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I second MODO. Cheers Otto!

Beyond blue and gold, sorry but I just could not get over the Yankees trucker hat. Why? I'm not sure. It must have something to do with small city vs. big city sports ideology.

Johnny Hockey's own teammate lowered the boom. It did appear though that Risto showed a second of oopsie, sorry. But skated off with a not sorry look.

Switch Larsson for Gionta. Just for Poops and giggles. Legwand looks like THAT guy in the bar that says something totally outrageous and your pretty sure he's drunk aaaand crazy.

I think you have soft spots for the old core and their leader. or Your just a cynical old buzzard relishing in their demise mmmmaaaaaaahhaaaa...

Sarcastic praise :wub:

My 2 favorites are the AVS and Leafs.

It's hard not to stir the tank pot after watching the last 2 games but as a reminder. Penguins 2002-2005 finished at or near the bottom of the league. 2005 was the first year for Crosby to play. They finished with 58 points that year winning 22 games. Crosby was amazing with 39 goals and 63 assists. Granted it was right after the lock-out, so some one can spin some math and I'd bet Eichel is on the same trajectory given the difference in today's hockey game for scoring. We very well may finish with around 60 points and DFL, but not intentionally. Did I sound sincere and honest? Cause I'm really trying here. Their just making it so darn hard to believe......

I read it as sarcasm, made me laugh.

Are you holding a gun to my head? These are my only choices? I must be missing something.

You're on FIRE today!

Two wrongs don't make a right.

It helps if the inheritor wants the franchise(s) and not the money. Secondly, in the process of gifting shares of stock to a privately owned family company to future heirs the owner of the company at some point is no longer in control before they die. Not all owners have the faith in their heirs to allow them the total control they are used to. It takes an owner willing to do it will unshakable trust in their heirs, and heirs willing to work side by side with the owner. Why at best it's 50/50.

In order for that to work they would have to start the process now, while the kids are young-ish. Ralph may have wanted to give the team to his daughter (Mary?) and may have been gifting the team to her slowly over several years, but she died about 10 years ago. Any one else in his family that wanted the team, or he wanted to leave the team to, would have to pay the state of NY approximately 50% of the value of the franchise. Time was not on their side for tax purposes. Why burden your family with a tax bill that great, whether you have the money or not? It's not fair the survivors and it's really bad business. I also believe that Ralph's estate was vast. He had several very nice land holdings (malls?) and an art collection that where left when he passed. That did't included any assets passed to other surviving family members prior to his passing that would have been done for tax purposes. I believe he had 2 other daughters that where involved in other family business outside the Bills along with grandchildren.

Ok, Ok. Is it still ok if I ride around their left flank and taking out their flame? I for one can always handle a good tank joke. But it would be good if they didn't play uninspired, going through the motions hockey again tonight. First game on the trip...many plausible excuses. 2nd game... Larsson should not be your only bright spot. Tonight, I expect inspired play. I don't expect a win, but if the game is not entertaining.....

Looks more like Mel Gibson to me. So I'm thinking Braveheart.

All you can do (which is a lot!) is talk and ask if there is any thing she wants you to do for her. Be a friend and listen.

I put odds at 50/50 for generational. NYS inheritance tax is not friendly to such things.

I thought he was going for Ron Rolston, that plip on the coaching radar.

I would've bet a hundred to 1 that it would have been the other way around. Guhle is more the prototypical in route NHL defensemen? Juniors, then 2-3 years in AHL, getting a regular spot in the NHL around 23-24 years old? So where are looking at 3-4 years from now?

Yes. If nothing comes along they will be sniffing the NHL, probably more than sniffing on Guhle's part, he looked good before getting Mack trucked in preseason. If someone has an offer that meets GMTM's goals, they're gone and we get a ready player. A bird in hand is worth two in Juniors.

Thank you pA. Now I remember why I can't remember. It's confusing. So I was right to remember being confused. It appears that lowering ticket prices would be met with great criticism by any club selling a majority of their arena's seats to STH. But not raising them is ok if in the top 1/2 of the pricing tier, which the Sabres don't fall into. So I am assuming that in order for ticket prices to decrease the effects of fan disappointment of the on ice product would need to be almost league wide. Because if only 5 or 6 teams where to go that route they could be subject to *the committee*, and the rest would be ok with that. So the only way for teams with poor STH sales/ game day sales to increase sales is by gimmicks. Unless the rest of the league agrees to price cutting, or the very least a ticket price freeze. I call snow ball in hell. Real fans are limited. How many people work/live within a 1/2 hour of FNC. A game is a big event. Not only in terms of money but time and travel. I make one or 2 games a year. It's a big event for us. Love STH that put them on Stub Hub. I think your speculators are a thin crowd here in Buffalo. I believe they're more like PTR. Has the money to purchase, but not necessarily the money/time to go to all the games. With a little work (work is key here, cause it becomes a PITA quick) he is able to get to a point that the tickets are within his budget by recovering his money. I am assuming that PTR can not make all the games, picks out games he can make, tries to sell the rest. If nobody buys the tickets he's not living in a cardboard box at the end of the season, but the pinch will be felt.

I thought ticket prices we not allowed to fall. That the league and PA had an agreement that seat prices where to increase yearly. Or I am getting confused with revenue sharing, where teams have to stay within in a certain price threshold to receive it?

I'm willing to bet that Peel and Neal had an exchange of F-bombs earlier. My guess is Neal did a little acting earlier on and was warned. Neal then went on a rant, continually throwing jabs at Peel. That's why Peel seems to start the conversation off with an F-bomb, when in fact it was a continuation of an on going bitch sesson by Neal, and the reason Peel was responding with such testy-ness.

Too many they where not an economic opportunity as much as a way to see their favorite team for very little. Buy seasons, sell seasons till break even(best case), see remaining games. That's not the privileged class seeing events. That's the lunch bucket crowd working the system to see a few games a year. Not sure how these people not buying seasons will bring more people to the games? On a personal note, I like to attended 1-2 games a year. Stub Hub. Buy tickets somewhere between STH prices and retail. The supply and demand system was working nicely for a long time in Buffalo.