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More like Samuelsson weak to weaker.

I think a reflexive "huh? wtf?!" is justified in this situation. (Boy, especially given that it's gonna be another 80 degree beauty on Sunday.) Seems safe to infer that the ad wizards are just trying to print cabbage.

I'm surprised no one has brought up the question of: "was camp too hard?" 😜

Recent big UFA deals: Rantanen 8X$12M* Marner 8x$12M* Ehlers 6X$8.5M Bennett 8X$8M* Rough Tuch comparables signed over the past few years under the flat cap: Guentzal 7X$9M* Meier 8x$8.8M Konecny 8x$8.75M Reinhart 8x$8.6M* Stamkos 4x$8M Buchnevich 6x$8M (*palm tree no-tax contracts) With all the unspent cap in the league.I think Tuch's got a good case for arguing he can get $10M if he goes to UFA next summer. Do people realize there are 17 teams (not Buffalo) that have at least $30M in cap space next summer? Hell, there are seven teams who could add a $10M player to their roster right now. Eichel and McDavid probably aren't going to get to market, so that would put Alex at the top of the pile with Conner, Kempe, Necas and Panarin. Supply and demand, baby.

I don’t think most people have this brain problem that I have where everything has to make sense. I’ve been trying to recalibrate on the fly to better understand things. You touched on the exact thing that gets me there. Money. Follow the money. This is all the league cares about, my brain just fails to recognize that in isolated circumstances.

Why did we make this dude a captain AGAIN?

Bye Tuch. Actually. I’ll be ok with 10 million or maybe even a little more. It’s the length I have a problem with. We can’t give him 8.

The floor is there for McDavid (and likely Eichel, as a Cup-winning near Conn Smythe center) to surpass. And the ceiling is set for the rest of next summer's class. What should Tuch's agent be asking for now? $12M? Kaprizov doesn't score shorthanded. If initial ballpark speculation was 8x$9 for 72, and Tuch's agent was thinking 7x$10.33. for 72.3... maybe a new sweet spot is 6x$12M for 72.

And yet you do it... why? Perhaps not snarking at each other is the first step to improving how we treat each other, especially those with a different view. You willingly say you don't take it seriously, then why antagonize others? Why participate in the escalation of hyperbole? Perhaps if people spent less time arguing with each other and more time understanding the lying that is engaged on by both sides it would help. For example: Protect the Constitutional freedoms is something both sides have raised up. However, then they argue which freedoms should be protected. First Amendment - freedom of speech - "YAY" Left wing, "BOO" Right wing. Second Amendment - freedom to arm oneself - "YAY Right Wing, "BOO" Left wing. It just boggles the mind how it's so obvious that the argument is not protect our freedoms, it's protect what "I believe" and not what "you believe".

As much as they spend on Youtube and other social media sources. Society is continually trained into a scenario of hate anyone not like you.

for starters (and just my guess), they’d miss the window of time during which they want people to buy those $200 jerseys as gifts during the winter holidays. this is mostly a merch promo event. i think marketing can be capricious this way. you don’t necessarily need to be on the nose. i also allow for the possibility that the overwhelming reaction could be in line with yours — “wtf - why this now?”

Agents were waiting for the market to be set. It has been.

But why not do it on the picturesque landscape of falling snow in mid December. If they show a bunch of snow filled highlights to coincide with the event I’m going to be even more perplexed.

And it was a good play by the defense, and just a hair overthrown. If that ball was about a foot shorter, I can see Coleman winning the catch.

it’s forecast to be a beautiful summer like day and evening. I don’t think they ever intended the theme of this game to coincide literally with the weather. it’s a nationally televised game where they will celebrate the team’s legacy with winter weather games. i’m sure they hope to sell a sh1t ton of those “icy” whiteout jerseys — with SNF helping them hit/exceed their targeted #s as they approach the winter months.

Can we agree to only start threads on Greenway, Norris and Samuelsson to announce they are healthy rather than injured? I feel like that would be a more productive thread, since saying they are injured again is almost obvious at this point.

Day to day during training camp is probably the equivalent of icing a bruise during the season. They’re not going to mess with even the most minor thing.

Nope. It’s that sissy Komorov in his place. Guy literally got his face broken last season in a fight. This is the guy they want to get a look at? Sigh.

Im officially on the “what the ***** does our strength and conditioning coaches do” bandwagon.

It’s usually the NHL that completely botches logistical things like this but the Bills are going to “bring the storm” on October 5th? Rain maybe but we are still a ways off from snow. Why would this be scheduled for late November / December. Feels like they missed the target with this one.

Kicking and screaming inside Mrtka’s equipment bag.

Where is Byram?

We'll start saying "The Jacob Bryson of..."

https://bsky.app/profile/joeyerdon.bsky.social/post/3m22uhmtgjs2n Power day to day UPL starts tomorrow