tom webster

Businesses use events like this all the time to re-calibrate. There are several well written articles discussing why TV and digital revenue will go up, and up substantially despite the Pandemic. Until it’s in their benefit to show operating revenue, it is in their best interest to show paper losses. Its all a game. No one pays $500 million to join a club if 33% of the club is really “hemorrhaging” money. While the NHL is more behoven to ticket revenue, Buffalo still got $20M national TV money, $20 million MSG fees, at least $10M expansion fee. As for the shortened season, they kept most of the season ticket money and didn’t have the gist associated with putting on the games. Finally, a major part of their business model is generating “non hockey related” revenue in order to keep the money from the salary cap. As an example of the shell game that is professional sports, when the entity that ran the Sabre’s was forced into bankruptcy, their were actually over 40 businesses associated with running that business.

You’ve seen the books?

I’m going to make my retirement project to convince fans like yourself that the business model of sports franchises works.

The owners are fine. They are getting their share of the expansion fees plus TV revenues are expected to increase.

The Sabre’s would have as well.

A quick google search found two sites that had him ranked in the top 60 so it’s not like he wasn’t a prospect. Again, you can’t judge these things in a vacuum. I’m sure LGRM can tell us how many guys drafted after him are still legitimate prospects.

He should print this thread. It might be the last time anyone talks about him as a hockey player.

Tua is going to have to be a lot better then he was yesterday for them to win 10 but they are a team on the rise and with Houston’s first and second picks they should be really good next year, again depending on Tua.

Exactly. So many people assume that he must have a positive opinion, the same way people think that if players played together they must be friends or if a guy grew up in a certain place he must want to go back there. As for Mitts specifically, anything they get from him, either by him winning a spot on the roster or enabling them to better their roster through trade would be a huge plus because right now I’m pretty sure they aren’t expecting anything while still hoping to be proven wrong.

His father was an assistant at Navy and Belichek has always been considered a savant when it comes to the history of the NFL and football in general. He loved having Flutue drop kick an extra point and I’m sure the triple option intrigues him.

Well there is always that caveat, especially with so much uncertainty going forward. You don’t really think that they would give out all these one year deals and not fix the goaltending?

Ottawa is not spending that money and nobody is leaving Tampa for them.

This is all heading toward the perfect scenario for TPEGS. They are going to be near the cap but the actual cash paid out before escrow is still going to be $5/6 million below plus escrow plus 10% deferral if he wants it. And I know I’ve been a broken record but they will upgrade in net unless a confluence of events occurs that I’d bet are less then one percent of happening. Taylor Hall is a well connected as anyone in hockey. He doesn’t come here unless Raku explains how they are going to make this all work.

My believe that teams will be allowed to carry expanded squads so guys can practice with the bug clubs if there is nowhere for them to play.

Knox didn’t play. Think you mean Kroft. Teams are defending Buffalo exactly how they are defending KC, daring them to run. They’ll figure it out. I’d like to see the penalty on Davis TD. Allen also made bad read on third and short. Moss would have taken that to the house. I wasn’t crazy about the Allen draw either, or, for that matter the McKenzie sweep to the right that lost 12 yards but they left points out there on other drives as well. It really wasn’t that close a game after halftime.

Either Risto or Montour will be gone creating plenty of space.

Ugly win but 5-2 and 3-0 in the division. Can really put a stamp in division next week and it will only be the half way point.

Autocorrect and I was driving, sorry.

Not sure why it’s not on here

No question that they are more impacted by gate revenue then the three major sports.

This is how ownership wants fans to think. Every owners benefit from owning a team. Franchises continue to increase in value when sold. Even in these troubling times, TV revenue is expected to increase substantially in next deal. Do you really think they would have gotten what they did from Vegas and Seattle if the business model didn’t work? The Pandemic may have been a financial setback. Or it may have been a way for billionaires to cut some costs, cry poverty and come out laughing at the end. The preceding was strictly my opinion.

I think this is rather common and anecdotally has always been referred to as a “sophomore slump.” Your first year, you play on guts, instinct and talent. Then, as teams start to scout you, game plan around you, the ones that stick, the ones that excel, the ones that learn to dominate separate themselves from the ones who can’t. It’s easy to see with quarterbacks in football. With hockey it tends to be more subtle. Only people like yourself, with that scouting sense, tend to notice the difference.

Again, you know history shows little correlation to how well a team drafts. At least not outside a statistically relevant number.

We all want them to be better. The fact is that have have hovered around average for years. To read some of the posts around here you would think they’ve been historically bad. Fact of the matter is that there is a lot of luck involved. Bad timing and some terrible decisions. Some things out of there control, some things in their control. There is a reason that most front office guys who were successful in one place don’t find the same success in another place.

You don’t think ROR and elite goaltending gets them 7 or 8 more wins last year?