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Now go back and read the post with a sarcastic tone.

I want to say she was outside. But anyway, part of the story was talking about the proper way to remove them and it specifically mentioned not pulling it down your face.

Mask are probably about to be come mandatory inside public locations around here. So the news was running a story about the proper use. Once it was done, they cut back to the reporter who was presenting the whole story. Take a wild guess where her mask was. She was actually talking about proper mask usage with her mask pulled down under her chin. I want to rant about how clueless these people are, but I'm starting to think that they know exactly what they're doing.

It's gone untouched so far, but this post is pure genius.

And just to add to that one a bit, my friend's brother works in the analytics department for the Tampa Bay Rays but lives in the Seattle area. Even the whole "no one wants to live in Buffalo" mentality doesn't necessarily factor in here. A purge during a front office overhaul? Nope, never happens. People need to let the dust settle, see who the hire and then we'll have a much better idea of what their approach is going to be.

He's getting up there in years though. That may have to be a 3PM bar brawl.

I was going to request that the jujubes don't have the awful licorice flavor, but then I realized I was mixing up jujubes and jujyfruit. Seinfeld has too much power over me.

I have no idea what I just read.

I really think the days of finding that diamond in the rough are gone. You don’t have that prime talent wallowing away in obscurity. Every league of value, any one of us can find the games online if we try hard enough. So if you can efficiently mine that video, find the guys you want to see, and then get the boots on the ground, why not go with that approach. I think it’s definitely possible, they just need to hire the right people now.

That one was the Van Ryn loophole, something that no longer exists.

And the positions are going to have different responsibilities from team to team. Chicago clearly has a different definition of what a scouting director is.

College kids that go the full 4 years and then walk, that’s a very short list. I’m not so sure we can even count on one hand the number of first round picks that have gone that route. The 5tb round guy that does that? It’s not Casey Mittelstadt.

It’s unfortunate that the two get paired together on this one. Completely independent of anything else, the thought of not wanting to give long term to Eichel is completely baffling to me. What goes beyond a red flag? That’s exactly what this thought is.

I’d love to know how that would work. You’d have the guys under NHL contracts But don’t have anywhere to play. Would they expand rosters and at least let them practice with the big club regularly?

They may have done well fighting it, but getting a massive influx of people from all over the globe, that’s going to be a major challenge to their system.

My very early read on Adams is that we are never going to find fault in his words. This may be the first one in a while where we focus completely on his actions. In that respect, it’s very refreshing to listen to him.

Budget cuts with the Sabres couldn't possibly help with the costs for a new stadium. At an absolute minimum that's a half a billion dollar project. And I'm guessing I'm low on that figure.

Teams don't have to burn the first year of the contract for these guys who sign at the end of the year, but so many times it happens. A lot of things are done to get these kids to sign. It's not exclusively a Botterill or MIttelstadt thing. This scenario where a guy needed to go to the AHL but they couldn't due to that handshake, I'm willing to bet it has played out several times around the league.

Making that type of agreement and then bailing on it will not reflect well in future negotiations. You could potentially be souring future talks with every single client of that agent. That reputation of not honoring your agreements can ripple downstream significantly. So really, if they wanted to badly get him to the AHL in this scenario where the player disagrees, it would take a lot of careful conversations.

That's all well and good when if you're talking about 2 businesses. If things are in the shape that (I'm pretty sure it was him) Taro laid out, it's a lot more complicated one you have 7 businesses and 6 are struggling. Sure, you'd love to keep everything separate, but that's not always practical. But yes, I'm completely on board with the thought that the oil is a long term game. The others are as well.

That last part is what really gets me. We still don't have the slightest clue when any of that will be. A couple bad bounces and the whole restart gets delayed or canceled. At one point I would have shot down this thought as ridiculous, but at this stage I think it's fairly reasonable.

I doubt there was anything even remotely sinister like that during the whole process. At most, they asked at some point and he said no, end of story.

They are not allowed to put that kind of clause in the ELC contracts. It had to be one of those handshake agreements and they honored it. The only way he was ever going to be sent down was if he agreed to it. I've been saying this for a long time now. It's the only possible explanation for him being kept around so long.

And only one business is able to pay for itself. Of course, that could change too if for some reason they aren't able to start their games on schedule.

People always talked about wanting that president of hockey ops guy. Maybe that's where he was minus the title. He's just as experienced at this point as the Joe Sakic's of the world who were thrown into that position not too long after retirement. Titles are mostly BS anyway.