Marvin

So we actually have a chance at icing 4 NHL quality lines again this season? Heaven forfend!

Excuse me. I need to find some foil.

If we get healthy, does that mean Krebs goes back to Rochester?

Background: back in the 1980's, the Cleveland Chess association had teams of Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Georgians, Moldovans, and Armenians. The players went out of their way to let you know that they were NOT Russian in any way, shape, or form. The community centres flew their non-Soviet, non-Russian national flags. They are very proud of their national heritage. As a Sikh who sees that the Indian constitution does not recognise my religion and therefore denies part of my identity (particularly when the BJP are in power), I go just as far out of my way to say their names, cities, etc. the way they want. YMMV.

I like "Party in the CIA" better. JMO.

Maybe not: partial seasons between the same people but with different people handling different accounts.

Kyiv is Ukranian while Kiev is Russian. Similar things go for Beijing (Peking), Mumbai (Bombay), and Kolkata (Calcutta).

I would have Subban in Cincinnati. In his limited action with the Sabres, I could see why he was so highly regarded when he was drafted. He seems to need a bit of work on his confidence and a bit on his positioning. Both appear to be correctible because they were better than a couple of years ago. I still would have preferred Ullmark this year. I don't know about anyone else, but the team seemed to play with more calm, confidence, and verve when he was in there. I am not just comparing him to Hutton, Anderson, et al. Even back when he broke in, the team appeared just flat out better with him in net.

We are Sabres fans after the past decade. A glass half full looks 3/4 empty to us.

To quote Steve Martin and Bill Murray, "what the hell is that?"

Why should this game be any different from the last decade?

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I had forgotten that. Thanks for the reminder. I think those were recoverable. Indeed, the team was still competitive and just needed to handle things a bit better and they could have developed into a real threat. But I can make your argument too.

That is an interesting analysis and food for thought. Thank you for that perspective.

This brings up a interesting point -- what was the beginning of the end? I think the original distal cause is The Tank. But the most important proximate cause was the trade of Ryan O'Reilly. It's not even the return; it was that it signified the first rebuild of the rebuild -- and was entirely unnecessary. I still can't believe that XGMJB was trying to trade O'Reilly before the TDL. How dumb is that? Once that happened, we were in for more suffering.

The person in question was Jim Balsillie. He offered $250M for the Sabres only.

I am not allowed by my religion to take the hallucinogenics which you are taking. Not enough people care, taxes are too high, the business climate is too bad, the politics are too liberal, the city is too small, the residents are too poor on average, and the team has been too bad for too long. Unless the Pegulas sell to someone with ties to the city, the Sabres are gone.

IMHO, any sale of the Sabres or the Bills to someone without an attachment to the area is a reason to expect them to move -- and anyone who honestly thinks otherwise is flat out delusional and needs to check into whatever version of Arkham in your locality until you can deal with reality. Period. There is no good fiscal reason to keep either team in this small town in a high tax state. Any businessperson without an attachment to Buffalo should move the team to states of the future out of states living in the past. The ONLY reason the Sabres might stay is that the Buffalo diaspora has that much of an effect on the ratings and the NHL commits to Buffalo like it has committed to Phoenix. Houston and Austin are far more attractive as markets than Buffalo.

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Houston or Austin.

They're too dumb to play with themselves.

Welcome to the board. I love your user name. I used to joke that the one end of the Aud appeared to have been designed by a dare-devil skier.

The advanced stats with R2 in Eakin's current spot are good, though.

We need an expansion on energy policy. Nuclear, solar, water, wind, natural gas, fracking, the lot. It is not only Europe whom we need to supply. We might need to help out South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, and others in southeast Asia. (I deliberately used a phrase which will give those who lived through the Vietnam era some chills.)

They are calling up their heavy armour. Our NATO allies replied by supplying Ukraine with shoulder-mounted anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.