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You let him play a couple games in Buffalo, at the end of the year like Power, then let him compete and fall back into Rochester.

I don't want Portillo in Buffalo but rather Rochester, no reason to give him the opportunity to force UFA.

Certainly seems that way, I would pay to see the Pegulas find dirt on something and sue the Rangers to kingdom come over this entire fiasco. If I were Adams I just tell Drury to #### off like he did in 07 and find another grinder to fight Wilson

Next year I want Adams & company to go to wherever the Frozen 4 is and bring Portello and Power back with them.

I doubt the Sabres have any intention on having him go his Junior year. They’ll sign him at years end and play him here or Rochester.

Tokarski and Dell are AHL goalies Anderson is still an NHL goalie until he proves otherwise. He was still generally solid in his appearances with the Capitals and his age doesn't automatically mean he's garbage. To be frank, he had 1 more win than Hutton last year in his mere handful of appearances. (Granted Houser had more wins that Hutton as well) He can't be a full time starter anymore but he's certainly better still than Tokarski, Dell, and Hutton.

If Power can be a 2/3 Dman I'll be happy. I don't need him to be a 1D thanks to Dahlin's existence but I need him to either be his running mate or capable of anchoring the 2nd pair for 10+ years.

I highly doubt it is supposed to represent a fire starting facial expression lol. 🙂

What is that emojii to begin with?

I could live with that to be honest.

The One Buffalo App is dead; effectively between a myriad of glitches and the fact the Bills & Sabres apps worked fine as it was PSE decided to end the App's development. Much to the delight of the mobile ticket support people.

That was only initially, now that seems like it isn't even a thought it would happen. We are good on that front.

For starters, it isn't always a fallacy.... Euro teams and their fans have differing general approaches to sport fandom and their franchise set up. There's also the fact many Euro soccer teams have little to nothing in regards of logos or traditional depictions of their logos on their jerseys. If a soccer team places their logo above the heart on a 6" x 6" square from the start; the free space becomes more akin to the boards which were clear and now covered. Hockey logos are large and predominately featured on the jerseys and always have been. Anything that effects that in anyway such as distracting color clashing ads are a detriment. Euro hockey have so many ads due to their lack of alternative means of revenue to keep themselves solvent. The NHL isn't in any type of money crunch; while lagging behind the other 3 major sports it would still put any other hockey league to shame in its value. It has billionaire owners paying millionaire players; they have no need to sully the jersey to make a little more money. Especially since we gain nothing from it. Where the whole slippery slope idea does have value is in these sorts of situations. If the NHL says would you rather have a small jersey sponsor or 1 15sec ad more during an icing; you can gather a sense of tradeoffs. However we don't gain anything through jersey ads. Ticket prices won't be lowered, teams won't magically get better (the revenue is far to small to make enough of an impact on the salary cap) and we only get hurt by it.

It matters to me because I hate sponsors that don't match the team colors on the helmets already. Jerseys are meant to be what represents the team and the city it belongs to. The more ads that clutter the beautiful jerseys, the more muddled the image and impact the jerseys make until eventually the team ceases to be the Sabres but rather a sponsor. Likewise the team loses its hometown feel and ends up far less attached to the city but to their sponsors. Who wants the McDonald's Roswell Parks NHL team hosted in Buffalo, NY? I sure is hell don't.

I told the HF boards that we should email/letter spam the NHL offices over this travesty.

Absolute garbage from the NHL. They should be ashamed.

I guess in a sense I would likely be happy in the return but fuming over Eichel going to the Rangers. It used to be due to them being in the division along with him sorta wanting to go there and the media hyping it. Now I hate more just because I want to spite the Rangers' fans.

No thanks; but you all know that already. 🙂

Then you don't trade him..... it's not that hard of an idea to fathom lol 🙂

Just me being irrationally worried.

It could be considered tampering

Are you certain; what's to stop the Sabres from putting billboards around Anaheim about trading Zegras for Eichel?

Does anyone with a background in law know of anyway we could use this to start a case of meddling by the Rangers? I know this is a Rangers podcast but some of them are bound to have ties to the team in some regard.

Downtown Buffalo and NYC are both heavily blue; however outside the city of Buffalo is primarily slightly red tinted and Long Island is very red.

I would never project any situation Eichel ends up a Ranger to be perfectly honest.