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I wasn't speaking of grammatical errors but more to what is "quality content". But, given the absolute horrendous grammar I see coming out of top notch news sites these days I am not so certain your last sentence holds true. Professional SHOULD use editors, and if they do, they should clearly use better ones. 🙂

Seattle has 2 years in so far.. they have won, and if it continues then yes, let's say a history of winning. You can look at a two year period of almost any team and say they were building a history of winning and being a winner, until they are not. That's the point I was getting at more than anything. They are playing to win now and in a few years they will have to resort, like every team does, to building a pipeline through the draft. This will be much harder to do if they keep drafting in the lower half of the rounds. I imagine that this is exactly why the NHL has adopted this method of expansion draft. It allows the teams to have an opportunity to be successful out of the gate and cement a fan base before they fall into the inevitable rebuild. As for starting way below Buffalo.. I don't think that's true. They started with players who more established. This puts them further ahead. All in all I would have preferred the Sabres not take so long to figure it out, but now that they have I don't want them to short circuit where they are headed.

Yes, but in order to sell that many tickets you have to have that many seats. No matter what you do, HarborCenter can't sell that many. Harborcenter is not a good place to watch a hockey game.

It's funny that there's a debate on here over what is linked or not linked. There's a good portion of the conversation on this board day in and day out that could be put under the same scrutiny and yet it's allowed all the time. Just because someone gives themselves a name or creates a website doesn't lend any greater credence to what they have to say. The content is what matters and linking to it should never be a problem simply because the commentary on here is just as valid or invalid as any website.

But it's necessity for them because they had no prospect pool. They've been in the league 2 years. The question isn't where they are now, it's where will they be in a few more years if they keep drafting lower in the standings and their FA acquisitions age out. Effectively both Seattle and Vegas entered the league as a team who were at their near peak. They weren't obtaining young players that will sustain a roster. You are looking at these teams in a very narrow window. Yes Vegas won this year, and winning cannot be understated, but they will poised for a drop unless they can trade away their top players.. who all have movement clauses. Seattle has 4 players on their roster 25 or younger. 1 was drafted (Beniers), 1 expansion (C. Fleury), 1 waiver (Tolvanen), 1 UFA (Yamamoto). Their average age is 29.1. And they aren't drafting at the top to build a prospect pool. I'll take what the Sabres are doing right now. It's tough with the years of losing to get to this point, Seattle and Vegas don't have that history.

And that's the problem.. he needs to cover the puck. 😉

I'm glad it took me about 5 minutes staring at that before I figured it out.

Some people here refuse to have fun... they are more Eeyore than ROR. I have to imagine that even your personal rain cloud wants you to lighten up. You are only going to lead yourself into greater irritation by responding. Adams could have traded VO for McDavid with Edmonton retaining 50% salary and some people on here would still give him an F or complain.

It's like telling a switch hitter in baseball they are batting from the wrong side. The "wrong side" would be the side that a player is less effective at. However, how wrong it is would depend on the gap between playing the other side. Some people cannot stand flexibility and need rigid structures.

Kind of sad he wasn't from Norway. 😉

He's probably had an account on this forum and see's all the negative posters and decided.. no.. not really.

Let's be honest.. you're gonna lose it regardless.

@inkmanwould draft him because of his Mom.

Why? It's not like the guy hasn't already held the same position. He's qualified. Why care who his family is or where they work?

Somehow become an LTIR roster addition for a team.

The OMB is often the source of these "areas" because of census and other reasons: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2016/beyond-bls/pdf/analyzing-omb-classification-of-regions-three-case-studies.pdf Enjoy! We also use them for statistics in our network footprint coverage, etc. Go Florida... all the way. Still not watching.

See the problem is.. you bash it.. and then do it. So do you want to be like everyone else?

It belongs elsewhere. I love hockey. As such, I love hockey growing in higher population markets. It's really that simple for me.

Ryan Johnson? He can't play until next year when his contract starts.

This one is just random.. well even randomer. 🙂

Agreed.. and it is highly annoying because while you can skip an entire thread about a subject (not ignore it, but speed to the end and move on) you cannot do so when you are inside a thread. It would be nice if things were policed a bit more to stay on topic. ---- Back to Ryan Johnson. I'm not going to speculate. This is a high draft pick signing with the Sabres in a position of need. It's a positive signing and it deepens the pool, it creates more competition, and ultimately the level of talent on the Sabres i boosted because of it. Assuming he doesn't completely flame out.

Understandable. Probabilistic outcomes are a concept with which you are familiar as well, and hopefully that plays into your ability to be less aloof so Doc Flow can be around for as long as possible.

This used to be my argument. Steadfast in it. Then, I believe it was actually on here, someone pointed out that a seat belt may keep you in your seat during a collision allowing you to retain control or at least better control of your vehicle so as to limit further damage. That changed my mind. I always wore mine, but I felt it was up to each person. But imagine a collision occurs and a person not wearing a seat belt is knocked away from the wheel and the car crashing into someone/something else. That might have been avoided. Small intrusion to provide a potential better outcome.

Good stuff. This is the kind of conversation I love. Appreciate it. I think Buffalo is a great market, fans certainly.

What's the point of this response? Clearly not even remotely the argument being made for having signed him to a 1 year contract. Resorting to dismissive behavior is a sure sign that you have no reasonable response. There's reasonable statements as to how this helps the team. I don't even think Okposo would let himself be guaranteed He's not that guy... So you have them making the playoffs? Good to know they'll be winning more.