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I’d be curious to see if a Verona winner has ever played less games than that in a full season. … or at least in the “modern” era where the trophy goes to one goalie.

I’ll give you five million and one dollar!

Didn’t he come back to the organization years later?

Thanks to this, I am now listening to Hot for Teacher.

Is there anything at this point that stops a college player of any league from signing an equipment deal? If he's allowed to do that, there's a lot more money on the table for McKennafrom the CCMs of the world. The ECHL is getting the guys who have finished up their junior and college eligibility. So at worst, they'll lost a few guys who run their course in junior and then move on to college, but that's a very short-term thing.

Wouldn't HAVE Man, this one continues to drive me crazy.

Auto-correct sucks

That’s actually my plan for lunch later today.

What’s the source on this $700k? I’d imagine he’s got money coming from a few different places this year.

They’re trying to buy a championship.

Remember the outrage around here from a poster or two when Auston Matthews went to that pro league in Switzerland instead of major junior? Well look where the hockey world has gone now.

Marchand flat out said it prior to free agency. If he’s offered the same thing from a high tax team and a low tax team, he’s taking the lower tax. It’s one of many factors, but it does matter. Now, in his case, he was fortunate that the winning and the tax lined up, but it’s not going to work that way for everyone. https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/countdown-to-free-agent-frenzy-will-brad-marchand-stay-put-with-the-florida-panthers-1.2318905

The two arbitration cases and Levi… are there any other RFAs left? Levi definitely isn’t driving up the cap number at all.

By “a number of years” do you mean “pretty much every year”? I think that’s pretty much how it goes and has gone for a long time now, predating Pegula.

Pegula came in guns blazing when he took over too. Unfortunately he was stuck buying out the second tier guys after the top would be agents chose to either stay home or go somewhere else. He spent on the likes of Leino, Ehrhoff, and Okposo. He tried, but he got the wrong people. Then something changed along the way and the purse strings tightened. Only time will tell if Utah is heading on the right path.

It will be a good experiment to put the owner effect on display.

With Bryson’s contract, that’s actually pretty easy to do.

It’s pretty much something along those lines. Both sides are very new to each other. Quite honestly, I think it’s a smart approach for a guy just acquired in a trade. They haven’t had much time to talk yet and this move establishes a very defined timeline and makes it more of a priority for both sides. It is interesting though to see how much the number of players filing for arbitration has shrunk in the last couple years. I’d imagine that the increasing cap plays a big role in that. More money is available but arbitration results are going to be based off of the older less expensive contracts.

Your post is perfect. That’s exactly how you’re supposed to feel.

How’d that work out for him?

Look, I get that you hate the negativity around here. I do too. But that doesn’t mean you have to have to attempt to refute every single post that casts even the slightest amount of shade on the Sabres organization. It’s blatantly obvious that this was a bargain bin GM hiring, and this is one of those cases of you get what you pay for.

So Pegula either rolled out the brinks truck for Adams or he was a low cost hire. I’ll let you choose whichever one you’d be more happy with.

And you believe that? Adams himself is a cost-saving hire.

Unproven but NHL ready. For once, they didn’t add another 18-20 year old.

At least with Doan there’s the age factor. He’s just coming out of his ELC and is 4-9 years younger than anyone else on that list. The rest are what they are, but he’s still developing.