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Fusion the vertebrae won’t help much after a brutal open ice hit that jars the disc out of place leaving him paralyzed. This is the issue. If he was a hockey player, the ADR would be the best as a human being. If Jack agrees he would like the best long-term solution, he should retire and have his surgery. I’m sure Terry would still foot the bill.

They should put a clause in the negotiations stating that the public will pay 1% of costs for every Sabres win over the next 2 seasons.

Correct, if you truly needed it, you go to arbitration. If you are using it as a way to dodge personal liability and saddle the team with the long-term effects of a poor outcome, you do what he’s doing now.

When someone came up with the idiom “when there’s smoke, there’s fire”, it was completely random. It wasn’t based on any facts or prior experiences.

While placing Jack on LTIR would allow the Sabres to exceed the salary cap (by the amount of Jack’s salary), it doesn’t get the contract off the books. Terry will have to continue writing him checks unless the contract is voided. I’m gonna go out on a limb here, but doubt the Pegulas would like this outcome.

It’s incredible that Jack wants to get traded from the Sabres where he is guaranteed to make $50M. We are on the hook to pay Jeff roughly the same amount, yet we hear not a peep from him.

Agreed. This wasn’t suppose to get Sabres fans on their side. It was meant to anger them into demanding a trade.

What an odd time to release this statement. Friday nights are usually prime time to release news you want people to miss or ignore. I’m thinking the only reason to release right now is that it will anger drunk Sabres fans. Maybe they really want to turn the fans against them, so we’re the ones demanding the trade get done.

Directly to Sabres fans I presume. Otherwise, they could’ve just sent a nasty email to Kevyn. There’s no other reason to release a public statement than to engage the public.

Who’s going to be the judge that the surgery ended his career? And by what point of time?

It’s laughable if they think this was going to be the best way win over public opinion.

This happens in every sport and with every coaching hire. I don’t think we can judge it at face value.

If they are going to ask for retained salary, I would demand players instead. We can flip players for assets. We can’t flip retained salary.

Interesting, but I doubt this is a surprise to stakeholders. Would be nice to include him in a deal. Would be almost like the intentions behind our trade for Kane…

Spot on. This is exactly what Beane does. Gives out many short “prove it” contracts. On many of them, the player doesn’t work out. But he’s hit on some good ones that play decent roles. The best part is that none of them have long term cap implications.

Yep. Could be worse. We could be handing out 6 year contracts to the likes of Okposo or Skinner.

2 year deal. Kevyn hit the wrong button?

Players are going to be begging to be sent down.

A true leader knows his limitations and when to seek advice.

Don’t do it, man. There’s hotlines you can call.

Basically what I take from this is that Jack is “not a bad person,” but we probably traded the wrong player in the ROR trade. No doubt there was a ton of that sentiment. But, none of us were in the Sabres locker room. This is on prior leadership.

I want them to sign Jimmy Can or Jimmy Did, rather than Jimmy Should’ve, Would’ve, Could’ve.

You sure?

Who?