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I have not listened to the Bots interview on GR from yesterday, but did read some excerpts on Twitter...and its kinda scary on these two points 1) Scoring chances and expected goals are subjective...prolly why Risto is still here. Bots sounds like he does not believe in advanced numbers, or they have numbers internally that don't agree with the public numbers. Either way, scary to think this guy only goes by "eye test" 2) Wants to resign Simmonds????Are you kidding me?

I know that is going to be the "travel" game this year, and i am pretty sure i am sitting it out. Last place i want to go for a game.

Conference cancellations are going to hurt. ADP just cancelled their annual user conference "Meeting of the Minds", and some 42K attendee conference in Orlando has been cancelled. I, OTOH, am looking at cheap airfare and hotel options for some trips this spring!

The only way I would cancel any travel is fear of getting stuck somewhere. Someone mentioned Italy. I would not cancel out of fear of getting the virus, but fear that a quarantine from that region could prevent me getting home. no fear of that really anywhere in this hemisphere yet AFAIK. Cruise would be tough, think I would cancel that if I could. We have a family friend that is taking like a 30 day cruise over in APAC, and basically only getting in to 25% of the ports that were planned. Lots of ship time is not what he planned on. Trip of a lifetime for this older gent, but nothing can be done.

and to think that idiot was hittin Michelle Beadle until he got drunk one night and started doing stupid poop like this

find a college kid, pay them $30 for their email, and sign up for the streaming package for college kids

Well, according to my son weed has been decriminalized in Morgantown to make him feel welcomed, and i am sure mr @Hammered a Lot would want to be just as welcoming for him

Can coaches have laptops in the booths?

Not quite sure when, and it is not right outside the arena, but kitty corner to the Timmy's in the base of Harbor Center, close to the light rail station. My guess would be it went up when Harbor Place opened..

Don't get me started on the probity of having a statue downtown of a guy who died driving 110MPH while on a whisky, lude, amphetimine and lord knows what else concoction, and only by the grace of God somehow did not kill someone else.

Chad is pretty clued into the Sabres

at a little local establishment last night that was pouring Nugget Nectar...was laughing with my buddy used to stand in line down here 10 years ago to get a 6 of that stuff, now it is on tap at my little local bar. BTW, i like to take partial credit for the whole Richmond beer scene, seeing as how i got into the Belgians first at Mekong in the early aughts...and was a regular at that bar...at the whole beer explosion is because of that joint

^^^^^ @May Day 10, you nailed in brother!. It seems the expectations are so damn low in the organization it trickles down to the players.

I think it is so funny to see the thread a few inches down on Sullivan writing for the Niagara Gazette and now having some freelance gigs at channel 4, and Bucky being completely out of this biz...all the while the Athletic is thriving and some many young guys are now prominent writers like JoeB and Fairburn. And Sullivan and Gleason blame it all their editors!!!!

Dude who started Serious Eats, Kenji Lopez, worked for ATK and Kimball

Here’s the point John. Bots has had 3 full off seasons with this franchise and has arguable made them worse. Your defense of that is “ well, he was up against the cap this year, but next year he has cap room”. Problem is he created that cap problem, and he thought this was a roster that could compete and win. He was dead wrong. tbis was not a franchise that needed a complete tear down and rebuild when he came in as you seem to believe. This was not the Red Wings. He had almost $10m in cap room, Kane, Ror, Sam, McCabe, Risto, Lehner , Larrson, Girgensons , let alone a Hart level player in Jack. Then he kicks into Dahlin. The group we have today is his efforts and building off that base , and they are bottom 6 again. It is almost unimaginable with that group they have gotten worse under his stewardship. I just don’t trust this guy To make wise moves hockey when the results just suggest he is not good at building teams. in your own words, the talent level even after 3 years is subpar. Why do you believe he will magically change?

totally remember that show

This was my first cooking show i watched religiously, loved this show. Little bit of On-Yon in der...dude was awesome!

Prolly is a bit of that, but some I think is situational 1) The Sabres exit was 100% his illness. Maybe it could have worked here, but maybe he does not address his illness if stays 2) Islanders he was considered a system goalie.. and Griess had very similar numbers 3) Varlomov was available, and no baggage...Lou made a decision he felt safer giving him a long term contract that Lehner 3) Not many options left if i remember correctly, so he gets another 1 year deal..Chicago deals him for an asset in a lost season. Now, it will be interesting to see if he can get a longer term deal this year. I would take em back over Hutton every day

Always take solace in the fact @ScottLaw was vehemently against the trades in Beane's first year, crushed him in year two and wanted him fired. So, the opposite of his opinions are generally a safe bet to be correct

okay, let me get this straight and tell me where i misunderstand your post. You believe the GM came in 3 years ago and decided he would never get above 6 from the bottom of the standings, use all his available cap room and sign bad players on purpose so that in year 4 he needed to sign and least 4 forwards, somehow get a #2 center, get a starting goalie, have a total of 14 RFA's and UFAs , and hopefully push for a playoff spot in year 4? You really think that was the master plan? BTW, who's contracts are expiring? Are they Bots acquisitions? Heres the list, tell me which guy was not an acquisition or re-signed by Bots U Unrestricted R-RFA Sobotka -U Vesey-U Larrson_ U Reinhart-R Girgensons-U Kahun-U Thompson-U Lazar-U Simmonds-U Frolik-U Olofsun_R Montour-R Pilut-R Hunwick-U Ulmark-R Johanson -R

So in other words @JohnC, as you have not listed any contracts that created the mess that is 3 years of bottom 7 finishes, I am going to assume you agree Bots cap mess is his own. Can you please, please tell me why Bots could not get this accomplished over the last 3 years? Cap is not a reason, he inherited cap space and this is HIS roster. He picked THIS roster and chose to overspend the cap on it. Just please lay out that strategy for me so I understand it. You have blind faith in a guy cause he spoke the platitudes you like to hear .. build through the draft, build the AHL depth... he has done neither of those things and people who say results speak louder than words are tired of his act. again, he is going into his 4 th offseason, not his 2nd.

Tell ya what, name the players and contracts that Bots was stuck with when he got here that are affecting the cap this year? Name em all please. Also, please tell me again how much cap Bots had when He took over? Oh that’s right, 9m and do you truly believe Bots plan was to add players and contracts to be OVER the cap this year and still be a bottom 7 team.

No, the reality is teams that were in much worse shape cap wise and talent wise when Bots took over have screamed past the Sabres. Arizona, Vancouver,Carolina, even the Rangers for god sake we’re way behind the Sabres when Bits took over, and all are in way beet shape organizationally than the Sabres Problem is you and your ilk who have a “ dude talks a good game, so I believe him” And give him a pass for being flat out awful. If a new GM came in today and said “ I need 4 years to get this team to the playoff” you signing up for that? Of course not. But for some reason you think a team that had Kane, ROR, Sammy, Lehner , And JACK needed 4 years to even sniff the playoffs. ridiculous , and if you want to talk about “ fantasy hockey” it is believeing a GM has a plan to spend over the freaking cap and be this bad. That in any world is “ fantasy hockey”