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No. What you state could be the case, but do you then think it's case where he stated his number, the Sabres said see ya, and then moved on? Could be. Ultimately ends up making a paltry sum but by the time he found his value in FA the Sabres had moved on. Overall I gotta hand it to those posters on here who are checking in multiple times a day just to make derisive comments on anything that happens or gets reported. It must take a certain level of self-loathing to put yourself through that.

It was a crap shoot. But the pressure is clearly on Johnson now to be more accepting of a potential trade or he's going to be playing in the AHL (if they even play). Sure the Lightning don't want to keep his cap hit on the books but I bet Johnson gives in. So, now the question is.. what does Tampa have to give up to move him? Where would he agree to go? Tampa was always going to be in this position.. and they still have not signed Cirelli, Cernak, and Sergachev.. 3 players that aren't all going to fit under what appears to be about $4M in cap space. Point and Killorn are the only decent level salaries that are freely movable... everyone else has control. It's going to be interesting to see what happens.

Reports were that he took less money and the 1 year deal to go to Edmonton. Guess he's hoping that next year he can earn an even better deal. As it was reported, the Sabres didn't want him back. I'm kind of shocked. I liked Larsson but he certainly wasn't someone that had to be kept at all costs. It makes the retaining of Girgensons interesting, but I suppose Girgensons has shown he can move up and down the lineup when needed and Larsson really hasn't.

The numbers are wrong. Yep. Kahun probably thinks he should get paid $4MM or $4.1 or whatever it was that he would have asked for in arbitration that scared the Sabres off from qualifying him. I am sure the Sabres said, go get a deal and give us a chance to match it. Let the market dictate your value, not an arbitrator. Kahun would honor that because he knows that an arbitrator could have just as easily ruled that $2MM was his value and he would be stuck with it. Kahun hasn't gone anywhere yet. I think that's because of the Tyler Johnson waiver. No one knows where he's going yet and that will trigger the rest of the moves.

Crawford - borderline. Plus that's $3.9M for 2 years of a 35+ goalie. Markstrom - great goalie, but $6M is steep.. and 6 years is a long time. Murray - overpaid.. and how. Khudobin - wasn't going anywhere, he was just on a team that made the Finals Holtby - maybe he rebounds, but he's been pedestrian and not worth $4.3M - that said, his contract allows him to be flipped across the border next year to Seattle. So the Canucks likely overpaid just to give Demko one more year of experience. Could the Sabres do that? Yep. Would moving from Vancouver to Seattle be easier than Buffalo to Seattle? Yup. Things to think about. Lundqvist - damn right, he was only going to a team that had solid Stanley Cup chances this year.

You probably have had aspirations that you've not met. I know I do. That said, not many people here, if any, are defending the Pegula family and their performance to date. I'm sure you feel better after posting the quote though, so you've got that going for you.

Patiently? Which goalie did you want the Sabres to sink $6M into? I didn't see any goaltender deals yesterday that would have been good. The belief is the Sabres are talking to CBJ about one of their goaltenders... so that's something. Wennberg wanted to play for Bill Zito Merrill took a 1 year deal to play in Detroit, where he played 3 seasons in Michigan in college. Kahun was covered in the Kahun thread. The risk of his arbitration award pushed him to UFA. He's not signed yet, so the league clearly didn't bust his door down with a deal. I never saw any Fast to Nashville report. The only Kahun reference was some fan or something posting a Kings sweater with his name on it.

And accounts on Wennberg is that he went to Florida because of Bill Zito. Verhaege would have been an interest, without a doubt, but is he going to change the landscape of the team? No. I do wonder what the Tyler Johnson waiver is doing to the market. Are teams waiting to see who claims him?

So Kahun would accept a 2x2.5M offer from the Sabres... People think that's a steal... He's not signed with any other team yet. So, either no other teams think he's worth 2.5M (or close enough to it) or those numbers are not right. I know which I believe.

Yes.. he went out and drafted players. But you are impatient, so it won't matter. You love to start the "just do something" threads. There's plenty of talk about what he is TRYING to do, but he does not control the player. Could he get some players here by overpaying? Potentially. Does that help the team? No.

Haha.. how many times are you going to have to tell people that? I've only seen a few deals that I would have liked the Sabres to be in on, but the players control where they go and frankly Buffalo probably needs to pay more just to get players at this point. That said.. there are some stupid deals out there. The 2 year deals look like the players that will end up in Seattle after next season. 🙂 It's not over.. there's still time for more stupid!

Lias isn't going to find his silver medal in LA either.

I'm not going back to pull it up.. but if I recall, Rossi had more points, but less goals. Quinn had more goals then assists. So, in one way, if you are looking for playmaker, Rossi could be your player. But, if you are looking for a goal scorer, then it makes sense to not look at PPG, but GPG, right? After all one aspect of Rossi's numbers has to be that someone else put the puck in the net. Assists are important, but the Sabres need goal scorers. I just can't get bent over the choice. The Sabres need goal scoring and the best goal scorer in the draft (according to "experts") was available.

I put a lot of stock into this. The kid hadn't necessarily decided where he was going or chose not specialize and I think that's a great thing to do. He's clearly improved since he's been dedicated to hockey. No one beats Byfield's style. ---------------- There's a 16U AA team in Rochester that has quite a few kids being scouted. I'm waiting to see if they begin bolting to other programs but they seem to be staying together. They just were invited to an elite tournament in New England somewhere. It's not always the level they play, but who they play overall. This team has crushed many AAA programs from around the Northeast. I mean, it's not a huge reach, I like the other players and at this point I think I'm just going to see what happens.

See, CO2 is also used to drive beer lines.. and that would be a serious problem. 🙂 Some breweries are actually starting to capture the CO2 released during fermentation and reuse it. Makes sense, there's a good amount of it released.

if that were the case then people wouldn't smoke, vape, and do a host of other things in public that can have impacts on others. I understand your point, but I think society is full of example where one person engages in activity that would not be considered "protecting" others. Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories people. Those categories of people who are not at risk but are forced to wear a mask are, by definition, being discriminated against. The support people draw on is that it's the right thing to do because it protects a group of people. I point to what I said above. We don't universally apply these rules and frankly, you'll get to the fringe cases pretty quickly anyway. People want to believe it's "obvious" but they do so while also accepting the situations like restaurants and bars where people come together and remove their masks. The answer to the question of "what's obvious?" is always changing. We're not all in this together and as time moves on there will be an even greater moving apart as to how "together" people are on things.

Fair.... you can also be linked in the advertiser's database. If you are browsing from the same IP, etc. The data mining isn't just at the browser level. Your ISP is tracking you, personal network equipment manufacturers track you, your ISPs core networking equipment manufacturer's track you and if you choose a VPN route, I guarantee they are tracking you as well. I'm just waiting for the news that some of the major VPN operators are backed by data mining companies. Woot.

The computers don't matter. It's the cookies that are likely stored and shared in your browser sessions and shared between the browser settings between computers that would drive that. As for why you see the ads. Well, there are no shortage of possible reasons, many of which could be pretty obscure. I don't even look at ads so I don't even know what pops up. If an ad is obnoxious enough to make itself obvious to me I am usually off the site immediately. The two times I logged into SabreSpace today I couldn't begin to tell you what was at the top of the screen. (Sorry SDS). My brain has been wired to ignore ads.

Minimum 4 years, barring extenuating circumstances. 🙂

I can understand the ease with which it comes to not believe anything, but I think the scope of it makes it harder to go that route. I'm definitely in the "not giving a crap" category. This is the virus, this is how it works. I've not the time to wonder the implications to the process, but then again I already hate the process. I already think we'll end up with a bad president.. so I guess I'm just to the point where let's get it over with so we can move on with the next level of hell the US is bound to descend to.

I thought about Buffalo, but I don't think that would be his landing spot. I think he would stick close to NY is anything and a potential cup contender. Would the Islanders be calling him? I think they might. He'd probably sign a low dollar deal to have a shot at the Cup. I could picture Boston, but honestly I think the Islanders would be the better spot for him.

Bogosian was no longer a plan for the Sabres. No one is going to get more from Bogosian and no one has. He filled in with TB.. he'll be a UFA and I'm really curious if he ends up anywhere. In the end, the Sabres let him go to a team where he might have a shot at the childhood dream. That's doing an NHL vet a favor.

No team would trade for him with his contract, that's true. I think they wanted him to have a chance to go somewhere and play in the post season. I think Tampa wanted him all along and so the Sabres chose to waive him, he chose not to report, all of that played out so he could sign in Tampa... a team that both the Sabres and Bogosian knew would come calling as soon as his contract and the money associated with it were terminated. The entire situation orchestrated to trade an asset to an organization bypassing the normal rules. Sure Bogosian has to give up some money in the deal, but he's more interested in the Stanley Cup chance.. and look at that.. now he'll have a ring. One might hope that the favor done by Buffalo translates into some off-season favors...

Until this team learns how to dominate after half-time they are going to be hanging on. It's been said before, other teams adjust and they do not.

Yep. Staal was going to be a buyout, but for the cost a 2nd round pick they were able to give him away. Better than the buyout...