Marvin

This seems spot on.

True, but apparently a couple of Darcy's best moves were Larry Quinn's suggestion. (The Drury acquisition was one.) This is friendly advice that goes back to rec.arts.startrek in 1987. Each BBS has its own gatekeepers, mods, and culture. If you go against them, you too can have your entire workspace filled with BELs. (My crime was not liking Star Drek: The Next Regurgitation.) SS is no different from any other social media. Try defending Obama's budget record on NRO or Trumps ideas about China on HuffPost. Whether anyone likes it or not, there are certain dominant narratives on any BBS like Sabrespace, whether they be accurate or not. Because what you wrote goes against their prevailing stances, the reactions were eminently predictable. For instance, I just blew up and said my peace a few days ago on one topic. It affected no one, but I at least put the truth as I knew it out there. Maybe you should just say your POV and be done with it. In these days of COVID-19 isolation, political polarisation, and frustration and a sense of hopelessness about the Sabres, I have come to expect much prickier behaviour in all social media. As Walter Cronkite used to say, "[T]hat's the way it is." So any minor factual good that gets coupled with a column which conflicts with someone's narrative gets you the reactions you saw.

If that's all it takes, I'm fricking ecstatic.

What is the 60th highest salary for forwards?

Given that Hutton's a goaltender, how did this not get discovered at his physical before he was signed?

IMHO, if the Sabres 1st round pick is low enough, JBottom will need to have three tiers of players for the following decisions: 1. "These guys are available at my pick. I have to take one of them unless someone decides to give me a present." 2. "I think these guys can help now even if I don't push, but if I get a fair offer for immediate help, I will use the pick." 3. "Oh, $#!+, everyone I really wanted a crack at is gone. I hope the trade I want is there for the pick." That means 2 tiers of players for the first round. For those who are better at this than I am (probably everyone), whom do you have in these tiers. Aside: I can't believe how many amateur draft-nicks pencilled in Reinhart and/or Cozens as #2C. The logic is that, "because the Sabres don't need to draft a C, they should draft..." If any of them got that indirectly from JNot, I am going to fricking scream.

Point of fact: Assuming it takes 34 games to win the Cup for a "steal", the Buffalo Sabres were 20-9-5 through 34 games in 2018-9 and 16-11-7 in 2019-20. So a team with ice time going to Sobotka, Sheary, Elie, Mittlestadt, Thompson, and the horrendous Scandella-Ristolainen pairing had a good enough record for as long as these playoffs will be to win the Stanley Cup. Just think about that.

I am not going to sit here and keep watching B. Thomas Golisano continually denigrated on these points. Here are the facts as I know them. Disagree all you like; ignore me, ban me, block me, who cares -- but these are unimpeachable sources. No, I will not take questions. Bolded: I have a friend who wrote the contract. The condition not to move the Sabres is in there and it should be iron clad. Moreover, Larry Quinn would not have signed off on selling his part of the team had that stricture not be in the contract. Moreover, the same friend was in on the contract talks between BTG, Jeremy Jacobs, and Robert Rich to ensure that the Bills do not leave. BTG was the point person for the group because he came out and said, "I would not allow the Sabres leave the area because it is bad for the area. I will do the same for the Bills," when asked after he sold the Sabres to Terry Pegula several years ago (I believe it was the next press conference). Moreover, as it turned out, because the Sabres were largely very good and entertaining during his tenure (remember the season ticket waiting list?), he did not lose money on the Sabres overall in any season after The Great Lockout. (Beforehand, he lost quite a bit.) Italicised: I know from one of Jim Balsillie's late friends (who got me tickets to the World Series in Toronto and has luxury boxes in ACC and KBC; I have known his son for almost 40 years) that it was he who offered BTG 50% more than the team was valued to sell. BTG had only one cast-iron condition: The Sabres could not leave Buffalo for 50 years, bankruptcy or no. JB balked. I have independent confirmation from multiple sources in the PHWA of these details. Underlined: The NHL went out of its way to keep the Sabres in Buffalo during the bankruptcy. Maybe after a decade of failure, we are not as important, but I don't think we've fallen off the table. Moreover, LQ will fight tooth and nail to keep the team in Buffalo if it comes down to it. That's aside from TP's daughters are big Sabres fans and view themselves as part of a Stanley Cup dynasty. (That last bit is first-hand from their mouths during the 2nd intermission of the game 8 April 2011.)

Does Dallas's 1999 win have one in the official NHL record books? If not, then no.

https://thedispatch.com/p/what-my-family-saw-at-the-nashville https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-center-is-not-holding https://thebulwark.com/its-a-set-up/ https://thebulwark.com/newsletter-issue/this-is-how-kent-state-happened/ Be careful of "spontaneous" protests which are not organised with help of local community leaders. Odds are, the best ones are organising with Law Enforcement to arrange peaceful demonstrations if the police are trustworthy. Aside from those articles, I have from several sources that: Organised crime is trying to whip up protests with the intent of instigating violence. In this case, the protesters are not just the pretext, but also human shields against cross-fire. Hostile governments are randomly dumping bricks, rocks, guns, etc. for people to "find" and then, once enough people are in the are, they instigated violence. They will shoot at both sides to make each think the other started it. Smaller groups (III-%ers, antifa-sympathisers, etc.) have been sending groups to different cities to shoot protesters or police, depending on their bent. Note that antifa-types are more organised in Europe; here they just import the talent to organise; they are looser but the ones from Europe spoil to instigate fights with police. White Supremacists are more organised but unlikely to fire on police. The incident 2 nights ago on Bailey was instigated by three people allegedly here from Minneapolis to "sell cigarettes." How do I know? When their pictures were on the news, a friend of mine went bananas because he saw them at Lafayette Square station in the early afternoon. I have similar contact from friends and family around the country.

Many coaches had interesting philosophies on handedness. Fred Shero believed defencemen and checking lines wingers had to play on the same side as their shot to dig pucks off the boards to clear the zone quickly. ("When in doubt, bank it out.") Al Arbour played forwards on their off-wing in the offencive zone but on their normal wing in the defencive zone. Lindy Ruff used to mess with goalies' heads by having an all LH PP and an all RH PP. Centres moved to wing depending on their shot and usage. In 1972-3, the Sabres had only 2 RH shot wingers for part of the year. So the French Connection and the Luce line got them since they got the most ice time.

I agree. I think the pluggers have to reflect more on the game, how they succeed, etc. than the super-talented. I have seen this with professors in college, coaches in sports, musicians conducting orchestras, etc.

Tops as both players and coaches are few. You can add Jacques Lemaire, Jack Adams, Hap Day, "Gentleman" Joe Primeau, Cooney Weiland, and a few others. Most good coaches were at best above-average players. Guys like Lindy Ruff, Al Arbour, Carl Voss, Al Arbour, Joel Quenville, Pat Quinn, etc. are far more common.

If the guys in the arena I know can be believed (variously, fans, Sabres employees, visiting hockey people), it was rumored all 2017-8. Rumours were particularly strong at the last home game before the TDL, there were at least 4 separate discussions in different sections about the rumored return for ROR. FWIW, one guy in a marketing booth (Sabres employee) held court about one rumour (Carolina?) and said that JNot initiated the idea and that Pegula was OK with his judgement. At the Dahlin draft party, at least 3 different rumours on trades were discussed by the ushers and guards. One person was on the phone with one of the draft guys at Rogers said the trade was 3OA for him if Montreal accepted. He yelled it and for the next several seconds, people came stumbling helter-skelter out of the port-a-potties asking for confirmation. (I was in line.) Based on this and other information, my theory that fits the facts and hints as I know them is that JBottom felt he needed to trade ROR (3 different reasons cited, NONE of which were that Eichel and ROR did not get along -- according to my sources). When it was coming to the bonus, Pegula said, "trade him before the bonus or keep him all of next season." And here we are.

After listening to his press conference, I think he's counting on the line-up above with Tage instead of a Vesey-type addition. ⛳

If he offers Reinhart a Skinner contract, I think Reinhart stays. Less than that? Decreases to 0% at $1.5M less than Skinner.

In my case, SPF: Stupid, Prideful Flippancy.

The Master: As my will, so mote it be. Coven: Io evohe. (Repeat 12 more times while The Master summons the Daemon with the incantation below.) The Master: Ogo terus sawb, maleht t'new yram; tah tereh werev ewons saeti h'w'sawec eelfs tib -- malelt tiladah yram! (Coven chanting stops) The Master: Eko, Eko, Azal! Coven: Eko, Eko, Azal!

I feel guilty for wanting to fire Darcy. I can't believe it has got this bad.

Thank you to all those who gave me a preview. He should run for political office because he spun failures like they were successes. Both @PASabreFan and @LGR4GM really cut through the malarkey I heard. He kept mentioning the same young forwards for next year. He chose to ignore the assertions that the team has not been a real NHL team for his tenure. If this keeps up, I will need to change my uname to "Marvin" and have Stephen Moore's voice as my avatar saying, "I think you ought to know that I am feeling very depressed." ⛳

Nope. Before The Great Lockout, regular season hockey was buried in hook-and-hold. It was just that much worse in the playoffs. For years, one of the selling points on semi-skilled palookas over smaller skilled players was that he was a "big, physical kid." It had been so bad for so long that long-time people on places like hfboards think that big, immobile players have the "right" to just grab players who are faster than they are. Posters on Spector's Hockey called the 2005-6 Sabres "pond-hockey pansies" and couldn't believe Lindy Ruff could coach such a team.

I guess someone twisted his arm to bring in Josefson, Griffith, Sobotka, Frolik, Simmonds, etc. and to keep Mittlestadt and Thompson in the NHL. ⛳

Thank you. The obsession with size is a leftover from the hook-and-hold era.