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I think there's much more structure to Lindy's system than Granato's. The offshoot is that as long as a player is executing the system, he's not hurting the team. Once a player gets comfortable in the system, the talent will show through. I think Cozens and Quinn (and a couple others) just aren't quite comfortable in the system yet. They're executing it and defensively they're okay, but they're not comfortable enough yet to be able to create within the structure. Moving Zucker to their line, I think, is an attempt to give them better guidance in the system and how to create within it. In general, the more I see the bottom sixers play, the more I like them. They seem to be forming a good backbone to the team that's (as someone else mentioned) elevating the play of the bottom two lines. I suspect these players were specifically discussed with Lindy; perhaps even recommended by Lindy. They last few games they're looking pretty good. Sooner or later the Cozens-Quinn connection will click and this team will be scary good.

If Kane hits the net instead of the pipe, you're absolutely correct. But that's not what happened. Cozens and Quinn have stuff to work on and a lot of it is confidence. Quinn getting that empty netter should boost his.

Yes, very noticeable.

Like bombin' womp rats back home.

We're winning.

I'm watching Detroit coverage. Lurv me some Mickey Redmond.

Well I guess the Sabres won that trade...

Really? Rebound point blank? You're not gonna like the next 30 seconds.

Come on guys.

How 'bout some more lethal Sabres power play?

You could see that comin'.

What a rush by Krebs!

Yes I was vaguely wondering the same way. Thanks for organizing my thoughts 😉

In terms of the song itself, Brian Wilson said when he was a boy his mother used to talk about the vibrations people gave off. The concept stuck with him and he decided to compose a song around the concept. I also found this (I put the quote below in italics because the quote feature truncates quote display). It sounds like the idea of "vibes" or "vibrations" meaning kind of an ephemeral energy a person gives off (good or bad) was a thing prior to the song, but the song clearly injected the concept into pop culture. Q: Hi... can we talk about vibes? A: Good ones? Q: Good, bad, whatever. I just hear lots of young people these days describing something using “it’s a vibe”. A: Ah yes, the youth of today – a constant delight. Q: I know right? A: So yeah, the phrase “it’s a vibe” (also a 2017 rap song by 2 Chainz and his buddies Ty Dolla Sign, Trey Songz and Jhené Aiko) is typically used to describe something or someplace positive. Of course, the noun “vibe” is not a new thing. Macquarie Dictionary defines it as colloquial, “a dominant quality, mood, or atmosphere”. Q: So it obviously came from “vibration”, right? A: Well, sort of. Long before batteries were invented, the word “vibration” turned up in English – around the 1650s – from Latin “vibratio” or “vibrare” meaning “to shake, brandish or set in tremulous motion”. Q: That’s a rather shaky origin story. A: Hahaha. Nice. Then, the Italian word “vibrato” was introduced in the 1860s to describe a tone that oscillates slightly in pitch, famously used by opera singers while holding a note. Q: Wait, are we finished already? A: Um no. Why? Q: Oh sorry, it’s just that the fat lady was singing and I assumed… A: Uh huh. Anyway, well into the 20th century, “vibrations” remained just a physical or audio phenomenon – with none of the emotion we assign them today. Q: When did this change? A: It started in the 1920s, with the invention of the vibraphone. Q: The what now? A: It was also known as the vibraharp – a percussion instrument that looks like a large xylophone, yet has metal tubes hanging below that vibrate when you hit the bars on top. It played a big role in the emergence of the jazz sound. Q: What does this have to do with vibes? A: Good question. By 1940, this instrument became commonly known as the “vibes” and by the 1960s, this musical vibe came to be slang for an “instinctive feeling”. It was no doubt helped in popularity by the Beach Boys and their 1966 song, Good Vibrations. Q: That gives me excitations. A: Indeed. And from this time on, if you weren't sure about something, you’d get “bad vibes” about it. Conversely, “good vibes” were in ready supply, alongside peace and love. Q: And drugs. A: No comment. And this is what vibes (the instrument) sounds like

I dunno, but I learned just now that you shouldn't google the phrase good vibrations at work. 😮

Rotating in on the bottom six.