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This has been ongoing for a while. Poloncarz's remark didn't stimulate it. I think New Era is overextended. And its parking lot is empty.

No, Buffalo was the threat dangled to make sure the Expos built a dome. As usual, MLB used Buffalo to get other cities to move in the direction MLB wanted.

Of course I do! But it was planned and in the works well before '76. Never was the plan to have the Expos in Jarry Park permanently.

No one was going to deny expansion across the border into that gorgeous retractable-roof stadium that was Olympics-worthy.

Yeah, there are revenues to be had, but these so-called bubbles are going to be really expensive.

I can’t see how it will be profitable.

TIL that Swamp is actually Billy Zabka.

Possibly NSFW Bruce Smith moment: https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fricheisen%2Fstatus%2F1282498607157964800&widget=Tweet

Dude, you're whiter than me!

They want Chicago, Rangers, and Montreal, really.

Given that my basic point is "humanity is crappy no matter whether in North America or elsewhere," I don't think I even need a defense!

We don't have any personal problems with one another as far as I can tell.

IIRC, this is exactly what Florida State did, and the Seminole tribe/nation (I'm not sure which designation they use) approved the continued use of the name and logo.

https://www.tsn.ca/list-of-nhl-players-to-opt-out-of-return-to-play-1.1494505 Max Domi remains questionable.

There's no need to reseed these teams, just like there's no need to expand the playoffs to 24. The NHL really just can't get out of its own way sometimes. But I do see how some warmup games are a good idea.

Ogre, you definitely are misinterpreting me. And how did we get on the topic of sports mascots? I don't like Washington's name, and I'm glad they're changing it, and I didn't like Cleveland's mascot, and I'm glad it's gone.

I am sick of the Sabres using draft picks with fifty percent results. Trade it to some dumber team, if there is one

You put it much better than I did. @Ogre at some point your ancestors lost a war. I don't know against whom because I don't know which tribe or when it happened. There were a number of cultures invading the hemisphere, some of which (Portugal, Spain) were considerably more warmongering with respect to the natives than others (France, Netherlands). Your ancestors may even have lost wars to other native nations; I don't know. At some points, my ancestors lost wars, too. I know, for example, that my grandfather's family was long ago (EDIT I mean, as in well before his lifetime, like around the same time Europeans were invading the Americas) driven from their lands and across a border. The specific difference may be that my ancestors probably looked more like their conquerors than your ancestors did, meaning that they were less susceptible to discrimination on sight. (BTW my mention of the model longhouse was to demonstrate that we did in fact learn about natives in schools, and was not some self-congratulatory gesture.)

What do the Sabres need to add to pick 8 to get him?

I haven't kept up with everything; what is the round robin all about?

Fair point.

Q: You are Canadian, but deep inside can you say you at least feel a little bit Brazilian? A: Yes growing up in Canada mainly I am a Canadian citizen but I do feel that a part of me is still Brazilian having been born there. He also supports the Brazilian soccer team. https://www.nhl.com/kings/news/robyn-regehr-brazil/c-667771

I always thought it was a wolf.

Then we have to call Regehr a Canadian if we're going to be consistent. Let's just say Tsyplakov is Russian.

Well, wikipedia has a Belarussian flag next to his name. So one of them is right (probably NHL). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buffalo_Sabres_players