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It never dies but lies a dormant volcano... for at minimum 14 years.

In 2006, Hank Tallinder had 43 hits, Teppo Numminen had 10. The following year Teppo had 37 and Hank 26 (in 47 games) Nick Lidstrom routinely put up 40-something hits a year. Teams need physical defencemen, but idea you need to be physical to play good defence is utter fallacy. Owen Power doesn’t need to punish anybody, he needs to use that reach, those feet and that vision to kill plays.

Good point. Many times I tried to point this out to people over at TSW, but they just didn’t want to hear it. It was all “Ralph is cheap.” Bottom line is this: if one team’s operating costs represent X percentage of revenues and another team’s operating costs represent 2X in player costs that team is at a competitive disadvantage. The example I would point to is that the Cowboys were spending 35% of revenues on those costs while the Bills were spending 65%. A common push back would be “but all the salaries are paid for by TV revenues” but as you point out, salaries are only one component of operating costs.

That's not Rams or Goats or anything like that; it's actually Goat Heads. If you live in the south/southwest, you know what goatheads are. They are basically seeds from some kind of ubiquitous wild plant that are great at sticking to you, giving your bike flat tires, and poking you whenever you touch them or try to pull them off. The script very much suggests the spines on goathead seeds.

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I'm hung up on the word made. Made implies profit to me. I think it refers to revenues tho.

"Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane." /s

Thanks to everyone that is explaining the difference between revenue and profit. You all must work for the government or an accounting firm because I can’t imagine anyone else cares about profit. You all need to look up an old WKRP episode where Doctor Johnny Fever explained the myth of profit. These guys are all making money. Very rich, very smart people are doing something normally foreign to them; they are begging for inclusion. They wouldn’t be doing that for the privilege of losing money.

I liked the pairing of #4 and 6 back in its day. The boards in the Aud were loud

Ok, I'm gonna say it one more time. Owen Power is never ever gonna be up to the physical part. He wasn't in college and he's not in the NHL. He's a passive defender with a good stick and skating. He has good passing. He's always gonna get his ***** pushed in because he plays passive defense. So either we are good with a 6'6" offensive defender who isn't physical but takes up space and gets you 40pts or we should move him.

Oh man the 2026 draft is nutz. Straight up, no joke, it's got some dudes.

It's 8yrs x 5mil

Yea I'm sure Jan in accounting is really making it hard for Terry to afford her 60k a year. Also as noted up thread, Terry is saving a penny to cost himself a dollar. This team would make far more money if they made the playoffs.

I don't know. What other expenses are there? Teams have more employees than just players. What about rent, taxes, insurance? Are you aware that a salary is only about 60% of the cost of an employee?

Eh. Those career scout guys tend to churn through several organizations in the course of a career. His perspective on Levi may well have been a consensus among the Florida's amateur scouting department. This is mostly a way of me re-remembering how much I fooking hate the return that the Sabres got for an NHL stud like Reinhart.

Making small amounts of money by pinching every penny possible like many NHL teams do versus making crap loads of money while spending money like it's free as they do in the NFL are completely different things. Also "revenue" is not profit.

Are the Sabres in the red or black when the revenues/costs are tabulated? Just my opinion, but if the owner had a competitive team that made the playoffs, the generated revenue would be around 50% more. Save a penny and lose a dollar.

Florida extends Mikkola to 8 x $5M for forty total. Second pair defensive defenseman. One more year on the current deal. Edit: Whoops. Did a number transposition there... One more cup of coffee ought to fix that.

Does 180 million pay all the bills for a team that only spends half that on the cap? I'd hope so.

I am at the point where I really don't even care about new injury announcements. I genuinely think they are going to be a mess with the current lineup as it is, or with any of the call-ups. At the same time, I could not care less about the draft position because none of that has helped over the last 15 years either.

Yes. He was both D and F. With yge Sabres he pretty much played D and paired with Schoeny.

TSN has a story up saying that Carter Hart is very likely to sign with Vegas. Looking at their depth chart, that move makes a ton of sense. That's a very questionable lilneup right there, especially for a high end team. It makes you reflect on the Sabres goalies a bit and realize just how questionable the position is all over the league.

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Clearly needed 2. He was not up to physical part of being an nhl defenseman. I hoping that this year he is.