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Tage is trying to do too much right now. Simplify. The Cozens line is hungry.

Excellent save by young Devon.

I love the way Robinson clears the zone before trying to start a rush. If you're gonna lose the puck make sure it's in the neutral zone.

I like this move, maybe Thompson can get going with Benson and you got Greenway filling the Tuch role. Also probably messes with the Kraken defensive assignments. Which is the top line?

Shots are 11-4 for Buffalo.

I think you can get a sense of that by going back a little further (maybe on YouTube) and search for top songs in the era from WWII to the early 60s. Music changed very, very quickly. Big swing bands featured singers during WWII. Singers like Vaughn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, etc., were huge during WWII and the postwar era. Eventually the bands moved to the background as accompanists for the singers. The formula was at first imitated by the next generation (people like Bobby Darin). The bands started to play a little jazzier, and eventually country music and the blues worked there way in, culminating in Elvis. Suddenly large bands were replaced by small combos featuring guitars.... electric guitars. Elvis was really a fusion of pop, rock, jazz and blues and at that point all bets were off. You saw Elvis imitators and associates like Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, etc. Pop music was being consumed by teenagers more than ever before, with the advent of vinyl records (much more durable than glass 78s) and much more affordable, especially 45s. All that was before I was born (so the previous is just what I've picked up along the way) but it set the table for the Beatles who came to the States when I was very, very young. The early Beatles songs are among the first I recall as pop music. The first few hits they had were still not as rock-and-rolly as Elvis was was, they were still in the pop vein I think- songs like Love Me Do, Please Please Me, From Me To You, progressed toward She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Can't Buy Me Love, and Hard Day's Night, the latter grouping putting the Beatles solidly into the rock genre. If you want to get a sense for how quickly it changes, cue all those Beatles songs up in order on YouTube and then play them, and they go from mellow ballads to straight up rock, dragging mainstream pop music along for the ride, in less than two years. The cool crooners were overtaken by the young and wild upstarts. Maybe @Radar remembers it differently; he was there, but I think that might give a sense of it. Then you can follow all the later movements- Mowtown, The Sound of Philadelphia, Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Hard Rock, Disco, the Second British Invasion, etc., etc. The technology is there with YouTube and Wikipedia to wind your way through the music, move back and forth through time. I've personally been paying attention to the Wrecking Crew, the loose band of session musicians behind a lot of the pop music of the 1960s and early 70s. A young Glenn Campbell got is start with them as a session guitarist before making it big as a country singer. Pianist Leon Russell was prolific, almost the backbone of pop music from that era. There are so many movements in music; even if you weren't alive then you can get some appreciation of them by diving down wormholes on the internet.

Great. Another guy who's *not* going to fix the power play. 😉

You’re starting to sound like Adams “We want players that want to be here.”😜 I think any team wouldn't want someone who makes it obvious they don't want to play for that team. You don't want that player to disrupt the direction the coach gives or to foment bad attitudes in the locker room. You’re starting to sound like Adams “We want players that want to be here.”😜 I think any team wouldn't want someone who makes it obvious they don't want to play for that team. You don't want that player to disrupt the direction the coach gives or to foment bad attitudes in the locker room.

Greenway and VO skated in the optional morning skate, so I guess they're over their illnesses.

Cool. He's undefeated against the Kraken.

Maybe. That one goes back a long way.

Mollusc waste.

Here's another one... maybe call it a "proto-meme" because it's really old and has no words. But someone in a thread talked about making the Sabres logo the most Buffalo possible. So we added Genny Creme and kielbasa.

If anyone has heard about the Fort Worth hotel explosion, me and my family are safe. I take it @Spoonman is safe too? Please confirm? This hotel is in a 100 year old building. It was just renovated and opened as the high-end Sandman Signature Hotel in September. The latest report I heard was that all people have been accounted for with no fatalities.

You all know I post memes in the Game Day Threads for when players score goals and when other things happen- big goalie saves, coach things, yeah. I came across some of my old meme pics and thought I'll give them one last showing before leaving them behind forever. First up is a Ralph Krueger meme. It speaks to my belief that I always thought he was kind of a shyster or con-man, or at the very least one of those proclaimed self-help gurus that coaches people how to (impossibly) pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. So I turned him into one of those clickbate ads. The meme:

This kind of reminds me of the people who take Kevyn at face value when he says he really likes player X or player Y and can't believe he'd move them. GMs have to keep their prospects in the fold and make it sound like they're part of the long term plan right up to when the trade is announced to protect both the player and his value.

Yes, if they're paying league minimum to some of their Top Nine. If he's an upgrade over, say, Okposo, sure he's worth $3 mil to Okposo's $2.5 mil. On the other hand, this is also a valid option.

On the other hand.... what's the offer? The write up refers to the Canucks looking for "top-six" forwards. If that's what Vancouver views him as, they may be willing to pay more than Kevyn can refuse. I agree though, I'd like to keep him.

So you're all self-conscious and stuff now? 😛

Yeah so it does. I coulda swore it was 86 at the time.

The defense *is* better, but the Sabres are an offense-first team and since they've gone back to that, while the in-zone coverage is better (even when they get hemmed in they haven't lost structure near as much), their high pressure offense does allow for odd-man rushes/breakways against. I think both the goalies are getting used to that and learning to handle it.

https://www.buffalohockeybeat.com/sabres-captain-kyle-okposo-returns-to-practice-could-play-soon/ Okposo was injured Dec 31, may return as soon as this Thursday Greenway & VO both out with illness

That was Kincaid but who's counting?

I think Olofsson has made a concerted effort to round out his game and you can see it when he plays, but my impression is that, to Kevyn, it's too little, too late and the Sabres ready to move on.