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Speculation: Roster Building Thread - Part XXII

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Glen Sathers Cigar said:
I went to college up there too (Oswego) and virtually all of my buddies from college live in 3 places: Rochester, Syracuse or Buffalo.

I think the down talking of these cities gets overblown by those of us who live in more 'exciting' areas. The cities themselves aren't particularly great and have issues with crime and poverty but seems like if you live in the suburbs you can live in nice areas, with good schools and have huge houses for very affordable cost of living. I have friends living in what are basically mini mansions on good property up there in their area's "rich" neighborhoods on an 80k household income or something like that.

One of them just bought a house in a Buffalo suburb last summer the same time I was buying my house on Long Island so we were always talking about it. His house is 4k sq foot house all brand new everything inside in a really nice neighborhood and has an insane backyard set up with pool, outdoor bars, fire pit areas, sauna, hot tub - just like a sick backyard - he paid like 250k for it and the taxes are like 3k a year. My house is half the size of his, cost 2.5x more, on only 1/4 acre with a plain yard and my taxes are almost 16k a year. I'm happy with my situation, my house is nice but I totally can get the merit of living in an area like that to stretch your money and have a good quality of life, especially when friends and family are there. Personally after 4 years of school in those winters I didn't want to live there going forward, but those area are better than they get credit for.
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Yup. I went to the U of Rochester for grad school and lived there for a bit afterwards as well (about 9 years all together). Before grad school, I spent four years as a high school teacher in a suburb of Baltimore. I never even thought of buying a house. In grad school, making less than half what I did as a HS teacher, I was able to buy a really nice 1200 square foot condo. I moved to Arkansas for a faculty job, but I would love to move back to Rochester.
 
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Houston Heat has a nice ring to it but doubt they'd use a name already in use by a pro org.
 
I personally would love to see Quebec make a comeback, but it's not happening. First of all, Arizona will have all the leash in the world. Secondly, there are cities like Houston and maybe Kansas? that would go ahead of any Canadian market. Hell, I could see a third attempt at Atlanta before Quebec unless it's another Winnipeg situation as in an owner desperately wanting to sell his team and some guy in Quebec turning up with the wallet.
 
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Fitzy said:
I'll throw Utica into the conversation as possibly the only town in the United States you can find that both has a professional hockey team, and also has a plethora of 4 wheelers driving on main street downtown.

I kind of love that.

Oh but on the topic of suburbs and CNY, the white flight and property value segregation is no bueno. I've never seen such a stratified public school system between the inner city schools like Henninger that are gang recruitment zones and borderline liberal arts campuses like Fayetteville-Manlius.
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NYSPORTS said:
so lose three years of income? The new contract won't make up for the lost income. Might as well sign as many contracts as you can.
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Well if he played for a better team he would probably put up much better numbers and better numbers will get him more money. It probably won't be hard to make up the mill a year he would miss out on. Plus he already said he was going back to school so its only 2 more years. In career earnings 2 mill is not hard to make up especially for someone with his potential.
 
NYR Viper said:
I think if this was his plan, he and his agent would discuss this with the Sabres and they would facilitate a trade. It would be best for him to not sit in college for 3 more seasons and it gets him to UFA faster
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While I think that is an option the Eichel scenario is out there. An agent demanding a trade isn't going to work until the end of the year. He could do the Adam Fox thing...you are correct.
 
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I've sat here eating chips and deep in thought about jack's tweet. The 4D chess move here for Jack is to substantiate the cheesiest claim about mental health issues as a result of the ongoing feud between the player and the team over a life changing procedure he is being denied.

"We submit this tweet dated August 19th 2021 at 1:47PM by my client, an emoticon indicating immense anguish. The truth could not be clearer. We wish file a grievance and ask for the contract which binds my client's health and quality of life freedoms to be terminated so he can recover both physically and mentally."
 
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Tob said:
I've sat here eating chips and deep in thought about jack's tweet. The 4D chess move here for Jack is to substantiate the cheesiest claim about mental health issues as a result of the ongoing feud between the player and the team over a life changing procedure he is being denied.

"We submit this tweet dated August 19th 2021 at 1:47PM by my client, an emoticon indicating immense anguish. The truth could not be clearer. We wish file a grievance and ask for the contract which binds my client's health and quality of life freedoms to be terminated so he can recover both physically and mentally."
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What kind of chips?
 
Amazing Kreiderman said:
Is Buffalo really that dreary? I've been there and it was not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be IMO
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I have not, but I lived with a roommate from Buffalo for two years during college and most of what I heard was either shady or involved massive amounts of snow (or both.) On the other hand, everyone I’ve met from Buffalo has been really cool.

I remember one time his hometown friends came to spend a weekend with us. Little did I know that the only reason they came to Manhattan that weekend was because Phish was playing at MSG. And this was not because MSG was/wasn’t the closest venue of the tour, but more so that following Phish on tour was their profession (I won’t say anymore on that. :laugh: )
 
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