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SabreCast 2.32 – Off Season Check-in #2

Sunday, August 8th, 2010 2:41 pm by Mike

Darcy Regier has been fairly busy over the last few weeks so we decided to get back behind the mic and talk about the recent moves and what it will mean for the team next season. Here’s how the episode breaks down:

  • Re-signings (Patrick Lalime, Patrick Kaleta, Marc-Andre Gragnani)
  • Free Agent Signings (Rob Niedermeyer, Shaone Morrison)
  • The Kennedy Situation

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Get the Full Episode (MP3 19.4mb) – Running Time 42:13

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Playoff Beards and Playoff Chances

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 5:11 pm by mrenninger

Beards?

Yours truly's 2007 playoff beard. Notice the matching black eye.

My all-time favorite beard may be Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard, who posed for Playboy a couple years back, but in a very close second would have to be the Playoff Beard. Not shaving while your team is in the playoffs connects one to the team itself. Like wearing a jersey or having a flag on your car, but much more bad-ass. I have only been able to do the Playoff Beard once, the shaky playoff run in 2007 after winning the President’s Trophy. Over a month of not shaving becomes noticeable for people like me, and after being compounded with a couple things (the Flyers finishing dead last, the Penguins being eliminated), I felt like the coolest cat on the Penn State campus. For those of us who have wives, girlfriends, or simply a job in which one interacts with people or wears a suit, growing copious amounts of facial hair is indeed a sacrifice, one made to show our determination for Buffalo to win a Stanley Cup. It can make people at work eye you wearily, like in Fight Club when Ed Norton starts showing up to work with his face mashed up and his boss interacts with him in a half-disgusted, half-terrified way until Norton eventually wigs out and kicks his own ass in the bosses office. A playoff beard conveys passion and toughness, and while WGR550.com recently set out some rules pertaining to the beard, I have a couple points about the process myself: Read More…

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