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Really depends on what they actually want to do. Back when they were doing the preliminary studies on renovations they were looking at major changes to the seating bowl. Up to and including options like replacing the theater style seating in the 100's between the blue lines with tables and chairs similar to those in the 200s near the bar except they'd be sold as seasons. That could & would be completed in a single off-season. Stuff like widening concourses (where feasible, it isn't apparently in many spots) would likely take longer. Upgrades to the climate control systems could likely be done in 1 off-season but could be delayed by other work.

And Brandon Beane is a M'F'n genius. Even that '91 team wasn't this stacked.

Last year ESPN+ had several weekly exclusive games (those 8 mentioned above should be in that category) and was the on-line equivalent of CI and showed all out of market games except those that were TNT. They didn't show in-market non-ESPN+ games live, but IIRC they would add them to their library a couple days later. The ESPN+ exclusive games were removed from the reply library pretty quickly - there was something like a 4 week shelf life. CI was really cheap over DTv / cable, but they only had about 1/2 the regular season games and no post-season games because they didn't get both TNT exclusive games nor ESPN+ exclusive. Expecting as it's still the same contract that things will still work the same this year in the US.

Pretty sure every member of the Bills Mafia feels the same. He & Hyde have been rocks back there.

W/ Kromer coaching the O-line he very likely doesn't need to be. Kromer & Rusty Jones are the 2 guys the Bills let go that always should've been on their radar to bring back. Glad they got him back.

Does he have both deals 1 year longer than they actually are because neither kicks in until next season?

Agree to a degree. This year is way more important as this is the widest the door has been opened for them this century. But as long as they have Allen, next year matters too because their window doesn't close until he retires. Haven't seen whether this deal helps free up money this year or not, but it can't free up much - last year of his rookie deal. This move wasn't about this year, but the next 3-4 and as such, how it affects next year does matter. Especially if Poyer weren't the leader he is. Have no doubt Poyer will put it all out on the field. A lesser man might not be able to do so and that could hurt this year.

Thought Milano got locked up last year. Poyer is likely a given & if he doesn't start finding ways to fill the proper hole rather than run into a DL you're probably onto something with Edmunds.

His comparables (not necessarily skills wise, but more overall talent level) are the Ruhwedels of the league. He's a 7/8 and if we're lucky a 6 because injuries will get him into ~20 games.

Guess he knew something was in the works back in December when he bought a new house.

Wonder what Poyer thinks of that. Am glad Knox will be here LT. Just wondering who they'll have to start losing next year when all these deals start kicking in.

Done. You pick every game each week straight up. You have IIRC until 5 minutes prior to game time to make a pick. (So, if you forget about the Thursday game, as if, you still can pick the rest of the scheduled games until 12:55 eastern on Sunday & the late games until ~3:55 or 4:10 on Sunday depending upon who has the doubleheader.) Your worst week gets dropped. Pretty sure you can't pick the following week until all of that week's games are done. (Selection grid didn't open until Tuesday this week. Expect that'll be the case all season, but not positive.) Good luck.

No, he can't. His current contract is valid for TWO years, not 1. He needs to wait 2 years to go arbitration. You honestly believe he can't get a deal worked out this next off-season?

The damage is done. Have to try to look at the remaining bright sides of this course. And it isn't Reinhart all over again unless the Pegulas are fearing being extremely cash poor. Expect both Reinhart & Ullmark would've been offered LT deals in '20 except for the fact that nobody had any idea if there would be any hockey nor what the world would look like in a few months. This ONLY begins to be a Sammy redux if they don't negotiate in good faith this coming summer. Can't see any realistic possibility of that happening.

Bump. The Pick 'Em league is now allowing picks for week 1. Survivor also open. Lots of space left in both leagues. Mods, any chance this can be pinned until sometime on Sunday?

Would actually be surprised if sending him down ISN'T a tough decision.

And Cozens gets talked about at W too. The team might have 9 legit C's 3 years from now or 2. The people that hate this deal are really looking at it from an '22-'23 perspective rather than when the deal will be in place and aren't merely expecting him to drop to typical 2C #'s (which is possible, though IMHO would be a bit of a surprise) but rather back to 3rd liner results. Which would be a surprise should he stay at C. It's a 2C deal and might be setting the F contract level/value until the cap begins to skyrocket in 2-3 years. Waiting a 1/2 year or a full one was the greater risk IMHO.

Which is why it was silly for a handful around here to be worrying about Ra-cha-cha's ability to dress 20 players every night back when the off-season began. The Amerks were ALWAYS going to be able to ice a full team by the time mid-October rolls around. And likely one that is both competitive & developing the youngsters.

Remember that they also have another team's worth of salary cutting into the players' share. Yes, there is more HRR, but the denominator for calculating the cap went from 31 to 32. It's also very likely that the players haven't finished paying the owners back for the excess share of revenues they got during the lockdown era. Until that money is fully paid back, the cap will remain relatively static. After the owners have been fully repaid there will almost definitely be a large bump to the cap.

Second likely plus, though definitely not a given, is that Dahlin will likely still be a good player on the contract after this next one. (He fits the type to have a better chance than most to play into his late 30's or even 40's.) That age 31 contract will likely be bad but not horribly so and at 38 the AAV will be down from an age 36 contract. That age 36 one would likely be a killer. Looking at the SERIOUS long game. 😉

Still say they keep 8.

No fears. 20-0 baby. They got their loss out of the way last week. 😉

Yep. He'll be good-ish if he only plays 20 or so games. If he's expected to play much more than that, he'll wear down. Expect he'll be ~0.905 S% if he plays 20 or less. ~0.895 if he plays significantly more than that. Will be surprised if he doesn't spend at least a couple of weeks on IR.

Had picked him to get 60 points earlier this summer, so will stick with that. Not sure if he's C or W this year, but expect him on the 2nd line & 1st PP.

There is IMHO a lot of this in that stat. The majority of the players get put on their "strong side" in youth hockey & never really get as much opportunity on their other side and end up more comfortable there. My teams tended to have at least 1 kid playing on their off-hand as we usually only had enough kids for 5 D rather than 3 pairs. But even then, most of them were on their strong side. And the primary reason was typically for being able to keep the puck in the zone. Way easier for a kid to hold the puck in at the boards on his forehand.