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More like 25% statistically.

I think this is a fairly reasonable expectation for what is currently in the pipeline. Statistics suggest we would not get 9 NHLers out of this group, and you acknowledge that. And the likelihood of high end players isn’t great. And you acknowledge that as well. That still leaves us with a pretty mediocre outlook 2-3yrs out.

Let’s see what transpires during the season and at the deadline before declaring a tank/non-tank. If they jettison players performing well during the season we’ll have a pretty good idea of intent.

Except I’m pretty sure he did. I don’t think Vanecek was wver available to any team other than Washington. My money is on Seattle and Washington having that planned in advance.

I laid out that idea a while ago. I think they were trying to some extent, but actually landing him wasn’t a priority. If he bit, yay! If not, they were good with that and the repercussions. I think this time it was about culture change. Would have preferred actual hockey trades instead of futures, but I do understand that getting vets who want to be here may be problematic.

I am convinced it had to be all futures because of the requirement that KA laid out of having players on the roster that want to be here. Selling NHL vets on the idea of wanting to be here is a hard sell, so futures are the return.

I 100% feel that not bringing in the players needed to start winning now is a high risk option that could readily infect Dylan, Radmus, Casey, et al the same way it infected every young player post Tank1.0.

I can readily justify the Sam, Risto and likely Jack trades as not being tank moves. Contract status and stated apathy about being here means they were likely moved to create culture change, and the fact that bringing back vets that want to be here is a hard sell, I am convinced that those trades had to be about futures. So no tanking there. Then we get to the goalie. Ullmark was negotiating the opposite of a home town discount, a home town premium. OK maybe the team didn’t want to pay a premium to get him, but I find it difficult to fathom that what we did get in place of Ullmark was the best we could come up with. Leads me to speculate that Ullmark walking away was the trigger point where the team decided to just go ahead and let last place happen. Not actively tank, but if last place occurs they are comfortable with it. Some day the Sabres need to hire a GM that is not comfortable with the losing.

Yup. Darcy was quoted as saying that he planned to turn over 1/3 of his roster every year. I strongly suspect that mentality is more common than not among GMs. This team will look substantially different in 2 years. 2013 Sabrespace is calling. They want their fantasy back.

Doohickie, you have piqued my interest. I'll keep an open mind for half a period.

So, American doctors, researchers, scientists, and a variety of alphabet soup gov't agencies through some combination of ineptness and corruption chose to not implement a policy of horse dewormers, malaria meds, and anti-inflammatories because they were paid off to do so, had too much pride to ignore existing meds, and wanted to be rockstars? And the boots on the ground medical community is so devoid of critical thinkers that they just followed along without question? Is that the assertion? Given that the US took a very similar path as the rest of the world in fighting this disease it should stand to reason that the EU, Japan, S Korea, Russia, China, WHO, countless other alphabet soup agencies around the world (some of whom have a vested interest in making the US look stupid), and all of the scientists, researchers, and doctors involved were all too stupid to see the missing link with horse wormers, anti-infammatories, and anti-malarials or too paid off or too conflicted to raise the issue that there was no need to throw millions (billions?) of dollars at J&J, Pfizer, and Moderna. It is that big of a socio-medical *****? Is that our New World Order? I love how governments and medical agencies are at once too inept to see an obvious, inexpensive treatment yet are devious and crafty enough to pull off the grandest of conspiracies. And they would have pulled it off if it weren't for those meddling kids.

Absolutely. In spades.

The scale is 10x. A good chunk doesn’t create similarity. The difference in scale is immense.

*head explodes*

The ending preposition in the title makes me twitch. sry

This is the only play.

I’ll die on the hill of that team needed veterans to prop up the kids. It’s readily apparent that the wrong veterans were obtained in that trade. Loved Kaner’s game. Wished in came in the form of a better character to help lead the kids.

#mostBuffalothingever

I question the useful part.

You gotta love the way the goalposts get moved. I don’t trust the vaccine. Its not approved. I don’t trust the vaccine. The approval was rushed. I don’t trust the vaccine. The scientists approving it are part of a deep state. What would be the motivation for the these scientists to ok something that may be harmful? What conspiracy theory with no evidence behind it are we supposed to subscribe to?

I’ll take “Things that never happened” for $800, Alex. So, you cite CDC flu stats to bolster your argument but discredit CDC stats that don’t support your argument? Edit to add- there is a 20% increase in payouts to hospitals for covid related treatment related to the fact that Covid care is much more costly, but only for Medicaid and uninsured patients. It is patently untrue that hospitals were getting $33k from the feds every time a patient was coded with Covid.

Holy ***** are you ignoring scale here. From the CDC 2017–2018 Burden Estimates CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2017–2018 season was high with an estimated 45 million people getting sick with influenza, 21 million people going to a health care provider, 810,000 hospitalizations, and 61,000 deaths from influenza (Table 1). In another month or two we may see as many DEATHS from COVID as there were hospitalizations from the 2017 flu season. And COIVD has already claimed more than 10x the lives as that flu season. And that doesn't even account for long term health issues due to COVID illnesses.

Or hire an experienced front office guy to help him grow into the role?

You are in denial. That was the plan. It was the plan all along. You are judging him against a standard that he isn't even working to. As for the first parts, KA is very much in development just as those kids are. Why would you assume he isn't developing as well?