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A third rounder is about right for Weber. Maybe we could have done slightly better (second) by waiting, but why take that chance. Good luck to him in Washington!

Yes. Wish I could watch this one. Flying from Dallas to Lubbock this afternoon. Maybe I can catch some of the online feed at the airport.

25 points in the last 25 games for Eichel.

Election year Supreme Court nominations over the past 100 years: 1988 Ronald Reagan nominated Anthony Kennedy 1968 Lyndon Johnson nominated Abe Fortas 1956 Dwight Eisenhower nominated William Brennan 1940 Franklin Roosevelt nominated Frank Murphy 1932 Herbert Hoover nominated Benjamin Cardozo 1916 Woodrow Wilson nominated John Clarke and Louis Brandeis 1912 William Taft nominated Mahion Pitney All but Fortas were confirmed by the Senate.

This is a surprisingly civil thread. That a political discussion with widely varying viewpoints can take a civil tone gives me hope for humanity. That is all.

Yay, team. Go Sabres.

"Good job" -Rob Ray

Folks wanted insight into what typifies Trump supporters and that's exactly what the poster gave us. I'm dead serious.

Good thing Murray gave up a first round pick in a very deep draft to get Lehner. :ph34r:

You've just explained Texas politics to a tee. Publicly everyone will cry about immigration. Privately, the wealthy business owners love the supply of cheap, hard-working labor streaming across the border. So Texas politicians say one thing to get the votes from the uneducated working class who view immigrants as competition. Yet the tune changes after the votes are counted. Immigrants drive down labor costs. We'd have had a wall generations ago if that is what the "ruling class" really wanted.

Always go for the higher salary. Money buys happiness. -Chet

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Canadians get more goal support. :flirt:

I'd take him. But, we're so bad that it doesn't make sense to take on expiring contracts given we won't be a playoff team. A playoff contender might take a chance on him, though.

Saw that. Evander put on a show. I still don't buy that there is no place in the game for fighting. The crowd was on their feet and roaring all three times. It was entertaining. And, isn't that why fans buy tickets? To be entertained?

I was always a fan of The Hoff. But, I'm sure Murray wants no part of him at this point given that they parted ways before.

The Rubio Robots in New Hampshire were pretty funny...

The Predators keep losing games because Pekka Rinne can't stop anything. His save percentage has dropped to .903, which is almost the worst in the league. At what point does a coach come to the realization that his $7 million goalie needs to sit in favor of backup Carter Hutton (.916 on the season)?

I didn't want to chime in but I can't resist: Corporations are sitting on record profits in the US today, estimated at over $2 trillion dollars. This is the highest level in 85 years. The effective corporate tax rate (just over 20%) is the lowest under any president since Hoover. A component of record corporate profits is cost-cutting measures that has employee compensation held at their lowest levels (as a % of GDP output) since the FDR administration. Executive compensation is skyrocketing. The average S&P 500 CEO makes around $15 million per year in compensation, over 400-to-1 more than his/her average employee. Corporations are sitting on record cash reserves. For example, Apple is sitting on around $180 billion in cash. They could easily hire more employees or raise wages or invest that cash. Yet, they do not. Why so much corporate hording of cash? One of the reasons corporations are holding record cash reserves is it can be used to buy back stock, thereby artificially increasing stock price, thereby increasing executive compensation. In other words, the record corporate profit is often (although not always) used to further pad the personal monetary gain of executives. That someone clever got a large percentage of Americans to believe in the myth that the ultra-rich are "job creators" is the perhaps biggest farce that has ever been pushed onto the American public. If this were so then we should be swimming in jobs as the rich get richer. Yet, we're not. In fact, the vast majority of job creation comes at the small business level. Small businesses account for more than 1/2 of all sales in the US and more than 2/3 of all new jobs created. Since 1990, as big business eliminated 4 million jobs, small businesses added 8 million new jobs. Many of my colleagues would agree with We've. Economic growth is driven by middle class spending power, which fuels demand. Squeeze that spending power in favor of the ultra-rich and you eventually stagnate economic growth.

Time to kickstart our offense.

Florida is such a boring team to watch. They get the lead then play lock-down defense the rest of the game. Florida is the best defensive team in the league at 2.23 goals against per game. And, the Sabres are the third worst offensive team at 2.26 goals scored per game.

We always lose to Florida. Their huge d-men knock our forwards around like bowling pins.

Took 3 of 4 points over the last two games and the Sabres are still only 2 points above dead last in the NHL standings.

They redesign the site every 6 months. Totally annoying since they create learning costs for the users every time they do so.

McJamie?