Porous Five Hole
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42 minutes ago, Carmel Corn said:
Did Karmanos go somewhere? I thought it was Forton who wanted Darcy to draft Zadorov, which ended up happening. He thought Zadorov would make the Sabres harder to play against....which IMHO he had a point.
I had to look it up. Karmanos is Associate GM. Forton is Assistant GM. I hope this is no impact to Jason and his role.
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11 hours ago, Broken Ankles said:
His online name is ‘Tommy Dangles’. It’s what he does, it’s… who he is. It’s his essence of being. Do you tell Pete Rose not to hustle? Do you tell the Babe to not swat dingers? Do you tell Charles not to rebound?
Good news: He has changed it to Tommer97.
Not sure what the new name implies. There’s a a Tommer Construction in the state of Washington. Maybe he’s embracing a wrecking ball?
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What the balls is this NHL??
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2 hours ago, PASabreFan said:
I believe my comparison was between the Sabres and Shea's. As a patron of Shea's, would you like to look through the books?
Man, I’ve been able to scroll past you all day, but this one right here. Wow. 🤌
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4 hours ago, Pimlach said:
I am tired of the "don't want to spend the money bullcrap" with this team.
We once had great TV and Radio coverage back when everybody, in every job within the organization, made way less money. If money is the reason then get guys that can do justice to both TV and radio.
I am tired of settling for whatever we get with this team. Bigger than that, I am tired of the lower standards that have become a part of our world today.
While I totally agree with you, who is listening to the local radio station as their primary source of the broadcast in 2024?
Maybe for 15 min in the car on a random night? Most people just check their yahoo/espn app for a score update when they’re not home. I haven’t seen Nielsen ratings, but they most be very low.
I get it, most of the rest of the league still has two broadcast teams—one for tv and one for radio…so why shouldn’t we also have that?
But in reality, it doesn’t make a whole lot of financial sense to invest money in a radio only broadcast team. It is a dying entity (and this is coming from someone who worked in radio).
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1 hour ago, Brawndo said:
That’s a bump of 4.5MM. With the reported edict of Buffalo spending to the cap, that money will come in handy toward another top six forward.
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Day one of these! And of course it is now 64 and raining.
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It’s nice to dream about, but the chances that Ottawa trades Brady Tkachuk within the division are next to zero.
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23 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
Eh, maybe Kulich. I think Savoie has more upside.
That is tough to determine right now. Savoie tore up Junior at age 20. He was in way over his head during AHL playoff games at 19 last year and was scratched down the stretch. Meanwhile Kulich nearly led the Amerks in playoff scoring last year at age 19. Jiri, also 20, now has two years of pro under his belt.
So maybe via draft pedigree you can say Savoie has higher upside, but I would not be surprised if Kulich ended up the better player both short term and long term.
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On 5/26/2024 at 12:59 AM, Weave said:
If you have an opportunity to see Gary Clark Jr play, go.
Saw him this evening at Artpark’s indoor venue. His past is very blues-centric, but his more recent work is leaning R&B. He still infuses every song with fantastic bluesy guitar work. His guitar work is top notch and he’s an excellent vocalist. And the backing band was super solid. The band was tight.
He’s pretty much a stand in front of the microphone and play/sing performer. He’s not the most energetic guy on stage, but definitely puts a ton of energy into the music. A few songs in his guitar died. He said into the microphone “I think I broke it”, put it down, grabbed the mike out of the stand and said “I guess I am a lead singer now” and moved on with the song and the set without skipping a beat. And he worked the stage and crowd like any good frontman would. He could readily transition into a singer/frontman and be excellent doing it.
The technicians fixed his problem after a couple of songs and he moved right back into guitar/lyrics behind the mike and completed a terrific show. Dude impressed me with his professionalism and polish.
He just covered an old Cream song (Crossroads) with Slash and it’s exceptional.
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2 hours ago, OverPowerYou said:
Not sure why teams like Dallas Stars and Tennesee Titans get so much hatred for bad ref calls
Same thing for the hurricanes. It’s not their fault we got injured
The refs didn’t get a championship parade, a party where the whole city takes a collective sigh of relief after 50 years, a banner, and a team that went down in history. Dallas did.
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38 minutes ago, kas23 said:
My favor part of the article was this:
“…includes '20 playoff MVP Victor Hedman, Erik Cernak and Mikhail Sergachev, who missed several months with a broken leg before making a surprise return in the first round.”
It was actually magic. Magic caused the guy making $8.5M per year to be ready as soon as the playoffs started.
This isn’t a good take.
Sergachev suffered a horrific injury that required a stretcher to get him off the ice, surgery on a fractured fibula & fractured tibia, and returned for game four.-
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16 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
No Goal was on the officiating, not on the Stars.
Please tell me how that makes a difference to the end result. Brett Hull is still carving pumpkins about it. Get off my lawn.
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1 hour ago, Buffalonill said:
Looks like kyle , Sam, Montour, Rodrigues, Kulikov,Asplund will get the cup
Forgot about Asplund lol
He is a full time AHLer these days: 9G, 35A, 67 GP for Charlotte.
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31 minutes ago, OverPowerYou said:
This may be the first time ever where i don’t dislike one of the final four teams
I dislike Dallas. “No Goal” still sticks with me.
7 hours ago, GoPuckYourself said:I don't think the Oilers have the goaltending to win the cup although I'd like to see mcDavid hoist the cup, he's looking a little rough these days.
Yea I think McDavid is playing hurt. He hasn’t been shooting when normally he would shoot.
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52 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:
I know nothing about this guy. He is obviously connected to Karmanos. Likely lost his job as his contract is up and he isn't a Dubas guy. Seems fine.
All I got is he is from nearby Auburn, NY.
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Glad the Canes felt some pain in losing the series 🤷♂️
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15 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Nichuskin that big of a deal for Colorado? Man they stunk.
The guy leads the NHL in goals in the playoffs this year
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Randy Cunneyworth? I’m not being 100% serious, but if you bring back Ruff then why not bring back Cunney?
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No love for the Bruins, but it is confusing why it took two full days for this camera angle to be discovered. Dirty.
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LOL the title was changed an hour ago and we are still going to let Austin slide?
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Sabres providing the pregame prep
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4 hours ago, Mango said:
Unsure of the numbers post covid, but pre-covid the vast majority of players who saw arbitration cut ties with their teams afterwards.
So if you want the odds of UPL only being a rental for a year arbitration is the right path.
I would rather overpay a half mil per year over 4 years than to lose another goaltender. We would just be repeating the Ullmark situation. We let him walk, forced UPL into action too early, struggled through it for a season, now possibly refuse to pay him and give Levi the starting role too early.Arbitration would buy us two years of UPL because he’s got two years of RFA left and he can go to arbitration twice.
I don’t want to pay extra to buy out some of UPL’s UFA years, which is what you would have to do to sign him long term.
I’m a Levi truther. He’s the long term plan. Two more years is enough to groom Levi to be the guy.
We didn’t have a “Levi” at the time in the Ullmark scenario. UPL wasn’t ready then. Levi will be ready in two years…he might be ready next year.
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39 minutes ago, Pimlach said:
They cannot afford to let another goalie get away.
That’s why arbitration makes sense. Still an RFA after next year and you will better know what you really have.
The long term answer is Levi anyway. Devon already has nothing left to prove in the AHL (.927 save percentage in his 26 games here this year—and even better so far in the playoffs).
For this UPL negotiation, you have to consider the fact that he may be a backup before the end of next year.
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It would be music to my ears if UPL went to arbitration for a one year deal (a la Swayman). I need proof last year wasn’t a fluke.