Iron Crotch
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Clearly an expansion draft hurts stronger teams more than weaker teams. Nashville has 4 excellent defensemen they had to protect, so they could only protect 4 forwards. On a really deep team that is a killer. They protected Calle Jarnkrok since his is a young center and top penalty killer with a good contract... so they lost a 30 goal winger in James Neal. Then they ended up landing Kyle Turris and Nick Bonino. Had they know that they probably would have let Jarnkrok walk and protected Neal. Hindsight is 20/20.
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Younger. Faster. Better. Worse. It could happen and we could be fine with it.
I though it was "better"... "stronger"... "faster"...
Oh, and we gotta draft a guy named Steve Austin.
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At this point it's much easier to list things that have not been flagged as possibly carcinogenic.
Hockey! ...although that might lead to a heart attack... or, in the case of the Sabres, depression...
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I've been trying to stay away from alcohol lately. Physically I've been a bit of a trainwreck lately so I'm trying to clean up a few things. Of course, right after I decide to do this, I run into a series of days of insanity where I really need a drink. I envy your day drinking right now.
Congrats. It's not commonly known (I don't think?) but alcohol consumption has been linked to several forms of cancer: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/well/live/cancer-doctors-cite-risks-of-drinking-alcohol.html
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I was thinking a refund to season tickets holders, but I’d me more then willing to help them build a solid ETF portfolio. Although at the end of a Bull market cycle people are usually better off with a managed portfolio then un-managed ETFs
I think their used to be a finance thread on this forum... we should revive it one of these days (perhaps in the summer when there isn't much to talk about hockey-wise)
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It is, and good for you. You’re allowed to like whatever teams you want.
I totally agree with this and probably started much of the back-and-forth by questioning the use of "we" in reference to Vegas. My thought is "we" refers to your one true team... if that's Vegas I have no problem with that. Anyone can root for whichever team they want. I'd have been happy as hell had the Preds beated the Pens in the Cup final last year (although my "we" will always be the Sabres).
I've posted it many times, but I didn't and don't like the new expansion draft rules (much different than in the last round of expansion). A new team was able to acquire too much talent, too quickly, while at the same time diminishing competition by taking a good player from them (e.g., James Neal from the Preds). And, if the argument is that this Vegas team isn't talented just disciplined defensively and well coached, then I this that says something bad about the NHL as a league. I, for one, want a league that rewards skill over "muck 'em out, ultra-defensive" play. But, that's a matter of opinion, of course.
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Again, ROR is the second best player on our team. My opinion. Whether he is traded or not depends on the return. Personally I doubt if there is a return that makes me want to trade him. I believe the problem with our team,is depth not the "core" and as the "team"is developed around our core then we'll see results. Don't know about locker room issues anymore than the rest of us so I'll trust coach and management to sort that out.
I think he's our second best player as well. 60 point center, one of the top few faceoff guys in the league, probably our best penalty killing forward... guys like O'Reilly have a ton of value in the league. IMHO, were we to land a guy like Tavares (which history tells me will never happen) then O'Reilly is tradeable. Otherwise, he stays.
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I think they should invest that $19 million in ETFs.
:angel:
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So to bring this back to tonight's game, it's looking increasingly like no Cup final for Ovi. Still time left, but Tampa is solid.
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If you’ve been around that long, you know
A) the Sabres have not been brutal almost your entire life, and
B) sports fandom doesn’t work this way; the second you started referring to the Knights as “we,” you stopped being a Sabres fan. You are a bandwagon-jumper. Once you have traded in your membership in our tribe for a shiny new toy there is no going back.
You have become the cheating husband. Enjoy your floozie. Can’t wait until your weekend in Vegas wears off and you are stuck with a chain-smoker whose ass is rapidly ballooning to the size one of D4rk’s favourite cars.
I had Preds season tickets for the past decade and had a hell of a fun time going to those games over the years and rooting for the Preds. Yet I'll never refer to them as "we." ….the one game per year when the Sabres were in town, I was wearing Sabres gear sitting behind the Sabres bench (i.e., not my normal seats) rooting for our vastly undermanned team of lovable losers. :)
In SabresBills defense, if I lived in Vegas right now I'm sure I'd be rooting for them.
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Dortmund was close to being bankrupt 10 years ago. They just got back on track mainly by selling of all the good kids they had.
Also German league insisted on all clubs to clear their debts. Italian clubs are doing same now.
English and Spanish league are seeing massive debts with their clubs.
Good info. Thanks. Financial information is freely available for some of these clubs (e.g., I found Dortmund financials on Yahoo Finance). Their balance sheet looks good. Yet the keep on selling. They also continue to make stupid moves like letting Robert Lewandowski, arguably one of the top few strikers in the world, go to Bayern on a free transfer. Oof.
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This American team has a few top guys (Kane, Johnny Hockey, etc.) but a lot of the best American players just didn't want to play (Kessel, Eichel, Trochek, Pavelski, Keller, Gostisbehere, Galchenyuk, Auston Matthews, Seth Jones, Ryan Suter, etc.).
For what we sent to the tournament, this team did fairly well all things considered.
Congrats, Modo!
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I could see Pittsburgh losing Fleury because they could only protect one but they could have moved him for something else and let Vegas choose another player. All these GM’s had time to make moves with their rosters and didn’t. I’m getting tired of hearing gift wrapped players.
Go back and look at who Anaheim protected. Vermette and Bieksa. Maybe their no trade clause was an issue but let’s face it both players are garbage.
Look at Calgary we chose Engelland which we didn’t have to because he would have signed here anyway. We could have had Brouwer, Stajan, Versteeg, Stone or Elliot. And use them for trades later.
Nashville protects Jarnkrok
Florida protects Yandle and Petrovic.
Minny protects an aging Pominville
St. Louis protects Reaves
Toronto protects Martin
Washington protects Eller who has been third line material
Winnipeg protects Lowry who is invisible
Go back and look at the expansion lists. You guys can see for yourself at all the blunders.
Sorry you watch this player in practice daily you have to have a clue of what he brings. It’s like when Vegas claimed Carpenter off waivers from San Jose you can see what he had in practice and that made Leipsic expendable.
You're on a Sabres board with a Sabres screen name... yet you are using "we" in reference to the Knights.
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Didn’t his dad or Uncle play for the Bandits?
Only for, like, 24 years. (uncle)
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Faulk is only 26? (had to look it up) ....I'll take him on my team!
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Sounds like they’re having money problems.
They sold Ousmane Dembele to Barcelona last year for 105 million Euros. The 3rd or 4th biggest transfer fee ever. And, they've been a profitable club for years. I think they're catering to the shareholders rather than trying to win.
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I don't think Vegas is a cute story anymore, I'm officially annoyed as hell by this.
Yep. My complaints are registered on this forum. I don't like that the league made the expansion draft rules so lax that new teams can instantly put together Cup-worthy rosters. It's a slap in the face to fans of franchises (like ours) that have been chasing the Cup for decades. The owners get their expansion fee pay day and the long-time fans suffer.
Also (since it's late and I'm cranky) I can't stand the cheesy dinner theatre on ice pre-game show that they do in Vegas. :devil:
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In this era of 150 cameras and 14 refs you'd think someone would notice that the puck was sitting in the net.
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CP will very likely end up at Bayern. I'd have him at Arsenal in a hot second. Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang are already there, he'd be a perfect fit wide in a front three, and Alex Iwobi and Danny Welbeck could finally be fired into the sun...
A boy can dream.
Oh, and now they're buying Papastathoupous. Literally every ex-Dortmund player with an insane name is a bold roster building strategy...
Arsenal is after Sokratis? He's my favorite Dortmund player by a mile.
Dortmund is a hot mess right now. For one of the 20 richest clubs in Europe, they've been selling their best players at an alarming rate.
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Tyler Myers increasingly looks like Lurch
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Well, there is nothing in/around/near Buffalo like NYC
There are neighborhoods on Long Island with a very similar feel to parts of Western NY. WNY has the nicest people, but there are plenty of nice people on the Island. There's really not much draw to WNY unless you know it intimately and decide it's for you.
I agree completely. But, for a hockey player who just got married and is about the start a family... and his whole family lives a little over an hour away, it might have some appeal. Or not. Who knows. Tavares is mostly likely just driving up the price for the Isles. But, we as fans at least have to dream big!
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I’d hate living in New York City.
I’d be out of there the first chance I got.
I've lived in 7 states in all four time zones. My last choice was essentially between NYC (Manhattan) and Los Angeles. Both great professional opportunities on paper... but at my age I wanted nothing to do with the traffic and pace of life that comes with those places, so I chose none of the above and ended up in a smaller, slower city... New Orleans!
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You are right that there is a tax difference, but you are overstating it by something like 3x, at least as regards NYS. The top NYS rate is 8.8%. Also, NHL players pay state taxes to each of the states for their road games, and I think it’s based on 1/82 of their income per game (not 1/365), so they aren’t paying zero state tax.
It’s still real money when you’re making what JT will make, but it isn’t 16%+ of his income.
Yeah, I vaguely remember reading somewhere that they're taxed differently for road game income. I could probably look it up, but it's Friday and I'm lazy!
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Evander Kane says it’s about money, a chance to win, and lifestyle.
I think that’s true for all players, but what some fans fail to understand is the players definition of each may vary from theirs.
You basically said what I said, just in different words. ;)
Kane appears to prefer the big city partying lifestyle, Tavares appears to prefer a slower house in the suburbs family and dog sort of lifestyle. IMHO, Buffalo isn't a great fit for a guy like Kane. It could be a fit for a guy like Tavares (?).
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