It's September, People!

On the heels of suspecting the return of a certain French Canadian goalie, reading this on the Buffalo News website added an extra spoonful of sugar to my Rice Krispies...

“I spoke with his agent [Tuesday], and we continue to work on it,” Regier said. “It’s cordial, amicable. Everyone is trying to work toward getting an agreement done, and we’ll do everything we can to get him signed prior to training camp. That’s certainly the direction we’re working in.”

That's right, people, it's on the horizon! Shelby and I should start planning our ' Drew Stafford Signed a Freaking Contract!' party. The whole article, however, is just silly. Darcy makes it sound like he's had such a rough off season. Ohhhh the pain of signing a small amount of gritty players that no one else really wanted (no offense). Was Mike Grier really that exhausting, Darcy?

He also claims that no trades are in the works. That's great, because throwing one at us right now would just be cruel with all the other trades that went on in this off season. Oh, wait....

In other NHL news, Jason Smith is going to to retire. That kind of shocked me, as he's only 35, but whatever he wants to do. I loved him when he played for the Flyers, he just seemed so BA as captain. That, and he told off Crosby in the playoffs a year ago. I don't remember exactly what happened, but it wasn't even mean, it was just a ' hey buddy, we're both captains, so lets take off the Pampers and get with it." Or, something like that. 

Taylor Pyatt signed a one year deal with Phoenix...which made the rumours that he was going to Toronto look good. I weakly followed him through the off season, since OTHER people took up my time. Taylor is actually very special to me, he was one of my favorites when I got back into the Sabres, and he led to me loving Timmy (since thy were in the same trade). Not sure if that is something he'd like to be associated with. But, as easy as it is to be a good player between the Sedins, it is to be one in Phoenix. In all seriousness, I hope he does well, the guy deserves a pick me up after the year he had. 

Back to that French Canadian goalie thing, he DID show up today. If I could do non-fatal back flips, I would have done on in the parking lot. We had an epic encounter, but since I am due at the doctors, I shall leave you in suspense! Even though only Shelby reads this, and she was there...