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As I and just about every other Sabres fan know, he's just not worth that kind of scratch. Sure, he can make some pretty moves and all, but he makes just as many stupid mistakes - and at the worst possible times. $3-4M perhaps.

Lundqvist is toast.

Absolutely.

I blame society.

Haha, the ice is going to be a sea of octopus.

Simplicity RULES!

lol Emrick does the announcing for both NBC and Versus (as well as being the local Devils announcer).

Fortunately, it switched over to MSG, which kicks ass over NBC or Versus any day.

I found your contact lens!

If there's similar f***edupedness tomorrow night, I'd imagine that the NHL reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally wants to make sure NBC gets their game 5's on the air.

Living in Upstate new York, I don't get to see many Western games, so I can't really comment on the Detroit side of things. However, I do see a boatload of Eastern games. The Pens always _seem_ to get preferential treatment. I think it has to do with Crosby being the "poster child of the NHL", and that Bettman has a constant chubby for him. It's everything from calls the seem to constantly go their way to a half-hour Crosby spooge-fest before ECF started on Versus. While I do believe he's a superb player, the media-darling treatment, and seemingly preferential calls the Pens get yanks my chain quite a bit. Granted, I don't have hard numbers to back it up, but that is my perception. I know a lot of the calls thing is the godawful officiating for the NHL, but it does seem one sided. the NHL really does need to start holding refs responsible for their lousy job, or at least start allowing replays on disputed calls, not just on disputed goals. Just about every other sport allows it. We have the necessary technology and means. But what do I know, I'm just a bitter Buffalo fan (see: Hull's 'No Goal' and LeClair's goal through a hole in the net) who loves watching good hockey

I think they should also keep a running count on how many times the announcers screw up players' names.

My vote right here as well.

Darren Eliot.

Ha!

That's Joe Beninati. He knows so much about hockey that all he can do is tell you what color sweaters each team is wearing... 487 times a game.

HAHAHAHHAAA! :lol: :lol:

I've posted about this before myself. Listening to Emrick's or Beninati's mindless rambling concerning Sidney Crosby (no matter what teams are playing) who walked uphill both ways through four feet of snow to the rink every Tuesday after a new moon rose and always managed to stop at Tim Horton's on the way AND OH NO WHATS THIS? Something's happening in the game? DRIIIIIIIIIVE! And then don't bother with a replay (Ideas...for life...™) because they have to go back to "Hockey Central" so you can look at Keith Jones' godawful hairpiece looking coif or even worse, Brian "Capt. Hair" Engblom. Hockey mullets are one thing, but I mean... c'mon guys, you're on TV, visit a frikken barbershop already. The last time I played a drinking game was during the last VS Rangers@Sabres broadcast on 2008-03-10. We had to drink every time Emrick and company mentioned Sidney Crosby, the departures of Drury/Briere/Campbell, DRIIIIIIIVE!!, Rangers in their traveling whites, etc. Everyone was trashed by the end of the first period. It also inspired my avatar. Versus is awful, second only to NBC, where if a playoff game doesn't end in regulation, they'll switch over to a rained-out horse race or a re-run of Friends or some garbage.

The last time I played a drinking game was during the last VS Rangers@Sabres broadcast on 2008-03-10. We had to drink every time Emrick and company mentioned Sidney Crosby, the departures of Drury/Briere/Campbell, DRRRIIIIIIIVE!!, Rangers in their traveling whites, etc. Everyone was trashed by the end of the first period. It also inspired my avatar. Listening to Emrick's or Beninati's mindless rambling concerning Sidney Crosby (no matter what teams are playing) who walked uphill both ways through four feet of snow to the rink every Tuesday after a new moon rose and always managed to stop at Tim Horton's on the way AND OH NO WHATS THIS? Something's happening in the game? DRIIIIIIIIIVE! And then don't bother with a replay (Ideas...for life...) because they have to go back to "Hockey Central" so you can look at Keith Jones' godawful hairpiece looking coif or even worse, Brian "Capt. Hair" Engblom. I mean... c'mon guys, you're on TV, visit a frikken barbershop already. Versus is awful, second only to NBC, where if a playoff game doesn't end in regulation, they'll switch over to a rained-out horse race or a re-run of Friends or some garbage.

I am not a sports fan, in general. I am a hockey fan. You never know what's going to happen in a hockey game... never.

Petition: signed.

You aren't kidding. I enjoy watching the Habs play, they're a very talented team who play well together. I'm a die-hard Sabres fan, so I'd probably rather give myself a home-vasectomy rather than cheer for the Flyers, but with all the lame cheers, constant booing (including national anthems), and just poor sportsmanship in general, I just can't stand Habs fans.