Derek Roy def. Tim Connolly KO

by Steve

Wait, Derek Roy is now a beloved player on the Buffalo Sabres? He is now the voice of reason, restraint and adulthood? WTF? Everyone by now has heard the hear say and rumor surrounding Tim Connolly's black eye from "a routine that went awry" in the VIP room of Ryan Miller's Catwalk charity event Sunday Nov 21. I talked to someone that was allegedly there, he gave me the deets.

First, I'll say I saw Tim Connolly Saturday night at Frizzy's on Allen. He was wasted. It was like 3:30 he was playing some fat chick in bubble hockey and was stumbling all over the bar. True, some compatriots of mine were chirping at him from afar, you know, nothing too gratuitous. $9 mil over the last two years? We want a refund You suck, etc etc. I'm not even positive he heard us. But that was Saturday night not Sunday. Back to Sunday

According to the source Connolly was totally trashed. He was complaining about being "-130" this year, that the Sabres couldn't trade him for anyone, that he won't even be on the team by the end of the season, and asked him if he knew what it felt like to be booed by 18000 people off your home ice. Apparently Derek Roy was none too pleased about Connolly complaining in public about his ineptitude on the ice. Roy on more than one occasion told him to STFU etc. Connolly said something like "oh sorry mr 9 goals this year" At one point Connolly even asked random people if they wanted to take his place on the ice next game. Connolly said something like alright this dude is going to be taking over for me on the ice next game.

Somewhere around this point Roy got more confrontational with Tin Can and told him to STFU once and for all. TC came back with why don't you make me and Roy popped him in the face. KO!

Also there were other fights, squabbles and unruliness in the VIP back area. Nothing too specific, but apparently this was the party of the year. When are we going to hear Timmy's side of the story? Roy has already denied it, and Ruff deferred to his players. Your local Buffalo Sabres folks...