That Aud Smell

Where are you seeing "outraged?" Other than from your own posts, that is. Chill, daddy. srsly

I don’t mean to cause offence, although I probably should have anticipated that I might. I’m just calling it like I perceive it: Power and Thompson seem somewhat unusual relative to their peers — or at least relative to how I’ve generally perceived pro hockey players. Sociologically speaking, anyway. I haven’t. I’ll keep an eye out for it.

i didn’t get it directly from them (i actually quite dislike them) — but their “reporting” on the silver on silver logo was everywhere.

You have my sympathies.

I think I found the source of my misinformation.

It's an accumulated sense of things. That wedding picture is consistent with it, I suppose. Moreover, getting married nowadays when you're 22 years old is part of it. Dude just comes off super trad. As does Thompson. And like I said: I'm not sure what to make of it. Does it inhibit team bonding? If I'm being cynical and sh1tty about it (haha - which means I'm about to be): It's almost giving Mormon vibes. Then again, Brigham Young fields some competitive ass football teams.

I'm not sure what to make of how trad** two of the team's core players are/seem to be -- Thompson and Power. ** From the Know Your Meme website:

OH SH1T!! i got misinformed, for sure.

I saw something on Twitter yesterday to the effect that the team's confirmed through unnamed sources that the red helmet isn't returning this season -- that the alternate helmet will be a white helmet with the charging buffalo that's decal'd in that ... multi-tone grey/silver (??) that you see in so much sports merchandise nowadays. I don't give a hoot if the red helmet comes back. But, for the sake of the many Bills fans who want it, I hope they do bring it back at some point. Maybe with the new stadium?

this made me chuckle - not gonna lie.

UE? (Krupp?)

Like I said, this is something that a GM of a fringe major junior hockey team knows. "You can teach a guy to dial it back, but it's much harder to teach a guy to dial it up." I've been hearing variations of that for decades.

It had absolutely had the feel of -- "Jarmo, can you repeat what you just said [to the three guys nearest him] so we can get it for the video the social media team is putting out?" Also, the phrasing has a nice flair to it and Jarmo's a respected figure -- but that quote is the most basic personnel wisdom you'll ever come across.

Halak's retirement does prompt me to have some (renewed) hope for Levi in the NHL. Physically, they're almost carbon copies of each other. And I don't think there's any doubt that Levi is more athletic than Halak ever was. It just becomes a question of whether Levi can become as clever and skilled as Halak was.

White's not a journalist.

there was a conflict with a fishing vacation is my guess.

I say it occasionally, but it bears repeating: Insight like this is why I come here to understand what's going on with the Sabres. Also, your interest is piqued, not peaked.

As would I. I'm sure there are lots of times when Adams is speaking directly to Ruff -- without Pegula's involvement. But I don't view that as a reporting line.

Who's the guy who sounds vaguely annoyed with Jerry Forton? Is that Ventura? ("As I've been telling you, Jerry ... .") Also, I can't watch stuff like this. The fact that the Sabres have Forton cosplaying as an NHL team's chief scout (that's how he comes off anyway) is too much to abide.

OTOH, my wife never saw an Instagram photo of Roy or Vanek (duh) and said “oooh - who is he?”

I appreciate your digging into those #s, although I will admit confusion in how they’re presented. As to the “pretty solid” assertion: I’ll agree to the extent that, if Krebs is a fixture on your team’s 3rd line, then your team is most likely an ~82 point squad. Dude’s mid. I pine for the days of players like Roy and Vanek carrying the third line.

As a recovering Krebs supporter: I think people like him more than his game warrants because he looks the part. I mean he really looks the part. Dude presents as an Albertan fu*ked up hockey nose version of a Hollywood leading man. But he is demonstrably a replacement level (or worse) NHL’er. Time to abandon the man crushes. I mean … https://www.instagram.com/p/DGtlK4cOK83/?img_index=3&igsh=MXVmdmwyMG9wNHh3dQ== hamma nah hamma nah. But no. (Slide 4)

Christ, we’d have broken the drought if we’d had peak Halak over the past few seasons. Dude was solid for a long time.

oh we on that moneyball sh1t right now. we DOIN' it!! yeah - that's concerning.