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How is that possible?

I’m well aware of that. What about the five seasons when Dunleavy WAS doing it live from the venue? He’s been horrible since day one, regardless.

Which is why he should be relegated to doing features only.

That’s just Dunleavy projecting his own lack of puck awareness onto the players, which he pretty much does all game, every game. He’s the worst play by play announcer I’ve ever heard in any sport, bar none. Can’t paint a picture to save his life and if you’re listening to the radio vs watching it on TV, you have little clue what’s happening in real time in the game.

I get ZERO joy out of watching Butcher attempt to play. None.

Most welcomed

Quinn had a decent tourney last year. Showed well in fact. Especially on the D side of things, which was surprising.

Regarding R2, when I watch him play for the Amerks, I seem to be watching a different player than when I watch him on the Sabres. He’s much more confident in the A it seems. He needs to trust his game more in the NHL.

The curse of raised expectations. Forces even the best of fans to lose perspective at times.

If Sanders is back, I imagine he will line up as the slot receiver. He’s played it a ton during his career and plays it well. If not him, gotta think it will be McKenzie. Let’s hope it’s Sanders.

Why do you suppose that 15 day time frame applies? Do some digging of your own and find out.

I wish all of your family members well, John. Equating a SARS virus with the common cold is the definition of underrating. It’s a SARS virus for crissakes.

I’d be interested in the data.

It’s still a SARS virus and it is still putting people in hospitals. It’s far from a common cold.

More like Botcher time.

To come from behind twice to get the W, in that barn, against that team really made it a highly satisfying, quality win.

Nah, you never hear, “Fork the mofo!” It’s always, “Shiv the mofo!”

We might actually be seeing a bit of the Tuch effect already in practice. Nobody wants to be the one he replaces and competition for spots is one key to improving.

Can see why. He’s flat out winning this game because the Sabres dominated the Wild like they haven’t dominated anyone else that period. 30 shots attempted for the Sabres to 12 for the Wild; 19 SOG vs. 6 for the Wild. Sabres carried the play the entire period.

No thanks.

Shots on goal or shots consumed?

Aside from the 40% of gate revenue that goes to the visiting team, Jerruh gets to keep all of the local (unshared) revenue he generates all to himself which is upward of $600m according to some reports I’ve seen. All national revenue is shared equally but it’s not like Jones is losing money in that scenario because it’s just not part of the local revenue he keeps anyway. New stadiums that generate more local revenue streams even the playing field a bit however, because in terms of percentage of revenues that go to player costs, the Bills of the world are spending spending much more than the Cowboys and Patriots of the world. It is a real competitive disadvantage to generate so much less local revenue.

I don’t want to turn this into a protracted discussion about bad ownership that meddles. The Pegulas have screwed the pooch, that’s where we are, and all I can do is hope Adams and Co. can get it turned around. My only point was that COVID has had a negative, perhaps devastating impact on league wide gate revenues for two+ seasons now and I’m simply wondering if that could be cited by teams facing the loss of revenue sharing.

I suspect COVID might be cited as a mitigating factor and I wonder if there is some type of force majeure language in the CBA.