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I'd have zero interest in watching Sabres players compete and get hurt in a meaningless mid-season tournament. The Olympics would be nice. That means something. Your idea, while creative, is not something in which I would want NHL players involved.

France, Norway, and every other country I mentioned above, have the opportunity to grow the game. They choose not to, because they prioritize other sports (France, soccer and rugby, and maybe even basketball, for example) and that's ok. They have regular tournaments where the winners ascend to the IIHF tournament, and where the losers play to move up the next time. It's not a question of opportunity. It is a question of how many.

They do have such a tournament--or at least used to. It seems that the gate is wider than it had been.

I just noticed how large the tournament field is...16?! That's too many teams. @matter2003 has a point here. They must play 7 group games before playoffs! There are MUCH more prestigious tournaments in sports (the World Cup, Olympic hockey, etc.) with much less preliminary action. If they're doing 16 teams, there should be 4 groups. Ideally it would be 12 teams (groups of 4) or 10 (groups of 5) with wild cards. Even the winners of Wimbledon have to play only 7 matches; the NCAA tournament, 6 or 7, etc. Out of Austria, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Hungary, Latvia, Norway, and France, only 4 should be in this tournament.

I've seen plenty of people with paper signs that they hold up, though. They just don't hold them up during play. Seems they usually allow that stuff in, which is why I'm wondering if it was about the stick.

Yeah that's not cool. I rarely care about the Amerks. To me, they're here to serve the Sabres and for little else (until this time of year). I'm about as bandwagon as it gets. I'll bet there are a lot of Buffalo-based Sabres fans (not necessarily on this board) who are the same way. Meanwhile, there are a lot of Rochester fans who are Amerks fans in their own right and who deserve to have the game close to them.

What was the reason? Someone could take the stick and use it as a weapon?

So it's on to "Series T"? https://theahl.com/stats/playoffs/80

Three, not even counting the baseball stuff.

If Hannah is in it, I'll watch it.

There's also this: I don't think anyone knows anything.

It's been so long since I've been over there. No idea. The one on Delaware is pretty close to the original.

The bottom countries have to play to avoid relegation. There are different teams at the bottom every year (same goes for Olympics).

I'm thinking DN just licensed the right to use the LaNova name at the Arena. I don't think that LaNova is making that pizza. So if LaNova wants to hurt its own brand, I guess it's allowed to...

Doesn't it come from vendors conceding a percentage of their receipts to railroads?

They did have Toronto with them for a while.

Their fans hated it, just like Toronto fans did when they were in the western conference. So would I if half of the Sabres' games were in other time zones. I do wonder about some of these western cities that are being proposed, though. No doubt the Coyotes had a very loyal following, but it is a SMALL very loyal following, similar to what @\GoBillsInDallas/ wrote in the Round 3 thread about DFW. It's just going to be the same problem in Houston, KC, or Salt Lake. Portland might make some sense, but really Quebec City is where it's at. Maybe we have to deal with unbalanced conferences; it's not the worst thing in the world.

US won handily; Canada against Kazakhstan shortly.

Washington but the last straw for me was when they got rid of the shift. I haven't watched a baseball game this year and probably won't.

NONE OF THE ABOVE.

Yeah, the fare has been and is bad, and it has been bad since the Sabres opened up shop under the elder Jacobs's eye. That's a LONG time ago. I've complained about it in this space, and so have you. This might be the punch in the face that the family needs (again, DN's fare in other markets really is better). And if not, well, sorry. There's really not an entitlement to generational wealth.

Have you really never watched the 1985 version of Brewster's Millions?

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/legends-wins-bills-stadium-food-and-beverage-contract/article_47efad64-f450-11ed-b124-ab618ae018f0.html#tracking-source=home-top-story Finally. Finally, Jacobs doesn't get to serve substandard fare, under whatever brand name, at at least one WNY venue. The chokehold he has had on this community--crappy food at the stadium, crappy food at the arena, I think he still has the airport, is over. Other cities with Jacobs-based concessions are actually ok. Not great, but ok. He's abused us locally. And I'm glad he's out of Orchard Park. The arena should be next.

I used to call it Rangeritis but it is absolutely a disease rooted in Toronto now.

No one stepped up, but the spirit of @deluca67 moved me to create this thread for you. I won't watch much of it. There is no team I like in it: 1. Carolina. This team started the ZIP code restrictions for ticket purchases, in 2006. Their fans were *nasty* in 2006 when the only reason the team (which is separate from fans, yes) won was because of injuries. They accused @Drunkard or someone of eating babies. No, I cannot root for them. 2. Dallas, should be obvious, and Hull still won't admit it. 3. Florida. This is all about the no one wins before the Sabres win thing. 4. Vegas. Same. For a lot of Sabres fans, it's about Eichel, and I'm not going to rain on that parade. Rather, for me, it's more about #3, and about the cap circumvention.