IKnowPhysics

Maybe just hire him as the PR guy. "This the Buffalo Sabres post-game press conference. All of your questions are ###### stupid. Don't you dare try to coach this ###### team. Proceed. Anything more? No? Don't waste my time. We're done."

A part of me would like to see Tortorella destroy Gleason, Sullivan, and Harrington at a press conference. That's the only positive I see. Stop counting. That's advanced statistics hoopla.

USPTO doesn't seem to indicate new logos.

This whole post is stupid because I've been convinced that advanced statistics are complete horseshit.

Right up top there kids:

Physicist here. 200mph winds generate a pressure of about 100lbs per square foot. The effective area of a the average-sized human from the front, accounting for the drag coefficient, is close to 9 square feet. That means in 200mph winds, your body would experience the weight of 1/3 of a Toyota Corolla on you, trying to push you sideways, which it would do very easily until you also started flying really quickly. It also means that on a wall or something with the area of a standard door, those 200mph winds are equivalent to dropping the whole weight of that car through the door. So that's why a lot of stuff gets destroyed. Then you factor in, with great importance, that objects with mass are also flying around in wind like that (like trees, animals, phone poles, roofs, and cars) and the chance that the Toyota Corolla actually comes through your front door goes up considerably. But's that's only based on wind speed. Damage doesn't exactly care which way the wind blows. Here's the difference between hurricanes and tornadoes with respect to damage and wind ratings: Tornadoes are very tight (< 3 miles wide) and have high sustained wind speeds. An EF-5 tornado has wind speeds greater than 200mph (like this one observed in Moore, OK, 210mph). Everything in its path gets wrecked, but the area is much smaller than a Hurricane. Hurricanes are very wide and have high short term wind speeds (gusts). A Category Five hurricane (like Andrew, 1992, 175mph) can have gusts up to 200mph. Not as devastating per square mile as a tornado, but the damage area can be enormous. Then tack on storm surge in coastal areas, flooding, etc. In general, hurricanes are more costly in terms of damage dollars because of flooding and enormous damage area. In general, tornadoes are more deadly because of the limits of advanced warning and the concentrated potency of destruction. Andrew was an extremely devastating hurricane, with 26 lives lost. The last EF-5 hurricane to roll through Moore, OK occured in 1999, with wind speeds of 302mph, and cost 36 lives. In general EF-5 tornadoes (9 in the last six years) occur with more frequency in the US than Category 5 hurricanes (2 in the last six years). Best you can do, in both cases actually, is be prepared and have a good warning system.

That blows.

Go back to your home on ###### Island. edit: Whaaaattt!? W hore is censored?! FACISM.

But but but he was supposed to land that unnamed #1 center with size, speed, grit, and leadership that solved all of our problems and he didn't! Then he threw Lindy under the bus to save his own job instead of resigning like a "real man!" I'm just so angry that he still works for the Sabres after 16 years of what I remember as a tremendous no-Cup-winning failure, despite the fact I've heard from management one hundred times that he'll be judged on his performance since 2011- I just can't cope with the fact that I have no managerial input into the team, so I'm really thankful that the local sports columnists argue snidely on my behalf as a ticket-buying fan! My only choice is to continue buying tickets and continuously post defamatory remarks on an internet message board that breed an unfounded narrative surrounding what I perceive to be incompetence on behalf of the Coach, General Manager, President, and Owner, and to finish it off, I'm going to get REAL butthurt when I read opposing opinions, many of which are well-supported by facts. Welcome to the Off-Season Show, where, because of the lack of news, we have nothing better to do than what's about to happen in this thread.

Without having listened, I'm not surprised that's the answer. Best off-ice acquisition of 2011. I hadn't noticed on his resume that he's been doing lacrosse play-by-play off and on since 2001. He excels at everything he's been asked to do on-air, and I thought a lack of practice was the only barrier holding him back from working in the Sabres booth as a color guy, but that's not the case. He could be the new Jim Lorentz.

His meager salary's worth keeping the bitch-assed from ###### with the kiddies as they grow up.

I didn't say that they were close to achieving that role.

I think he improved quite a bit since the season began, especially in his skating and tactics as a defensive forward. It would be nice to see him and Kaleta develop towards legitimate third line defensive players. I don't think work ethic is an issue with Scott. He seems to push himself to do everything that is asked by the coaching staff to the best of his abilities, and it's his abilities that continue to develop.

Torres suspended for "remainder of the series." http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=671025&navid=DL|NHL|home Now we're doing variable-term suspensions. Neat. :doh:

Thank god for ChipotlAway.

Eh? I'm betting the survey results from last year indicated that people thought Rayzor was "likeable," surely more likeable than Gare, whom many really disliked. With respect to Rayzor, in Rayzorspeak, "they really did a good job putting him on the TEEvee and they seen what he's capable of doing in that role." In real words, people probably said they wanted to see more Ray between the benches, because he was an entertaining interlude, but I don't think anyone, including management, saw how mildly annoying he could be as THE primary color guy. We need an excellent primary color guy with a dash of Rayzor, in the same way we currently have an excellent host in Duffer, with the perfect dash of Harry Neale. It was an interesting experiment to begin with, having the primary color guy between the benches. I miss Jim.

In no small part due to being paired with Doughty and working under former Flames coach Darryl Sutter.

Derek Roy? Jason Pominville? Just kidding. Regehr's playing well.

Fox Sports PT Ducks announcers call away games by watching the game on television in a closet in Orange County. They don't travel to every game, and they sure as ###### don't see anything behind the play. Then they pile on the homer-age on top, which is extra bad when they're not good at their jobs to begin with. Want to know why the Pittsburgh branch of Root Sports, formerly FSN Pittsburgh, also has a high broadcast quality? DirecTV bought FSN Pittsburgh and hired Ted Black to run it. Sabres have one of the highest qualities of broadcast around. Anecdote: Danny Gare was a staple broadcast personality for years on FSN Ohio. Then he gets a shot to broadcast in Buffalo, where his sweater is retired, and is laughed off the broadcast after a (painful) year. The reason? We're used to a high quality of broadcast, he sucked, and we trashed him in the broadcast survey that Ted Black put out to the fans. I haven't noticed the cutting off of faceoffs coming back from commercial, but if that's a problem that you see, fill out the comments section of the broadcast survey. It makes a significant difference.

We all know that won't happen.

I don't think it's an ego thing, I think he genuinely wants to improve the team and tries to do that with every transaction. My fear is that if it's not clear to Regier that another player that we have can step up and play or another player is available to be acquired to take Stafford's spot, he won't risk trading Stafford away for fear that it will be a net minus on team performance. That said, if he's truly ready to make this team worse to make this team better in the long haul, I think he can execute that trade.

Easy timing play beating a lazy defender. Bonus for a nice finish. It's a good play, not a great play. Hodgson beat five players using two toe drags after stealing the puck in the neutral zone and finished nicely while shorthanded.

Hodgson's on Play of the Year against one of the Sedins and Hodgson's crushing him. You know what to do: http://poy.tsn.ca/

There's probably three times when the chances he could be moved would be higher: before/at the draft, within a week or two after July 1, and immediately before training camp/season. If you move him at the draft, you get draft picks (I like this). If you move him after July 1, you're selling him to someone who couldn't sign UFAs. If you move him before the season, you're selling to someone who couldn't sign UFAs and is now desparate. The problem is that IF Regier thinks Stafford is viable as a top six forward (he may not think this), then he might hold onto him until he knows he has something better, and that would be after signing UFAs on July 1. But I believe that if he waits, the teams looking for what Stafford brings may sign UFAs first, reducing demand for Stafford. The second problem is that every GM is aware of the first problem, and may just wait until after July 1 anyways. I believe Darcy's been trying to trade Stafford, but he's not finding the right deals. I hope he finds the right deal, maybe any deal, before the draft. The Trade Value thread puts Stafford at an average return of about a 2nd and a 3rd. I think this declines a little after the draft.

Good. Let the Boston hate flow through you. Is Boston more hated by Sabres fans than the Leafs right now? Signs point to yes. Why? Probably becaues Leafs fans aren't being ######, and they're not being ###### because the Leafs haven't been good for quite a while.