Around the NHL: PTO Season Becomes Waiver Season

[Chainshot]

More power to him. For someone who basically started out as one of us, just doing post-game stuff on the interwebz, he's had a long gig getting paid for it. Good for him and I hope he does well with how he's digging in on SDPN and leaving SportsNet.

 

[old kummelweck]

Sabres at 8 is surprising, I'd expected them to be lower.

I don't consider 15k respondents any kind of sample size.

 

[Ehran]

Sabres at 8 is surprising, I'd expected them to be lower.

Out of towners who didn't watch games last season and still think RJ works the games.

 

[TageGod]

Apparently Duffer and Biron are very highly rated. Dan and Ray do decent in small doses I suppose. The local market rates it way lower than national.

 

[OkimLom]

Would love to hear the “logic“ on why the fans deserve shitty teams here.

Where did I say, during those exchanges, that the team was shitty? Sure, I'm more pessimistic than others, but I just said the fans deserved the team they currently have.

But, I don't see how the Buffalo fans, that sell their tickets to those fans for Montreal, Toronto to make their money back from outside markets, instead of going to the games against their rivals, that don't show up to the games for one of their better recent seasons, deserve anything better than what they have.

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

Meant to post this earlier, but even though I think Eichel has some pitiful personality traits that boiled over upon leaving the Sabres, he's shown some growth in his game and sure as hell handled that big hit from Tkachuk like a boss. Not just physically coming back to play but to shrug it off as a part of hockey and acknowledging that it was a clean hit. Major props to him for having a good season, great playoff, getting a bit of the McDavid monkey off his back, and showing physical and mental maturity. Wish it could have happened in Buffalo but I'm not going to be THAT salty about his post-Sabres success/failure.

 

[sabremike]

Where did I say, during those exchanges, that the team was shitty? Sure, I'm more pessimistic than others, but I just said the fans deserved the team they currently have.

But, I don't see how the Buffalo fans, that sell their tickets to those fans for Montreal, Toronto to make their money back from outside markets, instead of going to the games against their rivals, that don't show up to the games for one of their better recent seasons, deserve anything better than what they have.

Has it dawned on you that for most of those people flipping those games is the only way they can afford to pay for season tickets in the first place (particularly with the local economy being pretty dogshit)?

 

[Diaspora]

Would love to hear the “logic“ on why the fans deserve shitty teams here.

Because it's not shitty anymore, and we deserve that.

 

[MOGlLNY]

Where did I say, during those exchanges, that the team was shitty? Sure, I'm more pessimistic than others, but I just said the fans deserved the team they currently have.

But, I don't see how the Buffalo fans, that sell their tickets to those fans for Montreal, Toronto to make their money back from outside markets, instead of going to the games against their rivals, that don't show up to the games for one of their better recent seasons, deserve anything better than what they have.

yikes

 

[OkimLom]

Has it dawned on you that for most of those people flipping those games is the only way they can afford to pay for season tickets in the first place (particularly with the local economy being pretty dogshit)?

Then if you can’t afford them, don’t buy them. Let people who can afford them, off the waiting list.

 

[sabremike]

Then if you can’t afford them, don’t buy them. Let people who can afford them, off the waiting list.

Um yeah, about that waiting list...

 

[Montag DP]

Glad to know I deserve a team that hasn't been to the playoffs in 12 years and hasn't won a round since 2007 because some season ticket holders can't make it to every game and choose to sell some tickets. What was I thinking?

 

[OkimLom]

Glad to know I deserve a team that hasn't been to the playoffs in 12 years and hasn't won a round since 2007 because some season ticket holders can't make it to every game and choose to sell some tickets. What was I thinking?

I knew you’d come around.

Um yeah, about that waiting list...

Go on…

 

[sabremike]

I knew you’d come around.


Go on…

It hasn't existed since roughly 2016, possibly because we have been on the single worst run in the entire history of the sport of hockey.

 

[Ehran]

It hasn't existed since roughly 2016, possibly because we have been on the single worst run in the entire history of the sport of hockey.

I was going to say "Unpossible! Have you not heard of the Arizona Coyotes" but then I looked and they have actually been to the playoffs twice in the past 12 seasons.

So there you are.... we're a worse franchise than the Coyotes.

I'm going to go drink away my sorrows now.

 

[Push Dr Tracksuit]

I was going to say "Unpossible! Have you not heard of the Arizona Coyotes" but then I looked and they have actually been to the playoffs twice in the past 12 seasons.

So there you are.... we're a worse franchise than the Coyotes.

I'm going to go drink away my sorrows now.

It’s the fans fault thought

 

[Chainshot]

Doan leaving the desert is one of the signs of the apocalypse is it not?

 

[brian_griffin]

Doan leaving the desert is one of the signs of the apocalypse is it not?

Or a Double-agent Double-cross to get Matthews back to Phoenix.
Someone should lock Tage in a bunker.

 

[Chainshot]

Or a Double-agent Double-cross to get Matthews back to Phoenix.
Someone should lock Tage in a bunker.

Who knows, by the time Tage's contract expires.

 

[CaliSabresfan24]

Annnnddd Fitzy is out

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Laces out!

 

[MilkshakeMan]

Why does the NHL put 8PM as the start time when they know darn well the game won't start until 8:20?

 

[MOGlLNY]

TNT either putting the crowd noise way down or everyone in the Florida crowd needs a megaphone

 

[joshjull]

tkachuk to the locker room. I’m surprised he was out for the PP. he was stumbling a bit after the hit.

 

[joshjull]