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I understand that the Bills drive ratings which in turn increases advertising revenues so it makes sense for that to dominate the conversation Listening to them talk about Fantasy Football rather than the Sabres gets old

Jeff Marek who cohosted the 32 Thoughts Podcast with Elliott Friedman and had his own weekday radio show on Sportsnet is no longer with the company. For those of us in the Buffalo Area his radio show was a great alternative to WGR550’s Constant Bills Talk. ( He is also a Sabres Fan. Hopefully he starts his own Podcast or is hired by another media outlet

It was their projected AAV based on the length of number of years in the deal

Worse case scenario Joonas Korpisalo was moved with four years remaining on his deal at an AAV of 4 million, he could be moved if needed

@PerreaultForeveris correct. Pegula was the driving force behind Eichel’s Captaincy

Economic, efficient and effective. Terry used this on the day Botterill was fired and replaced by Adams

There is also the matter of having to pay two head coaches salaries, I would not be surprised if that heavily factors into Terry’s decision making. The internal cap and EEE are alive and well

Negotiation

They need to spend more money on the cap. Over the past 4 years, teams spending bottom 10 have made the playoffs 3 total times. 0 teams in the bottom 5. What’s interesting is based on a stat of total number of points per actual dollars spent, the Sabres were ranked ninth in the league. They are projected to be about 8 million under once their pending RFAs are signed, this probably puts them back into the bottom five in terms of spending again.

The consensus amongst the scouts and the analytics department was to take Luca Del Bel Belluz. There was some shock when the pick was announced.

Quinn had a total budget of 130 million and original cost was 129.5 million, so there wasn’t much left to spend. Unfortunately I cannot see a major renovation coming in the near future, NYS and Erie County will not be too keen on spending more money on a professional sports venue in WNY and current ownership probably does not have the appetite to spend hundreds of millions on KBC either(beyond the roof and Jumbotron).

Having the entire 300 section exiting by two escalators wasn’t a brilliant plan either. They have the space to add another on each side

He and Ray talk way too much during actual play. For example here is the Dunleavy’s call of Dylan Cozens first goal Compared to the Capitals call of the same goal Benson’s First was much better Compared to the Capitals Call

Jarventie was one pick in front of JJ Peterka, who went 34th Overall

His Wife is in her final year of residency, it’s difficult to change programs after July 1st as most if not all spots are full at other hospitals. I do not blame him for not wanting to be moved

I do not believe there is interest from the Sabres anyways

Peter Fish, Eichel’s Former Agent, made it clear to the Sabres that Jack would welcome other opportunities in the NHL in the final months of the Botterill Tenure. GMKA’s plan to rebuild certainly did nothing to stop it, but the inevitability of Eichel being traded was already cast in stone Adams certainly does deserve a lot of other criticisms of course

Here is Lafferty’s

Here are the charts for NAK and Malenstyn with and without Dowd.

The Winnipeg Jets should get their history back

They have two years to make a decision on him. Let’s see how this year goes