Claude_Verret

There doesn't seem to be many Rutherford fans left in these parts.

Sabres fans who come to a message board devoted to the team 12 months of the year are very small portion of the total fan base. To you that seems crazy that he wouldn't know the team was for sale, but to your average Sabre 'die hard' it's not so crazy at all, especially ones who don't live in WNY. And I have no problem with challenging people, I just don't try to make a case with such flimsy evidence.

Right so instead of making the small assumption that he told a little white lie about not knowing the team was for sale, because quite frankly whether he did or didn't know is irrelevant, its better to make the huge leap to he didn't know the team was for sale and that is good evidence that he had ulterior motives for purchasing the team. Makes sense.

That is F'n fantastic, almost as F'n fantastic as no work for a week! :P I'm heading to the beach house for the week at Oak Island, NC and the extended forecast looks perfect for the entire trip.

With anything I just tend to go with the simplest explanation, or just take the guy at his word, when I have little other evidence to go on. So when Pegula says he didn't know the team was for sale I don't think that's totally out of the realm of possibility when he was running a company that he would eventually sell for billions. The Sabres were putrid then, and I'm sure they were off a lot of French connection era fans radar during that time. Another explanation was he did indeed know and wasn't interested because again he was busy building his fortune running a company he would one day sell for billions. Either way, and you'll have to forgive me if I'm not connecting the dots the way you have, but him not knowing the team was for sale in 2003 and therefore 'lying' about his passion as a fan is evidence that he bought the Sabres for reasons other than building a winner? To me that's a pretty big leap. As far as the fracking meeting I have read zero about that so you're going to have to explain why that's a scandal. Is it suggested that he broke lobbying laws by holding the meeting at the arena? I honestly don't know anything about this. Conspiracy theory probably wasn't the best choice of words on my part. It just seems that you often make random observations about the guy and always take the pessimistic view until he's ultimately built into the anti-Pegula. To me that doesn't make sense with such little hard evidence to back up all those individual assertions.

It's all about the methodology used to arrive at your conclusions. All those things that you believe could very well be the truth behind Terry Pegula's motivations, but there are also probably 10 other non-nefarious explanations for each of them that you could point to that are just as plausible. Why does everything have to add up to some grand conspiracy theory?

20 years ago I was a 1 or 2 (I punched a hole in a door after wide right). Now I'm an 18 to the letter.

Canes to unveil new unis.. http://www.wralsportsfan.com/canes-announce-new-uniforms-to-be-unveiled-at-june-4-event/12477424/

True. A few years ago my cousin bought a block of tickets for a Sabres/Panthers game for some clients the day of the game. They were $3 a ticket.

Facts like this are filtered from your senses when you are wearing special 'Pegula bad' lenses.

Just like Barbara Boxer wasted no time in using this tragedy to promote her agenda, but its only bad when the other side politicizes natural disasters.

We had a tornado come through my town two years ago, and although the devastation was nowhere near on the scale what we are seeing in Oklahoma, I will never forget that day, the color of the sky as the twister approached, and huddling with my terrified family in our crawl space. Luckily I only had a few downed tree limbs in my yard and my house came through pretty much unscathed, but some of the properties shown in this video are about a half mile from my house. The twisters that ripped through NC that day killed 20+ people if I remember correctly. I agree that you're probably more insane than brave to go out trying to get close to these things in order to film them. The one upside? I still have a bunch of free tornado firewood stacked out by the fire pit in my backyard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFz5NQ7fOa0

Our group just hired a woman who moved to NC from Oklahoma last year, I was speaking to her this morning and she said she would drive through that town every day and has friends who live there still. She has no idea how they fared though since communications are basically shut down. She said she is just happy to be in NC and away from the tornadoes..... until I told her about the hurricanes.

Following up on my F'N fantastic Friday post, the animal guy did indeed end up bringing a snake to my daughters birthday party on Saturday.... an albino reticulated python! My daughter was very brave to pose for a picture. He also brought an owl, lemur and porcupine. Great stuff.

That move more belongs in a hardcore gay porn flick. WTF?

Ugghh. I lost count of how many times my daughter had me take her on that ride.

Even the Vancouver media calling it a profoundly stupid play by Edler

Aaron Ward ‏@aaronward_nhl 4m Eric Staal arrives in Raleigh at 6:30PM,Scheduled for MRI right around 9AM Saturday.Diagnosis to come from #Hurricanes Medical Staff. #TSN

I believe that this is true. Last year I was at Disney World with my family and while we were having lunch at the Animal Kingdom our waitress noticed my Bills hat and told me that her husbands best friend, Doug Whaley, works for the team. Apparently they were roommates when they played college ball at Pitt. I asked her if she knew when he was going to get his shot at being the GM, and she said hopefully soon because 1.) He has had other opportunities and 2.) If he did get the GM position he would hopefully bring in her husband who is a college coach, but I have forgotten where.

I voted no. I like Weber, and agree we need more players like him. But he needs to bring more to the ice, not just the locker room to be captain material.

Looking forward to throwing my daughters 5th birthday party at our house this weekend. We are bringing in this guy to entertain the kids, but I'm not sure if he will bring the python or not. If he does it will freak my wife out for sure. F'N Fantastic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SkKdk6hByw

You go to see the Hip!!! Only show on the schedule for me right now is Southern Culture on The Skids here in Raleigh in June. At each and every show they play it states in their rider "if we can't throw fried chicken, there will be no show". That alone is worth the price of admission.

I've been forced to access that dark region of my brain these past few months since I've become involved again with a cell culture project. Nice. Outside of the phenol red, I've always thought that DMEM might taste like gatorade.

You doing transfections? OptiMEM rings a bell from when I was trying to stably transfect some 293 cells.

With our son my wife was extremely uncomfortable about a week before her due date, so I took her out to lunch for a spicy mexican meal. Her water broke that night. It's not terribly scientific, but we went for that strategy again with our daughter and it "worked" again. Her water broke within 12 hours of the spicy mexican food. I also feel the pain of those with shoulder issues, my shoulder is a frayed mess from being a pitcher in high school and some in college. I've learned to live with the discomfort.