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Vsevolod is a cool as name

Everyone loves superstars but Buffalo has always identified with a blue collar style. It’s doesn’t take much to do what the entire rest of the league does.

Bro WTF is this?

I like the physical stuff he does. Sometimes sneaky dirty. More if it would be nice. Maybe Lindy will encourage it.

He plays physical. I’ll give you that. I want open ice hits. ***** even some dirty ones into the boards. If we are going to have Byram, Joki, Power and Johnson all on the team along with Dahlin and Samuelsson mixing Clifton in, that is one soft D. At least move out Joki for someone way more physical than what we have. Or a blockbuster trade involving Power. That could solve it instantly. Get someone physical up front via trade. Sign some Neanderthal that decks people to fill out the D core.

I’ll die a thousands deaths before anything like this ever happens.

I swear to god if this dude hits the open market and we saddled ourselves with coach of Christmas past, I’m going to have to leave the internet. This place, Twitter and any other god forsaken place will be unbearable.

This thread needs to die a quick death. Ugh.

Love the hotdogging use. I have no problem with Ryan Johnson. The problem is they have 4 of him that are as good or better. They need someone that’ll belt ya. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an NHL d-core so averse to hitting. Ok Clifton might stick ya and Samuelsson uses his body (to his own detriment) but the rest could care less if they touch another human when the play the game of hockey. I want my Dmen to thirst for that open ice hit. Waiting at the blue line to knock someone into next week. Instead we got 7 guys that want to dance and play twister. It’s disgraceful and not what blue collar fans from WNY want to see. How hard is it for anyone involved in the organization to recognize this and make amends?

Novikov is already what we hope Komorov becomes at least defensively. I don’t know how offensive defenseman from the Q translate offensively. Their defensive play is questionable at best. It’s good to see another prospect doing well though.

You could have stopped at D 😎

No chance but they’d still need to double my PTO. Commute is still 5x as far.

I’ve heard there may be a correlation. What’s the old saying correlation does not necessarily mean Caucasian. Or something like that…😎

I wanted to give a much longer notice but I had to wait for the results for my drug screening to come back to put it my notice. 🤣 I also had to push out my start date for the same reason as I needed to get clean. It worked. I feel terrible as I’ve really hit my stride here and like the job overall. I just need to take care of my family. Clear up some debt and start banking some $$$ so we don’t live paycheck to paycheck.

You are making me think too hard about your intent. It’s well executed, I just can’t do these mental gymnastics.

Nope not all of them.

I’m praying this happens. I could desperately use a two week vacation. I have 100 hours of PTO they owe me so I’ll make more than when I actually work. 🤣

I’m sitting in his office, waiting for him to return from wherever to break the news. I think I’m gonna barf. God I hope I don’t get too emotional.

Eh I know the ***** storm I’m walking into. They say they’ve made changes but a culture that’s been entrenched for 35+ years dies hard. It’s going to be more stress, a lot more responsibility and longer hours but I had to make the move for my family. I haven’t slept in weeks. Hoping once I start smoking again, I can get back to sleeping. Hitting a wall every day at 2pm where I can barely keep my eyes open despite drinking coffee and energy drinks all day, has been taxing. Great news, I’m at my lowest weight since college. Bad news, I’m living like a 1950’s housewife slamming uppers, wired out of my gourd.

There is a wrinkle. I recruited on of my long time employees to come work for me at my new gig. I gotta break the news to him. So, about 30 minutes before I leave today, I’m going to tell my boss. Then meet up with my boy and break the news over a beer. I feel terrible but he’s in a much better situation.

I had last Friday off (NFL Draft). Gotta do it today in order for it to be two weeks. It sucks it’s a Monday but I’d rather give them the extra 5 days. My boss has been very fair with me. I wanted to do the same for them.

So you may remember ~ two years ago I left my old job of 23 years for a new career. The current job has been good. The first 6 months or so were a bit rough as the person who was supposed to train me, decided not to and I had to fend for myself. Eventually I figured everything out and I’ve done quite well. Good reviews. Good relationships with my peers. Yada yada. So about a month ago I got an email notification from a recruiting service that I never put the kibosh on with a very familiar job offer. It was my old job. I sent a screen shot to some of my former coworkers joking about coming back. A couple days later a former boss, not the boss I had when I left (this guy I’ve known for 30 years, we were drinking buddies before coworkers) reached out and asked if I was interested in coming back. I hadn’t really thought about it and said I’d be willing to have a conversation about it. So I had about a 45 minutes conversation about the state of the company, and what the expectations would be to resume my old role. I told him I knew what the pay range was because it was included in the job opening notification I got from the recruiter. He asked what it was, I told him the range. He told me that was old info and he could do better. This was 50% more than I was making when I left. Which is a game changer for me. I get 2x the PTO I currently get, cut my commute from 17 miles to 3 miles and go back to working in the industry I had 23 years of experience in. Win, win, win. It came with getting a clean drug test which I somehow managed despite being a heavy THC user. Smoking 15 large “J”s a week, plus a few gummies on top of that as well as some vaping when convenient. Needless to say, I needed the full month, a detox diet heavy in liquids, and a 5 day detox kit made of herbal supplements to wash my system clean as of 3 weeks post interview, I was still testing positive. So results all came back good. I’m putting in my two week notice today. Is it better to do it early or late in the day?

So much for killing the whole “it’s a PR stunt” narrative. They are just leaning into it. Sounds like TP has grabbed the reins pretty tightly.

I can also see a lot of 12 personnel and 2 RB formations. There is still the possibility of another teams camp / cap casualty that signs with the Bills late.

I don’t see Mack any higher than WR4. Samuel, Shakir & Coleman are clearly 1-3. He’ll be competing with Shorter and Hamler just for that spot. Our lads has it that way as well. https://www.ourlads.com/nfldepthcharts/depthchart/BUF