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This team's mascot died prematurely Name the team.

I didn't (except for the taste and smell part). Other people didn't. Otherwise CDC wouldn't have put out a press release. Do you know whether the Sun will come up tomorrow?

You're in Lincoln and you don't know football?

See what we didn't know yesterday?

What's a "Hollywood type?" James Woods? Kraft is a Trump guy.

Happy birthday! You old fart.

I'm psychotic, too. We'll be ok.

Temporarily. It'll be ok.

Oh, oh yes they are. I'd love to see their roster of brown members.

We all are. It's the age of COVID. Do you need a hug? 'Cause I'm not hugging you. It's the age of COVID.

The "Patriots" drafted a white supremacist kicker. This timeline....

1. The amount of people out yesterday shows that we are really climbing the walls to get out. It doesn't mean that mitigation--and Curt, I like that term for what we are doing--needs to end, but collectively we are really getting aggravated with this. 2. Woody, you're a ginger. A ginger who travels to Africa to help people on the regular. Do you really not have sunscreen?

He never even got to skate a shift in the show. I mean, the skates wouldn't necessarily support his weight, especially with the hairdo, but still. Also, his potential successor--his sis--is kind of hot, no? (Yes, I am completely fine with making fun of the North Korea royal family and their flatterers.)

I don't think that high end talent happens often enough after the first five picks to gamble on it.

Take out Debrusk and you're right on your first assertion, but still, look at all the no-shows in that Bruin situation. That's the part where you're wrong. A LOT of misses. Again, another reason to trade a non-top-five pick for a proven young NHLer. And, since Liger put me through the exercise, how about looking at the other three teams that I described?

Jake Fromm is an interesting pick. There's the insurance policy. No Andy Dalton needed.

This conversation is just about the first round. We're talking about trading a first round pick for a current NHL player and the reasons why it's a good idea. Your position was that some of us only think it's a good idea because we have no confidence in the Sabres' drafts in the first round. If you want to get into later rounds, I might agree that the Sabres are below par. In the first round, though, they're not. They might even be above par, but that's not a bridge I want to cross right now.

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.