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Omigosh I watched that on the TV at an airport bar this summer! We were all laughing at the absurdity of it.

1. How much are tickets and 2. it's not one of those 18-and-over type things, is it?

Yes, but over the weekend in question, in @ddaryl's post, it was 1.01.

Since Swords of a Thousand Men already is taken, I'm going with that gummi bear song.

Very nice game. I think they made Anderson work a little too hard late in the third, but nice game.

The board is about one or two minutes ahead of my stream, I see.

Does anyone know whether Wegmans is in the business of selling meals to go? It seems unclear.

We absolutely need him to score at least once every home game. And they should play the entire song. Twice.

Smart.

The front page is down.

I hope you're right.

I have wandered in and out of this thread three or five times today, with pithy comments, smart-ass comments, winning comments, whatever comments, which I have deleted. I think all I have is, and it's for all of you... FFS.

Kulich has nothing to do with it. If Levi becomes the NHL goalie that he can become, the Sabres have won the trade already, and Kulich is just a bonus. Goalies are more precious than forwards.

It wasn't meant to be a joke--it's a good trivia question if it's correct.

This has to be a league record contract term for a skater with 0 NHL goals, right?

Yes. This is a no-risk move, unlike a player signing.

I have the same reaction that I had with the Thompson contract: Adams can't hit home runs if he doesn't swing for the fences. Let's just hope he's not swinging at a nasty curve here; Thompson had a larger body of work to evaluate.

Okay.

He didn't look good in preseason. I haven't given up on him, I just said that it isn't looking good. Is there any other kind?

If only I gambled...or presently had access to gambling...this seems like a good place to put an investment that doesn't require selling the house.

There are three threads that, however denominated, are on the same topic. One is called "your 2022-2023 Sabres" or something like that, one is called "22-23 expectations," or something like that, and then there is this one, with the most specific title of the three (not that the others were bad). They all seek the same commentary, though. So I'm going to self-report this post in the hope that the mods can clean it up--and maybe they can't. Anyway, on to the substance: If Anderson and Comrie can hold the net, this team can challenge for 7 or 8. But I don't think they can. As happy as I was that Adams took a chance on Comrie, it isn't looking good. And Anderson is a known quantity. Unless the Sabres realize that UPL is a better goalie in Buffalo than in Rochester, or sign Levi on a prayer (I have given up on Portillo--he doesn't want to be here), it goes nowhere. The D is too shaky and the scorers are too young. Without changes in net, we are looking at 6-7th in the division and a complementary placement in the East.

Not only were they, but so were the Chiefs. It just happened that the Bengals, who weren't, and the Rams, who probably weren't either, got lucky. Luck does affect sports. (Very obviously, if you watched the Bills-Chiefs game, which came down to the flip of a coin; if you want a Sabres example, well, there was a spin of a wheel a long time ago.)

I like the addition of last year's pace.

NFL coaching is unusually risk-averse when considering normal risk/reward information. The Bills no longer are punting in inappropriate situations, but for how many years did they, even in the face of hard data suggesting that punting on 4th and 2 from the opponent's 43 is a bad move? How many teams still do it now? (I think about 29 or 30.)

Cool, thanks!