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I think most great players aren't threatened by other great players, but rather want to play with other great players, on great teams, and win a lot. I also think that Power and his agent know that TP will pay him extremely well if Power has the goods -- and that they all think he has the goods. If he stays on a star trajectory I would be very surprised if he left the Sabres before age 30.

I have a good feeling about this kid.

Well, I agree that the kids are defenseless in this situation -- they've been thrown into a pool with a bunch of sharks. But I also think the sharks themselves (i.e. the colleges) are a bigger part of the problem, and the government, by guaranteeing many student loans, is effectively encouraging the kids to jump in and encouraging the sharks to gorge themselves. And the kids and their parents need to wise up, realize that they are on the menu and stay away from the pool.

So I finally saw Interstellar last night. I gotta say -- I didn't like it at all. Long, tendentious, weepy, redundant and filled with gibberish. And I like scifi!

Those loans are also not dischargeable in bankruptcy, unlike pretty much every other kind of loan. It's a racket.

Very well stated. I've been through the college admissions (and payment!) process a couple of times in the last few years and have been left deeply cynical about the entire system. I believe it's a fundamentally dishonest and corrupt racket designed to create comfortable, secure, high-paying jobs for a bunch of grifter administrators at the expense of the kids, far too many of whom graduate with a mountain of debt, heads filled with crap and zero ability to earn a living and repay their debt. College costs have risen by more than triple the rate of inflation in the past generation, to the point where it's now over $80K per year to send your kid to college (and they all cost pretty much the same, other than state schools in the kid's home state). This is insane and obviously unsustainable. There are very few jobs available in the economy that enable college graduates to pay off this level of debt -- and that number drops to zero for many of the courses of study promoted by the colleges. The increase in cost has been largely driven by the availability of easy credit and the myth, which has been internalized by the public, that a college degree is a ticket to a good life. The colleges have zero incentive to hold costs down because they have no skin in the game -- it's not their problem if kids graduate and are unable to repay their loans. This is one of the core issues, and I don't think we'll see any improvement until the colleges are required to eat, say, 50% of the losses on their graduates' loan defaults. Bottom line is that the kids and their parents need to distrust the colleges, realize that the colleges do not have the kids' best interests at heart, shop for the best deal among the colleges in the same way they shop for a car among car dealers, and not commit to anything without a clear understanding of the situation and a fully cooked plan that is designed to enable them to make a living and repay any loans quickly following graduation. It's a disappointing state of affairs, but it is what it is.

I really enjoyed it.

I checked this on google maps -- wow. How far up that highway are you going? (Even if it's not very far, that is still really far North.) It's interesting that the utility company is spending money on installing fiber optic cable in such a remote and sparsely populated anyway. In any case that looks awesome.

Does he have an official role with the organization? I don’t think I’d heard that.

I think this lineup is by far the most likely scenario. I also think there is almost zero possibility that Joki isn't in the starting lineup, that the top line is reshuffled or that Mitts doesn't slide up to Cozens' line to replace Quinn.

Maybe. It's not impossible that RR retained the right to cause a sale at a given price or under a given set of circumstances, that he exercised that right and that TP wasn't happy about it. Or maybe RR is getting an employment or consulting deal with the buyer as part of the deal, and TP isn't happy about that. Either way, and I hate to add fuel to the raging TP fire in @PASabreFan's loins, it has to be said: TP sure chews through a lot of senior executives, innit?

Do you think saying not worthy of a new thread is the same as saying it's not OK to post it?

Actually, I think that outlet stinks, but posting it is fine, as it was to post the other one. Are you OK with someone not liking the same stuff you like?

@Buffalonill -- so, to be clear, the current beef is that they didn't go out and get a top-6 FA forward to replace Quinn? That's not a one-year patch. That's a 3- to 5-year deal at $4-5MM+ per year. Freaking ERod got a 4-year deal ($3MM per year). The FAs you can get to sign the one-year patch deal, at least at this point in the summer, don't offer materially more than what the Sabres have in the system. If Tarasenko decides he wants to play here for 1 year, or if Bertuzzi wants to choose the Sabres over the Leafs? By all means. But those are highly unlikely outcomes.

This is fantastic.

Jeez. Why so gloomy? They are going to be good this year. Watching the games is going to be a lot of fun.

So, with Ryan Johnson finally signing, Novikov looking good in development camp, and the addition of Mad Max Strback, the Sabres suddenly seem to have a solid D pipeline, innit?

FWIW, earlier today I listened to an interview on WGR with Jason Karmanos from July 3. When asked if the Sabres were done, he said they were still interested in adding depth on D. I think that was before they re-signed Clague, so that might have been what he was referring to, but it might also mean they're still in the mix on Pesce and Hanifin if and when the price comes down.

I don't know why everyone is so upset about goaltending. We have Semptimphelter.

I accidentally overpaid one of my credit cards about 7 weeks ago (paid credit card X instead of credit card Y). I realized my mistake a few days later and called to request a refund. They have sat on this for 7 GD weeks. I have had to call like 5 times to request the refund. All I want is for them to send me back my money, preferably the same way (electronically) that I sent it to them. At this point I am certain it's intentional.

Speaking only for myself, I do not expect Johnson or Novikov to have more than a cup of coffee in the NHL this year.

This is awesome.

I agree that Devon is a reassuring, confidence-inspiring, sort, and I can see him conquering the Matrix. But I am a bit unsettled at the prospect of assuming that any human with a total of 7 NHL games is going to carry the mail at a high level for 55ish games plus playoffs. The risk of a goaltending-caused playoff miss debacle is higher with this plan than it would've been with many others.

All four, baby! Gonna need a link to a smoking gun on this one. Top 5, if you please.

This is what I mean when I tell you to take the time to make your posts better and not just subject everyone to whatever pops into your mind. The Sabres gave up Pu (a 3rd rounder they drafted 2 years before trading him), a 2nd, a 3rd and a 6th for Skinner. That is night and day from Rosen and their 2024 #1. One thing has nothing to do with the other. You need to respect other people's time. They read this board for good hockey talk. Not this.