Marvin

There are also limits on how you can allocate that time. For instance, I recall that "travel days" can't be rest days...but they are useless for practise. Ralph may be a bad coach, but that break from COVID-19 exacerbated the problems and super-magnified every problem he and this team have. Moreover, because NJD suddenly couldn't score on a soccer net either after that hiatus with Buffalo, I figure that the hiatus was a killer for both teams: they were already rusty and then had a 2 week stoppage on top of it to lose whatever chemistry they had. The difference is, we could deal with just an interim coach right now. I don't care if it is Matt Ellis, Ted Nolan, or Pete DeBoer -- just get RK outta here. Just his presence is undermining the team.

Favourite TV episodes. Also some favourite YouTube subscriptions. More reading for work. Experimenting with 4-chord loops with a friend of mine who works with Columbia records to see how far we can subvert normal pop music formulae while writing songs which chart. I am mining pop rhythms, tempo, harmonies, instrumentation, etc. So far, he rejected my 12-tone row where the vocals were in 3 while the instruments in were in 2. My thing about rotating modes has some mojo, however.

The problem is that we are well past five, erm, three.

For the record, the NHL record for longest winless streak is 30 games by the 1980-1 Winnipeg Jets. I am betting on 82 more next season as well.

In the pool for, "when so the Sabres get a new coach," I am leaning towards the 2022 off-season.

It counts as 2 choices of a 3 goal loss?

The former "coed call-girl" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115917/) is a friend of mine. She told me that Buffalo has a thriving, if small, BDSM community. I imagine they bought tickets.

Jean Ratellle and Peter McNab are fine with me too. He passed Espo.

A few things: Sadly, I don't think the Pegulas think they are dimwits and the people in the hockey operation probably feel the same way. I think you underestimate the enervation of the players by the coaching. I am very system oriented, so I like to see what the players look like they are trying to do and how well they execute it. RK's is very passive and a mish-mash of systems. Aside from the McCabe-Ristolainen pairing and a few other bright spots, the players look like they tried to learn the system from an online course. It has flat out harmed the development of Dahlin, Jokiharu, and Olofsson. Speaking of coaches and psychology, given the node-dive which the players' performance has taken after Skinner's benching, I think that the veterans looked at that and thought, "yes, you made your point: winning doesn't matter as long as you get your way." In theory, Hall is playing for his next contract. I assumed he would push himself. Staal was a leader on Minnesota last year. It is hardly a stretch that he would play decently. Virtually everyone's play took a nose dive when Skinner was benched. I have to ask if Skinner being on the 4th line undermined their motivation. I suspect they will all play markedly better once they are moved and we we wonder, "where the **** was that guy when he was here?"

That was how I learnt how to use a music stand and a hangar as a make-shift antenna. Served me well in college in Cleveland when I wanted to watch HNIC out of Windsor.

Welcome back, even if it is only to vent.

We won't have to wait 7 more years for the Sabres, will we?

I would rather get Danault and Compher than have either of Hall and Staal next year. I also feel better about Cozens than Staal at 2C.

I take B. Money for Reinhart, Dahlin, and good character players throughout the line-up. Many solid and decent players got little more than the league minimum this year and teams are still stuck next year. Fill out a balanced line-up, please.

They listened to "Make a Move on Me" -- right album, wrong song.

Even the cartoons? J/K

The Doomsday Machine?

For those of my era: "M's 1 through 4 were not entirely successful."

The Sabres' season: Code Zero Zero Zero Destruct Zero.

I need the Amerks right now.

You just reminded me of a great quote from a mysterious "chess sage" from Alexander Kotov's _Think Like a Grandmaster_: "The presence of a plan _can_ make you look like a genius. But the absence of a plan _will_ make you look like an idiot." The Sabres look like the 2nd half of this saying.

I say this season is a pointless streak until they get a new, clearly qualified coach.

Evander Kane?

Sis. Boom. Baah. Look it up.

Thank you.