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Adding insult to injury he got away with a double-minor. What in the world?

Sounds like a stick issue as opposed to a son issue, unless he was doing something ridiculous with it, which you seem to indicate he didn't.

It's probably not a coincidence that both of them have absolute garbage PKs (Montreal having gotten rid of their good PK) in front of them.

Lenny back in goal tonight. We go again...

For me it's actually been harder when the team is good / doing well. The repeated kicks to the groin that were the Habs series in 93, The ignominious end of the first Teds Nolan era (that team was fun, albeit hot garbage in front of perhaps the greatest single player I've ever watched, singlehandedly winning games), the 98 ECF (I was in the arena for game 6. I have never heard almost 20,000 people make as little noise as we did when Juneau scored in OT), No Goal, Jay McKee's questionable hygiene in 06, and Ottawa in 07 followed by the nonsense of that summer all did far more emotional harm to me than the Sabres being bad (intentionally or otherwise) ever did. As a result, I keep trying to take each game as it comes and forget about the bigger picture. This team makes that hard right now, but it's supposed to be fun, and occasionally is. Then I come on here, forgetting that sentence I just typed, and engage in obsessing about things I should know better than to worry about, but I keep putting my hand on that proverbial hot stove. Sports fandom is probably a kind of mental illness, one which I am horribly afflicted with. I'm glad that I've come across a little corner of the long series of tubes where weirdos like me congregate and vent this stuff. Because none of us, apparently, hate ourselves enough in our everyday lives. Cheers, everyone.

Good lord, Des.

Or, and I regret bringing this up again even as I'm typing it, that famous Mike Weber emotional moment.

That is definitely of its time.

This enraged me. The merits / ethics of the Sabres tank can be debated and disagreed upon by reasonable people. That the Leafs did the exact same thing and seem to have been given a pass by everyone, their mother, and the Canadian media is just wrong.

And also not scoring in the correct goal. Kind of a big issue.

Just finished the game on delay. Good win. Where is this team, the one that played tonight, most of the time?

Normally I wouldn't comment on college sports, but: LOL @ Bonakids. Nice to see my alma mater keeping it real on the enormous overentitled douchebag front.

Ok. I'm done.

Came back up just in time for that. Spring training starts soon.

Huh, NHL.tv just quit on me. Best part of this game so far.

Hasek, rocking the Sabres phone case, taking a selfie with Bobby Orr. Nice.

Hurley's?

They have this exact technology in soccer for this exact reason. It's absolutely possible.

Still trying to get the story straight on the second one,

Ugh. Feel for you there. I have an ex who is friends with my sister as well. Of course, they're 500 miles away. Still manage to occasionally annoy me.

Rob Ray quoted him early in the game, something to the effect of: "if Nilsson doesn't play tonight it'll be too long until he plays again." As I said earlier, the more he plays the more he looks like a backup. Lehner, for better or worse, is the horse this team's wagon is hitched to. Let him pull the thing. God, I hate Disco. The team s so close to being good with the handicap he puts on them. Imagine if his efforts to make everyone play like a fourth line, kill our best d-man through fatigue, and play musical goalies for no particular reason weren't a factor?

Twice that they didn't get credit for.

We get it.

If I'm Terry Pegula I'm calling Gary Bettman at home and screaming into the phone in a continuous loop over this one.

Well. Zebras are us without a kiss tonight, boys.