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Trading Risto for an overpriced goalie who is not much better than Hutton? No thank you

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I had no idea before I started riding how much the wind matters! Our bodies are like sails, it seems.

How far do you usually ride? I just started a few months ago and did about 18 miles in Buffalo last weekend. I was pretty tired at the end but most of the time I’m just having so much fun it doesn’t seem like exercise.

The rest of the team? The players in interviews last season were saying, "Yes, we have a whole bunch of confidence in Linus." Seemed to me they were also saying who they did not have confidence in

Especially if they find a guy who is reasonably priced, a steady backup and will sing for a few years. Jbott has no choice but to sign another goalie.

What would you do now?

I think they were stuck with him come what may last year. Johannson obviously wasn't ready.

Sounds right. I knew something happened to him. But at 34 things just start to not work right on men, lol. If he is ok, that would be great. Linus will be the starter but if Hutton can play 25-30 games and have a winning percentage we are good to go, but if this is just an excuse from a guy who just lost it for whatever reason then there had better be a serious backup plan. Jbott has some serious decisions to make about goaltending. Relying on Hutton is a big risk but he is here and signed for a season. Bringing in a player for Rochester is fine, but what security would that be if he is only an AHL caliber player? If a good backup goalie in free agency is available can you really afford to pass? If we go into the season with Ullmark and Hutton and Ullmark gets injured again and Hutton can't stop a beachball, it's another disaster season. If they are the starters and perform really well, we probably make the playoffs.

So I was not feeling well last night and flopped down in my chair and watched a science fiction movie Ad Astra with Brad Pitt. He produced and starred in the movie and got Donal Southerland and Tommy Lee Jones roles in it. I disliked the movie but watched the whole thing, as I am interested in astronomy and space so I gave it a try. The one fact that just leaped out of the movie was that the script was just a rehashing of the basic plot line from Apocalypse Now, which, so I am told, was created with the book Heart of Darkness in mind. Pitt’s father (Tommy Lee Jones) has gone crazy off near the far off planet of Neptune and Pitt has to go find him and terminate his command. And just like Martin Sheen having to travel the river to find Marlon Brando, Pitt sets off into the vastness of space to find Jones. Both movies have at their center a psychological angst. For Sheen in Apocalypse Now it’s the insanity of war and pointlessness of all the killing. The most iconic line from Apocalypse Now is Robert Duval declaring, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” He then sadly states, “You know, some day this war will be over,” as he hangs his head dejectedly. Senseless, but entertaining. For Pitt in Ad Astra, it’s the emptiness of space and the lonliness of space travel from its confined crafts, bureaucratic impersonal nature and lack of a natural environment. Pitt has to continually take “psychological evaluations” because it’s well known the space environment can cause depression and other mental disorders, but when Pitt opens up to the computer about his real feelings it’s just spits back at him bureaucracies mumbo jumbo and thanks him. The whole movie is his dialogue and it’s not very good. He ends up killing a bunch of people and then his own dad and comes home to earth finally where he is welcomed very nicely. Strange movie. Dark, depressing and nothing to hang your hat on.

Why? Does he look like Brad Marchand?

I have four pots with budding sunflowers growing in them. Been waking every morning and moving them into the sunlight. Can't wait until they are big enough to be planted in the yard

When I first read about how we have to rely on Russia to launch things I thought it was a joke. Just really sad.

And getting the PP to produce at a level it should. With all this talent our PP should be much better

A SpaceX capsule exploded on the test stand last year. Boeing’s first Starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit during an crew-less test flight in December and was nearly destroyed at the mission’s end.

Despite NASA’s insistence that the public stay safe by staying home, spectators gathered along beaches and roads hours in advance. Among them was Neil Wight, a machinist from Buffalo, New York, who staked out a view of the launch pad from a park in Titusville. “It’s pretty historically significant in my book, and a lot of other people’s books. With everything that’s going on in this country right now, it’s important that we do things extraordinary in life,” Wight said. “We’ve been bombarded with doom and gloom for the last six, eight weeks, whatever it is, and this is awesome. It brings a lot of people together.” https://apnews.com/da66485df4d82c055ce9d6b84a20e450 During the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and shuttle programs, NASA relied on aerospace contractors to build spacecraft according to the agency’s designs. NASA owned and operated the ships. Under the new, 21st-century partnership, aerospace companies design, build, own and operate the spaceships, and NASA is essentially a paying customer on a list that could eventually include non-government researchers, artists and tourists. (Tom Cruise has already expressed interest.) “What Elon Musk has done for the American space program is he has brought vision and inspiration that we hadn’t had” since the shuttle’s retirement, Bridenstine said.

I think it’s actually a good off season to sign a veteran goalie, hopefully they get one

I'll add this. Maybe something happened in Hutton's personal life--family death, wife was having sex with mailman, kid was sick, he might have had an undisclosed injury or something and he comes back strong, but I doubt it. Wish we had another young player ready to make the jump now in Rochester

That would be a serious mistake. Whatever happened to Hutton--who was really good at the start--we just can't take a gamble on him alone again. They absolutely have to replace Hutton with an NHL ready goalie

Which would solve nice part of the scoring problems. I also think/hope he will be better next year.

I just totally disagree with this. How did we do when Ullmark was hurt last year? I really don't want to live through that again. We outscored the Islanders even though that team played with the lead way more often than that. Letting in a soft goal--which happened on a regular basis last year with Hutton and whoever that other guy was--changes the game. We would have had more scoring opportunities if we had the lead or were tied. Or just getting more out of a PP that should have been way better.

I totally disagree, goaltending is the most important position and aside from LU we totally sucked at the position. We actually started a an AHL goalie over our veteran because he was so bad. You just can't win that way. We do need more scoring, but we scored more goals than the Islanders and they had a great record. Perhaps if we had one of the Islanders goalies and they had Carter Hutton things would of been switched.

If Carter Hutton had not crapped the bed starting in November, we would have made the playoffs and things would be better now. Yes, we do need more scoring but getting a goalie is number one priority now.