Hope

by krytime on Apr 15, 2010 1:47 AM EDT

Better to hope than to despair…

I feel like the proverbial kid at Xmas today. Literally, I’m counting down the hours until the puck drops tonight. I may as well be looking out my windows for some reindeer.

This isn’t a typical playoff preview - I think DO covered that quite nicely already. Instead, this little “dump” might just be about something many of us in and around WNY have lost for quite some time - hope.

For those of you/us that are Bills fans too, hope has been long gone. We’re all familiar with the decade of ineptitude that organization has put us through. All in all, it hasn’t been easy to be a Bills or a Sabres fan for quite some time, if ever. No need to list all of the heart breaking moments here…

Well, today, we can hope. We can day-dream. The Sabres have a chance to win the Stanley Cup this year. That is a fact, and is not open for debate. Surely many can opine that they have no chance to win the Cup, but again…that’s just flat out wrong. They have a chance. They have hope.

Starting today, there is a possibility this hockey team can bring it’s community together. Instead of standing in line at the supermarket complaining (deservedly so) about the economic and political woes of the region, people might focus on something we can all cheer for. Sure, it might be bandwagonish and niche, but who cares?

The last Cup run and the Bills Super Bowl years taught me something. When people of all different ages, races, religions, and economical backgrounds root for the common, it’s a good thing, even if it’s cheering on a simple game where millionaires are making money for billionaires.

Today is the day that feels like you bought a lottery ticket on your way into work. You know the odds aren’t in your favor, but since you have a ticket, you have a chance. And hence the day-dreams.

Can you imagine how’d you feel listening to a Jeanneret call of a game winning goal in the Stanley Cup finals? Where would you be? Who would you call first? Would you cry a little? Would you ever stop hugging people and buying shots all night? Would you flip a car over and set in on fire (please say “no” to that)? I can go on and on and on with this, but I think it’s better to leave the rest to your own imaginations…

Let’s Go Buffalo

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I’ve got a round of Irish car bombs, a lot of high fives(or hugging if thats your thing. gay or not gay. I dont think I’ll care to much at that point), a bit of crying, and a flipped car or two in me if they can pull it off.

Lets Go Buffalo!

"Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber....you go and do something like this....and totally redeem yourself!"

by higs59569 on Apr 15, 2010 6:31 AM EDT reply actions

Awesome write up Kry. These ‘dumps’ are always perfectly timed and usually are everything that most of us are thinking.

Can you imagine how’d you feel listening to a Jeanneret call of a game winning goal in the Stanley Cup finals? Where would you be? Who would you call first? Would you cry a little? Would you ever stop hugging people and buying shots all night? Would you flip a car over and set in on fire (please say "no" to that)? I can go on and on and on with this, but I think it’s better to leave the rest to your own imaginations…

Haha this part is great. I wonder that all the time, WWJS (What Would Jeanneret Say). I’d have to imagine that the first call would be to my dad, if he doesnt call me first. My phone would be blowing up, probably dead by the end of the celebration. Shots galour(sp?) No car flipping tho, well I guess I cant say that 100% lol.

But like you said Buffalonians and Buffalo Sports fans have had it rough. Four straight SB losses. Music City Miracle. No Goal. No Goal II. Failure upon failure for the Bills this past decade. The embarrassments… the media have Buffalo as a joke. All of it. All of it would be worth taking that beating if we could do it. It truely would be an amazing thing. Something that I dont think would hit me until a year or so down the road. It would being so much HOPE to this area, and that fans that are scattered all over this earth.

Great stuff Kry… Rec’d

"Its always Miller Time
Whens it gonna be Sabres-Offense Time?"
- by Jsz on Mar 3, 2010 6:25 PM PST

by bflo on Apr 15, 2010 8:25 AM EDT reply actions

WWJS!

"The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck." - Gil Perreault
WWJS (What Would Jeanneret Say)

by FloridaBuffalo on Apr 15, 2010 10:11 AM EDT reply actions

Haha. Glad you liked that. I just thought of it as I was reading Krys post. I know with me, and Im assuming many Sabres fans, how much his voice and style comes into everyday life. Ill find myself saying things like “ShoooOOoooOOOOOt” whenever me and my buddies or whatever go out and we’re at the bar (“You guys up for another ShoooOOOot?”). Or when I hear the word “Carum” I think of him. Van Millers voice and style I remember well too. But Jeannerets is always there lol. God hes great.

"Its always Miller Time
Whens it gonna be Sabres-Offense Time?"
- by Jsz on Mar 3, 2010 6:25 PM PST

by bflo on Apr 15, 2010 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions

ya that’s awesome.

I just hope it doesn’t give him a heart attack – he’s not getting any younger! but if we did win the cup i’d be flipping out – I hope I get to flip out this year

We got the tools, We got the talent

by J2 on Apr 15, 2010 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions

I honestly think that the best thing that RJ would do is not say anything at all and let the moment, that so many Buffalonians have been waiting for for so long, be the moment that everyone will remember for ever.

"The three important elements of hockey are: forecheck, backcheck and paycheck." - Gil Perreault
WWJS (What Would Jeanneret Say)

by FloridaBuffalo on Apr 15, 2010 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions

rioting and looting, total anarchy

I think a few flipped cars will be on the tame end of what happens if we win it all. I just HOPE I have a good seat to see it all!!

Rookies are like teabags...you don't know what you're gonna get until you put them in hot water. -Harry Neale

by weswed51 on Apr 15, 2010 11:13 AM EDT reply actions

We aren’t Montreal I hope. I would hope this city could keep it civil.

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by Zachary Zielonka on Apr 15, 2010 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions

honestly, i don't know what i'd do first because it'd be so emotional

nice write-up kry

by Rafal Ladysz on Apr 15, 2010 12:37 PM EDT reply actions

Rec'd

I got a random and well needed day off today and I have come to realize that it is a blessing and a curse. I have entirely too much time on my hands to wait impatiently for the puck drop tonight….
On another note:
“Would you flip a car over and set in on fire (please say "no" to that)?”
I wish I could say no to that, but I cannot. As someone who went to WVU, I can tell you that I would — and have — in the wake of my team’s big win proceed(ed) to do or witness such an event.

B-B-B-Byrd Byrd Byrd, Byrd is the Wyrd!"

by willgarr15 on Apr 15, 2010 1:48 PM EDT reply actions

I got a random and well needed day off today and I have come to realize that it is a blessing and a curse. I have entirely too much time on my hands to wait impatiently for the puck drop tonight….

Yes sir. The day off/slow day @ work on game day is torture. I have half an hour left before I head home. Let’s go Buffalo!

by kramertoneman on Apr 15, 2010 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions