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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.

Side story, that many know, but not everyone knows... The Buffalo Sabres logo is one of the most elegantly direct logos in professional sports. It's not a single cryptic letter (like a B or a C or a C-with-flames or a P-with-whatever-the-*****-feathers?). It's not an image of a mascot (like a cat or a bear or a Roman guy or a penguin). It's the full name of the city and team, albeit with a hint of dyslexia/Canadianese: Buffalo. Sabres. The logo is the name. The name is spelled out as the logo. No other team has that. (Tangent: we're also lucky enough to have a chant that rhymes, which is also exquisite and very rare. Chants that don't rhyme suck balls. Let's Go Buffalo. Pure bliss compared to other hackneyed *****. Go Leafs Go? Let's go Rangers? Barf.) So when 2000 came around and the CCM designers drank too much maple syrup, I can paraphrase the conversation: "Alright, people like this unofficial jersey that Starter made. W gotta do something like it, but better. We made the swords bigger and put a dotpuck behind them to make it a crest. How are people gonna know what city this is if we don't make the Buffalo heads on the shoulders bigger? It won't fit above or on the crest." They only had one viable answer: put the city name below the crest. Neatly, no other team had done that. And it was enabled by relatively new jersey manufacturing technology of the time: jersey sublimation. They didn't have to tack/twill each letter in place, which would have added weight, complexity, materials, and cost. And it could be done in any font, including to match the three-color nameplate font. So instead of a logo that reads "Buffalo Sabres," we got a third jersey that reads "Sabres (of) Buffalo." And...some folks didn't like that Buffalo across the bottom then either. But it was different and new.

Absolutely. They could have had this: But instead got this: Which looks like a bootleg version of this:

And after taking a second look, the team that really lost this game? Nevermind who ended up with the fugliest new jerseys. It's the New York Islanders. They could have swung for the fences and instead, their fans effectively got nothing.

Understandable. Org's trying to rebrand with royal and gold and doesn't want to mix. Especially when they haven't gotten the new branding on the ice, let alone in front of live fans to reinforce it. It's not time yet. I agree with this explanation. But it doesn't make the end product any better. Nobody waxes nostaligic about the gray stripe as a design feature, so why keep it? Other jerseys got to drop their mistakes (for example, dropping the red sleeves on CGY). All 31 jerseys in one spot here: https://news.sportslogos.net/2020/11/16/nhl-adidas-unveil-reverse-retro-jerseys-for-all-31-teams/hockey-2/ After seeing them all, Sabres ended up middle-of-the-road, which makes me feel better. Some of those jerseys are fire and truly neat, and some -several in fact- are horrificly awful. Some are hot trash all around for simple reasons (Columbus) and some are just good ideas gone way bad (making the Brass Bonanza GRAY because that's the only shared color the Hurricanes could leverage for that cultural appropriation? Bad bad bad.)

I see what they tried to do league-wide and how that guided the design choices for the Sabres version. As for our particular jersey: Eh. In a Reverse Retro campaign that went for some of the zaniest designs (ANA, ARI, CAR, to name a few), they singled out Buffalo's most bland logo. Go goathead here. Bring back the Buffalo head-shaped torso and sleeve striping. Hell, even do it in blue and gold if you want. It's also curious why they didn't go full black/red. Did the organization not want that or are they reserving that palette for a true retro third jersey in a couple of years? If it's the former, I could see the org not wanting that because a) they've been hammered about blue and gold for more than 17 years and b) wanting to keep distance from the Adelphia branding. But all of that is conceptual. Execution-wise, most of this jersey doesn't look that bad, except for one detail that absolutely ruins it for me: the gray bottom stripe. That's a part of the palette that plagued the navy/gold jerseys (overused on the stripes). On this jersey, it looks plain dingy, like it got dipped in bathwater. Keeping that white would have completed a pretty good look, albeit one that wasn't the craziest or or most boldly retro. Going gray on the bottom was unecessary and bad.

Teams are starting to post teasers, and you can tell which jersey is which one from the Adidas teaser from the number inside the collar. Note that VGK ended up being 95, not OTT. Also note that several jerseys have yokes, which are not pictured in the Adidas teaser. That means ours could look significantly different from the teaser.

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They're trying. Which good, because if they weren't trying, they'd be fools. The future is enormous amounts of real-time biometric, kinematic, and positional data generated by wireless on-player hardware automatically processed and boiled down (by software written by sports scientists) into factors the coaches may use to help make decisions in game situations, fitness/training/conditioning, recovery, tactics/strategy, etc.

@tom webster has their ***** together. Participating in revenue sharing and meeting league-mandated revenue sharing requirements is not equivalent to losing money or operating at a loss or being on the verge of bankruptcy. And even teams that claim to operate at a loss in HRR are increasing in value. Decreased gameday revenue will impact all owners, but it is not the only revenue stream, and the talk of the team firing workers to maintain solvency is irresponsible and unfounded speculation. It falls in the same category as the debunked myth of an internal salary cap.

What I'm reading (here, here) says an expansion fee is not considered Hockey Related Revenue under the CBA, and therefore does not contribute to the players' escrow. NHLPA didn't bargain this into the CBA last go-around and missed an opportunity; the owners will make out. Between Vegas and Seattle, the expansion fee was $1.15B, which will be split among 30 teams (Vegas is excluded from the Seattle expansion fee). Compare that to the total league revenue last year of $5.09B. If both of the entire expansion amount is given to the owners (I'm sure it's not) and splt evenly, that's $38.3M each. The TV contracts are currently $600M (Canada) and $200M (US), which totals as $800M, split 50/50 with the players as HRR, giving the owners each $12.9M last year. This pales in comparison to NHL ticket and gameday merchandise/concession income, no matter how it's calculated: It's not clear which teams would want to shut down without gate sales: high-spending teams (TOR, NYR, etc) with high overhead, high salaries, and disproportionately small share of TV money (but large merchandise and other revenue) or small-spending teams with small coffers, low merchandise revenue, and disproportionately high salaries (but higher relative TV money/revenue sharing). If I had to guess, it's the latter.

I don't think I did much Botterill defending, but Davidsson did have a good leap of development the year after the draft, but he didn't sustain that trajectory.