PASabreFan

You know they have grooming tools for men now, right?

So you're factoring in cost to get there, drink, candy and ticket? Still seems steep. I won't pay it, no sir. Is this the new model for releasing feature films? Charge twice the cost of a theater ticket?

Hmmm. Maybe. I cringe at Davidson, but Burr might draw me in —and Tomei is best known for being George Costanza's crush (not really). (How Burr is not cringe-worthy, I dunno.) 19.99 on YouTube? Uh, no.

Sabel, I could tell you almost exactly when most of this country shrugged, but my post would just get sent to LTS Land.

Daily new cases have been dropping steadily since early April, but only from just over 30,000 to just over 20,000 a day, and there's been little progress since Memorial Day. Daily new deaths have been dropping, but you'd expect to see that level off soon. Big picture is that the curve was flattened, but the notion that it was going to almost peter out over the summer seems like wishful thinking right now. freester's right about the positivity rate. The CDC issued its weekly report yesterday, and it showed that the percentage of tests done in the country since the previous report had gone up, if slightly (6% to 6.3%). The increase was driven by four of 10 surveillance regions: Northeast, Southeast, South Central and Pacific Northwest.

It's funny how things work out. On the home page, there are links to posts on TBD. One caught my eye. It's about a comment Josh Allen made about current events in Buffalo. I clicked on it. I now officially love him and will root for him more than before. The response to the OP was from someone with the handle Cripple Creek, whose avatar is the face of the Minneapolis police officer who has been charged with murder (screenshot from the video). You are right, John. Such an enlightened place. That never would happen here.

John, Hammy, Harrington, the late great Bucky and Jerry, and maybe even younger dudes like Vogl and Hoppe, come directly from, or grew up in, an era where the fans were like children: meant to be seen and not heard. Any speaking truth to power is just not tolerated very well. Even Hoppe's foray into SS, which IIRC was mainly about getting us to click on his links, ended badly after the slightest bit of pushback.

To change the subject, folks should note where the real action is at in owning a team. The lousy Sabres, playing in a small market, in a second-tier professional league, have more than doubled in value in the less than 10 years Terry has owned them. $400 million isn't chump change. OSP also saw the Sabres more than double in value in the eight years he owned them. The piddling few million dollars of profit or loss on a year to year basis don't mean all that much. I wonder if the fact that Terry is making a small profit with that lousy team in that small market while spending lustfully and paying plenty of folks to not work for him changes @nfreeman 's opinion about the fate of the team if Golisano had remained owner. His theory was that the enlarging salary cap would have meant larger and larger losses for Old Sugar Packets, forcing him to the sell the team. The way I see it, with LQ and DiPofi on his side, the team would have been miles better on and off the ice, and the bottom line would have remained solid/OK/acceptable. And, yes, Darcy would still be GM.

Criticized for the on-ice product? I don't see much of that. That is saved for JB and to a lesser extent, Terry. Kim gets it for marketing/arena experience and the like. Unless Kim is president of football operations at the Bills, I didn't get it wrong.

Yeah, look at me getting all radical, agitating the board, proclaiming BLUE AND GOLD POWER, while pointing out inaccuracies in a news story about the team.

This might be the first time I've ever criticized John's reporting, and everyone knows I stand up for Harrington. But that piece was so blatantly pro-Kim, it had to be refuted. To summarize: Kim is not a hockey president. She doesn't oversee the Sabres. She doesn't deserve any criticism for the on-ice product, and she rarely gets any here. She also doesn't deserve any credit for the Bills making the playoffs two out of three years. Kim herself has said when she and Terry go to the arena or the stadium, he goes to the GM side and she turns toward the business offices. And, Ted Black and Pat LaFontaine did not simultaneously serve as team president.

The Andrews Fisters.

I just don't see real journalism coming out of the Buffalo News sports section. And if it was some kind of scoop, Hutton and his agent could easily have screamed HIPAA.

But the car, is it not a Lexus?

So, yeah, another Wawrow Whopper™.

Operating income=earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Their revenue (not defined) was $135 million. https://www.forbes.com/nhl-valuations/list/

How come? You don't know what you're doing. Couple of whoppers from Wawrow: Surely, they didn't spend hundreds of millions on the arena PLUS all the rest. John knows this. Kim is the third team president. Black, Brandon, Kim Pegula. Ted Black was team president when Pat was hockey president. John knows this. Kim isn't a football president. John knows this. https://apnews.com/13d5ef6efda7c67b2f2bb67943472709

Canada geese are pretty much unmistakably geese. As for all the rest, I might only be one step ahead of nfreeman. Ospreys vs. eagles can be a little tricky too.

Every third one is a goose.

I was going to say it's in Hutton's interest to get his eye story out to convince the Sabres they don't need to sign a UFA, but that doesn't make sense. The Sabres already knew about it. Who are Hutton and his agent communicating with by getting this story out? (Lance Lysowski billed the story as an "exclusive," so I guess there's always a chance Lance got wind of it, worked his sources, confirmed the story and told Hutton and his agent he had the story and asked for comment.)

If you're oat and aboat give a honk for the duck! Doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

I wonder why it spontaneously appeared in November at age 33. October, he was fine. My guess would be Bales in near exasperation said, "Dude, go get your eyes checked" and the exam found something he's probably had since childhood. But if "rehabbing" it makes him more confident, that's good. Goalies are weird. Not breaking news.

Indeed. Thoughts and prayers (retrospectively). Hasn't anybody googled this yet?

That sounds like BS.