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Nice jinx, PTR!

After shanking several shots, Kyle put a deep fried turduken past Halak.

LOQUACIOUS triple word score. Surprising indeed.

Just with Buffalo coming on, here's the high stick on Buffalo. Funny how that works.

Not to go all PTR here, but it would be nice if the Sabres' D would stop trying to kill Hutton.

"A relatively weak shot from Staal."

On Thanksgiving, a wounded duck!

HA! OK

All dogs, and all Sabres fans watching this, go to heaven.

You can't teach that.

This is ugly.

Okposo fairways hit: 0

They always show the goalie after he gives up a goal. I'd like to see him after his team scores.

lol

This is tantalizing. May it be. I tend to believe it's the opposite. Terry has described himself as a football guy. "People think of me as a hockey guy. There just happened to be a hockey team for sale." Pretty close paraphrase. Terry was and maybe still is a power player in PSU football. He lobbied at Pitt for one of the Nittany Lion assistants to get the head coaching job there. He says he's scouted high school players. He could be a little more hands on with the Bills than people know, and it might not be hurting them. Was he all in on Josh Allen? Good call. Hockey? Meh. Not so much. He's a casual fan who, in my opinion, gave up on the Sabres a long time ago, probably when the business moved closer to Pittsburgh and he gave up season tickets. Not knowing the Sabres were in bankruptcy and for sale in 2002 is the smoking gun. With the Sabres, he's been playing fantasy owner and swinging his balls around like he knows what he's doing. His level of involvement represents less care and passion for the team, and not the opposite. Why did he buy them? The most logical answer is that it was prelude to getting the Bills.

This is played out and no longer pleasant message board conversation.

Careful now. And have we also arrived at the answer for why hockey analytics is rubbish?

That's a good one. It's on the micro side though.

It's not a new era. It's the same old hat, different size. There's still hope for a new era this year, but a couple of distinct things will have to happen to make it so.

One of the things I'll remember about Ralph is how he admitted he had no idea how to fix the 5 on 5 problem. I hate those puzzles. Me dumb.

I'll bite. What line? Do you complain when post after post, year after year, is pro-Pegula? @SwampD I apologize. I finally see the biased officiating.

"We have to start to improve. Of course, it's a results business." —Kevyn Adams He said it all. He voiced it. Of course, once he voiced it and realized he voiced it, he had to add, "Of course..." We start with improvement! We develop young players. We build, slowly, toward dynasty. We evaluate. We (insert PSE corporate speak verb). The message from Adams, and tomorrow from Granato, should have been, "We start to win. Tomorrow. At all costs. That's how everyone will be evaluated every day. This is a winning business." Nothing changes until this changes. I mean, it's up there with the Pegulas sailing back to Boca.

I don't care about other owners. I've always said if other owners are behaving like Terry, we could have a huge strategic advantage if our owners were different. You continue to twist, distort, shuck and jive. And — I will continue to post my anti-Pegula comments until these lovely, smart, successful people either sell the team or get it right. Ad nauseum is their punishment for nauseating me and almost everyone else. Except for one "owner-sniffer" who shall remain nameless.

After Terry fell in love with RaKru, I'm sure Botterill felt no pressure to hire the man.

Don't tease me like that you little devil.