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Nice shot! What I said above! :)

Probably changing his data models.

Or Sebastian Janikowski?

I don't even think about the NHLPA as a union per se. I grew up in a "union" house. I lived through plenty of strikes and watching what happened to my family during them. The fundamental flaw in the real world is the belief that you can't be replaced by someone else. This sure as hell does not apply in professional sports where no one is replacing the majority of the athletes. You can bring in the "next tier" of athlete but the level of play will not hold up. Your view of capitalism is in vacuum. What defines what you are worth? Are you the next $13M, no championship guy or are you the next $10M guy with 4 championships? Are you the guy who everyone says is the best to never win or are you the guy people call a perennial winner? Are you the winner who gets asked to appear on magazine covers, gets endorsement deals, gets a nice $100k per speaking engagement where you put in 30-45 minutes of work? I'm still amazed that these player unions have not just overthrown the system. They are irreplaceable talent. If there was a true desire to change the system they could win that standoff. An owner with a big building to fill and no sports team is going to lose a lot of money. The players could form their own teams, hire their own leadership, and then offer the owners the ability to rent their ice time to the players to play their games. Hell, the players could find smaller arenas for the short term. It might lower income but the owners couldn't last more than a year before they'd be forced to make changes. They aren't going to get the same attendance by pulling in an entire league full of guys who can't make an NHL contract, let alone an NHL roster. You think people are going to shell out enough money to fill an arena full of ECHL teams? Not a chance.

Sigh. The entire problem with unions summed up in one sentence. Screw everyone, I'm the most important. It's never about the team being successful, it's about how much can I get when I can get it. And they all get paid because we spend our dollars on the product. We perpetuate the problem. Makes for a far more interesting question. If you feel strongly about how people are getting screwed over why are you a part of it? (not just directed at you specifically, to everyone involved). I sometimes play it out in my head and ask why I feel compelled to continue supporting millionaires and billionaires getting paid while more important things in this world are neglected. I've yet to overcome my own irrational fandom and I know I'm far more moderate than a lot of people.

Duly noted.

Let's put it this way. If he's helping the Sabres into the playoffs that's good. If he's playing very well and the Sabres still need work then he's a deadline asset. If he bombs then they move on after the season. Where's the downside here?

Yep. Bought a DJI Mavic Pro a week ago.

Sooo.. I've got a new addiction. Figured I'd share one of the outputs from it. That's from about 350ft over 100 Acre Pond in Mendon Ponds the other night.

Sometimes GMs just can't help themselves. All those old skool brains in the front office in Toronto. Good luck fitting that salary into the mix in the future. Who knows... maybe he's the next 40y/o energizer bunny.

C'mon man... why even bother to respond with that? Merely pointing out that people have countered your original claims and you chose to gloss over it with "I'm not really into it but what I've heard is." (paraphrased) What did you expect the response to be? You essentially made a claim that people aren't really interested in curing a disease that impacts so many because of the revenue in cancer treatment.

Just stop it... stop. Seriously, stop. Your skills are too much.

So... McCabe gives up his number for Pominville? Trading Foligno is one of those necessity things. He's going to be the right kind of player but he was just going to that at the wrong time for the Sabres. I really liked him as a player and I think this move will be a bit rough on him. Lesson to other Sabres.. create your own sauce.. get traded.

Not a well supported one however. You can (and in a subject such as this you should) do better. Back to hockey.

Do those teams really find a way out of it? I don't think we know that yet. I think teams temporarily find a way out of it but a year or two later they look like they are trending down and into more trouble. The Blackhawks don't look that good. The Kings are struggling. I don't know who else to look at. Given that I think Jagr could teach Jack how to use his body even better than he does (I have commented that I believe they are very similar players) I am all over that idea.

Coles has a great upstairs room I think. I could always reach out to the owner if we have an interest there.

A 1pm game means we'll need to do more postgaming... we're not Bills fans. :) I am fine with March 10... I can't 100% commit until I know the youth hockey schedules...

It seems this went undetected by people. Well played. I caught it. :) I also agree with you.

Some of you already have pull-ups. Depends.

The full value and impact of these selections will not be known until right around or just after the draft. Getting all bent now means nothing because this was a minimum two phase game. The first is the expansion draft, the second is the real draft. The jockeying that is likely to occur between now and Friday evening is going to huge. Measure yourselves a bit. Just because Ennis, Moulson, and Bogosian are here today does not mean they are here tomorrow or the next day. You can relax until mid-September.

Although NB's original post said Fleury to VGK and a pick to keep them from selecting anyone else... which didn't make sense. I'm going to backtrack and say that my stating if they "sign" Fleury it really means if they pick him and of course by virtue of that they assume his contract in a way that it would be "signing off" on it... yea.. yea.. YEA.. that's it.

You know.... I thought yesterday was Wednesday and I was bitching about the draft not being on last night (not on here, but at home). I'm going to go in for some kind of mental check up because clearly I need it. OY! So the NHL has to be loving all the leaked information. :)

Knew this thread would explode after last night. The personal preference things always do. Some nice changes... we'll see where things go from here. Also, the #'s only appeared on the blue sweaters? The white one's did not have #'s on the front.

That doesn't make sense.. if VGK signed Fleury he'd be considered the pick from the penguins right?

The Penguins are a much more offensive styled team than Arizona who sucked. Possible... people definitely age differently. I haven't watched him play in awhile... but I was thinking that just dismissing him because he's 40 seems to be focused on the wrong metric.