Broken Ankles

For those living outside the 716, and former Direct Tv Sunday Ticket owners what are you doing? As Taro notes above, the discount of $100 applies only if you sign up for YouTube tv @ $72/month. I’m planning on keeping Direct Tv for a while. My contract expires in August and I’m curious what options they have for me this year since I won’t get the Sunday Ticket for free (like I have for the last 17 years). Having Prime, NFL network, local stations (NBC/Fox/CBS) and ESPN should allow me to view about half of the Bills games this year. Thus making the YouTube option of $399 seem an excessive option at $50/game. I mean I could go down to the local sports bar for breakfast on any games not televised nationally. That might cost me on $25/game. Rolling the die that other games are flexed or get televised.

Agree. I would have kicked the tires next summer but could not see committing an AAV of $6.5m over 7 years. The Caps as a team will fall off a cliff in 24/25. They will have 10 players over 30, with $60M allocated in AAV. With an average age of just under 35 for those 10 players in that season. The Sabres will have one, Skinner. And it’s not like they have a group of prospects like the Sabres to push for the other roster spots to offset that age/salary.

Great song. What was the album, again? Can’t recall. 🤣😏😜

My homage to Jimmy, the avatar…. mine would be

How about Climax, Saskatchewan?

I’d rather exclude all goals off a skate. Takes away any judgement by Toronto on intent.

Skinner likes the pop songs. He covered the 80’s and 2000’s. Now it’s time to go back to the 90’s. Britney in red leather…..Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

Appreciate the heads up on this topic. Listened today from the vault. Worthwhile commentary by Marty. Other nuggets I found interesting: Sports Logic stat on Loose pucks recovered in the O-Zone - Vic finished #18 on Sabres last year. This meets the eye test where he seems timid and constantly losing puck battles - if ever engaged in the first place. Skinner was 4th last year, which somewhat confirms Marty's posture that Skinner is not just a goal scorer. Second on Sabres in Shooting percent - over 17%. Marty believes a good return for Vic is a second round pick, but most likely only yields a third. Only positive (+/-) player he played with all season was Dylan Cozens (validated on Natural Stat Trick). Note that Vic's time with Mitts was awful. I remember some of those games where both were stapled to the bench in third period. I wouldn't want to risk him playing 2nd line minutes with Cozens unless there was an absolute beast on the left. JJP is not there, yet. Agree with most he will settle into the third line somewhere until Quinn is back.

The craziest part of the Ricky Williams deal is that if he was just very good, not game changer great like Ditka thought, the trade wouldn’t have been all-time bad. Williams was an interesting cat, and was never motivated or aspired to be elite. In hindsight, if the Saints didn’t finish 3-13 and the next years first turned into #3 overall (LaVar Arrington) it would have just seen as swing and miss trade. And like the Williams deal, this trade will depend on what Jeannot becomes in Tampa. If he is Hagel 2.0 or Tom Wilson for the Caps then it’s a win. Agreed he was a flop down the stretch and in the playoffs, and the assets given up to attain look bad, but Tampa is Cap strapped and this deal keeps Jeannot hungry for a real contract when the cap goes up. The Sabres signed Victor, as a 40 point player with significant downside in comparison to Jeannot on two separate occasions to contracts of $3m and $4.5m. So $2.6m doesn’t seem bad at all for a player seemingly built for the playoffs.

Did you have LaNova at the arena? I was in Buffalo a few weeks ago, and brought my son to LaNova (west side location). We had a variety of slices for lunch. Three cheese, sweet peppers and Chicken. Pepperoni with sesame seed crust. It definitely did not disappoint. His favorite of the trip. That was my go to when I lived on Elmwood some 30+ years ago. That and Mister Pizza. I had a Mister in 2022 and not as good as I recall. My parents live in Kenmore so they are loyal to Bob John’s La Hacienda on Hertel. All of the above is better than what I can get in Southern California. Jealous of all these options.

You have pride?

Ty. Catfished. Seemed too good to be true.

That’s what you get putting Biz Nasty on the broadcast. Just horrible. Thank God I record everything so I don’t have to watch that tool breakdown the game between periods.

Really? Based on size, playing in the WHL and scoring about the same point in draft eligible year? His draft position in a year that projects higher than others must give him a better outcome than Ennis.

What is the cost for one year? I know that a RD is paramount to the overall success of the team, but I would love to create a stronger second line, and move JJP to the third line.

Kevyn and are a lot alike. I use this language all the time. “Honey, I can’t make it to dinner on Thursday, I have a lot on my plate at work”, because your friends are cray-cray and I’d rather have my eyes lids removed than suffer through an evening with them. “Julie, I have no idea where your husband is”… unless maybe he went home with Cindi, the smoking hot blonde bartender we were talking to last night. “I just fixed the leaky faucet”, that you mentioned like 75 times the last two weeks, but not today, so do you think that’s worthy of sex tonight?

Not that I believe this after the KO and Gus signings, but I thought JJP would slide down and the second line would be upgraded.

I suppose a moment like this might be incredible for Sabre fans, and Zemgus alike So while I would have liked them to move on, I can see a path to one more year. Long live manos de piedra.

There are only 3 active because teams are locking up young D after their EL contract ends (Fox, McAvoy, Makar). All of those contracts would be larger if they bridged. Go back ten years and see there are many, many examples. Chara, Lidstrom, Boyle, Campbell, Jovanosky, Subban, Suter, Weber, Pronger to name a few. Some of these are 15-17% And dozens more where it’s 10.5%of the cap. In 4 years (my scenario) Power will be full prime, and a top 5 D in the league, which would warrant $12m. The $100m is realistic. After the $1B from Covid loss is finalized this year, they are talking of it jumping to $92m by 2025. So $100m is probable in 2027 if this conservative estimate for 2025 manifests. your dismissal of this happens at 1% is wrong. Let’s both hope that he doesn’t sign a three year bridge. https://theathletic.com/4590229/2023/06/08/nhl-salary-cap-increase/?amp=1

The bold, it’s our only leverage. If he signs a 3 year bridge like Dahlin did, based as some insiders cap estimates of ~$100m+ in 2027, a 12% of the cap total would yield at least $12m for his next deal. I advocate $8m *8 after July 1st.

First time I’ve heard this name as a trade option. What differentiates him from Comrie? Career back up, no?

WTF is this? Nice seats Sabres fan.

FWIW, my parents stay with us (wife and two boys) from December 15th through Jan 15-30th each year to escape the harsh Buffalo winters. Then back to Buffalo for two weeks, and a month in Florida rental. It can be stressful but I recognize that our distance prevents a lot of frequency to our visits so they are usually longer. I’ll bring one of the boys back this summer and work two weeks (remote) and add a few days of PTO knowing I won’t see them until Christmas. My wife loves the visits bc they add value by shopping, cooking and helping me with my oldest who is disabled. Sounds like your situation might be a little different. Three months can be a lot, so I would recommend you try one month. See if it works for all parties. Maybe he could AB&B another month. If he is a POS (inference only) and is a hindrance not a help, it would manifest within 30 days. Your wife will see it and probably think twice about the following year.