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shrader

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  1. I was a Starscream man myself.

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    If we're going by the cartoon, Starscream was great, but I never did like the toy too much. The arms and the way the head/nose of the jet swung around always annoyed me. If I had to pick a favorite toy, I think I'd go with Grimlock.

  2. What would be excellent is seeing Ultra Magnus and Kup, and maybe the Dinobots, eventually.  Oh, and the Decepticons that are all construction vehicles that combine into one giant Decepticon.  Those guys kick ass and would make for a good Dinobot fight.

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    Devastator is a must. That right there was the greatest toy of all time.

  3. I love that in my life I've met a lot of people who know who Rodimus Prime is and also that I've never met anyone who likes him at all.

     

    :lol:

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    Obviously the character sucked, but I did like the toy. The yellow spoiler (is that what that thing was) was kickass.

     

    One other quick comment, when the inevitable Prime-Megatron fight happens, they need to bring back the "One will stand. One will fall." line.

  4. So far four very solid picks by Sabres....

    with pick 147 Alex Biega (Defense)

     

    Alex Biega

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    A friend of mine who writes for a college hockey magazine out here in Boston (Brian Sullivan, Hockey Magazine East) wrote this about Biega:

     

    Alex Biega-104-Harvard

    5'10  191lbs defense 4/4/88

    Salisbury Prep, USHSE 10-17=27 51 PIM 28 GP

     

    Biega was a big name on the recruiting front as the New England Prep School Player of the Year, as named by Hockey Night in Boston. The manner in which the former Quebec U-17 d-man is described by his new head coach Ted Donato might lead you to misplace him on the roster sheet: a “dynamic skater”, a “high-end offensive guy with very good speed” and a strong puck-handler sound like qualities fit for an all-star wing, not a starting blueliner. Donato isn’t worried about Biega’s defense being sacrificed at the hands of his offense, either. “He’s solid defensively,” said the long-time Boston Bruins winger. “Like a lot of young players, he needs to learn to simplify his game, but he’s an extremely good all-around player.” Referring to the 18-year-old as a “momentum-changer”, Biega led Salisbury Prep his senior year with a +45 rating and averaged nearly a point per game. Heavily scouted from every corner of the hockey world, Biega was also drafted by USHL and QMJHL teams despite expressing a strong inclination to play college hockey. Harvard was the final winner, after weeding out the likes of BU, BC, UVM, Maine, Cornell, and UNH to name a few.

  5. What I was trying to say (atleast the point I was trying to make) is that you don't low ball a player like Briere who is one of the main reasons the team had such great success last year. It doesn't send off a good message to him, or to other possible FA's who may have had interest coming to Buffalo.

     

    It has nothing to do with Buffalo Being a small market, it has to do with being willing to give the players what they deserve and keeping them wanting to play in Buffalo.

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    I know exactly what you were saying. My point is that no one says this stuff about any of those big market teams even though they do the same exact thing. It's not a shot at you, just a general comment.

  6. Its all the medias fault now if they don't do well next year, or Darcy's if he keeps low balling Buffalo's top player to get them for nothing (Briere was given a qualifying offer of 1.9 mil, and yes I know it is just a starting point for the tender and they will renegotiate, but an offer like that is like spitting in the guys face, this team may be just too cheap to be a champion)

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    I'm sick of reading comments like this. League-wide, every RFA who receives a qualifying offer is given the absolute minimum. If Philly or Detroit did this to one of their RFAs (and I guarantee that you will), no one would accuse them of being cheap, but since we're the small market, people just assume Darcy's a cheap bastard.

  7. Pretty sure it has been raining in Boston since April, very annoying.

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    Actually, in April, the month where it's supposed to rain, we got absolutely nothing. They kept talking on the news about how we were way below the average rainfall up to that point. I wish I could go back in time and kick each weather guy who said that.

  8. Unless that reporter called Lindy from the West Coast, that article is 3 hours old.  McKee's agent was on GR about an hour ago and said he was going to try to go to Carolina and made it sound more like he had a flu.  I would expect someone more closely related to the Sabres to get the story before TSN would.

     

    I don't believe the "he's definitely out" story one bit.  Not yet at least.

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    TSN regularly edits their stories without updating the time. They originally posted the story about McKee's health issue in the 9am hour, that's where the the time at the top of the article comes from.

  9. Is it ok to assume that this guy is a forward? Obviously he's a marginal talent at best since he's stuck in the AHL. One possible reason for not wanting to go to Buffalo is that we are very deep at forward and this guy knows he would never get his break here.

     

    Yeah, that's not the reason, but its better to pretend that it is.

  10. Lindy will keep this train rolling.  Notice he ran Jillson out there on defense during a crucial 3rd period penalty-kill...Trial-by-fire yes, but also a nod to the way the kid played.  I think Ruff had an inkling it would not be the last time Jillson dresses for a game in these playoffs, so he might as well put him in the lion's den. 

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    It really wasn't trial by fire. At that point, Tallinder was out and Lydman was in the box. Jillson had to see ice time on that penalty kill.

  11. we as buffalo fans seem to need to thicken up our skin a bit, who freaking cares if an opposing team fan says something like that, sheesh, not like we do not say the same thing about dolphin, jets. patsie fans, let it go folks, the scoreboard is where it matters...or was this just a veiled way to just start another sabres thread?

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    I think pretty much all fans need to thicken their skins a bit. I've been seeing so much of this whining about no respect a lot lately. These people need to start watching the damn game and get over themselves.

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