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5 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
Did you read the ticket sales guy's quote? They're apparently going to define local fans by zip code. I didn't see anything there about including postal codes. So, in that event, your man in Thorold who has a vintage French Connection lunch box on a shelf in his man cave can't get a first crack at tickets, but some blomo from Pembroke can?
Sounds like they will likely use zip code as a factor, but it doesn’t specify which zip codes, or if there will be any other criteria. Article also says plans are not finalized.
I think you can hold off on the outrage until the full details are released.
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1 minute ago, That Aud Smell said:
Defined how?
Closer to Buffalo > Farther Away
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4 hours ago, That Aud Smell said:
Ticket buyers from non-local zip codes are going to the “back of the line” for Sabres ticket sales.
Per TBN, linked below.
The article twice mentions how aggravated some Sabres players were with the Leafs having a super majority of the fans in the building last year when the Leafs visited and ran out to a 4-0 lead.
This sort of policy strikes me as pathetic. Become a better hockey team and the ticketing will take care of itself.
Also, they can’t control what STH will do with secondary markets.
Yes, of course if the STH base was larger, and the team was better, that would help the crowd dynamics.
But regardless of how many STHers there are, I think this is a good general policy because I think it’s preferable to give local fans first chance at tickets.
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50 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
Guys, 55-60 pt players with arbitration rights arent taking $5 mill for 3-4 years. Mitts is also very close to Dahlin and Cozens, two key pieces of KA's rebuild. If he has another solid season, KA to going to keep him and pay him. Remember that KA wants to keep the guys who want to be here and Mitts is part of the that group.
Don't forget that KA is paying his forwards $100K per point when they break out. Tage signed for 7.15 after his 38g 38 pt season and Cozens signed his extension in February at 7.1 during his 31g 68 pt campaign last year.
As I illustrated in the op, we have the money to get Casey locked up if KA is so inclined.
Yeah, if Mitts has another season that closely mirrors this past one, he is probably looking at something in the range of 6x6.
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15 minutes ago, Buffalonill said:
There will be another lockout after all these high contracts once again
Why? Owners are paying out a limited, set % of revenues. Why would they care how the players split up the money amongst themselves?
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Fun idea.
The 5 teams that would be on my no trade list are:
Arizona
NY Rangers
NY Islanders
Toronto
Montreal
Just avoiding the depressing situation of Arizona, the hellscape and high taxes of NYC, and the cultural fishbowl and high taxes of Tor and Mtl.
Maybe I would swap Montreal for another team just because that is the closest team to my family.
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His name was Rodion. Just sad. Always sucks when a young person loses the chance to live a full life.
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On 8/12/2023 at 4:23 PM, PerreaultForever said:
This is the kind of internet comment that needs detailed elaboration though. What does "worst" mean? Worst off the ice? Worst on the ice ? Worst to journalists? Worst is a really broad and open ended term that can mean a lot of things. The "covering crime" part makes this seem a little attention grabbing and probably a little full of bs too. What exactly is the implication?
I’d guess he means that the locker room was filled with a bunch of ass hats.
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6 hours ago, Scottysabres said:
Well, we the public aren't privy to the details of what these alleged non human biologicals are doing. More info is needed.
I appreciate the skepticism, it's common sense, and frankly correct to want hard evidence. What we do know is the following, David Grusch did not come forward as his own decision, ICIG (Intellegence Community Inspector General), in meetings with top lvl ICIG staff, agreed the AARO office was not to be trusted as it was appointed by those names at the top of the alleged retrieval program. The ICIG recommended Grusch go to the Congressional Intellegence Committees with his findings. And mind you, Grusch wasn't going to report "Hey, aliens are real". He was going because, confirmed by the ICIG, his investigation found illegal activities in the program. In other words, he did his job.
People lose sight of the details when the larger picture obscures the origins of the situation, whether it's intentional or unintentional.
We have factual video evidence, now released to the public from military personnel of craft maneuvers our alleged current known capabilities cannot remotely acheive. We have testimony of 100's of citizens, maybe 1000's, over the decades giving statements to what they perceived they witnessed. And now, an official ICIG investigation that has allegedly brought forth illegal activity on this subject matter while reportedly, through direct testimony, confirming the validity of non human entities and technologies both in our possession as well as in our midst via air space or other. There is no turning back on this, David Grusch's credentials were confirmed by the Pentagon, and while the AARO claims it knew none and had found no evidence of Grusch's claims, one thing stands above, and that is that Grusch and other witnesses testified "under oath", they have subjected themselves to criminal charges if they are lying, yet the AARO, Pentagon, as a matter of fact, every govt agency, has not once called the testimony false. Because they all know that would lead to further criminality if it's proven the testimony is true is just the plain facts.
I am naturally pretty skeptical.
I tend to not believe outrageous claims made without any evidence. Especially when the person making them has been hospitalized a couple times for psychiatric reasons.
It seems to me pretty unlikely that such a conspiracy could be kept for so long. The general story is that alien space craft and deceased crew was recovered in 1933 by the Italian government then eventually fell into the hands of the US government who have been studying it since, no?
But anyway the point I was making was just that people are not going to care. Not enough to pour through hours of information from different sources in an attempt to assemble the various pieces of circumstantial evidence into a coherent picture. People have a lot more pressing and relevant things going on in their day to day lives.
I get how this is super interesting to some people but you really shouldn’t be surprised if people, in general, continue to not care.
On 8/11/2023 at 1:10 AM, Scottysabres said:It appears the largest event in human history is unfolding, the confirmation that not only that UAP/UFO's exist, non human biologicals came with some of the craft recovered, but also that our government may have murdered US Citizens in an effort to hide the program and the private corporations involved, and the most disturbing fact, our citizens barely bat an eyelash about any of this.
If any of this was actually confirmed then this statement would be correct. Until something is confirmed and proof is provided, people will continue to mostly ignore it.
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12 hours ago, Scottysabres said:
The earth was flat, until it wasn't?
You can brush off only so much, before repeated mounting evidence (testimony of aviators on effects on their equipment, video imagery) of the subject becomes to much to ignore.
Most people will just ignore or not care about something until it has some kind of impact on their life.
Along those lines: If there are aliens that have technology far surpassing our own, but they don’t wish to interfere in our affairs and just come to occasionally observe us, what would we even do about it? In what ways would it change my life?
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52 minutes ago, ddaryl said:
Capitialism will be a major downfall for humanity eventually, what rises from the ashes we can only hope will represent what humans can truly be going forward.
It’s the best economic model that humans have come up with so far.
53 minutes ago, ddaryl said:today's humans are in it for themsleves, which is the end results of our monetary systems. We are all still cavemen in the big picture. Hoarding anything and everything that makes our lives better for our ourself, we need to get past this mentality and that will take a horrific event to change the mindset.
I don’t think this is a result of an economic system. I think it’s the result of human nature as shaped by evolution.
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19 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
Rookie Dahlin was better than Rookie Power.
Also Dahlin is a better skater and possesses puck skills Power has only shown flashes of. I can't agree with what you say here.
It's fun that we have 2 #1 defenders though
I agree that rookie Dahlin was better. Year 2-3 Dahlin was not really.
My comments were more geared towards what they can each be at peak.
The skating, I think is pretty close. If Dahlin is better, I don’t think it’s significantly so. I could easily see Power improve this over the next 2-3 years to where he is better than Dahlin when at the same age.
I agree that Dahlin has better puck handling skills. I think Power is comparable in this but isn’t as inclined to go for the flashy, dynamic play.
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Dahlin vs Power
Power might have more upside in terms of raw physical tools. He is bigger, at least as good a skater, maybe better, and has comparable puck skills. His size plus skating ability give him a pretty high ceiling defensively.
Dahlin is more physical (and nastier) at this point, though I’d expect Power to catch up over the next few years. One big difference I see between the two that leans in favor of Dahlin is that while Power can calmly evaluate a situation and make a high quality play pretty consistently, Dahlin will sometimes create a dynamic play that no one knew was even possible.
I can’t really pick one over the other. They will be different and a lot depends on how Power develops.
I also want to cation people against putting too much stock into comparing rookie Power to rookie Dahlin. Very different situations. Different team environments and rookie Power was a year and a half older than rookie Dahlin was.
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On 8/8/2023 at 2:48 PM, Thorny said:
Samuelsson is “complimentary” in thats he’s a real life human nhl body who can physically exist beside DahlIn, sure. He had the skill set to be capably assigned very limited duties on pair 1 because Dahlin holds most of it down, facilitating a player of Samuelsson’s ability being able complete the pair: we can ask so little of him.
But again, what I took issue with was when you said Samuelsson “allows” Dahlin to be Dahlin. He doesn’t. Samuelsson, in particular, isn’t providing or unlocking anything your league average NHL defender doesn’t (I believe metrically he was below, actually). He’s assigned the duties we don’t lump onto Dahlin, so, sure, the assignments “allow” Dahlin to focus on being Dahlin. We can assign those duties to any second pair defender who’s actually a second pair defender
“Look how much better Dahlin is without an ECHLer in Bryson tanking his stats. Samuelsson is the perfect compliment.” Ya, like, he’s perfect because he’s actually a good NHL player lol. *he did not provide stellar D*. He didn’t even provide GOOD D. What exactly is he complimenting Dahlin with, particularly? Actually asking. Point me to an actual stat that illustrates his value or something he’s first pair quality at - like actually, please create a statistics based argument for what he did at a first pair level, or even for what he provided that any other actual 2nd pair quality player might not provide. Not a rank, minuscule sized, correlation dominated, short stretch of overall team record
Samuelsson did not provide anything special last season. Go argue with the stats. Or go figure out how strong and powerful Barbie is, whichever. You’re wildly off the mark on both
Your comment comes across as pretty negative, but I mostly agree. Samuelsson was fine last season but I was a little disappointed. I think he performed at the level of an average 2nd pair defenseman, which is fine, but I don’t think he brought anything that allowed Dahlin to do anything he couldn’t do with just about any other 2nd pair guy who plays decent defense.
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22 hours ago, Sabres Fan in NS said:
I think Power may win a Norris before Dahlin.
He may, but I don’t know if it’s possibly unless he bumps Dahlin off of PP1 duty, and I don’t know how that happens.
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This is good for trade for Pittsburgh.
Yeah, they are old. Yeah, their prospect group is bad. Yeah, they PROBABLY won’t be able to win another Cup with this group.
The thing is, they have elite talent at the top of their lineup, and that gives them a shot at competing. As long as you have that, I think it makes sense to go for it.
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On 7/30/2023 at 9:53 PM, pastajoe said:
A goal should count no matter how it goes into the net, including kicked in and high stick. Both take skill and are too subjective to call properly.
Also 3-2-1 point system; 3 for regulation win, 2 for OT/shootout win, 1 for OT/shootout loss.
Scoring a goal with high stick or kicking it in would take skill for sure, but I think the issue is player safety. You don’t want guys swinging high sticks to try to score and accidentally clipping eachother in the face, or kicking their feet that have giant razor blades attached to the bottom.
As for the points system change, I’m all for it. I could actually take it a step further. 3 points for a regulation win, 2 for an OT win, 0 for an OT loss. Really encourage these guys to go for wins in regulation. Also, 1 and 1 for a tie, because we should eliminate shootouts and bring back the tie too.
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1 hour ago, That Aud Smell said:
Christ I hope not.
I don’t think there is really anyone else. Olofsson will probably be filling Quinn’s spot on a scoring line and PP.
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28 minutes ago, That Aud Smell said:
His choice of words, which was poor and imprecise.
Better words?
This isn’t that deep.
Yeah, it’s ok. I would say the same thing about Lance’s words. I feel like you are overthinking it.
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On 7/25/2023 at 11:41 AM, That Aud Smell said:
I'm (risking) being a pedantic as#hole, but sometimes the shoe fits so I wear it. Lance wrote that the Sabres would be looking at Murray, among other fringe forwards, in order to fill the void left by Quinn. If he'd written that Quinn's absence opens up a roster spot for a fringe forward to claim - as you suggest - I would have glossed right over the statement of an obvious truth.
Ok, yeah, I think you are just being nitpicky then.
I think it’s totally plausible that they could pick Murray to be the guy who sits in the press box to start the season.
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On 7/22/2023 at 8:24 PM, That Aud Smell said:
My issue was that he was noting those players in answering how the team would compensate for the loss of Quinn.
Well, he is reporting to you that those are the guys who compete to fill the roster spot. He is reporting that Olofsson will be kept around to try to fill the scoring void. I’m not sure what else you want from him.
He can’t tell you what the lines will be to start the season. He can’t tell you that they are looking to sign a veteran scoring winger if they aren’t.
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On 7/22/2023 at 6:02 PM, That Aud Smell said:
I like Lance well enough, but it’s difficult to take him seriously when he writes this in response to a question about how the Sabres will compensate for Quinn’s injury.
Brett Murray, for one, has absolutely zero bearing on how the Sabres will fill the void left by Quinn’s injury.
Olofsson will fill Quinn’s spot. All those other guys will compete for a roster spot. That’s just reporting the facts. I’m not sure what you are taking issue with.
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14 minutes ago, dudacek said:
They aren't bigger, aren't more experienced, aren't more battle proven, aren't faster, aren't more competitive, aren't deeper...?
Where's does this come from?
They have a Tkachuk.
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3 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:
Tarasenko won't replace DeBrincat's scoring straight up
Honestly, he might. Debrincat didn’t have a particularly good season for them. 27 goals, 66 points. Tarasenko had injuries last season but put up 34-82 in 2020-21.
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I think that you are being unfair. @PerreaultForever simply wants the Sabres to bring in a couple of good, proven veterans that can play significant roles. He feels that would go a long way towards getting the team into the playoffs. He has long been consistent in this view.