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Does anyone know if they practiced today? And if so, what the line combos were?

Impressive # of PIM for Max at age 38!

Until Lindy or someone else credible confirms the bolded, I'm inclined to take it with a pinch of salt. There was a fair amount of spin/BS in that article, including as regards Black Sunday. I'm pretty skeptical that Lindy changed his coaching style because of TG's suggestion -- as opposed to, say, the NHL rule changes post-lockout, losing Dominik, getting guys like Briere, Max, Soupy, etc. As for the on-ice comparison between TG and TP -- I agree that it's fair for this to be taken into consideration, and that it matters. There are a huge number of differences between the 2 situations, of course, that one could argue make the comparison unfair. IMHO, the Sabres' difficulties stem from 3 poor decisions by TP -- retaining Darcy, hiring GMTM and, most of all, the tank -- each of which was understandable at the time it was made, but all of which were varying degrees of disastrous.

Well, the Giants' pass D was pretty bad. Separately: good bounceback game for Beasley.

Pretty solid ground-out win. JA looked good and like he is continuing to improve. I sure hope Singletary is OK.

No. If person A called person B a liar, and person B responded with GFY, I would not call anyone obnoxious, although to be fair I would probably tell both of them to tone it down. You do not seem to be able to internalize that it is highly offensive to say to someone “you say your motivations are X, but I think you are lying, and that your motivations are actually Y.” I’m done listening to it.

Again — comments like these earn you an invitation to GFY.

Well, please excuse my irritation. In this case, someone who is well aware of an important rule here just felt free to indulge himself in breaking it not once but twice. Littering isn’t that big of a deal either, but if everybody littered we’d be living in mountains of garbage.

The point is that you have zero risk here but the operator of the message board has risk. Just so we are clear: please do not post links to illegal streams here.

Well, I’m not quite to this level of cynicism yet — I don’t think RK is emphasizing this as a marketing point. I just need to see a team that doesn’t suck and doesn’t hide under the bed when the going gets tough.

Correct. Except that you are taking risks for other people, not yourself. Please cease and desist. Please knock this TF off. This is what the politics club is for.

So, that's 2 days in a row with lines of: Vesey-Eichel-Sheary Skinner-ERod-Lazar Which presumably (but not yet confirmed) means they are likely also sticking with: CJ-Mittsie-Reino Olofsson-Asplund-JoJo That is a fairly interesting situation IMHO. EDITED per @dudacek's post to put CJ on Reino's line.

I have been as critical of Reino as anyone, but he’s a good player who has improved each year. I expect that growth to continue, especially in a contract year, although it may not manifest in his overall point totals.

I like RK so far, and I of course hope his approach works, but until I see it on the ice I find myself agreeing with the other cynical souls who have said upthread that it just sounds like more empty sloganeering.

Do you think this is how McD and BB were hired for the Bills? Or JB was hired for the Sabres?

What is the point of this post? "Ha, ha, some people are so dumb that they don't realize that young athletes tend to put on muscle over time?"

Our dishwasher, after 17 years of heroic service, died last week. It is a freaking PITA doing dishes by hand. And: I bought the replacement yesterday, with promises of a confirming email and a call scheduling delivery today. Still no email or call.

Interesting. I haven’t heard this before either. Pretty GD stupid of TM if true.

To be clear: this is a memorial thread, not a thread for discussion of whacked-out conspiracy theories.

No more insane posts in here please.

There is a lot of gut-wrenching family drama in the first couple of seasons that is hard to watch. But @Neo is right that it gets better over time and turns into a really gripping and well-made crime drama. (I still don't have BB as high on my list as many others do, but IMHO it's definitely worth watching.)

The HBO show "Deadwood" is on Amazon and is on par with the Sopranos and the Wire at the top of the HBO drama canon, IMHO. If you get FX shows, I think "Fargo" fits well into your list and was outstanding (Seasons 1 and 2 more than Season 3 though). Also, "The Americans" was a great spy thriller, although it ran out of gas in its last 2 seasons, and "the Shield" was a great cop show. If you get Sundance, "Deutscheland 83" was also a great spy thriller, although Season 1 was much better than Season 2. "Friday Night Lights" (the show, not the movie) is on Amazon and was mostly great, if a bit uneven in parts, and not as dark or violent as the shows on your list. "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" were both great HBO WWII mini-series. Larry Sanders, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage are all good-to-great HBO comedies. "Catastrophe" is a great Amazon comedy. I saw the QT movie a month or so ago and thought it was excellent. My wife and I saw BBTL over the weekend. It wasn't a great movie IMHO, but it was pretty good and as a Bruce fan I really enjoyed it.

As someone with a good-sized nose myself, I'll note that RK has quite a honker there.

I agree with @Drunkard that Bogo is pretty unlikely to agree to LTIR. If he plays 65+ games this year and has a decent season (2 big ifs, to be sure), someone is likely to give him a 3-year deal, which could easily be the last NHL contract he gets. OTOH, if he is on LTIR all year, he's looking at training camp tryouts the following year. However, @Brawndo is certainly right IMHO that the Sabres have a strong case if they want to push for LTIR.

It's not a "lazy narrative." He was lousy from about halfway through the 1st quarter until the 4th quarter.