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There was just a league okay last week even for fired coaches under contract. Lebrun http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/35839/teams-can-seek-draft-pick-compensation-for-fired-coaches-gms-executives

Would Holland to trade his rights?

That's why you have a pool of candidates.

Not enough. IMO.

It is actually not as weird as politicians that can easily reconcile Christianity with a moral philosophy that is anti-family and ridicules altruism and compassion. That bitch was rightly buried under her God - a heartless dollar sign.

Murray likes a beer now and then, grigorenko isn't old enough to buy one yet.

Like a graffiti artist, the king of broad and strained analogies has left his mark. :)

Anyone ever see Widespread Panic live? I have a nephew that wants to go. I need to know what I'd be in for.

I really like Grigo. His mishandling aside (and it is a huge aside), his vision, shot and reach are really outstanding. I think if you can add speed to his line he really has the potential to grow into a classic pivot. Should he be traded to bring in a player to help us now (A Ryan O'Reilly for example) I wouldn't be heartbroken. But I would hope to see a healthy return. I think he was a guy that was never going to fit into a Ted Nolan system. Nolan is a skate fast to nowhere coach. Grigo is really more of a stay in your lane and move to open space type of player. Having said that, to flourish, Griggy needs a little more thrust in his game, but I think he gets a lot of the same criticism a young Joe Thorton had. He wasn't working hard. (he was, it just was that blowing people up with his big body was never his game, nor was speed in pursuit). I really liked what I saw toward the end of the season when Grigorenko was playing with Gionta. His reach, combined without outside speed were creating a lot of shots on net. He's still a baby in terms of his youth. 21 years old. Keep him around. Centers don't grow on trees.

Not his touch as much as his ammo. The Kovalchuk deal cost him a draft picks, players, and his teams cap structure which left Parise vulnerable to offers. Oh and Marty B got old.

When people ask her, my mother tells people that i play piano in a whorehouse. But I'm really running for President.

Interesting move.

Sweet.

Sometimes it is just getting used to the culture of the drop's of International Officiating.

I can't watch...but that is usually the US roster for the prelims has rarely or never played together.

Doesn't sound important. :)

I just think anything that happens inside 25' of the net is very important. Faceoffs pretty much dictate what personnel goes on the ice. Eichel will get it. Reinhart will get it. I'm not expecting them to be great at it right away. There are guys in the NHL that make a living from this one thing. It is important.

Best goal i've seen this year.

I find this baffling. I strongly disagree. Winning a face-off opportunity is often much more important than most one-one battles. Why? Most one-on-one battles are not scoring opportunities. Win a draw cleanly in the offensive zone, the coaching manual says, is a scoring opportunity. All your skaters are already onside, you've all-ready won the zone. you already have a chance to find on open lane, it should result in a shot. This dynamic is amplified on special teams. Win the draw in the defensive zone and you've thwarted an a scoring opportunity. Most one-on-one hockey battles do not result in a shot as they are away from the puck. Faceoffs in the end zones are much more important because that's where possession results in the highest percentage shots.

Why a doozy? Revenue sharing is the correct term. That's the guts of the CBA. Clubs have to raise revenues so the players get their contractual 50% split. The Sabres have a contractual obligation as a Club party to the CBA. You imagine it is a money grab or that the Sabres can opt out. Really, the Sabres, from a players point of view, have been reluctantly compliant with the Revenue Sharing Oversight Committee and are only doing their due diligence, forming a plan, and satisfying their contractual requirements.

IF the Sabres hadn't planned to raise prices, absolutely, they could have turned the revenue side of the Sabres over to a third party in an audit type of situation. The Revenue side, not the hockey side. A third party could conceivably do an independent study/audit and prove that the Sabres are well below market price and raise Season Tickets 10-15%

The Sabres HAVE to Qualify for their Revenue sharing obligations. (not because it is nice, or because they need money, or because of built-in incentives) but because they have a contract with the players to do so. They sure as HELL have an obligation to have a viable plan to increase revenues. In Buffalo, because demand for tickets is inelastic, a high school textbook could prove by the Total Revenue Test that the only viable plan to raise revenues is to raise prices. TR = P X Q The wiggle/unwritten part is the plan itself: In a market such as Arizona....where demand may be highly price elastic, you could conceivably lower ticket prices to raise revenue. That is, lowing prices to true market level. The Sabres don't have that option. They have a waiting list of 3000 people. (inelastic demand). As for the Sabres.....it is obvious. They have to have a plan to increase revenue. The law of Supply and Demand isn't written into the CBA. But don't mistake it.The Sabres have an obligation to the players Union to submit a plan to raise prices, because in the Buffalo market that is the only thing that will increase revenue. As for the below language....how can you willfully miss it? © Based upon the Club's performance, the Revenue Sharing Oversight Committee may require that the Club retain an outside consultant to assess the Club's business and to recommend and implement business recommendations as appropriate. If a third party is IMPLEMENTING outside business recommendations......the Sabres/Black would no longer be in control of the business of pricing Hockey Related Revenues. This is the Hammer in the language that FEHR put in the CBA to prevent clubs from pricing below market levels. Unions win.

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I guess I missed that. I think he ends up in Philly.