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...and a team Tkachuk is very familiar with.

I think your conclusion is based on a false dichotomy.

Amazing game. Wow.

Come over to the quiet side.

Total brain fart. Dahell, man; people expect better out of the captain. Can.... Yes @Thorny, I am. That's how Ignore works 😉

You need to do better in terms of finding a better catch phrase. Come on, the new season will be here before you know it. (As for the rest of your post... I'm not sure how you connected the dots to get your conclusion.)

I trust him, period. No one bats 1.000.

Different issue. Is he perfect? No. Is the team moving in the right direction? Yes.

Let's see how it plays out. It was Kevyn who transformed the team by moving RistoReinoEichel. The returns weren't necessarily better players but it made the team better. Kevyn has his pulse on the team and the players. I don't like it either but I tend to trust Kevyn's judgment here.

He'll keep the C.

1,000 games/600 points He'll be LTIR'd once he hits those and "has a boo boo"

The Sabres hierarchy when Jack was here:

Reminds me of something less malicious that Shawn Burr did in the 1995 Finals (if I'm recalling correctly)... As a member of the Red Wings he was behind the NJ net and collided with one of the Devils, who dropped his stick. He handed the Devil his stick and NJ went down the ice and that Devils player either scored or had an assist on a Devils goal. Burr was basically done in Detroit after that... traded to Tampa in offseason.

When he was a Sabre... he was an ass but he was our ass. Now he's just an ass.

Eichel was the embodiment of the Buffalo curse. When he was sent away, things got better in Buffalo. I'm not saying that Eichel is a bad guy, just that he has a curse over his head. Okay - I have zero memory of that guy. He was a JAG that was only with the team briefly.

Tangent: I know there is W-L record, but are there more sophisticated fancy stats on coaches? Is there any way to quantify which coaches gets the most out of a given roster? I'm thinking maybe a WAR but for coaches, or possibly stats that break down which coaches are better and defense, offense, PK, PP, etc., in such a way that you could somehow minimize the effect of roster on the coach's ratings.

Oh, I change my mind all the time. But sometimes I just don't agree with someone on a given point and that person is rather outspoken on that point and I don't want to have the same discussion/argument again and again.

It has definitely sped up the game (by more than a half hour on average), but surprisingly made game playing times more uniform as well. It's now very common for games that start at the same time to end withing a few minutes of each other. You can now easily fit a baseball game in a 3 hour time window with little chance of it running over. I think having the pitch clock (and batter's box clock) enforced immediately by awarding a ball for an offending pitcher or a strike for an offending batter is particularly satisfying. Immediate, tangible consequences.

Really now?

Yeah, not working for me either. You can still go out on the open internet and find a gif and paste it in your post, but it's not as convenient as having it integrated in the editing bar.

If I put you on Ignore, you'd still see my posts. I just wouldn't see yours. I put a lot of people on Ignore. I usually take them off Ignore eventually unless they are ridiculous trolls in which case they end up banned anyway. Basically if I have the same argument with someone over and over and it's not productive and it gets to the point that I get frustrated, I take a break from them. It doesn't mean I hate them, it's just that it's ground that's been covered already and no one is changing anyone's mind.

Oh I think he's a great guy. He just talks about Eichel too much. And it's the same conversation over and over.

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

Off on a tangent here, but in the old stadium everyone knew not to get seats on the third base side which caught sunlight far longer than the first base side. It was like being in a rotisserie turned up to high. But to follow the tangent a bit further: By definition all HS football stadiums in Texas are aligned on a north-south axis. The home fans get the west seats (facing away from the setting sun) and the visitors get to look into the sun's death ray until it sets. This is deliberate.