Doohicksie

Ditto. 😛

He will be moved by then but will still be a free agent next July. If you can't be financially secure at $6 million x 6 year contract, you need help.

In July of 2023 Kane will be available as a FA unless he re-signs with Chicago or is traded by Chicago and signs with his new club. But... if his goal is to finish his career in his hometown the Sabres could sign him next summer without giving up any assets. Sure, maybe Chicago trades him at the deadline but the Sabres could still sign him during free agency the following summer.

Really? Were you privy to the negotiations?

His meaning was clear.

Behold: my wife's new knee

I view the Red Wings as a "comparable" team to the Sabres. Both with a young core, both with a patient rebuild. I noticed this article speculating on Wings FA targets. What I take away from it is that, if these signings are accurate, Yzerman is following the same strategy as Adams in terms of bringing in supplemental players that won't block the new young core. https://www.wingingitinmotown.com/2022/6/24/23180001/steve-yzerman-red-wings-nhl-free-agency-candidates But seriously... Will Butcher???

Cat-like reflexes, soft hands.

So... the Kevyn Adams path to the GMship.

I see.

Tell me you're old without telling me you're old.

And the end of the first day. She really is doing much better and much faster than with the first knee replacement. The first time she was barely making it from one dose of pain medication to the next. Now.... she's definitely sore but not in the wracking pain that she had the first time. She's also moving around much better than she was on the first day. A humorous aside: earlier, her water glass was out of her reach so she picked up an emery board and pointed it at the glass and said, "LEVIOSA!!!" like a Harry Potter wizard trying to conjur a spell to bring her the water. She was really pissed off that it wasn't working and asked me to do the spell and I told her it wouldn't work. She harrumphed and said, "You didn't tell me you were a stupid muggle when I married you!" Then she wanted my son to come in and do it but it didn't work and she said, "We can practice tomorrow." On the heals of that she called her mom and her sister and niece were at her mom's house. She told her niece (who has a son), "Make sure when Linc gets his letter from Hogwarts, that you let him go." Ah, the effects of anesthesia 😄 At this point she's much more lucid and like I said, much more mobile than she was at the end of Day 1 with the new knee in her other leg that she got a year and a half ago.

I saw something on Twitter that said she was improving, citing a family member... let me see if I can find it. Actually it's from the time when the announcement came out so isn't necessarily progress since then. I thought I saw something else but this might have been it.

She's out of surgery and in recovery. In Waiting Room news, Kelly And Ryan is insidiously awful television.

Oh come on

Some kind thoughts/prayers for my wife would be welcome; she's getting her knee replaced today.

I was trying to decide if this should be posted in the NHL thread or should get its own thread. Having seen the thread title you came up with.... definitely threadworthy.

And I have to say: I trust Kevyn to do this more so than any other GM of the Pegula era.

I don’t want to brag or anything but I can still fit into the same size socks that I wore in high school.

After this coming season, they really don't have a say in the matter.

I like to think that if the Sabres take Kane, it's in the form of a cap dump. Yeah, he's not at the end of the line yet but he's getting close.

You mean worse than @nfreeman? 😉