MattPie

I agree Ullmark would have likely been better than the Sabres 9 guys they iced this year. He's signed for 4 with Boston at $5M/yr, and has played 28 games and is ranked by stats between 20-30 in the league. If Swayman is Boston's answer, they're going to have a $5M backup for the next three years. The Sabres would have been in the same place, possibly. He'd be better than what the team has today, but he's not *good*, and I don't think you sign anything less than good to a four or five year contract.

I'm not sure the "mediocre overpaid goalie with term" merket is as strong as you make it out to me. This seems like to road to having to pay $10M cap for the net.

Oh, more: https://buffalonews.com/sports/sabres/sabres-goalie-prospect-erik-portillo-preparing-to-take-over-starting-job-at-michigan/article_6b29dd52-ce02-11eb-bf56-f3d526154ea3.html

Okay, was interested enough to look for Portillo: Drafted at 18 or 19: check Drafted Late June 2019 by the Sabres Played USHL 2019-2020 Played NCAA 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 So, the question is, when is he a bona-fide college student? From the sounds of it, it had to be before June 1 2020.

Agreed. Also, with the Sabres depth, VO that can't shoot might still be better than the replacement player. I haven't watched, has he shown improvement in other aspects fot he game?

I don't think he'd be a bad captain, right now though I'm not sure I want to roll the "22-year-old captain" dice again. A more experienced vet (Tuch, etc.) makes more sense to me right now.

Not sure how to parse the latter part of that. If I player leaves college early (like let's say Portillo quits school next week), but doesn't sign with the drafting team, are they UFA on August 15th? Or it sounds like A still applies, but then I don't know when all the B stuff would apply since A would always be later.

Love that these two topics are next to each other. Hope never dies.

If it matters, make sure there's usable internet there by calling Spectrum or whatever. A lot of the "Available in your area" type stuff on the net and FCC website is based on zipcode, not on street address.

This is a really good point. The backup may be looking at the team outside Levi and think he's going to look like garbage next year since it's unlikely he's going to have one of the top seasons in NCAA history. I don't know if the guy has a shot at the NHL, but looking awful in the NCAA probably isn't the path to get there.

I think this is spot on. Even if it wasn't the Eichel dynamic directly, the ASG seems to be the turning point which wouldn't have happened with Eichel being on the team. It's probably a combination of whatever Dahlin and Hedman talked about, or maybe casual comments by other players (a simple "damn, that was a amazing" from a superstar after a play would be an eye-opener for a young player). Whatever the case, Dahlin is feeling it and given the time factor, I hope it's not just a string of good weeks.

Beat me to it, lol.

It's nuts in Ithaca too. Anything you see asking, expect ~100k over for the winning offer. We were looking at land and even that had multiple offers within a day of going on the market.

I dated a Technical Editor for a number of years. Besides being a nice person, she really shaped up my ability to write.

I looked at MLA quickly, but didn't find the proper noun rules before I lost interest.

10-15k fewer people driving out to OP and generating revenue. Which I'm not even sure that happens with The Bills as much as other places. Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc. play in the city, so people have an opportunity to do something else before or after the game. There's *nothing* around the Ralph last I checked, and I'm not sure this is going to change that.

So what you're saying is if the stadium was privately funded, the revenue from the Bills and related stadium events wouldn't have to go towards paying back interest and loans and could be used to other priorities? It's not like the revenue would go away if the public didn't fund the stadium and it got built using loans or whatever other other means the private entities have.

I think it's two Peggys that do own it, and they're still wrong. Should be Peggys' Cove. Not sure if you switch to ies for proper nouns. This link at least says no: https://grammarist.com/plurals/plurals-of-nouns-ending-in-y/ as does this TV show that popped into my head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kennedys_(miniseries).

Well put. There is a benefit to having the team here. I definitely don't think it's worth putting $850M into a stadium across the street from the existing field. At the end of all this, it'll just be status quo. I could almost see it if they put it downtown as a revitalization project to bring more people there.

I don't think Levi playing a few games in the NHL this year would put him in front of anyone, really. I can't put facts on this, but it seems like late in the year (especially in a lost year like this), it's common to bring up a young goalie for a game or three to give them a taste of the NHL and what they'll have to do to make it. I think the Sabres see the other side of it; there's a whole generation of goalies that had their first game/win/shutout against the Sabres this last decade.

I remember the west being this way years ago, but the east was always bunched up.

Seems like the secondary market would have better prices on tickets, no?

Seems like #fancystats will have something that takes in quality of competition (over the competition's Last 10 adjusted for competition, not season), and record already. For example, as awesome as the Toronto, VGK, and Vancouver wins are, those teams seem to be slumping and should be rated lower than a win over a team that's actually playing well.

Late to this one but... I'm guessing MSG/PSE doesn't want to license them. I assume they're not the same rights as the game itself (which the NHL probably owns or something).

As long as Trump doesn't get reelected, it'll be smooth sailing, I'm sure of it.