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8 minutes ago, nfreeman said:
I heard that Taylor Swift only took up with Travis Kelce because Benson wasn't returning her calls.
Calls??? Please. DM’s.
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What Vegas thinks about some other Sabres players this upcoming season.
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Here is what Vegas thinks about Tage Thompson’s upcoming season.
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Here is what Vegas thinks about the Sabres 2023-24 season.
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3 minutes ago, pastajoe said:
My son is getting married next weekend so he might be too preoccupied. If you don’t hear from him soon feel free to replace him.
Congratulations!
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8 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:
Neither. We're going to sign Kane.
Elite level trollin’
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Probably neither. I voted Kulich because he seems more physically developed.
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I’ll play if you have an open spot.
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4 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
I don’t get this valuation. Isn’t Zegras a young super duper star? Would Anaheim be giving him up for prospects and picks? Power is probably too heavy, but if I were Anaheim, I’d want a young top-6 forward coming back and then a prospect/pick.
I’m not so sure Zegras is a super duper star. He is basically a Cozens level guy. Drafted the same year with similar production. Comparing the two, Zegras has higher level puck skills, and probably a higher offensive ceiling as a result, but he doesn’t have the size, he is supposed to be a C but is horrendous at face offs, and I’m not sure how his defense is.
That being said, I would think it would take something like Savoie, plus one of Östlund/Rosen, plus a pick. Something like that.
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4 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
It's the flak you get here for taking sensible positions in the questioning of "happy days are here again, the Cups are nigh."
Some of us challenge for a particular reason. Not to be negative but to see if the optimism passes the smell test. There are good hockey people here. To be honest the responses to my questioning for the most part make me think, hey, maybe we got something here. That's the value of it.
Are you in the right thread?
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4 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Not now for sure, but how big does the league get before the current format becomes untenable. I wouldn't want more than 16 teams in the playoffs as is. It's already a 2 season league. Another round of playoffs will just make the regular season even less interesting. idk, I think it'll be years before it's a real problem but if you go above 32 teams it is maybe time for change.
Yeah, who knows what may be possible many years from now, if the league expands past 32, or 34, or 36 teams. Things could change.
I just don’t think a relegation format it’s likely even then. The owners would have to approve it, which they wouldn’t because it has the potential to dramatically decrease the value of their asset.
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1 hour ago, RochesterExpat said:
“For years we’ve watched the National Rifle Association use Charlton Heston as a figurehead,” Pegula said. “We need a spokesman.”
Anquan Boldin, a former N.F.L. wide receiver who was at the meeting, said that owners needed to be spokesmen, too. “Letting people know it’s not just the players that care about these issues, but the owners, too,” Boldin said.
Pegula didn’t address Boldin’s point except to add that it would be important for the spokesman to be black. (None of the owners in the N.F.L. are black.)
“For us to have a face, as an African-American, at least a face that could be in the media,” Pegula continued, “we could fall in behind that."
1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:Has it been quoted? Is it the one where he’s suggesting that the Kaep/BLM stuff could be troweled over if the NFL could find an appropriate … black person* to serve as the face of the league on the issue? That’s how I recall hearing it.
* I typed and deleted other terms here.
Regarding Terry’s quotes here: he is expressing his opinion. You could disagree with that opinion. You could call that opinion misguided. However, it’s not an inherently morally reprehensible opinion/comment. It’s nothing like the quote being attributed to him in Trotter’s recent lawsuit.
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Just now, That Aud Smell said:
I recall reports of TP stepping in it - verbally - during the heat of the Kaepernick/BLM matters.
Why would this surprise anyone? It would strike me as utterly ordinary for a horseshoe up his butt Boomer billionaire from Podunk, PA to say some dumb sh1t about black people agitating for civil rights.
It doesn’t make him a bad person. It doesn’t mean he holds malice in his heart towards black people generally or any black person specifically (because they’re black). He’d just be a product of societal forces and norms with the potentiating force of ungodly wealth added into the mix.
Just to add another data point (since it seems all we have to go off of here is individual memories), I don’t personally remember TP saying anything that got him in trouble during the height of BLM protests a few years ago. Similar to you, it wouldn’t really surprise me though.
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2 hours ago, tom webster said:
I’ll admit I was wrong when it turns out I was wrong but the next time Andrew Peters is right about anything Sabre related will be the first time.
Regarding Peters: Not entirely true, but he is certainly hit and miss. I think when he hears something from someone he knows, he just puts it out there. I don’t think he really cares if he is right.
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7 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Well first, it works in Europe for soccer. They have more fans than the NHL has.
Second, I wouldn't have it completely separate. Top league teams could still play B tier teams, maybe just less games, like we do with east/west games now. Also, you'd only get relegated for that year. You'd be back the next if you place top 4. There would also be that B level playoff money. Think of it this way, if it had been Buffalo, we ended the season strong and could have had a long B level playoff run. Potentially 16 home playoff games and all the revenue that entails. At the end of which you celebrate moving up a league for the year after.
I realize this is a hard sell in North America, because it's something people aren't familiar with, but it does work, and if you look at European soccer, the level of excitement for moving up is off the charts.
In any event, as it is, too many more teams will kill rivalries and dilute the league. They'd have to change something.
I have absolutely no doubt that a relegation system could work well.
All I’m saying is that I believe there is essentially zero appetite for it from anyone associated with the NHL. Fans, owners, commissioner, no one is going to push for it.
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6 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
If the league were to get much bigger imo it should switch to a relegation model like soccer does in the U.K.
Say you had 40 teams. Two "leagues" an A league and a B league of 20 teams each. Top 16 make the playoffs, bottom 4 in league A drop into league B next season. Top 4 from league B move up. You also get a playoff in league B so the lower teams have their own post season fun for more league playoff revenue and interest. Only the 4 worst would be totally out of it, and those 4 lottery for the top pick.
That's what I'd do with it.
I’m not against the idea, but it 99.9% won’t happen because I don’t think there is any appetite for it. No fan of a team wants to see their team relegated, and no owners are going to vote to approve a system that might see their team relegated.
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2 hours ago, qwksndmonster said:
Curt do I know you?
Not that I’m aware of.
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1 hour ago, sabremike said:
There is a reason that in just about every place on Earth the top division of any sport is capped at 20 teams/clubs.
What is the reason?
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43 minutes ago, Eleven said:
How much are they going to dilute this league? Unbelievable.
Of course it’s true that adding teams would dilute the league. I don’t necessarily think that diluting the league is going to have a terribly negative effect on the product though. It may even have a positive effect in terms of scoring increasing.
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11 hours ago, nfreeman said:
As one of the frothers, my suspicion is that the accusation was made recklessly, not maliciously — and IMHO if you smear someone with a serious accusation like this recklessly, you deserve to get sued.
11 hours ago, qwksndmonster said:Are you going to sue me for the times I called you racist?
11 hours ago, Curt said:People don’t always get what they deserve.
9 hours ago, qwksndmonster said:lmao what.
@qwksndmonster, I thought it was a pretty clear line of thought.
It was really a jest though. I have no idea if you deserve to be sued or not.
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4 minutes ago, qwksndmonster said:
Are you going to sue me for the times I called you racist?
People don’t always get what they deserve.
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3 hours ago, qwksndmonster said:
In what way does the knowledge that the league conducted an investigation lead the case to be closed? How would it benefit the NFL to do to anything other than sweep it under the rug? An anonymous source assured us that nothing was said. Oh okay.
People here responded defensively to the lawsuit as if it's about smearing Terry Pegula. Look at what Trotter is actually doing (who works for the Athletic now, and is not desperately trying to get his job back). As he tells it, he tried to push for change internally through all the right channels but was met with resistance. He had reason to believe his contract was going to be renewed, and instead he was fired.
Why would he open himself up to the risk of being counter sued? Why get in a legal battle with one of the most powerful, deep pocketed organizations in the world? Because he's telling the truth. The NFL will settle. Pegula and Jones's denials will stand. But Trotter is putting the truth out there for people to do with as they will.
What is the truth that you are referring to that Trotter is putting out there?
Is it true that someone told him that Terry Pegula said something kinda inappropriate at a dinner party 2 years prior?
Ok, MAYBE that’s true, but was the person who told Trotter that being 100% honest and correct about it?
We don’t know.
I don’t know Terry Pegula personally, but from a far he seems to be a bit of a blathering idiot whose foot fits perfectly in his mouth. He seems to have a knack for speaking in a thoughtless and tone deaf manner.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he went to Africa or some ***** back in 2018 and was blathering to everyone for months after about “wow, people complain about stuff over here, they should go try living there…”. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that Terry has hate in his heart for people of another race.
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9 minutes ago, Gatorman0519 said:
It’s a new season. After week one he’s ranked near bottom.
Haha, ok, if you like. From my point of view, a bit larger sample size should be used to evaluate a player.
Sure, he sucked in week one, but that doesn’t mean he overall sucks as a player.
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On 9/7/2023 at 2:52 PM, SABRES 0311 said:
A very recent example would be AI as part of the fourth industrial revolution. What seems to be a prominent concern is AI reducing the job market and yes, a Terminator scenario. I think it is way more likely AI effects jobs than birthing Skynet.
I sympathize with the concern over AI and the job market. If you are a programmer in your 20s you might want to diversify your IT skill set IMO. On the other hand, I think AI will lead to an increase in other IT jobs such as Net Admin, help desk, engineer, Sys Admin.
AI should provide incentive for people to get an advanced education. This doesn’t have to be an overly expensive process. You can watch a YouTube series and pass a Sec+ A+, Net+. While it still remains a human position, programming is a good skill to have. There are free sites that will teach you Python as well.
I think AI can/will have a positive impact on society. People need to be willing to pursue those fields though which in part means having an aptitude.
Yeah, AI is going to be a wild ride. Whether it is helpful or harmful is really going to depend on its implementation, just like any other technology.
Not exactly what I was referring to by postmodernism though.
Postmodernism is a philosophy that (in general, I’m no expert) says something to the effect that everyone has their own individual reality, and that the reality and truths accepted by society at large are just social constructs that are used to oppress/control people.
At least that’s the general gist of it. It’s generally in favor of breaking down societal norms in favor of greater personal freedom for individuals.
I guess the reason that I found the idea so interesting to begin with is that I was aware that some of this “norm breaking” is happening in a real way in our society, but I wasn’t really aware of the philosophical movement behind it. When I started examining it, it was interesting how it fleshed out a lot of the current trends in our society and how they connect to eachother.
It was just a bit of an enlightening familiarizing myself with these ideas, and it made some of the things happening in society right now make a little bit more sense.
I was wonder if anyone else here had explored, or was interested in exploring, these ideas.
We need to talk about Zach Benson making the team this year, 2023
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Interestingly, the NBA did. In the past they could draft players in their high school graduation year. Now they have changed it to one year after their high school graduation year.