its on a fantasy team lol, i didn't trade for them

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FIGHTER OF THE NIGHTMAN

"on the ice now for buffalo, looking for the pass, and gets it, afinogenov, couldnt get the shot away, now HE DOES, HE SCORES!!!! HOLY MACKEREL ROLE THE HIGH LIGHT FILM, MAXIM AFINOGENOV, WHAT A MOVE!!!!.... thats not fair... that was unbelievable"
-R.J. and Lorenz

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FIGHTER OF THE NIGHTMAN

"on the ice now for buffalo, looking for the pass, and gets it, afinogenov, couldnt get the shot away, now HE DOES, HE SCORES!!!! HOLY MACKEREL ROLE THE HIGH LIGHT FILM, MAXIM AFINOGENOV, WHAT A MOVE!!!!.... thats not fair... that was unbelievable"
-R.J. and Lorenz

I know that's Chelios on the left and Talbot on the right, but who are the other two dudes?

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mechaphil

no clue, but gotta love cheli mackin' on the bitties haha

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FIGHTER OF THE NIGHTMAN

"on the ice now for buffalo, looking for the pass, and gets it, afinogenov, couldnt get the shot away, now HE DOES, HE SCORES!!!! HOLY MACKEREL ROLE THE HIGH LIGHT FILM, MAXIM AFINOGENOV, WHAT A MOVE!!!!.... thats not fair... that was unbelievable"
-R.J. and Lorenz

That's funny. lol

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Wheelhouse

First of all, the whole "FIRST LINE" this "THRID LINE" that and "SECOND LINE" whatever talk is beyond annoying. It's everywhere, all the time, all everybody wants to talk about is who is on what line yada yada. But most people have overlooked exactly WHAT that actually means.

The order of which a coach rolls out his lines MEANS NEXT TO NOTHING. What matters (especially in a seven game series) most is WHO WILL BE DEFENDING WHICH LINE. A teams hottest line is for all intents and purposes their number one line, regardless of how much even strength ice time it ends up with or in what order they are rolled out in. If the opponent is trying to match up their top defense tandem against your line, then guess the fuck what? You're on the top line.

Roy not only draws opponents top defense men, but he generates offense consistently against them.

Another consideration are the checking lines, some coaches will put out their best checking line against the opponents 2nd best line. But in the case of the Sabres, a lot of times Roy's line is facing the best defense AND the top checking line. And still he gets his points and cleans up his own end pretty well too.

Is Roy an elite #1 center? No, not quite, not in my opinion. But he's DAMN GOOD.

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"I love that you know how to do that." Cheryl/Carol/Crystal

"And I love that I have an erection that doesn't involve homeless people." Kreiger

Yeah, and even I would say he was playing like a 1st line center last year before getting injured....and everyone around here knows how much I dog Derek.

I keep looking at Roy's stat lines and Brad Richards and wonder what last year would have looked like had Roy not gotten injured. He was a point per game player 35 games into the season. That's the issue. Does Derek come back and play like he did last year prior to injury? If he does...then things get interesting for this team.

The issue is you just can't have your best center and best winger have as little chemistry playing together as Roy and Vanek have when playing on the same line.

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If your having goal problems, I feel bad for ya son....we got 99 problems but Vanek ain't one!

Not only better players, but we need our good players to player better and bigger....like the contracts Reiger gives them.

I mean look at Marchand and Krejci in Boston. I mean f'n Bergeron...he looked like Datsyuk in the playoffs. Patrice was everywhere on the ice in the playoffs.

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If your having goal problems, I feel bad for ya son....we got 99 problems but Vanek ain't one!