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How did Rick kill that walker? I have absolutely no clue what happened.

Do the attendants even have access to the code? I can't see much purpose them knowing it.

It's too bad that this thread has been ruined.

I'm surprised an editor signed off on that column. Calling your readers losers is a line that I can't imagine most writers would even consider crossing.

I actually want to start reading now because it is going to be fun watching him dig an even deeper grave trying to explain his way out of this one.

That is an absolutely amazing find. Good work digging that up. It proves that everything he writes is simply about stirring up controversy and not about what he actually thinks.

What the Sabres are doing has happened in every single league over and over. I guess all sports are bush league.

My guess is it would probably fit inside that giant circle in Deion's former driveway.

At the end of the day, if the teams get the results (and that's a big if), fans don't care how they got there. I can guarantee that the vast majority of Penguins fans never cared about how they landed Mario Lemieux, just like Patriots fans don't care one bit about the reputation hovering around that franchise. They don't care one bit what anyone else thinks.

I just read his column. I'm so sick of hearing this thought that the team who is closest to the playoffs should get the first pick. Why would that 17th best team in the league get the first overall pick while the 18th best team drafts 18th? Talk about a crazy cutoff. It would also create a new form of tanking that would be far worse for the league's integrity than the current system. What happens when a team is one point out of the last playoff spot and intentionally throws their last game of the year? In a year like this one, what would you rather want, the very last playoff spot and a date with the Rangers/Ducks or Connor McDavid? I think I know what most would choose. I love the thought that this system would somehow reward winning. How does just barely missing out on the playoffs qualify as winning? If you want to justify your stance by saying that winning should be rewarded, the only logical conclusion is that the team who wins the Cup should get the #1 pick. Otherwise you're just rewarding someone who wins... but not too much.

It has been Carol all along.

Realistically it is 10, but technically it is 11. It is mathematically possible for us to catch them in the tiebreaker and finish tied. The only way that happens is if we win most of our games without shootouts and Arizona loses most of their games in OT. So it requires both teams to take a good portion of the remaining points, which is why it is such a longshot.

Otto's always there too as long as he doesn't get deflated.

If you are looking for a Sabres version of that combination it would have to be Reinhart and then whoever we draft this year. If you're old enough to be drafted, you're old enough to play in the NHL. Right now there's a very small minority among BU fans that thing Eichel will return if they don't win the championship. He has said all the right things to plant that seed in people's minds, but they're delusional. He's very media savvy already, he knows the right things to say.

And yet Edmonton is only one point ahead of Arizona. Says a lot about the Coyotes chances as well, doesn't it?

Thanks Jim. I slipped up on the wording of my question earlier. It wasn't whether on one approaching faster but if one would touch ground first. Poor choice of words on my part. Anyway, my question has been answered now.

Do yourself a favor. Dig up some highlights. You'll enjoy it. He is the most hyped college freshman since Paul Kariya, will be only the second freshman to ever win the Hobey Baker award. He's the fourth youngest player in the entire ncaa (I believe that's the figure I read earlier today)and has put up more points in a single season than most do in any given year. The kid is an absolute stud and is probably the second most hyped prospect since Crosby. He just happens to be draft eligible the same year as the most hyped.

Just think of how long you'd be able to go without dropping a deuce in the same bathroom. Once you drop that bomb, you can stay away from it for over a month.

His job is to win. I don't fault him for trying to win these last couple games. What I take issue with is how some seem to think that getting to 29th would be some form of vindication for him. Say what you will about the quality of the team, but there is no objective or subjective standard out there for which anything he has done qualifies as a success.

I'm in that anti-Nolan camp as well. The guy doesn't go so long without an NHL job if he's a decent coach. What really gets me now though is the idea out there that 29th place is somehow some sort of badge of honor for him. It's not. No matter where they finish this year, he's going to hide in shame once he's fired.

I'm currently building a house and sometimes I think is a bit too big for just two of us. Deion's place looks like it should be a school or something. This makes me no longer think I went a bit overboard.

I wish it was an actual home and home and there wasn't that game sandwiched in between. Arizona has one in between too. It's a strange bit of scheduling.

I think I missed one piece in this explanation. If a plane is set to fly at 18000', does that mean it is 18000' feet above the ground or above sea level? In other words, if a plane over Buffalo is set at 18000' and a plane over Denver is also set at 18000', are they flying at the same level or is the Denver one higher (relative to sea level)? I'm just curious about if a plane has a programmed in descent if it would be approaching the ground faster if it was flying towards a mountainous area or if it was flying towards the ocean.

Right, they aren't. The whole magic number thing only works when comparing 2 teams. There would be a separate number for Edmonton (10). There's actually a very rare scenario where these numbers aren't accurate, but I'm not even going to get into that.

The explanation from the investigator was that you have to turn a dial several rotations to cause that much of an altitude change. That doesn't happen by accident. If you pass out and bump that dial, you're going to get maybe a half rotation at most. Maybe there is some explanation out there for how you could rotate that dial so much accidentally, but it would be pretty far fetched.