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Would have been shocking if Cozens didn't make it. Quinn wasn't a lock but that's good as there was tough competition. Good to see.

Probably, but it's still a guess. Nobody knows how long it will last at this point. Could be a few months could be for life. I'm no expert but I would think (logically) if you got it and you were one of the people that got over it without ending up in an ICU etc. then you're probably pretty safe and good to go. There is still the issue of being contagious though. They still don't know if people who had it can still carry it and spread it to those who haven't had it.

I don't like it either, but the same sort of sentiments were pretty much all over when they copied the Euros and put ads on the boards. Eventually everybody got used to them and now nobody cares. It'll be the same with this. Uniforms will end up looking like nascar. Wonder if it'll be league wide sales or local? Will it be ads for Budweiser or Buffalo Wing Kings?

Fair, and maybe, but the science isn't in yet on how long immunity lasts. It probably does last for a while, but I have heard experts saying people should be cautious with this idea that if you've had it you're totally safe. Just don't know.

Its been shown now that there is actually very little chance of getting it by contact from surfaces. It's mostly air born transmission, which is why masks and distancing are the most important things. If you're worried about surfaces just carry a hand sanitizer in your car and spray your hands down when you leave the store (before scratching your face or removing your mask etc.) and that will eliminate anything you might pick up off of a check out atm or whatever.

There really is no "they." It's a very small minority who complain and one admin with right wing leanings. Best to just stick to hockey really. Path of least resistance and it is the main reason we are all here.

Not sure you can work that unless it's just a few guys. If it's a large group that's an over crowded practice both from a coaching perspective and a covid one. Think you'd need to run a second practice with one assigned assistant coach maybe. Separate from the main team.

There are people that think lots of things and many of them are pretty far fetched so you can't stop that. I might have mentioned this before, but another stat way under the radar is how many people have died from heart attacks and other urgent care issues because hospitals were filled with covid or short staffed and so forth. People that might have got the attention they needed and normally would have gotten if the pandemic was under better control. So yes, they know more now and lots of people DON'T die from it, but the hospitals are still on the brink and in places close to system collapse so just hope you don't need urgent care for anything these days. Wouldn't be good amid all this.

Looks like it got moved to politics so I think you're good to rant if you want to.

Me too. I think the date given seems hard to believe. We shall see.

Oh I thought it was funny. But I got in trouble here for talking about that very response when it started. Got muted for saying the big man should listen to Fauci instead of being what he was. That was early days and was considered out of bounds political content, even though it was related to what was (and wasn't) happening. I think now, in hindsight, it's pretty hard for most people to say with a straight face that the response from the top was good. Too late now in any event. Damage is done. Mask wearing got politicized, hoax people are running around spreading disinformation, and the anti vaccine crowd are ramping up their campaigns so all you can do is ride it out, get vaccinated, and hope nobody you care about dies before this whole thing ends in another year or so. and hop[e it doesn't mutate in a mink farm or something.............

See now THIS is a political jab lol. But does it really matter? Election is over so it's really just political jokes. Don't think it really matters one way or the other. Personally I don't understand vaccine hesitancy. We all had multiple shots as kids, we're still alive. If the doctors are giving it to themselves I figure it has to be pretty safe and am getting mine first chance I get.

Wow, below Martin Jones, that's pretty bad. Better hope they're way off.

I don't think that's true. They'd likely start a new proper season in the fall if the vaccinating has the desired effect so they'd still be playing hockey in 2021. Lockouts didn't kill the sport, so this won't either.

If you haven't already read the article on the front do so and believe! https://buffalonews.com/sports/sabres/how-dylan-cozens-used-the-terrain-around-whitehorse-to-prep-for-sabres-camp/article_badd41a6-34db-11eb-baee-039b4caed262.html I think Danny Briere was the last Sabre to play with tractor tires in his off season. Not sure, but those damn things be heavy.

I really don't think so. I can't see Reinhart Skinner Staal working as well. You're taking the big line from the year before and switching Eichel for Staal, and that's quite a drop off. Skinner and Reinhart both go towards the net so you need a guy to control the open ice. Staal also goes to the front so a speedy winger on that line is a better fit for the line chemistry. Any sort of sniper would fit with Hall/Eichel so yes, Olofsson will get points/goals on that line but I'd rather see a net guy for garbage rebounds and let Jack shoot more. As much as I'm not a Reinhart fan, he'd fit that role better from our roster than Olofsson. I see a lot of Eichel carrying the puck, passing to Hall who will draw the D away from Jack and then pass back to Jack and shoots/scores or rebound for Sam. I might be jumping the gun, but if you really want Sam on line 2, I actually think Cozens would fit better than Olofsson on line 1. Guy loves to get in close and mix it up.

No, nowhere near. I'm out on the west coast. I probably shouldn't try to speak to the specifics of any particular location (aside from my own) but I do know that hospitals all over are getting overwhelmed so something has to be done or even more people will die, and not just from covid but from other urgent care situations that simply won't get beds or proper staffing and equipment. That is a stat that might not get factored in properly. Indirect death because of but not from covid if you will. 2-3 week limited lockdowns to buy more time seem like a reasonable idea to me in areas where hospitals are at or near max capacity.

You don't see the effect of a shutdown until several weeks have gone by. Targeted lockdowns have been shown to be effective. Summertime, people were outside, that's the big difference there.

Well it's hard to say but I'm also hoping that we only saw the beginning of Risto's shift back to a stable D man last year under Kreuger and if you do this pairing you keep coaching and defining his role as the snarly defender of the pair and not the guy trying to score goals, let Dahlin do that. If they're both going to run around all over the place you're absolutely right, it won't work. Whatever the pairings end up being, I hope they are stable pairings and the 2 guys in each pair can learn to play with each other properly as a pair and not 2 individuals. All the best D pairings in the league are the same 2 guys and they develop chemistry like forwards do. Kreuger was better with this than Housley, but with the extra D bodies we still juggled too much. Set the pairings and keep them.

I want that too. We have a lot of guys who, although they play different styles, are all mid, average, or inconsistent so I'm not entirely sure how you shuffle the deck with Miller, Montour, McCabe (a lot of M's in there). Maybe, if Dahlin is going to get more minutes you pair him with Risto, but then you drop off heavily after that so maybe Joker and Dahlin and let the young guys grow together? I dunno, but I want some size and potential physicality to balance things and at this moment Borgen is the best hope.

We sure, but he does have a track record to look at and we can assume playing beside someone of Eichel's talent helps and he is in a contract year so he should be motivated so barring injury (which is a real thought, he has a small history there too, not an iron man) I think the expectation is he should - should - play like he did when he first went to NJ. But if he doesn't well yes, bring on the vultures to pick at the corpse of the franchise, but only then. Until then (and hopefully never) let optimism rule.

geographically that makes sense but 5 divisions would be tricky for a typical playoff. With a short season are they going to do an expanded playoff again or just the old 16? I honestly think the best way to run a season would be to use several bubbles and play the games in batches that overlap giving you continual hockey with quarantine breaks when teams travel between bubbles. But maybe they want some fans like football, so I guess interdivisional play will be it. I think that could make for a dull season though. I don't know about you guys but I don't want to watch us play the same team 10 times.

Well, as much as that would be nice, it isn't going to happen. Even if they all stayed healthy the whole year (which is unlikely) and they played well as a unit, still doubt they'd get to that point total. With the Skinner contract being the burden it is, it would be unlikely they can pay Hall top dollar AND pay Reinhart any sort of substantial raise. One, but not both can get paid I think. So if Hall and Eichel have magic together Sam will be let go one way or another. If Hall doesn't do great things this year then it's him that's gone (maybe both as that's likely a total failure blow it all up scenario as Eichel will want out too) Hopefully for either in a trade where we get something rather than at the end of his contract for nothing but dumping a truckload of money into 4 forwards is a recipe for disaster (or the Leafs......). I'm excited with the additional of Hall (and Staal) and on paper this team seems much better, but making the playoffs is far from a lock. A lot rides on Cozens (or another 3rd line forward stepping up), Dahlin's development curve and what kind of goaltending we get. Skinner also has to get back to a 30 goal pace or thereabouts at least. The good news is last few years we've come out of the gate pretty good and with a shorter season that might help, but who knows. Cautious optimism is still how I look at it all.

I honestly don't care who is in our division. I suspect they will arrange them for the least amount of travel and state border crossings. Unless it's in some sort of bubble.

Spot on. We've already seen Jack best him head to head several times.