syr6987 Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 read it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetweenThePipes00 Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 Great ... one more story about what Darcy "could" have done last summer ... if only he was Kreskin and could see the future he could have given guys 4-year deals ... I am happy for McKee but the Sabres are going to be just fine without him. And if the Blues have one of the "top 3 groups of D-men in the league" next season, I'll be quite stunned. Jay might be a tad excited there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSabresFan! Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 Good article. Sometimes in life and sports you take a gamble. Sabres gambled and lost with Jay. Sounds like he has a good head on his shoulders and I wish him the best in St. Louis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 After reading that article, I am LESS unhappy about Danny not being signed LT last summer. I'm still not pleased, but I am a little more forgiving now. Jay stated that Danny was looking for $2.7/ for 4 years. That is more than I would have placed his value on August 4, 2005. I was unhappy about the Sabres not locking him up for 3 years because I would have expected he'd have signed for ~$2.4/yr. Locking in $10.8MM (vs. $7.2MM) looks like chump change now, but with the expectation last season that the salary cap wouldn't rise much or more likely would actually go down, $2.7MM was a lot of $'s for a guy who had only reached 60 points 2 times in his career. The Sabres were pretty adamant last season that they felt there was far too much uncertainty regarding how well fans and $'s would come back to the game for them to give any 4 year deals. Unfortunately, that is a stance that bit them in hindsight. I'm not saying that I would have been HAPPY with them not getting a LT deal done, had I known what Danny wanted, but I would likely have seen it the way I saw them not giving Jay a LT deal. (Which is, I would have preferred seeing the guy locked up and still would have locked the guy up were it my money (which it wasn't), but understood that there were risks involved in making the LT deal the player would accept and could understand where the Sabres felt the risks of a LT deal outweighed the risks that the ST deal represented. It turns out in hindsight that the LT deals were definitely the way to go, but it wasn't that painfully obvious 1 year ago.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fronz1103 Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 what stands out in this article the most is that the Sabres could have had Briere for just over half for four seasons of what he is getting now!!!! four seasons at 2.7 million looks like a bargain now!!! " The Sabres front office is seemingly deffinetly going for it" I hope we get it. Good read... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 Who's Garth? And how do we know he's not making the whole thing up? Does he tell the players he talks to that they will be quoted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetweenThePipes00 Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 Who's Garth? And how do we know he's not making the whole thing up? Does he tell the players he talks to that they will be quoted? Yeah "Garth" scares me a bit ... he's obviously not a pro like some of the guys on that site (and don't say maybe he is but doesn't want his name known, his grammar and spelling leave a lot to be desired) ... and he just seems to want to stir up #%^$#! most of the time. This is a perfect example... if true it is GREAT info, but he presents it in a very confrontational manner toward the Sabres ... I don't know, i guess he's going for the shock value ... (although I'm not sure Danny would appreciate Jay giving out numbers like that, like PA said, how much of this was off the record? I mean, if this guy had a tape recorder out, would McKee really be spewing numbers like that? and if he DIDN'T record the interview, is he giving direct "quotes" from memory? and yeah, i am sensitve to these things because I am in the business, so to speak) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 Yeah "Garth" scares me a bit ... he's obviously not a pro like some of the guys on that site (and don't say maybe he is but doesn't want his name known, his grammar and spelling leave a lot to be desired) ... and he just seems to want to stir up #%^$#! most of the time. This is a perfect example... if true it is GREAT info, but he presents it in a very confrontational manner toward the Sabres ... I don't know, i guess he's going for the shock value ... (although I'm not sure Danny would appreciate Jay giving out numbers like that, like PA said, how much of this was off the record? I mean, if this guy had a tape recorder out, would McKee really be spewing numbers like that? and if he DIDN'T record the interview, is he giving direct "quotes" from memory? and yeah, i am sensitve to these things because I am in the business, so to speak) You're the Pred's Zamboni driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetweenThePipes00 Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 You're the Pred's Zamboni driver? LOL ... would the Zamboni driver be concerned with grammar and journalism ethics?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregor7777 Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 Yeah "Garth" scares me a bit ... he's obviously not a pro like some of the guys on that site (and don't say maybe he is but doesn't want his name known, his grammar and spelling leave a lot to be desired) ... and he just seems to want to stir up #%^$#! most of the time. This is a perfect example... if true it is GREAT info, but he presents it in a very confrontational manner toward the Sabres ... I don't know, i guess he's going for the shock value ... (although I'm not sure Danny would appreciate Jay giving out numbers like that, like PA said, how much of this was off the record? I mean, if this guy had a tape recorder out, would McKee really be spewing numbers like that? and if he DIDN'T record the interview, is he giving direct "quotes" from memory? and yeah, i am sensitve to these things because I am in the business, so to speak) garth is about as pro-Sabres as you can get though, if you read his posts on their forum and his daily blogs over there. not saying he might not have an agenda, but it wouldn't seem so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 LOL ... would the Zamboni driver be concerned with grammar and journalism ethics?!?! You never know. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BetweenThePipes00 Posted August 5, 2006 Report Share Posted August 5, 2006 For the record, no, I don't work for the Preds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted August 5, 2006 Report Share Posted August 5, 2006 For the record, no, I don't work for the Preds. OK, so if it isn't the Preds, who do you drive the Zamboni for? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopeleslyobvious Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 OK, so if it isn't the Preds, who do you drive the Zamboni for? ;) Honestly, a Zamboni driver is a much more credible source than hockeybuzz. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearTheReaper Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 well i hope mckee enjoys golf in april cuz theres no chance in hell there making it to the playoffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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