Doohickie

No, Dan, I don't really want to know what Granato is thinking.... I think I know already.

Call your time out, Donny.

Dahell.

Eh. I was watching the game sitting on the sofa with the dog snuggled up to me. She finally got up so I could pour myself a drink. My father-in-law has been that farmer a few times...

Time to start drinking heavily. It's the Buffalo Way.

SHOOT!

Maybe a good pk will get them into the game.

I know but he was really slow on the second goal.

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Wait, isn't he supposed to be hot trash?

JJ's already demonstrated top-6 play at the NHL level. Not just scoring though... he is an excellent checker, using speed, persistence and an active stick to separate opponents from pucks. His passing is pretty impressive too. And he does all this while moving really, really fast.

Malt Whiskey

I suppose it depends on which bones are broken and where. Broken eye socket? You might wanna let that heal a bit.

Maybe adjust if it doesn't work, but I like separating Bryson and Fitzy.

The hard part was knowing what to cut and what to keep for the team he is building.

He also surgically removed the cancer without harming the good parts of the body. That's the really hard part.

I think it's ascending quickly.

I would love to know the conversations between TP & KA where KA convinced TP to relieve RK. ****** I've presented my conspiracy theory previously that frames Keyvn's ascendancy to the GM position as "coup". It's kind of dramatic and stuff, but I really do think that Kevyn used the resources available to him to convince TP to make him GM. These resources included: Kevyn's existing relationship with the Pegulas including understanding what makes them tick. Kevyn's understand of the team- the players, the locker room dynamics, the politics, based on observations. Botterill's style as GM including his strengths and shortcomings and how that affected the roster based on observations. Krueger's coaching methods based on observations. And importantly, Don Granato's takes on the team and the coaching situation. Whether Don approached Kevyn or the other way around, I'm pretty sure those two were talking together prior to Krueger's firing, and perhaps even prior to JBot's firing, and that Granato was kind of a "mole" in the room reporting to Kevyn. So when Kevyn did his coaching search he already had an active relationship with Granato and knew Donny checked all the boxes. Bear in mind that KA was coming into the job as an "outsider" to the profession but had enough knowledge to have formed opinions of what he wanted to do. From that perspective he didn't necessarily see previous NHL HC experience for the Sabres coaching job as a hard requirement, so people like Budreau and Gallant and such didn't have an inherent advantage over Granato who had limited experience at the NHL level.

Hey... you doin' charts this year?

That represents tickets available, not who's there.