Simon

I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering what on Earth you're doing with a mouthful of water at your bar;-)

Nobody is Hasek or Roy except Hasek or Roy. Saying Miller is a problem because he doesn't meet that standard is ridiculous. Without Miller, that pack of scrubs finishes behind Toronto and out of the playoffs altogether. Exactly how many phenomenal saves did you want him to make in the last 30:00 while Lydman, Tallinder, Pominville and Myers are repeatedly handing the puck over in their own end? The guy is a great tender but you'll never admit it because you staked your position out years ago and can't admit you were wrong. But at this point I hope you get your wish and the Sabres trade him for a slew of picks because it's just going to be Hasek all over again. Arguably the best goalie on the planet and a golden opportunity to make multiple playoff runs, but the front office isn't going to put anything worth two nickels out in front of him. Hitting on a bunch of cheap blue chip picks is the only way this team is going to be competitive.

Yeah, goaltending is the big problem on this team.

You just want to protect the pharmaceutical company profits by denying folks access to a wonder drug like marihuana! More like prolost. Besides, he's kinda old. I don't want to break him.

I don't recall giving you permission to utilize my picture in your avatar........

This debate isn't about research and reality. It's about preconceived notions and cultural biases. Some folks love control more than they love personal freedoms.

Agreed it's moot but it's a fun hypothetical. I think you'd need more entrenched leadership than one guy, with some of it being on the offensive side of the ball, as well as within the coaching staff. Like Pittsburgh.

Might be time to rethink your username

If anything, I'm sort of tickled that Buddy apparently has enough respect for him to not succumb to the temptation to enter the sweepstakes. I think that says as much about Mr Nix as it does about young Mr Whaley. wild guess

You guys are nuts. I could look at her all day.

No it's not. And he doesn't.

Do you guys really want this buffoon as the default leader in your clubhouse full of young, impressionable players? Doug knows him and doesn't want anything to do with him.

Kick him in the shin and see if he notices?

It's probably time to make cell phones illegal too. And make-up. And billboards. And radios. And pretty girls. America: land of the free. Home of the motherment.

I don't have a problem with Mair in particular; I just think that between Grier, Goose, Torres and Kaleta we've got enough more than enough guys to fill that role, and in most cases fill it somewhat better. I don't dislike him, he's just a bit of a redundancy with this club. I do have a problem with Lydman. I like his skill set well enough but he's not nearly productive enough to be that soft. And he's often an atrocious decision-maker with the puck on his stick. You can either be aggressive on D, aggressive on O, or both. But Toni is neither and the Sabres can do better.

Congratulations to your father for raising an outstanding human being. Cheers, B.

A team that soft should be bursting at the seams with speed and skill. The Sabres have neither. It's time for guys like Pominzinger, Connoly, Lydman, Kennedy and Mair to seek employment elsewhere.

Definitely neither one of those two.

I remember thinking that at the time but wasn't confident enough about it w/o a replay to say it out loud. Without Miller, the Sabres are drafting in the top 7; we're just not very good. If Vanek is out for as much as a week, we can probably start setting up tee times.

Considering how much dirty stick work we've seen from the Bruins in the last 3 days, I'm not convinced that he was playing the puck with that sharp downward hack that just happened to blast Vanek's knee.

Unless maybe Doug still doesn't like him and is familiar enough with him that he would have no interest in having him be a leader in a young rebuilding locker room......

I don't think the committee had anything to do with it, but I can't remember any team ever having a path of least resistance to a championship like Duke just had.

That would have been the greatest shot in the history of college basketball.

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