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1. While the cap hit is negligible, the commitment is a huge difference. If Zucker struggles, we aren't inconvenienced in anyway after this year. Monahan however could haunt CBJ for 5 years. 2. Monahan was quite literally a cap dump only 2 years ago and while he has rebounded, still has a rather troublesome injury history Plus, system wise, I'm unsure if Monahan could do it for a full season without turning back into the cap dump version. 3. Arguing that @dudacek is being purposefully dense to oppose your opinion is a choice.

Happy 4th everyone! Sorry for the noise Canada

Necas is all offense little defense, he’d just be a taller and faster version of Skinner making nearly the same money.

Skinner will either be great in the playoffs due to his pesky attitude and skills or downright awful due to his lack of defensive effort and proclivity to over ply the puck at times.

I’m looking at you Jeff Carter, thankfully he’s in Pittsburgh/ retired

Why though, the more you push a topic like that the more backlash you’ll find. I’m not saying to ignore the fact but don’t make her out to be any different than any other coach. The idea, is at the end of the day the best way to help her is to not treat her differently. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and do you know why most normal people eventually stopped being racist in the particular situation? He proved to all those watching that not only did he belong but that he was damn good at it too. He was no longer the black baseball player, he was just the baseball player. That’s part of why society is so fractured and factionalized now. Instead of finding the commonalities and absorbing new things; we instead target differences blow them up in the social sphere and then draw lines. Even worse now, some feel that due to their “specialness” they should be inherently praised. Should she be celebrated for being the 1st sure, but it shouldn’t be the reason she is praised or made special. Her womanhood isn’t what made her an NHL assistant coach, her talents did. I don’t need to know she’s a woman, I want to know what she does at an NHL coaching level to get the job and one day potentially reach the head coaching job. In the end working to make the average fan agreeable with it is far more important than trying to magically convert a full blown sexist; because by targeting the extreme stance you over shoot the general audience and create agitation in the process. Imagine learning addition and subtraction in grade school but then every year afterward you continue to be retaught adding and subtraction in the same manner. 2+2=4 etc. Even in Calculus II your professor explains the process of 2+2=4. It goes from helpful, to useful reminder, to agitating rehashing very quick.

Frankly that has always been my thought; Pegula felt wronged by Eichel whom he poured resources and money into only to have him ask out. Without the request for a trade; he'd of been shipped to the best hospital with the best doctor for the surgery and given a blank check for rehab if he needed special rehab versus regular NHL styled types. When he asked out he was effectively made an ungrateful whelp who deserved nothing more from him. The Jets can kick rocks with that ask.

Never, you can’t take that approach or we’ll get literally destroyed by any trade

I'm not angry about the hire; she's supposedly a good coach. I just don't want every freaking Kraken broadcast on national media and every road crew announcer to bring it up 10 times a game. Plus then I won't need to see the endless complaints on Twitter 🙂

Supposedly he said he would sign with us either.

If you are hinting at catering advertising to the wrong demographic; I guess. I was more so trying to state that it has more to due with the idea of stripping people of "ownership" into more of a subscription model.

We seemingly have done well in both. Although the locker room needs a bit more win-minded culture versus happy-go-lucky.

If he was willing to come here, I'd be all for it. How do you win if players won't come to you?

Well how exactly does one fix it? Chicago was guilty of far far worse and yet look at them.

Congrats to her. I worry and know they will milk this until the cow is dry instead of just ya know, normalizing it. People won't care if it isn't shoved in their face every 5 minutes and that would mean she could just do her job, do well hopefully and just become another member of the coaching society.

Well our team doctor didn't approve of it either, and he's a rather well known Sports doctor and famous for the whole Kevin Everett event in 2007. If he didn't feel comfortable with it and since this was the first of its kind in the NHL I can't exactly fault the concerns. Additionally, there were multiple teams that were on our side in the ordeal that wouldn't have let him get the surgery either. It wasn't exactly a routine surgery commonly done around the league. Just look at how Patrick Kane had to fight his surgery's results in order to get signed again due Backstrom, Kesler and Jankowski. Most NHL teams are naturally very cautious with any degree of risk. No bad buzz, well three other scenarios could of played out: 1. Surgery is successful and he comes back as a lame duck and then is traded at slightly better value(he still would have lost value due to the injury + surgery long term unpredictability. (Could of happened had the doctor approved of it) 2. Surgery is successful but takes longer to recover from after a few opinions are garnered. Team doctors are incensed by the team siding with some random out of league guy over their expertise. Eichel returns late into December or January and the team gets lowballed by concerned teams knowing we have to trade him before the deadline to avoid his NTC. 3. Surgery is successful but isn't NHL viable forcing him to LTIRetire, Sabres are quite literally screwed as their entire tank was for nothing and we are left to scramble. Additionally the team doctors are proven right and create a stir in the sports medicine field and teams league wide look into the viability of player's choosing their treatments. Tarasenko is the only Top 6 guy left. Van Riemsdyk would signal Zucker was meant for the Top 6 Pavelski has all but retired at this point

Eichel endlessly haunts us it seems. Feels as if nothing we could of done with Eichel would of worked in our favor. You give him his surgery, Buffalo holds all the risk and then he has to play for you again to prove he's healthy all the while dealing with a NTC coming up at year's end. You could just trade him for peanuts and set back the team a decade but avoid the drama We chose to play hard ball and get some good assets but at least some teams are salty about us not just taking an L. It feels like sometimes we as a team are just supposed to take the flak and disappointment and be happy with it because we have a team.

I'd be a tad torn at 6x6mil but wouldn't get too angry; would be more concerned about Quinn's availability Stupid Florida tax advantage. Although they are certainly now in a bit of a cap crunch. Granted some useful idiot team will bail them out for no apparent reason

No specific example was given however the general idea was 14, Savoie, Rosen and another mid to high prospect or pick for Ehlers and Iaffalo. Without an extension it becomes a bridge too far.

Its a matter of ownership Season Ticket Holder connotates that you "hold" the tickets for the season and that they are yours to do with as you wish. Season Ticket Member connotates that you are a subscriber or follower of a certain product or service. It's mostly semantics but is certainly something that isn't special to the Sabres. The overall change is that, its the same with the Bills and NFL, they want as little secondary sales as possible of seasons. Effectively if you buy Sabres season tickets and were to break even on re-sale (I know its hopeful nigh insane notion) then although the team gains a small cut of the resale if done through an official ticket resale site; it's far harder to gain reliability and long term stability if your season ticket holders aren't actually at the games to be "wined and dined" Big companies are always the preferred customer as they aren't fickle like individuals and rarely, if ever, sell their tickets. Plus they can be highly counted on for future sales over the long term. Good or bad, high or low spending, the team itself doesn't matter as much as the "idea."

Not without an extension I'll give them a protected 1st and Rosen for Ehlers without an extension. But I'm not giving up 2/3 premium assets for Ehlers without a contract. That way of operating is why Ottawa is no less a laughing stock. They keep throwing premium assets at players who don't want to stick around and then proceed to lose them immediately after that 1 year or trade them for a pittance. Again, trade does not equal playoffs. It may help increase the odds but we aren't given a free ticket to the show for making a brain dead valued trade

From Expected Buffalo, " From what I understand, the Winnipeg Jets wanted four pieces from the Sabres in exchange for Nik Ehlers without an extension in place. Three of those four would have been considered top-tier assets. It’s a hefty price that I can make an argument for not paying." I agree that's an asinine price, especially without an extension.

Have you watched or tracked Zadorov at all outside of this immediate playoff run? He’s hopped around from Colorado to Chicago to Calgary to Vancouver. In none of those places was he considered a Top 2 defenseman and in Chicago and even Calgary he was scratched at times. It was more or less with CGY’s coaching change that he seemed to find a groove as more of a 4/5 player. Vancouver, he then seemed to find a balance to his game and was a 2nd pairing guy through and through. He still has a nasty habit of chasing for hits which bites him from time to time. And he could very well help McAvoy but it would be McAvoy doing the heavy lifting. I don’t get the secondary comment though; most teams including higher end teams lack Top 6 bruisers because they aren’t common by any regard and either fall off physically or have little consistency over their career in the points department. The Sabres have thus far made their team less wimpy, yes with Bot 6 players but that is far more than we have had for years. Now instead of Zadorov being able to bully us into submission; we can at least fight back some.

Frankly Buffalo is super safe, Ottawa effectively plays the opposite end of the spectrum with a plethora of questionable moves while throwing assets around like idiots. We need to be a bit more adventurous whereas Ottawa needs to stop trading multiple pieces for a hot commodity only for said commodity to then leave and fetch so much less that it looks like your incompetent

The thing is, at the end of the day I didn’t want nor need some deep introspective piece of cinema. I and many others just wanted to go to a movie and see our old friend kick ass and leave feeling excited for more. Plus, this was supposed to be the Skywalker saga, the primary focal point should be a Skywalker not the daughter of a clone of the big bad. It turned Luke and Anakin’s stories into mere stepping stones on the greater path so some random Mary Sue could swoop in and save the day. Most of the TLJ sucked as a whole; get preached to about war profiteering in a casino with a random guy who double crosses them and literally serves no purpose. The tracking through hyperspace was lore breaking as was using the ship as a knife to slice through another fully shielded vessel. Not to mention the absurdity of the First Order taking over the galaxy sans their little trio of ships, within what was literally a week. Star Wars movies aren’t supposed to be overly deep cinema they are supposed to be fun, exciting and interesting with lore that intrigues you. They can have lessons and allusions but TLJ felt far too much like Rian Johnson wanted to make another one of his films, a psychological thriller or something you might see at Cannes.