mjd1001

I can't get away from politics...stories about it, hearing everyones opinions about it. Is there a WEBSITE I can go to that talks about all other news (weather, feel-good news stories, news about traffic/weather/crime, sports, things like the War in Ukraine WITHOUT giving a political opinion, business, etc.) I'm just so sick and tired of visiting web sites for news and just getting blasted with politics. Same thing goes for a news channel. I just want to be able to live a normal, functioning life in most ways without having politics blasted in front of my face. I'm just SO sick of it.

I think his loss will be the key loss that causes the Bruins to be a borderline playoff team, and maybe on the wrong side of that border. I know, I know, people say that every year, including myself. But if you think of all the Bruins teams over the past decade that were better than we all thought...and since they won the cup in the 2010-2011 season they have the MOST wins of any team in the NHL (585 wins). 3 presidents trophies. But, why was that? They have had 2 GM's and 3 coaches. Chara came and went. Tuuka Rask was a great goalie who came and went. Same with Tim Thomas. You know who some of the players with the most games played in that era were? In the top 20 games played for the Bruins over that time? Torey Krug. Brandon Carlo. Adam McQuad. Dennis Seidenberg. Greg Campbell. Chris Kelly. Sean Kuraly? Dan Paille. So what is my point? Kreiji, Marchand, and Bergeron CARRIED that team for over a decade. They probably carried the Bruins team more than any of us realize when you look at who came and went on that Roster. They are the top 3 in games played, 3 of the top 4 in goals scored. THEY are what this team was about the past decade. Not much of a coincidence that with Kreiji playing and the 'band being back together' this year, throw in a dash of Pastrnak and they had the year they had. Well, Bergeron is gong. Kreiji looks like he's gone too. Marchand is the only of those 3 left and last year he started showing the first signs of slowing down (he is 35 now). This team never took a long term and/or huge step back as long as those 3 guys were there. With 2 of them gone and the other aging, THIS is the year I think you see them slide. Maybe not out of the playoffs totally, but if they miss the playoffs I won't be surprised at all.

White jerseys at home. If you only have 3 guys on the ice and take a penalty, you play with 2. If its 3 on 3 in overtime and you take a penalty, you play 3 on 2. Take another penalty its 3 on 1. Don't like it? dont' take the penalty.

agree 100% I brought this up in a thread a few months ago. People say officiating should not decide the game and when you call a penalty late in the game or in OT of the playoffs, the officals are making it about themselves or they are deciding the game. I disagree with that totally. When a penalty that was called early in the game is NOT called late in the game, THAT is when they are more likely to 'decide' the game by letting players do things against the rules that they weren't allowed to do previouslly.

I'm kinda amazed than anyone is writing anything. Barring a trade of course, I would think that the entire goaltending situation can change in camp/preseason and nothing is set in stone. Performance in Camp, any new injuries, recovery from previous injuries, how hard they all worked in the offseason.......I would think they are so close in talent/past performance than the things I just mentioned above would determine the order of the goalie depth chart....I'm surprised if anyone in the organization would have it pre-determined.

Ottawa is better, but I think Tarasenko is a slight step back from Debrincat. You needed to replace him, but at this point in Tarasenko's career and with his health lately, he is for sure 1/2 step back. I do agree that I am more worried about Ottawa than I am about Detroit. Both have an advantage over the Sabres as they have been adding more Vets that are ready to compete "right now" while the Sabres are still sticking to youth/status quo a bit more. I do like the Sabres plan more...although It wouldn't surprise me if Ottawa jumps the Sabres in the standings (at least for a year).

Most of the episodes. Some of them I really, really love, others, not so much. Really strange with that show. I never know what I am going to get.

Length is becoming a big issue for me. If a movie is long (over 2 hours, or 3 hours for sure) I'm already reluctant to invest time in it. I like Sci-fi (especially the stuff in space) so right now the best thing I'm watching is Strange New Worlds. Each episode is independant of the others (not like with most 'shows' where the story goes across episode to episode) but the quality is so good that its like I'm watching a movie-quality plot but each one in an hour or less.

I lived on Cape cod for 4-5 years in the early 2000's. We visit Boston/Cape cod every year, and for my company I have to go for meetings once or twice a year in foxboro. In all the time, I never took a while watching boat. One of these years we really have to do it.

So so far: Line 1: Tuch, Thompson, Skinner Line 4: Okposo, Girgs, Jost Line 2: Cozens, Peterka "Quinn replacement" Line 3: Greenway, Mitts, Krebs The "Quinn replacement" comes down to a competition between: Olofsson, Rousek Kulich, Savoi, Rosen, Murray, Biro, Weissbach...am I forgetting someone? I think its Olofsson. Or you could move Mitts or Krebs up a line and the "Quinn replacement" could come from the other line....some candidates as above. If you move VO before the season, you could very well want to take a look at one of the other prospects anyway, and this gives you an option to do so. Anyway, If there are further injuries there will be an issue, but without further major injuries, I'm perfectly happy with Quinn's replacement coming from the current roster/candidates.

Not too worried about Ottawa getting him and in no way did I want the Sabres to make a play for him: -He's been injured a good ammount lately, and he's going to be 32 years old this year. -Over the past 4 seasons he has scored at an 27 goal pace (79th in the league in terms of goals per game). He could have one good year left, but he is no longer an elite scorer at 79th in the league in GPP and with his age/injuries likely to get worse). Last year he had 18 goals in 69 games in a league where scoring is going up. Again, not even close to what he used to be. -Wouldn't really fit on this team. So hes not BAD, just to me not a good fit on the Sabres and he can/might help Ottawa as a 2nd line player and a PP guy, but I don't see him making a huge impact for them. A one year deal, however, is a good deal for Ottawa to get him on. We already have our version of Tarasenko. His name is Olofsson. Tarasenko is pretty poor defensively, the advanced stats someone posted about him show it, and the 'eye test' shows he really doesn't put much effort in his own end. So he's not much (if any) better than VO there. Last year VO had almost double the goals per 60 as Tarasenko 5 vs 5, more overall goals, more goals per game. Over the past 4 years, VO has more total goals and they are virtually matched in goals per game. So Ottawa just signed a more experienced, but older version of VO.

As far as Boston, strange things can happen when players are forced to move up in the lineup...meaning sometimes 2nd and 3rd lines that seem really good in those roles you want to move up to a 1st or 2nd line role and it just doesn't work. When Briere and Drury left Buffalo, Connoly was hurt and Roy didn't quite look like the #1 center people were hoping he would be. Bergeron and Kreiji, have pretty much gotten top line forward minutes in the last 10 years for Boston (minus the year Kreiji went back to Europe). Its not just losing them that is the loss...you may very well find out that without them there, guys like Debrusk and Coyle (and others) simply are not even as good as you thought they would be when more pressure/more ice time/better competition is what they are facing every night.

Yeah, I think he and John Candy played multiple roles in the movie if I remember (not trying that hard to remember though.)

At night when people driving put their highbeams on when they see a pedestrian. I take a walk every once in a while at night. On the sidewalk (or bike/pedestrain path). Seperated from the road by a curb and often 6-8 feet of grass (sometimes with trees). Not on the road, not on the shoulder, but safely away from the oncoming traffic with zero issues and almost zero chance of coming anywhere near the oncoming traffic. Yet, poeple just LOVE to put their high beams on when they see a pedestrian on the side of the road, absolutely BLINDING that pedestrian (more than they would with oncoming cars becasue the high beams are often slightly aimed toward the right). I might be wearing light clothes so I can easily be seen without the high beams. Heck sometimes there are even street lights overhead that make me visbible with absolutey zero doubt. I see them driving down the road without them on, but once they see me, go ahead, BLIND ME AWAY even though I am 6-8 feet off the road and on the sidewalk. You aren't doing it to oncoming traffic of course, and it doesn't matter if I shield my eyes with my hand or even wave my hands at them to make it obvious I cannot see anything with those high beams aimed at my head...just keep those high beams on only to turn them off after you pass me.

Yes, same movie. Probably the worst movie I ever saw. The closest to walking out of a theater I ever remember (even though I was a teenager when it came out). It was so bad to me I felt embarassed watching it. Embarassed for the actors in it, especially Dan Akroyd. My cousin on the other hand thinks its good. But of the hundreds and hundreds of movies I have seen in my life, I think it is the worst.

As you mentioned, all other teams can have a similar list of "should have won" games. Also, if you bring up the 'should have won' games, maybe you should take away points for the 'should have lost' games. I'm thinking of the many games the Sabres played last year they won but were outshot and outplayed (just one example would be early last year where they played in Edmonton and basically got smoked on the ice by Edmonton but Comrie made over 40 saves to give them the win)

Well, like I said, its not AWFUL. There are some movies I felt like walking out of the theater or was embarassed to watch (Nothing but Trouble is one). This isn't that. You just have to accept what it is going into it....and then when you watch it be prepared to have a bunch of questions unanswered (like what happens to that character when the move is over? or why didn't they do that scene a little differently to make it a lot better? The message they are trying to get across would have been better if they did this scene differently, why didn't they?) The good news is its not that long of a movie, if you don't like it, you AREN'T stuck in the theater for 2.5+ hours.

Dale Murphy the baseball player? Off topic, but I think he might be one of the most underrated baseball players ever. I was a kid, but It just seemed to me like for the day, the value he was to his team, the way he played, his overall talent wasn't talked about much compared to many of the other stars of the day. Phenominal player.

See my post immediately above, just did last night. A little disappointing, the more I think about it, the less I like it. After leaving the theater last night I would have given it a 5 out of 10. This morning, I'm feeling more like a 4. There were so many places they could have re-written a scene and it would have been better, and honestly the 'message' they sent actually was kinda hollow and misdirected...as I think about it more and more.

I saw Barbie last night with the wife, daughter and her boyfriend. Let me say I'm not a person who analyzes movies too much, and I don't get offended or think an agenda is getting pushed on me. I might notice it, but I view it as entertainment. It was "Eh" or "OK". I was hoping parts of it would be very funny making it good for me. There were some kinda funny parts, but nothing that made me laugh, maybe just gave me a bit of a smile. The story was OK, but not that deep and a lot of loose ends were just left hanging. The 'message' to women/girls was there, but nothing that wasn't touched on before, and in some ways it was misdirected. The acting was good enough for what it was, but nothing where anyone in it seemd to be reaching deep down for anything. The actors seemed like they did 'good enough' of a job but nothing as a veiwer you could really 'feel'. So, If someone in your family really wants to see this..it isn't terrible/awful. Nothing in it was 'cringeworthy' and there is a bit of entertainment in it even for those outside of the target audience. I was just hoping for more comedy. I was hoping for a 'clearer' message. There was some, just not enough.

A great player. I'm not a huge NBA guy, but I do realize he is a great player, but I was always under the impression he was the 2nd best player on that team behind Tatum? $61 Million dollars a year for who might be your 2nd best player? Who is going into his 8th year in the league without a championship? I mean he's great I guess, just the number kinda surprises me...especially when Lebron, Curry, Durant, Giannis...all are making salaries close to that $40m per year mark.

Having lived near Boston in the past for quite a few years...despite being a Sabres fan I grew an attachment to the Bruins, so I probably watch/follow them more than any team other than the Sabres. With that said, this is probably a great time for him to step away. Last year in the games I watched, he was a very good player, but it was noticable he was a half step slower than usual, and that wasn't going to get any better another year later. The Bruins had a great year obviously and he was a very big part of it. But if I give my honest opinion, he wasn't the best defenesive forward in the league anymore. Mentally maybe the best, but physically on the ice his play was a half step behind his mind more than in the past. It might have been so slight of a dropoff that many people who casually follow the Bruins didn't notice it (especially with the team success) but I have a feeling if he played one more year it would have started to become more noticable to more fans. A great player on the ice for a long time. Good guy, and became a force defensively without the size and for most of his career the elite skating ability. He did it through hard work and knowledge of the game (of course, a good deal of talent, just not 'elite' talent)

I'm in my late 40's. Attened probably over 100 Sabres games in my life. Used to be a Bills Season ticket holder, probably close to 200 lifetime Bills games. Followed the teams since I a little kid (like 6 or 7 years old). Other than going to a Hills Dept store in Depew when i was a kid and getting a Frank Lewis Autograph there, never, NEVER met a Bills or Sabres player, or walked by one, seen one in public in any way. I would have thought just randomly I would have, but it just never happened to me (unless I am really not that observant and never noticed). As a matter of fact the ONLY athlete of any fame I saw while not participating in their sport was Tony Stewart (Nascar). He was doing an autograph signing at a Home depot about 20 years ago (Auburn Massachusetts maybe?). I was a vendor at the time in Home depot and I was workign on a Saturday and had to use the managers office to look up something, and he happened to be in the office sitting down before going to the signing. 10 seconds. Said Hi, he said Hi back. Again, other than that, I really tried hard to think of this but despite all my time following and going to sports, no casual encounters with any Sabres, Bills, other hockey players, or any other athletes at all. Now I'm kinda dissapointed in myself.

Saudi's trying to dip into other sports now....

I think he will take that money....I mean, how much less would he take? take $2m or even $3m less than that..and it doesn't guarantee you a cup...and if you dont' win one you would be thinking the rest of your life you should have taken the money. Take $4 or $5m less....I'm not sure anyone would do that and if he did, that might raise some pretty thick eyebrows with the players unions and other players around the league.