Ghost of Dwight Drane

Good point....Dallas now 5 points out of a playoff spot.... ;)

LaLaLa........

Nice Job Physics.... I now want to start a league where rich men own teams, send a bomber up to 90,000 feet, and play 4 on 4 weightless handball with a cat....

I was thinking Scavenger Hunt. 5 points for a tuna melt, 20 points for a ticket stub from the comeback game, 30 points for a Whammie Weenie, 50 points for a '87 Taurus with a cassette player.

They sure knew how to take that picture and tweet it out while the body wasn't even cold yet.....

Yes...on a team depleted at forward and grit, there were 3 or 4 options. Zadarov seems to be good value at #16 at this point and looking at the 2 together, it looks ok. If someone came knocking and said, "We will give you a bonafide #1 center for Hodgson and your choice of Zadorov or Ristolainen"....who would you give up in that deal right now? Sort of like last year with Grigorenko and Girgensons.....we seem to be hitting homeruns with gritty, big boy hockey players with not as much offensive upside which is a refreshing change. That being said, if Myers really does have his head out of his A, I would be very tempted to grab Ekbald this year and keep trading for forward prospects in numbers, hoping you hit on a few. A defense of Ekbald/Zadorov/Myers/Ehrhoff/Ristolainen/Pysyk the next 5+ years and a little luck in net...and maybe you are a real perennial contender 3-4 years out.

Nashville -200 Buffalo +170

My spayed girl dog was so happy to see her neutered boy dog friend today, she mounted him right out the door and did the bunny hop for 20 feet. That's how I feel when I read M/Y's posts. It's not natural, but it's sheer unbridled beauty. On that note....yes, the big wings are actually inferior and substituted in for specials at places. You get broken bones, and while more meat, not quite the taste. I love the chicken leg idea....in fact, I bake them Sicilian style with olive oil, s/p, the superfecta of Simon+Garfunkel spices, pecorino-romano cheese, and Italian breadcrumbs. The key is to douse them in olive oil so they sort of fry, cook them long and low, then zap them the last 15 minutes without foil. I have a 50% strike rate of equaling Santora's, but it costs about 30% as much on value.

He actually has the same skillset as Pronger and Stevens. While everyone wanted Myers to be that, here is a guy who might actually be able to come close some day. I think we choked on pick #8, but evened it out at #16.

Yes...I will post the wagers as soon as possible after puck drop then tally after the game.

Leaderboard as of 3/26: Eleven 2550 UBKev 2040 Hank 1920 Cereal 1910 TaroT 1435 ClaudeVeret 830 TM8-PL16 355 On the "All-In"...it was correctly self-policed. Still keeping wagering in thread for now. We will go blind for at least the last 3 games. Everyone is bunched up now and has a public history, so it's only fair to stay public for now. If you want to tail a certain poster, it may let someone walk in the backdoor. So many ways to play it now... Let's see who our Kenyan is!!!

Golisano was the preferred guy and was able to get the debt load on the arena waived. I am sure there were others interested, but who was going to have the cash and connections to get the same deal? I'm glad you said it though....that's why I always cringed when people would bow down to Golisano for "saving" the team.

Reading between the lines....this is a very hard surgery coming up. There is an interview with the medical department on their website and it sounds like multiple concurrent surgeries to reconstruct. Scary stuff. God Bless them.

I will update the leader board after tonight and see where we are. Probably just the last 3-5 games. As of now, someone with $10 can catch the Sabres on a 6 game winning streak and move into 1st place.

Unless you KNOW you have your guy in this draft, it would be unwise to draft a QB this year. Let EJ have the year....if no obvious progression, then you go for it next year....if EJ stinks, you are picking 3-10 again anyway.....

https://twitter.com/eileenbuc/status/397933291979812864/photo/1 These guys were backing Tom Corbett since he was an assistant DA....that worked out swell for all parties. Benson is the finance chairman for Sen. Toomey. I have no clue what their long term thinking is in NYS....but I think what we have seen, however you classify the Lafontaine situation, is that you aren't just getting Terry Pegula, the owner of the Buffalo Sabres. You are getting Terry Pegula and Crew, a real estate, political, energy, and hockey/entertainment conglomerate. You can't deny it at this point. Battista was hired through East Resources. Benson through the Sabres. Yet Battista is the self proclaimed VP of Hockey Operations, and Benson is running the point at Harbor Center. Isn't that backwards given who employs them? That's the deal....we aren't looking at a traditional owner anymore. It is more of a Pegula Cloud. It is what it is, and after the 3 month return to pure fandom I had where I was willing to look at things in a pure positive fashion and allow the benefit of the doubt, all my original concerns were amplified when Lafontaine left. I am not nearly as passionate about it because at least Regier is gone, and a capable talent evaluator seems to be in place, but I am lukewarm at best now. Even Nolan seems to have lost the magic. It could be the end of novelty and more tape on his system and patterns, or it could be that he believed too for 3 months, and after having the life experience and seeing what happened here again, he is lukewarm as well. It's pretty deflating for me as a fan. I just don't have the energy to worry as much. I want to believe Pegula is pure at heart, but even if he is, that doesn't mean this franchise will be a success under him...and given past, current, and projected results his first 5+ seasons here, I think it is more than fair to question his value as a leader. I hope for the city and it's peoples' sake, he turns out to be that gift you so proclaim. When I hold up that mustard stained wrapped gift to my ear though.....I hear ticking.......

"there isn't a GD thing to suggest that TP might be anything less than a gift from heaven to Sabres fans."......... This was your quote. We ARE going on 4 years....we have seen the man in action...we have our current situation and projected results for the next few seasons. What kind of "gift" owner has the franchise as the unquestioned worst in the league for his first 5-7 years of ownership? The Sabres can win 3 Cups, 10 years from now, sure....but to assume they will is much more outlandish than taking what we have seen so far at face value. Is Pegula willing to sell for fair market value? I don't know who would be interested. I can come up with 300 names of who could run a safer ship. Braging about Pegula's checkbook is like bragging about having the biggest cannon in a war. The thing is, that cannon is so big, it has zero accuracy. Not only does it send shots all over the place, but a charge or two has exploded in the barrel and wiped out his own crew. I was downtown for basketball this week, and had discussions with a few people about what that arena area is looking like. Who is going to want to or have the means to operate a project that big in this city if these guys disappear? Or worse, what if a black swan pops up over the next few years and the project isn't completed? It is a disproportionate amount of capital for this city in terms of size, location, and one person in control. If you aren't 100% confident in Pegula being balls out in the area the next 20 years, this whole situation has the possibility of being another star chapter in the city's history book. I don't have that faith....I would have to question the long term viability of anyone in this situation, and did when the project was being mulled over. It wasn't the safe play. We will see.....I have seen enough though now to be overly concerned. Not to mention the political motives...which we will not know for some time. Maybe there aren't any, but after watching all the tit-for-tat in PA with the Sabres Crew and their politicians, you can't say it isn't an interest of theirs. There is a juicy 50 square block of potential political blackmail that will be ripe for the using going forward. Not saying anything will happen, but I don't feel it is anything but rational for some to question leadership capabilities and motives given what we have seen happen with the Sabres.

3 years...4 years...20 years......Yes....he is a GIFT......

4 years.... 4 trade deadlines... 1 month away from 4th season... 3 months away from 4th draft.... Please Retract....

4 years.....here we are......

My bracket looks like the floor of a Bourbon St. bathroom at 3AM Ash Wednesday..... Vancouver -230 Buffalo +190

I'm with you on this.....CuJo is old school. St. Louis Blues is an old standard and Louie Armstrong made it popular...hence the trumpet.

:)