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Agreed 100%. It's amazing how much more Columbus wanted it in that series. I think the Sabres do still have a lack of talent issue but there is no way they should have underperformed to the level they did this year and it's clear they are a soft bunch. Bring in a couple pieces and get this group inspired and it can be a completely different ballgame.

First Tiger winning the Master's and now the Bolts getting swept in the first round...what a crazy few days in the Sports world. Felt both happy for and jealous at the same time seeing all those Blue Jackets fans going crazy. We are so overdue to see that kind of excitement back in the 716.

Make no mistake, Tiger coming back to win the Master's is the best thing that has happened in professional sports in years!

Who in the hell did you find to bet against that?

These stories are amazing. Even with all of the bad stuff that happened, I still wish I attended Woodstock in 99 just for the experience in itself.

Cool stuff, thanks for sharing. I always enjoy hearing first hand encounters for events like these. I remember watching a lot of the concert on PPV. It was a big deal at the time.

I've only met one person in my real life interactions that was at the original Woodstock, a former co-worker of mine. She even brought in her ticket stub and some other souvenir things one day. It was pretty cool hearing some first hand accounts of what it was like being there. Ironically I don't know anybody in real life that attended Woodstock in 99 even though that was pretty much my generation. Any board members attend Woodstock 99?

I didn't even realize those two had a show...really shows how relevant they are nowadays

Go figure the one time I actually wanted us to go after a Carolina Panther

He didn't sign here because Buffalo is a blue-collar, hard working town and that is his kind of town???

Milano is one of our best value picks in years! Can't wait to see him back on the field this season.

Fletcher was signed in a previous offseason to the one where we got Spikes and Adams but we also got Lawyer Milloy that year too

Haha fair point!

Interesting tidbit, where did you hear about this? I'm not doubting it, just curious because I've never heard about that before.

That actually does make a lot of sense now. I just can't see how Beane would bring in AB here if it were true. That tidbit had been bugging me all day

I always liked the show Boston Public. I think that would be cool to see in a modern take with the social media and technology era.

AB slept with Poyer's wife(I believe it was before they were married though). That was the most puzzling part of this whole thing to me. I can't see Beane and McDermott pulling the trigger on the trade for that reason alone with all of their talk about locker room culture and trying to build a family.

It really is crazy how celebrity deaths always come in bunches

Although the Finale was always controversial(I don't know if that's the right word in this context) but Seinfeld was solid throughout it's entire run and never had a sharp decline in quality in it's later seasons.

I'm a Mittelstadt fan too. He was absolutely thrown into a very tough situation for his true rookie season in the NHL. The things I love hearing about Mitts is how high his compete level is, how bad he wants to be good in the NHL, how hard he works and practices off the ice. You can see flashes of his skill level here and there and over time once the speed of playing NHL level hockey "slows" down for him and his body grows from that of a kid into a man you will see his production take off. It helps he has a Center as talented as Jack to show him the ropes and mentor him. We just need to find him a competent winger to play alongside. I am hoping Tage can fill that role but I am not as convinced he will be a legit top 6 forward as I am with Casey yet.

Even though it's not showing up on the scoresheet I have seen Mittelstadt make alot of progess as the season has went on, and there's still a ton of room for growth in his game. I believe he is a legit NHL player. Dahlin will start cleaning up his mistakes as time goes on. Montour is a beast, I didn't know much about him when we made the trade but now I am absolutely loving it.

My second team is the Buffalo Sabres...as you can see I have a glutton for punishment

I'd feel better about this if he said 31 instead

I agree that is still holds up today yet I still consider it a timepiece as well in the sense when you go back and watch it, it really captures the general feeling of how things were back in the 90s