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Agree, relatively speaking our playoff drought is actually shorter than other teams - when you factor in revenue, that we are in no way responsible for, it becomes clear that the competitive disadvantage foisted upon us leaves us in an indisputable “what could the sabres have even done?” situation

At least Howard didn’t decide to do it at halftime in a game.

I appreciate what you’re saying, but my point had nothing to do with the obvious ineptitude of Pegula and how much revenue he’s earning or losing. I was merely underscoring @PromoTheRobot’s point that player salaries are only one component of player and other franchise operating costs and how disparities between what percentage of revenues teams spend on those costs can create competitive advantages/disadvantages.

The Colts are a dumpster fire?

But, he needs to be OK with physical contact. He needs to push people out of the way so his goalies have clear view of shooting lanes. He needs to use his size to pin people to the boards, rather than let them loop around to the front of the net and set up easy 2 on 1 opportunities, and he needs to grab people after the whistle. Those are all things accomplished by the players you listed, even Teppo. And it wouldn't hurt to end up with over 1100 points, +450, with 4 Cups and 260+ career playoff GP --- all with the same franchise.

Meh... instinct might be the wrong word but I know what you are getting at. Example below. A young female walks down a mostly deserted street in a nations capital, 6 hours after darkness falls. She has earbuds in and is staring at her phone. Is this naive? In the United States, one might think so. However, when I was in Stockholm I saw this in reality. There was a street, the only person I could see on it was me and this woman walking toward me. She did not even look up. I don't think is naive but a testament to the difference of crime rates and social experiences. Similarly I navigated the Stockholm public transit system at 2:30am without even remotely feeling in danger. I would think many times over doing that in most cities. It's not so much the instinct but the educated understanding that things work differently here. The situation is pretty much identical except for the society it happens in. We learn to fear things because we live in a culture that supports the behaviors we need to fear. In small towns in the United States people don't lock their doors. They don't fear having their house broken into. Common sense does come from life experience. Life experience is highly different for people. Your experience tells you to always distrust others. It does not mean it's the correct behavior. For the number of people you "don't trust to value life" how many of them actually don't? There's no way to tell of course. But, you can play the odds by assuming others don't and so this lowers your native trust.. We see the news and hear about how many interactions between people end up in murder. What we don't put into scope is the number of interactions between people that day that did NOT end in murder. We focus on the negative, and without context it drives our perception.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/former-miami-dolphins-cornerback-abruptly-225026077.html "Former Miami Dolphins cornerback Xavien Howard has decided to retire after just four games into the 2025 NFL season." Dumpster fire 🔥

The lack of an opposing viewpoint in this thread is noticeable. Is there any support for the actions of the Democrats here?

The most impactful thing that the franchise/owner can do to increase revenue is to have a consistently competitive team. And I’m sure you aware that being in the playoffs increases revenue and profit margin. What’s sad to see are the empty seats in the arena at the home games. What’s even more discouraging is that it is not unusual to see a sold seat end up being a vacant seat. That’s a loss of in-house revenue. As you noted, there is no question that because of the astounding amount of tv money shared by all teams in football that hockey will never have the ability to generate such an amount of money. But it’s indisputable that this lagging franchise has lost a lot of potential revenue due to its own systemic ineptitude.

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.

Fixed in post. Thank you

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?