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If the plan is to eventually get Gabe back on the 53, I think there’s a better chance that either Samuel or Moore would be let go before Shavers at this point.

I always forget about this new rule. So confusing. (And it's sometimes not a hard and fast 3 times or something? Like there are different kinds of elevations?) If he doesn't get put on the Bills 53, I presume that his list of acceptable teams would greatly expand. He visited with the Steelers before signing with the Bills.

Just saw this, I am in the same position here as Derrico. I will make the drive if I can. Thank you for the offer again, Tom Webster

He can be elevated from the PS something like 3 times before he'd have to be elevated to the 53 to play again. There is no need to be risking losing Shavers to another team in need of WRs anytime soon. Nobody, at least nobody Big Play Gabe would be interested in playing for as he's a vet and can decide where to play, was interested in him. Not worried about him getting poached from the PS.

Signed to the p squad because he's still rehabbing his knee. I would imagine that he fully expects to be on the active roster once he's good to go. My guess is that Shavers (unless he's a special teamer?) would need to be waived (and then likely re-signed to the p squad). It is good depth to have. I think he'll be on the 53 sooner than later, provided he can get healthy and back in football shape. Meniscus. From latter part of 2024.

This article seems to spell out most of the impending changes. I am pretty happy to see them move forward. https://www.yardbarker.com/nhl/articles/changes_to_nhls_ltir_to_take_effect_in_2025_26_other_cba_changes_moved_up/s1_14825_42676965

I missed commenting in this thread somehow. I must say I agree with several opinions here on what is wrong and some of the proposed changes seem logical. Bottom line is the power play production does not match the talent and that is a problem. No one says "only I can fix it". The mantra is more like "when will Terry hire a qualified NHL hockey guy to fix this". I will add that I think I could do no worse than Adams. If you thought the songs sucked you would not be a fan of the band, so no, I cannot imagine that. That generation is pretty much gone, and the one that followed it has run out of patience too.

Taking on bad contracts and keeping them, most likely, yes. But it pretty much completely eliminates 3rd party double retention trades. It doesn't completely eliminate them as teams can do delayed (by ~75 days) double retention trades, but it does eliminate the immediate pass through trades that the Sabres should've been in on with their stupidly large cap room these past 4 years.

Am I looking at the settings correctly…only one bench spot for entire team?

This will however, give weak teams even more leverage in taking on bad contracts to get to the floor or just to spend the money while they build. Getting rid of a contract so you can add a key piece for the playoffs is definitely incentivized.

Maybe this is a sign my Sabrespace luck is over after leaving the league for 6 years. I hate drafting this early.

Nah man, you get to double dip. I would think 12 and 13 is better than 7 and 17

Eh, if both sides are good with flying by the seat of their pants, sure, why not. But, as an FYI, in the latest MOU, they did agree to look at how the new BF-LTIR rules and particularly the post-season cap compliance rules as soon as the SCFs are done and that they both agreed to revise them after a 2nd playoffs if it was determined to be necessary. So, as they're now implementing the rules before the MOU takes effect, don't be surprised to see tweaks to these next season (rather than in the 3rd year of the MOU taking effect). And on a slightly different, but related, topic, do expect they're going to want to tweak the rules some in the fairly near future. IMHO, the place where they're going to end up wanting (needing?) to tweak the rules isn't for BF-LTIR circumventing of the cap, but from trade deadline pickups that a team can add during the regular season because they'd banked cap space. It doesn't appear there are any provisions for having some form of a cap "bank" in the playoffs. So, a team that had accrued $4MM in cap space by the deadline and because of that could add a $12MM player (as at the trade deadline there's only ~1/3 of the season left to be played and that $12MM player would only be owed ~$4MM the rest of the way) with no issues during the regular season; well, when the playoffs come about, now if that guy is playing they'll be ~$3-4MM over the cap (the $6MM of cap that the new guy's salary puts them over the cap minus the ~$3MM in cap that players 21, 22, and 23 on the roster aren't counting towards the playoff roster). So, the top teams won't have as much of an incentive to "gear up for a playoff surge" as if they do bring in a big name vet on the old assumption that their playoff roster can exceed the cap with impunity, they no longer can do that. Presumably both sides are assuming that the extra cap spending on injury call ups and no longer counting players 21-23 against the playoff cap will allow those "late season vet acquisitions" to fit under the cap. Not convinced that will necessarily be the case wthout benching some key 3rd liners that are so important in the playoffs.

Terry, you’ve beaten me. Now I wear Leafs gear.

I would be interested if there’s enough room and the date works.

They've released nearly all the changes (there's a few that you have to be an NHL player with access to the player's only portion of the NHLPA website to see; but most everything is available to the general public). But the changes don't take effect until September 2026. It has nothing to do with being complicated or not to implement. They've agreed to operate under the 2021(?) MOU through next September. And the next version of this CBA will run for at least 4 years and then it can be renewed annually if both sides want it to do so thereafter.

They still haven’t released the info on any of the changes, have they? There should be a relatively long list of changes. You’d have to think it would be a bit too complicated to implement the playoff change in the in the middle of the CBA-year after running other different rules for the rest of the year.

New CBA doesn't take effect until next September. So, not expecting the playoff BF-LTIR and playoff cap modifications to take effect THIS season.

Tell me about it. I picked first last night. Oof

I like those rule changes Garbage 😫

changed to half ppr. Draft order: 1. Scott’s Tots 2. NorCal 3. Five Hole 4. CircleTheWagons 5. North Buffalo 6. Labatt Blue 7. Woody's Foot... 8. Waratahs 9. pi2000 10. PastaJoe’s... 11. GraveDiggsaz 12. Derrico