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Pretty sure, just about anything that wasted time historically would get labeled as "immoral." And, when pretty much everybody in a society is living day to day worrying about whether there'll be enough grain to survive the winter or whether the Dutchy just down the river will try to steal it & the women folk, can kind of see a point to it. Some of the activities that were considered immoral have gotten a better rap through the years. Others, not so much. Pretty sure a lot of what's gone from taboo to OK depended highly upon which vice has had the best lobbyists.

If the Sabres win the 2nd OA pick, if a deal can get worked out to move back to 4 w/ AZ or Seattle & they agree to not take a D at 2, do it. And then take either the guy that's left of Jiricek or Nemec or just take Jiricek outright if they're both there.

Well, was getting at it's probably not worth it when for a mere $22 more you can watch every game of their run to the Calder Cup championship.

Yes, but it is ~$8. Pretty sure it gives you all the games for that evening, not just the 1 you care about.

The AHL, & the Amerks, will be fine once the AHL & NHL adjust to having added 2 more NHL teams in the past 4 years. Except for the tweak to the SHL transfer agreement, all those issues you mention were there prior to adding Vegas & Seattle.

You were correct there. Their 2021 10K shows that they are, in fact, still losing a bundle. But revenues (not profits) doubled in both 2020 & 2021. And through a VERY quick look, it seems revenues are increasing faster than costs. So, would be surprised if they trim back advertising anytime soon even after the market is "stabilized." But, doubt they

Kea was one of the refs? Didn't realize that.

Yeah, the reffing left some serious room for improvement there. It was rivaling some of the worst youth reffing there is. At least in those games there's the excuse that the refs are still learning themselves. No idea what these guys excuses were.

My expectation is that it's good for the teams & leagues at least in the ST as it pumps significant advertising revenue into the coffers. (Even if the total # of ads don't go up, though they are as DraftKings & others find themselves mentioned more than Labatt's or Pepsi got mentioned; the demand for ads has gone up so the price per ad can go up as well.) Will be interesting how the inevitable gambling scandals get covered when another ref gets caught like the NBA guy a few years back. Doubt it'll really move the needle 1 way or another, but such an event could result in a serious black eye for a team or league. The pervasiveness of the advertising is troubling because there really are people w/ gambling addictions & even more w/ a propensity towards them and the seemingly 24/7 of gambling opportunities being blasted in everybody's face can't make things easier for those that do have/ could develop a problem. And the little phone # & disclaimer don't really counteract it much, if at all. Especially when we've just come through 2 years of lockdowns & still have rampant inflation and a major European war that may escalate, those little disclaimers don't do much for people that are hurting. If the ads didn't make the outfits money, they wouldn't run them. Would really like to see restrictions placed on them but don't know how that would legally be accomplished at this point in a way that passes Constitutional muster. Expect that when all is said & done, we'll find that they've created far more problems than the tax revenue they've generated can solve. Have absolutely no problem w/ casual gambling, but just expect that in the long run we'll find out 1st hand why unfettered gambling has been illegal in so many places. It's not because it's "immoral" to let people gamble, but rather because it brings too many people to a point where they can't fend for themselves through legal means & end up placing burdens on society that society isn't willing to accept. MHO. YMMV.

Didn't really see McCrimmon's status as being in doubt. Now DeBoer's ...

Why not simply pull a random fan wearing the wrong team's sweater out from their seat & let Sabretooth lead a good old fashioned pregame stoning out near center ice. Remember, if you are a 200 level or suite level ticket holder you are invited to join Sabretooth in greeting the infidel. This welcome to our barn ceremony is brought to you by Gerber Collision. Check out the DraftKings odds of just how much punishment will be inflicted & don't forget to sign in to the Sabres App to play along, as you could win a Sabres Prize Pack including a heated kidney shaped pool, a microwave oven, a Dyna-Gym, a kingsize Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum, a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi, real simulated indigenous American jewelry, a Gucci shoetree, a year's supply of boosters, a personally autographed picture of Rick Jeanneret, and Dylan Cozens's new unlisted phone number, a beautifully restored Air Canada Centre swizzle stick, Reinharts baby, a dream date in kneepads with Jacob Bryson, a new Montador, a new mastadon, a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego, a Merc Montclair, a Mark IV, a meteor, a Mercedes, an MG, a Malibu, a Michael Moriarty, a Maserati, a Mac Jones Tonka truck, a Mazda, an old Monza, or a scooter, a Winnebago, heck, a herd of Winnebago's, we're giving 'em away, a McCulloch chainsaw, a Vegas pregame show, a Filly divorce, a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot AND Austen Matthews' arm holding an apple. Now, if that doesn't get folks fired up, nothing will. Too much? Or, perhaps not enough?

He also has been slipping a bit on names & the like. Agree. Can't see him getting the promotion.

The only way the FLA pick winds up top 20 is if it is packaged w/ something else in a trade. If FLA is eliminated in either of the 1st 2 rounds, it will be 28. 3rd round elimination = 30. Losing in the Finals, it is 31; & if they take home Lord Stanley's Chalice it ends up 32.

Teams are allowed to have up to 3 skaters wearing a letter in a game. If nobody wears the C, there can be 3 A's. If there is a C, there can only be 2 A's. Goalies aren't allowed to officially be designated as in game C's/A's. How a team chooses who wears the letters for any given game is strictly up to them.

There is something to it that's truly compelling, no? Welcome back! 🍺

Told you, want the Sabres to end up w/ Jiricek & it likely won't happen from 9. 😉

Fun game to be at. Stating the obvious: that Rousek goal was huge. They had a chance to win it in the last minute of regulation but Gustaffson got just enough of a shot to get it to go off the crossbar. Haven't seen a crowd that big in Ra-cha-cha since before Dooner started playing stupid Cat games. We got loud in the 3rd & OT.

If the ticket readers could be located at the actual entrances or elsewhere rather than in the middle of that atrium basically making it pretty small on both sides, something like that might work.

Instead of only having the 1st 1-3 slots available to move, why not have a draft lottery where every slot is up for grabs, but in which teams are limited in both how far they could rise & how far they could fall. There'd be 16 separate drawings, with say an inability to move up or down past teams that were more than 8 slots away from them. So, in this year's draft, instead of Moe-ray-all having ~25% chance of staying where they are (their ~18% chance plus teams 12-16's chances), they'd also stay where they are if teams 10 or 11 won. That's all pretty much how this season's draft would work. The tweak would be that all lottery #'s stay in the subsequent lotteries, but the worst team that remains in the lottery would now win should there be a repeat winner. So, if Moe-ray-all didn't win the 1st lottery, but say Seattle did, for the next draft Moe-ray-all gets a W on their #'s, teams 10-16's #'s, and Seattle's. Team 10 still couldn't pass the Habs; so if they won that 2nd lottery, they get the 3rd pick, Moe-ray-all stays at 2, and now the Yotes win if any of the 3 teams now ahead of them win or if teams 11-16 win. The cons are it is complicated, but not really all that complicated, and occasionally somebody will fall even further than Detroit did that 1 year. The big pro is, now there's some interest in watching the results as seeing Vancouver at 16 doesn't mean Vegas is in slot 6 or 7, they could be anywhere from 8-15. And, the Sabres would have a pretty good chance to move up just enough to keep Detroit from snagging Jiricek on us. (Which is the real impetus for this thought exercise. 😉 ) Thoughts?

The Aisles kept pick 5(?) in a weaker draft year expecting they'd be giving up a significantly lower pick the next year. And their bet on themselves being significantly better the following year was right. Seriously doubt Vegas wouldn't keep pick 6. Would absolutely love to have that pick as it significantly increases the chance the Sabres land Jiricek and makes 9 a no brainer to grab the F the Sabres have assigned the highest ranking.

Clicked the Belleville - Ra-cha-cha game & instead of getting the "home audio feed" or "road audio feed" buttons got a "subscribe" button. So, it looks like the playoffs aren't part of the RS package. 😞

Hopefully people will keep posting ideas for what they'd like to see as a modification for pregame stuff. Willing to bring any and all ideas back to the Sabres when they're ready to speak of game "presentation" for lack of a better overriding term.

Well stated.

It doesn't seem to. Logged in & tried to select tonight's game & it came up w/ a subscribe button. 😞

Somebody here, probably @dudacek actually looked at the Sabres drafting by round for the last 10 years & compared it to other team's results. IIRC, the Sabres ended up w/ nearly the same overall NHLers as expected but rarely (nearly never) punched above their own weight class. (And if it wasn't Dudacek that put in the work, apologies to whomever did it. It was quite extensive. Danke to Dudacek or other. 🍺 )