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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.

He was speaking on a far more interesting topic.. 🙂 Aye. Not really commenting first on football at all though. That said, I would say the fans are solid, especially for football. May I infer from your statement that the fans are what makes an NHL market? I was honestly asking, is it the fans, is it the team, the arena, the impact of location on the economics of the city? I was not slighting Buffalo, but using them as an example. Empty barn on weeknights and that's even with a 55% attendance jump over last year. The arena is crap and we all know it. I don't think it's just the fans that make the market.

Can you please tie your point to my question? The best I can infer at the moment is that it's cheap to go see a Panthers game. I mean, I'm not sure if you saw KBC at on a Wed. night in December this year. It wasn't exactly full. And of the two teams, one of them is in the Stanley Cup Finals. So, one of them is more relevant for hockey right now.

The kids still haven't got off your lawn, have they? 😉 Amerks sent me a text offering me free tickets to Game 3. Naturally that was if I bought season tickets for next year. Not an endearing marketing tactic to someone like me, but I give them credit for trying to capitalize off this year's success. Naturally hoping they win, overall. Hoping they win 3 straight so my son and his friends, who will be at Game 4, can experience another great night.

I'm just loving how this signing has some people so bent out of shape. Loving it. I am happy for Kyle. He deserves this. This is what an organization does to demonstrate that it cares about players. This is how an organization makes people want to be part of it.

Florida has been in the league quite a long time now. Vegas is new but the team is well supported. I think we can agree that Arizona is a crap market. After that... what makes a market crap? It seems that Buffalo could be a crap market. They have a team that is setting records on not making the playoffs. How does that contribute to the betterment of the league? Buffalo Sabres fans ran at an 82% capacity filling up KBC. The only team worse was San Jose (79%) and tied with Chicago. Neither of those team were in the hunt for the playoffs. The Sabres were up 55% over last year, second highest jump in the league next to Ottawa (80%?). It seems to tell me the fans are so rabid that they will show up for a bad team. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2023/04/17/Leagues-and-Governing-Bodies/nhl-attendance-regular-season.aspx So what makes a market crap?

Well, I don't think the AHL has great equipment to begin with.. then you add in the MSG effect.. so yeah, it's probably too much to ask for.

I feel like you are explaining it though. I'd like to blame fans for their lack of positivity and how it drives up all the negative energy surrounding the team such that the spirits drawn to the Buffalo area are those who thrive on misery. If everyone just cheer up a bit and stop hating on ex-players perhaps the more positive spirits would be drawn to Buffalo and then the fans could feel joy. Definitely a curse. 🙂

And I know people into weed who have not gone down that path. I suppose it's how much, how often, etc. I know enough people who are pretty straight laced who have no motivation to achieve and are just as useless. I know people who smoke up who are not. Live and let live is a great tenet, because unless you want me telling you how to live your life, that's exactly the tenet you should subscribe too. Slippery slope on who gets "control" over what's right.

For you. For others it is different. It's not for me either, but I'm not going to call it lame as I feel that just insults those who find value in it. It's a personal thing, not harming me.

Moose was pounding on the glass last night.. They didn't toss him. 🙂

Well that was a fun game to attend! Good thing Woll's first name doesn't begin with an A. Because he was. He looked terrible all night. Marlies are some cheap MoFos too.. glad to see them get swept. Now to get my voice to recover in time for meetings tomorrow.

Hah.. F me.. I bought two tickets earlier today and didn't have time to check the site. Oh well.

Queue up Houston or KC. Can't put a team in Atlanta without disrupting the balance. Finally time to call it a failure in the desert.. perhaps they should have initiated the trade of Matthews to the Coyotes before they put the referendum up? 🙂

Circling back to private owned corps, etc. It really doesn't matter. Terry Pegula answers to the NFL. So, even if Terry Pegula wanted to go his own way, the NFL and respective owners get to chime in as well. Everyone answers to someone else. Everyone.

Have you seen Idiocracy? The world is not trending in the way you'd like. You can see it on here every time there is a controversial topic and anyone suggests "wait and see". That's just one small community. You can want what you want, but in the moment, each business has to do what they have to do to stay alive. I'd much prefer people dial it down and take a more measured and rational approach to things. But I am also seasoned enough to know that it's not going to happen and I can choose to make the most of my limited lifetime on this planet and be as happy as possible or I can put myself into misery and battle everyone who refuses to get off the jump to conclusions mat.

Let me know when you find utopia. Let's say the Buffalo Bills take your course of action. Then what? Is it reasonable to expect that they will face significant business hurdles? Lost sponsorships and endorsements? Let's assume they take a $5M revenue hit for the season. The owner is probably not eating that. How many jobs are then cut because the Bills need to cut payroll? Do those people care about the punter being guilty or not or are they busy trying to find a job, in a bad economy, to pay the bills and feed their families? And for what? the "Punt God" has been proven innocent and can go pursue his career signing an entry level NFL deal that probably pays more salary than the people who lost their jobs. You can isolate an incident and make it sound like the decision is easy. Unfortunately for every action there are usually many, many, many, reactions. As I said, the people to blame for this are the people themselves. Society makes the reality that we all have to live in. Whether we like it or not.

What a great response you had.. telling me No. I'll infer from your unbolded response that you are still willing to gamble others money.. not your own. You'd be out of business in a heartbeat. If that's okay by you, then so be it. Principles don't pay the bills. Rage against the people, the machine is just a construct of theirs.

The draft lottery itself is a joke. Therefore, any show or coverage or "drama" around it is starting a joke level and will only get worse. Just stop with the farce.

This is very easy to say when it's not your reputation as an owner on the line and your money at stake. The blame you are seeking rests at the feet of the lynch mob society we have created. They have to operate their organization in accordance. The news is one piece, but society itself is the real problem. The information age created the age of instant judgment. A news organization that takes it time to report will end up out of business. Why? Because society demands instant information, the accuracy is not relevant. Imagine, this long after the original charges were filed the truth comes out. What news organization was going to wait this long? None. People don't want to hear rational opposition. They don't want to wait to pass judgment because they have to move on to the next thing. We're the reasons these things happen. Not the organizations that make money from being relevant to those people... they are just being business owners.

I think the "build a young team of talented players" works better than whatever Toronto is trying. And for what it's worth, until the Leafs win a Cup they will have a longer cup drought than the Sabres. After awhile, being the 5th bridesmaid gets annoying.

I'm not blown away. It just seems to lack any one note that I can cling to. It's clean, I give it that. At that price point I am expecting more and it just doesn't have it. I'd like to see what I think in a blind tasting.