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Thanks for posting. Going to have to give it a more thorough listen, but in the two minutes I heard the statement that dropped my jaw was this: Clifton called this Sabres team the most talented he's ever played for; this from a man who was a regular on a 135-point President's Trophy winner. What a damning callout of the coaching staff and/or the talent itself.

By the way, if anyone is interested in adding a USB CD player to their car, this is the one I got. It's plug and play in my car just by plugging it into the USB A port, and the cord is long enough to put the player out of sight in the glove box. So far it hasn't skipped even when going over nasty train tracks.

You are right. I should have acknowledged your accuracy. It really was a good call, almost dead on.

“Good call, Thorny” never in the equation, eh, Tom? The master predictor lol. I can only have been brainwashed by the incorrect group think

It took me a few days to adjust. I'm still learning (just got the car at the end of June and spent a week after that out of town), but I'm figuring it out. My dealer actually sets up appointments for a week or two after delivery of a car to go over all the stuff it does and give the new owner to ask how to do things he hor she can't figure out. My appointment is Friday. I've got it mostly figured out, but for the media selection there is a horizontal list of all the options that's wider than the screen. I'd like AM, FM, Andriod Auto (which jumps to Pandora on my phone) and USB (CD Player) together. Instead, USB is at the other end of the list and I can't switch between Pandora and USB without scrolling horizontally. I need to see if there's a way to edit or rearranged those options. I'm not going to renew SiriusXM when the trial ends so I'd like to push that off to the end instead and move USB closer to AM/FM/Pandora. Maybe there's a way to do that and I will find out how Friday.

lol absurd. I’ve posted countless times the multitude of tacts the team could take and not once did i specify we must move Byram for a forward. Go on - pull up my posts. Or, you can just go with the fact I’m being spoon fed my opinions from others and incapable of forming my own thoughts 👍 Good grief. I’m happy the board has shifted so smoothly to “absolute win by Adams” and “definitively improved”. That’s great - but please, please leave me out of your gaslighting “oh and if you don’t like it it’s cause you were brainwashed into expecting different” totally miss me with that. This is just going way, way too far now. Utter lack of respect for the discussion/poster

..... and somehow people are blaming JJP for wanting out of the cesspool the three horseman for franchise destruction created.

So keep trading the best players and hope for the best???? I was told by a trusted hockey man, one still coaching in the NHL, that the first guy to replace Granato was going to have a tough time. Peterka didn't respond to Ruff. Cozens fell apart. Samuelsson fell apart. Quinn regressed. UPL regressed. All players that were not blocked and were part of the master plan. I get it, Peterka was unhappy. I am not sold on the exhaustive coaching search that Adams talked about.

Which is why having Byram for $6.25 that year is a big deal. Had they bought any of his UFA years, he would've been getting $8-9MM. That difference covers most of Tuch's raise (provided they ink him to one; and for no particular reason personally remain hopeful he's still willing to re-sign). So, yeah, they're down $64MM from Skinner but only an extra $2MM from where they are this year and the cap goes up by more than that anyhow. But, yeah, somehow we've gotten to the point where the players Adams brought in are getting paid and they are once again a cap team though not necessarily a good one.

Jeff Skinner buyout starting with 2025: 4.4, 6.4, 2.4, 2.4, 2.4

There really is no hope

I think the first year of a Tuch new deal would be in 2026-27, which is the year of the bigger $6.4m hit....which is an issue.

My assumption is that when the Skinner hit drops to 2.44 Million the following year the money would be used for a Tuch contract.

There's no way you thought I was serious right?

Put Norris, Greenway, and Muel on LTIR to conveniently return in April and you can go add a Draisaitl-sized contract. Just sayin'. But yes, you'd probably have to be operating without the owner being happy for any additional yacht or construction payments. (And you'd have to be good enough to make the playoffs with just adding Draisaitl and subtracting those 3.)

Yes because spending beyond the cap in actual cash is something Pegula has shown he’s willing to do.

Is Steven back with BNL? If so, might try to see them. Have seen them several times but not since he left the band.

All this complaining in here about injured players.. they don't play the whole season, etc. I'm confused. Isn't this the last year Adams can attempt to pull off the LTIR trick? Clearly he's going for it. I'm not saying he understands how it works, but I think that might be his goal.

Thank you!

Just build the entire dashboard of levers, blinking lights, and unmarked 1900s metal toggle switches.

Conor Clifton on the Tage Thompson hit incident, the trade and other stuff. His comments on the Tage incident starts around 29 minutes. I'd start there unless you like to listen to John Scott.

9 NHL games or fewer and the contract slides. If they dress for game 10, the ELC year counts. While they're still 18 or 19 years old.

https://www.tsn.ca/nfl/new-york-jets-sign-cornerback-sauce-gardner-to-four-year-120-4-million-extension-1.2335682 Yikes. I’ve never been a huge fan of Sauce

I just bought a new 2025 car. I still can’t figure out how to fully operate the radio and sites associated with the onboard computer. Can’t they simply design basic cars for us archaic people??!! These freaking gadgets make me more grouchy than I usually am. You and I are kindred spirits.😀

It's sad, because we all like him and he has been a good coach (when Hasek/Miller). But current-day Ruff was not getting rehired anywhere else in the league. Pegula got him hired as the sole interviewee, competing against the only other option: Appert. The good news is that Ruff's previous two overachieving -- playoff guaranteed rosters -- were in his third season as coach (109-point season with Dallas; 112-point season with NJ). The bad news is that Ruff is only under contract for two seasons here. But I'm sure Appert will do fine next season.