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Anyone? Um no...

I know you don’t mean it to sound like investing/buying multiple regional sports teams isn’t good enough for someone to say the Pegulas haven’t invested in the region. Because that would be ignorant if that was the case. Here is something ... https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2019/01/25/pegulas-make-big-investment-in-rand-capital.html Same info. Different link ... https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2019/01/25/pegulas-make-big-investment-in-rand-capital.html And there it definitive evidence that if an area starts to improve (like the harborcenter, canalside and medical corridor) then other companies and entrepreneurs start taking risks and open business in that area too. It’s a snowball effect. Happens throughout the world everyday. Pegulas are instrumental( but not exclusively) in directly creating that snowball effect in pockets in downtown Buffalo. The negative Nancy’s can crap on the Pegulas like immature children all they want. It doesn’t change the fact that they have done and continue to do plenty for the region, beyond “owning a few sports teams”. That’s not to say they can always do better or more. If they want to.

CBJ strikes again! Wow!

CBJ strikes first!

All teams who make the playoffs are not “nothing teams” good grief.. :facepalm:

Lol tkachick. Love it. i would take 3 Tkachucks on my team. Dude is built for post season.

NSH hung on ... barely ... to win

Forsberg!!! Nice

DAL threw everything they possible could at NSH and still couldn’t score. NSH needs to wake up in the 2nd or they won’t be so lucky.

Don’t be so sexist! You need to apologize immediately to all female and transsexual hockey gods. ???

I wanted BOS and WSH to win tonight. (Shakes fists) Temperamental hockey gods!

Would it be cool if he develops into a solid NHL #6/#7? Yes or no? Would it be cool if he develops even more? Yes or no? The rest of any kind or tit for tat debate is obnoxious. Even if he never develops into an NHL career and stays as a very good AHLer, which is unlikely unless he plateaus big time, he will be a solid main stay on the back end that will allow other, more talented kids, to leap frog him to the NHL. Its a good signing. Leave it at that. Good grief.

Babcock is going NOWHERE even if they lose the next 3 games. Lindy Ruff. I’ve seen that movie. I’d rather change the channel. Cooper would be cool. Todd Richards I’m 50/50 on.

Ovi just dropped Svechnikov like a bad habit.

Hurricanes looking good early. See if it actually lasts past 10 mins.

So as little as 3 to as many as 5 games. So the 10 game minimum declaration was ...

Nice signing. Good addition to the Amerks.

No word on Kadri? I didn’t think it would take this long.

Good thing you’ll be wrong. You or some other poster I’M SURE typed that exact same thing every year for the past 8 years, if not longer. And yet, every year players sign in Buffalo. You didn’t quantify it by saying “any top end talent” BTW.

And 99% of them missing doing no damage ?

True. But he won’t so he won’t. At least not in the 2019-2020 season. Unless an injury happens to one of them.

I can’t find what you are seeing. So I’ll just reply blindly to the original point, which isn’t my preference... 55 mil. Spread out over 8 years is an average 6.87 mil. Is it more cap room than most GM’s operate? Yes. Is it massively ZOMG lower? Not really. Most wise GM’s (or if you prefer, owners, although it usually isn’t) give themselves 3-6 mil. in cap room for “just in case” emergency scenarios. You know this. Dumb or risk taking GM’s go right against the cap (and often get burned) with less then 2 mil. to play with during the season. You also know this. So 55 mil. over 8 years isn’t anything THAT abnormal. But it seems like you brought it up like it’s an anomaly or way off from what other GM’s (or if you prefer owners) do. It’s definitely slightly more. Meh ... no big deal. Also of note.... you know Pegula was 100% on board with the tanking plan to get Reinhart, and one of McDavid/Eichel. So that absolutely required to shed most of the higher salary guys (who are often the most talented) to all but guarantee a bottom finish. Which in turn threw them well below the cap.

I can’t find it. For the third time... can you please post the link to the data you are seeing. Thanks in advance. Or are you making this stuff up?

Cumulative as in the Sabres? Bills? Both? From 2011? So 8 years? again ... link. Thanks!

What are you talking about? And post the link that breaks that down in detail. Thanks!