Contempt

He'd be an amazing pickup and I'd imagine many teams would be after him but any trade offers they get will depend on MTs willingness to sign an extension. If he's hell bent on going UFA next summer Calgary won't get much for a rental. In that way, MT will be able to control where he's traded to. Obvious speculation around St Louis but who knows about that.

Corporate shitheads gonna corporate shithead. There are plenty of things that are wrong in this country and all of the major leagues and major corporations generally keep well clear of it. Every time they, or the players don't, there is a large group of people more than happy to tell them just to just up and play and stop polluting their entertainment with politics. There is still a large group of people who are more than happy to gloat that Colin Kaepernick got run out of the league because he said things that challenged their beliefs and wore a pair of socks that made them sad. The NHL just last year drafted an absolute turd of a human being who was convicted of abusing a person with special needs. People on this board defended his right to, and I'm paraphrasing, grow as a human and learn from his mistakes. If you're going to go all in on the lack of morality in the world, go right ahead, but singling out the NBA and/or its players misses the mark by quite a lot.

Salaries are based on revenues. There are a max of 15 guys on a roster, only 7 or 8 really play a lot of minutes and usually only 2 or 3 that make ridiculous money. What makes them overpaid compared to players in other sports? The salary cap rules are way more complex than other sports and allow for several exceptions but that isn't new at all. Given those exceptions just about everyone can be over the cap most years but even if you took next year's cap figure of ~$150M and divided among 15 guys those salaries are going to be wayyyy higher than those of the NHL who have rosters of 23 guys and a cap of only $81.5M. The NBA generated about 10 billion in revenue last season, the NHL generated half of that. Understand, I don't care for the NBA product either, but a LOT of people around the world do.

You have two PP units and if bringing in one guy, who is also pretty good at hockey mind you, to set a tone is a problem I dunno what to tell you. It's not going to matter, they aren't signing either of them.

Obviously it depends on what the numbers are but for the current team I'd want him to take some of the heat off the kids. He provides secondary scoring and a hard charging style. He would be the focus of the other teams chippiness and take some of the physical burden off the young guys who aren't ready for it. Plus you are talking about a guy who has gone through all sorts of adversity, some of his own making some not, and won a Cup. Not only won a Cup but played a big role doing it. IMO Klingberg would serve a similar role for the defense. He takes the heat off Dahlin and Power to bring it on the PP every night and he brings experience to the group. Obviously the numbers matter a lot as to whether those roles make sense for the Sabres or not but that how I'd want their roles to be defined.

They have the money to do big dollars on medium term if they wanted to. I'll believe it when I see it but I think both of them are exactly what the team needs to turn the corner. I'm not giving massive term to either though.

I'm not the one who did it so you can go away with your righteous indignation.

Then drop in a picture of his mom, not a 15 year old girl.

She's 15 perv.

I don't think there's a need to buyout. If you retain, someone will give you something. He's still productive, just not worth his current aav.

It was a "we're smarter than you" move. Arrogant.

Voracek with CBus retaining some would be interesting because we could retain flip him again for a pick. Voracek at say a 3.5m hit is way more interesting than Voracek at an 8.5m hit

Who do we want? Boone Jenner?

So who is going to make an offer to both Stromes?

And he plays Philly, NJ, NYI, NYR, PIT, and WSH several times each

I saw 9.8 but idk

You lost me at Carter Hutton and prime.

I was agreeing with you, eh.

Seriously, Pacioretty is a far superior player to JVR. Anybody eating that mess should be getting something nice.

Analytics is a helluva guy.