Matt Minner

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

@WhatChaosShow

[PuckPedia @PuckPedia]

Tuch 8 year $10.5M Cap Hit #Sabrehood #ALLCAPS sign/trade Deal:

Yr 1 $5.7M Base & 10M Signing Bonus
Yr 2 3.775M & 8M SB
Yr 3 3.925M & 5.5M SB
Yr 4 3.92M & 5.5M SB
Yr 5 6.4M & 3M SB
Yr 6 3.17M & 6.25M SB
Yr 7 1.67M & 7.75M SB
Yr 8 2.92M & 6.5M SB

Years 1-4 No Move Clause, Years 5-7 21 Team No Trade Clause, Year 8 15 Team No Trade Clause

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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

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[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

Rooting for Buffalo to beat Montreal is the closest I’m getting to a playoff win this month. I hope the Habs lose in an unusually devastating and awful way that we’ll remember for decades. Go Sabres!!!!! Finish them!!!!!!!!!

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

@Tommer97 what kinda pants you got on big boy?!?!

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

@shawn_depaz Won’t happen but I’d rather see Helenius than Norris taking Östlund’s spot

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

Very emotional

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

This thing of ours is forever, Buffalo.

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

@SneakyJoeSports @EvolvingHockey @TopDownHockey @hockey_ref @domluszczyszyn @FDSportsbook @DKSportsbook @MoneyPuckdotcom

[NYC Parks @NYCParks]

Forget Manhattanhenge, this morning at Herbert Von King Park in Brooklyn we discovered this season's coolest marvel ... Snowmanhenge! ☃️

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

Much respect to these women👍👍👍 Yes, your president is a big liar and a fraud who abuses his position to insult and bully his fellow citizens. Still, I believe you must have shown a great deal of heroism in making this decision. Thank you for that👍

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation.

Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention.

In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust.

But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming.

American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time.

Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical.

Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself.

Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office?

This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest?

Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse.

This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price.

The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most.

So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television.

History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late.

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[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

@Ben_Mathewson The Moms are in the Building!

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

@Sabremetrix The Bills Backers bar I go to in Brooklyn (Fulton Ale House) has always played the Sabres. I’ve watched a few games there basically in the corner with the owners but I would bet they’d fill out for a playoff game

[Pete Guelli @PeteGuelli]

Tage Team USA signed jersey & 2 great seats to the game on Saturday. Someone has to win. Possibly you!?! #sabrehood

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

Lunch is simply not supposed to be $20. Why is it always $20

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

@JustDishin @BuffaloSabres Will these be available for sale online at some point?? So sick

[Matthew Bové @Matt_Bove]

Marcus Foligno is all-time awesome dude. Love this from him.

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

@SandoNFL @kurt13warner Mike, has anyone ever told you that you’re the Joe Pera of football analysis? I mean that as the ultimate compliment. Keep up the great work

[Matt Minner @RealMattMinner]

@BloombergTV @RomaineBostick @kgreifeld @timsteno @carolmassar https://t.co/HbnucvLTFi

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

We didn’t smash any tables. We didn’t eat a garbage plate. But you better believe the Bills got that W today.

Thanks to Governor @KathyHochul for bringing the #BillsMafia energy to Astoria today—and to Murphy’s Bar for having us.