tom webster

Darcy? Quick fix? Really? I don’t think Darcy worked liked that at all.

I do that all day. Three prospects are but the likelihood is that one turns into a Ryan Miller, one into a Martin Biron and one into Mika Noronnen. If the cap really isn’t skyrocketing till 2025/2026, Buffalo will be one of few teams that will be able to pay if said goalie id worth the extension

A) Having superstar forward doesn’t guarantee you a Cup, but not having one, based on history, makes it extremely difficult B) Drury and Briere played like superstars for those two years.

Some general managers don’t even impact the first two rounds. Every organization is set up different. Some let the scouting director run the whole show. The GM might set guide lines but rarely know specific prospects, especially, like you stated, after round 2.

Maybe I worded it poorly but no study says there is no benefit, just that the benefit doesn’t equal or exceed the investment. Nobody can say that having a team doesn’t produce any revenue. That number is somewhere between $200M and ?? but having a franchise produces some revenue over and above the discretionary funds that would be spent otherwise. Like I said, I don’t expect to change anyone’s minds and in a perfect world I would prefer no public funding but the world is less then perfect. Maybe we can debate how much less….,

Again, I understand the numbers and wish no public money went to fund any private industry but the fact remains there is tangible financial benefit to having a team here and there are obviously intangible benefits as well. Whether it’s worth $850M, that is a matter of opinion and like most opinions and most people, nothing is going to change said person’s original opinion.

I’ve always stayed out of these discussions about “insiders” but this Chad discussion is exactly the thing people don’t understand. There are people close to people that hear things. Also, believe it or not, teams discuss multiple possibilities. For instance, I was told by someone not far removed from KA that Ullmark was done. It obviously didn’t happen. Why? I have a few theories but I am not in a position to take Kevin to lunch and verify it, so I guess I lost credibility. Things are fluid. Situations arise and change on a dime. Sometimes people that you trust one hundred percent make assumptions as to where things are heading and end up wrong. I could go on and on, drop a few names and some will post that I’m making it all up, some that know me will defend me and the thread will be hijacked. I hope that doesn’t happen. Just felt the need to defend Chad.

So it’s ok to get a pick for retaining salary for a guy you never had but it’s not ok if you get a guy to do the same thing? I have nothing.

So, a 1st. 2nd and a 6th for 55. I’d say Adams did alright.

Ziti has done a masterful job with Florida but this move is questionable

He’s a free agent.

This debate has been going for years, albeit with different terminology. I remember Chuck Knox bringing in Phil Vilipiano and Isaih Robertson for the same effect. He insisted they were important to the growth of the team but let them go as soon as they weren’t useful. I still consider the Bobby Chandler/Phil V trade one of the worst Bills’ moves ever, but Knox had results to back him up. If Eakin and Hayden have done their job helping build the “culture,” moving on from them shouldn’t be an issue.

Oh, I thought we were done.

Yeah it was more rhetorical but a little frustrating as well.

I think I know the other two after the last clue but I’ll let it go for a bit.

How is it I remember Watson yet have no idea who led the team in points recently?

How about our Winnipeg boys, Kane and Bogosian along with Gionta?

Here’s one from left field, I know Jim Watson had two awful +/- years, and wasn’t around when things got better, was it enough to make the list?

Everyone’s favorite Finnish defenseman has to be as well.

I thought Gare too. Might be Mike Ramsay just from a longevity thing

Seriously, nobody guessed Ruff?

Ok, I should think about this more. my man Foligno has to be there and maybe Mike Hartman was around long enough.

Kevin Maguire, Bob Halkidis?

What about Sweeney? Don’t have any other explanation why I’m thinking of him today.

God help me but suddenly I can’t get Bob Sweeney out of my head so he will be my last contribution.