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Agree that a better GM would've found a way to upgrade the D and not send out one of their best goal scorers for about 70 cents on the $. But IF Adams uses the rest of that $5MM in cap space he gained through that deal to add another top 6F, the trade gets much closer to being equal value.

Umm, isn't that an almost tautological statement? (Presuming you mean relative to his peers. But just the way that was written, it kind of seems to be a "no Schlitz, Sherlock" sort of statistic.)

Let's hope this ownership group doesn't have plans to move the team like the last one did. Doubt they do but the owner that bought the previous version of the Kin-ig-hit Hawks moved them out of town pretty much as soon as he could.

Do expect the kids to be better. Am likely one of the few that expects Quinn to actually bounce back this year. But unless UPL is one of those kids to be a lot better, it likely will be for naught.

Would be great if Krebs did take a step up. But, don't see him getting much, if any, PP time (not that THAT matters with this team). And getting primarily 4C usage, will be tough to improve significantly over that. (By that, meaning last year's #'s.)

There's also the possibility that the PP will simply have too much talent on it to be unable to overcome Appert. They weren't able to do so last year, but especially if they go to a 3-2 with Byram replacing (effectively) Cozens and Norris replacing Peterka/Quinn on that 1st unit.

And that's what's so friggin' frustrating about current ownership. They KNOW from past history plus how things go with the Bills and Bandits that if they put a competitive team on the ice that they'll make a lot more money. But they don't pull out all the stops to try to do so. And they're financially in a position where they should be able to absorb a downyear or 2 to get to the point they're consistently having good ones.

Rust's salary is ~$5.12MM. The Sabres have $5.19MM in cap space with a full roster. Presuming no rostered players go back to the 'Burgh and there's no retention, the Sabres would have only ~$900k in space after adding Rust (presuming a guy on a 2 way deal would be the eventual casualty of Rust getting added to the roster). Personally, am OK with the Sabres running that tight to the cap (heck, wanted them to do that the past few years) but doubt Adams will be comfortable operating in that space. As soon as you have 2 guys out on IR you start to have to make use of BF-LTIR to fit everyone onto the roster. So, expect the Sabres would say no.

IF the Sabres were to cut a deal with the Pens, would expect they'd retain ~$1MM of the cap hit. Trading Rust would cement that the Pens are in rebuild mode. And they've got ~$13MM in cap space with a full roster currently. When Malkin's deal goes away next year, they'll never even notice that $1MM they'd be retaining.

A lot of the allegations do seem rather unsavory. But one that they made a huge deal over is essentially a fact of life for youth hockey. If you want to play in a tournament, you WILL have X% of your team stay in the approved hotels which do kickback to the tournament host organization. Not saying it's right. Just sayin' it is what it is and it goes on in rink rich regions like WNY/CNY as just as much as it does in central Texas. While it may not seem right, it does bring significant money into many organizations that are 501(c)7's (or is it 501(c)6's?) and really does help keep costs down for those organizations. USA Today makes it seem that the Stars do not use those monies to help defray costs for their participants and maybe they are correct about that. And if that's the case, that is wrong. But all the local organizations in upstate NY run their own tourneys and everybody knows that part of their organization's funding comes from those hotel arrangements. (And you have to play in your own organization's tourney to get more teams involved (even though obviously there is no travel / hotel stays involved in that) and everybody knows you'll stay in the hotels that are tied in with the host organizations for other tourneys when you choose to play in them.)

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Darn good Q. Issue is, the acquisition cost won't be the same. Roslovic is a UFA and Rust would necessitate something going back to the Pens. And at current costs, issue really comes down to how one feels about the current leadership in the room. If you feel strongly the team needs another veteran voice that has been THERE, the choice goes to Rust. If you're looking for a guy that could be part of the solution for the longer term, the choice is Roslovic.

Will keep an eye out for them. Thanks for the tip!

Fair enough.

In the original 1990 CAAA, CO is a listed pollutant. In the IRA, where there is a listing of pollutants, CO2 replaces CO in that context. And, the EPA in 2007 was correct. CO2 is NOT a pollutant. And as CO2 is not a pollutant, there is no "important environmental protection(s)" to be gained by regulating its emissions. IMHO, and apparently in that of the current EPA, the EPA's 2009 endangerment finding was in fact erroneous.

Said it upthread. Provided things go to plan, he probably nets out more money long run by signing a 2 year 1 way deal than he would've having this year's deal be a 2 way deal. On a 2 way deal, he'd probably get $250-300k as an Amerk. And if he spends 90%+ of the year in Ra-cha-cha he'd end up with ~$325-$350k total as a gross. So, he's getting better than $400 more than he would've signing a 2 way deal this year and then a deal for about the same money on a 1 way deal next year as he signed this time. He'd need to get over $1.2MM next year to be ahead of where he'll be now and if he suffers some sort of catastrophic accident he would get almost none of that without already having a contract and if he doesn't play at all in the NHL this year he'd have a tough time negotiating a deal to that for next year. He had 0 leverage. This works for both sides as he doesn't count against the salary cap at all while in Ra-cha-cha and next year the deal will be bumped up to $850k because that is the league minimum salary for next season, but the cap hit will be less than $850 because the contract is for 2 years and it'll be the average of both years nominal salary.

To the bolded, why not? There were 21 teams and only 5 didn't make the playoffs. Except for the Norris, which conveniently was typically the worst division by far so it was only fitting that they got the extra squad that missed the playoffs, only the worst team in each division missed the playoffs. They Sabres have not been the worst, nor even 2nd worst at best, team in the division for 14 straight years. A 14 year playoff drought would not have happened then. Rarely does this kid say things as being unequivocably true when we can't observe them, but that fact is unequivocably true. Now, would it have been a disgracefully bad run? Yes. Would they have ever made it to the 2nd round? No data. But there have been a few versions of this team that personally would take over the 70's era Wings, the Hal Ballard Loafs, any squad (other than the post-mid-90's Sharks) owned by the Gunds except that one miracle squad that merged with Minny to end Moe-ray-all's dynasty because Denis Herron was a horrible puck handler, or the 70's versions of the Caps or Scouts (which in fairness to them were expansion teams in an era when the other teams had no incentive whatsoever to help them overcome being brand new). In only a handful of years were they in that same category of historically bad squads. Several times they've been the NHL equivalent of the pre-Allen 21st century Bills - a bad to mediocre team with no chance whatsoever of winning the championship but not often the slow motion trainwreck that the team was during the tank portion of this extended stay in purgatory.

No, the Clean Air Act does NOT list CO2 as a pollutant. Carbon MONOXIDE is a pollutant per that law, not CO2. And, as CO is a killer, it is appropriate to be regulated. And perusing the IRA, yes, in it they do substitute CO2 for CO. CO is not listed anywhere in the IRA. So, apparently we no longer care about limiting actual pollutants. And, no, CO2 should not be considered a pollutant. It, along with water, is the natural byproduct of complete oxidation of hydrocarbons.

You don't know much history of the league, do you? Yes, it is the longest running cluster #### in league history, but honestly not sure it even makes the top 10 in league history of horribleness and definitely not the top 5. And if current ownership had owned the team back pre-90s, the playoff drought wouldn't be a thing. A ten year streak of getting past the 1st round might've been eclipsable for this crew, but they wouldn't have come close to 14 years of missing the playoffs in those eras.

No, that doesn't. But even if it did, that came out in 2022. The EPA has been regulating it as a pollutant since 2009. Again what STATUTE declares CO2 (NOT CO) a pollutant?

Purely out of curiosity, which statute defines CO2 as a pollutant?

Found out my local watering hole that was closed for about 4 months for kitchen renovations ain't reopening. Which stinks. But went to the original establishment tonight for the 1st time and found out they'll extend my mug club membership an extra year; which is nice but would rather have the one less than 3 miles from our house reopening. And @Eleven if you ever do come in for trivia, it's now on Tuesday night. (Wtf wants to do trivia on a Tuesday. Wednesday's the day.)

That's a big concern. It seems way too often that D-men fall off a bit in their 1st year in a new location needing to learn the new system (when they go to a place that actually employs one; and not to go too Neil Peart here, but if you choose not to system you still have A system 😉 ) and learn their new partner. Hoping they'll fit right in (Bernard-Docker seemed to, maybe he'd've slumped off this year without the adrenaline of midseason change when you're already in game condition), but wouldn't be shocked if it takes a significant portion of the season for him and Timmons to do so.

Mods, please feel free to move this to the politics club if this is too political, but considering half the people here won't even remember who he was, doubt it's really all that political, and it isn't meant to be political. Now, with all THAT said. Does anybody else get a Dukakis wearing a helmet in a tank vibe from this photo?

Don't know. It WAS the Sabres plan until Murray got punted. Theoretically, it kind of was supposed to be last season's plan but the implementation left a lot to be desired and the plan seemed to get scrapped somewhere midseason to go back to more of a Granato style open ice possession game.