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I liked most of what I heard/read about.

Imagine being from a country so spoiled that it offers to pay people $100 to get a vaccine that most of the rest of the world can't get at all.

This team is far from mediocre right now. I'm going with "The Frack You."

I think we need to distinguish between "tanking," i.e., purposefully being bad, and just being bad. This isn't by design. This is the team's two best players (one of whom was a RFA) wanting out.

This is just trolling.

Whom do you think is out there who is excited to sign with Buffalo? We already have one person who thinks the Sabres failed to ask Ryan Miller. What's your big theory? Come on. The team is obviously rebuilding. A goalie who is "in career" is going to want to win. A goalie who is old wants another shot at money, thus Anderson. And a goalie seeking a second or third chance might sign. Other than that, it's Levi, UPL, and that other guy whose name I don't remember because he's never going to hit the NHL. That's not tanking and it is not trying to lose.

It's speculative crap no matter how you want to try to repackage it.

They are signing the willing, not the inexpensive.

Tell you what: If it comes out that Ryan Miller is going to be a goaltender anywhere other than NYC, LA/ANA, or Toronto (remember, the border still is closed) next season, AND that the Sabres didn't ask him to come here next season, I'll give your theory that the Sabres screwed up some credit. Until then, it's all speculative crap.

They won the pennant. The Sabres are not going to win much.

I think @Doohickiehas it right. It's a development year. They are not trying to lose.

Now this is more of a concern.

As it should be.

1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1715275/ 2. They also have a school-aged child. 3. Lots of movies are filmed in Buffalo these days, too, but a professional actress would be smart to be based out of NYC or LA in the US. That's where the auditions and agents are.

And now I know whom @LGR4GMis betting on...

Maybe they asked him. Miller has a reason to stay in SoCal.

I agree. Certainly he isn't the future, but he doesn't have to be.

I just cut myself pretty badly at work. The anti-COVID-vaxxer in the office next to me asked me if I had received my tetanus shots. IT'S THE SAME CONCEPT

Neither would I, but the MLB team can buy their way out of this for less than it costs to pay a middle-inning reliever for one year.

1. They don't need money and no one credible has suggested that they won't spend on players. $8M for Taylor Hall was less than a year ago, for crying out loud. 2. They players weren't the problem when it came to Briere and Drury. That was an ownership--in fact, a minority ownership--problem. We don't have that problem now. 3. O'Reilly and Lehner situations were products of *management's* failure to recognize issues and deal with them properly. Again, the players were not the problem. In O'Reilly's case, the simple solution was to give him a C and tell Jack to sit down and listen. In Lehner's case, the simple solution was to let him get the help he needed and have him return the following year. 4. Reinhart and Eichel are justifiably frustrated, and the decisions criticized in point 3 above are probably parts of that. But so is Eichel's inability and/or unwillingness to lead--I just don't think that's his bag, just like it wasn't Perreault's. And so is the revolving door for coaches. Enough is enough. I would say that if there is one "player who is the problem," it is Eichel, and not because he didn't play well, but because he shouldn't be a captain of a hockey team.

We do? I've read on here that the Sabres don't like Russians because Terry Pegula doesn't like Russians and he's really running the team no matter who the GM is.

I will fight it. I will lead the fight against hopium. May it take a hundred years, may it cost a million lives, I will NOT LET IT HAPPEN.

[Sigh] maybe it is going to happen, Gretchen.

Phew ok good.