DarthEbriate

I want Bubo on the screen. Maybe when an opponent takes a bad penalty. Instead of playing the Dragnet theme or some such.

I'm going to say 50/50. The flat cap will already be addressed by teams this season, so there won't be panic in preparations all at once. Teams (hopefully) learned from the Vegas expansion and will be smarter about it --- no one is going to give up a Marchessault AND trade Reilly Smith for a 4th, for example. And on our side --- we'll have Peak Eichel (TM), Dahlin entering the beginning of Prime Dahlin, a goalie of some caliber, and Cozens with a year under his belt. 2021-22 Sabres should be fun.

Can I just say that I hope Seattle's hockey club gets as useful and nice a fan forum as Sabrespace?

Also, for what it's worth, octopi are some of the coolest animals in the world. The octopus in the Seattle Aquarium used to escape, get into the main tank, and attack the sharks. They're pretty sweet. And if octopi took down Galloping Gertie (not true, it was wind and design) --- that's pretty nice. And they make gardens! Note: the S logo is the homage to the Seattle Metropolitans.

Rum sales increase 5000% in Seattle! (not a fact, yet)

Per local radio, kraken created the most buzz on social media, despite the Sockeyes winning the Seattle Times poll. And from the introduction -- octopus is really the angle being played on kraken (so a Nordic kraken), not the Clash of the Titans titan kraken. This works with the very, very large Swedish population of Seattle's origins.

Hmmm... naming colors fun: Deep Sea Blue, Ice Blue, Boundless Blue, Shadow Blue. And.... Red Alert!

The secondary is nice, though. You've got an anchor, and inverted Hartford whale tail, a Space Needle, and a harpoon head --- all in one. It's pretty sharp design.

The colors are very Seattle sports.

True. But the Canucks also have logos of skate blades, big Vs, and hockey sticks. So... it's a push.

So... on a plus side, now they can blast Laurence Olivier yelling "Release the Kraken!" endlessly. And everyone will watch stop-motion animation on the jumbotron.

Not my personal favorite. I liked more of the PNW fish (Sockeye, Steelhead, etc.) rather than the Greek mythology, but it's a neat little tentacle in the logo. Edit: Ah, they're playing up the octopus as the kraken, not the Perseus/Andromeda (And Bubo!) kraken.

Tsunamis, too!

^^ B--tches aside, pigeons (while in every big city) have nothing on the murders of crows here in the Seattle metro area.

Geoducks was one of the names in the competition back in the original name thread -- and I believe Evergreen State College no longer uses it or that college folded... my memories are fuzzy on that. And everyone loves geoducks out here. Especially tasty sauteed with some wine and butter, but it also works as sushi. Going by the video: no one suspected the Seattle Ice Ferries!

Every little bit helps. Our division is filled with juggernauts for the next 3 seasons and any little bit helps. Get Ottawa to take Cernak. Get us to pilch Johnson as a patchwork 2C while Cozens grows. Something will work something along the way.

As a Seattlie(area)lite --- About flippin' time!

The disappointing thing in trading another 3rd for Vesey is that you could wait until after the draft and then offer sheet Cirelli (provided he is willing). Just to disrupt them. A solid $4.2M--$5M as a bridge, or $6ish for longer term and only give up the 2021 1st and 3rd --- and not this 2020 #8. TBL surely matches, but has to dump Palat, Johnson, or Gourde (Allll of them with NTCs) to do it. They're in cap trouble. The flat cap for 2-3 years is going to give some savvy GM ample opportunity to poach a really good player.

Oh, if I’m either of them I’m looking to explore free agency first and get out of this incredible smell we’ve discovered. Let’s get out of here! But the flat cap may restrict their chances at something lucrative. And if that’s the case we have to prioritize Larson over the Locomotive. He brings more as both a player and our complete lack of centers. Too old! Too old to complete the retraining.

Ah. This thread. And yes I was kidding on the numbers earlier. Without kidding, a flat cap and suppressed mid-6 salaries the next couple years, I think Larry is just as valuable as he’s been. Replace Girgs w Cozens or another ELC , and roll Larry Okposo other as the third line, providing we can find a 2C. Larry could still be in the 2-2.25 range if that LW is cheap.

Huh. I doubt that that's a valid suit.

Circa 1992 we got a new TV and cable, replacing the Zenith that you had to get up and turn the dial, and suddenly there was this thing called ESPN and it showed live sporting events (or quick replays later that week in the case of auto racing). Pavel Bure and the '93 Canucks got me into the sport, and then in '96-ish I started seeing Sabres games. '97-'98 I was hooked on this particular team. And concurrently, I started hearing Buffalo a lot. Buffalo and Wales (the country), every time I read something or heard a reference or was like "oh, where is that photo from?" it was Buffalo. Or Wales. Hasek. He was truly transcendent as an athlete at his position. Execution, improvisation, and a touch of Bantha-fodder crazy. Exciting? Winning game 1 of the '99 Final --- knowing that the next day I was flying out of country and would miss the bulk of the series. I got home to see game 6.... Props to the '05-'06 run and to getting my Holzinger jersey, getting home, putting it on and watching him net 2 against Ottawa in the quarterfinals series within the next 30 minutes. Frustrating? Props to: The current constant churn in leadership and the team's direction. From the decision to tank/blow it all up rather than re-tweak, to forcibly tank further, to rebuild too quickly, too draft only defensemen and ...whatever Sheevyn is going to plan to do. But the absolutely most frustrating things for me were regarding to teams that were ready to win it all and didn't get the opportunity to be their best. Not signing Peca when they had Andreychuk/Gilmour for the season; and that devastating rash of injuries in '05-'06. Improvement: The all-important 2C. Get a pivot who makes a 2nd line sing and we're in good shape. Yes, the opposition is still going to match up against Eichel. But Eichel's elite now and his line can handle it. Get one more line that can take over a game from time-to-time (And hey, maybe it was Olofsson-Johansson-Kahun at the end of this season... doubtful, but you never know with line combos until you try them). I say that because Ullmark is still improving and if Hutton's eye can be fixed, he'll be better and hopefully revert to his career platoon-capable guy with a .910+ sv% with our safer defensive structure. Hey, I had a great uncle Stosh who also told me that about horseradish. And it's true, we all become Stosh once we have the opportunity to tell that to kids.

If we burn our ample cap on RFA, or nab Taylor Hall in UFA, we could easily be looking at 2020-21 of: Asplund, Kahun, Lazar (with Cozens on a wing his rookie year and Johansson back to wing). If there's a season, that is.

I wonder if he ends up a Tim Schaller 2.0? As in good enough to 4C for several seasons.

That's true -- although it was the JBot and not the Kheevyn. Malone could've taken it as a fresh start (and competing against the likes of Lazar, Asplund, and Ruotsalainen, vs. Smith [UFA], Bonino, and Pitlick). Again, Nashville could also move one of Bonino, Duchene, Johansen, or Turris that could free up a spot.