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True, but it should be a very easy switch to let the viewer hear the in rink audio. Guess for whatever reason they don't want to do that. Maybe afraid they'll lose clicks to the video? Which seems a strange concern because WE'RE ALREADY ON THE SABRES WEBSITE.

Yes, when the radio feed goes to commercial they mute the feed. They also appear to mute the feed during the intermission.

How hard would it be to switch the sound source during intermission from the muted radio feed to the video board sound?

Interesting. Watching on a laptop so can't really see the details. Will check 'em out later. 🍺

He's 'meh' for TV - ball park the same quality as Gurtler's 1st attempt at PbP. But he absolutely should not be simulcast onto the radio. He's awful for that medium.

It's under the "community" tab on the website.

Konecny ties it on a partial break. 1-1.

Looks like Anderson has new pads. You'd really think it wouldn't be too difficult nor expensive to broadcast the camera feed when the video board goes to graphics of scorers and replays while play is going on.

Biro from Rousek. 1-0.

Must be your feed. The quality is the same as the Prospects Tourney.

It's happened. Like twice. But it has happened. 😉

Well the game gets broadcast in at least Buffalo & Ra-cha-cha, and in Ra-cha-cha it's broadcast on the FM classic rock station that also carries Bills games. So, no idea how big of a revenue stream it is but somebody expects it to make money beyond Erie County. Not sure just how many stations carry the Sabres but doubt Ra-cha-cha is the only 2ndary market.

You and everyone that has any coaching experience at all.

No, that is exactly as anticipated. Until the players finish making up for the overage of the COVID years, the cap goes up $1MM per year. So next year will be up $1MM again, and then it could go wild after that. As stated in the Girgensons thread, the cap could go up a lot in the '24-'25 season and almost definitely will be significantly higher in '25-'26. IF the cap were to go up more than $1MM next season, it would be going up sooner than expected.

But the people here (excepting the usual suspects) aren't really doing that IMHO YMMV. It's not a big deal & you're free to post whatever SDS and his moderating team are good with, just not sure of the reason for the point you're making here. Like said earlier, it's no biggie, and if the venting works for you, cool. (That's what most everybody else is doing.) 🍺

Yes, there is more revenue due to Seattle joining. But there are also 23-26 more NHLers sharing the players' share of HRR. Until national TV / internet deals get reworked to include the expanded league footprint, that won't significantly adjust the cap. And ... without having seen the details of the NHL's revenues post-pandemic, so the players may get done repaying the owners sooner, but in the MOU the league & union were expecting the players to be repaying the owners through '23-'24 and possibly '24-'25. As long as they're repaying the owners, the cap will only be going up $1MM/ year. Once that is finished, we'll see a big jump in the cap because the $2-3 MM/yr that we should've been seeing every year hadn't happened. A $10MM bump for '24-'25 would not be out of the question. But until then, the cap will be constricting on the top squads.

It's possible they can. Am expecting that for large stretches they will, but this team has had a LOT of injuries in the Pegula era and until that isn't the case expect we need to expect it will be the case again and that those injuries will put them just below that NHL 0.600 that they need to truly call this season a success. BUT, my pet theory has been that part of the reason for such a seemingly abnormally high rate of mangames lost iisthey've been forced into playing above their talent level and are pushing their bodies to & beyond their limits thus resulting in an inordinate amount of injuries. IF the theory has any merit AND these guys actually have an NHL roster again, we should see a more reasonable amount of injuries. (Girgensons & Hinostroza will break, because that's what they do. But hopefully the rest will be substantially healthier than in the past.) Adams focusing on limiting injuries will also help (and realistically will be a bigger factor). But, if they can stay healthy AND get NHL quality goaltending, the playoffs are possible.

There was enough talent to do it after they got healthy last year. In previous years, rather than doing it as a measure to dictate to the opponent how to play which is what that should be now, it could've been used as a way to mitigate them just getting absolutely collapsed for long stretches. (Limit the damage when you just don't have enough talent.)

Not speaking directly to Granato's system, but in general on the forecheck there aren't W's & a C, there are F1, F2, & F3. F1 takes the body, F2 takes the puck, & F3 stays high in case F1&2 are beat but heads to the net/ open ice lowish when the puck is won & F1 (typically) rotates back up high to now become F3. And the 3 are always in motion. If the 2 F's close to the opponent with the puck are a W & a C, it'll usually (but not always) be the W that becomes F1 & the C becomes F2. The W's spend a bit more time along the boards & usually are better at winning that board battle but not always. (When Eichel & Olofsson were on the same line, Eichel was way better on the boards than Victor. And neither Krebs nor Olofsson being particularly good on the hard forecheck might keep the 2 of them apart.) (Also part of the reason the traditional C Girgensons is so much better at W than C - he's a beast along the boards but has below average vision IMHO.) And, the C will tend to slide to F3 more often than the W's because F3 becomes the C on a transition into their own zone, at least initially, & also because the C usually has the better vision should the puck squirter out of the board scrum. In the other end, yes, that 1st F back becomes the C but at the NHL level because everybody is so fast & also because an NHL goalie will rarely get beat on a clean shot from the blue line the Ws collapse much lower than they do at lower levels of competition. So, if there is a Skinner that was the 1st man back, he can get rotated back to wing usually fairly easily but if Girgensons were the 1st man back, he just stays at C until they've cleared the zone.

Very glad to see he's considering the bolded. Have been advocating for that for a while. And could see the lines being different against the same opponent depending on whether they're home or away.

Of course, the Vegas trip could be the "bring your dad along" trip, in which case the broadcast team would likely go along too to set up a Beyond Blue & Gold or Embedded episode covering the trip.

Didn't say that would be the 2nd line in October, though it might be. Not sure if Mittelstadt's line will get 2nd most 5v5 ice time or 3rd most. But said swap out Krebs for Savoie & that could very well be a line. And again, the Sabres say Krebs is a C. Mitts & Granato have both said Mitts might be a W rather than a C. If Krebs is playing C, he should have a true C on his W to help with the heavy lifting. Just reading the tea leaves.

Would expect that's the Edmonton-Calgary-Vancouver-Seattle trip. The LA - Anaheim - San Jose trip. And though it isn't "West Coast" technically, could see them skipping the Colorado - Phoenix - Vegas trip, though that's just a guess.

Wouldn't be surprised if when the bullets start flying for real that Krebs is centering that 2nd line. Knew Granato would have Jokiharju paired with Power but hoping that flips to Lyubushkin sooner than later. (Presuming both of those RHD play as expected.)

And that's part of the reason Krebs will be better at C than W IMHO. And fully agree that he needs to gain strength to stay at the NHL level. Just not sure that he'll ever be good at W but could see him being good at C. He was very good there in the A.