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homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 19 @ 1:29 PM ET
I am glad to have come here again and be able to unify so many of you together in your beliefs which is not hard to do. Homie, Taco, Broad who believes most anything most anyone else says, Beady or whomever he is today

There are the wiser ones who think for themselves and they know who they are.

It was real.

- GilPerreault11

Now disappear like Natalee Holloway
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Aug 19 @ 1:39 PM ET
2006
- SabresFaninIndiana



There were heated debates about one Maxim Afinogenov. There are still people pissed he scored the OT winner agaist the Rags.

https://youtu.be/3h-ZuFScD8w
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Aug 19 @ 1:39 PM ET
red wings needlessly bought out Frans Nielson. Wonder if it was a mutual thing cause of lack of playing time.
joshs
Buffalo Sabres
Location: cheektowaga, NY
Joined: 07.07.2012

Aug 19 @ 1:42 PM ET
There were heated debates about one Maxim Afinogenov. There are still people pissed he scored the OT winner agaist the Rags.

https://youtu.be/3h-ZuFScD8w

- lacaprup


What’s wrong with max?
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Aug 19 @ 1:44 PM ET
What’s wrong with max?
- joshs


In the end, I think it was that era of Lindy Ruff. Lindy is a much more kind and gentle man than he was back then. Whereas Lindy got the best out of Thomas Vanek he very rarely got the best out of Max . Max was the most exciting and frustrating player at the same time I've ever watched. He was so exciting that many of us simply ignored the liability he was. At the same time, a lot of people hated him.

It definitely led to some bickering here, but nothing like the way people are to each other now.

Edit: I think a lot of it had to do with how bad wgr destroyed Max on a daily basis. Paul Hamilton really hated him
joshs
Buffalo Sabres
Location: cheektowaga, NY
Joined: 07.07.2012

Aug 19 @ 2:01 PM ET
In the end, I think it was that era of Lindy Ruff. Lindy is a much more kind and gentle man than he was back then. Whereas Lindy got the best out of Thomas Vanek he very rarely got the best out of Max . Max was the most exciting and frustrating player at the same time I've ever watched. He was so exciting that many of us simply ignored the liability he was. At the same time, a lot of people hated him.

It definitely led to some bickering here, but nothing like the way people are to each other now.

Edit: I think a lot of it had to do with how bad wgr destroyed Max on a daily basis. Paul Hamilton really hated him

- lacaprup


Ahh ok. Yeah I could see him being a very polarizing player.
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Aug 19 @ 2:05 PM ET
Craig Carton right now is going to have Gary Bettman Adam Silver and Rob Manfred on the radio at the same time. He will be asking about the Olympics. Tune your Audacy app to WFAN
Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Aug 19 @ 2:07 PM ET
You know I used to skip back reading but now I kind of have to.

That was something.
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Aug 19 @ 2:07 PM ET
Craig Carton right now is going to have Gary Bettman Adam Silver and Rob Manfred on the radio at the same time. He will be asking about the Olympics. Tune your Audacy app to WFAN
- lacaprup



Wheres Roger? Oh wait Football isn't a real sport
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Aug 19 @ 2:08 PM ET
You know I used to skip back reading but now I kind of have to.

That was something.

- Stripes77


No bands today?
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 19 @ 2:13 PM ET
You know I used to skip back reading but now I kind of have to.

That was something.

- Stripes77

lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Aug 19 @ 2:14 PM ET
Wheres Roger? Oh wait Football isn't a real sport

- DirtyDan



Lol.

No one can get him. Football is so much a number 1 it's in its own sphere.
Pingleheimer
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Member at Cazenovia CC
Joined: 07.24.2021

Aug 19 @ 2:15 PM ET
I met a guy the other day who told me that his favorite player is Tage Thompson, he was totally serious. Not a TT hater myself but that one shocked me!
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Aug 19 @ 2:17 PM ET
I met a guy the other day who told me that his favorite player is Tage Thompson, he was totally serious. Not a TT hater myself but that one shocked me!
- Pingleheimer


You meet his dad or something?
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

Aug 19 @ 2:20 PM ET
I met a guy the other day who told me that his favorite player is Tage Thompson, he was totally serious. Not a TT hater myself but that one shocked me!
- Pingleheimer


He's no Cody Eakin. Actually he kinda is. Or.. was, rather. I wonder what his metrics looked like post Ralph.
Pegullaville
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Toronto
Joined: 03.16.2011

Aug 19 @ 2:21 PM ET
He's no Cody Eakin. Actually he kinda is.
- TheSabresTaco


At this point he’s like the forward version of Risto.

Has the look of someone who should have success in the league and has pro attributes but there is a hole where the brain is supposed to be
sbroads24
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY
Joined: 02.12.2012

Aug 19 @ 2:22 PM ET
He's no Cody Eakin. Actually he kinda is. Or.. was, rather. I wonder what his metrics looked like post Ralph.
- TheSabresTaco

There’s still some nuggets of hope with him. I think his incredibly bad results are a mixture of being attached to Sobotka’s hip in St. Louis and first year here, then Krueger, then finally with Granato and decent linemates he put up ok results
SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

Aug 19 @ 2:23 PM ET
In the end, I think it was that era of Lindy Ruff. Lindy is a much more kind and gentle man than he was back then. Whereas Lindy got the best out of Thomas Vanek he very rarely got the best out of Max . Max was the most exciting and frustrating player at the same time I've ever watched. He was so exciting that many of us simply ignored the liability he was. At the same time, a lot of people hated him.

It definitely led to some bickering here, but nothing like the way people are to each other now.

Edit: I think a lot of it had to do with how bad wgr destroyed Max on a daily basis. Paul Hamilton really hated him

- lacaprup

that dude had some amazing goals

DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Aug 19 @ 2:23 PM ET
At this point he’s like the forward version of Risto.

Has the look of someone who should have success in the league and has pro attributes but there is a hole where the brain is supposed to be

- Pegullaville



Tage looks nothing like Risto.

Ones a big mutha frankin viking

The others got spaghetti limbs. If tage had Ristos work ethic maybe he could use his size but he cant cause im 5"10 and weigh more
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Aug 19 @ 2:24 PM ET
that dude had some amazing goals


- SabresFaninIndiana


His golas with RJ on the mic
special
Hank Balling
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.18.2021

Aug 19 @ 2:25 PM ET
He's no Cody Eakin. Actually he kinda is. Or.. was, rather. I wonder what his metrics looked like post Ralph.
- TheSabresTaco


I am lobbying evolvinghockey for a RaGAR functionality (Ralph-adjusted goals against replacement)
SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

Aug 19 @ 2:26 PM ET
You meet his dad or something?
- DirtyDan

must have
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 19 @ 2:27 PM ET
There’s still some nuggets of hope with him. I think his incredibly bad results are a mixture of being attached to Sobotka’s hip in St. Louis and first year here, then Krueger, then finally with Granato and decent linemates he put up ok results
- sbroads24

7 goals
4 helpers
in his last 23 games

ok numbers for middle 6
SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

Aug 19 @ 2:28 PM ET
Tage looks nothing like Risto.

Ones a big mutha frankin viking

The others got spaghetti limbs. If tage had Ristos work ethic maybe he could use his size but he cant cause im 5"10 and weigh more

- DirtyDan

insert TT dancing gif here
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

Aug 19 @ 2:28 PM ET
that dude had some goals.
- SabresFaninIndiana


He had a special talent for turning young Zedeno Chara inside out.
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