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No one travels quite like the west does. North Dakota blows everyone out of the water though. The Big Ten schools generally do too, I've seen very good showings from Michigan State, Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin (granted that one was in Milwaukee). Maine, of all places, used to travel really well. Unfortunately their program has fallen off the face of the earth over the past 10 years. If you want to see a big time program that travels ridiculously poorly, it's BC.

This was one of my first thoughts. I can't imagine there was too much in place there though.

I'm 4 or 5 episodes into Iron Fist. I'm not seeing all the hate for the character that I've seen so often. It makes sense to me. He left the real world when he was a kid and now he has no idea how it works. He's still very much the kid he was before the crash... except for the crazy ninja skills.

Quinn would be crazy to leave. He's got a lifetime gig at BU if he wants it. His biggest strength of all is recruiting and that doesn't do anything for you at the NHL level. He keeps bringing in class after class of high end draft picks and that will never change as long as he is there. He really doesn't have that much of an overlap with Eichel either, just that one season. He did not recruit him to BU and he did not coach him in the US developmental program.

2003. I haven't gone to one of these since 2010, but what you described fit a bunch of them, especially when it's played in a non-college hockey hotbed. Those might actually be the best ones though for the people who really want to see the games. You've got fans practically giving the tickets away outside, those who got 4 seats in the lottery but only needed two. Even with all the improvements in Buffalo, it could very well happen again at this one. If you don't get the traveling fanbase in the game (North Dakota), attendance will be lacking.

Has anyone reading this been to any of these games in those larger venues? I can't imagine how difficult it is to watch when you're too far away. I was at the Detroit Frozen Four in Ford Field and it was a complete disaster. The building was way to big for hockey. It was also way too empty, which, I assume doesn't wind up being a problem for the basketball games.

The stand-alone movies do tend to be better. You're bashing all of the latest ones as soulless and/or unoriginal. Are you including movies like Guardians, Ant-Man, and Dr. Strange when you say that? The first two in particular were very fun movies that felt much different than a lot of their other stuff. They get so much more time to focus and develop the characters in the smaller cast of these stand-alones. edit: Looks like Mark beat me to it.

I can read selectively too

That might finally be a good time to head back for a visit. It's been a while.

The timing seems very odd/suspicious to me too, but I'm not going to waste time trying to explore reasons for what may or may not have happened. At the end of the day, we've got one less waste of a human being to deal with.

They couldn't have done it without that, which is why I don't really get why they decided to run with this movie as their choice.

Well that should make for some fun new internet fan theories. edit: So what's the deal? Who made that one which very clearly doesn't fit with their typical style for these movies?

It's the first for a musical though, isn't it?

I took the wife to Beauty and the Beast last night. I don't really understand why Disney chose this one for their first push into live action versions of their past movies. It relies way too heavily on CGI characters. The visuals in the dinner scene were way too over the top and fake for me. It felt like the big battle scenes in the Star Wars prequels. The movie was significantly better when there were more actual people on the screen. The villagers attacking the castle at the end worked so much better because it wasn't 100% relying on CGI.

I'm not sure I'll go with a sweep, but yes, the Craps will wind up showing just how different the two divisions in the East are. The one I'm most curious about is Habs-Rags. Points-wise, it's an even matchup, but will we see the Metropolitan division separate itself from the pack in this matchup too?

I don't know why, but the whole Thanksgiving routine of guessing which pies she made always cracked me up.

If they kill Tony, I'll lose my mind.

My college's band played Centerfold regularly throughout the course of every hockey game. That song still puts me in such a happy place each time I hear it.

I haven't paid too close attention, but I believe that Antipin's KHL team is still alive in the playoffs. They can't do anything until their season is over. It would be odd if they didn't sign him given how it was originally reported as a done deal.

The McAvoy thing is a bit curious. BU fans were down on him as a whole this year, as he didn't progress quite like they would have liked. It's a bit of a surprise that a couple of their more advanced prospects didn't get a shot instead. I'm sure he'll be on a short leash though.

Again I have to point out to you who you are having this conversation with. It's really not worth the effort. I have enjoyed much of the interaction in this thread over the course of the season, but a handful of people are doing their best to completely ruin it with their hit and run whining. I'm probably bailing at this point, but hopefully the playoffs drag me back in.

I know I wouldn't either. It has nothing to do with this incident, but I have no desire to fly that airline ever again. I've had issues with them each of the couple times I flew with them. I actually just let some vouchers from them expire in February. Fortunately it was never anything too major, just a consistent series of canceled flights, lost bags, and piss poor service. To me the vouchers had less value than toilet paper.

Except that it is essentially impossible for that to happen. He has to flee to the KHL in order for that to happen. But by all means, continue with the woe is me mentality that has completely overrun everything Buffalo sports fan.

Honestly I don't know why I'm responding to this. Since when does thanking the city and congratulating the team that won the cup equate to giving a speech?

The whole event was drunken lunacy when I used to go. The last time it was in Buffalo, friends of mine actually got to hang out with Dave Chappelle who was in town for a show at the same time.