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Sabres going in today...

I hear 30 years after being drafted, Sabres are close to signing Taro Tsujimoto a source with ties to the negotiations has informed me... Lol

The party's over....

Hey...that's what my daughter's Furbie, Bee-dah says...got any other Furbisms? Lmao!

Cue the "Half Baked" Sir Smoke-A-Lot song "I wanna talk to Samson! Fly me to the moon like that b**ch Alan Frampton" Lmao...

Surprising Montreal would trade him to a division rival...

It's irrelevant how good he is now. The team is going to suck for at least one more year with or without him, and likely will not be a playoff contender for 3 more years, at which time Erhoff will be 36, so its not like he would be in his prime...he'd be on a down swing and would really hurt us against the cap if he retired, just at the time we need the cap space to sign all the young talent we are stockpiling... Sucks the CBA punishes teams retroactively, but it punishes all the teams that did this, not just us...

I think it would have been enough to just prevent this from happening anymore instead of punishing teams retroactively when it was legal to do so...

Like how in the NBA teams take on expiring contracts in trades s other teams can have more wiggle room with their cap... Wonder what Murray is going to want for doing this from those teams...

Yeah, and one was banging the other one's wife and they wouldn't even look at each other in the locker room, lol

I don't necessarily think that's fair to Regier. He had operated one way for his whole career here and then was given the green light to do whatever he wanted, having no prior experience doing something like that. It would be like being given a ford focus and told to drive the speed limit for 12 years and follow all the rules, then being given a Ferrari and told ignore all the rules and go as fast as you want. Is it at all surprising that he ended up crashing the car?

Hard to believe at his reasonable cap hit contract, Erhoff had no trade value...

All depends on what the percentages end up being and the difference in the Sabres percentage with theirs and the Isles pick...could actually increase their chance depending on how it breaks down...

And so it is

In terms of numbers, but it still reflects poorly that a place with no vested interest still has a higher percentage of its viewers watching than a team whose playing

If a rating point is equal to 1% and there are well over 1 million people just in Erie and Niagara county combined, not even including the southern tier counties, how exactly does a 7.3 equate to 45,000? I come up with closer to 100,000, not including CBC, which probably adds another 30-40,000 on top of that if not more... Still making a joke of the LA market who has 5 times our population and whose team was IN THE GAME!!

Ok, add another 750,000 people in the suburbs and its likely even higher considering 80% of Buffalo is African American and while some are big hockey fans, most aren't. Plus that doesn't count CBC ratings. So now we are supposed to read every post of every thread to see if something is talked about there in a post? SMFH...

Buffalo got a 7.3 rating, which doesn't even include all those like myself, watching on CBC...which probably pushes it to a 12-14 rating... Chicago had the highest at a 22.7, LA third at a 4.3... Shouldn't be any suprise, we almost always have the highest rating other than the 2 cities whose teams are playing, and sometimes including them, embarrassingly enough... We are the best hockey market in the US and we prove it every time the ratings come out...

If you build it...they will come

There is a huge chasm between where they stand and just reaching the cap floor, which is expected to jump to between $52-54 million next year as the cap rises to over $71 million. Currently the Sabres project with bonuses counted to be around $36 million. They need to add between $16-18 million minimum to get there...I am assuming Ennis, Foligno and Conacher will get tendered as RFA's, so that will add 3-4 million maybe more if they do some longer term deals... How do they get there? Signing a bunch of vets to ridiculous 1 year deals? Wouldn't that potentially screw up our tank job for McDavid? What is the penalty if they don't get there? Looks like Leino won't be getting bought out...they need his salary on the books...

Sounds like Trent Edwards

Yeah that's really what I meant...for what they gave up, and what they got back they got mauled in that trade

Vanek for a 2nd and a prospect...Isles really got fleeced on that trade...

Which is exactly why I think this might be pretty credible...it was well before the trade and a complete difference of opinion that would be hard to work through especially if both parties are dug in. One is trade a few pieces and quickly rebuild through the draft, the other is have a tire fire sale and start over from scratch. Also explains why Nolan is rethinking things...it isn't what he was told he was signing up for.

From what I am gathering, the issue appeared to be difference of opinion on how long and the depth of the rebuild. PLF and TN were here under the impression it would be a quick one to two year rebuild. Murray was hired, probably told that's what they think it will take, and he probably said he would need to dig deeper before he would know for sure but he would be open to whatever the best way to go would be. Murray apparently did his work and came back that it needed to be a 3 to 4 year rebuild, not a quick one and there was no way that would work. PLF disagrees and now there becomes a fundamental difference of opinion on how to go about it. The Sabres back Murray, the guy PLF hired, PLF says this isn't what I signed up for and resigns/throws a hissy fit and gets fired. Nolan also was here expecting it was going to be quick, but now with a 3 year extension offered, basically is going to be here to do all the heavy work and lifting and then potentially replaced by Murray's handpicked coach once they get back to a level where they are competing for division titles and or championships. So now Nolan is in the position to take a job where he is going to do all the hard work but potentially not be in position to reap the rewards of that work which is probably what PLF is telling him and why he is hemming and hawing now about it...