Tag Archives: 'sabres'

• Sharks

  I’m going to give it a chance tonight. That is, western hockey. Growing up in Buffalo and going to school in Syracuse, I have my obvious biases — Sabres and eastern hockey, Big East basketball, AFL football. But I live in the bay area, and I’d love to watch more hockey. Whenever the Sabres make [...]

• Philly Fan Redux

  I have received some flak for my rant against Philly fans yesterday, so let me continue… Philadelphia is an elite world-class city, but it is not New York or Boston. Philadelphia is analogous to the ugly girl at the party that you wind up going home with because there was no one else to choose [...]

• Sabres-Senators 2006

  If you like hockey — and you should, unless you’re a pissant from Philadelphia* — then you will truly enjoy highlights from one of the greatest hockey games in recent history, the first game of the Sabres-Senators second-round playoff series two years ago (watch the clock)… * In that case, you’d be a Flyers fan; [...]

• Outdoor Hockey

  The historic Buffalo Sabres game yesterday, played outdoors in suburban Buffalo, termed the “Winter Classic,” provided much better photographs than it did gameplay. Image: Yahoo! / Dave Sandford / Getty Images The ice surface was obviously choppy, and covered with snow, but it was fun to watch nonetheless. Maybe if Lindy Ruff had not chosen [...]

• Sabres 7, Sharks 1

  Last night, I was in attendance to root for my hometown Buffalo Sabres as they trashed the local San Jose Sharks, 7-1… The Sabres only come to town once every three years. At the end of the game, I summarized the evening, let’s say, concisely…

• Sports Guy’s NHL Fix DOA

  Amidst Bill Simmons’ ongoing quest for the “longest chat ever,” he stated that he would return as a fan of the NHL if the league “completely re-invented [itself] – 22 teams, 11 in Canada, 11 in USA.” Alright. Bill may not know this, but I have already proposed a fix for the beleaguered and embattled [...]

• In the News… Rove.

  - The executives of the company that nearly leveled the city of Buffalo (and bankrupted the Buffalo Sabres hockey team) are finally headed to prison. – Karl Rove, the GOP genius, “leaves a lame-duck president suffering from low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iraq and public rejection in the 2006 elections.“ – And even [...]

• In the News… Don’t Be Evil, Don’t Be Google.

  - The Buffalo Sabres have lost both of their captains to free agency. I think this is a good thing in the long run — the price-tag was way too high for a small-market team still rebuilding following bankruptcy. When it comes to my sports teams, I always support a long-term strategy. – Four years [...]

• Fixing the NHL

  So my jinx on the Sabres worked. Great. (So this is why people own guns.) There are a lot of stories about how the NHL is broken (it isn’t, but it is poorly managed), and I offer a few suggestions. The main reason the NHL is conceived at being “broken” is because of the tv [...]

• Sabres Return To Final Four

  One note on the Buffalo Sabres as I jinx them thoroughly in the process… In the last ten years (nine seasons because one was canceled due to lockout), the Sabres have reached the final four (the conference semifinals) four times. In that same stretch, only the Colorado Avalanche (formerly the Quebec Nordiques) match that number. [...]

• In the News

  - The top republican in the House says that GOP support of Bush’s plan in Iraq will last three to four months. Let’s hope each-and-every troop survives the next three to four months. – The City of Berkeley is “guaranteeing a summer job for every resident 14 to 23 years old.” And people say Berkeley [...]

• Philadelphia, My Second Home

  Being all but displaced from my hometown, Buffalo (well, actually, a suburb northeast of Buffalo), my second home has become Philadelphia. I had spent time there courting my future wife after college before moving to California. My wife’s family is nearby, just over the border in New Jersey, and her sister lives in Center City [...]

• In the News

  Been away for awhile. And now, the news… – “For the third time in five weeks, President George W. Bush said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has his full confidence. That may not be good news for Gonzales.” What’s amazing is that Gonzales still has his job. – Surprise, surprise. There has been little change in [...]

• In the News… the Second Season.

  - Bush has renewed his efforts for an immigration reform bill, which in all honesty, is not so bad. The bill will most likely lie in the votes of conservative democrats. – The democrats are hounding the White House over GOP-issued laptops for administration officials, a system that “may have been used to conceal activities [...]

• Teams I Follow

  There are now officially three teams that I follow in major sports. They are Buffalo Sabres hockey, Oakland A’s baseball, and Syracuse Orange basketball. And that is it. I am still a fan of the Buffalo Bills, even if their uniforms do make me sick, but pro football is the absolute worst sport to follow. [...]

• Hockey Night In Canada

  The point of the game of hockey is to score more goals than your opponent, thus securing a victory. The Philadelphia Flyers failed to do so last night in Buffalo as the Sabres edged the Flyers 9 to 1. Ouch. Sabres are now 6-0. (Check out the highlights.)

• Back In The Saddle

  Well, following twenty-four hours of travel (itinerary shown at end), and a brief night’s sleep, I am back at work… and it feels so very very good. Being gone for over a month does a job on your body (and by the end of week two, you really start to miss your shower at home). [...]

• Soccer In The U.S. Will Bring Peace On Earth

  I am a huge sports fan. And of all sports. I’m a baseball fanatic (the A’s are my team). I love football (Buffalo Bills). I am crazy about the Buffalo Sabres (hockey). College basketball (Syracuse) is better than the NBA. What about soccer? As a sports fan, I love all sports. Even soccer. It upsets [...]

• Sabres v3.0

  UniWatch confirms that the Buffalo News confirms that the rumors are true that the Buffalo Sabres will have new uniforms this coming season, but not the super-lovely ones we had hoped, but some illegitimate-child-like ones… Image: Checking Line I liked this idea. (Checking Line agrees.) Images: Celsius Design

• In the News… Suicide, Skeletons and Bush.

  - Alright, I am breaking my hockey silence now that Sabres coach Lindy Ruff earned Coach of the Year honors, and I don’t have to kill myself. – It is true what they say, everyone has skeletons in their closet, including bloggers. Including Markos and whomever and whomever that help Kos lead this supposed army [...]

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