Contempt

Forget the spectators. Will the Sabres show up?

Good times. Reinforcing my decision to change my mind and stay home this weekend. As the week went on my couch looked warmer and safer each day.

scabies

Irrelevant

Why does he have to listen? He's already gotten paid.

I seriously doubt that those comments would assuage your bereavement.

He's also the host house for the video game crew of a team that sucks at home. I don't need him to coach my team, but every now and again there is value in asking "What would John Tortorella do?" I'm pretty certain Mitts would not be on Torts' "keep" list.

I'm going up for the Bills game, will be there Saturday, and it hadn't even occurred to me to check if the Sabres were playing or what tickets for that would cost. Not even a consideration. Now that I know, I still don't care. That's where I'm at with this. They get zero dollars until they make the playoffs. Zero. No more hype, or hope, or patience. None of that crap. Win. Show me. Until then? No money.

He's a guy who buys nice wine and bourbon, puts it on a rack, never opens it and never sells it but talks about it lovingly whenever asked. He's just waiting for it to mature.

I don't eve need a GOOD goaltender. An NHL competent one will do just fine. Wouldn't want to block the kids though. Can't win a little while we're waiting for them to rot <cough> ripen on the vine.

Turned it on at 1-0. Turned it off shortly after down 2-1. The decision was the correct one. How nothing has been done absolutely astounds me. Is Kevyn Adams real? Does he actually exist or is he an AI construct?

Disappointing

All sports are worried about this. The people that attend games are getting older and older every year.

***** teasing

I don't need Tage to be a Selke candidate. I need him to put biscuits in baskets. Many of them.

Just watched Army yak up a 6-2 lead v. Penn State. Currently 7-6 late in the 3rd.

"tough natives is redundant"

The clip is fine for work, but the whole video is not.

The Sabres still suck. That is all.

And if people feel like there need to be limits that's fine too. Maybe club can only have x amount of dollars spent in that way at any given time. 1M seemed like a good number to me, that's 2 years of 1 guy or 1 year of 2 guys at the same time. If a whole bunch of teams did this, sure, the older better but not Bedard level players would be out of the CHL but it would also be a HUGE cash infusion for the league, create an incentive to develop guys in year one so teams buy them out year 2, and provide a counterargument for players who choose to avoid the CHL entirely right now to avoid this problem.

I have a solution to this CHL issue. The CHL teams want to keep the players to protect the league but it's also to make money. As you see, when the CHL team doesn't think they can win, or wants to tank, they have non-issue moving these kids for compensation. The problem with moving them to the NHL is they get nothing out of it. If there were an agreement in place where NHL teams could buy out the CHL contract the CHL teams would be more open to it. Make the fee high enough so that NHL teams would really have to think about doing it and would only do it for exceptional players but not so high that it never happens at all. Maybe have the fee tiered based on how many eligible years you are buying out, 2 costs more than one. What would you all feel is a reasonable fee in this scenario? 500k USD per season of eligibility? For example, Moose Jaw had about 750k in the bank and an operating loss of 280k (both presumably CAD) at the end of last season. A 500k air drop of cash into the franchise would be huge for them. It also gives the big clubs more of a way to control player development. You really don't want your guy going to a second tier club for the second half of his second season of eligibility? Fork over the cash and he can go to the A instead.

What will Power say?