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Call him by his proper name, Zdeno Chara. No wonder cavemen hate "normal" people, they get no respect. As for the idiot writer, if that ends up being the worst shot Buffalo, the Sabres, and the fans take, I can live with it. Everytime the Sabres or Bills are in the playoffs, some writer (or more accurately writers) feel the uncontrollable urge to take a dump on the city and the region.

They didn't change the definition, but they provided the linesmen the discretion to wave off icing if they felt the icing was due to a missed pass. The other rule change I haven't seen mentioned yet, is they went back to the "tag up" offsides. The main thing I see that doing is limiting the number of stoppages so the increased # of penalties called this season didn't translate into significantly longer running times for games.

Heh, heh, heh, silly little hamster.

Now, now, considering you have no possibility of passing on your silica gel improved genes on to a future generation, you should be looking for ways to improve your own standing within posterity. Poor typing will not look good to future generations. Simply becoming rude when someone suggests a way to improve your place in history will not improve your standing in the history books either.

Mr. Hamster, what the heck is wrong with you that you can't control your tail AFTER you have typed a word. You know, a lesser gerbil I could understand having his tail mess up words he has been spelling (flinging it here there and everywhere), but now that you have been injesting silica gel packs I would expect much better bodily control. I could see messing up occasionally on writing a period or semicolon, but why is it so hard to hit the spacebar without hitting extra characters? A gerbil would probably try to use his long tail to press the period button, and I could expect him to have this problem occassionally, but clearly would not have this extensive of a problem. It appears more of a case of you trying to use all 4 paws and getting your tail in the way when you use the back ones trying to hit the space bar. Ergo, you ARE A HAMSTER!!!!!

Ya know, if you'd take a laser beam to that tail of yours, you'd be a much better speller and correspondingly, people would take you much more seriously. Seeing as you've already had it once to the vital parts, it wouldn't seem that a second shot would be that bad.

I thought the goal of the chant was to give a boost to the Sabres. If the point is to piss off the locals, why not just wear caps that say "Junior drives a Subaru".

Being cleared to skate and being cleared for contact are 2 totally different beasts. I'll be shocked if we see Mr. Cole lace 'em up this postseason.

The DJ on WKRP? What in the world was he doing with him? The man was a school teacher for crying out loud!

A song parodied by Weird Al to be "Hey, Ricky" comes to mind.

STH's only get the discount on their seats. Any additional seats (limited to the # of ST's they have) bought are at window price minus $2. People who bought ST's after the 2nd round can buy playoff tickets but only as many as they have ST's and at window price (not sure if they get the $2 discount or not). My guess is that there will still be somewhere between 1,000-3,000 seats available IF the Sabres reach the Finals. Current STH's already have their tix for those games and I doubt that you will see several thousand people put deposits on next season's tix.

CTM, Where the heck do you keep finding these guys?

Carolina's pp has been ranked higher in the post season than Buffalo's, but if you take all 90 or so games played to date; Buffalo's is still ranked higher. I would actually say they are a wash or give Carolina a very slight advantage (because Timmy appears to be out). I do not give Carolina better health. Their 2nd best player (Cole) is out, has been out, and will stay out. Stillman gave Canes fans a scare, if he can't go; I'd give Buffalo the edge. With Stillman in, I'd call injuries a wash. Home ice? In this series it hasn't meant much. Buffalo is 1-0-1 in Carolina and Carolina is 2-0-0 in Buffalo. Carolina is the best home team in the East, but Buffalo is the best road team in the East.

Which makes sense. Did you expect them to bump a channel that they are currently using to show the game? (Maybe they would, but I would definitely doubt it.) As for nothing being there now, well if it is only supposed to be used to show a handful of the Sabres games, then why would it have anything on it now when the SABRES AREN'T PLAYING. Were you expecting to find out early how the Sabres were going to do on Monday?

No, going to any home games that will be played so I don't have the time or money to head down to the land of the Caniacs. If you make it up for any games at the Mmarena, drop me a PM, I'll buy you a beer and then we can see who will put who into the boards.

Which is what James suggested and you disagreed with. I disagree. I found it to be a good sign of consideration for my time and they are serious about the job. I wish a had a dime for every interviewer that ran late and wasted my time... 691644[/snapback]

I disagree. I found it to be a good sign of consideration for my time and they are serious about the job. I wish a had a dime for every interviewer that ran late and wasted my time... 691644[/snapback] I agree w/ James on this one. If you show up at the receptionist's desk 15 minutes early and she calls to the interviewer 15 minutes early the interviewer is very likely going to be in the middle of something else. It is expected that people (especially job seekers) be on time, but it is annoying to have someone show up too early. If I set up a meeting with someone for 10:00, I expect to meet with them at 10:00, if I wanted to meet at 9:45, I'd have set the meeting up for 9:45. But yeah, make certain you aren't LATE, even if it means hanging out in your car for a while before hand.

I heard Clement say that and have no idea what he was talking about. In '75 the teams in the Semis were the Sabres (missed playoffs in '74), the Isles (missed EVERYTHING in '74 - 2nd worst record in the league), the Habs (who were upset in the 1st round by the Rangers in '74), and the PHLYERS that CLEMENT PLAYED ON WHO WERE THE DEFENDING SC CHAMPS! WTF is wrong with him? What he might have meant was that it hasn't ever happened and their statistician only looked back to the '75 playoffs (which is quite likely correct).

2 Carolina vs 4 Buffalo - Buffalo in 6 6 Anaheim vs 8 Edmonton - Edmonton in 7

The open practices were a blast. Did you end up getting one of the Western Savings Bank sweaters? That and the shootouts were the best part.

I don't know whether STH's got to buy additional seats back in the 70's, but I do know that every game from 10/15/72 - 11/12/80 was sold out. It was extremely difficult to get regular season tickets back then if you weren't a STH and IIRC there was a waiting list for season tickets. My dad could typically finagle a pair or 2 per season from friends of his that were season ticket holders, but it was definitely a treat to go to a RSG. I couldn't imagine getting tickets to the playoffs back then. STH's didn't get dibs on the "open practice" tickets. That was one of the very few events that you had a reasonable chance of getting tickets to if you wanted.

Yes. The 1st color man that I recall Darling working with was Pat Hannigan.

It didn't work for the Isles in '75. Bring on whichever one. There are pros and cons to playing either one.

I would guess that the ECF's will begin on either the 18th or the 20th. If both remaining series are done within 6 games, then I'd expect the Sabres to be Carolina's opponent on the 18th rather than the Devils. If one or the other series go 7, then the winner of whichever series finishes 1st would probably play on the 20th with the other series starting on Sunday the 21st. (I'm assuming that the Carolina series will probably end before the Sharks series and that there are no rink availability issues (big if).) EDIT: NBC is advertising that the Sabres will be playing on Saturday. I didn't notice if they said it WOULD be the 1st game of the series or if they just said they'd be playing a game on Saturday.

It also appears that is the only time a playoff series was decided by a shorthanded goal in OT.