Stoner

Bring back the (non-OT) bench-clearing goal celebration. IIRC the ban on them came after a series of bench-clearing brawls in the early 80s.

The camera work is awesome! So tight to the play. The faces, the faces.

Gerry Korab

Hopefully New York barbers and customers are smart enough to both wear masks.

This might be brilliant. I guess you didn't hear about one space between sentences. You monster.

What strikes me about the Orr photo is how there's only a decent number of people going beserk in the crowd. It's not like the Bruins won the Cup a lot. In fact, shockingly in an era of only six teams, this was their first Cup in 29 years. Was it the fact they only had to beat St. Louis to do it? More likely, IMHO, folks weren't nearly as fanatic back then about sports.

I liked him better as the dad on The King of Queens. Frank was odd, mean almost. Arthur was eccentric in a more charming way and certainly more loving.

Uncertainty and not being educated about something are not the same.

Good. From a practical point of view, does it mean anything?

The beauty of hockey and its ugliness.

It's May there's a pandemic there's a depression it's snowing we're debating whether it would be good if the Sabres won the Cup and murderous hornets are coming. Something ain't right here.

It's about honour.

Let's wait til it warms up. Snow! all across the twin tiers. Unbelievable.

No, my statement makes me a bigger fan. I don't want a charity playoff appearance because some bat got mad at some Chinese guy.

I'm all for the Sabres getting screwed out of a "playoff" spot.

Yes, but they're smart enough to have training camp now for when the regular season comes in November.

When you watch people who wanted an abominable NHL playoff system get mad at how abominable it is.

What we did in the U.S. was a common sense middle approach.

You wanted it. Soak in it.

But we're having this discussion in early May, not early March. We can see the societal good that sacrifice did. And in just this short span of time, we already have a proven treatment, Remdesivir, although it's hardly a game-changer, and there are vaccines well in the works, as @Zamboni keeps us apprised on.

Maybe. Or maybe it's an urban legend. "Bob had a massive coronary at home and still wouldn't call 911. Now he eats his soup through a straw while re-watching Super Bowl 27." Think about the deaths unrelated to Covid-19 that would have ensued had the health care system essentially ceased to exist.

I think you've encapsulated it pretty well, except for the plausible part and the selfishness part. It's not plausible to suggest that allowing millions of people to die relatively quickly is better than spreading the deaths way out — in fact, so way out that treatments and vaccines would arrive before you reached that death toll. I mean, it was like six weeks and some people started freaking out. Are we that spastic a society? The thing that irks me is we did all the hard work to flatten the curve, now we're spitting out the bit before the virus is on the mat, so to speak. As for selfishness, "I don't want to sacrifice anything in the name of societal good" is the very definition of it.

Re: the meat processing plants. Anyone ever make the mistake of farting while skating (not sharting, mind you)? Big mistake. It doesn't disperse. It's the mistake that keeps on giving. And punishing everyone around you. For a good long time. I think it's because the gas doesn't rise; cold air sinks. My pet theory is that this virus gets aerosolized, and in the (I would assume) cold, dry environment of these plants, it hangs around, for a good long time. I've never believed so many workers touched infected surfaces or breathed heavy droplets let out by sick co-workers, one rapidly infecting the next. I'll dedicate my Nobel Prize to Andrej Meszaros.

I'm not sure it was all that rational. He's been all over the place. And his tone was pretty off-key in a discussion where many people are just flat out afraid. Maybe he is too. I'm not mad at him, he's a good man. This whole situation has turned everyone inside out.

A woman who works in a local nursing home told her husband who told the husband of my co-worker who told my co-worker who told another co-worker of mine who told me that... antibody testing had been done on the entire staff at the home and there were many who tested positive. This is in a zip code with no positive tests so far out of 80 tests. Kind of interesting. Or, given the nature of the telephone game, what the woman really said was, "I am positive after seeing Ben in his tight-fiting scrubs that I am officially anti-body."