PASabreFan

It wouldn't go to the league. Possibility, yes.

I'll have to check out the dough recipe. I'm over regular old pie dough.

"A very good period for the Buffalo Sabres." Place your bets.

Why not a penalty?

Way to hustle, Victor.

2-2. Sign her up! Win one for the Gizzer!

Beautiful. One down.

More of a trip?

If you change your phony avatar. #2022

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My point is that those teams aren't actually facing the loss of revenue-sharing. This CBA sure looks a lot more supportive in case of revenue-decline than punitive, as appeared to be the case in the previous CBA. I really don't like talking about this stuff. It's not why I'm a sports fan. I just like the idea of finally shooting down the idea that the Pegulas HAD to raise prices. They raised prices because they thought the market would bear it.

Thanks. What do we make of this language: If an off-side call is delayed, the Linesman shall drop his arm to nullify the off-side violation and allow play to continue if: (i) All players of the offending team clear the zone at the same instant (skate contact with the blue line) permitting the attacking players to re-enter the attacking zone IOW, why didn't Olofsson have to tag up?

I did write "to this point." If his career ended today, he'd be a bust. There's still time for him to prove otherwise. I think fourth year is enough time to issue an incomplete grade.

Yep. PA makes his long-awaited return in 2022.

I'm embarrassed for the person who liked your post.

Why would the Sabres have to cite Covid or look for some out in the contract? So they wouldn't have to write the corrective plan? Maybe they should have to. Maybe the first paragraph should be about preventing the owner(s) from meddling.

Oh, child, you come over to mama's lap. I gots inkman on my other hip, but there's room for you. You poor chil-ren.

I'm embarrassed to ask, but has the tag-up always been this way? Why do we have the phrase "clear the zone" in relation to tagging up? Did players ever have to clear the blue line ("do the SwampD")?

I've been saving this one up for awhile. Whenever the Sabres raised ticket prices after a season, it was conventional wisdom from the Pegula-ites that they had to do it — they didn't want to do it, but they had to... to continue to receive revenue-sharing, a critical thing for a small market team. The Sabres never came out and said it so starkly, but Ted Black among others was always willing to encourage the idea with sneaky, lawyerly language. Of course, it was never true. You don't lose revenue-sharing when your ticket revenues drop to a certain point. It's a theory we're about to test. The Sabres surely will see ticket revenues drop to below 75% of league average, for the first time under this CBA (that's a fair assumption given attendance totals and yearly ticket increases pre-pandemic). Those who blithely toed the company line might be confused when revenue sharing doesn't go away after this season. Some background: If the Sabres were to fall under the benchmark, which is 75% of the average league gate, they'd have to submit a corrective three-year business plan to the league and Revenue Sharing Oversight Committee, which is made up of three NHLPA members and four league reps. The RSOC may review, approve and evaluate the plan going forward. "A club's continuing eligibility to receive Distributions may be conditioned on successfully executing on such plan," according to the CBA. My source here is the CBA, Section 49.3(d)(i).

I know it's not a Rick night, but he's worth the tune-in. I might be crazy, but from what I've heard this season (work schedule has been uncannily against me, and I have a tough time watching a recorded game "live"), he's enjoying a renaissance. Goal calls of late have been much closer to Rick Prime (or at least Rick Still Really Good). He's getting more names, he's not losing the play as much. He sounds really, really comfortable, like he could do this forever. I really hope he and the team come to some compromise after the season. He can't go away. He just can't. Let him call a home game a month or something. If the team has a chance to win a playoff series, let him call the game for future release or something, while Dan or whoever still gets to do it live.

Absotutely.

I'll take my own advice and act like a winning fan. Despite this horrendous streak after a good start, the Sabres are only 10 points out of a playoff spot just before Christmas. It looks bleak, but it's been done before. The 10 can't get too much worse though (have you seen Bo Derek lately? Yikes). It starts with tonight. Maybe the 10 can become an 8. I'll keep updating the total. Baby steps.

h/t to @Norcal for bringing us this news.

So you're admitting Dahlin is merely a promising young defenseman who needs to be on a stacked team to be good? I guess it's OK if we all forget LGR's YT videos out of Sweden, the professional evaluations of Dahlin and the like. It's probably good for our mental health. But, yeah, if the subject comes up, keeping everything in context, to this point in his career, he has been a clear bust.