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Miller in tonight and most likely tomorrow vs Montreal. Miller has a career 22-8-0 record, .930 save percentage and 2.23 GAA vs.the Lafffs. Roy also in. Rivet and Butler out.

Thanksgiving skates, ocular migraines aside. There's a game tonight. A winnable game. 7:30PM.

I have to put that on a loop on the bedroom TV brb.

Harrington is guessing that Enroth is starting. He's taking all the shots at one end of the rink, while LaLime and Miller trading off at the other end. (wow that sounds bad especially after Connolly's reach around gaff)

Hockey's back. 7:00PM We seem to do pretty well against the big guys like OV. Let's see about Sid and Malkin. Pretty different lineup tonight with all the injuries.

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A guy close enough to DR's office to believe him. And a guy close enough to DR's office that I don't want to stop the info flowing by calling him anything other than "a guy close enough to DR's office". His name is Gcedo.

You didn't see Ennis give the puck away for the Kings goal?

While I wasn't in my usual spot (it's a lot louder there) I felt the fans were into this game, although not the loudest I've heard. It's correct, the jumbotron crap takes some momentum away from the chearing at times. My beef is the people that left after the whistle @ 4:50 to go. It's 3-2 and you just might see the best 5 minutes of hockey for the night and you leave? granted it did seem a lot of kids were there, so there's your grain of salt. Connolly = Satan fixed. And FWIW, talking with some Sabres guys last night, they said DR's trying to trade him but there are no takers with his contract. They need a sweetener and DR doesn't was to add the sugar.

Up in the suites 4 this one. Seeing Harry Potter first with my niece. Which one will be better?

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Hello Thursday.

I don't see a big diff between us and others here. Some teams like Chicago got lucky to hit it big in the draft and didn't have to pay the big money till now, and now that team is gone. It's a mix of spending a crapload on big talent at the right time. Like this year or next, before you have to pay Myers and after you drop UFA's this year. IMHO. If I would say what DR's problem is it's holding onto everyone when only a few should stay. It's made the team deep in talent but not deep on the ice talent.

Maybe a Marleau type, but not the Marleau. He wanted to stay in SJ pretty bad. IIRC I posted some stuff in the Free agent frenzy thread about it.

Coming off years where he had 70-80 points, It's prolly right on. And who's to say they weren't competing with other teams at that point. He'll come around, no worries. His salary isn't in the way of anything right now so my panties aren't in a bunch (prolly cause I'm not wearing any).

You should use the one I took while in PA.

Fair comparisons? NOT. St Louis getting a new contract next year for 5.625 Alfredsson's contract is a joke. two 7 million years then 4.5 then 1? U can't compare that cap hit to the salary Perry's contract hit is the same as Pommers so WTF. Selanne's a 40 year old man just wanting one more year Hossa contract is another joke. he's got 7.9 million unitl 15-16, now that's real close to 5.3

Pommers led the team in playoff points last year, tied with Ennis. Other guys 'disappeared' a lot more than him. Nfreeman, you want him to do 25 goals in 82 games right? or score in 30% of the time right? And continue into the playoffs, right? Last year playoffs he scored 2 goals in six games. I'm sure you can divide 2 by 6.

I <3 this from Roy today: "I want to be an elite player in this league," Roy said. "I don't want to cruise through my career and just get 60, 70 points or whatever. I think that's a part of being a human being and growing up. Whatever you do in life, you want to be skilled at it. You want to be the best. I'm trying to approach it that way every day." He gets it eh? finally?

Vanek: 2 assists, plus +3, 19:35 of ice time, 7 shots, 4 takeaways, 2 blocked shots. sigh.

Franchise record. Dear Lindy, Please don't take TV off RW.

Last ten games: Vancouver 8-1-1; Buffalo 4-4-2 Rare we see a Monday game. Let's keep this point streak going!

Another trip down to the arena tonight 4 me. My guess is the fans are going to be better for this one. After getting 5 of 6 points on the 'road trip' the Sabres win at home, finally. The Sabres are 6-4-0 in Buffalo in their last 10 games vs. Caps. 1-1-0 at home last season. There is no reason the Sabres can't beat them tonight. NONE! NOW LET'S PLAY SOME HOCKEY !!! ps. after tonight's festivities I may not post until at least 3pm tomorrow. :beer:

Nope, the round mound of rebounds starting.