DarthEbriate
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Wait... is he retiring now? Because there's only like 7 games left. That's like a Miller Retirement equivalent of a Miller Shutout. Which is actually pretty darn funny.
Or is he announcing he will retire?
At any rate, excellent goalie, apparently a good person around the community. And yes, they've been looking for his equivalent since. And at times trading away anyone who came close.
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2 minutes ago, Brawndo said:
He fell down, like three times that period
Yeah, but the final time he drew a penalty and then scored on the ensuing PP.
Huh... um... Keep falling down, Reino!
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Timely Reino!
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7 minutes ago, Norcal said:
Gettin foxy. Needs someone to staple him to the boards
This is where our entire team suffers. Asplund just had time to slaughter Fox. Didn't even touch him... and Fox was able to make an easy, uncontested pass, because he knew none of our forwards will finish a hard check. Fox should have been buried there.
3 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:Cozens stick broke
Probably
Just a height thing is all.
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3 minutes ago, Brawndo said:
UPL using His Head
Tokarski would've given up a goal there.
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1 minute ago, Norcal said:
He looks much better so far tonight. I wanted him kicked into the moon last night
If Seattle takes Bjork, do you re-sign Rieder to another low deal to be the speedy PK-er?
Fox is a nice little rushing defenseman.
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3 minutes ago, gilbert11 said:
I’m not watching the game. So, it sounds like the Sabres ARE NOT dominating despite the advantage on shots right now?
Shesterkin is saving the Rangers' bacon. And Bryson just screened UPL on a goal.... blergh
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Alright -- lock S-foils in attack position. We're going to get the best from a team in the playoff hunt here in the 2nd.
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1 minute ago, Radar said:
Sort of.....may be dozing.
Sort of... very much perimeter although we're outskating them to pucks thus far. Need to keep the pressure on.
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29 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:
I hope this is the plan. It would be a mistake if he had some modest success over these last handful of games, and the powers that be decide to pencil him in for the #2 spot for 21-22.
UPL hasn't even played excellent hockey at the AHL level yet. It'd be criminal for him to be on the Sabres roster next season for anything short of multiple goalie injuries and a late-season call-up to get a preview to compete as a backup in 2022-23. He needs 50 more starts, minimum, before consideration for NHL backup time.
COVID-shortened seasons, the creation of the taxi squad, and the loss of the ECHL threw this entire team's development of goalies completely out of a whack.
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17 hours ago, Brawndo said:
Add the helmet ads
Add the Canadian Deal which Is 300 Million per year so that’s almost a billion dollars per year.
Existing Deal was 200 Million per year.
The cap is flat, but when it goes up, it's going to be like looking at a Death Star vs. a Starkiller Base.
Nice. The TNT deal replaces the entirety of the NBC deal. ESPN is 400M of entirely new money. And as you point out, helmet ads are here to stay. Division names are silly, but profitable. A few more logos here and there. Plus Honda, Enterprise, and the advertisement revenues of both streaming and live TV. The continuing bump of new Vegas and Seattle revenue. And when the Olympics come back --- team USA might be really good, which will at least temporarily provide a spike in interest.
17 hours ago, nfreeman said:Thanks. I was more curious about what the increase in the US national rights was going to do to the cap -- it looks like the increase is about $425MM per year, which is about a $13.3MM increase per team per year.
I think we'll see the cap get over $100M/season by 2025-26. Once they get the debts of last year and this year paid off, it's going to get silly. At the end of its term, Skinner's contract will still be terrible, but not unmovable.
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56 minutes ago, dudacek said:
As far as the 7 forwards go, everyone is protecting Jack and Sam, and you have to protect Jeff unless he unexpectedly waives.
Is there anyone not protecting Casey and Victor? Or protecting Okposo or Eakin?
That leaves two spots for Bjork, Girgensons, Asplund and Thompson. (Cozens and R2 are exempt)
Please, please, please... someone make the respectable, analytics- and eye-test-driven case for protecting Okposo and Eakin. I want to be entertained today.
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7 hours ago, Hoss said:
This one has been the most frequently suggested offering and I still think it's a hell no for me. I'm not trading Eichel unless I'm getting at least two pieces I know can play in the NHL immediately. Turcotte and Byfield probably get an NHL shot next season but they could also be two absolute nothings and then we end up watching one of the most talented players in this franchise's history walk for zilch.
It also begs the question... why would LA give up all that high-potential, cheap talent to get when they have many more holes in the lineup? They just finished their tank. They have been working for years to get all the old (albeit Cup-winning) core and its reward contracts off the books. Dustin Brown, Jonathan Quick, and Drew Doughty are the only rough contracts remaining. Kopitar's is high, but fine. Adding Eichel makes them better, but it doesn't make them an immediate contender with all the other holes still to fill? Plus, LA's GM would never taken on another 10M salary without getting rid of Quick or Brown (or maybe Doughty).
It'd be like if we went back in time 5 years. We've just tanked. Our lineup is garbage, but we have Eichel and we have Sam. And along comes Tampa Bay and says: "Hey, we'll trade you 8M/year Stamkos who's been injured a bunch already, but boy oh boy, can he shoot the puck. You know, when he's healthy. We want Eichel, Reinhart, and 2 more picks." But then go back to our post-tank garbage lineup. Put Stamkos on it. Great, it's better. Now take away $6M in additional salaries because it was near the cap, and then take away Jack and Sam. There are still gaping holes everywhere in the lineup. Stamkos and ROR are going to be good, but that's not a good roster, and worse -- what about the chunks of every season when Stamkos isn't on the ice?
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Just now, Brawndo said:
SAMSON
There. I did it again. I turned off the game tab and ... y'all are yelling Samson.
I'm gonna pull a Wedge. "I'm hit. I can't stay with you."
Y'all go blow up the Death Star without me.
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I'm endangering the mission, I shouldn't have come. Every time I come back to the game from the yard, I watch a Rangers goal. Meanwhile, I go away, and we score.
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3 hours ago, Thorny said:
It doesn’t matter what he makes relative to the cap what matters is what he makes relative to other players. He has the 8th highest forward contract in the league right now. Until that changes, significantly, it’s not a bargain.
Right now we’d need to put a fair bit of spin on it to classify it as even “good”, never mind “bargain”.
Scheifele is on a bargain contract.
Perhaps not Scheifele level, but in those final 2 years of Eichel's deal (28-29 years old, still putting up 70+ points/season barring injury, lots of PP time) I think everything is trending toward a cap above 100M. A wave of players (many on bridges now, plus anyone who negotiates here during the flat cap should be doing Hall-like 1-year deals) is going to get paid. 10M will be the new 7M and we'll see 50 players with higher salaries than Eichel. The TV contract cash flood is coming.
Heck, because it's the Reinhart thread, in 2 years if Reinhart puts up 70+ point seasons and... wham... he won't be the biggest name on UFA, but he could still get more than 10M because that'll simply be the going price for any first liner. It'll simply be the going rate for a guy like "Ryan Johansen" to pull an 8M guy from the current list.
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Well... that was pretty. Bad for us, but that was awfully pretty.
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1 hour ago, Thorny said:
I'm not sure Eichel's deal will ever be a "bargain". He'd need to significantly outplay a 10 mil per deal for it to be a bargain. A good contract? Already headed that way.
My argument is not about 10M/year. It's the total cap. Eichel's currently at 12% of the cap, but once the cap starts going up, it's going to go way up. My guess is Eichel's contract is going to be in the 10% range by 2024-25, and likely even further when we get to 2025-26. We're headed for a very high cap (and still only 50 contracts, and very low AHL/ECHL contracts by comparison to what the top players are going to get).
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20 minutes ago, Thorny said:
If Reinhart is looking to get a big deal, I don't see why he wouldn't just sign for 1 year rather than 2, if he could get it. We don't know to a certainty at all that we won't get a nice big contract in '22. It's not like teams need to set aside 8 or 9 mil. 7 or so? I think someone would make room. Even if not, it doesn't hurt to have the option of seeing the market, and he can re-up with anyone at that stage for 1 year if he wants to bump it back.
I don't think the Sabres give him that though, or 2 years. Their options to me come down to dealing him now while they still can for good value, or locking him up LT.
Won't arbitration only give him 1 year?
That's probably how he gets the most cash this year, then he's free and clear.
Absolutely. He should go 1 year from us, get to UFA, and then look for one more 1-year deal at whatever he can get comparable. Something like a $7 this year, a $6-7 next as a mercenary... and then... look out!
Because the GMs and agents and players all are going to see the writing on the wall. It's like Crosby signed his massive 8.7M deal. Next thing you know, he's not even the highest paid on his team and is a bargain leaguewide. Well... in 2023-24, McDavid is going to be on a contract comparable to Crosby's. Eichel is going to be a bargain. (Skinner's contract will still be garbage, but Okposo-level garbage.)
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Wow. Normally I can kind of keep up with the rosters... But between COVID protocol lists, taxi squads, and the usual AHL/NHL injury attrition, the Amerks lineup is like the opening montage of Major League (oh my... I need to watch that movie. I've not seen it in a long time. [a long time.])
Barfly: Ricky Vaughn? Brandon Hawkins*? I haven't heard of most of them. Brent Gates*... Junior?
Construction Worker: Who are these f-----' guys?
Groundskeeper: [in Japanese] They're ------.
*no offense to Brandon and Brent. I'm sure they're talented and motivated hockey players. Just not in the Sabres pipeline.
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I don't think Reinhart should agree to an extension beyond 2 years because we can't (nor can anyone else with the flat cap) pay him what he'll be able to get as a UFA when the cap bumps back up. He's been underpaid for his production his entire career. He's only going to get one big contract and we can't afford to give him 8/9 this year. No one can. But --- the ESPN deal, the other US deal, the Canadian deal, fans coming back, and Seattle expansion influx, sports gambling getting legalized in more states, advertisements on helmets and more... the cash is coming in 23-24. Sam will be 28. It won't be a long contract necessarily, but it will be his only chance to truly maximize.
There is a risk for him to not lock up now, as he could be injured, and he also has to compete with the Cozens of the world who'll be eating up that cash at the same time. But Reinhart stays healthy consistently and is savvy. Some great young talents are going to wash out or get injured along the way, and bad old contracts like Okposo's will disappear across the league. And then the cap will explode and someone will completely reset the market and the money will get stupid.
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27 minutes ago, Norcal said:
Some predictions from Bleacher Report. Good read.
Fun list of names, and while I agree Seattle should overdraft on defense and then trade them off like Vegas did --- they won't go this far in the D direction. Bleacher's list as compiled is 5 million over the cap and has 13 D and only the minimum 14 F. I agree some of those are the best players available to take from the team, but they've also got to be traded and quickly. And that's where we lose Borgen v. Miller. Or Bjork/Asplund/Thompson whichever is exposed.
And if I'm a GM and want a Devon Toews for example... I'm also patient until Seattle comes down on their trade demands for the D. They can't leave themselves over the cap. And they definitely won't be able pass good folks through waivers if other teams are able to manage their caps this summer.
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10 hours ago, Brawndo said:
Botterill was interviewed in 2014 by PLF, but the job ultimately went to GMTM as we all know.
With the Draft Capital accumulated in 2014 and more importantly 2015 with 4 Picks in the First 31, would the team have been in a better position now then if Botterill was hired instead?
Were JBot the GMTM... Two things are clear: The stockpiled defensemen would be 2 years further along and we still would have traded a 3rd for Vesey.
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