MattPie

So, not really a Sabres fan then. :) It's cool man, gotta do what feels best, but "we" is reserved for the Bills and Sabres around here (even if I don't use it). Gotta know your audience. At this point, I'd consider giving up on the Sabres too but I will NOT root for my local team. Maybe I can engineer a move to Seattle in time for the NHL to show up there. :)

If Jack keeps this pace up, he'll have like 250 goals at the end of the season, right?

M-x old-mode Just you wait, up until a few years ago I'd drink an entire pot of tea after 8PM so I could stay up and manage Rose/get some work done. Now if I do that, I'll sleep like crap and feel terrible the next day.

IIRC, the 2004 Redsox were all chummy. On the flip side, Bickering Bills. While the Bickering Bills didn't win is all, they were pretty successful.

FWIW, this logic means that as an NHL fan you cannot be disappointed in any season that doesn't result in making the conference finals. 87% of teams don't make the finals, yet people are visibly upset if they lose in the second round.

I think Bill Hoppe is saavy enough to put out something like this as a hit piece but have it not look that way. Compare and contrast to the B-News guys who'd be hysterically whining about millennials and work and woe are the yutes of today. This seems way more effective based on the replies here. Don't tell people how to feel, present the facts in such a way that the reader feels it naturally.

I'm posting this again since it's such a great version of the song:

Cedric (naturally), Garth Brooks, Wayne Newton, and Scott Joplin.

Many thanks!

I've seen 'stat' thrown around in regards to Canadian holidays. What's the etymology of "stat" in this context? Static Holiday (as in the same day each year)?

I get it, although it's a pretty thick accent. If someone speaking English as a second language said, "ten-cue" to me, I'd understand what they said.

Seriously, that's harder to type than Thanks on a screen keyboard. Or "Tanks", as I kinda picked up the last couple years.

If anything, I wish stats like this would discourage the people that say things like "Sit the entire Sabres and let the Amerks play in their place". There's a world of difference between the AHL and NHL, even taking MM's (likely) motivation to play out of his mind and prove something into account.

That thing where Elmo repeats the word of the day over and over to the tune of Jingle Bells in every episode. :death: Seriously, I was in my late teens when Elmo came around. I knew Elmo was hated, but it hasn't been until RosePie has started watching SS regularly that I realized how vapid and ridiculous it is, and how anyone making the show would devote like 20 minutes of each hour to it is beyond me.

I'm not sure I can get used to the scoreboard being over center ice in the Islanders barn.

Considering how much time the Sabres have played with an Empty net, they're doing pretty well. Figure two minutes for every loss, that's like 40 minutes of EN play, and before last night only 6 goals against.

I see we're talking quasi-legally now. :) I have NHL.tv, but I use my sister's account to watch NBC Sports. I should really investigate MSG GO too if it doesn't get blocked in local markets so I can catch Philly games.

I don't have much issue with those lines. Sam needs something; he does seem to be playing more physical, that can only be good to have two somewhat physical players with Eichel.

In the Amazon series "The Man in the High Castle", Joe Blake gets out of a car labelled "Eichel Taxi" while in Berlin.

Unfortunately, when using Hammymath 2 and 2 end up being a seeming vendetta against some players.

They didn't look bad. Pressure at times, decent number of shots, but they made a backup look like a star as usual.

They went several games with the EN and not allowing a goal, they were terrible tonight but they've looked the rest of the season.

Geez, Lehner, head in the game. On the bright side, I've seen two times Lehner played the puck tonight that didn't immediately end up on an opponent's stick. Lehner needs a good coach. In the last minute of the first, he came back to cover the near post with his skate and stick and just stopped, leaving a good square foot of hole under his arm. That just can't happen too often or the puck is going in.

Got the bottoms covered: https://zubaz.com/estore/bottoms/department/pants/royal-blue-gold-zebra-pant

First: yes, me to. It was Ekblad, and they something of a toss-up for the Sams and Draisaitl, with the latter almost never included in the conversation of the #2 pick. Hindsight and all.