PASabreFan

We've gone back and forth on the non-movement clause. nfreeman will never accede to it, so there's confusion, then we move on. In the interest of clarity, I think there are two questions here with fairly simple answers. 1. Why are the Sabres still in Buffalo? They're still here because Golisano stepped up when they were in dire straits (bankrupt and supported by the league, which didn't want them to move, but the first potential buyer was not viable, which took all bets off the table), then he sold the team to people who would never move the team. The contract stipulation seems almost moot. I just cringe at the common sentiment that although the Pegulas are terrible owners, "they kept the Sabres in Buffalo." The implication is that the team was in danger of relocating. It's almost like people mix up the events surrounding the sale of the team to Golisano and then his sale to Pegula. Terry approached Golisano, through Quinn. The Sabres were not in dire straits and in danger of moving. 2. Could the Sabres be moved by the Pegulas using some contract loophole? The answer to that is, no one knows for sure. So I guess in the end I agree with nfreeman, but the confusion need not exist. The existence of some loophole shouldn't lead to credit to the Pegulas for not using it.

You nailed it in the last sentence. As Terry said in 2015, "I'm perceived as being a hockey guy ahead of football; there just happened to be a hockey team in sale four years ago in town that preceded the availability of the Bills. I'm a football guy." IMVHO, Terry buys the Sabres as prelude to buying the Bills. Establish his bona fides.

I ventured into town today to get a cheeseburger off a food cart in our town square dedicated to veterans. The cheeseburger chatter yesterday planted a seedburger. I told the proprietor how good that area of town is looking after last year's streetscape and this spring's cleanup. "Yeah, the protesters walked right through here. I kept an eye on 'em to make sure they didn't mess with the monuments," he said. Hoo boy, here we go. "It was peaceful though," I said. "Very," he replied. "I even thanked them for what they're doing." He talked about the "poor guy" who was "murdered" and expressed outrage at the rioters and looters, noting that a just cause was being hijacked. I was a little surprised. And proud. My town is woke! Buoyant and not wanting to press the topic, I told him how much I've missed his food. "Yeah me too. This ***** fake virus." Cue the Curb music.

I gave up two lines above paydirt. Attention span of a gnat.

Before I commit... @john wawrow

Where does your confidence come from? Were you confident it was Larry Quinn and not Tom Golisano who confirmed the no-move clause in the contract?

They are contractually bound to keep the Sabres in Buffalo.

Maybe go post this in a hockey thread? Or is today's made-up board rule that we can't discuss COVID-19?

Opinion written on April 1 with no source for the statement. Interesting that there's no mention of asymptomatic spread. We've learned a lot since then, for example that people spewing out virus in indoor spaces could help spread the disease through aerosolization. And it's important to remember at that time there was an effort to maintain PPE stocks for healthcare workers.

BagBoy, Merriam-Webster would like a word with you.

Pro tip. You can skip ahead. She is brutal.

300 protest in Olean. That's a huge deal for a small town that is 90% white.

"Significantly reduced..." It starts and ends right there. Two bonus reasons for wearing a mask: that healthcare worker who sees you thinks people care about them; masks remind people we're in a pandemic. (Not to mention the powdered psychotropic meds dusted on the masks.)

What Curt said plus no one is saying masks are the end all and be all. Masks. Social distancing. Stay at home as much as possible. Hand hygiene. yada yada yada

Veterans of the civil rights movement should be mentoring the young leaders of the current movement. mjd's on the right track. Something has to follow all this.

This line in the News today doesn't sound quite right. I don't think losing in the play-in round after finishing 24th would end any talk of the playoff drought, but that's just me.

And civil unrest. Didn't see that one coming, didja Bettsy? (said in the voice of Torts)

Apparently minor fire at the Erie Otters offices in Erie related to protesting there.

Since?

I think what I wrote was we can lose with Jack or lose without him. I'm just not married to any of these guys. I find it bizarre Taro would not be a Sabre fan any longer if Eichel and Dahlin ever leave. Sports is about constant change. Here's one: you give the new Seattle GM a choice, you can have the Sabres roster or build your team under the conditions that the Vegas franchise was seeded. What would he do?

The question is real (and it's spectacular). It's just another way to think about getting the franchise out of its rut, which I think is hauntingly similar to the rut it was in in the fall of 1991 (15 years since glory days, almost 10 years into a playoff drought, quaintly defined in the 80s and 90s as not winning a playoff series). Either way, what a seemingly hopeless situation: keeping Jack or trading Jack (they're keeping Jack), success depends on having good management and non-meddling ownership, which we don't have.

In case anyone's interested in what's actually going on with Covid-19 in the U.S., the CDC puts out weekly summary every Friday. The data continues to be generally good. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html

I'm chuckling but not sure why.

I don't understand the jab. It's a real question.

And that ingredient was? Are we back to the pre-draft ranking of 2015? McDavid is the top player in the game and Eichel second? That's a bit much. Turgeon-LaFontaine was a good-old fashioned hockey trade of two players who wanted and needed to move on. The personality change for the Sabres did wonders for the fans and altered the course of the franchise. Pat did a lot to get the Sabres into a new arena and on the path to a near-Cup by decade's end, even though he was gone by then.