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Something of note in the playoffs? How about he tries actually making it to the playoffs.

I think we've finally reached the point where grammar needs to matter again. You're out.

I think Turris is the only one with an actual cap hit. The rest are just getting paid each year but without the cap hit. The Sabres did have a cap hit for Cody Hodgson this year though. He’s off the books moving forward.

"Cap hit" and "owed" are two different things though. The Sabres are paying Ehrhoff, but there's no cap hit thanks to the timing, using a compliance buyout when they were available. I didn't go through the rest of your list, but I know DiPietro was one and Turris was not (so he does have a cap hit). The others are a bit older and probably do fit into that timeline where the league was coming out of a lockout.

You were just recently talking about a heated toilet seat, right?

That’s an incredibly odd fantasy world you’re living in right there. Good luck with that.

Yeah, that's what I'm doing.🙄

Did they say why they were even interviewing him? I can't imagine that he's someone many want to hear from. Pulling a random name out of a hat, I don't think most Sabre fans are sitting here thinking "hey, I wonder what Brian Holzinger is up to".

Well that and he's destined to text pictures of his junk to said NYC media.

Players wanted to be on the ice against the young guy just breaking into the league? That's not exactly a shocker. I love this "hey, I used to be better than that guy, so I must be a big deal" phenomenon that always pops up after someone surprises.

But be sure to yell shoot when Dahlin is holding the puck behind his own net, waiting for the breakout to develop.

But so many more people are watching the bouncyball playoffs so it has to be better.

You want some real fun? Imagine the Sabres lose Johnson (31st pick in 2019) and then the 31st pick of 2021 is a major junior player and also decided not to sign. I’d assume the older pick (2019) would get the pick first and 2021 would get the following pick, but I don’t remember if they actually spell that one out.

I was just assuming it was some state run media, a league trying to influence it.

I’ll ignore the ranch part for now because I have zero interest in dipping a wing. But anyway, would you be fine if they just called them fingers or tenders? With those labels, it’s a meal that has a very important position in the world.

I do like the free for all option. My car is super old so I could risk it.

You and three other cars all reach a 4 way stop sign at the same exact time. What do you do? Me, I wait for someone to make the first move and then go from there.

Do you get this upset if someone gives you a thumbs up with no comment?

And apparently he's accelerating so he can go to BU next season. That's going to be one incredibly young freshman.

Every so often there's a movie you want to see, but not until it hits free tv. That's how I feel about this one. It looks very interesting/entertaining, but I'm going to save the $$$ this time around.

I watched it on Amazon the other day. That's the only way I'm going to watch anything with him, when it is "free". Yeah, I pay for prime, but you know what I mean. By the way, that was pretty good. I'm not really sure why they needed to shoe horn Jennifer Connolly into the story though.

You talked about the broadcast partners trying to get into the ownership game and you offered up as examples Comcast/NBC, Rogers... and NESN. Quite honestly, there is absolutely no connection between the three. Rogers did get into the ownership game and further their media empire after that. The Sniders have had the Flyers since day 1 and then later built the comcast empire (empire is putting it mildly). Hell, they're not even a broadcast partner of the league anymore. Only their regional networks have games. And then there's the Fenway group and NESN. Other than Rogers, these aren't broadcasters owning teams. These are owners getting into broadcasting. That's a tale as old as time. The idea of putting a team somewhere because a lead broadcaster is already there, I'm sure it's happened, but I doubt it's all that common. Hell, this very league actually let the Whalers move away while ESPN was one of their main broadcasters.

Are you not familiar with the meaning of the phrase bread winner?

Why do you include Fenway there? Do they own something other than a regional sports network (NESN)? I'd imagine there are a few other ownerships out there like that and a regional sports network is clearly not the bread winner. One of these things is not like the other.

If they have to do it, give them the Coyotes. The big problem with expansion is that it wouldn't just be 2 teams, it would eventually be 4. 36 is way too many teams, but they need that balance across the 4 divisions. MONEY GRAB