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Gabrielor said:
Disclaimer: know nothing about lax.

So the bandits have won back to back championships. They're 2 best players appear to be signed long term, and they have 3 1st round picks this year??

Org seems....incredibly well-run. Can they 3-peat?
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When quality people who know what they're doing are left to run the team...

Tavares and Dietrich work in step with one another. Got a need? They will make a trade or a signing. Have too much of something? They will make a trade for futures. Got a need... they will sign arguably the best goalie in the league as a UFA. I know Buffalo is a Bills town first and foremost but the Bandits are the example of how to build and rebuild on the fly.

*Yes, there are more players about than teams and that leads to getting a specialist like Farrell as a free agent part way through this season... it isn't a direct comparison. Yet the Bandits have a brand, they play a certain way. Offense? Got that. HARD to play against? Got that too. And the fans appreciate it. And the players appreciate that the fans appreciate it. There is no one at a Bandits game sitting with a paperback or reading their phone/tablet all game. That doesn't happen because the team doesn't leave that sort of room to just sit around bored.
 
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Chainshot said:
Belter with that enormous hit and then Grenon got FED.
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I think the people sitting next to us were wondering why were would go nuts everytime Coach Belts did something. We especially went nuts on that play.





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Tsujimoto said:
Yes. He signed a two-year deal this past off-season. He'll be a Bandit next year unless he decides to retire.
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Gut feeling… he wants to try and 3peat and plays out his last year and then retires. He still has a passion for the game. You could see it during the celebration. Priolo I think has a couple more years at least in him as well. Especially if he transitions to more of a stay at home defenseman versus him trying to move up the floor at times like he does. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. Priolo would need to resign cause he was a 1 year deal but I see no reason we wouldn’t offer him another one.
 
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Mike McDermott said:
Gut feeling… he wants to try and 3peat and plays out his last year and then retires. He still has a passion for the game. You could see it during the celebration. Priolo I think has a couple more years at least in him as well. Especially if he transitions to more of a stay at home defenseman versus him trying to move up the floor at times like he does. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. Priolo would need to resign cause he was a 1 year deal but I see no reason we wouldn’t offer him another one.
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Priolo is also team captain... I can't see him leaving.
 
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I know he didn’t play this last season but can’t say I’m surprised. I know he struggled with balancing lacrosse and career which is why he was away from the team this last year. He was huge in the playoffs during the first of our back to back championships with huge face off wings at crucial times. Wish Max successful future endeavors.
 
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Jim Bob said:

While I applaud Oatly for this marketing campaign, I am torn on the idea that this is built upon.
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If there's a place for this kind of weirdness it probably is in Minor League Baseball, where strange and outlandish stuff is just kind of in the blood of these leagues, but yeah, weird.

One of those things that could be really fun and done well or extremely annoying and in poor taste. Here's hoping for the former.
 
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BuiltTagonTough said:
If there's a place for this kind of weirdness it probably is in Minor League Baseball, where strange and outlandish stuff is just kind of in the blood of these leagues, but yeah, weird.

One of those things that could be really fun and done well or extremely annoying and in poor taste. Here's hoping for the former.
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I love the Buffalo Wings vs Rochester Plates games. It's just doing this for an advertising event just hits different.

Although, I also don't have an issue with it if the company owns the team. Exhibit A: all the different sports teams that Red Bull owns.

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Jim Bob said:
I love the Buffalo Wings vs Rochester Plates games. It's just doing this for an advertising event just hits different.

Although, I also don't have an issue with it if the company owns the team. Exhibit A: all the different sports teams that Red Bull owns.

:dunno:
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Agreed. Stuff done for the fun of it is always great. Having it straight up be an ad is getting closer to the whole ads on jerseys things where some teams look like billboards. I guess since it's the entire jersey and they actually bothered to come up with a name it could be fun, but yeah. It seems like a slippery slope where you have to be careful not to start selling naming rights to teams and ending up with the Buffalo Pepsi vs. Rochester Coke. (An exaggerated scenario of course, but the world is weird.)
 
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BuiltTagonTough said:
Agreed. Stuff done for the fun of it is always great. Having it straight up be an ad is getting closer to the whole ads on jerseys things where some teams look like billboards. I guess since it's the entire jersey and they actually bothered to come up with a name it could be fun, but yeah. It seems like a slippery slope where you have to be careful not to start selling naming rights to teams and ending up with the Buffalo Pepsi vs. Rochester Coke. (An exaggerated scenario of course, but the world is weird.)
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I don't really have a huge issue with ads on jerseys. But, that's probably because I've been a soccer fan for a long time and they normalized that decades ago.
 
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