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I don't think you count as an immigrant if you move within a country...

That quote is full on Dick Jauron "Its hard to win games in the NFL". ALL THE OTHER TEAMS SEEM TO BE DOING IT DICK/DAN.

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Welp, I'm on the hype train, boys. Those tweets put me over the top. Bring me Claude Julien and lets gooo.

Trade him, make ROR/Jack captain, tell him to come back next year, but he won't be wearing the C if he does, and maybe no letter at all. He's been very good, and deserves a shot at a cup. If he wants to come back and be a 3rd line winger I'll welcome him back.

Yeah, I turned off the game when they went down 4-2; I think I've got to stop doing that now. For those of a superstitious persuasion, I did hear the OT goal, so its safe.

Yeah, I was listening to the game instead of watching, I assumed that shot was from right by the goalie: usually his "rammed it home" means a pass in the paint thats put away. Still, I think if I can listen to RJ call 10 games a year and the playoffs (God be good) and they're the quality I heard last night I'll take that for a million years.

Jack's Suit Will Be Fine.

Between The Pipes might be lining up a post on this, but I'm going to steal his thunder because its cool as hell: Lauren HallVerified account‏@LaurenHallFollowing More So happy we could make this moment happen in Nashville! The the next puck on the @EichelTower615 will have Jack's autograph on it! 11:27 AM - 24 Jan 2017 from Nashville, TN Buffalo Sabres, Jack Eichel and TheEichelTower

After looking through those trades I think his worst move was McNabb and 2 2nd rounders for Fasching and Delo. McNabb is playing in the top-4 d right now for the Kings. As much as I like Faching I'd much rather have McNabb there than Gorges...

So I've heard this line before, and I don't have a good handle on it really. So I'm going to make a list of all the trades Murray has made since he came to Buffalo and see how that looks, then go from there. This list includes only picks and players who were prospects at the time of the trade. From nhltradetracker.com Future pieces (draft picks and prospects) acquired since January 9th, 2014 William Carrier 2015 1st round pick 2016 3rd round pick Torrey Mitchell 2014 2nd round pick 2016 2nd round pick Hudson Fasching Nicolas Deslauriers 2016 conditional 3rd round pick Jason Kasdorf Jack Nevins 2016 7th round pick 2016 3rd round pick 2016 5th round pick 2017 3rd round pick 2016 conditional 3rd round pick Jimmy Vesey 2016 2nd round pick (#33-Rasmus Asplund) Total: 1st round picks: 1 2nd round picks: 3 3rd round picks:3 Other draft picks: 4 Prospects: 7 Total: 18 Future pieces (draft picks and prospects) traded away since January 9th, 2014 2015 3rd round pick 2nd round pick 2nd round pick Brayden McNabb Jonathan Parker 2016 2nd round pick 2015 conditional 7th round pick Brendan Lemieux Joel Armia 2015 1st round pick Torrey Mitchell Brian Flynn 2015 1st round pick J.T. Compher 2015 2nd round pick 2016 3rd round pick 2016 2nd round pick (#38-Adam Mascherin) 2016 3rd round pick (#89-Linus Nassen) Total: 1st round picks: 2 2nd round picks: 5 3rd round picks: 3 Other draft picks: 1 Prospects: 7 Total pieces: 18 Some pieces were on the edge of prospect, like McNabb, and Zadorov, and then there was this trade: Ottawa Senators acquire Jason Akeson Philip Varone Jerome Gauthier-Leduc Conditional pick Buffalo Sabres acquire Michael Sdao Alexander Guptill Cole Schneider Eric O`Dell that I didn't feel like dealing with figuring out who was a prospect and who was AHL fodder, but I think the rest fairly good. After all those trades this list: http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/ranking-nhl-team-prospect-pipeline/story?id=41724093(ABC being the pillar of hockey knowledge) has the Sabres as the 11th rated prospect pool (hockeysfuture.com hasn't updated theirs since 2015). So where does that leave us? I'm not really sure. I don't think GMTM has decimated us, but we certainly need to build the pool back up, especially defensively. The list does not count the NHL players that were added or traded because that wasn't the point of this post, and I also didn't bother looking at pieces that were traded for and then traded away. Still, its 18 picks and prospects on either side. We've traded away better picks overall, but again, how many of those late 1sts and seconds ever even sniff the NHL? Its too early to say. In general though I don't see Murray having destroyed our future or anything. He's been trying to take a team who was the worst in the NHL and make them respectable in 3 years, and I think he's done an ok job of that.

QFT In my book whoever gets the best player from a trade is the winner. I understand the frustrations about Kane from an off ice issue, and I've called for his head myself, but on the ice? Make an argument to me that he wasn't the best player involved in that trade.

The other guy in that video. Also that line is probably my favorite from that whole show.

Looking like a better chance today than it did yesterday at this time.

I would trade him for a top pairing D-man, thats about it though.

Kenmore/North Buffalo is a nice spot to look. Nice, older homes, good neighborhoods, houses are relatively inexpensive. If you're looking to be in the city without being too in the city its a good spot.

I really like the third line, I just wish we had people other than Carrier and Gionta to fill the other spots on the top two lines...

More and more of my friends are going the route we went a few years ago, buy a two family home and rent out half. If you go to the right place you can effectively get your mortgage paid for by renting out the place. I've had two friends in the last 3 years buy homes in North Buffalo not far from Hertel and do just that. Our home we rent out and it pays for half our mortgage, but we really liked being in the Elmwood area and it was really the only way we could afford owning a home there. Part of me wishes we had waited a while and ended up on Hertel, too, but I digress. I've been renting out half of my place for 3.5 years now and I don't have many complaints. We rent mostly to people in their mid-20's, kids in grad school or just getting their first job. We've had some trouble getting rent consistently on time from a couple tenants, but it hasn't been too bad. We might just have been lucky, though. Biggest downside is that with that age group is that they move around a lot, so we're on our 3rd set of tenants in that time. I don't think its a long term answer for us. I plan on moving somewhere with better schools and an actual backyard at some point, but recently the wife has been playing more and more with idea of converting the place into a single family home. I'm...not sold on that idea, but its at least a few years before we have to really think about it. Personally I'd like to move, but keep the place (maybe even put a third apartment in the attic, though that would involve some work), eventually pay it off, then put the income right into college funds for kids. Or sell it outright later on and do the same. Anyways, I guess in general I think its a decent option for people in a similar position to us or our friends. Housing is expensive these days, its a good way to defray costs.

My grandfather stopped watching baseball in the '80's or '90's because he said the players got too good and it wasn't as fun to watch anymore.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

I'm basically devastated that this is going to a shootout.

Yup, Dark Tower was my first intro into King (his books, anyways). I want to finish that first, then I'm going to start going into his other stories, most of which tie into the Dark Tower series. Probably start with "The Stand" and "Salems Lot".

Going to drag some people out with me tonight to watch the gold medal game if I can find anywhere playing it. Sabres game tonight, too, maybe I can get a 2 for 1. I've been reading the Dark Tower series for a while now, halfway through book 7, and I just got your nome de plume. I'm upset its taken me this long. try out reddit.com/r/nhlstreams

Has Jack ever scored a bad goal? Like a whip it at the net, it bounces off of 5 people and happens to go in goal? I can't think of one. Every goal of his is highlight reel worthy.

Franson at least has some offensive upside on the PP. Gorges is bringing nothing.