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  6. GDT - Sabres @ Capitals - 11/22/2023 @ 6PM CT / 7PM ET - MSGB/ESPN+

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    27 minutes ago, Thorny said:

    2 “x”s on this lol

    i assure you that Mario stripping Ray freaking Bourque at the blue line and streaking in on a breakaway goal where he deaks the goalie out of his pads, on the first shot, first shift of his NHL career slightly eclipses Benson’s fancy play 

    One of you guys hasn’t given out a reaction emoji in 2 weeks yet found my take that the goal widely regarded as the best first goal ever was still the best as a bridge too far lol

    I wasn't commenting on anything more than Mario's being the best first-ever goal.  It's an opinion.  But here's something from HockeyFeed:

    https://www.hockeyfeed.com/nhl-news/buffalo-s-zach-benson-scores-the-best-1st-nhl-goal-you-ll-ever-see

  8. Sportico Releases NHL Franchise Valuations Sabres are 30th

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    7 hours ago, Sabres Super Fan said:

    Look Terry Pegula is a bad owner because he makes poor decisions for both the Buffalo Sabres and Buffalo Bills when it comes to economic growth. The Buffalo Bills will never be up there with value compared to the other NFL teams building your stadium across the street from the stadium location mistake of 50 years ago does that. Terry Pegula has no one to blame but himself for not using his power to force New York State to come up with the money for a downtown Buffalo Bills stadium like Ford Field in Detroit. 

    As for the Buffalo Sabres Terry Pegula screwed that up tanking and under estimating the damage tanking does to a declining rust belt city market that made very bad economic decisions for 50 plus years. In a NHL that was growing to the Sun Belt and West Coast making the Sabres further down the list of free agents wanting to come to Buffalo. Add the tank the Sabres sucking for over a decade no free agents of any quality wants to play here. The Sabres suck so bad our own Patrick Kane doesn’t want to play here with Kevyn Adams most likely crawling around on his knees to try to convince him to sign with Buffalo. The Sabres franchise is a mess and without the major arena renovations needed the Sabres will be sold out of town at some point. If the renovations don’t happen from New York State.

    Some Buffalo fans need to wake up the Buffalo Bisons are potentially moving if they don’t get the New York State renovations. Our Sahlen’s Field infrastructure is old and our area is very behind the times with other baseball parks. Bob Rich JR. regardless of how much money he has has no say on this. If he can’t get the renovations when the Toronto Blue Jays 10 year PDC is up MLB will force Bob Rich to take a buyout of his triple a franchise. Also keep in mind Bob Rich JR. is in his 80’s now so there is that too. When the MLB took over the MILB it forces cities to upgrade their stadiums to keep them current or the Bisons will be moved to a city growing only to happy to take one of only 30 triple a franchises. Buffalo fans might say no way look at Fresno Grizzles they went from triple a to downgraded to single a because MLB said so they weren’t compliant to MLB and the Fresno owner took the triple a buy out. No way would single a baseball work in Buffalo after having triple a baseball. If the Bisons potentially move they are never coming back. Some Buffalo fans needs to wake up we aren’t a big one in Buffalo like Los Angeles or Chicago or New York City. With our poor leadership I could see Oakland potentially in Buffalo sports future because we have some naive people here. There is a reason why some people worship Terry Pegula naive people that heart is in the right place. But unfortunately are too trusting of the poor leadership in power for 50 plus years and counting making poor economic decisions for Buffalo. I like Buffalo, Western New York it’s been my home my whole life but I am old not the future. I am telling it like it is. Buffalo fans have to decide do you want to be Oakland losing three teams in a decade or do we smarten up make better economic decisions and keep up with the stadium and arena times. This isn’t about Terry Pegula he isn’t the future he is a old man older than me.

    Key Bank Center is too far gone it needs to be totally replaced or completely gutted like MSG or the Seattle Kraken renovated arena. The whole seating bowl needs to be removed and replaced slopped steeper for better viewing and the 300 level needs to be like the old Buffalo Memorial Auditorium Orange seating. So you can see the rest of the seating sections below so you don’t feel so isolated as a Buffalo fan in the 300 level. You are like alone in the 300’s it’s a bad fan viewing experience especially for college basketball it is awful. The Buffalo Memorial Auditorium was better designed for viewing games no matter what the sport. Local Big 4 college basketball paid the price when it moved to then Marine Midland Arena now Key Bank Center and Buffalo college basketball fans realized the viewing experience wasn’t the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. Now it’s happening to the Buffalo Sabres the view at home in front of the television is better and cheaper. Same with the Buffalo Bisons $50 stream with MLB television gets you all 150 Buffalo Bisons games home and away. All our Buffalo arena and stadiums need major upgrades or Buffalo potentially risks losing all of our teams. If Buffalo wants to be the bedroom sports community of New York City keep it up believing our stadium and arenas are fine? They aren’t fine they are aging with little done to them for 30 plus years. UB Stadium needs major overhaul and renovations for more than $380 million dollars if we tell it like it is with UB Bulls football our stadium should look like Snapdragon Stadium a top level FBS Group of 5 stadium and UB Football is FBS Group of 5 team in my opinion. Go Sabres! Let’s Go Buffalo 

    Without Terry, the Bills are probably on their way to Toronto under the ownership of Bon Jon Bovi.  And you're the naive one if you think that a $3B downtown stadium ever had a chance to happen.  We're lucky the new one got approved given the money NYS had to kick-in, and it's already $300M over budget, which Terry will have to fund. 

  9. OT: The garage band thread.

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    5 hours ago, Claude Balls said:

    I actually took one guitar lesson in my life. When the guy said I'm here to teach you how to read music, not to teach you how to play your favorite song, I quit! And then learned everything by ear since that day. I've always had a good ear for music. One of my very minimal talents. 

    I taught my oldest daughter how to play guitar. Now she is better than me. It's funny, they say you either have the ear or you don't. I've tried teaching some friends, but they just don't have it. At all!!! Hot dog fingers are the biggest problem. 

    I took about a year of lessons, starting from learning from a book and then bringing-in tapes of songs for my teacher to listen to and teach me during a half-hour lesson (about half of it went into him learning how to play the song and the other half teaching me how to play it).  Then "Guitar for the Practicing Musician" came out with tablature and that's what I went with, as well as figuring-out songs on my own. 

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  14. John Roth COO of the Sabres is no longer with the organization

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    Looks like a Terry bitch fest in here.  The reality is neither Roth nor D'Angelo is indispensable.  Hell Roth had no sports franchise experience.  They were fired because they created an uncomfortable situation for many and a potential legal situation down the road.  That's on them and them alone.  They'll find replacements, the Bills will still be killing it on the field and financially (more than enough to support the Sabres) and all will be fine.

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  16. Around the NHL 2023-24 Season

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    22 hours ago, Zamboni said:

    Yes it always looks like a rave having sex with a circus and then threw up on a parade that wears hooker red lipstick and stilettos. 😂

     

    Vegas baby 

    And smells like weed.

    2 hours ago, Claude Balls said:

    Bedard's first NHL goal comes against Ullmark and Boston. Aww jeesh. 

    The kid looks amazing so far. 

    Zach Braff, er, Connor Bedard, will have a good career.

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  21. Sabres ticket sales still pretty dismal

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    10 minutes ago, Taro T said:

    Didn't say it necessarily would be the Pegulas as the owners that are looking to declare bankruptcy to remove that condition from the earlier sale.  

    And, considering the caveat that was in the sale agreement between Golisano and Pegula, you are mistaken about whether Pegula would have to have the Sabres declare bankruptcy to sell to an owner that wanted to move the team.

    I haven't read anywhere that it was the league who stipulated the NMC and not Golisano himself.

  22. Sabres ticket sales still pretty dismal

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    1 minute ago, Taro T said:

    Whomever owns the team at the time if they want to be able to sell to an owner that would move the team.  Wouldn't be terribly difficult to do were one determined.

    Terry can sell the team to whomever he wants.  He doesn't need to, nor would he ever, declare bankruptcy just to sell it to someone who will move the team.

  23. Sabres ticket sales still pretty dismal

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    9 hours ago, JohnC said:

    When Golisano sold the team to Pegula he noted in the news conference that the no-move clause existed. It certainly applies while Pegula is the owner. If Terry P. sells the team (don't see that happening any time soon) that is another matter. The issue here is not what the league will allow or not; the issue is what does the contract stipulation state. The matter revolves around the contract and law. 

    Golisano demanded the NMC, but Terry had no intention of moving the team anyway.  He can demand a NMC for the next owner if he so chooses.  And I believe he would.

    8 hours ago, Taro T said:

    Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the problem is, if they file for bankruptcy then clauses like that can readily be overcome.  And it is surprisingly easy to file for bankruptcy in a business like this.

    Who would be filing for bankruptcy? 

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