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But how is he in the locker room???????

So I got the Beef On Week pizza at Buffalo Bros tonight. It's two Buffalo treats in one.

Connor McDavid's next team will be the Jacksonville Icemen.

You never knew I had a dark side, eh?

Me, when I get suspended from Sabrespace.

McDavid is nothing like Gretzky in terms of effect on a team. The Oilers won four Cups with Gretzky.

Same.

I realized I just read a couple of pages of posts that could go in one of the Sabres goaltending threads but that this is the trade thread. Huh.

Did you just cut the pipes off at the ground or did you remove the poles all the way down?

It's official.

The best defensemen typically do.

Operation Backsplash is well under way. I spend a good chunk of Sunday putting up the tile, probably about halfway done.

Yeah, I won't go so far as to impugn the character of someone who like pineapple on their pizza, but I'll consider it in my head.

If he listens to coaches and becomes a more complete player, sure. He showed signs of it prior to his injury but I think any progress he made was lost with the injury and perhaps the coaches wanted him to concentrate on getting his shot back, I don't know. But assuming he's fully healthy in the fall I hope they push him back toward playing a more complete game.

And yet... all these things are coachable. If he wants to stick with the team, or at least stay in the NHL, he better start listening to coaches.

At some point a person has to take responsibility for their actions, but there's no denying Galchnyuk is a product of the system of elite athletics.

Oh I totally get it. From the time it is discovered that they have a special level of talent, people pave their way to do whatever the hell they want, then smooth things out in their wake. A friend of my son's was beat up by one of the players on the middle school football team. My son's friend was suspended under "no tolerance" but the football player wasn't penalized and didn't miss any games. If you have talent you're told over and over that you can do no wrong and some athletes push the boundaries of that too far. As an alternate view, my teacher wife wouldn't squeeze out enough points to the kicker on the HS football team. The coach and even the principal pressured her to inflate the grades so he could play (Texas has a no pass/no play policy statewide). She stood her ground. Two years later when he graduated, he came and told her it was the best thing that happened to him; up until then he thought his ***** didn't stink, but that really opened his eyes.

Trade bait either now or later.

This is a good article on what makes Buffalo style pizza. A couple of summaries from the article:

Are they 55 gallon? I knew 66 didn't look right... but you get the idea.

It read 118 but that's typical when you park in sunny, paved spot... the actual temperature once I started moving went down to 106. Still damned hot but not 118 hot. I typically drive with my windows down, even when it's hot like this. This is true. I post to a local Fort Worth architecture forum and there's a long-running thread about Buffalo. Most of the content is posted by me, but the comments from the others are on the whole very positive.

Oh yeah, I reminded today myself that Buffalo Bros has a good Friday fish fry too

Imported, so to speak. When the Bills came down to play the Cowboys on Thanksgiving in 2019, Buffalo Bros set up three of those grills made out of 66 gallon drums and cooked Sahlens all through the tailgate and gave them away for free.

He's a good soldier for the Amerks.