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Sabres haven't won in Carolina since 2016. Woof.

I've seen Desnoyers creeping up boards. I still prefer Bear to Desnoyers at this stage. Anton Frondell is up high on a lot of boards but I dont see it honestly. In what limited I have seen and mainly in what I have read, everyone has a variation of "good size with a great shot, gotta improve his skating" and yea his shot is good but the rest of his game is just fine, it isn't bad but there's no other standout element there. The allsvenskan is tougher than canadian jrs probably but idk, I just feel like I want more at pick 5-8 than Frondell. Hopefully McQueen comes back from his bulging disc soon and we get a look at him, he's a real wild card in this draft.

The issue isn't giving Cozens 7 mill for a career year, it's giving him 7 mill over 7 years.

I don't think he'll cost 6 million. But I would give him 5milx3yrs or 4.75x4

We call it the Darth Maneuver

He's better than Cozens so far.

Russia isn't nuking Canada. They clearly need ground troops as none of their bombers forced Ukraine to surrender.

Ok, I deleted it once but clearly I should have left it. Let's play this out. The United States withdraws from NATO and says "Hey Russia, we don't care if you invade Canada." Now you have contended that Russia would be in Edmonton within a day (after they started their invasion) but would they really? Russia would have to invade through Vancouver as to my knowledge there is not a large enough Canadian port on the Pacific coast outside of Vancouver to accommodate the supplies needed. Now right there we have problem #1, even if the US is like "whatever" they are now running an international boundary to invade but again, we are pretending the US doesn't exist/care. Okay, Russia invades through Vancouver. Now Russia has to immediately capture an air base otherwise they are screwed. They also will have been spotted long before they get to Vancouver because they will need a massive flotilla for the initial invasion, the Ocean is a massive deterrent and something Ukraine doesn't have in the way, yet the Russians haven't taken Ukraine. The chances of the Russians being able to hit Vancouver, overwhelm resistance and move on in even a day are about 0 unless the Canadians just refuse to fight, which I doubt. So your timeline is already broken. Let's say though that within a week they are able to secure Vancouver and prepare to move on. They would have to be running non-stop convoys to Russia to bring in material, they would need hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies every day. Now at this point, 1 week in, the British and the French are certainly reacting. Full scale mobilization is underway in Canada and the Canadians would logically fall back to the Rockies. Here we have the next massive issue for the Russians. They have to move over the Rocky mountains. They can't move south into the US, they can't move north because the passes through the North Shore Mts there are easily blocked. They have to move east along the Fraser river valley towards Kelwona. There's only 2 roads that run out of Vancouver along that valley and the Canadians would undoubtedly blow every bridge and set up every single possible delay they could because at this point they need time. Remember too, even if the Russians do not move, they have to feed and supply their army (they will get some of that from surrounding areas but still). This would be a battle of attrition, even if they develop air superiority, the mountains and hills make it ideal for delaying and otherwise ambushing an army. The advance would bog down. But lets say after a month, they get to Kamloops. They are 200+ miles away from their main supply base, they have only 2 roads they can use. It is now week 5 of the offensive. While the Canadian armed forces are certainly battered at this point, the great population reserves of Canada are still safely away in Ontario and Quebec. On top of that, the first British and French unites begin arriving in the east at Nova Scotia and then on to Toronto/Ottawa. The Russians have a choice at Kamloops, they can continue east towards Calgary, they can go north east towards Edmonton, or they could go North and try and skirt the mountains before turning back south. North is unrealistic even if they make Kamloops a forward supply base. At this point they still maintain air superiority but couldn't that far north. Kamloops to Edmonton is 500 miles but Kamloops to Calgary is only about 400 miles. The Russian's decide on Calgary and move to take Kelowna to increase their frontage, this takes a week. They now have 2 ways to get to Calgary but the most likely way is over the Mountain passes due east. This again forces them up over a set of mountains that include Glacier National Park. By now the Canadians, French, British, and others (probably Australians at a minimum) have had 6 weeks since the start of the war to mass troops in the east. In this scenario I giving Russia al the speed advantages I can, I think it would take them far longer to take Vancouver and Kamloops but we want this to progress. As the Russians start moving on Calgary, the question then becomes, where does this allied force fight? Delaying actions in and over the mountains would be aggressive. Every single moment of every day brings the forces in the east closer. On top of that Canada has seen a swelling of the military ranks from retired, reserve, and newly enlisted personnel. The Russians still have to ship all their war supplies across the Pacific. At Revelstoke on a fork of the Columbia river the Canadian armed forces with help from forward British and French units makes what could only be described as a determined stand. The mountains and the river are formidable and the air superiority by the Russians is finally challenged as Canada, British, and French fighter units are based out of Calgary. Couple that with the mountains hindering flight operations and the Russian advance grounds to almost a halt. It takes 1 week to reach Revelstoke, but it takes 5 weeks to clear it. We are now entering week 13 or 14 of the War. The Russians now have to cross the Columbia river again, this time it is a bit easier but still it takes them 2 weeks to clear Golden. The Canadians give resistance but are preparing something else. It is now week 16 and the Russians are forced to stop and bring up supplies along a road network that is now under air attack and has been heavily damaged by the retreating Canadians. The Russians decide to send a new army unit around the other way, the US again does not interfere as a mechanized column moves around the southern passes of the mountain and does fairly well until they reach Creston on the Kootenay river where they get bogged down. They push through, only to get bogged down on the Crownsnest Hwy where they are repeatedly ambushed and finally at Elko they run out of steam and are stopped by a combined Australian and Canadian unit. We are at week 18 of the war. The main thrust resumes from Golden but they will soon run into another problem. They must cross the river just south of Faeder lake and on the far bank mountains lined with entrenched artillery are waiting. The Russians do not have air superiority but do have parity, still, the bridges are blown and the way across the river contested. Finally they send units south on a service road but then are forced to build a road to connect it to the Kootenay hgwy. This takes 4 weeks to build and we are now at week 24 of the war. The units around Faeder lake withdraw in a night action, blowing every bridge and destroying the road as much as possible from their position all the way to the western side of Banff. Here, with nearly 12 weeks of prep time the Canadian, Australian, French, and British forces put all their eggs. They have defense in depth, falling back to the main bridge over the Bow River. The Russians have a supply train that stretches almost 90miles back to Golden and from Golden to Kamloops almost 250 miles back. The Canadians are dealing with a supply route back to Calgary of about 70miles. Here the Russian army is broken in the Battle of Banff. They never make it to the far side of the mountains and Edmonton is never invaded. It costs almost 500k Russian lives and nearly 150k Allied casualties. The fierce fighting last 30 months and results in a Russia defeat. A counter offensive from Banff and down from Edmonton and up around the Southern route, pushes the Russians back to Vancouver where the combined British and French fleets inflict enough disruptions that the Russian's withdraw their army. Okay, I did this for fun and used google maps, so sorry if I get names or you feel the terrain isn't as big an issue. My point is that unless the US actively helped (gave bases, supplies, and routes) to the Russians, the Russians could not successfully invade Canada. It would be over 700 miles to Edmonton and over 600 to Calgary from Vancouver. The road system is not well developed in the sense of their being multiple routes and they move through some of the most hazardous and defensible land imaginable. Every day it would take the Russians to advance would add more and more to the Canadian armed forces and to the Allies who would come to their aid. With the ability to stage out of any number of cities along Lake Ontario and then move supplies overland to Winnipeg and on to Calgary, the Canadians would be at a great advantage. I think the Russians would break their army in the mountains with stretched supply lines, winter weather, and a motivated enemy that would resist in the extreme. The only other option would be to come in at Terrace after taking Prince Rupert and Port Edward at the mouth of the Skeena river and using that road to come at Edmonton more directly but that is over 800 miles and you'd have far lesser port facilities. Anyways, welcome to alternate history and this is not meant to be political but more of a fun thought exercise.

They should be viewed as self interested narcissists one and all. Their interests all align on this issue so they all have no issue putting aside ethics in order to see it done. They are like the Triumvirate at the end of the Roman Republic. As long as the each member saw a benefit to maintaining the alliance, it continued.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-constitution-forbids-rcna193329 Donald Trump has no intention to ever leave office.

Right wing media claims trump is smart and not in decline. It's the same thing.

Absolutely appalled at congress. This is a disgrace.

Guess I should talk ***** about him more often. He looked like a different player.

Nice win. They had heart, miles and miles of heart.

Msg, to f-ing lazy to leave the shot totals up on the banner at all times.

They thankfully went back to the OG logo. The "modern" logo they had for years was atrocious.

Eat at Moe's!

The guy behind the net playing air guitar and singing creed should go home, he's clearly drunk. Oh my!

Rasmus Dahlin will a hell of a back check to break up a 3 on 1 Go back outside!

Anaheim ditching their old color scheme will forever be a mistake.