It's another sad day in Buff-a-land

...and that's all she wrote.

More on this later.

Mr. Pyatt, I'm sorry

Well I haven't posted in almost a month, which is startling to even me. This is due to a combination of things [being sick, working a lot, mom in hospital, Sabres making me suicidal, etc].

However, I do need to send out my deepest condolences to one of my favorite former Sabres, Taylor Pyatt. Some of you may have heard by now, but his fiancee died in a tragic car accident yesterday.

Read the full article here.

Are You Kidding Me? Please Be Joking...

Who's taking bets on the date of TO and Marshawn's first "team-building" arrest together? Hmm? Any takers? Maybe they can decimate Jim Kelly's house together now.

Let's just hope TO can teach Hardy some actual football skills [and hopefully he won't pick up on the 'me, me, me' attitude] and not implicate him in a hit-and-run like Marshawn's welcome-to-town party.

Don't get me wrong, Owens is a top-notch receiver that will hopefully be able to take some pressure off Evans for a while. But he's just such an arrogant cock. He instantly makes the Bills better, I'm not arguing that. But really, how can you make us worse? Make us not make the playoffs... again? Now there's something we haven't done in a while...

I just hope he doesn't send Trent running for the razors. I feel like Edwards is delicate goods right now, and I don't want something to send him into JP-mode [like a receiver who complains that he doesn't get enough touches, or worse yet, that the QB isn't good enough for him]. I feel something like that could do irreversible damage to his poor little psyche.

And I can't even talk about the Sabres game. Ugh.

You've GOT to be kidding...

So this bronchitis is kicking my ass, but I have to get something off my chest.

TIM CONNOLLY 2-years, $9 million? Are you kidding me?

I love my TimBits, don't get me wrong. But he is in no way NEAR worth that much money. His already big head just got a thousand times bigger. I didn't think he was worth the $3 million, let alone give him a RAISE!!

I can't even talk about this anymore. Other than to say that because of this, you know he's going to get a concussion tonight and be out for the season. Sorry, I'm just saying...

No words

So I realize that I have fallen off the face of the earth, blog-wise. Work and home life has been utterly insane. Because of the combination of those two disasters I haven't been able to take notes on the games. I've seen all of them, just not had time to document them. Yes, I know this disappoints all 1 of you readers out there :)

However, an emergency has arisen that I cannot, and will not NOT write about.

We all know [I still refuse to even say the words] what is going on with our #1. And now our #2 is sick with the flu. Good God, someone get him some Pedialyte, cuz we've got all sirens blaring for help right now.

I mean, do you all realize that means Enroth would start- which could be a pleasant surprise [highly unlikely, and of course minus the mono]... but that's not the biggest issue here. The biggest issue is who would back up our 3rd-stringer. Well, our 4th AND 5th stringers are hurt*... so I don't know what that means other than I hope that our Website producer owns some goalie equipment.

How would you like to be Portland though? You all of the sudden have to call up 2 random dudes that have never played for you before in their lives... I mean Kellen Briggs splits time in the ECHL and Rob Lemelin is a backup on some EPHL team. Oh Gawd...

*Taken from Sabres.com:

Adam Dennis has split time with Enroth this season, but has been out of the lineup since December with a hip injury. His replacement, John DeCaro - recalled from the ECHL’s Las Vegas Wranglers -suffered a broken collarbone in a game last weekend.

Versus? NOOOOO...

Tonight's game is on Versus. Have I said how much I hate listening to Joe Beninati, Darren Eliot, Dave Strader, Andy Brickley, and Eddie Olczyk? And the post-game hasn't been the same since Brian Engblom cut his mullet.

And don't even get me started on Christine Simpson. Good Lord, can that lady ask a question without giggling? She seriously annoys me more than the stupid NFL woman 'sideline reporters.' At least we all know the only reason they're there is for the guys to look at. Versus actually pretends they hired Simpson because of her great knowledge of all things hockey. *insert eye-roll here*

The only one of the bunch I actually like is Doc Emrick. He is super knowledgable and actually sounds like he knows what he's talking about. He even, imagine this, talks about the game while it's happening. Not what he ate for lunch. Oh, and I suppose you can put Bob Harwood in the small group that I like. He knows what's going on too, and I like when he's working with TSN and him and Rayzor play fight in the box between the benches. That's fun too. But he's a reporter, not a play-by-play or color guy. So he almost doesn't count.

I was looking around the Vs. website trying to find out who was doing the game tonight [I never found it, btw] and came across an article written by Adrian Dater who covers the NHL for the Denver Post. It was basically about how the Sabres have been playing lately and titled, "As Usual, Sabres Will Fight Back." The piece was ok, but the last sentence really struck me:

Adversity always seems to be visiting Ruff and the Sabres, and seemingly the people of Buffalo as well. But they're always still there, fighting back.

I really take that as a compliment. I hope that proves true this year. We really need to get all our ducks in a row and put out a good, hard-fought game tonight. Last time we played the Leafs we steamrolled them 5-0. And it's the same goalie, I believe, that we're facing tonight as well. But this would be a typical game to come out and lay an egg, so we'll see which of the 2 teams show up tonight. The one that could score 10 goals on any goalie, any time, or the one that forgets how to make passes and those simple plays.

I hope the former...

Didn't miss much...

So I had to work last night, and then went to my niece's 4th birthday party... needless to say I didn't catch the game. The last game I missed was the night we lost in the playoffs to Carolina in '06, so I was upset at first that I couldn't see this one. Until I saw the recap on NHL Network and read all your posts. Then I was suddenly filled with joy that I didn't have to witness such a disappointing attempt at playing a professional sport.

On a more entertaining note, Michel Therrien was fired.

On an even more entertaining note, Atlanta massacred Anaheim last night 8-4. I watched the highlights and they were fantastic. Any time a top-notch [yes, that can be debated since the passing of his father] goalie is driven from the net by the 2nd to worst team in the league [although the Islanders don't count, my dog plays better than them] that is a GOOD day in my book. At 1 point, Atl was up 6-1. Sweet Jesus.