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It's good to call out. I don't recall if I suggested Spectrum Choice for locals (Bills games) and then MSG+ for Sabres games in my original statement. It makes sense that RSNs are not included in the choice. Sports channels are the most expensive channels to have in a package. Naturally because they have to pay licensing fees to the sports leagues who have to pay athletes insane amounts of money. I'm not paying for Spectrum choice either.. not with an $18 broadcast surcharge. The local antenna or the local bar is the way to go. 🙂

Or they may have fine cognitive skills but acting like debit cards and everything else have been around their entire lifetime is being obtuse. We're not there yet as a society, as surprising as it may be. Also, don't get in line behind someone who is older if you want to avoid the chance that something might happen. It seems like one could easily avoid the problem by getting in a different line.

The sound sync issue, I believe, is caused by the main camera being delayed while the alternate angle cameras are live. I'm not sure if that's to accommodate out of town broadcasts that use announcers that are at home or what. I don't believe its only MSG that has that issue. A full cost/benefit analysis. Well, I am much older and I have done the cost benefit analysis. When we spoke about Spectrum Choice where you could pick 15 cable channels as part of the package it gets really hard for some people to pick 15. I would have that issue. I haven't had a live TV service in my house since April and I have not missed it one bit. Come October I will have MSG+.. because $30 per month is cheaper than $90 per month for Fubo which is what I had to have in the past to get MSG. Well, that or Spectrum, but no thanks on Spectrum. Sure I got ESPN on Fubo.. but not TNT, so I was missing those games as well. My cost/benefit analysis says that paying $90 per month on the off-chance I am inclined to watch another station is not the best choice. Max recently announced they have the ability to stream live events and it is suspected they will be in talks to carry sports programming in their packages. ESPN+ is the best way to watch hockey, if you are not in market. I wish I was not in market. MSG+ will appeal to many many many NYC area residents simply because of all the teams that are covered. I don't think they will suffer like the RSNs who are covering one to two sports over a wider area. But the market will shift into a la carte first.. then the fluff stations (not those fluff stations Inkman) will fall by the way side.. and then it will cycle back into a conglomeration of streaming packages because people won't like a la carte pricing.

Let me expand. The Sabres signed Clifton at $3.3M. I would imagine Dumba was looking for a longer term and or higher AAV and the Sabres felt Clifton was a better value for the roster. Clearly Dumba did not get signed to a long term deal by ANY team. That's my supporting evidence. Pivot to the Sabres could sign him for 1 year. Yes, possible. But, they brought in Johnson for leadership and 3rd line/ 7th defense positioning. Bringing in Dumba for the year pushes someone else out of the lineup for short term gain. Signing Dumba while Jokiharju and Lyubushkin are on the roster also decreases their trade value as other teams know the Sabres have to move someone. To me, it makes more sense to let Dumba sign in Arizona and then try and trade for him if you need him versus putting him on the roster now and having to deal with the number of contracts and roster size. Basically, Dumba was not a roster focus the moment Clifton became the person signed. But, if they need him later in the year they could trade for him.

You can't fault them. It's the local channels that are causing the fee. I wish Spectrum could drop them. They've become a huge problem around the country because they keep raising their fees. They do this because they don't make much money because no one cares about the news. Honestly, what is the point of a local channel in today's world? How much local programming exists in any given day? The news, and that's about it. They get some syndication spots and they get to pull some local ad slots during nationally broadcast television. Most people already know what's happening in their local news because it's on social media. The entire industry is about to get beat down just as the music industry did with streaming. That it's held out this long is amazing to me. Young people simply do not care for television (or the movies).. and they are the only demographic that grows... all the others just shift or decline.

Definitely. My guess is Dumba was looking for a high-value, long term contract and didn't get any takers. He then reverted to looking for a single year contract with whomever would pay him the most to be a rental and likely not be a team to make the playoffs. Basically, Dumba set himself up to be traded to a playoff team at the deadline and Arizona will get a pick. Buffalo doesn't fit into those categories... now, could they trade for him? Certainly.

I don't even know what cable boxes are these days.. $11? DVR is another $15? The broadcast surcharge is the biggest POS though. Up to $18 because Spectrum has to pay the local TV carriers. Local TV needs to die. And land line? ooof.. yeah, that'll do it. I only have Internet with Spectrum, it's the only option I have at my location. Unfortunately. You can buy MSG+ for Sabres games. That is a change. Other than that, no real differences that I can think of.

I'm curious how you get to $250/month if you don't watch a lot of TV. You'd have to have all the movie channels, etc. wouldn't you? I would say the "cheapest" way to watch the Sabres (MSG only) and Bills (local only) would be an HD antenna (Bills) and the MSG+ package (Sabres). The next cheapest option would be Spectrum TV Choice if they still offer it and then MSG+. If you want a single service for both then Fubo is the only option other than Spectrum.

This would be my viewpoint, if you intend on completing the 4 year degree in 4 years. My son's college costs are insane. There's no way he would be able to pay for college by himself without a loan. There's very little chance I could pay for it without a loan. However, if you were to go after the degree part time I think it is quite doable to get through it without a loan. I advocated for this for my son.. work and go to school part time. Get a degree in 6 years and be debt free. I think trying to work enough hours and go to school full time and avoid a loan would be difficult. At least this year I hope he gets a job while in school to help pay down the loans he'll have to take.

Welcome to BEAD in the United States. Although I will say, oil companies in the middle of nowhere Texas will pay significant amounts of money to get internet connectivity. I deal with it all the time. Not much different than footing the bill to run copper all over the place.. it's finally time for fiber.

Not many bright spots for the Bruins franchise (from my point of view) but Bergeron is certainly one of them and potentially the brightest. Always respected him and how he played the game. A great career. And as Sabres fan.. grateful he's no longer there 🙂

You shouldn't really notice the difference. Unless a programmer is creating a different broadcast just for streaming they all conform to the ATSC standard for their output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_standards This only supports 1080i and 720p. After that you are dependent upon the devices receiving the digital transmission and how good its upscaling chipset/algorithm is. Generally speaking computers do not even bother because they expect you to be using monitors that are a set resolution. Televisions have to support various resolutions and so have better chipsets. Of course with satellite or cable the set-top box might also upscale which then negates your TVs upscaling (if the STB outputs 4k then the TV doesn't engage the upscaling). All kinds of fun in there. It's why ATSC 3.0 has such hype.. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_3.0 It supports closer to the standards of today and things like Netflix and Disney+ enjoy. 4k, HDR, etc. I think $29.99 per month is steep, but Fubo is $89.99 and I only really watched the Sabres. So it's cheaper overall. ESPN will have a stand alone service soon as well. No set price yet, but they'll likely see a lot of subs. The days of bundled TV are just about over. Everyone wanted a la carte and now they are going to get it.

Certainly. But sadly even pay sites have the issue. Frankly I attribute it to three primary reasons. 1. News sites, content creators, you name it, are in a race to get something published first. 2. The quality of editors has decreased dramatically as people are just not as interested in doing good work these days. 3. The quality demanded by people has also decreased because the same people who do lower quality work are also the audience that don't care enough to demand better. It's a race to the bottom unfortunately. Probably straying further off-topic here. Certainly exceptions to the above.

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.