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The BUFFALO media are hard? Really? The pressure from the fans is apparently tough because we are so desperate for a championship. The Buffalo sports press are only hard when you are Tim Connolly they are on a vendetta.

Ad arguendum, if we get a 2C, a bottom 6 C, and slot Cozens on 3RW, the line-up is less wretch-inducing: Skinner- Eichel-Reinhart Oloffson-2C-Johansson Kahun-3C-Cozens Thompson-Lazar/Asplund-Okposo A decent 3C should not be hard to get. It's the 2C that's the problem -- again. Hell, it should not be as hard to fill out the bottom half of the roster as Botterill made it seem. IMHO, ANY potential 2C, even Strome and Domi, should be an option for the Sabres. Heck, getting a pair of 3C's would be an improvement. I have preferences for Danault and others, but beggars can't be choosers.

If that comment is true, then his reputation as a good GM should take a permanent hit -- but it's not happening. That is such a good trade for the Sabres that could have helped offence, keep Pilut here, balance out the defence, and, ugh, I just want to cry.

It is possible that if Tampa wins, then their players on the NTCs might be willing to move to the "right location." High state taxes and a dysfunctional organisation are not optimal selling points, though.

Are you clairvoyant? It's like I wrote this.

He is from Buffalo. He was in Austin for a while and lives in Boston now, which I think explains his accent. He's had that guitar for at least 15 years, so it's distressed for a good reason. 😉

If this rumour is true, then he deserved to get canned. You don't say things like this to a co-worker, let alone a boss, unless you want to get canned. The more interesting question is if this rumour is false (i.e., either the original source is mistaken or the reporter had it planted on him/her), then the more interesting question is why the originator create the rumour.

This is where i was with LOG - I will live with their offencive deficiencies (and all three were trending towards 25 points this season, which is above 25% of all forwards) because they got singularly unfavourable zone starts and match-up assignments yet were better than even-money to end in the offencive zone against top lines after each shift. On point-scoring alone, they come out as the highest-end 4th line. Add their defencive prowess and ability to flip the ice and you have at least an average 3rd line.

Wrong. 😉

I told Greg that it has been getting a lot of play here. I e-mailed it to the Sabres a few days ago. Let's see if the marketing department has any brains. https://makeagif.com/gif/brain-and-brain-what-is-brain-ll8qfv

Now you can listen to it specifically: And a couple of other tracks for natives, expats, etc. who love Buffalo: And a paean to his home town:

The draft discussion more resembles The List of Adrian Messenger.

We still would need a centre. Hence... If memory serves me right, the one potential hitch for us is that he is 1 year to UFA. True, but Darcy wanted him to as a partner for Myers. Here, we would need to move both Ristolainen and Montour to fit his likely salary. Can we live with that?

Just as Yes, (Prime) Minister was the place where British civil servants leaked their frustrations about the government (including TWO of Thatcher's cabinet), Barney Miller was a place where honest, real cops could vent about their frustrations about public policy, police actions, etc. The Season 7 opener was the greatest example of the show and its writers being spokespeople for honest cops. I think that Barney Miller is far better than the sitcoms that critics love. Few series wear as well at it does.

Did you know that Barney Miller actually affected public policy? Start of season 7. Now, there are talks about rethinking the police to have specialty squads for dealing with civil problems after things like shootings.

The one inexpensive purchase that we might be able to make with a UFA would be an G.

The problem people seem to have is that the players and coaches are bringing their politics into the discussion. There is no dodging it: this is Colin Kaepernick writ large. Some people don't want their sports enjoyment sullied by the grimy world of politics. IMHO, this is a forlorn hope. I expounded on this at length on the politics board, so I will not go into detail here. For those who have left over the politics, I hope that you will all be back if the Sabres make moves which make them sustainably successful for several years and that they actually manage to be as successful as people like me expect of them.

I am a believer in ensemble play; the Isles have that in spades.

Let us think about this systematically. If we ask a player to sign with us, what will the player do? Obviously, call his potential teammates and ask how they feel about how the team. Thus, KA, TP, and KP had all better have Eichel, Reinhart, Dahlin, etc. "on board" with their plans AND be happy with them. Now we need to compare the Sabres' situation and offer with others'. What could entice someone to sign with Buffalo besides money? I personally might like the challenge of being one of the guys who change the mentality, expectations, culture, etc. around team. Others may see that they are filling a glaring hole, like ROR and Binnington did in St. Louis. Honestly, I would not spend a ton of money on UFA's -- IMHO, many will use the Sabres' cap situation and recent history against us to extort untenable money and/or term. I would be targetting whom I think are 2C's in need of a chance and a G upgrade.

I so feel for you, SDS, and nfreeman.

From the main board, Around the NHL: '1) justification or not is not the "root" of the problem. The problem is the lack of morals, self responsibility, and faith( other than 1hr/week). If this were to change there would be much less police inter-actions and maybe less need for them all together. There's an old saying...."if you can't do the time, don't do the crime".' I have a different fear: I don't do the crime, but I do the time anyway. I have a perpetual fear of being killed by someone in authority over my skin colour and/or religious beliefs. If you don't feel this, you don't get it. '2) Why aren't these players protesting the violence that's killing innocent people on the streets everyday causing the police to get involved? There are many more people getting killed in this fashion.' Because I could die today from police bigotry and racism. The survival instinct trumps all others. Besides, the players DO work on those other issues. But they may have been or seen their friends been targetted by police just because of their skin colour. This has to be dealt with first because no one is exempt, no matter how law-abiding, we are presumed guilty until proven innocent. 'Just to add another point, I'm ok with equal justice system . However, my conclusion is if there is an inequality in minority vs white sentencing, then raise the white sentencing to equal that of the minorities and not the other way around. I'm sure that would make everyone "equally" unhappy.' No white would accept a black person shooting two white people at a Trump rally and just being taken in peacefully by the cops. But the white guy who shoots two innocent people helping blacks? He's a ****ing hero. And you wonder why people cheered OJ getting away with murder. That was the one time it went the other way.

I responded in the politics board.