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My phone was at 88% charge when I read your post, so good things must be coming!
(Powerball tonight is also at 88 million)
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BRUINS GDT GAME 35 7:08 PM - THE BEAR FEARS BUFFALO - NESN,ESPN+, 98.5 WBZ-FM
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My phone was at 88% charge when I read your post, so good things must be coming!
(Powerball tonight is also at 88 million)
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Buffalo is like Edmonton, tons of picks, prospects, and coaches.
All the tools, but no toolbox to organize and put them together.
ODAAT
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nORRis8
The NHL, the stupidest League ever.
Kastelic should be 3rd line center. He's earned it.
Pylon Frederic on the 4th or up in the press box. He's earned it.
Pylon Frederic on the 4th or up in the press box. He's earned it.
Healthy Wrap
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Boston BROin
Marchand makes u mad
Was a fan of him, but I agree. Trade Trent and Lysell for a LW. Get Geekie off the first. Hope Whalstrom finds his game that made his draft pedigree high and throw him on the second. Suddenly you have an OK top 6. Lot of it's though.
The don godfather
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A wounded bloody buffalo is a dangerous animal. Bruins gotta bring A game.
TP70BruinsCup
Let’s Go Bruins👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is exactly what Freddy and Coyle need - both will have big games and Bruins win 7-1….easily. Buffalo played last night and had to travel along with how bad they are, Bruins win big!
Let’s go Bruins!!!
Let’s go Bruins!!!
Terrier
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I was hoping against hope the Sabres would get that win out of the way last night, but they were chasing the Leafs before you knew it. One team played last night, the other is playing the ol' dangerous return-home game. Makes for a fidgety afternoon as I await tonight's tilt.
quietbruinfan
Salt and light
Go Bruins, but Coyle and tf, don't hold your breath.
I actually feel bad for the Buffalo fans (and team). The fans who come to the Garden are cool and so are most on HF. They will turn it around...I hope soon....just not against the Bs.
That being said I want a nice win for the Bs today with no injuries.
Hey Steve, I hope the Bruins win today.
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HERE WE GO BRUINS...HERE WE GO
I appreciate that sentiment. I don’t see any way forward until Terry sells the team.
quietbruinfan
Salt and light
Trading TF will help, just to be rid of him, but Poitras cannot center the third line. i think he is a classic 4A player: a smallish center with average speed, below average shot and overhandles the puck. His point a game in the minors gives me hope that I am wrong.
Add to that, interference, authorized slashing, red line (shortened the ice) and fighting being à la mode. open ice hit, open head hit, no concussion rule, process or awareness (if I say correct) etc...
reconstruction.,....... seems alot of fun.
Tomorrow’s Globe:
The ever-out-of-it Sabres limp into TD Garden on Saturday night, with history, math, and yet another motherlode of futility all but guaranteeing that they once again will miss the playoffs, fulfilling what has been a torturous rite of spring in Buffalo since 2011.
That’s 14 years of mind-numbing disappointment (M-ND) for a fan base that, remember, was bestowed an honorary PhD in M-ND with those four consecutive Super Bowl losses (1990-93) by the Bills. The pain at the edge of Lake Erie runs deeper than the ache in the big toe of Scott Norwood’s kicking foot.
Pegula’s Pals brought a league-high 0-9-3 winless streak to Boston after a 6-3 loss home loss to the Maple Leafs on Friday. Overtime losses to the Canucks and Jets and a shootout loss to the Red Wings were the only bits of solace in that streak. Never a good sign when loser points are the drips of morphine that mask the pain. It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back.
Sabres general manager Kevyn Adams, a Bruins draftee (No. 25/1993), only infused the inferno with more fuel a couple of weeks ago with comments that will be the enduring footnotes in his inevitable firing. Adams, who grew up in the comfortable Buffalo suburb of Clarence, detailed a couple of the factors working against the Western New York franchise becoming a “destination” for prospective Sabres stick carriers.
To wit:
▪ High taxes.
▪ Lack of palm trees.
At which point, Adams might as well have hailed an Uber, be it for a ride far out of town or to apply for work behind the wheel, possibly both.
Funny thing about taxes, they indeed tend to run high in places where people want to live. No one residing in Massachusetts, where many refer to Boston as the Hub of the Universe, needs reminding of the Three P’s of taxation — Pay, Pay, and just keep on Payin’.
We gripe. But we stay. Although $1 million starter homes in and around the Hub appear to be a game-changer. Point is, typically, higher taxes go hand in hand with better services and quality of life, which is also to say that you generally have to pay for what you get. Western New York remains a very good place to live, taxes and all.
As for palm trees, correct, they ain’t a thing in Buffalo, where snowfall predictions are measured in feet, not inches. Especially early in the winter, when a cold wind blows across relatively warm waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, the beatings in Western New York can be worse than those endured by Charles O. Finley’s California Golden Seals.
Adams’s comments, relatively early in the current death spiral, have had some fans toting inflatable palm trees to KeyBank Center. For the Dec. 7 Sabres-Utah matchup, the higher the deficit climbed (final: Utah, 5-2), the higher the palm trees grew and more frequent the heckles, such as “Where’s Terry?” and “Fire Adams!”
Owner Terry Pegula showed up on the road this past Monday and met with his slumping charges in Montreal, prior to the next night’s matchup there with the Canadiens. Pegula also owns the NFL Bills, so he knows better days can be attained, even without palm trees and coconuts, even with snow up to Josh Allen’sarmpits.
No one in the meeting revealed specific details, but those who spoke framed it generally as a show of confidence by Pegula and how much he cares about the Crossed Swords franchise he bought during the 2010-11 season (also the club’s last playoff appearance).
“A message that resonates throughout the locker room,” said Lindy Ruff, the hopeful bench boss, characterizing the meeting.
“For him to come down here and talk to us,” offered forward Dylan Cozens, “it means a lot. He cares a lot about this team.”
The Sabres are now a quarter-century removed from their 1999 trip to the Stanley Cup Final, which ended in Game 6 on Buffalo ice, in a triple-overtime loss to Dallas, Brett Hull’s skate in the blue paint as he potted the Cup winner. Agonizing.
When the Sabres are competitive, the fan base buys in with both feet and wallet, attaching team flags to car windows, with kids dressed in their favorite players’ sweaters as they play street hockey.
Free agents will come to Buffalo. Adams doesn’t have to worry about that. The fan base and hockey culture are in place. The money has to be right, and Pegula has about a $1 billion in cashed payroll checks to prove his willingness to pay.
It may not be the Hub of the Universe or the Athens of America, but it’s a hockey market that proved for years that it can thrive. No palm trees required. Just a better eye in the front office to identify player talent, and the vision behind the bench to lead them to better days.
The ever-out-of-it Sabres limp into TD Garden on Saturday night, with history, math, and yet another motherlode of futility all but guaranteeing that they once again will miss the playoffs, fulfilling what has been a torturous rite of spring in Buffalo since 2011.
That’s 14 years of mind-numbing disappointment (M-ND) for a fan base that, remember, was bestowed an honorary PhD in M-ND with those four consecutive Super Bowl losses (1990-93) by the Bills. The pain at the edge of Lake Erie runs deeper than the ache in the big toe of Scott Norwood’s kicking foot.
Pegula’s Pals brought a league-high 0-9-3 winless streak to Boston after a 6-3 loss home loss to the Maple Leafs on Friday. Overtime losses to the Canucks and Jets and a shootout loss to the Red Wings were the only bits of solace in that streak. Never a good sign when loser points are the drips of morphine that mask the pain. It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back.
Sabres general manager Kevyn Adams, a Bruins draftee (No. 25/1993), only infused the inferno with more fuel a couple of weeks ago with comments that will be the enduring footnotes in his inevitable firing. Adams, who grew up in the comfortable Buffalo suburb of Clarence, detailed a couple of the factors working against the Western New York franchise becoming a “destination” for prospective Sabres stick carriers.
To wit:
▪ High taxes.
▪ Lack of palm trees.
At which point, Adams might as well have hailed an Uber, be it for a ride far out of town or to apply for work behind the wheel, possibly both.
Funny thing about taxes, they indeed tend to run high in places where people want to live. No one residing in Massachusetts, where many refer to Boston as the Hub of the Universe, needs reminding of the Three P’s of taxation — Pay, Pay, and just keep on Payin’.
We gripe. But we stay. Although $1 million starter homes in and around the Hub appear to be a game-changer. Point is, typically, higher taxes go hand in hand with better services and quality of life, which is also to say that you generally have to pay for what you get. Western New York remains a very good place to live, taxes and all.
As for palm trees, correct, they ain’t a thing in Buffalo, where snowfall predictions are measured in feet, not inches. Especially early in the winter, when a cold wind blows across relatively warm waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, the beatings in Western New York can be worse than those endured by Charles O. Finley’s California Golden Seals.
Adams’s comments, relatively early in the current death spiral, have had some fans toting inflatable palm trees to KeyBank Center. For the Dec. 7 Sabres-Utah matchup, the higher the deficit climbed (final: Utah, 5-2), the higher the palm trees grew and more frequent the heckles, such as “Where’s Terry?” and “Fire Adams!”
Owner Terry Pegula showed up on the road this past Monday and met with his slumping charges in Montreal, prior to the next night’s matchup there with the Canadiens. Pegula also owns the NFL Bills, so he knows better days can be attained, even without palm trees and coconuts, even with snow up to Josh Allen’sarmpits.
No one in the meeting revealed specific details, but those who spoke framed it generally as a show of confidence by Pegula and how much he cares about the Crossed Swords franchise he bought during the 2010-11 season (also the club’s last playoff appearance).
“A message that resonates throughout the locker room,” said Lindy Ruff, the hopeful bench boss, characterizing the meeting.
“For him to come down here and talk to us,” offered forward Dylan Cozens, “it means a lot. He cares a lot about this team.”
The Sabres are now a quarter-century removed from their 1999 trip to the Stanley Cup Final, which ended in Game 6 on Buffalo ice, in a triple-overtime loss to Dallas, Brett Hull’s skate in the blue paint as he potted the Cup winner. Agonizing.
When the Sabres are competitive, the fan base buys in with both feet and wallet, attaching team flags to car windows, with kids dressed in their favorite players’ sweaters as they play street hockey.
Free agents will come to Buffalo. Adams doesn’t have to worry about that. The fan base and hockey culture are in place. The money has to be right, and Pegula has about a $1 billion in cashed payroll checks to prove his willingness to pay.
It may not be the Hub of the Universe or the Athens of America, but it’s a hockey market that proved for years that it can thrive. No palm trees required. Just a better eye in the front office to identify player talent, and the vision behind the bench to lead them to better days.
I found this when doing a search for Bruins Christmas images. The only thing is ... Yuld Season?
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Count down ...
I hope to see the Sabres rebound. Feel for the fans. They can’t continue hoarding picks and prospects. Make some trades!!!!
What they need are Buffalo soldiers
Let’s move on from Fred already.
What they need are Buffalo soldiers
Let’s move on from Fred already.
Jorah Marshmont
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They gotta go out and pour salt in the wounds
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