Broken Ankles
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45 minutes ago, Eleven said:
St. Paul. I suppose that technically Bloomington was a suburb of Minneapolis and not St. Paul, but I'm not being too pedantic here and I doubt that PA is.
Against the Islanders. Don’t remember but Elliotte Friedman wrote about it after the game in Saskatchewan. I guess the turnout was below expectations.
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16 hours ago, Ducky said:
What I'd be worried about is what this trip does to the schedule.
I didn't like the Jets going to Finland last year and was jumped on by Jets' fans when I mentioned it. After the games, most everyone was complaining about what it did to the schedule.
I assume you mean this...10 games in 17 days. This is great news for the fans, but three back to backs could impact the results. Interesting to see how Ralph addresses this "Load Management". Will our 30+ players get a night off on these? I'd like to see it. Keep guys like KO and Vlad as health scratch. Give guys like Lazar a chance to play.
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1 hour ago, New Scotland (NS) said:
So, did the big quake happen and Vegas is now the West Coast? IMHO, to officially qualify as on either coast, one has to be able to see the ocean form their living room.
? (I'm on Windows 7 right now, so that is the winkie thingie, I think. At least, it should be).
South or West of the 405 (aka OJ ?) Freeway is how I determine if your coastal. Vegas misses by a few miles.
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7 hours ago, darksabre said:
The Billebeino brand really seems to have grown. They place a big focus on circular manufacturing processes and I think that's really important. It's an interesting experiment to see whether a brand can grow itself by marketing the fact that its products are more expensive, better for the environment, and produced by workers being paid a fair wage. Credit to Ville where it's due, he clearly has a passion for it. Sucks he had to be such a mess here as a hockey player.
Another interesting element to his Business Model is while these clothes are "extremely over-priced", if you return the items you are unsatisfied with, you are refunded 1/3 the replacement value (annualized of course). And while there "seems" to be a higher level of quality with the manufacturing, with an expected lifespan of 6 years, most people are returning after three years.
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10 hours ago, Brawndo said:
He has been their best defenseman
Come on Brawndo, you know that Joker is just riding the coattails of Marco, the analytics darling of 2019. Let’s see some evolving Xg charts to prove it. ?
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5 hours ago, msw2112 said:
Great topic. It is my life! I live in Arizona now, so I'm usually at work when Sabres games start. I also have family responsibilities when I get home from work until the kids go to bed, so I often don't get to sit down and watch a game until 8 or 9 PM Arizona time, which can be 10 or 11 in Buffalo. The game is long over. I have to live in the bubble and not look at my phone or someone will ruin it for me. Even thought I have turned off all "alerts," my friends like to text when a Buffalo team does something good or bad. Same goes for football. Bills games start at 10 or 11 am (no Daylight Savings Time here, so it varies by an hour). It's often difficult to have all of the Saturday or Sunday morning responsibilities out of the way and be ready to go by that early start time, so the DVR comes through for me. I do prefer to watch live, but with fast-forwarding, I usually catch up to live sometime in the 3rd quarter. It allows me to zip through the first half commercials and halftime.
I also very much agree with the earlier post about MLB games. The DVR allows you to fast forward until the point where the game becomes interesting. I just can't spare (nor do I want to spare) 4+ hours for a baseball game, but the late innings of a close World Series game are entertaining.
The DVR also (as someone else mentioned) sometimes spares some agony. I was able to fast forward through most of the Sabres-Caps game the other night. It saved me a lot of time watching a putrid game. If, during my fast forwarding, it looked like the Sabres were going to get back in the game, I could have switched back to regular speed and enjoyed it. Unfortunately there was no need.
My 80 year old father often texts....(too often in the last few years)..."Did you watch the Sabres game yet? Don't bother". As you might guess, he is Live Only for all sporting events. He will acquiesce when visiting his West Coast family, but it destroys him inside.
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45 minutes ago, Let's Go B-Lo said:
This. I always start an hour late and end on time. It's like time travel. I see the whole game but don't have to watch the commercials or intermission BS. Plus when you have an 0-4 1st period I reserve the right to watch it in fast forward to see if anything changes. When it does not, I waste less time on a horrible hockey game.
+1. Especially baseball games, which are taking 4 hours these days making them almost unwatchable.
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Just curious. Where do you stand on watching the Sabres? I’ve seen comments under the Game day thread alluding to being late for a game and catching only the last period. Why not record and watch the game in it’s entirety? As a left coaster for about half my life I rely on recording eastern time zone games and watching after work. I know not everyone has traditional cable, and streaming has limitations but if you do have a DVR option, do you use it?
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4 minutes ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
I wasn't a fan of Jack, singlehandedly ruining that PP, in fact, he and the whole team need to pick up the pace when it comes to passes and over decision making.
Hutton, cmon man, be better.
The shifted lines, don't look very connected yet.
Dahlin and Montour look good so far.
Well, Vlad looks equally disconnected as before. But at least it’s on the third line so I cannot complain. Sorry but cannot say Dahlin is good tonight. A few mistakes and no points, and he let the puck escape the zone on the PP. Montour yes, and considering it’s his first period of play that is something we should be excited about.
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Must win. The ugly kind is also acceptable. Another blowout will begin the Paper Tiger 2.0 conversations.
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James, Son of Alpheus - The Matt Ellis of Apostles.
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5 minutes ago, Eleven said:
Ok, so it's Ann Coulter punching a mirror. What am I supposed to derive from it?
Not Ann Coulter, it's clearly Kellyanne Conway. Evidenced by the lack of a reflection as she approaches the mirror. The mirror is a metaphor for the the barrier between the media and the White House. She passes through this because she currently blurs the lines between the two. Then the breaking of the mirror represents her clear violation of the Hatch Act, or a Law prohibiting the Federal employees in the Executive Branch from engaging in political activity. But I'm stumped how this relates to Risto as well.
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12 minutes ago, inkman said:
I always thought once the Hyman was gone, it ain't coming back. Maybe inactivity can lead to regrowth. ?
I thought the Leafs needed a rejuvenation this season. I just didn't know it was the vaginal type.
#NoninvasiveVaginalRejuvenation
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25 minutes ago, Let's Go B-Lo said:
Matt Ellis?
I would agree, although this board has reverence for the level of mediocrity of Matt Ellis. Lee Fogolin?
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24 minutes ago, Weave said:
This team has simply improved its depth to the point that Erod finally looks out of space.
He's Tim Kennedy. Nathan Gerbe. Jason Dawe. Dave Snuggerud.
Norm Lacombe?
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I need to see brown leather pads and a plain white cage mask. Please. Don Edwards will be there.
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16 minutes ago, Brawndo said:
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1 hour ago, Let's Go B-Lo said:
We will see. You miss by 1 and you are looking at 9-7 with the Steelers holding the tie breaker. Quite frankly the Steelers have done better against good teams than we have against lousy ones and are a handful of plays from being 5-2 themselves...without Roethlisberger.
Beating the dregs of the NFL isn't going to get it done. They need to beat a good team or two and Captain Happyclaps hasn't done that.
I like Coach McClappy. Can we agree on that? I’ll take your bet. Bills straight up against the Steelers.
The usual?
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5 hours ago, Let's Go B-Lo said:
For starters, I'll take the Steelers to get in over Buffalo. I see 6 more wins on their schedule right now and that's before we even discuss the 12/15 game where they host the Bills. Anybody wanna bet money on the Bills going to Pittsburgh in December and coming up with a win? Anyone?
This season has been all cute and everything but it ends on Thanksgiving. 4 straight L's to Dallas, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and New England put them, at best, in a must win situation v. the Jets in week 17 while the Steelers and the Ravens play each other for the division and WC with both holding tiebreakers over Buffalo should Buffalo lose. Think about that scenario for more than 3 seconds and tell me you still feel comfortable.
Steelers will have losses to Indy, Browns (away), Ravens, and either Bills or Rams. That's 8-8.
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1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:
I think Johanson combined with Skinner was a good idea. Playmaker and scorer combo. Sam on that line is not a sniper. Oloffson added as well gives you that but the line would be less physical. Skinner seems more able to handle himself and adding Sobotka (for now) gives a little more room for Johanson (who is surprisingly fast in open ice) and maybe protects his potential fragility a little bit. Jack is a complete player so needs less of that and hence Reinhart, more skilled but less physical, fits the role with Olofsson as a speed sniper. I wouldn't change the lines, unless someone can come up better than Vlad.
I agree. I like what Johanson and Skinner have done. Developing something. Their give & go against Arizona was a thing of beauty. But Vlad just looks lost in the offensive zone. Any benefit he make to the defensive responsibility is lost (plus some) in the offensive side. Maybe Tage can fill this void if he improves his defense on the farm.
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50 minutes ago, Tondas said:
So are the Biils and Sabres pretenders? This can't be what ONEBuffalo means.
I think there was a problem at the printer...it was actually phONEyBUFFALO
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2 hours ago, Let's Go B-Lo said:
The Bills are a complete fraud of a football team. 9 games left, they need to win at least 5. @New England is a loss so that means 5 of 8. @Dallas on Thanksgiving is a loss so that means 5 of 7, Baltimore is going to run the ball all over them so that means 5 of 6. Good luck.
They don’t need to win at least 5 games. They need to win four games for a wildcard birth. The AFC is not competitive this season. Assuming Houston/Indy are division and Wildcard #1, who else has an inside track to Buffalo? Trick question. Answer is no one. Today was disappointing but it’s not doom and gloom for the probability of a post season.
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Tape to tape. Try it, you’ll like it.
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2 hours ago, dudacek said:
I think the fact that Jeff, not Sam, has been tapped to drive L2 supports @nfreeman’s contention that Jeff is the better player.
But I think it has more to do with chemistry, whether that is driven by contract or less mercenary factors.
Players have talked about being able to talk to Ralph and feeling like he listens. I wonder if Sam and Jack talked to him about their desire to play together. I remember Sam’s surprise in training camp when a reporter told him he and Jack were being broken up.
30 minutes ago, matter2003 said:It was answered, several times actually. It comes down to wanting scoring on each line and also carefully managing offensive responsibility with defensive responsibility on the lines as well. RK talked about it at length a few times actually.
I would argue that a FL#1 of Skinner Eichel Vesey is more Defensively responsible, and would maintain chemistry. Evidence is such that Olofsson has been replaced many times for Vesey in close games. This would move Sam and Victor to FL#2 which would be slightly less responsible defensively but probably improve chemistry (MoJo and his countryman Olofsson) and improve offensive production. And Jimmy is a FA next year too. Why not see if he is motivated? Victor has done everything the Sabres has asked from a developmental perspective, which is why I think he gets the opportunity to play along side Jack over others. His wicked one-timer not withstanding.
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