Dr. Who

It's like discovering a rare coin amongst the loose change in the sofa. I'm really shocked how good this fella is turning out to be.

I see. I'm not normally a keen observer of precise emoji differentiation, but when I float over that sign it says skeptical, which is more negative in connotation than I would want to imply.

We need an "interesting" emoji as in "that picture might be a masterpiece, but I don't know enough to really comment, so I'm going with `interesting.'"

This is the right attitude, unless one is a masochist; then expect wins and enjoy the hell out of yourself.

Tage has been a shocking turnaround, to me anyway. So, I had already written Mitts off as well, so I feel as if we are almost playing with house money. It would be an improbable, but terrific catalyst to the rebuild if you end up with a 2C and 3C with those two fellas. More fun to hope so I'm going with that.

I really like those steak knife sweaters for some reason. I have a blank home goathead. Probably get a blank royal in a few years. I live in Georgia. When folks ask me about the goathead sweater, I tell them I am a devil worshipper.

In the olden days, I always equated that term with the likes of Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch. (And the groaner jokes in the early Bond films were cool, etc.) Sucks to get old . . .

The occasional manual malaprop is human, all too human. I blame fat fingers . . . though finger Alzheimer's is a good one, too.

I always suspected he was a vampire.

Jumping in; IDK, but the Vegas GM gave an interview where he seemed to me pretty clueless on any details. He appeared to simply defer to Eichel and trusted the player's judgement on the issue. Maybe that was a form of public evasion of the question, but he's a pretty good actor in that case. The Pegulas have been dopes with the Sabres. There's a decade of misery to corroborate that determination, but I am sympathetic to them here. I would have been ultra cautious as well, and their own in house doctor is supposedly an expert on this specific surgery. No doubt that had a lot of weight in their conclusions.

Bringing in some competent goalies under age forty ought to be tops on the to do list for next year.

I think it's a joke, though I've yet to find it funny.

Spelling fix.

Pretty low threshold for sophisticated vocabulary. + 5 for Harry Potter reference; - 10 for playing into hockey stereotype. OTOH, I really don't give a damn.

Finally, some substantive hockey talk . . .

If you are perceived as a winning culture or at least a team on the upswing, there will always be plenty of folks who will sign up for that. The perpetual losing and the stigma of a failed organization is what remains the perduring issue. Lot of new talent and more coming. Hopefully the Pegulas are patient and get it right this time.

The fact that the Sabres had reservations about a surgery that has never been performed on an NHL player would seem to make it an outlier from a rational perspective. I doubt it is really an issue for players unless they are meatheads.

I've no idea, but Emily Kaplan gave an interview on ESPN's The Point. I may have misheard, but it sounded to me like she thought the Sabres were the only team that really had a problem with ADR. Same show said Eichel will probably get the surgery in the next few days. Eichel gave an interview, pretty mellow, said only good things about Buffalo. May be insincere, I dunno, but was decent enough, imo.

You can probably get one cheap now.

In the context of all the circumstances, it is equatable and has the potential to play out well for the Sabres, regardless. It's not ROR stupid.

Do that and develop/acquire solid goal tending. (I have some hope for Levi/Portillo down the line.)

Young fella on Hockeybuzz who seems to me to be astute on talent thinks Krebs is a special talent; compares him to Danny B. If he turns out anything like Briere, this is a win. And now I don't have to worry about Buffalonil exploding.

I think we got Miami's best shot. They'd lost six straight to us, been embarrassed 35 - 0 in their own crib. That, and the interior of our o-line is just not good. Still believe we are the best team in the AFC, though they'll have to play a lot better if they want to win a SB. McD builds towards the post-season. It's plausible it will happen, though I'd love to find a better guard at the trade deadline.

Yeah, it jumped the shark for me in the later Peter Capaldi episodes, which is too bad, because he was an excellent Doctor. I tried giving Jodie Whittaker a shot, but it just doesn't work for me.