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For assumption: Kane wants to sign here. Sabres are willing to give him near market value. Then I, as Kane, would request to be traded this season. This assures me that the team I am coming back to is going to get one time benefit from my trade value and it gives me a shot at a Stanley Cup run and experience I can bring back to my team the following season. It happens. I am actually surprised it does not happen more often.

Definitely why I said "Sigh. Let's hope he can make the jump." For some guys their game is close and then a certain league, a certain team/style of play is what really makes things click.

I start to get excited by that.. but you look up two spots on the stats chart and see: Phil Varone: 9G, 22A, 30games And we know what he translated to in the NHL...on THIS team. Sigh. Let's hope Smith can make the jump.

Hooray for hockey. Despite the frustration of watching this team I still get annoyed when they are not playing. Although I did watch some of the Devils vs. Ducks last night. That was entertaining, especially Henrique's goal. So.. go Sabres? Here's to hoping the Risto/Marchand fireworks are good.

A few more notes.. now that I am much more sober. On the first power play I believe they had a whistle in the Carolina zone and they traded out Reinhart for O'Reilly. The camera was on Jack at the time and you could see him put his hands in the air and basically say :"WTF?". I thought for sure it meant they were changing the whole unit out but it turns out only Reinhart was taken off the ice. If you watch Eichel's reaction to McCabe scoring the goal you can see just how excited he is for McCabe. Just things I like watching when you try and figure out what the locker room/bench politics are on the team and if there are issues. On the first goal Scandella got pinched off the D coverage as he ran into the guy in front of the net that RIsto had. It made it easy put back for the Carolina player. Sigh.

That's probably where I would try and go next if I was playing regularly (or at all recently).

Perspective. From the snails point of view the sloth is a speed demon.

When I was 22 and first started playing beer league I wore a half-shield. A friend of mine was cut across the chin two weeks in a row pretty good. I decided enough of that and went and got a cage. The next game I was cross-checked in the face so hard that it dented the cage and turned my helmet sideways. It would have been just below where the half-shield was.... The next week I had a new cage.. but only because I had no dental work to pay for. Last year I played with the damn fishbowl for awhile. It's nice but it's too damn hot. I agree with you 100% about the cage. The vision interference is annoying and it doesn't ever go away. I liked the shield for that, but that against having my face in one piece? That's an easy decision.

Meh. There was a lot to like about tonight. Sometimes the bounces don't go your way. You can choose to look at this loss in the line in addition to the rest of them and feel like crap or you can evaluate the game for the game itself and recognize that there were some positives. It's another loss. Yes, it is. It's a point, which is better than a loss with no points. The player we've wanted and needed to score had 4 points and has been playing much better. The team overall is playing better. It's not where they need to be but it's better than where they were.

That's fair.. given that I seem to have covered both sides adequately.. first they weren't included, then they were. I made perfect sense! Ugh. Although, what I read in the first article was not fully clear. Fox Sports 1 and 2 stay with Fox. the RSNs move.

Oh man... another ticket offer for tonight. I so wish I had read this board earlier today.

This is a great read. Thanks for sharing it. First, I see the #1 scenario all the time now. Look at Okposo's goal the other night from Wilson. Wilson out of the corner to Okposo standing in the circle. I see other teams do it far more often. You guys should see all of it tonight against the Sabres. The #3 attack explains a lot of goals. How many times do we hear Rob Ray talking about the D watching the puck carrier behind the net? The last thing I liked was #2. It talks about spreading out the coverage. When we discussed the concept of opening up the ice by allowing players to go all the way back to the red line without offsides I brought up the idea that the D could sit just a bit higher than the blue line and that would open up the ice more. In this scenario they are pinching the wall and the 3rd forward is sitting high up. Without it having been written down I know I've been seeing this tactic quite a bit from teams in games. I just never identified it as being such a targeted effort and more just reading the D zone coverage. Again.. great read. Thanks for sharing.

Yep.. been busy all day and just now checked. I would have gone to the game without a second thought... GAH! Thanks Eleven for offering them up. I didn't even know there was a game tonight. I barely watched last night. I tuned in on my phone at my son's concert prior to the concert starting... saw ROR score.. then I saw Sanheim score and then someone I knew sat down near me and we began talking and that was that.

It's the full on game of chicken i described before. Every time he scores the more likely someone is going to want to be willing to bring him on. The risk is he gets injured or they wait too long and the value drops because the team isn't going to get to keep him. UNLESS... it's a team he wants to sign an extension with. In which case, perhaps later in the season is fine because a team nearing their playoff run might be willing to give up a bit more in the prospect pool knowing they won't have to use that depth as much in the playoffs. It'll be fascinating to see what happens. Almost as fascinating as people on here speculating everything.

Just read another summary and Fox Sports is not included in the deal.

Certainly plausible. So, Mr. Bettman. I need to trade this guy and you want me to wait. That's fine. You just have to make sure we win the draft lottery this year. :)

Agreed. I would not have expected the rule to read the PUCK continues moving forward, just the player.

Just too classic. Ian Mendes ✔@ian_mendes Dorion says his son told him the other day, "Dad - your team's level of suckage is high." 5:28 PM - Dec 13, 2017

Their mothers?

I had heard the deal was only for the movie business and the television content producing arm. It didn't include FoxNews or the Fox Network itself. I assumed that also meant Fox Sports.

Intriguing. So, a player who comes in on net and then toe-drags a shot would potentially be breaking this rule because the puck technically moves from a more forward spot on the ice back a bit only to be shot. It technically stops moving towards the goal.

The big date, if I recall correctly, is Dec. 19. That's the roster freeze date. After that everyone has to stand down until Dec 26? I wouldn't think that Botterill cares if he trades away a player before the Winter Classic. At the moment that move appears to have made some impact on the team as well.

I'll miss part of the game at a school concert. Unless, you know, I use MSG GO and stream it during the concert. My guess is that my wife will not accept that behavior however. :)

That play is causing a lot of controversy. From my view, he stopped his forward momentum and at that point his chance at scoring should have ended. I am surprised it was counted. I am sure they will update a ruling to keep that from happening in the future.

Couldn't believe he was only 49. It feels like so much longer ago that he played. Guess it wasn't that long ago... He has one of the best names ever for hockey.