Introduction

Hopefully all of you are as excited as I am by the fact that Tim Connolly has once again joined the ranks of the Buffalo Sabres active roster. While we certainly wish him the best, we need to be honest with ourselves here: the man is fragile. Who knows what injury lurks just around the corner, eying our talented center.

In an effort to keep things interesting during the depressing post-Bills season months, we've created the Tim Connolly Injury Pool. The premise is simple. On Friday, January 9, 2009, we each picked a number of games we thought he would play in before missing a game due to injury. At the time, the Sabres had played 40 games, not including that night's game against the New York Rangers. So if you thought he would be injured in the Rangers game, you'd pick 1 game. If you thought he'd last through the regular season, you'd pick 43, as 42 games would mean you think he would injured in the final game. Whoever comes closest to the dreaded game is the winner and will receive some sort of reward which we will work out at a later date. I don't want to say anything about playoffs, so we'll worry about that if and when the situation arises.

Feel free to invite others to the pool; I will adjust their game totals according to when they submit their guess.

It should be noted that this pool and blog in no way wishes harm upon Tim Connolly or the Buffalo Sabres hockey organization. Despite our wagers, I think I speak for everyone that none of us will be "rooting" for Connolly to suffer an injury. We're just being realistic.

Jon - 4 (1/15 @ DAL)
Brian - 15 (2/11 OTT)
Jake - 43 (after 4/11 BOS)
Tony - 43 (after 4/11 BOS)