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Generally I agree but if they came out too spicy hot, I'll dip in the blue. No, there's more to it than that. Celery also acts as a brush to scrub the hot sauce out of your mouth. Both serve a purpose, and the celery is more than just blue cheese delivery.

Agree, but how often do you see them ordered anymore? For Beef on Weck my favorite Buffalo places are Schwabl's in West Seneca and Ulrich's Tavern on Ellicott Street in the city. Ulrich's has that "old tavern" feel (I guess it's the oldest bar in the city). I'm thankful that there is a Buffalo native who's opened up a bar near me here in Fort Worth, Texas.

It's a niche thing. The were "the food of Buffalo" prior to the advent of wings.

Counterpoint, and this is from a NYC guy: Is America’s Pizza Capital Buffalo, New York?

There's a functional reason for blue cheese and celery. They're basically fire extinguishers if your wings are two hot for comfort.

Your complete Guide to Buffalo English. It's a bit dated but a good read. It doesn't definitively answer your question but it's mentioned in there. I know the original author of this piece. The chiding version drives me nuts, and it's used by some 'Spacers: "Do better."

I think this is from when Jack wasn't being lazy....

Mmmm, What?

Perhaps he doesn't want to miss time again if he takes a shot to the yap.

I remember the impression being that ERod was just someone brought in to make Jack happy since they both went to BU. He was always okay I think, but not flashy and not part of the core. Versatile though.

Yep, and it starts at a young age. Student athletes get away with far too much in terms of personal conduct if they're exceptionally talented. My son had a friend when he was in middle school. He was a pretty happy-go-lucky kid and didn't look for trouble. He got randomly jumped by one of the kids on the MS football team, got his nose bloodied, all that. The football player wasn't injured at all. My son's friend got suspended for fighting, the athlete got off scot-free. And no, you're not ruining a budding athlete's career by holding them to the same standards as non-athletes. My wife teaches high school and failed the place kicker on the football team. There's "no pass, no play" state law. The coach and even the principal tried to get my wife to pass the kid but he literally hadn't done ANYTHING all marking period, so she refused. They were pissed but they were not going to push it because the team can get in trouble if they play an athlete that's not passing (forfeit games with ineligible players, disqualified from playoffs). This was when the kid was a sophomore. By the time he was a senior he recognized the value of being held accountable and literally thanked my wife for failing him. He got a college football scholarship.

Counterpoint: If a player plays in such a way that he exposes himself to injury- blocking shots, not leaving enough room to stop before hitting the boards, etc., and they miss games because of that, that is being injury prone. So far from what I've seen, Muel and Quinn are both injury prone in that they play "too" hard. To get off that injury prone list, they need to learn how to be just as effective, or close to it, without taking undue risk.

Interestingly, Evan Rodrigues has had a decent NHL career. Nearly a .5 ppg player with a career +/- of +16. He can step into top-six duty when needed and does pretty well. He's pretty much what the Sabres hoped they were getting when they signed him coming out of college undrafted.

Good. That means he's doing his job, the punk.

Yeah, and let him find his own way home.

Post of the year nominee. ❤️ What I do on my offtime is nonya bidness. Yes I enjoy my downtime.

I've had a busy week at work. I already have 40 hours in and it's only Wednesday.

Truth hurts.

You love suffering, eh? Me too.

You'd like that, wouldn't you. ❤️

I don't think it's physicality as much as persistence. You don't have to flatten the other guy, you just need to disrupt him enough to separate him from the puck. Too often the Sabres at both end of the rink do quick fly-by's and try to poke the puck away, but if not successful they just skate on by. No. They need to persistently pursue the puck carrier and bully him into giving it away. That can have a physical aspect to it, but it can also just be chasing/blocking/hurrying the puck carrier until he makes a mistake. There can be several aspects to persistence... tools in the toolbox... including physicality but also speed, active sticks, and positioning. I mean Benson is as good at this stuff as anyone and he's hardly an imposing physical presence.

Interesting And... a lot of the conflict on the board ends up with fans on either side of the "stay the course" and "blow it all up" divide.

I think TPegs was not properly connected in the NHL when he bought the team, and was too enamored of former Sabres players as team executives, especially early on. He's learned since then, and through the end of last year it appeared Kevyn and Donny had the team on the right track. I still haven't given up on the current regime. I think at this point though, perhaps Donny has topped out. It's taking an extra year for the D corps and goaltending to ripen, and last year's career years among the forwards haven't been repeated. I think there is a decent chance that this was a bump in the road in terms of a young team generally on the ascent, and yeah, we probably need to shake things up. How to do that... not sure. Trade someone in or near the core, new coach, etc.

Yeah, they certainly wouldn't want it to look like it was mandatory, even if through peer pressure.