Marions Piazza
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20 minutes ago, shrader said:
I hope you remembered your goggles for all the post-game champagne spraying.
haha we're more manly than baseball players
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I got on to a hockey team a few months ago after almost 18 months off the ice. The Captain told me the team is awful but 'we still have fun'. 0-12 last season, 89 goals against...I didn't care, I just wanted to play some hockey. They got a new goalie from a pickup game, 4 players quit because the team was so bad so they got replacements, including me and a guy from near Rochester (cool having another Sabres fan on the team). We went 7-5 with only 22 goals against (best in the league), rolled through the quarter-finals and semi-finals with ease, and won the Championship last night, 3-2 in the shootout! Last night was AWESOME!!!
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Whenever I travel for work, I wear my BIlls or Sabres tshirts or hoodies. In Frankfurt Germany I met a family from Buffalo that yelled Go Bills when they saw my hoodie. They invited me to dinner and had a nice evening. Turns out they were from Lancaster not far from where I grew up in Cheektowaga. At the airports in both Amsterdam and Brussels I ran into Buffalo people. Last week I was in Athens for work, I went down to the Plaka district (super touristy, gold shops, markets, right near the Acropolis) I had my OneBuffalo 716 shirt on and I saw a woman poitning at me and the family waived at me with some thumbs up. Traveling home, two people at the airport said Go Bills, one was a stewardess. Buffalo people are every where and not afraid to call it out.
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15 hours ago, dudacek said:
The Jackets have to trade Bob and Panarin, don’t they? Even if it costs them a playoff spot?
Hell of a position to be in, but they just aren’t in a good enough spot to let their two best players walk for nothing in July.
Conversely, what does Panarin in Boston or Montreal do to the balance of power in our division?
yeah, who does stupid things like that?
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17 hours ago, freester said:
How much do people want Duchenne as our #2 center? if you think he is very good, he certainly fills a major need. To sign him and Skinner would require moving Okposo. Would you trade with Ottawa now for an extended Duchenne (assume 7yr 49) for Okposa, Guhle and a number 1? Feel free to make modifications that you think Ottawa would accept.
Assuming that Ottawa is in full rebuild, Guhle and the 1st will help, but, the anchor contract that is Okposo might make them think twice, in a rebuild, you want to get younger and add assets, not get older with little production (adding Okposo)
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22 hours ago, freester said:
No one wants Toews salary. Thats why they would have to take cap dumps like Okposa and Sobotka to make the deal work.
but that's why they wouldn't move Toews for Okposo and Sobotka. No one wants Okposo's and Sobotka's salary either.
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On 12/14/2018 at 12:37 PM, Marions Piazza said:Had a CT scan Tuesday afternoon, get out of work yesteday to 4 voicemails from my doctor's office telling me to call back. Short version of the conversation, I need to have further testing done on my liver and prostate. Seeing as how I am not even 40, the issues with the latter has me frealking out a bit. though my doctor didn't utter the dreaded C----- word, the urgency in her voice to get me further testing has me concerned, trying to keep my head up, Sabres wins will help there haha If the worst news comes, I'll be ready to kick this in the teeth
update, i am free and clear! had tests done and i have nothing to worry about!!!!
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16 hours ago, thewookie1 said:
My proposal for Toews
Toews (2.5mil retained), Davidson, and Kunitz
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SJS 1st, Guhle, Okposo, Sobotka, and Smith
I do think there would be potential to swap Okposo for Toews in some regard since they are both the same age and have the same length on their contracts.
I hihgly doubt the Hawks would be interested in Okposo and Sobotka at all. Guhle and Smith are prospects that the jury is still out on, and the SJS 1st will be low in the round. I just don't see how that gets Toews with salary retained.
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20 minutes ago, DHawerchuk10 said:
You are totally right of course. But I don’t think it is wrong to analyze his weaknesses.
i agree with the above bolded, but my take is that they aren't much to worry about.
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10 minutes ago, DHawerchuk10 said:
I wouldn’t say Dahlin is really soft, but lacks urgency in his game. I think where some folks see calmness, I see someone who is having issues with the speed of the game. I might be articulating it wrong, but always he seems to wait too long with the puck, and gets stripped a lot.
He's going to make mistakes, he's only 18. Kid has 20 points in 41 games, I can take some mental errors as he continues to learn the speed of the game.
Victor Hedman had 20 points in 74 games as a 19 year old rookie, just throwing that out for reference.
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21 hours ago, 7+6=13 said:
Why would you ask if it's time to admit they're painfully average - then say I'm right that they haven't provided anything painful to us?
Those are your words.
Going from awful to average is an amazing feat. They won games they shouldn't have at times, went on a streak and also played like one of the best teams at times.
There's nothing to admit unless you're an uneducated fan that thought more of the record than you should've.
It was fun - a little bit of reality is setting in but it's to be expected. We're an unfinished product that shot out of a cannon for a time.
I said painfully average because that's how it felt before and after the win streak. Christ, you want dissect every word in every post go right ahead since you have the time. I could have said "woefully average" "terribly average", pick any negative word to describe average and it would apply to the use of being annoyed with being an average team after the win streak.
You're calling everyone here that was excited about the win streak an "uneducated fan" because they thought the record at the time was a sign of good things, well I am so sorry that they don't offer higher education classes on how to develop your own opinion about the sports teams we love. I must have missed out on the graduate level courses regarding the Sabres that you seem to have aced. I suppose I will wallow in my "painfully average" education with regards to hockey
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On 12/28/2018 at 7:23 PM, 7+6=13 said:
I really wish posts like this could stop. It brings down the overall average hockey IQ of our fanbase.
There's nothing painful about what this team has provided us this year. If you're an educated hockey fan - this is pretty easily seen.
"brings down the average hockey IQ of our fanbase" and the award for overdramatic response goes to you!!! yes, the 10 game winning streak was fun, and being an educated fan as i am, you see the facts, weren't 7 of those wins in OT or shootout? you don't win that many games with only a dominant first line and almost zero secondary scoring without some puck luck. As December pretty much showed us, slow down Eichel-Skinner-Reinhart and this team is average. they were .500 before the win streak and under .500 after the streak.
We are two points ahead of the 1st non playoff team, who just beat us and has 2 games in hand. We still haven't figured out how to get reliable secondary scoring, Eichel-Skinner-Reinhart have slowed down because teams can focus solely on them. Thinking we are better than average at this point is silly.
"There's nothing painful about what this team has provided us this year" you're are right, they are much better this year than have been in a while, but, going from the worst team in the league to average is pretty good. and that's where we are now, an average team that had a 'lucky' 10 game winning streak
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53 minutes ago, jsb said:
- No team has ever gone 82-0
- I hate when the Sabres lose but
- Some of you guys are insufferable on this site after a loss
- Have a Snickers bar when you get like this
losing close games to good teams is one thing, but getting absolutely shwhacked by 'bad' teams like the Blues, Flyers, Panthers lately, doesn't sit well with those fans (myself included) who believe the Sabres are better than that.
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is it time to admit that the Sabres are a painfully average team that had a miracle 10 game winning streak?
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2 minutes ago, WildCard said:
Wow, Elie on the 2nd line?
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13 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
I got down to Potomac Yard last time I was there... I will try going further south next time. I'm getting comfortable with the Metro at this point. If I go there to watch the Sabres play, I might post up for anyone who wants to meet me there.
Just a disclaimer about watching games in Washington as a fan of the other team. I lived there for three years 08-11, when the Caps were pretty much destroying everyone they played (except for the Pens)
i went to four games while i lived there, Sabres twice and the Pens twice (i married a Pens fan) literally all four games were miserable being around Caps fans. i thought maybe the first game was an isolated experience (wore a Malkin jersey) but nope, was miserble with my Sabres swag on as well. I realize that it has been a long time now, but, i will never go to Washington for a game again.
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3 minutes ago, GoPre said:
Certainly not happening... but how entertaining it’d be if he signed w/ St. Louis.
more entertaining if Berglund and St Louis orchestrated this together, he comes back at a much reduced rate so they can add more talent and save on his cap.
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8 minutes ago, New Scotland (NS) said:
I can't find Ligers original post about a new Skinner contract and the cap hit, but it doesn't make sense to me.
Skinner's contract is up July 1st, so if we sign him the new contract will count against next year's cap in full, unless I am missing something here.
I realose that I am only a CPA, but Liger's statement makes no sense to me.
so the excellent point he made is that Skinner is already making $5.7 towards our cap, believing he will get ~$9M will mean that only another $3.3M will be added to his current cap hit. He pointed out that with Moulson/P-ville contracts coming off the books, it wont be that big of a deal. Marner and Matthews going from both under a million, to maybe $20M between the two
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4 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Yes it will. The Sabres have guys spread out. Mittelstadt is up the year before Dahlin along with Reinhart. No one big is up in Dahlin's year. Skinner is up this year. Defense McCabe gets a raise but that's no big deal because Scandella and Hunwick only have 1 year left. Bogo they have another year to decide on. Pilut will get a raise but it will be less than we think. Casey Nelson might get a raise but it will be scraps. We don't have Marner, Matthews, and Kapenen all up for new deals in the same summer. All 3 players are making next to nothing. All 3 players will be getting multi-million dollar raises especially Matthews and Marner. When we sign Skinner, we are only worried about the additional 4mil against the cap because 5mil of his deal is already on our cap. Matthews will probably get his bonuses so that means he's worth 3.775 in the long run against the cap. He will now be getting an additional 7mil against the cap and marner will probably be getting another 5-6mil against the cap. So to sign them, they are taking another 14mil against the cap, to sign skinner we are taking only an additional 4mil. That's why it is different.
Yes. They have 56mil against the cap with only 12 players signed. Actually it is 56.275mil
excellent view point of that, i honestly didnt even think of it that way with Skinner.
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1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:
Toronto will be in cap hell next year. They have 56million in cap so if it goes up to 83 million that leaves them 27million in cap space to sign, Marner, Kapanen, Matthews plus they need an additional 7 players just to fill out the 23 man roster. Let's say Matthews takes 11 and Marner takes 9. That's 7mil to fill out 8 spots. You only have 4 goalies on the roster. That's gonna be hard.
does that take into account who might be coming off the books at the end of this season? just curious. but yes, they will have troubles, you're right. i still think we have some issues of our own in a few years, but it looks like the Leafs will have it worse off much sooner
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3 minutes ago, LTS said:
So you are subjectively defining the "best team".
My argument is that objectively, the "best team" is the one who wins. Everything else is an excuse as to why it didn't happen.
we don't agree, let's move on
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6 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
So in a few years (4-5) we might be in cap hell. I some how don't care. Also Botterill's job is to manage that. Ullmark will get a raise but Hutton will be gone or vice versa. We won't keep all the defense and Pilut won't get a huge raise and no Pilut is signed for 1 year less than Dahlin so they will not hit the same year. Risto is signed until 2022. Reinhart will get a raise and Skinner will but I would argue half of their salaries are already on our cap so we are only talking 5mil more. Why are we giving Bogosian a raise? I might give him 6mil but he's still signed through next year so we shall see. Moulson's 4mil and Pominville's 5mil will be gone so there's 9mil right there I found.
I don't think it is difficult at all.
I forgot about Pilut's contract, but I bet Pilut plays himself into a nice raise, just my opinion.
my original point was that many here have said how the Leafs will be in cap hell but not the Sabres. It wont be an easier or harder for the Sabres to manage their cap than the Leafs
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22 minutes ago, FuhrUrsinne said:
But that's not necessarily cap hell. That's simply paying guys what they're worth. JB comes across as very shrewd and responsible with respect to the salary cap. He's also coming from a Penguins organization well known for managing the cap and retaining its stars. So I have little doubt that he's already thought about having to pay our core 6 or so guys (Dahlin, Eichel, Skinner, Reinhart, Mitts, Risto) down the line while remaining competitive with the other 14 or so players. Also, I see only 2 long-term "bad" contracts at the moment: Okposo and Berglund. If both can be cleared by the summer of 2020, the franchise should be sitting pretty in terms of keeping all of the aforementioned core. I did some haphazard cap number crunching a while back, and it came out very promising for us long-term.
Getting back to the Leaves... this could very quickly become the best rivalry in North American pro sports. USA vs. Canada, blue collar vs. cosmopolitan, Eichel vs. Matthews, Dahlin vs. Reilly, Nylander vs. Nylander, both starving for championships for half a century, separated by only 100 miles...good stuff! We just need to fix the second and third lines before we can really start to scare them. Mitts, Tage, Nylander, Olofsson, Asplund, and Davidsson are the 6 guys I currently have penciled in to fill these roles in the future. And as you can see, none of these 6 are ready yet. We're stuck at the moment with sluggish old men like Okposo, Pominville, Sobotka, and Berglund.
I think my original point got lost, I saw many posts saying that the Leaf's will be in "cap hell" which is "paying guys what they are worth" My argument is that we will have it no harder or easier with our cap and paying guys what they are worth than the Leafs
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29 minutes ago, LTS said:
Like I said, what defines the best team. You even lead your statement with "i believe". The "best team" is not easily quantifiable. The Sabres were the best team in the regular season as realized in their point total.
My point is, if "best team" is subjective, then any plan that calls for the "best team" to have the "easiest path" by playing "lesser teams" is also subjective. The only thing for certain is who wins. So, to be the best you have to win.
not to be a pain, but in 05-06 as i referenced, they did not have the highest point total, they were 5th at the end of the season. Despite being 5th in the regular season, my argument is that they were the best team in the league derailed on our path to the cup by injuries. if only say two of Connolly, Tallinder, Teppo, Kalinen, and Mckee were hurt, I would say they win the cup easily but sadly that didn't happen.
i guess it all doesn't matter, we can go back and forth for days, i think the best team doesn't always win, we'll just agree to disagree on that.
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