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It's a BRO!

I just felt it move. GO SABRES!!!

I know Robben isn't the most popular player given his theatrics, but in all the games I've watched, I haven't seen anyone pressure the defensive zone consistently like he does. Seems to constantly be in attack mode and always seems to make the defender expend a lot of energy. Now I know jack about "futbol", but to my untrained eye, he's been the best player in the tourney. And I agree entirely with the idea of sudden death vs. penalty kicks. Let the game decide the outcome, not a skills competition. BTW, saw a 'Sports Science' feature about goalies and penalty kicks. Seems that is actually harder than hitting major league pitching and is the new hardest thing to do in sports. And get rid of the offside rule.

Gee, what a shame. GO SABRES!!!

Opportunity value trumps opportunity cost. Every time. GO SABRES!!!

nfreeman is an outstanding choice, Scott. Pretty even-keeled and level-headed. Thanks to the outgoing mods for their contributions over the years. This can be a difficult place to referee at times. Well done, gents. GO SABRES!!!

Complete culture change. Exactly what the doctor ordered. GO SABRES!!!

Give it to Girgensons. He's the player on this team that best embodies those traits and he's just gonna be named C eventually because of what he brings EVERY GAME. No reason they can't jump start the process, especially with this team. There's young and then there's too young. He's young but his work ethic is that of a seasoned vet. That's who you want your other young players to emulate. Stafford is big, can skate and shoot, and be nasty when he wants to be. Wants to be being the operative phrase. That is the antithesis of captain material. A captain simply can't be someone so prone to going long stretches of going through the motions. If his heart always matched his talent, he'd be a perennial All Star and a great captain. But I don't want our younger players exposed to his off and on performance, let alone be led by it. GO SABRES!!!

Legal precedent in this country says otherwise. From the McNamara brothers, to McVeigh, to Rahman to Yousef, and others before them, the US has tried terrorists in criminal courts.

If for no other reason than to reassure himself he made the right hiring decision in the first place. Conversely, I'm communicating with my owner to assure him of the exact same thing. The whole idea of an owner of a pro sports franchise not being involved with his business is short-sighted. GO SABRES!!!

Terrorists have been treated like criminals and prosecuted numerous times in the past. That's never been a question. The issue certainly got muddled when our military captured so many enemy combatants on the field of battle, though. It really was a gray area: too many to prosecute in the courts and no official enemy designation to afford them POW status.

While I agree with your general principle here, like eleven alludes, we were honor-bound to invade Afghanistan after demanding the Taliban give up Bin Laden and they refused. We owed that to the victims of 9/11. I was insulted when that simian look-alike bastard said that Bin Laden was no longer worth going after. But I digress. Iraq on the other hand was, is, and will always be a bullschit war drummed up to satisfy a decades old neo-con ideology. I'll leave it to board members to research Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. when they were young turks in Washington. Talk about making zero difference. Not only that, but they got rid of their biggest check and balance to the rest of the region. He was a despicable human being, but he was contained and served a purpose. We can beat the "blame Obama" drum all we want, but Iraq is in the mess it's in for one reason only. And it was COMPLETELY unnecessary.

Hands down, the most beautiful Stanley Cup pic I've ever seen. Outstanding! GO SABRES!!!

Only 62%? That hurts, man. GO SABRES!!!

I'll have to wait for GoDD's physical breakdown of Ekblad before commenting. Ghost checks their teeth and everything. GO SABRES!!!

Given your educational background and insight, I'd be interested in your opinion on the prison-industrial complex. I think it's every bit as insidious as the military-industrial complex, even worse in fact. I LOVE eating bacon with my neighbors!

How are you going to go about dissolving your political bands with a federal government you seemingly detest and have little respect for?

LOL! I'm hoping it could be more like a 'All in the Family' evolving into 'The Jeffersons.'

I loved those patches.

All but destroyed? I'm saddened that you feel that way. Cultures and societies evolve or they die. IMO, that was the true genius of the founders, that they actually accounted for this phenomenon. Like Jefferson said, laws and governments are like a coat that needs to be let out or taken in, depending. For as long as I can remember, people have been forecasting with great gloom and doom, the demise of our "culture", whatever that is. America's strength is its diversity of cultures and the great melding that has occurred among them. Like forged steel. Seems there's always a nostalgic longing for the "good old days." Well, they never really existed. It's a psychological phenomenon that has us longing for times when things were less complicated in our youth and we weren't faced with the challenges of the hard decisions all generations have had to make.

This is your exact quote. You'll have to excuse me if I thought you were implying that the Federal government was responsible for calling in the Ohio State National Guard at Kent State. Most reasonable people could conclude that's what you were saying. I'm quite familiar with military hierarchy and it's relevance to the National Guard. But thanks anyway.

The involvement of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State had nothing to do with the Federal government. It was a call made by the governor at the behest of the mayor who had declared a state of emergency. Kent State is an interesting psychological study.

Unfortunately, your right to bear arms has no influence at all over what you describe above. The concentration of power doesn't so much reside in the two parties as it does in the political interests that control them and thus, our military. Your right to buy arms to protect yourself against the tyranny of the government goes only as far as your ability to arm yourself with cruise missiles, tanks, tactical nukes, etc, etc, etc. The 2nd amendment is archaic.

It's not a question of what Ott can teach them from a talent perspective. But he can teach and preach volumes on "hockey character" and what it means to be a pro on and off the ice. This facet of veteran leadership on a young team cannot be overstated. GO BILLS!!!

I'll leave the stats out of it and let others make the case for what they mean. Hawerchuck is one of the best ever and I'll leave it at that. But no player in the history of the Sabres has ever given me that pit of the stomach excitement when winding up in his own end, like Perreault. And I mean EVERY time. I can't remember a player that was a threat to go end to end EVERY TIME. And that's no exaggeration; not one ounce of hyperbole. He was OJ on skates. GO SABRES!!!