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WOOOO BIG OL' PEE PEE Alright, keep the royal blues.

Oh. No likey the live zoom frame ads.

Alright, that's the season. Go back to navy blue.

The royal blue just elevates everything. Even the seats in the arena finally make sense and look great with Royal blue on the ice.

***** it's good to hear Rick's voice.

Our new blues ***** pop on TV. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE

Game seems to be streaming fine out-of-market on NHL.tv, despite some concerns about blackout due to also streaming on ESPN+.

Cozens' NHLe, based on his 85P in 51GP in the WHL (0.27), is 37P in an 82game NHL season. That pace would be good enough for 5th among Sabre forwards (behind Eichel, Reinhart, Olofsson, and Johansson) last year. That's up from 27P projected the year before. He'll be a contributor this year and he's only getting better. As long as we give him good support, reasonable quality of competition, and appropriate ice time, he'll be just fine.

If you imported the Sabres schedule into Google Calendar (either sometime in the last couple years or this year or both...?), you receive this spam. Treat accordingly.

David doesn't talk. David just waits.

Ordered. I'm already excited.

No room in the game or in broadcasting for him.

Roswell Park is fine. KeyBank is meh. At least it's not VeinsVeinsVeins.com, Delaware North, or Barnes on one side/Cellino on the other. Wouldn't be mad at Blue (if alcohol is even allowed), Sahlens, Mighty Taco, or PizzaLogs though.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/29/us/nashville-bombing-petula-clark-downtown-song/index.html Strange coincidence.

From Lysowski: "It's unclear why Nelson is opting out. Teams are responsible to pay any player who is opting out because of a pre-existing condition that could worsen as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Teams have the option of carrying the contract of a player who opts out over to the 2021-22 season."

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I think there's a balance, specifically with weighing the shame and stigma against revenue. The NHL would do anything the NBA, MLB, and NFL would do to increase revenue, but the NHL watches the NFL the closest regarding anything to improve image. It's noteworthy that MLB and NFL don't have ads on jerseys. If both did, there'd be no hope that the NHL wouldn't do it. But the NFL (which has plenty of commercial advertising time during games and leads in revenue) won't even sniff ads on jerseys. But the NHL, with less commercial time and less revenue, could easily cave and look like ***** because dolla dolla bill y'all.

They're also influenced by comparables, no matter how remote, but those do make real impacts. The 2012 record-setting $2B purchase of the Doyers and their increase to their current valuation of $3.2B changed professional sports forever. But it's one of the reasons the Bills, valued at $805M in 2012 sold for $1.4B in 2014. It's related to the Leafs being valued at $521M in 2011 and selling a 75% stake to Rogers/Bell for $1.3B in 2012. The Sabres' valuation jumped from $175M in 2012 to $250M in 2013. It's risen to $400M in 2019. The Bills are now valued at $2.05B. Professional sports franchise ownership is an exclusive country club crossed with a cash cow crossed with an explosively lucrative investment. Much of this is due to the recognition that live televised sports events are a last bastion for traditional media outlets fighting savage competition from streaming services and digital content, resulting in media outlets paying astronomical fees for exclusivity. The media mega-conglomerations are fighting for their lives. As long as the leagues can keep generating new content for broadcast, the cash cow will only temporarily be affected by lack of gate sales.

Several teams will likely have to navigate state, county, and/or municipal COVID restrictions prohibiting professional sports practices and games. For example, the Sharks play in Santa Clara County, which currently prohibits all professional sports activities until at least 12/21; this was why the Bills @ 49ers was played at ARI's stadium.

He says he would have left him in if he would have known. I blame the assistants in the booth for not googling the record on their phones and telling him. Nonetheless, a wonderful day for Patterson and the Bulls.

Yellow ***** sucks ass. If it's such an important primary color why don't television and monitors not use it as one? ROYGBIV Color Power Rankings: ORANGE - Best color there is. Period. It's not close. BLUE - The most popular fabric -worldwide- to cover one's junk is blue. Besides this text, you can probably see something blue right now. The sky is blue. Water is blue. All useful software is only blue. Nobody hates this color. GREEN - Good solid color. The peak of our eyesight sensitivity. Green's game is diminished by its proximity to yellow. RED - Ok. Culturally, we've chosen it to mean "stop;" the color of anti-progress. VIOLET - Not very good. At all. YELLOW - An absolute *****-tier color. You can't even read what the ***** I'm writing. The color of piss. I probably mispelled words here because I can't see what I'm ***** typing. INDIGO - You didn't even know what this was until I made the font this color. This color barely exists and its relevance to anyone's life is nothing. A waste of a neat-sounding collection of six letters.

If he dies, he dies.

Records against Balboa: Creed: 1SD-1KO Lang: 1KO-1KO Drago: 0-1KO Gunn: 0-1KO Dixon: 1SD-0 Records against eachother: Creed 0 - Drago 1KO Analysis: By Superposition, the best fighters were Clubber Lang and Mason Dixon, the only fighters to beat Rocky, and not lose to someone that only lost against Rocky. Mason Dixon, despite only getting split decision against a 60 year old Stallone, technically has the better record over Lang. Drago and Gunn were both 0-1 by KO. But Drago beat Creed (who at least had a split record against Balboa), so Drago sucks less. Therefore Tommy Gunn was definitely the worst. Which is fitting, because Rocky V is smoldering dog *****.

I understand both sides here. Our return to royal primaries are gorgeous (and so were the 50ths). Depending on your opinion, the reverse retros vary from bleh to not bad. So why bother with reverse retros with brand new primaries? Especially a re-play of a third jersey that's a spin off from a goat head that many royal and blue OGs didn't like anyway? The NHL-Adidas deal is seven years and started in 2017-18. I'm betting this program was written into the initial contract as a "large, league-wide jersey branding event to occur on or about the midway point of the contract term." Adidas gets to redesign (sort of) the primaries at the beginning of the term and then gets to design league-wide "thirds" or whatever this is halfway through the contract to buoy jersey sales. It enabled them to bid more for the rights. It's money over everything for the NHL, so here we are. Adidas was going to do it league-wide regardless of what our primary reveal was doing, and when they were going to do it, they were only going to play with old logos and styles and contemporary colors... mostly. Maybe because that most of the intellectual property was still protected by the NHL and the teams. Interesting side bit. The Sabres filed a trademark for an updated goathead on September 22, 2020. Differentiate it from the old trademark (the new one got a slight beard trim - a trim that was present in the old goat head jerseys and logos but not the trademark image). Compare it to the new shoulder patch (it's the updated one). They either cleaned it up for modern use or they needed to update it with a new filing for accuracy.

I have committed small brain. But in my defense, those Kings jerseys sucked balls.