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Colorado just put on a Ted Talk on how to handle adversity. I just can’t anymore

Detroit. Raymond vs. Chiarot Happened the day after the Sabres took it to them last March.

I live on Long Island and the MSG partnership is an abomination. There are 3 other teams that compete (get priority) for the space instead of maybe just one. If you're a tri-state area fan of one of the NY teams you'd never care. But for the many relocated WNY fans it's just a poor way to make your product available.

It seems to me that this Benson nonsense is a pretty good place for a guy like Gilbert to apply his particular set of skills.

One of these things has a happy ending

My memory may be playing tricks on me but wasn't Ruff actually interviewed or at least had a discussion with Buffalo before the official hiring of Meatballs?

Clifton’s old man was pining for dirty goals. His demand was 3!

I’m kind of here. Would I love a Tkachuck in concept? 10,000%. But with the reported “maturity issues” we have nobody in regards to veteran leadership to rein that in at this point. And I don’t hold much hope for that to be resolved anytime soon.

He broke Derek's nose

Just watched his post skate presser and the kid is just off the charts even keeled and genuinely embracing it as an opportunity to round out his game. Also thinks that the road should be bumpy and not easy. He's got such a consummate professional attitude. It's like whatever is the complete opposite of entitled, that's Devon Levi.

I have 645 reservations about watching, but I'll probably watch anyway.

White goat heads at home would be the ultimate. I’ve never liked home darks.

The recent officiating, lazy reader. Already addressed earlier. The team came out tonight and played hard and tightened up defensively. I watched a complete effort tonight with a few missed chances and a tough deflection that I saw happen to Zhitnik 800 times in the 90’s. As someone else pointed out, I’ll gladly watch this game, loss and all with that effort vs. the Dallas game. I’ll also take this effort over the Islander game which was decided by a debatable call. I was there. They were indeed outplayed in that game. But there they were, in the final minute still trailing by that goal. And don’t tell me you’ve never seen a team win a game they don’t deserve to. Overall, I’m optimistic on the outlook of this team but there are some holes to fill and lessons to learn. I was hoping one of the lessons learned would be the grind of playoff hockey. I suppose the first lesson is to avoid committing ticky-tak penalties and fighting through defenders blatantly laying on top of two of your forwards,.. with the ref literally looking directly at it. When you get this far after this long, it’s tough to watch it kind of fall apart this way. Maybe I’m the fool.

To be clear, this game was absolutely entertaining and a solid performance by the team. I though it was pretty clear that I was responding to a comment referring to the officiating.

It’s getting to be damn near unwatchable at this point. I usually take the viewpoint that it all evens out in the end but the last 2+ weeks have been egregiously lopsided.