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Saw them on the 1st show (monday 9/21, just after I turned 21). The lasers bouncing off the clouds and Echos were the highlights IMHO. Had to talk a professor into letting me skip out of an exam that day. (What a pain in the butt. Had to do the same thing to see Roger in '85 on the P&CoH tour.)

The Sabres not having a hockey tradition in the early '70's is obviously true (they entered the league in '70). But Buffalo not having a hockey tradition is ludicrous. Buffalo had the Bisons in the AHL for many years, winning several Calder Cups and having coaches like Shero (2 SC Championships). Also, the Knoxes were minority owners of the Seals prior to getting their own franchise. How exactly was/is Buffalo a "non-traditional" market?

Can't or won't?

He's not criticizing you for being political, he's calling a spade a spade. He states that you hate Bush which is obvious from your posts. Why this would bother you even slightly is beyond me. You hate the guy, why get your panties in a wad when someone points that out?

And they are different than listeners of Franken, Rhodes, or Schultz how? Yes, you are clearly an open-minded individual. You've displayed open-mindedness so obviously in your partisan rants over the past year and a half that I've read the posts on this board. Please show me where you have EVER demonstrated an open-mindedness or tolerance.

Why does it not surprise me that you can't tell the difference between 50000 and 5,000?

I would have figured he'd give the Kansas City Penguins unis some credit and drop the snot smears to 31.

The Sabres never played back-to-back nights in December after the 2nd. They have back-to-backs 4 times this month, so you will see more Marty in January. Feb's schedule is similar to December's, so if Ryan's healthy, we won't see much Marty. March is another killer and Ryan will be spelled a fair bit. All told, Marty will end up playing in 20-25 games, which should be more than enough to keep Ryan fresh for the playoff run. As for the pp, it's been mentioned elsewhere, but the key to the pp is Timmy. When he comes back, it's all good again. (Kind of like the pk took a dip w/ Hank out of the lineup. Unfortunately, it looks like here we go again.) Definitely agree with your last statement.

HBD X.

Don't apologize for posting the thread, it's pretty hard to get coverage stateside. Sounds like it was a pretty darn good game. Congrats and good luck in the finals.

They haven't picked a good coach since Shula left, but the fact remains while Nicky was there the Fish would not and could not bring in a good coach. They now, unfortunately, have a possibility of doing so. Although personally, I'm hoping for them going off the board and picking Rich Kotite. 3rd time's gotta be the charm. Right?

So basically, you can find 1 criminal act on or off the ice at the NHL level every 2-3 years. Don't you find that at the NBA level on a weekly basis and on the NFL level on a monthly basis? I don't disagree that 9 games is too short. If the league is sending a message, it should have been 40-82 games; and on it's own merit it should have been 10-20.

The painted one is narrower than the white one. He complained about the way the new one felt and also, as billsfanmiami stated, about his vision while wearing it.

I think it's either NYET, NYET, NYET or NEIN, NEIN, NEIN.

It didn't look like a slew foot to me. The 2 were crashing the net and Jaro kept him outside and with the 2 battling, basically caused Nichol to run the post HARD. No data on where the play is on the net. It's probably on YouTube somewhere. Jaro was not moving prior to the MSG broadcast going to commercial. That is probably why the Nashville trainer came out as well. According to MSG after the game, X-rays were negative on Jaro and they made it sound like he was ok but the team was going to watch him overnight, presumably to make sure he doesn't have a concussion. I think Nichol should get 10-20 games, but the fact that Jaro skated off the ice under his own power will probably put it at ~3-5 games. Hopefully this coming so soon after the NBA showcased itself and gave its scoring leader a 15 game suspension will shame the NHL into giving a 4th liner a real suspension, but I won't hold my breath waiting for it.

It's funny you mentioned the q about the no shows. American Airlines pilots were having a "sickness strike" at the time. My aunt and uncle were trying to fly up to Buffalo from Lauderdale and got stuck in Dulles for a day (fortunately, they weren't coming up for the game). Apparently there were quite a few people that were trying to get up into town for the game. So the cool thing is, most of those 45 no shows were fish fans stuck in an airport.

Rochester and Syracuse are blacked out.

Not legally via ST.

1. Explain to me, Mr. Reading Comprehension, how stating "Lori had some good advice" is messing with her? 2. Yes. And, you have apparently never been to a game at Mile High. It is a SLIGHT exaggeration, but I can say that because when the populations of the rest of the Broncos' market are added up, Colorado makes up slighly less than 1/2 the entire market. It definitely isn't the vast majority of the market as the region noted for the Bills was, and the point I was making was that portion of the market alone is 28% larger than the Bills market is. 3. I know the Bills know where their fan base comes from. I'm not certain what that has to do with the current discussion.

If you aren't including Denver as a comparable as a small market, why throw it in there in the 1st place? Also, (using 2000 data, current would make Buffalo's size even smaller in comparison) Buffalo's MSA had 1,170,111 people, Denver's 2,581,506. Throwing in your additional areas (minus Toronto, when Bills games start getting even 10,000 Canadians in attendence, then we'll consider adding TO; although I did include Erie even though only 1/3 of the people there are Bills fans) plus Elmira to Buffalo's total gives WNY 3,372,342 and only counting the state of Colorado (which is ENTIRELY Denver's market and only a small portion of it) gives Denver's market 4,301,261. So locally, Buffalo's market is only 45% of Denver's and even comparing Buffalo's region to only a portion of Denver's puts Buffalo's market at 78% the size of Denver's. Lori had some good advice. Do your homework next time.

Not only is Denver one of the 20 largest MSA's, they draw fans from at least a 6 state area. They have many STH's in Wyoming and further out. If NYC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Cincy ALL didn't have teams, then a slight case could be made for Denver and Buffalo being comparables.

Considering the hole in the ozone layer was undetectable prior to the mid-'80's, do you have a reason for us to believe it didn't exist prior to the ability to detect it?

g) blood test. That would get painful after a while.

I can't really say anything about Magnolia, because you couldn't pay me to see it; but LiT was extremely disappointing.

1,2 what's in the stew, 3, 4 no one's really sure, 5,6 what's in the mix, 7, 8 this stuff tastes ....