MattPie

So, has anyone been watching Toronto that can give some details on which manner they lost 8 in a row to fall out of the playoffs? Is it injuries or are they playing like every early-season Sabres team?

Bold: why would any prospective QB be short term in that situation, unless they were planning on drafting a new QB high in the draft? :) Second statement: on that, I completely agree. The same could probably be said for Luck if the Bills had the gumption to do what the Colts (or any of the other recent teams that drafted an early QB) did.

So far this season (from what I've heard here), Armia has done very little to play his way onto that list. Maybe he's just adjusting, maybe he never will. Those guys minus Compher have already shown positives in the NHL.

Any of the Bills' revolving door of QBs (I can't be bothered to see which would have been recently cut in the summer of 2012) could have led them to 6-10. Unless you're saying the 10-6 2011 Colts were worse than the Bills in most postions other than QB.

Man, the long 2nd period change in that rink is *tough*.

The Pens were in year 1 of their planned tank, picking a good center may have pushed them out of the last spot for the next year. They had to be bad to get Crosby! :devil:

Complete and utter nonsense sources report that all that's left is for Battista to approve the contract. :devil:

Seems like a pretty reasonable conversation, really. Few are freaking out.

Yeah, I'm kinda with you. That line is just so iconic though, I'm good with it. PLF, maybe, Gare, eh.

FWIW, I've never heard a bad word said about the ND medical school.

So being the worst team still has the same chance of getting the #1 overall? I'm having a tough time figuring out why this would stop teams from trying to be bad in order to get the first pick.

What a cheap and dirty hit. He should have hit the guy like a man. -ML

Wasn't it reported somewhere that the Isles have to decide by June 1st? And, aren't trades closed until some number fo days after the final playoff game?

Is Weber 6'4"? think he's played some LW?

You just got trolled! :)

Spinning down the "Sick Jersey Bro" alert. :(

I always figured ND in Buffalo was about the college football vacuum; much like the how the Cowboys are the team for anyone that doesn't have a local NFL team ND is big in Buffalo because there's nothing closer than Syracuse to root for. I never thought of the Irish angle before.

If, and it's a big if, there's any real traction to the league being upset about "tanking", this would be a red flag. And that's before we get into issues with roster size and whether some of these guys have NHL contracts.

Maybe we can get, d4ark to do it. (Didn't he do those awesome voice over videos a couple years ago?)

That's probably a bit strong, as well as fueling the case that the Sabres are tanking (although at this point it's moot). If he's healthy, he should play. The whole team has a nice long off-season to heal.

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.