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No. Not a single person believes in this team. Not even the Make-A-Wish kid that gets invited to practice. Their goalies are Craig Anderson and Dustin Tokarski. Their biggest off-season acquisition was probably Vinnie Hinostroza. The front office is a mess. The only encouraging sign was that they were slightly less awful under Don Granato last season... 9-16-3 as opposed to 6-18-4 with Ralph Krueger.

*fingers crossed*

Maybe not. "The contracts that would remain in effect during a strike include the union’s Sports Broadcasting, Low Budget Theatrical and Pay Television Agreements, as well as the Commercial and Music Video Production Agreements, and select independent agreements. “You must check with the Local about any job before you continue to perform or accept new work,” the document tells members. “We will be coordinating closely about what work is not struck, and will be contacting the few members who are not required to strike in the event a strike is called.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/iatse-strike-faqs-document-unemployment-healthcare-1235031658/

Would you want to be publicly associated with this tire fire? And pay for the privilege?

In contrast, OJ Simpson is still on the Bills Wall of Fame.

No wasted time getting the Kraken their first "Welcome to the NHL" moment. This was the GWG in their first-ever game.

It's also the Mike Richards math that got his contract halfway cancelled for a crime he never ended up being prosecuted for.

I wouldn't want players around who could randomly cause me to forfeit games, either.

I tried to find details about what kind of XFL assets were actually sold without reading an entire court filing, and I saw that they still had nine employees while in bankruptcy. It's a tiny connective thread, but The Rock and his partners bought an actual business that was still paying employees. This isn't like dusting off USFL identities after 40 years.

Really bizarre to hear an ESPN talking head calling out NHL players by name. I don't think the Good Canadian Boys are going to like this deal.

Standard disclaimer that the Seals should really be considered the Sharks.

My wife found this stuff somehow, and she even saves the labels to display around the house. "Honey, why has the picture of us at the cabin been replaced by a maybe-problematic Jamaican skeleton coffee label?" The mugs are really high quality; if you can get them on sale, I highly recommend them. As far as the coffee, I drink anything from Starbucks to Bones to Great Value and don't really notice a difference.

Four teams have lost 14 in a row since the shootouts started. Two of them are the Sabres.

Are people really trying to claim they're the worst team ever?! You probably only have to go back to last year's Red Wings to find a worse team! These people obviously haven't been watching the Sabres for the last ten years, either! In the lockout-shortened 2013 season, the team had a respectable 48 points in 48 games... the next year, they had 52 points in 82 games! In the McDavid/Eichel tank year, they traded Michael Neuvirth because he was too good! I think they're a mediocre team that also is demoralized. The Devils thing is pretty insane... from 2 positives to 17 right around when they were playing the Sabres, but the Sabres don't get the benefit of the doubt because they haven't actually shown much recently. The rain isn't the reason I didn't run that 5k today; it was never going to happen. It'd be like if your Jackets got screwed on that disappearing penalty in a 4 goal loss.

First season out of the lockout was still the goat head, then a season with the slug on the old template, then Edge hit. I don't know how much they meddle, but I don't tend to blame them for the Sabres' failures. They tried stuff and it didn't work. The same way Jamarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf, etc. would have gone #2 or #3 overall if they weren't picked #1, I don't think anyone was really criticizing the GM hires at the time. The losing culture became a boulder rolling downhill at some point, and it's hard to snap out of it. Now, I think the pandemic has got the Pegulas on the ropes and they're cutting back instead of investing money to turn things around, but that's almost a separate issue.

A million K-pop stans have already registered online for tickets to the first game.

The one that always bothers me on my local sports radio is the tax relief attorneys. I’m sure there are some legitimate reasons for their services (I’m fat from a glandular disorder!) but maybe just pay your taxes?

Maybe a dumb question, but did the Oklahoma team actually pay for that old Las Vegas Aces concept from the boards here?

And they confiscate the foreign workers' passports so they can't go home. You know, standard construction stuff.

Surely there’s examples where it doesn’t look like this, but the very rectangular jaw in the UAB logo reminds me of a dragon dance costume. The red and yellow don’t hurt, either.

It's not horrible enough that it demands an immediate return; we should at least give it a few months.

To be fair, were there any good parts besides the team identities?

Hi, yes, I ordered the Fourth of July sherbet, but I received the Bastille Day sherbet. Please give me a refund.

That’s Whitney. They’re playing a full YouTube video for their anthem, not even just the relevant part.