That Aud Smell

Thank goodness - finally!

But to be clear: XXXXXXXXXXXX is on the table.

The silence that has followed this report tends to confirm that this was an invention of Brisson.

Hoo boy. Good job, Dan-O.

^ It's absurd that a guy that size can move like that. He's been fantastic so far this season.

One thing I will add, though, re the Dan Lust questions about "where are Snyder's emails": When you're at the tippy tippy top of the food chain, you don't need to use email. And you may well not use it. You'd certainly be well advised not to use it.

Did that investigation not conclude with the $10M fine this past June or July? Edit: Okay. Reading the Dan Lust Tweets - I get it.

I don't understand the use of "antics" here.

thanks @Hoss i’d been looking for reproduced copies of the emails themselves, rather than descriptions and quotes. I don’t think anyone has published the emails themselves in toto.

I looked - did not find them. What search terms should I be using?

^^ I didn't keep a running inventory, but my takeaway was that Collinsworth was absolutely brutal in making his story lines about the Chiefs, not the Bills. Insufferable.

^ I do think that’s what’s going on. Hence, Brisson on podcasts and such, leaking “developments” to Dreger, et al.

I see no reason why not.

I keep reading that The Athletic is out there trying to be bought. I am sure that their rank and file are being pushed hard to generate clicks. Um - it doesn't. 😔

Sadly, I think this is right on. OTOH, there was a puff piece about Sam Ventura in today's online Buffalo News. They're building out the analytics department and, we have to hope, will be really good about what kinds of role players they bring in. Relatedly, moving Eichel's cap hit could be one of the significant benefits the team realizes from this deal.

absolutely - i'd hope they could go as far as 3 years out. of course, that would be a lot of delayed gratification (and, sure, risk) for the Sabres. but i don't see any other way for the Sabres to pull something close to fair value.

There's no way an arguably fair deal gets done here without conditions. They have to be part of the deal. If Eichel/receiving team accomplishes this/these things, then the Sabres get that thing/those things. What makes it tricky is the matter of what present value the Sabres can expect to receive. There's no conditioning that. And there may be nothing to do there but grin and bear it, from the Sabres' perspective. The Sabres are most likely not getting a top-shelf prospect/young NHLer in this deal.

God bless him.

why did this thread survive the Sabrespace DNS routing crash, but not other more important threads?

Right. That's the message I received when I clicked on a notification of a reply/reaction within one of those threads. Then I looked for them, and could not find them. 😕

*Poof* Gone. At least 2, maybe 3, of them. What gives?

Interesting. From what I saw moments ago (sorry no link), it sounds like other teams have a fuller medical picture because Eichel himself is providing it (with records of his doctors' own making (MRI's, etc.)).

As a rule, employers are not governed by HIPAA; health care providers are. It's probably right that the CBA has something to say about it. And the player may have rights under state law regarding the privacy of those records. My sense all along had been that the Sabres were the ones who didn't want his medicals out there -- that Eichel's camp wanted more of an open-book approach. But maybe that was a mistaken impression.

I'm not sure whether HIPAA would restrict the team from disclosing his medicals -- the Sabres are not a HIPAA-governed entity and his medicals, in this instance, may not qualify as protected health information.