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Wow, that leaves me hopeful! Thanks.

And he's going to the Olympics!

Have they announced that they're going to do it at all (regardless of price)?

I know you edited your post, but I wish you hadn't, because it reminded me of seeing how some employees reacted when Ted Black would come by. Head down, "hello Mr. Black," walk by as quickly as possible...

Pegula has never, ever resisted spending money to try to win. The examples are myriad. He's made big offers to Babcock, Bylsma, Eichel, Tavares, Richards, Ehrhoff, Leino, Hodgson, Okposo, was ready to do so w/ Stamkos, and many others that do not immediately come to mind. His GMs haven't always made smart decisions, but the money always has been there until Adams decided to take things a little more slowly (this is not intended as a criticism of Adams; I have other criticisms but this ain't one).

We need the answer to this question!

The NHL was good at adapting once. Back in the very late 90s-early 00s, I could use my AOL connection to listen to Sabres broadcasts on RealAudio free of charge. The league understood that the ad revenue outstripped what it could get from charging me for emerging technology. Right now, there is no reason other than greed for any of the big sports (other than NFL, see below) to be doing what it does with broadcast/streaming. The concept of regional blackouts should have been dead a decade ago; for example, there should be no reason why an Angels fan living in Buffalo can watch Angels games UNLESS the Angels are playing the Mets, Yanks, Jays, Indians, or Pirates. There should be no reason why a Sabres fan living in NJ can watch Sabres games UNLESS the Sabs are playing the Rags, Isles, Devils, or Flyers. There really is no good reason why the NHL--or any league other than the NFL--can't go to a streaming subscription with no blackouts other than refusal to do so. Yes, the league and its teams have contracts with RSNs. All contracts can be renegotiated, and, in this case, if a league trailing everything in terms of popularity wants to move up, they should be renegotiated. Current practice is stupid, it's greedy, it leads to piracy, and it ultimately leads to devolution of the brand. Across all sports, with the possible exception of the NFL, which is starting to un-handcuff itself from lucrative but prohibitive contracts and which has no connections to RSNs.

Well there's the third. Welch, McCarver, Wieland. All icons of the early 80s in my book.

I cut it in 2014 and I am not the "upcoming generation," nor was I then. There are ways for the NHL to reasonably make money in streaming, but right now, its model is split into "a million little pieces" which few consumers--even rabid hockey fans--are going to go for. The NHL *could* see this as an opportunity to gather the RSNs into a reasonable package with no blackouts, but I doubt it does. And I think it will lose hockey related revenue, and we will see a lower cap, as a result.

Pool party a healthy scratch?

So that's potentially 12 NHL franchises with reduced contribution to "hockey related revenue," which is the determinant for the salary cap.

I don't have that ability, and that is not what @SDS is speaking to.

As I've said in multiple threads, when he's ready, he's ready. If he can stop NHL shots, he's ready; if he can't, he's not. His age / experience should not be part of that calculation. We've all seen rookies excel, some of whom are on this current Sabres roster, and we've all seen rookies who need more time to develop, some of whom also are on this current Sabres roster.

SDS, we had a good Levi thread going and it got misdirected and then closed. If there's another way to do this, please let me know, and I'll try it that way, but I think we could have a thread about the most exciting goalie prospect in decades. There is the "Get to Know Devon Levi" thread that I started right after the Reinhart trade, but I think that's stale.

Is that a long time or a short time for them?

No politics. But there's a fair amount of speculation to be done about how the salary cap would be affected if these regional sports networks fold.

No 1983 All-Star team. No 2023 U of M. Just stuff about Levi, how he's doing, whether he'll sign, how he'll fit in the plan, etc.

On a Mac, it's the red one, upper left.

no it's just fraunchier

Tim McCarver's body and soul no longer are united.

1. Wonderful period. And screw the refs on that scrum towards the end. 2. More and more, I think I want 26 wearing the C next season and not 89; every game, this feeling grows. 3. It's way too late. Screw whoever made this schedule and goodnight all.

Plain, boring, and with that ugly "bird got cut while in flight" wing thing that's been there forever. I know, I know, it's "classic." "Classic" doesn't mean that it looks good. It's horrible. The Leaves are coming up, too, now that they switched what used to be an awesome font on the back of their sweaters. Classic and good? Habs. Sabres whites (the normal ones). Bruins (***** I hate them). Red Wings ain't it.

Love those, as long as they're wearing the blue breezers. When it's straight yellow, it's horrible.

They might someday. As of today, we have the Kings (home and away), the Red Wings (same), and, of course, the Sabres reverse retros.

This has been coming for a while. Bally has overextended, from pinball to video games to gambling to resorts to TV. It's a conglomerate without a focused mission, and that never lasts long. The Disneys of the world will eat Bally for lunch. And ***** Sinclair. It's the Bruins of broadcasting.