MattPie

It should at least be a shorter song. Or a cover of Bad Religion.

shrader, I feel for you. I have reason to come back to Buffalo reasonably speaking for the rest of my life, but realistically it's only 13 hours of driving round trip, so it's completely worthwhile as a day trip. Maybe less if you can find a good place that does both in Rochester or Syracuse. As for wings, at one point I used to try the wings wherever I was; on travel, when I lived in Maryland, etc. After awhile I realized that I needed to one of two things: accept the wings for what they were or stop eating them. It seems like there's a analogy to this season in there somewhere. When I ended up doing (before I started eating better in general) was start ordering "Hot BBQ". By being BBQ based, my brain no longer jumped back to 25 years of learned behavior on what a wing should be, and instantly they were far more enjoyable.

There have been a few just in the Sabres org, but none that really made a name. Gragnani, Paetsch, John Scott, and Deslauriers just recently. With the style the game is played, I don't see the huge upside. D leading rushes isn't uncommon, so I'm not sure how much it buys you.

I think that sums it up.

It's the twinkie situ all over again.

I await the meddling trial! Ian Rapoport @RapSheet Ralph Wilson called #Bills CEO Russ Brandon four days ago about a safety prospect he believed was a 3rd or 4th rounder. Amazing.

Oh, I have (and Snickers as well), but they still taste plastic.

early 20s: loved Twinkies and ho-hos. late 30s: I'd only eat them if I'd never had a home-made baked good in my life. They taste like plastic (but not as bad as Little Debbie's imposters).

$100 SS bucks so I can get back in on the betting. :)

The Wilson thread is pinned on the top of the page.

It's been said here (I think), but raw goals scored is mediocre rating of a team, since it doesn't account for variations of how many goals are scored in the league on average that year. It would seem that goal diff or Goals For/League Average Goals would be a better stat for measuring this. You can't tell me that a team in 2005-6, when 16 teams averaged 3+ goals a game, and a team in 2013-4, when 6 teams average 3+ goals a game, are equal if they have the same total. Or back into the 70s when (it seems) the scores were a lot higher.

Surely it's "La fumee", non?

I think that logic does apply, but not in the first 5 or so picks. Anywhere else in the draft you pick the best player available. In the top 5 (maybe even just the top 3), you pick what you project that you'll need, since you're never going to get an equivalent player back in trade. This. +1.

For as bad as this season has been, it's worth pointing out that in my cursory glance at the last full seasons, the last place team finished with 57, 56, 71, 61, 62, 62, and 65 points (last year projects to 61.5). With 11 games remaining and at 48 points, the Sabres stand a chance at not being the worst team in the last decade, never mind "WURST TEAM EVAR!". Essentially, every year there's a team that is this bad. This is just our turn to root for that team.

Wow, RIP Ralph.

I think a player that makes other players could be a *key* asset for the Sabres. The question is if he can turn AHL players into NHL players.

Of course not! Cody's game is to make those slick baby-sauce passes (like John Scott). If he's making said saucy passes to AHL talent, he's never going to look good on the stat sheet.

Yeah right. We should keep Ennis and not Hodgson, he's smaller but he's been showing hustle.

Yes and no. I suppose on a normal high-speed network it's OK to have a lot more machines in the same broadcast domain. The Windows chatter is annoying, but shouldn't eat up too much bandwidth. The problems is when you get to development environments where you might need multiple concurrent instances of some piece of software that doesn't behave well when there's another on the same subnet. Or in the case of multicast video, something that'll eat nearly all the available bandwidth and everyone will be stuck seeing the traffic (yeah, multicast should only get to the endpoints that want it, but I've yet to see that work right).

To the first part: agreed. It's a lot easier for ICANN to survive if it's not an arm of the big, bad, US government. The US is already a minority of users, and (somewhat justifiably) some of of those users bristle at the internet being controlled by the US at the base level. It's good to remember that nearly all of the internet runs by agreement and cooperation and keeping up perception is a big part of keeping everything working. As for IPv6, I'm rather annoyed at the careless way the addresses are split up. I realize there's a *ton* of addresses, but it still doesn't make sense that the default way to create a local subnet is to give it 2^64 available addresses (18 quintillion). Each site prefix (organization) can have 65535 networks; that sounds like a lot but if you're a large company or government it's not so far out of the range of possibility. They could have easily balanced that out and had a mere 281 trillion per local subnet but each site could use 2 billion different networks.

Who is saying that? Most of the folks here are saying Reinhart is the only player that has a reasonable shot at playing next year.

Informal poll, choose one: Everyone should ignore his funeral People should picket his funeral WBC should picket his funeral :)

ZOMG! I hope the NHL is going to do something about this blatant tanking!

I usually take the label off before sex, it just chafes.

I'm breaking it down like this: On the surface, the D looks OK based on "vets" that are signed (Myers and Ehrhoff) and the prospect pool (Risto, Zadorov, etc.). Goaltending is a question mark, but none of the 3 GT we've seen play in the last week seem terrible, so hopefully one of those shows themselves as a #1. The team should be picking at least a GT in the later rounds each year since there's more variation in GT in the draft, and 3th-round and later D and F rarely work out. Forwards: Teh Sabres have a bunch of bottom-6, and a set of prospects that we should be able to find 3 to put together a 2nd scoring line. Ideally, the next two drafts will net us 2 1st line forwards (I think this year there's a very good chance that 3 1st round picks in the next two years net 2 1st line players). After that, it's swapping out the guys we have for the guys we need (the right players, not necessarily the best) and hopefully bringing in UFA to fill the last spots where the prospects don't pan out. The UFAs will be the last step (as Tim Murray said); the team needs to get good so UFAs will consider coming to Buffalo. 4 years out, that's when it becomes interesting. (I know I'm not breaking ground here, but please point out the massive holes in this prognostication as I can't see them!)