let me go

I had a thought (but it hurt to so I let it go.. -name the song that line is from and you win points! LOL)

Everybody is talking about Timmy and Max as possible trade bait.. but I'm really worried that we might lose Pommers or Paille. Timmy is super fragile but when he's healthy he's pretty good. Pommers- much as I love him, and believe me I DO love him!- seems to be in a funk to end all funks. I know management made a big commitment to him over the summer with the (almost) 5 for 25 deal.. which was reassuring, but there is nothing to say a team won't be willing to take on his contract in hopes that he will return from the depths. Pominville is a very good player, a great guy in the community and from all reports, a good teammate. He might fetch a hefty return and the way the Sabres are right now, I wouldn't put it past Darcy and Lindy to really shake things up.

Would trading Max shake things up? No- it would only get rid of dead weight- and I realllly hope they do that because he's taking up space. Would trading Jason Pominville change the scenery in Sabrestown? YES.

Paille is a bit less of a statement but I could see it happening too. He is producing less than he should? be though he is still quite young and there is a lot of potential there. Staffy is another question mark..

We can conjecture all we want and we will know nothing until it all settles down after 3pm on Wednesday. but when I thought that about Jason.. it made me want to cry, but it also makes a certain sort of sense.

Players I wouldn't mind parting ways with:
Max
Timmy (we might miss his numbers but I don't LIKE him)
Kotalik
Hecht
Paestch (I like him but I would understand if he wanted to leave us)
Peters- face it, he's a terrible "enforcer" though he seems like a nice guy

Players I'd be a little sad about but would handle if we got a decent deal:
Lydman
Paille
MacArthur
Tallinder
Spacek
Stafford

Players I want to keep around:
Rivet
Kaleta
Lalime
Sekera
Butler
Mair
Ellis- for a journeyman, he's really proven himself
Teppo

Players whose departure would cause weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, then re-location to their new town: (or at least a bit of sadness and maybe some ice-cream binges)
DEREK ROY
Ryan Miller
Paul Gaustad
Jason Pominville (despite the reality of what I said up there, he's one of my favs!)
Thomas Vanek (we dwell in darkness without you!)

There is my (oh-so-analytical) breakdown of the trade deadline madness. LOL

Yes, I am THAT cool

So it's Wednesday and time for Separated at Birth. This one has been brewing for some time now, and I'm pleased to finally be able to present it.

Only, it's horribly embarrasing! WHY, you ask?

Observe. This week we have:

(an old pic of)


Jason Pominville of the Sabres- check the fro. Word.

AND



Yup, you guessed it, that's ME when I was 6 years old. I promise I don't have a fro anymore, but there was a time.. as you can see, 6-year old me and ~22? year old Pommers had the same harido. LMAO.

Now you see why it had to wait- I had to take a picture of that mortifying picture which is ON THE WALL at my parents' house! But it was very funny so I had to do it. I had recently seen that pic of Pommers and when the idea came to me it had to be done.

Go ahead and laugh. It's okay, really. ;)

GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT?!?!

THE SABRES ARE BACK!

I saw them with my own eyes today!!! I took the nephews skating at the pepsi center this morning. (they do a preschool skate in the mornings and we hadn't been for a while so it seemed like a good idea. Ulterior motives? Me? Ha!) Seriously though, what better way to seem less puckbunnyesque when approaching a Pominville or Roy than with a coupla kids who love the Sabres? (one of whom still thinks every hockey player is DerekRoy LOL)

But anyway we arrived about 9:30 and go to get our skates on and there is this dude in the lobby area who looks dead on like Jason Pominville. But I was like.. nyah there's no way. This guy was kinda small and he was just chatting it up with this official looking guy so I figured he was one of those dudes who just come of the open hockey sessions, right? So we sit down not too far from this guy and go on about putting our skates on. But I can hear him and he *sounds* like Pommers! He looks and sounds like the guy, he must be him, right? Plus he was wearing this really cool and expensive looking watch but he was just dressed in jeans, a tshirt and sneakers but it was all *nice* and yeah.

Finally he leaves and I was like.. yo I think that was Pommers. Woooooo. :) (I bet he was being interviewed about his NEW CONTRACT!!!!!!!He's locked in. WOOOOOO!)

So we skate for a bit. (the 2 yr old didnt like it much but the 4 yr old was into it) then we have to take a potty break. Little kids, I tell ya. So notice that there are some "hockey guys" on another rink which is not unusual because they often have drop in hockey time while we're there. We wander over and Lo! It's Jason Pominville, Paul Gaustad, Jochen Hecht, Ryan Miller and another goalie (probably Lalime but I dunno for sure) and a coupla coaches. Neither was Lindy or Jeep but I dont know all the other coaches. They were doing various things but that was kinda neat. and it was like WHEEEEEE Sabres!

Then we skated a little more and had to get going to meet my sis and the other kids for lunch. But first we had to check the other rink.. and there were the rest of the fellas and the rookies too I think. We wandered in and stood by the glass behind the goal for a few minutes. I saw Royzie!!! YAY! He looked all happy and refreshed and just whee! I can tell for sure that Paille, Mair, Vanek, Afinogenov, Kotalik, Spacek, Numminen, Roy, and Lydman were there because I saw them all up close and personal. There were lots of guys there though, probably the whole team and the prospects. It was so cool. I wanted to stay and watch more but we had to leave. Maybe I'll go back sometime in the next week or so and watch some more.

I actually really enjoy hockey practices, I used to watch the Bombers all the time when I was in Dayton. It's just fun to see the different things they choose to work on and (at least when things are going well for the team) how the boys act like a bunch of kids out there, especially towards the end when they are playing games and goofing off. I love hockey and can't really get enough of the sport in general. One of these days I'm going to play. I just need to live closer to where such things happen and I don't so that isn't in the cards right now. One thing at a time.

Non-Sabre related but did I tell y'all that I'm in a play? I have wandered on tangents at times about how much I love/miss theatre and it's super true but the drought is over! Some folks randomly started up a community theatre in my dinky town and WE are doing "A Christmas Story" (yep, like the Ralphie, Red Ryder BB gun "you'll shoot your eye out" Christmas Story) I'm Miss Shields, the teacher. I'm rather excited about the whole thing and can't wait till we really get going. We had our first meeting last night and my first rehearsal isn't until the first week of October but it's going to be a blast, I'm sure of it. :)

And don't worry, I'll bug all of you fine folks who read my blog about when the show actually is (December 12, December 12) in case anybody wants to come see it! ;)

So that's all for now. Welcome back Sabres! :):):)

I was wandering around my Livejournal, where I keep my personal life and try not to bore my friends with hockey ranting- when I found this gem from January of 2007:

And I'm totally in love with Jason Pominville. He's by far my favorite Sabre. :) He scores lots of goals and that's hot. He has the weirdest accent though, I heard him on a commercial and I can't place it at all. *looks him up* Ah-ha he's from Quebec, I thought so! And I still like Derek Roy too. He's feisty and that's fun. Yay hockey!

Classic. I do love Pommers, he's probably my #2 man, but Royzie has taken over the #1 spot and refuses to back down. But it's cool cuz Pommers is chill like that.

Just thought I'd share. And I have a great idea for a SAB (almost as good as this week's) but it will have to wait until after I go to Ohio at the end of the month. Trust me though, this one is gonna be awesome.

I really should be sleeping now so I'm out of here.