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Carolina?! Really? Suzuki, Necas, Bean, Gauthier, H. Fleury, Murphy, Skinner. It's like you're making my point for me. Philly: York, Farabee, Frost, Rubtsov, Provorov, Kocecny, Sanheim, Morin, Laughton, Couturier. Better than Carolina, sure, but not exactly overwhelming. Instead of me coming up with countless examples, why don't you demonstrate how "Buffalo is in the bottom 3rd in the league at being good at drafting," considering the context of first-round picks that are not in the top five overall. Again, 100% of Buffalo's picks fitting the description are either in the NHL or still are prospects.

Just for kicks, Tampa, the other power in the division, since 2010, no top-5: N. Foote, C. Foote, DeAngelo, KoekKoek, Vasilevsky, Nametsnikov, Connolly. Not that impressive.

So that means it didn't happen? That's my point: Other teams make as many mistakes as the Sabres do after the first five picks.

If we could assign quantitative values to each player, I think those drafts would average out pretty close to one another. Boston has the lone home run. Buffalo reaches base every time, though.

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Oh definitely. Another reason I'd go with a proven commodity rather than roll the dice.

A YOUNG proven player? Absolutely. I would make this trade most years. I'm not sure that Buffalo misses on its first-rounders significantly more often than any other team. Sabres' first-rounders since 2010 that were not in the top five overall: Cozens, Mittelstadt, Nylander, Ristolainen, Grigorenko, Girgensons, Armia, Pysyk. All of them are either in the league (Grigorenko coming back) or still a prospect. Bruins' first-rounders in the same time period, also no top-five overall: Beecher, Vaakainen, McAvoy, Frederic, Zboril, DeBrusk, Senyshyn, Pastrnak, M. Subban, Hamilton. I don't see this as appreciably better. Pastrnak was an extraordinary find, but some of these guys never made and never will make it in the NHL.

Appreciate it. Taro, no, I'm not viewing it through an emotional lens. If I were, I would want everything to reopen immediately. As I wrote, I share the author's opinion. We simply don't know enough about this virus for me to regard too much as "fact." Guess we're not going to agree here.

OK then. Proceed.

Of all people whom I know, I'd think you'd be the most fascinated by it--you're an audio guy.

Whatever, Yanny.

We will be accused of "cultural appropriation," whatever that means. So no. Tables are our culture.

In a hot second, absolutely. Get me a proven player instead of some prospect. Unless it's 1 or 2 overall, in which case, trade down and then do the same thing.

Headphones or nothing for me. Earphones fall out and I can hear the other creatures on the airplane. The hooked earphones are good enough for the gym, I guess.

text still (within the quote) is white on black. It's right there. Taro's post appears to me, on my screen, backwards. It is white on black rather than black on white. So I cannot read it because it screws with my eyes. In other words, it looks like this (screenshot of Taro's actual post from my actual computer) I can't read that. My eyes won't have it, unfortunately.

I'm very OK with this for a second round pick. I do think he's going to "play some shifts" at OLB, and I'm fine with that, too. Glad that the team is finally at the point where it can draft for positional need rather than best player available. And very glad that it wasn't a running back. Let's see an OL or TE in the next round, I hope.

OK. I've seen a couple of people quote Taro now, and the text still (within the quote) is white on black. Am I the only one having this problem?

The text is white on black. I literally (in the old sense, not the trendy sense) cannot read it.

I don't know what you did, but I can't possibly be expected to read that. It's blinding. Anyway. I'm not going to debate you, Jerry.

That's what made me think of it. Even the hours by the end of Ramadan this year would be ridiculous.

If they don't, there will be a really good reason why.

Ok. Let's try it this way. I can look at fifty years' worth of data, including rosters, win/loss records, which coaches turned around which players, and playoff histories, and even the good ol' eye test, and come to an informed conclusion, based upon facts, that Lindy Ruff was the greatest coach in Sabres history. That remains an opinion. One well-grounded in facts, but an opinion. That's the author's so-called Fact 1. I can also look at fifty years' worth of the same data and come to an informed conclusion that Dominik Hasek was the greatest goaltender in Sabres history. That's a lot closer to knowing that the Sun will rise tomorrow, innit? Like it's as close to a proven theorem as it gets? (Sorry to bring hockey into this; mods feel free to move it to the hockey thread if you deem it necessary.) And then there's this too.

So in the case of Iceland, where even the southernmost part of the country doesn't have nighttime, they would likely do the Mecca thing?

The 5G tower conspiracy theory also is not comparable.