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I would not have drafted Östlund at 16, I fully agree there were other options Buffalo should have considered.

If I were the Bills, I would be focusing more on interior lineman as opposed to edge rusher. The interior was bad against the run and against the pass, they often allowed QB's to step up or out of the pocket making it impossible for the edges to do anything unless they won a rep cleanly. If I am the Bills, I am trading up and taking Derrick Harmon out of Oregon or sitting tight and grabbing someone like Alfred Collins out of Texas. With how Darius Alexander played at the Senior Bowl, he might be someone Beane looks at in round 2 as we know Beane values the senior bowl. Alexander also played for Toledo, so he might have been easy viewing for scouts.

I'd debate that. 42pts in 32 j20 games is fairly solid. Not at the top like his linemate Liam Ohgren though and a lot of what scouts wrote on Östlund was "potential" due to his elite skating and work ethic. Still, you are correct there were other forwards with size we could have easily drafted, such as Ohgren (6'1") Snuggerud (6'2") and Bystedt (6'2"). I believe this is the draft that the Sabres were going to take Leinonen in the first if Kulich was gone, so dodged a bullet there.

Noah Östlund: 10games 5g 6a 11pts +9 I truly believe if the Sabres had managed to draft Kulich and Östlund in the reverse order, the opinions of Ostund would be more in line with who he is as a player. That said, Östlund coming to life in the AHL is a really good sign and I hope he keeps working to get stronger because he's got legit NHL skills, but he will get buried if he doesn't focus on becoming a 5'11" 185lb man.

If Biden told you Ukraine "give us 50% of your rare earth minerals or we'll make a deal with Russia instead" no, I ***** wouldn't praise his efforts. Just like I dont praise his efforts for the Afghanistan withdrawn. Presidents aren't kings and political parties aren't owned allegiance regardless of what they do. Trump demanded 50% of the mineral rights, didn't get it, and immediately went to Russia to broker a deal which I'd bet money gives him mineral rights. Note, I say him, because the US ain't getting it. Trump and his allies will. that's not payment for defense or reparations, that's trump enriching himself. Watch for it.

Huh... I could have sworn there were several more posts in here... Anyways, should be fun tomorrow but just like in football, I think beating a team twice is hard.

Still waiting on DOGE to produce real receipts but thus far lots of ***** ups and lying about what they do find. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-days-musk-trump-tout-cuts-fraud-claims-are-debunked-rcna192217

Thompson can only play if team USA drops below 12 forwards.

Donald Trump backs House Republicans budget plan to cut 880 billion from Medicaid and 230 billions from SNAP in order to pay for a massive tax cut to the top 10%. It also has a big raise to the defense budget and curiously for missile defense which I will bet money, is in part earmarked for Elon Musk's Space X company. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-endorses-house-gop-budget-bill-swipe-senate-plan-rcna192791

I would also agree that Trump was not singlehandedly responsible, but he certainly contributed.

You can stop trying to turn this around on me now. What Trump said was not some type of poor wording which is what you are implying. He straight up lied about how the Russian war on Ukraine started and used a regurgitated Russian propaganda point to do it. It wasn't a poor choice, it was a deliberate lie.

It's not a ***** choice of words. He routinely regurgitates Russian propaganda. This is going to be like his Afghanistan deal, a total ***** show. I fully believe that Trump will either back out or refuse to honor NATO and that putin may even get that concession as part of this.

He's going to sell Ukraine out and is already blaming Ukraine for the war Russia started. It's literally a Russian talking point. If Russia goes the ***** home, the war ends. Trumps going to give away tons to appeasement. Won't be surprised if we see an invasion of Poland within 2 years.

My understanding is the Polish hate the Russians.

I personally think trump will bow down to putin because he doesn't care, he just wants the mineral rights and more money. I also reject your insurgency claim. If there are pro Russian Ukrainians, they are already fighting for Russia and should be considered Russians. We'd already be seeing evidence of a insurgency all over Ukraine. It's different than Afghanistan.

DOGE again fires people they shouldn't. It's because they have no ***** clue what they are doing and are just running an algorithm to identify and fire ppl. If this happened under Biden, there would have been wall to wall coverage.

Very much so. He's going to be 20 this year, so I'm curious to see how he does in the AHL.

I wouldn't call Risto fixed. I think Samuelsson has value because he's tall, nhl gms love tall defenders.

Every, single alarm in my brain is firing when I listen to someone like Miller. He get's emotionally angry when questioned about the simplest of things here. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/politics/video/doge-leader-elon-musk-stephen-miller-trump-white-house-digvid There's more to this interview but I can't find it its entirety. Miller gets physically angry when questioned about DOGE and goes on a tirade. I apologize for not having the interview in its entirety.

We are in agreement. I think waste is a good thing to locate, I am fairly certain that isn't what DOGE is doing. We won't know fully for several months and maybe not until next year. The consequences of this will have effects that are still not felt.

Tbh, I don't think Trump will defend Poland or all NATO countries. I think that could be part of the negotiations. "Hey, you can take Poland and the Balkans and we'll stay out of it as long as we get our rare earth minerals."