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There is a very simple explanation actually. Your profiles are linked in a greater identity resolution and marketing database. These companies collect all manner of information from all manner of sources and then link them to your virtual identity. They then use relational data to create circles of connections. Advertising companies (and many others) then pull this data to help determine ad relevancy and boom. It can be as simple as your phone unique identifier and your friend's phone unique identifier were in close proximity for a certain amount of time. Your friend did a search for "XYZ" and through relational data the system reasonably assumed you two might have had a conversation about it and thus you see an advertisement on your phone a little bit later. I think the extent to which our lives can be modeled through collection of data would blow most people's minds. No doubt people expect the more obvious items but the depth goes far beyond that. Certainly linking browsers and/or a shared profile on her desktop computer and your browser would do it as well. The points of connectivity are endless.

It's quite literal for me. People = humanity (unless you are of the mindset that some segments of humanity are not people) We = everyone, as in all of us, together.

Any chance you'd share the workout? Sounds like it's working.

Same. We also installed it at the youth baseball concession stand and it works great there as well. I would recommend it.

Because of a lot of people like hockey in this region and the Sabres are the team in the region? Not every one is on this forum analyzing the franchise day to day. It's conceivable to think that people just like the team. I don't know how the poll was fully conducted but I could see hated teams being from bigger markets because they have big rivals. People from Chicago are not going to like St. Louis.. Chicago is a big town. Lots of people like San Jose, they really aren't major rivals with people and they've had some likeable players, Joe Thornton, Brent Burns, Erik Karlsson, Joe Pavelski, Patrick Marleau, Owen Nolan, Logan Couture I mean, in the end its an internet poll, so how much stock do you put into it?

Prompt: Pretend you are a hack sports writer on the Internet. Write a Sports Illustrated article on the quality of the Buffalo Sabres prospect pool. Use these articles at The Hockey News and The Athletic for reference. Use "The Contrarian" by A Perfect Circle as motivation.

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/we-can-save-lives-death-of-nys-thruway-authority-worker-highlights-importance-of-responsible-driving This might be why? Sometimes big brother is required because we, as a society, are a bunch of douchebags. May 10, 2024.. People drive like entitled ***** and there are people working there. I get where you are coming from, but if people just respected the situation perhaps it would not be necessary.

Indeed a risk. One that they hopefully suss out during the pre-drafting interview process. There's no perfect system. Look at what college sports have become. Every entitled athlete enters the transfer portal in search of a better NIL agreement with another team. Either that or they believe their current team snubbed them and they will have more success elsewhere. It's a joke.

Most sports sites have opted into hiring aspiring media people to manage a team or teams for the overall site. If you look at Hockey News you will find that https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/buffalo-sabres/author/michael-derosa is your editor for Buffalo, Boston, and Tampa. My suspicion is that each of the editors are tracked on how many eyeballs they can pull to the site on a daily basis so that Hockey News can pull in ad revenue. I would imagine an editor could easily use any number of searches on a routine basis to grab anything posted on the Internet and perhaps even go so far as to have AI summarize the daily news related to a team and then use that as an article. In that way, even we could influence what is being written as our conversations here are easily searchable and collected. Of course you could also look at Sports Illustrated's debacle from earlier this year. - https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/sports-illustrated-layoffs-iconic-magazine-end-of-era-rcna134820. There are some interesting tidbits in the reported use of AI to write articles on the site, etc. Finally there is also a site called Hockey Writer's that I often see come up in news aggregators and I don't know the quality of it but often I confuse it with Hockey News. Bottom line.. it's about ad revenue and remaining relevant so click bait is the name of the game.

I'm not taking the time to verify this... so yell at Buccigross if he's wrong about it being 9 years. I can see that the Oilers would likely have 9 forwards aged 32 or older. Technically older than 32 would work if you assume that the minute/day after their time of birth they are older than 32. Good luck Skinner! An interesting morsel of information (at least to me) nonetheless.

Not to mention that everyone in the league knew the Oilers had to adjust for the cap so the Sabres weren't dealing with EDM in a bubble. Their offer was going to have to be better than the next team.

https://thehockeywriters.com/canadiens-hughes-denied-signing-impact-players-2024/ Interesting and reads a lot like Buffalo On how hard it is to attract players... to Montreal. So perhaps it's not a Buffalo thing? At least they can put "exciting place to play" in their offer. Not sure that Buffalo can pull of the same story, certainly the arena ain't much to look at.

100%, but that's how it works with anything that is "developing". Right now the Sabres have players who are still developing. Generally that's the case until about 25 or 26 these days. The NHL is really broken down into 5 groups, and the predictability of performance is based on the mix of those 5 groups. 18-22 - super raw, hard to tell what will happen and generally should not comprise a good portion of the roster 22-25 - developing, you get a sense of what they can be, and you hope they reach that potential 26-29 - definitely know what a player has and will bring to the table 30-33 - you know the player, now the question is will they begin to drop off (the reverse of 22-25) 34+ - the reverse of 18-22. Will they drop-off So, if you look at a team's roster construction, the more the roster fits into each of those areas the easier it becomes to predict the capabilities of the team. The Sabres have fielded a young roster for a few years, not ideal. This year they project: 18-22 - 3 players (Benson, Power, Levi) 22-25 - 8 players (Cozens, Quinn, JJP, Krebs, Dahlin, Byram, Jokiharju, UPL) 26-29 - 9 players (Thompson, Tuch, Greenway, Lafferty, NAK, Malenstyn, Clifton, Gilbert, Bryson) - 4 of which were brought onto the roster in the last 2 days 30-33 - 1 player (Zucker) 34+ - 1 player (Reimer) The core of the team is still in the harder to predict stage and that leads to the uncertainty. if the 22-25 group goes off then the Sabres will be fine. If not, then not so much. Adams did add to the team in key areas so that more predictable players are in the bottom 6. This is also why people want an established 3C.. so think 26+... to improve predictability of what this team can do. It's certainly not a hard and fast rule as superstar 18 year olds change things as well as work horses playing into their late 30's. The Sabres roster construction leads to a lot of ifs... it's just how it is.

Benson..

Indeed! Also, for mental health reasons, if this team is lowering your quality of life I recommend stepping away from following them day to day. Save your wallet and your mind. We know fans are fanatical.. if you can handle the team being bad then great. but I think people are dealing with a lot of non-Sabres stuff and so adding the bad Sabres situation to the daily grind won't help.

I see Zucker as the more offensive minded Okposo replacement. He's here to provide some level of experience and leadership to the team and chip in where he can. It's a lot for him, but we all agreed on overpayment being required so here we are. It took $5M to get Zucker to come to Buffalo. use that in comparisons to other players to figure out what it would have taken to get them to sign here. The team has to win and until then.. it's develop from within because it's all they have.

Which would be as justified as all the naysayers saying "I told you so". If, by some miracle, the Sabres make the playoffs next year without making much more in the way of changes then all the doomsayers of today would be wrong. Pessimism or not. I get that the joy of pessimism is that you can be right, or pleasantly surprised with being wrong. That's why so many opt for it. But being wrong is wrong. Not the end of the world by any means because most of us on here are wrong more than we are right. Hell, that's true in life too. There is all of July, August, September to go before the team takes the ice. Still unimpressed by the changes, but 3 months is an eternity in hockey.

Theoretically... assuming he has any interest in signing in Buffalo. Perhaps he has no interest.

Which part? Trade Chychrun or Jensen because no.. the Sabres had neither of those guys. Not sure what you were looking for in your complaint, for Buffalo to acquire Chychrun or Jensen? Well.. true, but the Sabres don't have the same roster. Sadly.

This would be my expectation, unless the Sabres find a unicorn. The next hope is that UFA signings of top players shake a few roster players free that the Sabres can go after in a trade. It's a small hope.

Woof. Love UFA day for some crazy deals.

Yeah, not even close. I could go on and on. The things I listed are just the high level supporting evidence for my statement. The point was to not devolve another thread into the same arguments that permeate every other thread.

Let's just all agree that there's no need to post about the Sabres ineptitude today. The horse has been dead for quite some time. By now we have to accept that until somehow they right the ship internally, or they change ownership, that players who will make a difference to the team are not going to come here. It's 13 years of not only not making the playoffs, but being laughably inept at times. While some good will moves have been made it's not enough to overcome 13 years of losing. I'm not fully blaming Adams because the run up to this point is only partly on him. The top is lonely, but it's the top that should be shouldering all the attention. So far he's shuffled the deck chairs on the Titanic quite a few times... but the ship is still sinking.

When you remodel a house it always looks uglier at the beginning then at the end. The real key here is what does the end look like. Because I've seen plenty of houses wrapped in Tyvek for years...