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Good lord I’d forgotten how much I hate Laffs fans…

Wha the hell did I just watch?

A thing I just thought of that is also a big factor: There’s a bit of a childcare crisis going on right now…

Oh, man. This doesn't make me feel old atoll.

Pull up a seat and I'll tell you all about the John Muckler era...

Point of order: There is no such thing as unskilled labor.

Yup, along with everyone else.

Who are these people you speak of and why do you believe they should not be able to extract the most they can in exchange for their labor?

This is, more or less, entirely the problem. There was a time when this did in fact come with the territory. There was a time where high school football coaches not only condoned but participated in cruel and weird hazing rituals that would absolutely get several people arrested now (not speaking from personal experience at all there...). There was a time where guys would smoke in the office, get hammered at lunch and sexually harass/abuse female coworkers. We've decided as a society that this isn't acceptable. The fact that we can find examples of these things still happening doesn't mean it's not wrong. Eventually, as in this case, it gets found out and ends badly.

Screw it, what're Raffi Torres and Steve Ott doing right now? Bring John Scott back. TRUCULENCE!

Gonna have to tap out on this one, but my inclination is to say it's the latter.

I can only speak for myself, but no, not yet. Is the product objectively and measurably better than it has been the past few years? Outside of the first few games not really, but I'm willing to give them a lot more rope now for perhaps undeserved reasons. They are, again solely in my opinion, a bunch easier to root for now, for some reason. YMMV

From what I've read the medical question is what the artificial disk is going to do under the extreme circumstances playing in the NHL will present. My wholly unqualified interpretation: it's a lot of pressure placed on a small area in a specific and definitely non-trivial spot in the body when, for instance, you take a hit in open ice... sudden deceleration and what happens internally is going to require a whole lot of not failing out of that disc. Nobody's done the surgery yet and then played at that level, so, yeah, non-zero risk involved. As there is with any surgery, especially when dealing with the spine, but there's precedent elsewhere. As far as the spite... once Jack requested (again) a trade and the decision was made to move on, why in the world do the Sabres carry that risk? He's already worked very hard (due to poor advice from representation IMO... which I think Jack realized and fired Fish and hired Brisson to get things over the line) to tank his value on the market, that value becomes zero if things go sideways after he gets a surgery nobody's come back from (because no NHL player has had one, admittedly). So, only slightly petty.

I mean, they did slightly better than I predicted.

Well, that makes me feel slightly less crazy then.

At least I know what I'll be listening to on the drive home this afternoon... I may or may not have been under a rock recently, but why is this a thing? Anderson hurt? General crapulence?

*****, wrong one.... found it though.

They'll give it an honest effort tonight, hang in there and get steamrolled in the third. 5-2 Caps, empty netter included. So it Goes.

I just can’t be mad at the obviously terrible team for being terrible. Would a not-terrible team throw that game away? Absolutely not; that’s what terrible teams do, which is what this team is. Also, and I will never stop yelling at this cloud… 3-on-3 overtime is just the absolute worst, and indeed does make me angry. Just have them shoot free-throws or something equally related to the rest of the game.

I find it hard to get too excited one way or the other with this team. It’s garbage, everyone knows it’s garbage, and winning a few games didn’t change that. Losing a few after that didn’t make them worse than the garbage we already knew they were. At least it’s interesting to watch, which we haven’t been able to say in some time…