Eleven

This is an annoying season. We've already had a couple of long breaks, and now we have a 10pm game followed by another week and a half of no Sabres games.

Yeah, our long national nightmare is over.

Yes. Gotta get him, and Levi, into the system next year.

Record-setting snowfall in Boston, yet the Bruins still exist. Oh well.

This is not a Jets board. No one cares.

I wasn't busting your chops. It's a quote from an 80s movie called Real Genius.

Are you kidding? (I'm not watching right now.) If so, good; I hope whoever wins the toss wins the game on the first possession again. It's the only way they're going to fix it.

I'm not an Adams hater. Nor am I his biggest fan. I'm pretty undecided. But, unquestionably, he did not adequately address goaltending last summer. He took forever to call UPL up.

McKenzie hardly plays anymore. Sanders and Beasley (who probably will return even though they are overpriced--although Sanders's cap hit isn't as bad, I think?) are replaceable in free agency. There is no need to address the position in the draft.

There is no need to take a receiver at all, much less in the first round! The Bills have a surplus at that position and likely will have to cut a good player.

The problem is not hiring the right first goaltender, not the seventh.

The Rigases could spend another ten years in prison and still not feel as bad as I feel when I look at 39 in a Red Wings sweater.

"Rue the day? Who talks like that?"

Liger is somewhat right. The offense scores at will. It isn't the problem. As for a coverage LB, I wonder if the issue is how Edmunds is used. The delayed pass rush stuff is likely not his idea.

It was irresponsible of him to ice a team with Anderson, who is ancient, and Tokarski, who isn't good. @PromoTheRobotfeels differently, I know, but I will die on the hill of "Adams screwed up by not hiring goalies last summer." Also by refusing to call up UPL until it was too late (I started a thread about that).

Good.

♬♩♬ Anything Hill can do, Diggs can do better... ♫ ♩ Just kidding. But I'm happy with Diggs and with the WRs in general. In fact, there is a surplus. The Bills don't need Hill, even if his speed is unmatched. The concerns with this team are elsewhere.

Diggs can do that too. But the Bills use Beasley for that, and at 6.1 M for Beasley, he is the more replaceable player. Diggs can run Reed routes AND Lofton routes.

And they are the same style player. Keep Diggs.

He is replaceable on the field, but I don't know about off the field. Of the rest of the guys, only Phillips and Wallace are concerns. Boettger will be re-signed at the right price (and Ford might be let go), McKenzie doesn't play much anymore, and the rest are replaceable.

So you responded to it Tuesday ... and today you're upset about it and reporting it?

The second thing is what I concentrate most of my waking hours upon. Pardon me if I try to relax and kvetch about something more trivial on a hockey forum once in a while. I can see lines clearly in northern PA in the rain. Then I cross into Corning, and all of the sudden, no? That's not about snow removal; it's about what states are buying their paints from what manufacturers.

Other states seem able to do this.

I read a great counter to this earlier today somewhere. It went something like this: The Caps and Avs are in the final. In Game 1, Ovechkin does one of his stupid Ovechkin things and injures a fourth-liner for the Avs. The Avs, wanting Ovechkin out of as many games as possible, and easily able to disguise the nature of the fourth-liner's injury because of the NHL's reporting rules, exaggerate the severity of the injury and just swap in JAG for the fourth-liner. As a result, Ovechkin's suspension is longer.

Given the air that TSN gave it, yes I do. It was a stupid and dangerous hit.