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Is that better than anyone else the Sabres have had starting with the COVID season?

Even we who are oriented towards numbers know enough to not slavishly follow the numbers.

What is the schedule for round 3?

I was there -- and I find it hard to believe they were the same game!

Actually, I like that. It takes the guesswork out of whether or not "well" goes there.

Rah, Rah, Ra-cha-cha!

This is what I think eventually happens.

The Buffalo suburb of Amherst. Many of the supermarkets which got the threats yesterday are near UB, where a lot of international students, immigrants, and children of immigrants shop. I really need this game to be on tonight while I do some cleaning.

The Walmart across the street from me was one of those stores which was on that mass-murder's list, so it got a direct threat yesterday. I am going to be really glad this game is on.

Welcome to the board!

I am afraid that we will be stuck in this time loop for some years.

I used to watch every televised game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. About the same time that I got "male over 50 disease," I found that the late games were too late for me.

Ted Darling used to call them "deciding games."

Should be. 2006 -- Game 1 versus Philadelphia and Game 6 versus Carolina.

I don't think it is appropriate to put personal e-mails and texts into a public forum. And I don't know how to copy URLs into a textbox on my phone. Maybe I should just lay off commenting about Twitter-based hot takes.

Your last paragraph may sound ridiculous to younger fans, but you are absolutely correct. A lot of the growth of hockey in the Sun Belt is because Wayne turned LA into a real hockey market. Anaheim does not exist without him, for instance. Phoenix, Dallas, Carolina, Tampa Bay, and Florida might not even exist had he not been traded to LA.

Are the Leafs stupid enough to let him go?

The easy clicks for journalists making the deceptive and facile conclusion to pin this exclusively on Jack are getting out of hand. As if my opinion of most of them can go much lower... No wonder we are so damned skeptical of the "information" they put out.

DeBoer isn't great and he was a jerk about Lehner's injuries, but the GM and owner are the real problems there.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

Just wondering. How much longer does the flattish cap last?

Thanks for the find.

Saturday 7pm.

Bandits just won 18-17 and lead Toronto 1-0 in the Best-of-3. During halftime, Budd Bailey said there were some attendance concerns (e.g., Rochester) and that the league is looking for stability.

He might need to reinvent his game for the NHL. He might be more of a scorer in the AHL, but he needs to work on his defence and be more of a checker with a bit of a scoring touch in the NHL.