May Day 10

It's not continuity as much as it is competence They could have had rex, 4chan, jauron, nix, brandon, levy, etc continue for multiple decades and it wouldnt have made a difference.

Good on mcmahon and the xfl To show appreciation, I will give them a chance next year. The decision couldnt have been easy

Here's to hoping we see them play before long. Win or lose

If they hold these games, McMahon can get dysentery.

morning skates have been cancelled. I was supposed to go to tomorrow's game. Looking like that will not happen.

I wonder what happens with the salary cap if the NHL needs to cancel? Thats a lot of revenue for a gate-driven league. Especially if the playoffs cannot be played

months. This is bad. No politics to it. People need to please check that at the door. It is coming to every corner, many will get sick, many wont, many will die. Things are going to be disrupted and sideways and the economy is going to get ugly. This is completely different than those other outbreak scares. It is here, it is very contagious, and will be deadly.

Botterill started with all his picks, Kane, OReilly, Eichel, Reinhart, Ristolainen, and really only 2 bad contracts (and other teams always seem to be able to get out from bad contracts). Also fell into Rasmus Dahlin There were some organizational depth issues, but they have not been addressed the way this GM has wasted picks on nothing and upcoming UFA. Im not going to cry for Botterill's 'situation'. A competent NHL GM would have a whole lot more to hang his hat on now, going into his 4th (wow!) offseason than "Kahun".

If there is profit to be made, the behemoth nfl will swallow it whole.

It's far enough out where this will play out by then The real concern now is halting or slowing the spread.

I just wonder what happens if he is in his "giving up stance", the ref is saying 'no!' and holding his hand up.... and the returner decides to streak up the field and score a touchdown. That could happen, and IMO would count. That is what the fair catch signal and taking a knee are for. To cut the gray area.

After the fact, looking at the interpretations and such, IMO it should have been a safety. With that said, I do not blame the loss on that, nor think anyone went out of the way to screw the Bills over.

That is the issue with some CHL high-end players, and it hurts their development. Cozens absolutely needs to be in the AHL next year.

I really liked Wawa when I lived in NJ/Philly for a few years.

Every part of it is amazing to me. The fact that they are very likely to again finish behind either of the Tim Murray/Bylsma seasons, after 3 years of this 3D chess 'cap wizard'. Ottawa, the team who was a laughing stock with all sorts of toxic player issues, and giving up a lottery pick for nothing (people would excuse the Sabres of poor performance for 10 years if they did this), is now only 4 points behind the Sabres and actually look better. Ottawa has 3 first rounders, very possibly all lottery picks.... and 2 of them are likely to be top-5. They have 4 second rounders, 2 thirds, fourth, fifth, and sixth. In 2021, they have a first, 3 seconds, and a 4th through 7th. Sabres? 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 2 7ths. 2021, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th Indisputably, Ottawa has a better pool of prospects than Buffalo. They have been rebuilding for 1 year. Great asset management "Botts". Detroit will be next to pick themselves up in record time, while here, we argue whether a rebuild needs to take 5 or 10 years.

For some of the game, they were within 1 goal of a team that has won a lot of games recently Botterill is going over to niagara awards in the falls to get little trophies made to give them for the effort

The team is restricted by the cap. All teams are. There are certain ways to spend money to improve your team that is un-capped, such as picking up that bonus. I dont get why they do favors for other teams such as absorb Hunwick's contract to do Pittsburgh a favor, but balk at OReilly's bonus. Either way, its a failure. Our 'no financial mandates owner' decided to place a critical financial mandate at a poor time.... or the GM made an historically bad move.... or a combination of both.

So apparently the Sabres are likely going to have cap penalties next season as Dahlin and Jokiharyu are going to get performance kickers this year. At least we got Simmonds who 'has experienced games in March' and Frolik sitting there in the press box. Magically, everything will be great next year though because Fantasy Hockey or something.

I will quit if San Francisco gives New England Jimmy G

This seems pretty obvious Best case is Kraft gets sentimental, backs up the brinks truck and belichick quits. The Patriots would be back in the dark ages

I dont think oreilly was being unprofessional at all. It was honest and refreshing. It was also blown out of proportion by the outside world. Looking back, as someone in the canadian media recently said, oreilly's statement should have been celebrated, not criticized. For years, he was nothing but professional. He was always the one answering the media after every loss. He would say the usual pre-canned stuff, and he was criticized heavily for it as a spokesman for a underachieving team. A certain other star player was protected by the sabres and wouldnt speak to the media unless he wanted to, usually after wins or games that he scored in. Oreilly was part of a group who attempted to bring leadership in (along with gionta and gorges and a few others). They were largely rejected by the Fortnite playing faction of eichel, reinhart, and bogosian, as well as kane.

For whatever monetary reasons, Monday night games seem to have been relegated from the premier game to the 4th ranked (Sunday Night - Thursday - Sunday 4PM - Monday - Sunday 1PM)

What defensemen has he spotted? He traded a mid level prospect and a 1st for Montour who was panned by the analytics crowd and he has been disappointing. Gave up multiple picks for Miller who has been a healthy scratch at times this year and hasnt been good. Scandella, Beaulieu, Hunwick, Tennyson, Antipin? Jokiharyu has been OK I guess. Pilut is still an unknown prospect and basically a Guhle replacement. Dahlin was a slam dunk pick, my dog could have made that selection. They have a few OK prospects I guess on the blueline in Johnson and Samuelsson, but very raw and young and who knows how they turn out. Defensemen also typically take a longer time to reach full development. We won't know on those guys for like 3+ more years

They acquired scandella to be a top 4 defenseman If they made that trade, accepted the pominville salary dump, and paid scandella $4 million per year to be a 5th to 7th defenseman, Botterill should be turfed on principle.