Better Know a UFA: Stu Barnes

Patty: I’ll write this later, if you know what I mean.
Heather B.: If you mean, “Stu should sign with Buffalo. It’s the only thing that makes sense,” I know EXACTLY what you mean.
Patty: That’s exactly what I DON’T MEAN!
Look, here’s all you need to know about Stu Barnes: He’s ours and you can’t have him. [...]

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Better Know a UFA: Brian Campbell

As someone who’s spent the last 8 years living in Buffalo, I’ve had the uh… luxury of watching Brian Campbell up close and personal. I know some of you out there are wondering, “Hey, that Campbell guy, he’s pretty good, right? Should we go after him?” A simple yes or no won’t [...]

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Better Know A UFA: Jay Pandolfo

HANDS OFF!
I didn’t want to have to write anything about Pando, and I was kind of assuming Lou would have wrapped him up by now. But as July 1 creeps ever closer…
*Fights back tears*
Okay, let me put it this way: if Pando isn’t a Devil for the rest [...]

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Better Know a UFA: Jose Theodore

I am not a statbitty person by nature. However, I decided I should probably be responsible and look up some statbits before writing this post. My first stop was Behind The Net but they seem only to provide wacky stats like “GAA on Nights with 3/4 Moons Where Two or Fewer Players on the Other [...]

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Better Know a UFA: Mike Commodore

Katebits recently asked the ModFan panel whether she should hope for the Sabres to pursue Mike Commodore on this season’s free-agent market. This is my scouting report on what he’d bring to the table in Buffalo:
I think Mikey C really relishes the whole “being treated like a king” thing, so maybe he’s perfect for Buffalo! [...]

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Hockey Sucks!/I Love Hockey!

Five Things That Made Me Say, “Geez, Hockey SUCKS!”
1. The Sabres Missed the Playoffs
I whipped myself into a total frenzy defending management and the players who were still left here. Yeah, yeah, we lost two big pieces of the puzzle. But we have SO much talent left! Of COURSE the Sabres are going to make [...]

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It Had Its Pluses and Minuses: by Patty

Five Things I Didn’t Love About this Season
5. The stubborn insistence by Versus and NBC to use Pierre McGuire and Mike Milbury for color analysis. Or whatever it is they were supposed to be doing. I’m not even sure.
4. Detroit won it all. This was my worst-case scenario for the Stanley Cup. I’m sure everybody [...]

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The Season In Balanced Review: By Schnookie

Five Things I Loved About The ‘07-’08 NHL Season:
1. The way Pando’s season was going before he got injured. For a couple of glorious months before suffering a debilitating shifted-bits injury, Jay Pandolfo was a bona fide scoring threat. He was a beast! I didn’t care that it was contract-year witchery making it [...]

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It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Meh Of Times

Five Things I Loved About the Season
1. Paul Martin. I picked Paulie Martin as my favorite player based on the fact that he wasn’t too terrible the year before. We’d all accepted that he wasn’t going to be the next Niedermayer, or even the next half-way decent puck-carrying d-man that we really needed. [...]

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