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He was also injured in a preseason workout and started the season at less than 100% health wise. And it was so obvious. In retrospect, perhaps it would have been better to put him on IR instead of playing. Oh well.

That’s a fair point to be sure, but it may just be a numbers game in Seattle. They’ve had their pick of several much more experienced NHL blueliners and given his lack of experience at the NHL level, he may not be ready for them but, given our situation, especially with RHDs, he might be ready to gain experience for us. I doubt he could seriously screw up our plans this year.

Will Borgen, anyone?

The injury occurred when he hit his head against the boards against the Islanders on 3/7/21. It is a herniated cervical (neck) disc. Whether or not the specific disc has been identified, I don’t know.

Anybody seen a Penguins lineup? Duffer made it sound like they were barely gonna ice an AHL team tonight.

It’s not enough to be “not a racist.” That is a tired, pass the buck, feel good excuse for tolerating it in our society. We need to be anti racist, anti bigotry, anti misogynistic, etc. That means absolute ZERO tolerance and all the potential uncomfortable truths that may entail. Like telling your bigoted uncle he’s no longer welcomed at Thanksgiving dinner, for example. Or calling out and possibly losing some longtime friends. We’ve all been enablers at one time or another. We’ve all been complicit by not standing up in the face of it. We will never be the best versions of ourselves unless we start acting like it. And that starts with me.

Guess that means that Jack couldn’t do jack.

Is that sanitary? Doesn’t matter; I need a shave, anyway.

Hart contender. Nothing less. Then again, I’m easy to please.

Quinn looked noticeably slower last night vs Tuesday against the Blue Jackets. I wonder if fatigue wasn’t a big factor in his play as it wears on you just as much mentally as it does physically.

Not surprised since Harrington gets most of his ideas from this forum to begin with.

Malodorous wankers

I suspect it’s rarer than Sabres players named Jack. Anyway, regarding suspension, I wonder if the Sabres can do that if he refuses their prescribed treatment? But even if they can suspend him without pay, it’s something I hope they would never do. That seems punitive given they would have been happy to pay him if things were different.

I expect John Hayden to change his first name to Jack so that @LabattBlue and I can put another one in that name column.

Kris Letang says, “Hi.”

Mostly wistful

Well, I got nothin. To think we’ve had as many Raffis as Jacks.

I can’t recall any, either, at the moment. Johns or Jacques count?

Yeah, but those gardening gloves really popped!

Given what little anyone has seen or heard from him, it almost seems like John is there already. Almost.

Adams needed to keep Ullmark if only to prevent @MODO Hockey from leaving, no longer sharing panny videos from Sweden, and becoming a Bruins fan.

When Lehrer first spoke about his demons, he was very effusive in his praise of the entire Sabres staff for helping him get the help he needed and the continued support they provided. He had nothing but nice things to say at the time. Fast forward a year later or so when he was having great success with the Islanders and it was a whole different story. He trashed the organization and then he saw fit to trash the fans and that’s where he lost me. I sincerely wish him well in his recovery, but I don’t have any other kind words for him. He can go screw himself for taking cheap shots at us fans.

…yet.