Pimlach

Division game. Home game. If this team is ever going to insert itself and make a statement this would be a good game to do it.

Dunno. When I google it I find that the slang “vibes” for vibrations was a popular term and a part of the mid 60’s counter culture. I can’t believe it was not ever used in 50’s by beatniks and/or Jazz musicians.

I grew up with TV "snowy" black and white hockey games that I picked up from the roof top antenna from Canadian airwaves. Great winter nights.

I agree that Cozens shows no apparent size/strength changes from last year to this year. He has a frame that can get stronger. It will take work. How about for next off season - less time in Yukon, less time in Europe, more time training with NHL players and coaches, more time in WNY.

Rewording - I see him peaking and being a better rounded player later in his career.

When Booby Orr was 22: GP G A Pts PIM 78 37 102 139 91 There was no one like him.

All true. I can see him as a late bloomer with a long career.

He is young enough to have had a Buzz Lightyear toy.

Eventually yes, his last year with the Isles was his highest PIM in a season. He definitely got meaner with age and confidence.

Like Jerry Garcia.

You data translates into what i see. Quinn needs to shoot more. Kulich is firing the puck like crazy and he is helping his line. Quinn is either passing up chances or thinking to long. His role is to score goals, he can also create - but that should be secondary to him.

Brian Wilson making Good Vibration at Capitols Records Studio. Conducting the session drummer, making multi-layered vocal arrangements - there were more voices than tracks to record on back then. Good Vibrations!

You can say it. Lets see if he can do it. I see him starting the year in Rochester. After that, its up to him.

I hope not. That means veterans like Zucker and Greenway are gone and more reliance on developing kids in the NHL. A bad habit for this team that needs to end. He has to prove he belongs in NHL.

So Rochester next season then.

I am sticking to looking closer at Lindy and the team after 20-25 games. Yesterday they showed they can play NHL hockey, now it is a matter of being consistent and hard nosed about it.

This happens all the time over the decades of watching hockey. I doubt that the old powder blue Pittsburgh Penguins knew that Rene Robert would score 40 goals and 100 points either.

If McLoed helps get us to a playoff berth after 13 years of pain then the trade accomplished something. If Savioe become a star and the prospects that we kept do not, then that will be debated for years to come, but you have to do something to help the team right now. There is no doubt today that Savoie is not NHL ready right now and that Kulich appears to be showing us that he is.

That will impact your guitar playing.

I had to dress for school and church. For Sabres games I wore jeans and whatever. When I was old enough to drive I always got the New Years Eve games and I got to take my GF into the Aud Club. I had to dress up to go into the Aud Club, jacket and tie required.

Savoie may end up being a very good NHL player someday - and so might Cozens, Quinn, Kulich, Östlund, Benson, Rosen, Wahlberg, and Helenius. But we cannot play all of them on the same roster. The trade of Savoie for McLoed was to get better right now, and pave the way for better development of these younger players in the future. The Savoie trade is about the next 2 years for Buffalo. For Edmonton they have a future piece that might be a good one.

I did a double take on the Mutton Chops guy. Looks like this guy, from the exact same era.

centerpiece of the Eichel trade?

Whenever I see the crowds from the old eras I see people tended to dressed better in social settings (within the fashion constraints of the times) and there was far less obesity. Our food wasn’t contaminated like it is today.

Chars was a banger and a physical brute from day 1. He got much better when he became a smarter player.