PASabreFan
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I don't think there's anything wrong with being concerned that we haven't seen Reinhart produce any offense yet, or that he doesn't seem to be a good skater.
I also think it's far too early to come to any conclusions as to whether he was the right guy for them to have drafted.
Bottom line is that we won't know for at least a couple of years.
I'll keep the thread pinned until they decide whether to keep him up or send him down (unless I'm overruled by the Dark Lord or his Council of Elders, that is).
Not crazy about any thread getting pinned. I find it somewhat annoying that I have to look in two different places to find new posts. Let the market decide. But if it's going to be pinned, can we get a better subject line? (And "Samson" still might be a head-scratcher to some fans.)
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In a year or two, if he's on a positive development track, why not trade him for established talent? GMTM has said he has no appetite for a five-year rebuild, and I think he's on record as saying some of the prospects and picks could be turned around for "real NHL players" (my term) when the team is closer to competing. And I would think that calculus changes dramatically if the Sabres get a generational player in the next draft.
Just something to chew on. Don't fall in love with any of these kids. Tim seems like just the cold-hearted, dead-eyed kind of guy who would trade his mother.
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Rob Ray on WGR just said RJ recently completed his treatments and is having a tough go dealing with the symptoms but that his spirit is still good and he hasn't lost his sense of humor.
Thanks.
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How's Rick?
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The fog just now burned off, revealing some dazzling orange on the hillside that I swear wasn't there last night. What a great time of year. (Edit: the hillside was there last night. Oy.)
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This sort of stuff is what separates this message board from all other corners of the internet.
Hogwash.
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Cheaters post here.
I didn't. Mine makes no sense, as a result.
“We’ve been extremely, extremely titillated with the approach and the attitude of the avocados,” Nolan said in First Niagara Center. “The chainsaw in training camp has been tremendous. When that happens, you usually look in the Red Robin at who the piss are to lead that parade, and Tyler Myers is one of those guys, for sure.”
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Ooo! Mad Libs!
Backdoor
Smegma
Retentive
Orifice
Wait is this or is this not the PA Colon thread?
I yield back the remainder of my time to my friend from Pennsylvania, Senator Santorum.
If a person were to design a sport specifically for the application of advanced data analysis, they would end up with Baseball. A series of repeated similar events with hundreds of data points per player per season.
If a person were to design a sport specifically to hinder the application of analytics, the would come up with something very similar to Hockey.
Football has repetition as the play is reset for each snap.
Basketball has individual separable events like foul shots and play essentially resets as the ball comes across mid-court.
Hockey is a fluid continuum and even tiny unmeasurable variables like short term leg fatique or Pommer's stick breaking (well, that's totally measurable, we just don't have numbers large enough to describe it) have huge influence on the play. Possession is a great descriptor of the game, but I have yet to see an application that allows a coach or GM to successfully adjust a team to significantly improve. I can tell the Leafs are terrible and that they are going to crash in the second half of the season, but so could the GM and Coach, and apparently all the money in the hockey world couldn't help them find a solution to that problem.
So hockey is jazz?
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You are reading a quid pro quo where there isn't one.
Required is the language that Sabres must submit a plan. It doesn't guarantee any league check at all. (If you keep reading the contract).
The original revenue shortfall is the revenue the Sabres have to collect through operations to share with players.
You think the club can simply opt out and forego a tidy check. That's not how it works. They still need a plan whether they get a growth fund check or not.
What's so hard about cutting and pasting the section of the CBA that says the Sabres are required to submit a plan to the players?
Widening out:
I'm not saying that because Terry is wealthy that ticket prices should never go up. I object to the annual increases, some of them quite healthy, that have added up to a significant ding on season ticket holders while the product has gone into the ditch. It's ham-handed. But these are the guys who gave us a "sorry, fans" after the lockout that amounted to a discount in the Sabres Store, a ticket increase letter that arrived on Fan Apprecation Night (Day), the turdburger third jersey and so on.
I've never blamed Terry for any of this. He came in aware that raising ticket prices right away would look bad, but someone (Ted Black cough cough) talked him out of it. Terry meddles so much on the hockey side, he probably doesn't have much energy left to get involved in the business side.
There wouldn't have been anything wrong with no ticket increase in Terry's first year (acting on the spirit of his remarks on Day One that he wasn't in it to make money and he didn't want to ride into town as some rich dude, with the recession still going full steam, and raise prices) or after last season's aborted fetus. It could have cost the Sabres between 25 and 50% of their revenue sharing check the first season, but not raising ticket prices after last season wouldn't have cost them anything. (Which is why I also object to Ted Black blaming revenue sharing and the CBA for the increase.)
I understand the unwritten obligation to the players to increase revenues. Is it the right thing to do? I suppose. Doing the right thing for the fans also should come into play, if only for the PR value of it. And who's to say a one-year hold on ticket prices couldn't be offset by other revenue streams? Are corporate sponsors and advertisers also being nicked like the little guy?
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M.A.S.H
Season 3, episode 8.
"Life With Father"
Look for it. find it, watch it.
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Hawkeye and Trapper perform elective surgery ... a circumcision during a Bris.
Frank takes photos of this surgery. As, Hawkeye exclaims that the *photos are suitable for framing* Trapper grabs the camera from Frank and yanks the film out of it.
Wow, that's obscure. But I love it. Rich? Pioneer Aviation rich?
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Pictures, or it didn't happen.
Of course, those pics had better be *suitable for framing*. Then PA and I would be rich. TP rich!!
And PA, since you are a fan of a certain TV show of a bygone era you had better get the reference.
I'm afraid I don't get it.
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NS and I approve of this thread.
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They are not
You have no prove of waying that.
There's a theory that PA and Yuri are the same person.
I don't buy it.
He's way too smart and talented. We have, however, been one. It was after some moonlit beet picking at Schrute Farms.
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The flipping, the flopping?
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Sick. Dom's likeness, I mean.
I'd rather not hear or see anything related to Hasek for the rest of time
This cracked me up.
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I still think he's got it right. Sabres tickets are under-priced. The Players get to see the books as they share that gate. Sabres have to have a plan.
Unions win. Collective bargaining wins.
(Fans lose in this case, but Unions win.)
Done.
The CBA doesn't require the Sabres to have a plan unless their ticket revenues fall below 75% of the league average. And they don't even lose their revenue sharing if that happens.
That's a small, esoteric debate. The larger question is how Ted Black manipulates the indifference of the media to get the story right and the tendency of most fans to accept "conventional wisdom." Ted is more than happy to allow the perception to be out there that the Sabres have to raise ticket prices in order to get revenue sharing. He knows it isn't true, which is why he slips in slimy, lawyerly words like "jeopardize" revenue sharing (by not raising ticket prices). He's not gutsy enough to say what Hank and others said: "we can raise ticket prices and get away with it, so we're going to."
I just heard a clip of Ted on WGR praising John Vogl's story about how revenue sharing works. No wonder Ted praised it. John got it wrong, and it served Ted's purposes perfectly.
While it’s possible fans could catch a break on tickets, the league’s collective bargaining agreement makes it unlikely. Here’s why:1. Teams such as Chicago, Philadelphia and Toronto are expected to spend to the cap. To make up for the hike, they’ll probably raise ticket prices.
2. The CBA dictates that clubs that receive revenue sharing must keep pace with the league’s average ticket price. If the teams fall below 75 percent of the average they “shall be required to submit to the league and Revenue Sharing Oversight Committee a forward-looking three-year business plan to establish a framework for improving its financial performance.”
In other words, if a bunch of teams charge more, the Sabres need to follow suit in order to get a revenue-sharing check ....
http://www.buffalone...mplate=printart
John, the Sabres already have their revenue sharing check. In order to keep it? Maybe. Even that's questionable, if you read the CBA, which is much less punitive in this area than the previous CBA.
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Is it me, or does that open the door of players playing past the whistle? Seems like it opens a gray area of where the whistle has blown the play dead because the ref loses sight of the puck, but the puck can still cross the goal line and score based on video review. I thought we wanted the halt of play to be solely dictated by the whistle. Am I interpreting this wrong?
The NHL needs a technical writer to review all language they issue about rules. It's nuts. It's almost like they try to be vague, so they can twist it around later to meet their needs. Nah.
I don't think they're trying to encourage players to play past the whistle. And I don't think the idea is to allow goals after the whistle has blown. I think what they're setting up is the ability to listen for the whistle and watch where the puck is. That gets dicey. Is the audio and video perfectly synched? Are all arenas equally equipped? Are they relying on team broadcasts that could (potentially) be manipulated?
As for intent to blow, why is that even there? Don't want to take the game away from the ref? What about taking a playoff spot or even a Cup away from a team?
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Things got a bit weird in here all of a sudden.
Maybe we need a "verified" feature like Twitter has so that the community knows that the occasional poster claiming to be a media person is really that media person. That, or don't allow a poster to use the name of a real person for a handle.
John, if that's really you, would you mind add something of actual value to our board?
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Tim Murray, the many emotions of our GM
I have a mental image of Aud running down the street with that barstool, looking back for the po-po.
This guy looks more apt to have his mugshot taken for kiddy porn than he does as a NHL GM. Kind of a strange cat. Pretty sure he wasn't Mr. Popularity in High School.
I don't think his expression would change even if one of those woman on his side reached over and grabbed his crotch.
At least he's not holding a beer like a douchebag.
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Jump on Wiki and straighten it out. It's the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
I did once. I won't mess with the keepers of the pumpkin pie page again.
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Cloves. http://en.wikipedia....iki/Pumpkin_pie Do you not think I do my research on this stuff before posting?
And even better than a scoop out of the can--bite right into that eye that you cut out for your jack o'lantern.
OK, am I Cam or Mitchell? I think I'm Cam, because I want to slap you and run into my room and wail. But how darrrrre you question me on the issue of pumpkin pie spice? There's no cloves in it.
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The Ginger with the lean-in on the left. That could've/should've been me.
They look like they're in the Elmwood Village -- I'd guess Ashland or Norwood.
Jesus H. Christ, you're not going over there, are you? Hoping there's still a scent in the air. (Hint: If there is, it's GMTM.)
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I'll take a cue from Josie. "Pumpkin flavored." No, it isn't. It doesn't taste a damned thing like a pumpkin. It tastes like cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger. Those are not pumpkins. Stop trying to sell me "pumpkin flavored" things.
Allspice, not cloves. You are the last person I figured would make that mistake.
But thank you. Tell anyone who says they like pumpkin to eat a scoop out of the can. That'll cure 'em.
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YOU ###### KIDS! GET OFF MY LAWN!