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Last month at the gm meetings in Toronto, a lot of the big market bad teams (read: Philly, St. Louis), and a few of the good but slower teams (Anahiem, Detroit) pushed to have the league go back to pre-lockout officiating.
Apparently as the story went, Buffalo and Toronto threw a fit at the suggestion and it was tabled...
Now i find myself watching a LOT of western conference games this year... and I'll be honest... that whole conference plays the trap, and clutch and grab like they did pre-lockout.
And a few of the more recent sabres games I've seen, teams are trapping as well as they can manage... and starting to get away with a heck of a lot more.
Then i find this article... today
I think it's the Buffalo fan in me, that reads this and thinks... "they'll find a way to steal the cup from us this year"
It gives me nightmares that we'll hit the cup finals and be playing a pre-lockout officiated standard vs the trap & grab Ducks, and watch 2000's finals all over again, losing in 6.
Apparently as the story went, Buffalo and Toronto threw a fit at the suggestion and it was tabled...
Now i find myself watching a LOT of western conference games this year... and I'll be honest... that whole conference plays the trap, and clutch and grab like they did pre-lockout.
And a few of the more recent sabres games I've seen, teams are trapping as well as they can manage... and starting to get away with a heck of a lot more.
Then i find this article... today
I think it's the Buffalo fan in me, that reads this and thinks... "they'll find a way to steal the cup from us this year"
It gives me nightmares that we'll hit the cup finals and be playing a pre-lockout officiated standard vs the trap & grab Ducks, and watch 2000's finals all over again, losing in 6.
Frasier
and now the games are finally exciting to watch and were even more exciting last year. Plus, it makes the Sabres really good. Go figure! Once the Sabres are good, the league wants to revert back to form? 
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