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A great example of a player not taking the rookie symposium seriously was Sean Taylor who took off have way through the symposium and then proceeded to have multiple off the field incidents during his rookie year.

You probably won't hear anything from TD on his attempts to re-sign NC. My guess is that somewhere down the road, NC's agent will spout off about not having received any offer or a lowball offer.

In a backup role TH would get 15-20 carries a game? I think it would be more like 1 or 2 series(5-7 carries) at best to just give WM a breather.

Are any of the remaining guys part of the "pro ranks"??

Maybe McMichael was featured at the rookie symposium as "this is the POS you DON'T want to have as your role model!"

Why not climb through the ranks of girls junior tournaments, college golf, the LPGA and after you have had success at those levels, take on the men. What has she WON to date from an amatuer standpoint?

This is a beauty from a recent TH thread.... Yeah things look alot better than the did amonth ago. On a side note I don't think we should trade him but if we do, wich we are going to, things look better.

TD is trying to start a grass roots movement to convince the NHL players to vote down the CBA.

Is this true? I can't believe with the talent on that club(including signing AW to a huge contract last season), that they could be that far under the cap?

It brings teams "somewhat" closer together, but it's not a level playing field like the NFL, where most teams are within a couple of million dollars of the cap limit. Like I stated earlier, you will still have teams spending 25-35% more on player salaries than others. IMO...I do not look for the Sabres to go on a spending spree landing top notch players left and right, like some folks do. No matter what happens, I will have my part season tickets for 05-06 and am glad to see hockey coming back.

...and WM is way too good to be sitting on the bench splitting time with TH. TH has his limitations as have been well doumented on TSW over the last year. Get what you can and move on. WM is the starter at RB and will be for the forseeable future.

The same can be said for the other 31 teams in the league. We'll see how things shake out.

You better rethink your stand on Zhitnik. Unless the Sabres plan on bringing in 1 or 2 top notch defensive defensemen, your #3-6 guys on the blueline are filled with journeymen like Jillson, Brown, Campbell and a 40-something James Patrick.

You're correct that the new salary structure is better than the old, I just wouldn't refer to it as a level playing field. As far as Golisano spending more, I guess it all depends what he is going to receive in terms of revenue sharing to supplement the team operating budget. The next couple of weeks should be very exciting as players are let go left and right. Combined with the start of training camp, it should make for an interesting month of August.

Here is a great link to all player salaries by team, what they will be rolled back to for 05-06, along with what players are RFA's and UFA's.... http://tsn.ca/nhl/feature.asp?fid=6926

I have a question as to the statements being made that the NHL is now a "level playing field". The Sabres in recent years had a team salary of around 30 million dollars and were "supposedly" losing 5-10 million per year. The new salary cap will be 39 million dollars. Lets assume the Sabres will have a team payroll of between 25-30 million in 05-06. This is somewhere between 9 and 14 million less than what the "spend at all cost" teams(DET, TOR, COL, DAL, NYR, etc...) will be playing with as they will all be spending right to the edge of the cap. I realize that the upper echelon teams will have to share revenue(details yet to be revealed), but I don't anticipate this being more than 1 or 2 million(combined) to each of the sisters of the poor. That being said, where is the level playing field when there will be teams spending 25-35 percent more on players than the Sabres? Maybe I'm missing something in the CBA?

There's is no time for guests on Howards show. It would cut into Jeremy White's air time.

Speaking of bad radio ads...WGR is running an ad recently for two female dentists who are referred to in the ad as "chicks with drills". I am not sure if they are dentists, strippers or something else. Way to promote yourself girls!

Being the high motor guy that he is, Schobel rushed over to try and make the tackle in order to keep Pennington from scoring. Eddie Robinson is just to the left side of the picture with his legs twisted in the shape of a pretzel.

No need to go into details, but what happens at a strip club versus what happens at a stag with a stripper can range from quite similar to..... WHAT HAPPENS AT THE STAG, STAYS AT THE STAG!

Seeing how your buddy has a big mouth, remind him that "what happens at the stag, STAYS AT THE STAG!" PS Not going to the stag, may be a blessing in disguise if blabbermouth is going.

Thanks for the update and for being brief!

Thanks!