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Or the Jackets or (until last season) the Panthers... There is no need for 30 teams, much less 32 (as now) or 34. This is stupid.

I kind of like the idea but I think it would be nicer to simply rename Perry Street as Jeanneret Street. I mean, who knows who Perry was? Or that Illinois guy, for that matter? EDIT: Perry deserves his street: https://buffalostreets.com/2014/10/27/perry/ Maybe rename Alumni Plaza instead.

Just to be clear, my name is not Chad.

Andrew Peters apparently tweeted today that Dahlin only wants 5 years. I don't have the tweet & I deleted twitter, so ...

How much are they going to dilute this league? Unbelievable.

I'm not going to prejudge either of them based upon their net worth, color, or state of residence (nice shading there, BTW), I'll tell you that much. What a bunch of nonsense.

Even the article that you cited stated that it already had been investigated and had been found to be BS. Don't know what you expected...

You are right; I will fix. They already have their own arrangement. It's usually a V.

I don't get how these agree with each other, but I have had a LONG day so maybe my brain is worn out.

I think shrader is referring to the effect on the CHL team that has a bunch of great players. Which I really don't care about.

Well, there's a few things going on here. 1. Outside of the draft system and ELCs, I support a player's right to play where he wants. Why should Savoie watch his development be curbed because of some stupid agreement? 2. I don't really care about the viability of the CHL. I don't know why I should. If it disappears, there will be other development paths. I care about the Sabres. (You may have noticed me saying something similar in various and sundry Amerks threads over the years--I don't really care about the Amerks except to the extent that the team develops Sabres.) 3. It's not really my job to fix it, is it? I would get rid of the whole agreement. But a nice compromise might be to allow an NHL team one exemption per year.

It's not in the article. I suspect that the granting of the exemption is up to the junior league and/or junior team and not the NHL, though.

https://buffalonews.com/sports/sabres/sabres-matt-savoie-unlikely-to-receive-an-exemption-to-start-season-in-rochester/article_d4d79f9c-5234-11ee-a27f-679e03c5b1ca.html#tracking-source=home-top-story Summary: Even though he's 20, 19, he doesn't have 4 full CHL seasons, and doesn't turn 21 until Jan 1--one day too late. Shane Wright received an exemption, but Lysowski thinks Savoie won't. And I still think this CHL-NHL agreement is absurd.

Agreed on the PR pro angle. And just gross.

Is that supposed to be jism? What's going on here?

Never been falsely accused of something heinous that you didn't actually do?

Maybe it was the Pegula kid who designed the BS hat who wrote it.

I'm sure he is. Keep in mind that no one circles the wagons like the press defending one of their own. He did. It was worded clumsily.

1. "The statement attributed to me in Mr. Trotter's complaint is absolutely false." This, indeed, is horribly worded. I think we both know what he meant, though: "I didn't say that." I think sometimes PR writers get too caught up in trying to sound fancy and/or trying to sound like lawyers. 2. "I am horrified that anyone would connect me to an allegation of this kind." AND "and I am personally disgusted that my name is associated with this complaint." There's nothing wrong with these. He's allowed to have an emotional reaction to what (he says) is a false accusation. 3. "Racism has no place in our society" Did you honestly expect that any response to something like this, from anyone, would NOT include something like this?

Actually, it seems that the league already has. As it should have.

Yeah, the guy who married a woman of a different race and who has several brown kids is going to say something like that. Eyeroll thingy.

Brilliant. As for the article itself, it feels very "nothing to see here" to me.

Like I said. She has a lot of singles titles in her future.

Eh. That TD turned the tide, though. I'm not saying I love the guy, but I am saying he has his ups and downs.

He also contributed heavily in the last SB. I'm enjoying the Toney memes etc. as much as anyone, but I'm not going to evaluate him based just upon yesterday, just like I'm not going to evaluate him based just upon the SB.