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The Formula
My fury’s rising faster than bus fare. Can someone clarify why there’s no structured narrative? No neat storyline to explain? — Exiles Among You, The Weakerthans Jon K. Samson’s Jets all but ended the...
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The Noosphere
“I’m not like you. I’m not. I’m not. All the things you do, I do a better version of all those things.” — Louis C.K., Live at the Beacon Theater This is a comedian making a joke about flying first...
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Press Zero
Darcy Regier spoke of suffering on Monday, as if hockey was a thing worth suffering for. We speak of war metaphors and the agony of defeat in sports but when true suffering occurs in the real world,...
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The Lens
Raffi Torres watched the opening faceoff from the left wing in Vancouver on Wednesday night and promptly took a stick to the face. Torres, in the starting lineup for the six-seeded Sharks, played...
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Bounce
The ice was tilted in Nassau County on Sunday, and it wasn’t because of poor arena construction. The New York Islanders—sent adrift by the Buffalo Sabres in five games in the yesteryear of 2007—once...
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South by Midwest
If you live in Buffalo and the Cup is in the building, you watch a champion get crowned on CBC. In a league where American cities win titles and American players now routinely win the Conn Smythe, the...
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Truckloads and Trash Bags
Canadians visiting Western New York make a habit of throwing garbage where it doesn’t belong. On Saturday they continued that proud tradition by first littering mall parking lots and later the ice at...
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RoostCast 115: Get Woke
In this episode, Ryan is joined by The Defenseman to talk about college newspaper drama, the ETHICS OF TANKING, the unintended consequences of rule changes in the NHL, and getting rid of the loser...
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RoostCast 119: This Is It
In this episode, Ryan and The Defenseman talk about the life and death of great Twitter accounts, great boxing writers and why Mayweather/Pacquiao made everyone feel like a bad person for caring about...
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RoostCast 128: High-Risk Activities
Ryan and The Defenseman talk about the New York presidential primary, the last basketball game played by old snake Kobe Bryant, the Warriors hitting 73 wins, and the differences between how hockey and...
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RoostCast Episode 21: Smooth Moves
In this week’s episode, Ryan and Corey discuss the recent turnaround by the Buffalo Sabres powered by one Thomas Vanek, as well as the Sedin twins, a Bills win at home, and Professor Fitzpatrick. The...
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Oh My God I Can Feel My Brain Inside Of My Skull
by Corey courtesy AP Three days of rest and drainage and I believe that I have recovered from a nasty cold that took a grand tour of my respiratory system. During that time the Bills won and the Sabres...
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Crack Staff
By Corey Really, what was the point? I ask this with no credentials in public relations or business management. Maybe there is something in those schools, maybe there is a class Larry Quinn took that I...
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Run The Offense
by Corey Coaches are ruining my mojo. This is not a quote from Allan Iverson. I am becoming more convinced by the day that the only job of a coach is to make sports less fun to watch. As a spectator I...
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Alchemy
by Corey courtesy AP A refreshing breeze of abject failure after a hope inducing spurt of production from your local hockey team. Such is the breaks. Does a two game skid on the road spell doom for our...
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RoostCast Special: Year In Review Type Crap
International Recording Artists Hall and Oates Corey and Ryan feel obligated to talk about the year that just past. Because this was posted after the New Year’s and the imbibing of some spirits, Hall...
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RoostCast Episode 28: Rough Days
Getty ImagesRyan and Corey go over things that don’t matter, like the Sabres victory in Phoenix, the recent play of Drew Stafford, and the NFL Playoffs. They also go into things that do, like the...
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Random Saturday Things On A Sunday: Traumatic Brain Injury Edition
by Corey So my brother Jason and I were hanging out this evening after taking in a 7-0 thrashing dealt out by FC Buffalo. Seriously, it was a tragic affair for the Buxmont Torch. The Torch are a new...
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RoostCast Episode 44: The Lost Weekend
It’s been a while since we sat down to record a podcast, but after that weekend that was it felt like the right time to pull the trigger. Ryan and Corey talk Bills, Sabres and the chaos in Happy...
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RoostCast Episode 48: Wait and See
Ryan is joined by Kate Holzemer of The Willful Caboose as they discuss what went wrong with the Sabres and how to fix it. The audio player is below, along with a direct download for the podcast....
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Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be
The questions are many and fleeting, but the one that keeps coming back is surprisingly simple: Do we want this to happen? If you called it a night before February became March, I’ll catch you up on...
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RoostCast Episode 59: Girls and Kings and Gawkers
In this episode, Ryan is joined by Paul from Hockey Rhetoric to talk CBC’s While the Men Watch and perception during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. They also discuss Gawker Media and how we talk about...
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Raiders and Checkers
I used to write here a lot more. In March 2009, for example, we published 129 posts. I think I had more posts written than hours of sleep in those 31 days. This month, we have exactly one post...
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Helter Skelter
“When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide. Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride.” — The Beatles With 44 seconds left in the third period of a tie game, Kevin Porter lined up...
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SABREWATCH: Game 9 – Boston
Sabres at Bruins October 21, 2017 Of Note The skill the team possesses was finally on display in the overtime period, and after last season where it seemed like the team had all of the aggressiveness...
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Last Tuesday night against the hapless Ottawa Senators, Jack Eichel made a spectacular play that’s already been lost by history. With eight minutes left in the third, Ottawa is on the power play with a...
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Lawrence Pilut is a former Sabres defenseman who is now playing in the KHL. He had been with the Buffalo Sabres, but spent the majority of his time either in the press box or in Rochester. The Sabres...
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