Pimlach

PP give up another breakaway. Wow.

Skinner

Bills game at Sports Bar with Bills Backers. Sabres game at home in my man cave. Missed first period.

Light up the Power Play!

Very fragile Black Hawk.

Good evening Teammates, Punch checking in. Ok, we got the Bills off the Schneid, now it’s time for the Sabres to get the Double Dub. Go Sabres!!!! MUSCLE WEIGHT

Who is Raul?

Translation: Sabres win 5-2 Benson with a goal. Olofsson traded to Minnesota for Marcus Foligno on Monday.

Highways and interstates ruined the look of the waterfront. They actually made it easier to get downtown but the location of some of them is just wrong aesthetically.

It’s a shame he can’t be in Rochester.

Depressing thread. Bad karma, low energy. First responder sent. Bills 20. Jets 10 Sabres 5 Black Hawks. 2 Sabres gonna start a win streak

All the time. Next trip is planned for March but it could be sooner. I will probably be there for all of June and July again.

Yes. Skinner will be gone most likely. The Sabres, Adams in particular, have sold this waiting concept. No one waits, if you are not getting better you are getting worse. The waiting is the hardest part ...

I went to Schwabl's a few years ago after a golf game. It has nice neighborhood Buffalo bar feel and the RBoW was still excellent. Love Charlie the Butcher. I go to the one on Elmwood when I'm in the area.

Last year, with the Cup on the line, the Knights and the Panthers combined for 148 minutes in penalties in game 2, second most in NHL history for a Cup final game.

The only worthy emoji is the Stanley Cup for Peg. Fantastic!

A confident and experienced NHL coach will request similar changes. A first year coach or a desperate retread will go along for awhile. They talk about these needs on TNT and NHLN and on almost every national outlet in Canada and the US. Everyone is wrong accept Adam’s I guess?

He is still a good poster though.

I really like your optimism but the last paragraph is nonsense. You want to improve the team right now: 1. Get an NHL goalie 2. Improve on the bottom 6. Replace Krebs, Jost, KO, and VO with better players. Collectively they are not good enough, you can see it every night. (Actually, Jost is at least working hard). 3. Add a tough stay at home defenseman to the mix To do this some current roster players, some draft picks, and some prospects, will have to be moved. We have plenty. Why do we need to wait another 3-4 years? So some "prospects" will make the team and join a veteran group that has never accomplished a thing? Just like Eichel and the old core, we are going to kill the current core. In 3 to 4 years Dahlin, Tage, Cozens, Mitts and Power will either want out or they will stagnate as players if we continue to lose and not make the playoffs. No one will want to play in Buffalo accept for marginal NHL JAGs. A GM that can get the right chemistry and skills is what we need most.

@Taro Tis puking on my explanation, apparently not a fan of the DeLuca .500 method.

Gentrification marketing it is not. The names go back centuries, before gentrification was a word. Canalside was actually named in 1825 when the Canal opened. The canal was filled over in 1920. When you were in Buffalo its name and its purpose were gone. It was revitalized in the 00's and today it is a place to go for activities on the waterfront. IMO they did a great job and there is more to come. Volunteers are building a canal barge at canalside right now. You can go there, learn some history and watch them build it. Or you can volunteer to help. https://buffalowaterfront.com/venue/canalside-longshed https://buffalomaritimecenter.org/erie-canal-boat-seneca-chief/ Cobblestone was a dead area when you were there. Another neighborhood that developed off of the success of the harbor in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Today it is an example of reuse and fix up, not tear down and throw away. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=80055 https://www.visitbuffaloniagara.com/businesses/cobblestone-district/ Theatre District has always been called that, at one time in the 1900's there were over 50 theaters there. Today there are just a few. The area is cleaned up, well lit, and the few theatres left are doing ok. There is room to grow this area. Fruit Belt is a name for a section of the East Side that was at one time in the 1800's orchards planted by German immigrants. The street names reflect that. It has been a poor neighborhood for a very long time and it still is. It is adjacent to the growing downtown Medical Corridor.

7-9-1. Rico is using the DeLuca .500 scale to get to 3 below.

Left in 1981. Wasn’t there much in the 80’s either, I was a rolling stone back then. Was there more often in the 90’s. Even more on the 00’s. I am there almost half of the year these days. I saw the revitalization and it was long in the making with some missed opportunities Nothing in the 80’s, almost nothing in the 90’s. Since the 00’s it’s been getting a cooler vibe and better all around. Summers are fantastic - lots of outdoor concerts, festivals, diverse activities for all ages and interests, and very comfortable weather. I spend most of my summer there. We love North Buffalo and Elmwood village. The Parkways leading to Delaware Park and the Art Gallery. The waterfront is nice for the first time in my life. I go down there often. I spend time in the south towns on Lake Erie, in the city at the harbors and at Canalside, down the Niagara River, I visit the Falls, I go to Canada - especially to Niagara on the Lake, we like Lewiston, and Wilson on Lake Ontario. I would call the Metro rail a failure since it killed a portion of downtown just to build it. It goes to UB Main Street and stops. Lots of other reasons to not like it, but it’s something I guess. Buffalo style food is very good in general Paula donuts, pizza logs, chivettas, are not the reasons why. There are some great restaurants, and of course the staples- wings, beef on weck, Sahlens hot dogs, pizza and subs … There is a lot of Italian and Greek food, plus Polish and German , and now other kinds of food brought by immigrants from Central America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Several excellent breweries in WNY as well. Pretty good music scene. Lots of free live music in the summer. I caught some former members of Gamalon playing at The CPG last fall, that was a treat. We saw Peter Gabriel there recently too. Excellent art scene, AKG, the AllenTown art festival, Elmwood Ave shops and boutiques. Cool Urban art around Hertel and at Riverworks. Lots of people visit Buffalo for the architecture tours, most of the folks living there don’t even know much about it. Bills and Sabres dominate the sports scene Bison games in their pretty ballpark are nice Bandits won their league again last year. I was downtown that night They have a passionate fan base. UB shows signs of life in football and in hoops at times Lots of Colleges and they all are growing. This keeps the city hopping and brings in new ideas. Many city neighborhoods are still lovely, and many more need help. You can see signs of resurgence in parts of the West Side. Pegula helped a lot with Harbor Center and Canalside and other projects. Buffalo is better now than I can remember in terms of places to go and do that are in the city or very close to it. There is a lot more there, and lots of potential. The best thing is it’s small size compared to other major US cities. Buffalo has big time amenities in a small easy to manage package.