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I heard they have palm trees in Florida.

Yea.

3-peat

My lord the Bandits putting in a scoring clinic.

It literally worked to get players. Do y'all just get amnesia about the ufas we sign?

Plus Florida has insane home insurance costs and players pay income tax based on where the game occurs so its not that much better. On top of that housing is cheaper in Buffalo and public schools are better. Really depends what you want. These guys are not freaking out over 500k less bucks

Why would Buffalo have golf cart parking? Players don't become ufas until 26, if Buffalo were winning, ppl would come here. This is just a distraction.

The Trump Budget Bill seeks to destroy public education by creating a tax shelter for capital gains and funneling tax money to private schools that can reject students they don't want. The end result will be even more severely underfunded public schools that are basically segregated. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5397175/trump-federal-voucher-private-school

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8z174gk3jo The King will be opening the Canadian parliament, something no monarch has done since the 50s. The speech will cement Great Britain's commitment to Canada remaining a free and sovereign nation.

Did you watch Helenius in Liiga? Fully agree. There's a lot they can learn and even if it's 3yrs in the A, that's only 21yrs old for Helenius.

Such as? What do other teams have that we're missing? I don't think facilities being Vegas new or Detroit new is the biggest selling point. If it were free agents would never sign in some places.

One thing about Helenius and Novikov, both played in pro leagues before Rochester. They've got more experience than your average AHL player. Novikov is in his 4th pro season and turns 22 in July. He's the perfect 6th defender, big, mean, defensively sound.

Helenius is at least another year away if not 2. Novikov... depends on his short area burst. He'll need the agility and closing burst to be nhl effective. I haven't watched enough Amerks to answer if he is.

The Sabres have pretty decent facilities and that's not counting having harbor center. Also Rasmus' Wagoneer is nice. What's interesting is there's an interview with Zucker where he basically shoots down the narrative players think Buffalo is a bad org.

Idk his value but maybe Rosen? Devils have rhd up the wazoo and maybe they want some depth scoring? My first thought.

But he's another small skill player!?!? He's only 5'11" woe is us!

I wonder if the Devils make a rhd available. Seamus Casey would be interesting to grab with a prospect flip.

Karmanos will not be islanders gm

No Dobson is going to fill the role of making Power not a liability... or you trade Power and Dobson anchors the 2nd line with an unamed lw

Leave the talk of forwards elsewhere. Who would you target on defense? I've mentioned Dobson often but there are others. Trade, ufa, rfa, doesn't matter. This is where we focus in on fixing a bad defensive unit. I like Dobson and Whitecloud to help fix the right side. I've hypothesized that a new islanders gm might be willing to mix things up and Buffalo has Byram or Power to send the other way. Our 9th overall pick also has value. Whitecloud, I'm unsure of availability but Vegas will make changes after an early exit and I wonder if you could snag someone like him for cheap if they want a little more cap room. Perbix is another thought out there. Either way as I've maintained for awhile now, Samuelsson, Clifton, and 1 of Power or Byram has to go.

I've argued we need 3 new defenders. I think it's far harder for most to gauge defenders since you can't just use points. For goaltending, I'd move on from UPL but don't have a solution in mind.

Fixed it.

Rain will stop this weekend so that is nice.