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Cool. Doesn't really change my point, though. My eye tells me that often, those other defenders make the controlled exit only after Risto makes the physical play to separate the puck from the opposing player. I'm not disagreeing that he is not the greatest with the puck, but I like the fact that he often gets the puck. Oh, and I also love his yearly pasting of Ovechkin.

I’m going to need numbers compared to others. Just because you keep saying this, doesn’t make it true. And if we had forwards with size and skill who were able to collect the puck on the half wall it wouldn’t even be an issue anyway. The problems with the Sabres this decade has never been the D.

On another note, what the hell has happened to Jake McCabe lately. He looks like a hot mess. It seems like he needs the familiarity of the same partner to play well. He isn’t taking to the rotating partners very well.

I find it kinda funny how much you just don’t give Risto any credit for what he does well. Countless times a game, he is banging someone on the boards, gets the puck and either slides it to his partner behind the net or a forward takes it, because he has his man tied up, and they get credit for the ever so precious zone exit (do zone exits and entries even correlate to winning?). It’s why his numbers look so good when paired with a puck mover like Pilut (and why Pilut looks so good with a more physical guy like Risto.) Every player can be frustrating to watch as no one plays a perfect shift, ever. If you are only paying attention once he has the puck, yes, Risto is not the greatest passer, and he can be frustrating to watch at times, but he totally has a skill set that has value.

Electricity costs money.

You know when you've seen a mofro. If you only think you've seen one, you haven't.

I work with a guy who has one of these. It’s pretty badass. That’s actually a great idea for Jack.

That’s really cool.

I like this post.

I think you're cracked. He is looking right at him when he hits him.

I get it. I'm pretty well versed in clinical depression, unfortunately. I think I'll leave this thread for good.

There was a radio interview shortly after he was waived with a St Louis station that just left a bad taste in my mouth. I didn’t get the feeling of any “mental illness” or any depression. I just got the feeling of a butthurt athlete who some GM got the better of. I’ll stop cuz I probably just sound like a dick. As a human, I wish him nothing but the best, truly. As a Sabres fan,... he can suck it.?

But,... he didn't. On another note, I love Google Translate.

Are you on a VPN that thinks you are in Canada? I can see the away feed in NJ. EDIT: actually, that shouldn't matter now that it's three days ago.

It’s 48 hours after the national broadcast, so you can probably watch the Buffalo MSG feed now on NHL.TV.

He knew he screwed up on that. Sheary couldn't have been more open.

The thread is only nine days old. Maybe it just seems like weeks.

Now I want a Founders Breakfast Stout.

It would come from us.

I liked winter NFL games better when they didn’t superimpose the hash marks and numbers. Maybe I’m old.

Lots of words wasted on a quitter. He can suck it.

He actually said it “would have been” (I’m no body language expert, but it’s the only time in the video he crosses his arms and squirms a bit.) Almost like there was no list (well, we know that there wasn’t?), and he can say whatever he wants to now to justify his actions. I do agree, though, that it wasn’t a purely Because Buffalo thing. It doesn’t make me like him any more, knowing that a) he said we would even be on the list and b) the scene here wasn’t enough to change his mind.

For all we know, Buffalo may not even have been on his list, and it’s just a convenient excuse for him to use after the fact.

I might agree with this if they were still losing. At the time he left, they were at the top of the NHL standings. He loved what he had in St. Louis and someone pulled the rug out from underneath him. It’s perfect that St. Louis won it all last year. It would be even more perfect if the Sabres won it all this year. Yes I’m bitter. He can suck it.

Nothing he says changes my long standing opinion.