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Kick to the noggin' ...
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Dodgeball=Legalized Bullying so people say
SabreFan1 replied to Violator's topic in Off-Topic General
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The financials are out. The contract pays 10 million for the first 6 years with $7.5 million in signing bonus money in year 3 and year 5. So the contract is front loaded like I suspected it would be. As long as Skinner is still producing goals, that makes trading it halfway through easier since most of the actual dollars are paid out in the first 5 years. Especially if the trade is with a cash strapped team like Ottawa or the Panthers if they manage to stumble into a competitive season where they would need a goal scorer. So after year 5, he's likely getting bought out or traded.
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It's the new benchmark poster-signing for desperation. The Sabres have been bleeding talent. This signing takes them out of the free agent market and could very possibly lose them Sam Reinhart. I'm ok with being out of the free agent market, but I'm going to be angry if we lose Reinhart after this season like I suspect that we will.
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I agree with what you're "just sayin'" for the most part. It's a gamble thsat has an excellent chance at blowing up in the Sabres' faces... I'm not a fan of that kind of high stakes gamble. They had to include year 8 to keep him, but I wouldn't have given him a penny over 7.5 AAV. Understanding why the Sabres did what they did and liking it are two different things altogether. I think they will lose Reinhart now and I'm not the least bit happy about that.
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Like I said a few times now, I would not have done this contract if I were Botterill. Snipers have a nasty habit of hitting a brick wall in their early 30's. The gamble is that he will continue to produce past 30-31. Will he? Who knows, but the Sabres had better hope so or the organization will continue to be terrible. Keeping ROR wasn't an option. He purposely blew that up when he told the media that he lost his love for the game while playing for the Sabres. The locker room was already toxic enough without that.
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If he hits a wall at 30 like a good number of snipers do at 30, the Sabres are screwed. If he's still producing good scoring numbers, they'll likely find a Cup competitive team to take the last half of his contract. It all boils down to Skinner's offensive output in a few years. It's a gamble that could come back and kill the Sabres or could end up becoming a shrewd move. Personally, if I were a GM, I would have let him walk his happy arse to another team, but I understand why Botterill did what he did in signing him to this contract.
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This contract boils down to whether the Sabres are actually going to hold onto Skinner and milk him up to his expiration date. If so, this contract is terrible and will hurt them in the long term. If the idea is to keep him as a stop-gap to buy a few years for the young players to mature then trade him for cheap while he's still producing and has value then it's a smart move. The only way this haunts the team in the near future is if his play falls off of a cliff now that he has his career contract. I don't get the sense that he's that type of person though.
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Tims has been here since the 90's. They're the dominant chain. They drove out almost all of the Dunkin' Donuts and even kept Krispy Kreme from gaining a foothold. Owning a Timmy Ho's here is like having a license to print money. If I didn't have much easier ways to make money, I'd have opened up one or more a long time ago.
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Ehrhoff was a compliance buyout so he counts zero against the cap. If the Sabres are smart, they trade Skinner as soon as the team is competitive in a few years. With that contract term and the fact that he'll be 30-31, they'll get a bag of pucks for him, but as long as he's still producing, they'll still be able to move him.