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Nothing else comes close.

And Thomas Vanek coming up.

Now, granted, everyone needs to understand that we recorded this with Thomas before Power signed his contract.

So we kind of do a full little Sabres preview to the opening night of the season and stuff in the Dahlene contract and all of that stuff.

But all these young players in Buffalo just seem to be getting paid tons of money as a smokescreen.

First, the bills lose in England and they announce, hey, come on, get Dahlene signed.

Then Terry's got to fire two more executives, and he's like, bury this one, sign power,

announce power tonight.

Anyway, regardless of why it's done.

It's done, and it's seven years and it's 8.35 million per year.

And as you pointed out on the conversation before the show, both defensemen signed

for $19.35 million. i think it was kind of around the ballpark

what we were talking about you know back back months ago when we were discussing this you

know we were thinking that owen power would come in somewhere around eight million we were thinking

dahlene would come in somewhere around 10 and looking at those two

defensemen to number one first pick overall defensemen playing on the same team.

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