in the playoffs last year, and there was a team with 9 wins that made it from each conference too. Hopefully we can agree that 0.600 is a pretty safe playoff pace in NHL or NFL.

I was just in Detroit a few weeks ago for a convention (KubeCon/CloudNativeCon), it was pretty cool although I didn't really get out of the downtown/convention center area. Kinda like a bigger Buffalo, with a mix of those classic early 1900s office buildings but several more modern buildings. There was a Red Wings game the one night (which I didn't go to). I'm sure it'd be awesome being there on a game day with the Lions and Tigers (but not the Bears) downtown. A downtown dome in Buffalo would have been awesome. Maybe I'll be around in 40 years when they have to replace this new one with a $20B new one to see it downtown.

Maybe church is a euphemism for Canada for a few pops.