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How on earth does he know that name? Did he spend some time in the area early in the career?

Who could have seen this coming?

The argument is that the PA exists and such a suspension would never stand. It’s not worth the effort to the league to try it.

How reputable can NEJM be if I’m in there??

This is the absolute worst time possible to refuse to report. He’s going to play it by the book right now in hopes of a trade going through. If the deadline passes and nothing happens, that’s when he’d walk out if he didn’t want to be in Rochester.

It definitely was a big deal and then glad they did it. But the fact that he was back from the other suspension for about 30 minutes also helps. Didn’t he just get a recent contract extension too?

Ok. I didn’t realize they use the “termination of contract” terminology for what I’ve always identified as being released. When I hear termination I think of a Berglund situation where the contract was violated. So yeah, they can go that way if agreed upon, but the majority of the money still hits the cap (what’s the amount you can stash, something around 800 or 900k?). If people need a recent example, it’s Kovalchuk in LA, but that one was a 35+ deal so it’s slightly different. That thing is hitting them for $6.5 million even next year.

Have you met China?

Why would he do that? He loses the money that way. I think what most people are picturing is the Sabres releasing him (which is their decision, not his). In that case, he’s free, he gets his money, and the team saves a minimal amount of cap space. But as was mentioned upthread, typically when a player is waived with the intent to release, the media catches wind of it right away.

Nothing screams 2000s night like Danny Gare!

Nothing will come of this. They're probably just clearing him through just in case they need to later free up a roster spot next week.

There are 60 teams.

So the virus is now able to instantly travel halfway around the world and infect anyone who is Chinese? It's a good thing the reporting hasn't been too over the top because you just know that there are people out there who would actually believe this.

I love how one fact actually saw it and immediately complained to the linesman. For whatever reason, I've always got a kick out of people yelling at linesmen for real ref stuff. And sorry, I really wasn't going for a cheap pun with that getting a kick out of something line.

That Zagrapan draft was really crappy. Outside of some guy who went first overall, there is maybe a handful of good players in that draft. Strangely enough, the worst players of the batch are all centralized right around the Zagrapan pick. As for the other missed first rounders, the picks as a whole are much later than we’re used to on our present day of garbage hockey. That’s much deeper into crap shot land, especially with the tar t pool not being as developed and NHL ready as they are today. I’d be willing to bet that the success rate, however one might measure that, is higher today than it was 10-20 years ago.

He brought in more than enough talent to build a very good hockey team. The main problem was no retaining that talent. It's tough to know for sure how much credit belongs to the drafting team when it comes to guys who develop after moving onto a new organization, but if you look at the resumes of all of those players as a whole, I do think there's a very good team in there. Sure there were plenty of misses, but I think the hits outweighed them. Failure to sign and develop does not equal a failure to draft. The results to look to tail off though towards the later years. I'd suspect that you'll find that this coincides pretty well with when old sugar packets tightened the purse strings on all things off the ice.

Missing a couple games could cost him a few dollars on the next contract. We have to find the positives where ever we can. Pu's already been dumped. That trade is listed as future considerations, so they may in fact have gotten nothing for him.

The way our defensemen were dropping like flies, there's no way I'd ever assume a cup win if they had escaped that game. At the rate things were going, the Sabres would have been forced to hand second pairing minutes to 2007 4th round draft pick in game 4 of the final. That's why 99 will always sting more for me. That team only needed to win one more game instead of a full series.

The hyperbole around this trade has gotten to the point of absurdity. Yeah, he can never come out ahead on a trade ever after making that deal. If only he had pulled the trigger on another deal 32 days later. Or some other deal roughly one year later.

That year? Wasn't he at one point the longest tenured player ever in the league to not score a single goal? Or maybe it was just among forwards. I remember there being some specific designation for his impressive level of futility. It's funny to see now, 3 years later that he actually has a pair of 10+ goal seasons under his belt.

I associate that team with the 90s for whatever reason, so I hadn't thought of them when reading this. One thing you left out was the 8-0 massacre to eliminate Philly in the first round. What Sabre fan doesn't love something like that? But man, that Pittsburgh series is way up there on the list of painful results. Down 2 games to 0, storm back to win the next 3, then lose the last 2 in OT. And then you mix in that it was the end of the Hasek era and the whole thing just stings. We had our brief run a few years later, but it really was the start of the darkness around these parts. And on a side note, the recently deceased Vlad Tsyplakov was on that team. I hope they acknowledge him, even if they already did back when he died.

So Wilson goes back to Rochester. They would only need to open up that one roster slot, but who else comes out of the lineup? Sheary got one the other day so he at least gets a 1 game free pass. Rodrigues seems like an option, but he's one of the very limited options to center a line.

This one will never happen. Just imagine being a CHL team and having your best player called up in the middle of an intense playoff run. At least when you lose someone at the start of the season, you have time to build in backup plans. Sure, this exact scenario could happen today with an emergency recall, but those require some crazy and rare circumstances and are by definition short-term.

I hate when he added paint jobs. At that point, the helmet lost what made it unique.

They already had that exact fear long before this virus showed up.