LabattBlue
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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?
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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.
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...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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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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?
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There's is no time for guests on Howards show. It would cut into Jeremy White's air time.
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Speaking of worst ever, the worst thing I have ever heard (in any media) is the Heron's Landing radio ad played incessantly on WGR. Because I don't have a gun to shoot the radio, I have vowed to merely change the channel every time I hear it. Who are the ad wizards that came up with this one?
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!
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There seems to be some confussion between myself and a fellow coworker over NY's Chad Pennington and his famous midget football juke.
My coworker is telling me that Pennington put a "wicked" (as he put it) juke over Aaron Schobel in NY.
I preach that the juke over Eddie Robinson in NY as the Jets won 31-13. I know that is a fact but was there a time that Pennington "juked" out Schobel for a TD run?
This is the photo in question.
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.
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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!
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I'll try to remember what it was but some local outlet was advertising last week an appearance by him doing what sounded like an extended sports interview or discussion. Since I do not remember the details the main thing to take from this is that he is not dead yet and probably still on the scene locally.
I would expect with hockey back now that he will probably have a formal local gig of some sort.
Thanks for the update and for being brief!
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He's still feeding stuff to ESPN. Looks like a free lance arrangement:
Thanks!
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"....A medical examination showed that he was a man."
It's good to know that the top-notch medical staff in Zimbabwe are right on top of their game. I wonder what gave it away.
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After he left the Buffalo News, he went to work for foxsports.com, then espn.com. I don't see him listed as a hockey contributor on espn.com, so I assume he is no longer with them. He used to be on wnsa weekly as part of the "sharpshooters", but have not heard him on wgr since the demise of wnsa.
I always enjoyed his work and was hoping to catch his insights on the new cba.
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I'm sure losing Jennings who plays the key OL position, protecting the QB's blindside, was the biggest reason for the gloom and doom from the prognosticators. If Gandy doesn't work out, moving Teague to LT means you now have new starters at 2 of the 5 OL positions. Here's hoping Gandy is the answer.
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This is a guy I would like to see the Sabres draft in an area where they are sorely lacking...blueline toughness. He will probably go in the top 5 picks...
Jack Johnson
TEAM: US National Program
POSITION: Defence
HEIGHT: 6'0
WEIGHT: 197 lbs.
BORN: 01/13/87 - Faribault, Minn.
ISS RANKING: 4th among skaters
NOTES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Played with the U.S. National Team Development Program's Under-17 and Under-18 teams, selected to summer evaluation roster for 2006 World Juniors...first made his mark playing with Shattuck St. Mary's in Minnesota...committed to play next season with the University of Michigan. (Photo: USA Hockey)
BOB MCKENZIE'S TAKE: A pal of Crosby's from their prep school days at Shattuck, the two used to talk about the possibility of going one-two in the draft and it could happen. Johnson is a tough, aggressive, hard hitting defenceman who also has offensive upside and a desire to be the guy with the puck. Scouts say he is sometimes too aggressive, but better that than not aggressive enough. He's a fiery competitor alright, just ask the opposing baseball player who was heckling Crosby during a prep school game -- Johnson charged the mound to go after the heckler.
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Why do people have to act like they were raised with no manners? Specifically...
1. not saying thank you when a door is held open for them
2. trying to get on an elevator before letting the people get off for that same floor
miserable people suck!
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Regarding Quinn, for a guy who is the "managing partner" of the Sabres, he always seems to be chiming in to the media regarding hockey matters that are probably best left to Darcy Regier and Lindy Ruff. Nothing more than speculation on my part, but I believe Quinn is quite the meddler on the hockey operations side of the house. This from a guy whose primary background is construction project management(including HSBC Arena).
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I liked the clip they played last, where Ray was going at it with Claude Lemieux and RJ's description was something along the lines of "Ray is throwing Lemieux around like a rag doll!""
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If the Sabres could make a splash in F/A, I would like to see them bring in 1 or 2 physical defensemen. This is the one area where the Sabres are sorely lacking(especially if Zhitnik doesn't come back).
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McKee
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