swede316

Dude...You Rule!!

Anyone know of internet radio coverage?

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Does this team seriously want to win? The maximum cap is $39 million and the Sabres want to operate at around $28 million from what I've read. I think it can be said if the Sabres put a winning product on the ice the people will show up....Just like the Bills.

I plan on a basement sports bar when I build my house when I return to the States...I'll have some jerseys up on the wall...Had him Autograph a Patriots Jersey back when he was with the pats at the Pro Bowl...My bills one might make the wall.

WOW!...Glad I live 1000 miles from any saltwater.

NFL - Vince Lombardi MBL - The Babe NBA - Larry Byrd NHL - Gretzky Boxing - Ali Soccer - Pele Tennis - Agassi Golf - Jack Nichlaus Wrestling (NCAA/Olympic..Yea right!) Ric Flair NASCAR - Big E Track and Field ? Swimming ?

Well playing poker can be entertaining..but it is no sport.

Ahhhhhhh...my bad

(Nick) OH...I think I may have misread your sarcasm...If I read you right...Poker is neither Entertainment nor Sport?

Sport...A literal definition: 1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. 2. A particular form of this activity. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively. Zero Physical activity involved in poker.

Ok Nck...I consider sports hunting, rugby, football (American and and that gay ass soccer), baseball, etc...Games (entertainment) are monopoly, cards, chess. Athletic competition is sport...games are entertainment.

Words escape me.

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.

Ahhhhhhhh...I was waiting for that...the E stands for Entertainment...Poker falls unde rthe E.

Ummm..... Poker is not a sport.

True, but lets not forget...It's a game! You get paid to play a game.

Me personally...If I had a choice of any one of all the above mentioned....3rd string QB by far. Watch games for free...and get paid. Think of all the cheerleaders you could pick up during the game plus a mid 6 figure income. Sweet!

Well he's better than Stuart Scott...BOO YA!...Pure crap....If one watched sportscenter when Hockey/Basketball/Football seasons run concurrently...NHL highlights come on in about the 45th minute......After football and after BB. It used to piss me off because they didn't do enough to promote the game....a game they had rights too att...and they didn't have NBA rights then. They coulda done more to promote it. Just my 2 cents.

Cool...I'm in.

Yea, ok....Next time I want to visit Cuba I'll just book a flight to Miami. Ju espeek Espanis?

Where's my stapler

ESPN insider article by Hradek.You need to be a subscriber so if you are here is the linky. http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/magazin...Blog?id=2098316

Looks like a decent deal. A 24% paycut would hurt though. Sneak Preview: New CBA The NHL executive committee will be in New York on Monday to meet with Gary Bettman. This is not a full Board of Governors meeting, rather a smaller group of key owners. The commissioner hopes to have a final CBA document for the committee to review. However, there remains NO guarantee it will be done by Monday. Both sides are continuing their discussions and document drafting through the weekend in the Big Apple. With the help of some key sources on both sides of the table, here's a look at what some of the key issues will look like under the new agreement. Term: Six years. Salary rollback: All remaining contracts will be rolled back 24 percent. The rollback will also impact players who must be given qualifying offers for new deals. Those qualifying offers will be based on a player's salary in his last contracted year, minus the 24 percent rollback. 2004-05 contracts: Those contracts will simply disappear from the ledger. Players, however, will be credited with a "year of service." Years of service can determine a player's free-agent status. Salary cap: Each team must meet a minimum, but not exceed a maximum payroll number. For the 2005-06 season, the high-end threshold will be approximately $37-$39.5 million. The low-end threshold will be between $21.5-$24.5 million. The numbers are based on the league's projection of revenue for the 2005-06 season. The projection is approximately $1.7-$1.8 billion. According to the league, total revenues for the last complete season (2003-04) were $2.1 billion. If revenues increase, the salary cap thresholds will increase on a season-to-season basis. If revenues decrease, the salary cap thresholds will decrease on a season-to-season basis. Buyouts: Teams will be allowed a window of time to buyout player contracts. A player can be bought out for two-thirds of the total remaining value of his contract, minus the 24 percent rollback. A team will not be allowed to re-sign a player they have bought out for a still to be determined amount of time. The money spent to buyout a player will NOT count against the salary cap. Escrow: A still to be determined percent of players salaries will be placed in an escrow account. In the new deal, league-wide payroll can't exceed 54 percent of total league-wide revenue. If league-wide payroll is determined to be more than 54 percent of revenues, the escrow account will be passed back to the clubs. If league-wide payroll is determined to be less than 54 percent of revenues, the escrow account will go to the players. Individual team-by-team player cap: No single player can earn more than 20 percent of his team's total payroll. For example, a team with a total team payroll of $37.5 million couldn't pay a single player more than $7.5 million. Revenue-sharing: The top 10 revenue clubs will contribute to a pool that will be redistributed to the bottom 10 revenue clubs. The NHLPA proposed a similar revenue sharing component in 1994 during the league's first lockout. Unrestricted free agency: It will remain frozen at age 31 for the first year of the new CBA. It will gradually decrease to age 28 during the life of the deal. Salary arbitration: The club and the player will both have ability to elect to go to arbitration. Although not confirmed, I believe NHL will go to a baseball-style arbitration system that calls for both sides to submit a salary figure and an arbitrator to decide on one number or the other. There will be a limit on the number of times a team or player can go to arbitration. And, the clubs will have a limited number of times they can walk away from an arbitrator's decision. Under the old system, the clubs could not take players to arbitration. Qualifying offers: Players making less than $660,000 must be tendered qualifying offers of 110 percent of their final contracted season's salary. Players making between $660,000.01 and $1 million must be tendered qualifying offers of 105 percent of their final contracted season's salary. Players making over $1 million must be tendered qualifying offers of 100 percent of their final contracted season's salary. Entry level contracts: Entry level contracts will be capped $850,000 per season, with a maximum signing bonus at 10 percent of salary per season. The contracts will be three years in length. Minimum salary: The minimum salary will be $400,000. Under the old agreement, the league minimum was $175,000. 2006 Winter Olympics: The NHL will shut down operations in February 2006 to allow players to participate in the Winter Olympics. To accommodate the scheduling issues, the league will cancel its 2005-06 All-Star Weekend (scheduled for Phoenix).

Man...That sucks...Go Noles!!!!