Palm Trees And Taxes

I still say the tank was not a bad idea. In many ways, we just have not had the lottery luck to justify the tank and in some cases, made the incorrect picks.

A little perhaps but even with Skinner at his best now I would say to have his contract match his production 6M per is about where it should be. An incredible egregious overpay by JBot which will impact other moves made by Adams for years

To me the choice is easy. The crazy part the O'Reilly trade is a distant 2nd but that does not mean that trade wasn't a disaster on its own. You trade for Skinner, that trade in itself was excellent. You pair him with Eichel. Skinner scores 48, THEN you pay him as if he is Patrick Kane. THEN you move him OFF the Eichel line and move in Olofsson and the you have to pay Olofsson more as well. Skinner as a 9M dollar cap hit for 7 more seasons playing as a 4th liner with currently 1 point to me qualifies as easily the worst contract in the NHL currently, and might go down as the all time worst when its all said and done. The level of fail with this is breathtaking.

Do tell!

In an NHL season there are some games when one team has such a high sense of urgency that the opponent has a hard time matching it. This was last night with the Rangers. The Rangers needed this game a lot more then the Sabres did. They came out with a determination and it showed. The Sabres didn't lose because of effort. Kudos to Ullmark for stealing a point. We have rarely seen goalies on Buffalo steal points over the last decade. Other good teams have nights like that more often then most realize. Lets hope Ullmark has a few more like that when the team isn't firing on all cylinders.

Does the entitlement ever stop with NY and Boston fans when they think a player should be on their team?

I'm gonna take a different approach here. We know sadly there are still stories of racism out there and I absolutely hate it, on all sides from all different colors, ethnic groups and the like. But I feel this movement we have seen lately (and we kind of all know why it part this truly happened in 2020 and they have accomplished their goal as of 1/20/2021), while it has validity to it, also in some ways the new rhetoric feels like a slap in the face as to the progress that has been made over many decades and continues to be. As far as the media goes, the NHL is a very strong target given the demographics in the sport. And as Taro pointed out, this has a lot more to do with other factors then bigotry and it is not reported. You can say that the NHL can do more and I get that and I am all for it. However, regardless of what the NHL says or does, they will be exploited by the media a bit because of a very high white participation rate. I live in Southern California, and a few times I have went to the facility where the Los Angeles Kings practice in El Segundo close to LAX Airport. There are lots of kids there playing on the ice and something struck me: A lot of young Asian kids are taking to the sport and other minorities too. As a white guy who has loved hockey and played when I was younger. I LOVED seeing this. I think Asians will have an impact on hockey more and more and time goes by. I say: All ethnics get on board with hockey its a beautiful sport! When I go to games and see other races then whites at the game, I like it. The more fans of the game, the better. We all want the sport to grow and be available to everyone and I truly feel as time goes in that will happen. Naturally. We all want any player or fan, regardless of where you are from, skin color, etc, to be comfortable playing or enjoying the sport just as much as anyone else. 100 percent. I just don't want this to be used as a political weapon. And sadly, we are seeing that. And it needs to stop.

I don't know about all of you: Who is absolutely FIRED up and has those nerves for this game??! I can't wait for Sunday! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It will be the 2025-2026 season and we will still here 'oh you just wait till Ukka Pekka-Lukkonen arrives, you just wait!!' and marginal starters will be brought in on the cheap.

Would love to see Rasmus Asplund score assisted by Rasmus Dahlin and Rasmus Ristolalinen

Dahlin 1G 2A tonight. Book it.

The way this franchise has played for over a decade, every game feels like a road game

UGH. Feel bad for Zegmus that is a tough one to watch

Im in!

Reminds me a lot of when some Bills fans bring up 'Lets bring Chad Kelly to the Bills because he is Jim's nephew' once a year annually

Have to believe all the plans (schedule, divisions, etc) are in place to start the season when the league and NHLPA plans to, its all about the CBA negotiations etc and once and if that is resolved, the league and players will be notified right away and they can go forward with the season. If I had to handicap this, I'd say it is 50/50 as of today.

Very fair point and there are times I definitely feel that too. I would rather see this then nothing at all. Call me an optimist, but i just get a sense that Kevyn Adams has a good grip on the GM position

Say what we want to about the Sabres ad the futility they have shown on the ice over the last decade: The work they have been doing on socal media and these clips is great. Keep em coming

Tommy Gunn. Landslide Victory

I'm really starting to winder if there will actually be a season, can anyone envision a scenario that that could actually happen?

This Sabres franchise hasn't sniffed the playoffs in almost a decade. And I see some fans want longer term deals. I love the 1 year deals. It is time for this franchise to prove something. 1 year contracts are great. Show us something first and if not, we can reboot and have a clean cap.

Got you and I definitely got your original point. I'm glad to see the game branching out to other ethnics. To me its all about availability, affordability and if the game reaches to others either to play in person or on TV. The diversity aspect of things will naturally take a progression as that happens.

Don't discredit Asians in some areas too. I went to the LA Kings practice facility which is close to LAX Airport twice and there were leagues there for kids and I was floored how many Asian kids are now playing hockey.

Unless he can live to 200 I don't see this happening