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Will do.

So, what is Sam's next contract worth now?

I hit Irish Mafia for the first time a few weeks ago on our way to Keuka Lake. Nice beers and decent food. Won't be the last time I'm there, for sure.

In his prime he still could be. At 30, he doesn't have the wheels. or the hands. The problem wasn't his skill set. The problemwas his skill set had the same trajectory as Moulson's.

I took that statement as, they are getting every opportunity in training camp to make the roster at the start of the season. Completely agree with you on Smith. He's classic AAAA in my opinion.

This guy. I like this guy.

I've said it before. These contracts are the price every team needs to pay to compete in June. Every title winning team has bad contracts. It comes with having to retain high end talent. The only teams that don't ahve these contracts are teams that don't have veteran high end players. Buffalo now needs to finish the job and collect the rest of the talent. Otherwise this is wasted.

I like the cut of your jib.

I'm still cooking up the ROR crow.

That is my only benchmark. I don't care how he gets there.

Those terms were inevitable. Personally, I don't care about the money or years. It's up to the GM to figure out a way to work with it. I just want to see the on ice performance.

I think the second half swoon with Jbott sitting on his hands while the season faded away is killing us here. Thisis about a combo of money and the right situation, and I have to think that the Sabres right now are a situation that requires more money. The Sabres are toxic. I know we hated hearing ROR state it in a round about way, but it’s the truth. If Buffalo maintained a middle of the pack record in the second half, my money would have been on Skinner being already signed.

It is really good stuff. My only fault with it is that it is on the light side at 80 proof. I really think bourbon shines at 94-107 proof. I’ve been hitting on a bottle of Thomas Handy. Barrel proof rye. It’s a bit too lively at barrel proof, but a touch of water and it turns into daddy’s candy.

NB, govt doesn’t regulate healthcare at the federal level, but they did use the Interstate Commerce Clause to mandate everyone had it. And that was my point.

I new it was one of the cheap bastage western Canada defensemen.

There is something to be said for putting yourself in a position to pick your preference instead of picking from what's left. And there is plenty of data to suggest that, although it appears that 3-9 are pretty similar in any given draft, there is actual evidence that 4 (as an example) is statistically likely to be more successful that 9 (for example). In the NHL draft, moving up makes a hell of alot more sense than moving back.

Which is pretty much a Patrick Sharpe role.

Not entirely accurate, but acceptable for brevity. My arguement all along was that Sam is a better wing than center and had more value to the team as a very good 1st line wing than he does as a mediocre center. And that holds doubly true if his wings are mediocre. I believe I was the first to compare him to Patrick Sharpe, a very good wing who could play center when needed and he wouldn’t look out of place, but is still more valuable overall on the wing.

Oh hell no. I’m sure most know my stance. This is the Sabrespace equivalent of Roe v Wade.

Didn’t LaFontaine play with a broken jaw? And ran Muni (was it Muni that broke it?) with the full gaurd on for pyback.

Y’all are nuts.

This is what happens when hyperbole is used in a conversation involving tightly held beliefs.

Checking that poured pints in England are actually 16oz is a thing. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!

His point output has dropped off so much. I used to drool over getting Brassard in here. But I look at what he's got for stats over the last couple of seasons and it looks like he just doesn't have much left.

Voter access has national implications. You bet I want a universal standard for who gets to vote. And the firearm laws in South Carolina affect the violent crime in Michigan, so I think there needs to be a standard there as well. If we can regulate health care, and keep a farmer from growing wheat to feed his own livestock both under the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution, then certainly we can create a common set of rules for something that has as much actual interstate effect as firearms. If firearm violence was predominately an issue involving firearms sourced within the state affected I'd feel differently. But it's a pretty well established fact that huge numbers of firearms are being moved across state lines for the purpose of illegal distribution.