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For starters, it could damage the relationship between the NHL and NBC...

In the same league in terms of severity, no. In the same league in terms of being chauvinistic in subject matter, absolutely.

The overall point was situational awareness. Milbury, in a public facing role, should have had enough of it to understand that what he brings has increased scrutiny now and needs modification.

@JohnCYou disagree that a company should remove a voice that that is likely to cause it’s business harm? Cuz that is my point. It seems obvious on its face that any company would and should protect its name and brand, which is what happened here.

No, it was a genetics comment that did it.

So, if your performance is no longer considered to be up to standards You expect your employer to wait for a renewal period to move you along? That is simply not reasonable or realistic. Yes, he’s been on the air for years as a known quantity. Standards change. He hasn’t. His own lack of foresight is the problem, really. Situational awareness is part of living and working in any corporate environment. Evolve or die. We all deal with it. He just did too. And really, the argument that free flow of ideas is being stifled is ridiculous. 1. What free idea was he expressing? That men can’t focus in the presence women? Such valuable insight that should be protected. And 2. Noone is stopping him from spreading his opinion publicly. They are stopping him from tying his opinion to NBC. And that really is the beginning and end to it. He’s always free to find or create an outlet for his viewpoints. The internet is full of venues for his commentary. Congratulations on your ability to ignore boorish behavior and rationalize its presence. I’m not convinced it is a superior trait here. Edit to add: Milbury just watched a co-worker get let go for commentary that fits the same genre as the commentary he was just let go for airing. Again, it comes down to situational awareness and changing standards. Milbury's advance notice of the new on air standard was Roenick's dismissal. f Mike Milbury couldn't do the mental gymnastics to equate Roenick's firing and the commentary that preceded it, to what he was offering on the air, then he's simply not smart enough to survive.

Your blind spot isn't regarding any cancel culture. It is in regards to an out of date acceptance of borderline misogynistic commentary. You aren't seeing it for what it is, hence he defense of it. And as so well put in the article posted earlier, it isn't about cancel culture anyway, it is about setting a standard for behavior in broadcasting. Milbury no longer performs at that standard.

If I remember correctly, this was your stance with the Roenick comments too. I think you have a blind spot. Having said that, this certainly wasn't one of Milbury's worst comments on the air. Is it deserving of backlash? Probably. Is it worthy of outrage? Probably not. It's one of his typical, juvenile, borderline comments he's made a career out of.

And I can't put a finger on it. It's a little like Sam's first two seasons. He never showed the flashes of what I see when I see a good center. I can't define it, but I didn't see it. And that's why I was so vocal early on that Sam was likely a RW, not a center. However, Sam did show flashes of "he's going to be a good NHL forward". .I don't get that sort of vibe with Casey. It's not an "he's not ready" vibe. It's a "he's not showing flashes that he's figuring it out" vibe.

I can’t speak to Casey’s metrics, but he doesn’t pass the eye test. He doesn’t look like a future NHL player. Did the others? Did they show glimpses of something that said “this guy is gonna make it”? Cuz Casey sure hasn’t.

I hated that Krupp was sent out with Turgeon. He fit in here so well.

Last day at the current job today. Emptied my plate of work. Sending out goodbye emails. Fielding alot of calls from co-workers. HR said they will call me in 6 months to see if I change my mind. Definitely bittersweet. But Monday at the new job is gonna be pretty awesome.

Google "bucket trap". Mass euthenazia of the watery kind.

I don’t have ready access to the games. I have to jump through some hoops to find a way to watch them. It’s been real easy to not watch. But I traveled for work this week and last. It WAS real easy to find a game on the hotel TV. And I watched. What I’ve seen of it has been real entertaining, more so than I expected with 0 crowds. Nonetheless I probably won’t be jumping through hoops to watch it at home. At the end of the day my interest in watching other teams is directly tied to my interest in what happens to other teams in regards to how it affects the Sabres (playoff matchups, etc.). So if I watch at all now it is with 0 emotional investment. Its a curiosity for me and nothing more.

The team would not have been nearly as entertaining without that trade. I make that trade everday even knowing the end result. Those were some of the most entertaining seasons in Sabres history.

I’m not interested in labeling Casey as lazy or insufficiently interested. We went that route with Hodgson only to find out there were underlying causes. I’m not making that error a second time. Nonetheless, something in Casey does not appear to be translating well in the pro NA game. I don’t need to see any more of his development path before being OK with Casey moving for help now or to obtain the asset needed to move for help now.

My favorites were your numbers 2&3. Those two trades built the most exciting Sabres team I ever watched. The Hasek trade was the best ever for the team. Too bad Dom was so unlikeable as a person.

Yeah, it is. I have no idea how much an NHL HC communicates with his AHL counterpart, but it has to be greater than “none” over half of a season. Just sticking with plain old professionalism, this seems like a bad look to me.

And Ohio removed from the list.

Ugh. Horrible news. Was so hoping we’d here another remission report.

Focusing on this part, if our timeline is not now, why? Jack is now in his mid 20s. I’ll want to hear a good justification for why now isn’t the time to go for it.

The problem is, as much as we want analytics to make it so, separating Trouba from Pouliot is not a science, and no team can do it consistently over the long haul. Expecting this team, this draft, with the upheaval this scouting department has had, to pick the Trouba this year is, well, optimistic.

Related to Joe Finley?

Draft picks are lottery tickets. At 8 it isn’t much more than a coin flip that the player hits the 100 NHL games threshold. I agree that one of us needs to adjust out expectations. I’m pretty good with what I expect out of a draft pick. It’s why my excitement is quite tempered over the draft.