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The DOGE website is unsecure. Multiple parties figured out they could push updates to the site and extract information.

About $70ish for a ticket in 300 between the bluelines. Might be cheaper during the week. Also at this point, you should boo.

... this person isn't well.

House GOP committee just advanced a budget bill that would cut 880 billion from medicare and medicade while using just about all of that for a tax cut that benefits the top 1%

remember, they called this phase 1

The idea of invading Canada doesn't seem far fetched, sadly. I think Trumps constant talk of 51st state is a prelude.

List all the top 6 forwards Adams has added to the organization since becoming GM. These are players who would be top 6 players on a playoff team, not Krebs or even Benson who occasionally play top 6. I have Tuch. I suppose we can count Zucker and Peterka maybe.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/trump-cdc-cuts-include-epidemic-intelligence-service-outbreak-investigators/

The next game changing player is Gavin McKenna. However even at 5 the Sabres could get a really good player, someone who's got some attitude hopefully.

Gets worse. JD Vance also supports the German far right AfD party, the same one Elon Musk backs. The Germans, rightly so, are united against the AfD because they don't like fascists. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/berlin-says-vance-should-not-interfere-german-politics-2025-02-14/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceve3wl21x1o

JD Vance further distance the US from its European allies after what can only be described as some sort of attempt at a Trump style campaign stop where he lied, sounded like an *****, and otherwise was a bombastic buffoon. During this speech he never once criticized Russia or China and even suggested that the biggest threat to Europe was themselves for not doing what the US has done, which is moving to the far right. The speech in Munich has been met with utter condemnation from basically all of our European allies. Germany for example said: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vance-ukraine-russia-deal-trump-military-tools-rcna192182

Deporting criminals has always made sense and the dems dying on that hill has not. Newsom is right.

this is what trump will bring more and more of. All the sexist and racist pos will be doing this type of thing.

Unclear what effect this will have on things; "The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it was dismissing more than 1,000 employees, including certain probationary employees. There are more than 43,000 probationary employees across the department, but the “vast majority” of them were exempt from firings, the agency said." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/trump-mass-firings-grocery-limit-egg-morning-rundown-rcna192177

The gap between Misa and Martone, IMPO, has widened as the year has progressed. I would take Misa over Martone 10 out of 10 times at this point. I don't expect him to be available at 4th overall though. Martone probably will be.

Let's set the bar at 6'3" and a forward. Since heights get updated, they even get the bigger boost as I will be looking at their heights now and not at the draft (the combine doesn't cover everyone). 2020: 1st round, Quinton Byfield. 2nd round, Roby Järventie, Daniel Torgersson, Jack Finley, Will Cuylle, Yegor Sokolov (6 total) 2021: 1st round, none. 2nd round, Zach Ostapchuk, William Strömgren, Matthew Knies, Samuel Helenius, Colton Dach (5 total) 2022: 1st round, Juraj Slafkovský, Conor Geekie, Nathan Gaucher, Reid Schaefer. 2nd round, Matyas Sapovaliv, Jani Nyman (6 total) 2023: 1st round, Leo Carlsson, Daniil But, Matthew Wood, Samuel Honzek, Charlie Stramel, David Edstrom. 2nd round, Kasper Halttunen, Anton Wahlberg, Danny Nelson, Rasmus Kumpulainen (10 total) 2024: 1st round, Beckett Sennecke, Cayden Lindstrom, Dean Letourneau, Liam Greentree. 2nd round, Igor Chernyshov, Julius Miettinen, Jack Berglund. (7 total) I dropped the bar down to 6'3" because 6'5" or taller was a short list, there's I think 5 total guys. Most of these guys are 6'3" I have listed here but that's a good cutoff between avg (5'11"-6'2") and short (5'10" and under). Technically we could have drafted any of the 2nd round players, so they all count but Byfield, Slafkovsky, Carlsson, But, Sennecke, Lindstrom were all gone long before our first picks. For our purposes lets take out those 6. That translates to 28 players we could have drafted that were 6'3" or taller, we drafted 1 of them in Anton Wahlberg. Now if we do this a bit more seriously, we take out all the first round guys before we picked (-6) and then we take out all the 2nd round guys who went before our first pick in the 2nd round (-6) as we eliminate the guys we couldn't get and the 2 guys after we took Wahlberg because we took a big guy then. That means we are at -12 or 22 players total we could have drafted in the first 2 rounds that were 6'3" or taller. Now this is specifically at forward. In 2024 we took 6'6" defender Adam Kleber. 2023 we took Wahlberg and also 6'2" defender Strbak. 2022 we took the goalie although he is over 6'3". 2021... our 2nd round is trash. 2020, we took JJ Peterka. I think it is worth noting the only 1st or 2nd round forward pick taken since 2020 that is over 6'2" is 6'3" Wahlberg. I also think it is worth noting we have taken a bunch of defenders who fit this profile of 6'3" or taller. The point of all of this was to look at the possibility of drafting a big forward with a strong 2way game that plays physical like Greenway. There were some opportunities and I will give you the list below, but fewer than you would think. We could have drafted the following players: Note it would have cost you Zach Benson, JJ Peterka, Matthew Savoie, Noah Östlund, and Konsta Helenius to take some of the names below instead. You wouldn't have Kisakov, Poltapov, Kleber, and Leinonen potentially. 1st round: Dean Letourneau, Liam Greentree, Matthew Wood, Samuel Honzek, Charlie Stramel, David Edstrom, Conor Geekie, Nathan Gaucher, Reid Schaefer, 2nd round: Jack Berglund, Zach Ostapchuk, William Strömgren, Matthew Knies, Samuel Helenius, Colton Dach, Daniel Torgersson, Jack Finley, Will Cuylle, Yegor Sokolov

Finland has a problem and a lot of it starts with their Liiga play. That league is just so slow in transition and lacks. Just straight up lacks in general. They need to change up how they play the sport at home because we have seen it with drafted players as well, where the pace of place and physicality of NA hockey is just overwhelming to them. Yes, I know several NHL players are on that roster, but my point still stands. If these 4 teams were the 4 NA jr leagues, you'd have the US and Canada as the WHL and OHL, Sweden is the USHL (I recognize the fact most of team usa is USHL alum), and Finland is the Q.

He's undersized with work ethic issues, and he's in buffalo's system behind at least 6 other prospect wingers. So he's 10th ish on the depth chart, I'm in agreement with you. He's just not gonna be anything in this system.

Depends on when chatgpt last updated it's internal info repository. Even if the numbers are off a bit, it's a good baseline. Saw an article that in the next 15yrs the US will overtake Canada for most NHL players.

6 US attorneys have now resigned over this, rather than comply with a corrupt order.

I didn't do it this time! That said, good for Jokiharju.

Windows closed.

At 4 you can get Martone, at 6 you're looking at Desnoyers, Bear, Eklund. You could take a risk on McQueen who hasn't played because of a bulging disc in his back.

Pam Bondi sent a response that basically says "you would have done as you were told, now we're coming after you" The United States is no longer a functioning democracy.