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  1. I understand trades, but they're still kids who mostly billet with families, supposedly still in school. Many questions which I don't the answers. If they sign with the draft club, do they get the bonus?... Over 18 do they get their own housing?... 

    Just asking... It's seems like a lot to put on kid still.

  2. Don't get it... if it's 4th line player who goes?... Not that our 4th line is setting on the world on fire Do we move Z to recover a higher round pick? Do we move Krebs, salvaging a pick?.... I'm to the point where instead of watching the Sabres I'm just going to revert to childhood rubbing Elmer's glue on my hands, let it dry and eat it.. (I've been contemplating this for the last six years of the extended playoff drought)

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  3. 5 minutes ago, French Collection said:

    Gambling, rookie hazing? It’s all speculation until something leaks out.

    If it was gambling, the league would also suspend him, wouldn’t they?

    Pinto gambling was outed and probably part of the bargaining agreement.... There is something we don't know, but Chicago I'm sure has an iron clad reason for this...  morals clause

     

  4. Of course you're AITHA.... but i's the internwebs that newfangled thing. I argue out of my butt, knowing I'm not gonna slugged. Back in the way back '80's my brother and his friends would get drunk and argue whether a pea shooter really shot a a pea, which it did and seek a fight if others said it was a plant in a bar with Niagara Falls people I can remember many times when I got kicked in the face, because of them... I fought back but, boy I took a licking as those idiots (my brother and said friends) just wanted to brawl.... Here you may get a little pissed off and think, but you don't have explain the shiner the next day... and listen to your better half telling you to lose the friends... It is all perspective!!!

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  5. Perry did something wrong... if it was an issue involving a mental, alcohol, drug problem it would have been addressed by the collective bargaining. Lord knows what happened, but it is outside of the parameters of NHLPA deal. I know the rumors are out there and i really think it is bunk, could be wrong... but Chicago, really after the Beach fiasco, knows they have an airtight reason.... Perry screwed up somewhere and Chicago after covering it up the Beach situation, needed to lance the boil. Don't know what happened, but I guarantee they have the goods on their decision. 

  6. Yeesh... I agree the Bills go south, hoping the Sabres make the step... Well so much for holiday wishes!!! (seems to be a recurring theme... for years). I applaud Adams for bringing in the young talent... but isn't this starting to turn out out to the wash, rinse and repeat of the Bowman era (can't beat the Bruins, thank god the Leafs sucked backed then under Ballard)... Great players drafted, yet they are remembered elsewhere for accomplishing cup glory when they get into the HOF... Adams needs to shake it up... Florida shook it up and look what they got, a heart... a trade that seems to be a steal cap wise and momentum... (which makes an owner happy, revenue wise)... Developmental coaches are what they are, they develop kids for the next step, Granato ain't dealing with kids anymore, yet he seems to have the mindset it's the next step... no offense... but the NHL is the last step... if the players are trying to take a step at the top of the floor with no steps... Houston... we have a problem!!!

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  7. 47 minutes ago, Marvin said:

    I would first send Levi to Rochester.  I personally would assume that Tuch is out for a 2 more weeks, Tage for 6 weeks assuming that it is his thumb is broken and not his wrist (12 otherwise), and Quinn until the All-Star break.

    Then I would assemble the best roster I can for Buffalo and figure out the best style of play needed to keep the team's heads above water until at least the New Year.  That probably means a more conservative system, particularly defending.

    Then pray.

    I would think breaking the wrist is an easier comeback... breaking your thumb is way worse...depending on the location, the thumb doesn't get mobility back... ever... and I'm a proud owner of doing both multiple times in my stupid youth...

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  8. McDavid's move is not going only to be facilitated but by what Edmonton gets, which is a hard get in the salary cap era, but the league partners, the media and streaming potential revenue. If you're not a Top Ten media market, or a flashy market, regardless of the trade, the NHL will nix it, and probably nix a trade to a Canadian team... NHL wants in him ESPN/TNT land which is 7:30 PM Eastern/Central... start times which is the bread and basket of NHL viewers especially ... All Connor vs. Connor or a Connor game all the time... Sports leagues are cartels... Gretzky in LA was great for building expansion, but who the heck ever got to watch him back then? Same with McDavid, most of you can count on 1 hand how many times you stayed up to watch, I get HNIC in my area and it is still too late to watch him on a Saturday on the East Coast... Original Six territory...

  9. Makar deserves credit for what he's done, but he's no Orr. If you're basing on the games played, Orr played the best against the best in his first year before expansion. Only defenseman to win the Art Ross Trophy (twice). He paved the way for all others. As to Perreault, superstars of his era will say and do say he was the most talented hockey player they ever saw....

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  10. Obviously, I'm not foodie when it comes to Mexican food, I prefer ETS, but Mighty holds a dear special horror place in my heart. Grab a chair, maybe a beer and I'll regale in the last time I had Mighty. Spring of '87, I just turned 23 and after a Thursday visit to the local bar after work, I decided to stop in the City of Tonawanda and grab 3 Super Mighty's. Wise choice at the time, they were cheap, filling and tasty. 8 hours later... I get the flu, no one is home as it's a Friday and parts of the family were going to weddings in Detroit and Chicago. Worst 2 1/2 days of my life. I had liquid coming out of every orifice of my body, including the ears! The odors where horrendous as it smelled like Mighty Taco. I l felt like death, looked like death and was welcoming death. I haven't a Mighty since, nope can't do it! 3 lessons learned that weekend, when people would call in sick with the "flu" and arrive perky the next day, I'd tell them, nope no flu and relate my story. I got my flu shot every year since. Lastly, that Mighty in Tonawanda was such easy picking for the police if you lived on Grand Island and decided after drinking on the Island, going to Mighty was a bad thing. I can't tell you how many people got DWI's going there, driving past the police station to the South Grand Island bridge. Can't eat Mighty the PTSD is still strong today!!!🤣🤣🤣

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  11. I understand the reason they had to go. Not defending what all parties did are but in some ways, it was nipping it in the bud. A fling, infatuation is as much as you think it's on the QT, is so apparent to others. Many years ago I went through a thing at work... No one knows we thought, Hah, that was so wrong, everyone knew. It was the aftermath, when things started to sour between us that caused the problem. Our toxicity to each other caused problems to everyone at work around us. That's the problem. I left and she stayed. Funny thing is 15 years later, both in different parts of life got back together. Pegula did the right thing, it's not the passion, it's the aftermath that causes problems in the workplace.

  12. 1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:

    So your contention then is that the league would influence/alter/fix? any potential trades involving McDavid? In other words it's all rigged? 

    I mean if that was true, the league would never have allowed him to go to Edmonton in the first place. he would have gone to Toronto or perhaps Philly right away. 

    It happened before... see Gretzky

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  13. 28 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:

    Some of those assets will reach the NHL, some won't. The ones that do become integral cap controlling assets early on. The idea is to keep that "affordable" skilled/talented pipeline going over the next decade and beyond. You create a rather large hole in that strategy by gutting what is a healthy size of those assets. That back fill will most likely have to come via FA signings, which in normal circumstances not healthy for the cap room, which in turn rears its ugly head in roster issues.

    McDavid has accomplished nothing of significance towards a championship to date......the ROI for a move like this is far more risk than staying the KA course of build and develop from within.

    The premise of my original post was that McDavid wouldn't be going to Buffalo.... that won't happen as the league would want to maximize his potential in the major east coast markets.... The NHL doesn't have the NFL exposure nor will it ever. McDavid is the the NHL's media's down here sweetener for the owners. He's bound for NY metropolitan... I saw Messi everywhere today, granted Messi is Messi but McDavid in NY or nearby in a major market would drive hype on a scale that would help the NHL stay in the NFL/NBA sports media exposure.... It is no longer about hockey per se, it's about eyeballs maximizing televised revenues... sad to say.... plus he needs a cup

  14. 2 minutes ago, SwampD said:

    Right now I’m wondering if I might be a nut job, cuz I’m finding this question much more difficult to answer than I would have thought. Dahlin is going to be a wonder to watch grow and may end up on a similar level as McDavid. Mr.Ellipses also raises an interesting point about our scoring. But, damn he’d be fun to watch.

    I for one... have been employing... ellipses... for all of my life... online...🤣

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