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RJ, let's not start this Svaboda thing again.

You caught my drift.

Is it disrespectful to drunken scream during the national anthem?

RJ sporting a corduroy jacket. I had one of those in high school in 1979.

Why not. They're Hughesless right now. I'm sadly reverting to last year. Let's at least see an entertaining game.

Karen Carpenter only looks thin when she stands Close to You.

What frustrates me the most about this team is an uncanny ability to miss the net. I find myself longing for Pommers to shoot directly into the goalie's crest.

Pretty sure no one on this year's team will outperform Bert, Rico or Gare.

It helps when you get these guys in the first 4 drafts: Gilbert Perreault Rick Martin Craig Ramsay Bill Hajt Jim Schoenfeld Larry Carriere Peter McNab Lee Fogolin Danny Gare

Possible, but not likely. I don't see him as being part of the problem. The Fin on his right side, that's another story.

Apollo 13 and last night's game. One disaster averted, and one disaster realized.

I was lucky as a kid. The Sabres practiced at the newly built Tonawanda Rec Center in NT (mid 70's). That's where the NAHL team, the Buffalo Norsemen, played their home games and not coincidentally provided my avatar. I used to go there as much as I could. I have a fond memory of Danny Gare and Rick Martin standing at the goal line at one end of the ice and firing wrist shots the full length of the ice trying to hit the cross bar at the other end. They must have had a few buck riding on it. The day I saw this, Gare hit the crossbar first. Rico was pissed and launched a slapper that went over the glass and splatted against the cinder block wall. I can still recall the noise that puck made. And that same puck also made its way into my pocket.

I remember being ecstatic getting tickets to the annual open practice. No way to get a ticket to a real game back then.

This one's for @R_Dudley. Don't mean to turn this into a reminiscence thread, but it makes me feel better after the travesty that is this year. And who doesn't love the 70's Seals.

Goalie equipment hasn't evolved over the years much, now has it? And those spears at the bottom center of the net are gone. I think Mark Howe got seriously injured on that spear if I'm not mistaken and they changed the nets the year after.

Saw in the BN today that an Illinois-based company, Gerber Collision and Glass, has acquired Carubba Collision and its network of 18 stores. Next season, I think BOGO will be the first winner of the Gerber Collision & Glass award.

P-Mac was always a dman.

This thread is actually more entertaining than last nights game thread!

That one and Robert's fog game OT goal.

Doesn't look like Josh. I think that's Josh on the right.

That's my guess. I remember Geuvermont always had a mustache.

Clockwise from left: Floyd Smith, Shoeny, Hajt, Hawk, Fogolin, King Kong, ?????.

Great find Sauve28! Brings back some good memories.

I remember Eddie pushing The Pop Shoppe commercials in the 70's.