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So now one player has come to Buffalo because of Kevyn Adams and one has come because of Ralph Krueger. That's not so bad.

The concept of "concept of" around here is strong.

Please.. please, let that be true. Because I am sure that Cup success lies heavily on a hot goaltender more than anything. He wasn't so hot this year and Bozak and ROR were golfing with the rest of the league.

You underscore my thinking. You want the team to be a positive distraction but at what point do you realize that perhaps this team isn't going to be that and hasn't been that for you? They are on a 9 year drought from the playoffs and have been pretty much a miserable wreck. So, the thing you hope to be that positive distraction is anything but, so now it just adds to the rest of the supposed misery and is not a release. Instead it's amplifying the other issues.

It would seem so. I'm not sure how people who are so fanatical about a hockey team to let it affect them to this point could ever speak ill of fanatics in other disciplines. This is just a game.

You keep crackin' me up more and more. You might want to buy one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Nine-Tail-Scourge-Whip/dp/B01M7SS161

All depends on what happens with him. Montour is 26 now. He turns 27 next April. He's a UFA next year. He could go to arbitration and potentially get less money or just sign a 1 year deal and get $3.85M and be a UFA next year.. because he would be anyway. The Sabres can still move him and with him locked in at $3.85M it might be easier than if he had been awarded more. Both sides get something in this deal and Montour was going to be a UFA regardless after next season unless he signed on longer.

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.