PASabreFan
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Great name for a horse.
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July 1 is new year's day on the NHL calendar. I'd imagine that anyone under a contract with the organization would have the same expiration date.
Doug Allen too? Wow, I've got to get to work here.
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Tanking. Now stanking.
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Chuck Pollock at the Olean Times Herald is probably the dean of Bills writers. He's pretty level headed. When he writes something like this, it gets my attention.
http://www.oleantimesherald.com/sports/article_23148eca-f20f-11e4-8b96-9b806d8d9c16.html
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haha, well, I played my first rec league game last night, and fortunately didn't get my helmet stuck to anyone's.
I had a blast, it was a pretty close game, some of my friends came out to watch me (one was a former employee of the ice rink and wanted to see his old buddies). I notched an assist late in the third period that tied the game 1 - 1, but shortly after my shift we gave up another goal (about 2 minutes left). I think my new team liked what I was doing out there as they threw me out as the 6th attacker when we pulled the goalie. We came close to tying the game up again, but the other team got the puck out of the zone and scored an empty netter with a few seconds left.
I'm excited for next week.
Wow. Good for you Jack!
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Pitchman prior to moving to DC.
Well, yeah, Schoeny. I just don't get the cowboy singing the blues reference.
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:unsure:
Can I/we get a hint?
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Peanut butter on toast!
You are so dead. These people don't eat peanut butter on toast. They grind their own freakin' organic peanuts and slather the result on home-made artisan bread which has been toasted in an ancient Italian brick oven. I suppose you eat jelly too.
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Opportunity Knox
Outstanding. I feel like this horse and Warpath would stand just a bit taller than the rest.
You are WAAAAAAY overthinking it.
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OHHHHHHHHHHHH.
On top of everything else, Malarchuk had herpes?
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Nope. Wrong on both counts. I know you know who Captain Video references; you'll be mad at yourself when it comes to you.
I know who Captain Video was.
Hajt wasn't the Midnight Plowboy?
I'm so confused. I know a Sabres mattress reference and a Sabres mattress/singer reference, but where the Cowboy and the Blues fit in, I don't know.
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Very good on Surprised Bernie. :beer:
Didn't think the Cowboy one was that tough. Figured Captain Video or Al Skates Away were tougher.
Everybody knows Darcy was Captain Video.
Didn't they call Bill Hajt the Midnight Plowboy? I got nothin' here.
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Didn't read the entire thread, apologies for any duplicates:
Captain Video
Cowboy Sings the Mattress Blues
17 Leaping
Slinky Headlock
Dodo's Hero
Jean in the Park
Puppa Scuppa
Sacha's Sombrero
Al Skates Away
Down Goes the Bat
Foggy May
Surprised Bernie
Thank You Sabres
Mrs Hasek
Great White Buffalo
Bloodshot Eyed Buffalo
and stealing 1 from DeLuca: Andro Peters.
You have to identify all of these references in order to become a full Sabre Citizen. I would be two short. Cowboy Sings the Mattress Blues and Surprised Bernie. Is Surprised Bernie a reference to not seeing the puck in the fog?
Anyone get the Cowboy one?
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I made a rhubarb pie. The rhubarb I planted in the summer of 2012 finally could be fully harvested. I needed about 12 good sized stalks to get five cups for the pie. I've never had good luck with this pie using store-bought rhubarb — it always came out runny even coating the rhubarb with corn starch. But I don't think it was the rhubarb, I think it was impatient, gluttonous me cutting the pie before it was completely cooled. So this time I cooled it over night and had a piece just now for breakfast. Everything was nice and tight and congealed. It looks somewhat gross as this variety doesn't turn pink. It's sort of a MASH 4077 greenish. And pretty tart, but I was shooting for that. I only used a cup of sugar (brown) instead of the cup and a half in the recipe.
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Game 5 Sabres 15 Bruins 2
Back on home ice, Babdick employs his trademark coaching strategy: having all of his players scream "Miss!" at the Bruins each time they took a shot. The two Bruins goals were a result of Ullmark thinking that his teammates were yelling for him to miss the puck.
I instinctively knew to pull the cup of tea away from lips before reading this. Good thing, it could have been a bad start of the day for the monitor.
Also: three course second breakfast!
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A high school student from Rush-Henrietta, where I currently live and pay taxes. :thumbsup:
I could see you doing this back in the day.
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High school student copies famous pics of presidents.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54707/awesome-high-school-student-dresses-every-president
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As to your last statement, my reading of 49.3.d is that the league & committee can withhold revenue sharing after it determines a team isn't following the plan. It isn't limited to just reducing the revenue sharing by a % age. So, it's true, but TB is seriously playing politician.
I was referring to Ted's statement in 2011, when the old CBA was in effect. The only hammer then was reducing the revenue sharing amount by 75, 60 or 50 percent.
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I love Viddler's. I haven't been there in years and years, but I always left that store with an awesome toy every time.
Aha! You're not young! You have to be at least 60 to say "years and years." It's the law!
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God, I love the leaves and the fall hikes and all that, but... no, just no. Not yet.
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Here's my take on it.
If the Sabres' gate receipts fall below 75% of leaguewide average gate receipts, they do fall under supervision of the league & the RSOC. That supervision will require a business plan be submitted and approved. Once an approved plan is submitted, how well it was followed gets reviewed in 1 year and if the team didn't follow it then the operation will be turned over to a 3rd party.
The word "may" means that the league and RSOC can do this. If they can, they most definitely will.
As the teams know what everybody else is doing, & they have a HUGE incentive to keep above 75% of the average (never met a businessman (or businesswoman, for that matter) that wanted control of any portion of THEIR business turned over to someone else); I'd be very surprised to see any small market club not make adjustments designed to keep pace w/ what they expect the leaguewide average increase to be. W/ a team w/ a waiting list for tix, the only way to do that is by increasing prices by what they expect leaguewide average prices to go up.
It's interesting that this is based off gate receipts. My guess as to why that 1 measure was chosen is that not all teams will have control over other items such as concessions and there are league guidelines for how teams handle their media rights, so they don't necessarily have full control over those as well.
Has any team suffered the fate of being turned over to a third party? I'm not saying it wouldn't happen, but it's hard to believe that anyone at the league or NHLPA would want this scenario to play out except as a last resort. The issue here is whether it would happen to the Sabres if they fell short of the 75% target one time under extenuating circumstances (The Make Believes Scenario).
I just find it dishonest the way Ted talks about this. Even under the old CBA, the penalty for the Sabres not raising ticket prices after 2010-2011 and seeing their hockey related revenue lag behind the league average would have been only a 25% reduction in their revenue sharing check. That's assuming it would have been the first year they lagged. Yet he still framed it as having to raise prices in order to qualify for revenue sharing.
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You can all go on and on about what's in the CBA what is required and what isn't what Black says or said or didn't and what Terry implied when he bought the team. While I have clearly stated my opinion on the matter I understand what the others are saying even if I question their motivation.
What I think is indisputable, however, is that as party to a CBA that stipulates a split in hockey related revenue, the Sabres have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize said revenues.
I know the Leafs don't receive any revenue-sharing (ha), but what is their penalty for not maximizing their ticket revenues next season?
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And the Babcocks probably aren't living on 8 Mile.
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Why a doozy?
Revenue sharing is the correct term. That's the guts of the CBA. Clubs have to raise revenues so the players get their contractual 50% split. The Sabres have a contractual obligation as a Club party to the CBA.
You imagine it is a money grab or that the Sabres can opt out. Really, the Sabres, from a players point of view, have been reluctantly compliant with the Revenue Sharing Oversight Committee and are only doing their due diligence, forming a plan, and satisfying their contractual requirements.
The 75% target isn't about qualifying for revenue sharing.
I guess I missed the news about the Sabres having any dealings with the RSOC. When did they miss their 75% target?
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1. Even with the CBA, we have incomplete information--we don't have the numbers--so no one here can intelligently call out anyone.
When people make factual statements that this or that is in the CBA, when they aren't, yes, you can intelligently call that person out.
3. Black strikes me as kind of a transparent, fan-oriented guy, from what I've heard on radio and from reading, on this forum, various posters' personal interactions with him. I'm gonna need more before I call him a liar.
I didn't say liar. I think he's taking full advantage of the fact that virtually no one in the media or in the fan base will ever look in the CBA. His statement that the Sabres had to raise ticket prices to qualify for revenue sharing was a doozy, but he's been more likely to cleverly use the word "jeopardize." Not raising prices would jeopardize revenue sharing, which is technically does. It sounds scary, innit?
What are you eating (or drinking)?
in The Aud Club
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That's disgusting!