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Well, "murder" has motive to kill. This guy was a d-bag and is totally guilty of killing, but he probably did not set out to kill anyone on purpose

I just got back from wegman's and this guy was driving through the parking lot fast, skipping through the lanes of parked cars and hitting on a vape pipe. I'm shaking my head, turn to put the cart away and this women comes flying down the parking lot lane really fast by me, surprising me. Gees! Speed bumps are a good thing, IMO

Manslaughter, I think

I don't understand this. The SUV went into the passing lane, basically, and a vehicle he was trying to pass then cut in front of him to give the riders room? Then..Not sure how that led to an accident. I always hate/fear riding on busy, fast roads. Best bet is to stay on side roads/trails if you can. I'll never forget this one guy that was driving down a street perpendicular to the road I was riding down and he went right through the stop sign at full speed before finally looking to see if anyone was coming, I slammed on my breaks and he did stop with a screech, way past the stop sign and arrogantly waved me on with, "go!" I thought I was dead for a split second. How awful, the poor family must be devastated. The guy who did this, too.

Gees, life is so fragile. We seem so immortal but it can go so easily 😢

So much angst has been shown over not getting another top forward. Seems like there is a presumption that the defense is set.

I love that.

He was not a good passer, that's what bothered me about him. Hoping to see better team chemistry at the top.

I remember when they first signed him I was like, well he sure scores a lot of goals, when fired up, but what else does he do? Not a passer, not a hitter, not a great back checker. He did start passing more, but that seemed to fade. Maybe the replacement just adds more chemistry with Tage and Tuch which produces more overall goals.

Yesterday was hot! Total dog day, and training camp is still weeks away. We are still in the dog days Hope they last, too!

Mike Hunt, maybe?

But we also should not turn our back on the fact the kid really might be up to it. Played on PP, killed penalties, was a sound player on ice with huge well of talent. For better or worse going forward, he has earned a spot

No idea how good he will be, but it is good having a player like that pushing everyone for ice time and their jobs. Reminds me of Dave Snuggerud for some reason.

Yup, living in WHY and if I could probably play five days a week if I wanted to. Did that during 2008, would just play really hard, go home, relax, drink beer, wake up relax, go play hockey, rise, repeat. The good old days! You got me thinking about playing in the leagues. Boy was that an experience. Did ice hockey from 2006 to 2018 before that I used to play floor hockey at Milsher, out on Mineral Springs and at UB. Fun. By the end the Good, Bad and Ugly of playing in the league had really turned towards the ugly. But before that it had been a lot of fun. The Good: We had a really fun, close knit team that won games, championships and played a passing, puck possession game in the B league. Good for our league. I did not ice skate until I was 39 years old, so we were not the super skilled people. We would hang out with each other at times, had parties, always drank in lockerroom after games. We won a lot and were rolling but then it all went down hill and the time it started going bad was marked by an event where BEFORE a game--we were easily in first place--we went to a brewery and got wasted. We didn't play the game very hard and got destroyed. One of our players was too drunk, kept falling down but refused to leave the ice and the ref called the game. The guys girlfriend--also really drunk--started screaming at the ref from the stands. It was crazy. We were never the same after that. Still, loved that team and had a lot of fun while it lasted. The Bad: There were a lot of frustrations with the leagues though. Some of us really wanted to win and there would be some players just wanted to be there and could really care less about actually playing hockey well. We had this one guy that was terrible, couldn't really play and then he would show up really drunk on top of it! We had this other guy who no teams wanted and he just shuffled around to different teams, like we took turns with him. There was also more than a few straight up psychotic people. It's funny to think of them now, but at the time you always watched out for them. Then there came times when so many people would join the teams that there were too many players. You just couldn't get enough ice time and that was just it for me. I wasn't going to show up and not play. The cheating, stealing ice time, friends setting up friends to get more ice time, etc, was annoying. Finally, the players that refused to pass, unless their friends were open. Ugh! We had one dude, super nice guy, so you didn't want to confront him, but he was Mr. Stick handle, and that was it. Never passed. Just dicked around with puck until he lost it or whistle blew. It was useless being on ice with him. The Ugly: I'd be interested to hear if anyone else had this experience at hockey. I'm not Mr Social exactly, but in the circle of people at hockey I knew, there were more than a few that went off to jail! Sex crimes and financial crimes seemed to be way more prevalent than I would have expected. This one guy I knew from another team and summer hockey was just not around anymore, and I did not even notice. But I went to where he works--I had an appointment--and I asked his friend, "Hey, where's so-ands-so.?" He said, "Oh, he is working with father in law now." And I took that at face value. But then I started hearing rumors, and the story sort of got out, child porn on line or something and a year in jail. Yikes! This other guy who had pissed me off for pushing me into the boards for no reason--I hurt my wrist--was arrested and convicted of running a Ponzi scheme on his in-laws, lol. I guess he took all their money and got seven years in the slammer. That one guy on our team that had been too drunk to play stole a bunch of money from the league and got kicked out. Then we got this one dude on our team, who played but did not pay--that pissed me off!!!--and took all the ice time--he was friends with the captain, was caught targeted young girls on the internet. I left the team before he was arrested, but it was a big story on local news, they tracked him down in Texas and dragged him back to NY in chains and is probably still rotting away in jail. So I don't think I can handle the drama anymore of being in a league, but I admit I still think about doing it.

I'm just getting back to skating after covid caused me to hang up the skates. I showed up at a drop in skate and potted six goals. I couldn't believe it. Yes the defense and goaltending was bad, but I had not skated in so long. Felt good. I am taking summer off and going to use the winter to skate a lot more as my cold weather exercise. Not sure about playing in a league, though. I'm not as competitive as I use to be and my tolerance for punks is WAY down, so I think its only drop in for me. Still, skating is a cool freedom, if that makes sense and being on the ice and playing is still a great joy.

And yet they just kept trying to do it. I sure hope we see some fresh ideas, play, etc on the PP

Fine, I'll take a fringe playoff team over a non-playoff team. Right? Let's not lose sight of the fact statistics are for losers. UPL was supposed to be a bust, too. How'd that analysis turn out? They have remade much of the team, did addition by subtraction with Skinner, new coach, good goaltending, depth at defense, and a couple of rising stars in Quinn, JJP and several others. There is reason to be optimistic. Get the PP and PK going and this team can actually be really good. And if it's a fringe playoff team this year, they will only get better with playoff experience. I'm loving this awesome summer, but can't wait for Sabres season to begin.

I would at least try, as an experiment, putting TNT in front of the net on PP. I think he might excel at that, like maybe, Dave Andreychuk? He has good hands, good reach, is a big body for sure.

I hope Quinn and JJP are part of PP unit 1 or if one or both are on unit 2, they see a decent amount of ice time

Yup, then add in the new bottom six they have and hopefully they will take off being a tough, fast team that doesn't give up much, scores timely goals and shuts down the other team when it matters most.

Cozens, Quinn, JJP and Tage will carry the team offensively with the defense contributing, too. They will also get decent scoring from the other forwards. That said, I think the real improvement will come from this team giving up fewer goals. The offseason moves really point towards the Top Brass creating a team that is harder to play against, shuts down the oppositions scoring chances and tilting the ice in the other teams direction. If this means they play boring hockey and win a lot of games 2-1 I'm all good with that. For me, I'll love to see them take a 1-0 lead into the third and win the game 2-0 with a TNT open net goal late. Just beautiful!

And Make SS Fun Again?? 🤣