Contempt

Leaving the field before retirement age isn't the same as retiring. I know several teachers who have retired the last two years but all of them had already put in their 25 years or more. I also know some much younger people who left the field before they got to year 5. I'm at year 13 and I'm in a position where I could switch jobs or schools or districts, but leaving the field entirely would be difficult.

I'd love to trade them Anderson. What else can they give away to us?

This is obnoxious.

We don't live in a Judge Dredd comic book either. I think most reasonable people appreciate actual police but want the world rid of thugs with badges.

I'm sure somehow, some way, this is Buffalo's fault.

The rules around here aren't what I would call evenly applied. Hence you can receive a 72 hour timeout that lasts 3 months.

I'm out

and HEEEERE COMES SHIEEELDS! Loved watching that live, love watching it on replay. I'm a Neanderthal. I don't care. To that end, I don't think hockey fights count. Off the ice, my kid is really nice and respectful and has no problems with anyone, makes friends everywhere he goes. On the ice? He's a prick and a half. 😅

Dunkirk Don: Follow the money

He's got the budget for a fashion consultant and he owns the god damned team, can he have a branded shirt?

Granddad could invest in a decent t-shirt.

Yes please.

Well, he didn't want to play in Rochester and didn't have to. I doubt he'd have been super happy on a two-way on another team either so trading him wasn't likely. Plus he's getting paid in chocolate watches now so that's a plus.

So now they move Huberdeau amirite? Also, those of you who were adamant that Tkachuk is a selfish, unsportsmanlike, player and not worth it, now you get to have him and his brother in your division for the rest of time. Win?

Too busy crapping on the NBA for not taking on China.

That picture is a compelling argument to keep Finland out of NATO

Where do you want Krebs, Fitzgerald, Peterka, Quinn, and Lukkonnen to play next year? Rochester or Buffalo? I'm not even counting guys like Samuelsson or Power. The only way to build the sort of team you are talking about is to have many successful drafts in a row so there is a constant stream of talent coming in to replace that which graduates to the NHL. While the Sabres do have a number of prospects right now, they don't have a number of players ready to step into the AHL to replace the players I just listed. They will in a year or two, but not right now. If those players I listed are all in Buffalo, Rochester will suffer for it this season. If they crank out 3 or 4 good drafts in a row where they hit on a handful of guys each draft then the AHL team will be and will remain strong for a couple years provided those guys aren't screwed up by the Swedish League rules, or stay in the NCAA for the full 4 years, etc. Portillo and Johnson COULD be in Rochester this year, but won't be. The Sabres drafting has been so bad for so long they don't have the layers of talent within the organization. The talent that they do have has been needed in Buffalo. There has also been a trend league wide to get guys into the league at younger ages. You don't see as many players marinating in the AHL for 2 years or more if they can actually play. It's one and done or less. I look at it this way, if you have a great AHL team it means a couple things. 1 you drafted really well at least a couple years in a row AND you have a really good NHL team that is blocking some of those guys from immediate call-ups. The Sabres have neither right now.

It costs me $5 just to go to New Jersey so $4 or even $8 for an international crossing doesn't seem crazy. Cross the GW Bridge some time for poops and grins. $16 or $13.75 E-ZPass.

If this is what you've got for being a selfish player, ok. As for the extra curricular stuff he gets into I'm of the opinion it's a plus. Give me him and Kadri both. I'm tired of the whining about Brad Marchand, etc. Give me some of that. I don't want 23 Lady Byng candidates.

We know this based on what?

? Playing where they want to play instead of where they are told to play?

Gaudreau was apparently set on leaving no matter what and now Tkachuk wants out too? Wonder what the issue is. Can they hate Sutter that much or is it something else?

He's not getting to UFA next summer if he's traded now.

He'd be an amazing pickup and I'd imagine many teams would be after him but any trade offers they get will depend on MTs willingness to sign an extension. If he's hell bent on going UFA next summer Calgary won't get much for a rental. In that way, MT will be able to control where he's traded to. Obvious speculation around St Louis but who knows about that.

Corporate shitheads gonna corporate shithead. There are plenty of things that are wrong in this country and all of the major leagues and major corporations generally keep well clear of it. Every time they, or the players don't, there is a large group of people more than happy to tell them just to just up and play and stop polluting their entertainment with politics. There is still a large group of people who are more than happy to gloat that Colin Kaepernick got run out of the league because he said things that challenged their beliefs and wore a pair of socks that made them sad. The NHL just last year drafted an absolute turd of a human being who was convicted of abusing a person with special needs. People on this board defended his right to, and I'm paraphrasing, grow as a human and learn from his mistakes. If you're going to go all in on the lack of morality in the world, go right ahead, but singling out the NBA and/or its players misses the mark by quite a lot.