Sabres Fan in NS

What in the heck is up with Jack's hair?

NS back and fit for duty. So, ////////

NS back out for a bit ...

NS reporting for duty. So, what I miss? MUST SCORE MORE GOALS THAN MONTREAL!! GO SABRES!!

I'll just drop this beaut' right here ... IMO, this is the greatest goal in Sabres history. It was against the storied Canadiens and sent the Sabres on their way to the final. The second best goal in Sabre history was the May Day goal, as it eliminated those most dastardly of the dastardly Bruins after years of futility.

NS reporting for duty. Sorry that I missed the last 2, with Birthdays and stuff going on. MUST WIN!! GO SABRES!! ----- EDIT TO ADD: Very nice and informative GDT start @jsb ... (insert beer thingie here)

Thank you, my friend.

We will never know if PH was a bad coach. What I do know is that he asked his players to do things that they could not do, at least on a consistent basis. I'm not sure if that really reflects on him as a coach, or the roster? He did not change what he was asking of the players after it was obvious that they could not deliver it. It won't be a fair comparison if PH coaches another NHL team ever, since the players will be different and the results will likely be different.

NS approves of the bolded phrase. (insert something here). ----- The second best Sabre ever, in my humble opinion, was Gare. Maybe we should have an 'other' option and then a way to pencil it in there for each poll? In order for my vote to count I have no option but to vote for '11' twice, just like in the good ol' days in Chicago.

You should not to have Inky tell you. After all you made it up.

Damn you board software upgrade and the darn post merging feature.

I think the Leaves would have loved to not sign him this time around, but what could they do. There best shot at a cup in in the next few years and with him on the team. If the Leaves ever win a cup with him he will be traded that very offseason, maybe even before the parade. That's not to say that I think they will win a cup, as I don't.

And where is this Puzzles? That's the wrong spirit, but perfectly understandable. RaKru and the crew will beat you into submission and you will love it and learn to love the Sabres again.

What's the name of the bar?

'My baby drove up in a brand new Cadillac' ... ?

We are on post #950. Lets make a huge team effort and get this thing over 1,000. GAME ON!! MUST WIN!! GO SABRES!!

So far, so good, eh? @LabattBlue, you should disappear before every game, eh? (insert that winkie-winkie thingie here)

It seems only fitting that those dastardly Bruins should have equally dastardly announcers. They have always been terrible and always will be terrible.

That seems like a huge bargain for the Blues to me. I suppose a Cup (not cusp ... hey there @PASabreFan) will help convince a guy to give an extra large home team discount, eh?

Thanks. I just picked a significant date and said to myself that's it. I was not a heavy smoker, only 5 smokes a day at the time last year. I had quit for about 20 years when were first married and took it up again during an extremely stressful time ... my wife was basically held hostage in Sarajevo in 2005 and we had to hire and trust a Croatian thug / gangster to smuggle her out and into Croatia. Anyway ... picking a significant day (birthday, or something) may work for you. The folks around here really helped with support and one thing that @SwampD said really stands out ... he said what helped him was thinking of himself as a non-smoker and after the first week that thought in my head carried me through to now.

No matter how great the party is there is always some yahoo that will insist on tossing a turd into the punch bowl. (insert one of those winkie-winkie thingies here)

That's the spirit, my friend. Although I am pretty sure there should be no 'h'(s) in there.

My wife and I have been under a huge amount of stress for the last year and last months especially. That is not the fantastic part. The fantastic part is ... Tomorrow is my 55th birthday, which is OK. Tomorrow will also mark one year since I quit smoking. Fantastic, if I do say so myself. If all the stress of the last 6 months has not lead to my taking it up again I really think that nothing will. That said, it is an ongoing work in progress. I have not been very tempted, but in those few instances my wife really helped me through them. I had promised her last October 5th that I will not take it up again and for all my faults I am a man of my word and not just to her. After almost 31 years, many of which have not been easy, I would merry her all over again in a second.

You are not an idiot. You just missed all of the @PASabreFan sponsored training sessions, but you are in luck since the refresher sessions (not all SabreSpacers have bought into the RaKru thingie) are just about to start up. Registration is easy ...

Upon reflection this morning I think the best way to sum the game up is this ... Every single player was asked to do very specific things and were put into a positon to not only perform the things they were asked to do, but put into a position to succeed at it. Not one player was asked to do something they could not do. Granted it was one game, but the above is squarly on RaKru. The Sabres players were coached to win and they listened. This is some thing that has not happened in a very long time. RaKru took the roster as constructed and used it perfectly.