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I agree. But it’s psychology. Some people are more susceptible to advertisements on TV, on billboards, in Movies, on actors/actresses, in sports arenas etc ... And some aren’t nearly that susceptible to the fish/hook routine. Ads aren’t made for those people. I can’t say I’m impervious to marketing campaigns. But after the age of child toy commercials while watching Tom and jerry or Heckle and Jeckle, I’ve felt most marketing campaigns don’t make me want to go out and buy a product. Now excuse me while I go look at Audi’s, Geico insurance rates, and Locate the nearest Burger King...

I’ll predict that if they allow advertising on helmets, within 5 years you’ll see jerseys and/or the face off circles will be completely filled in with ads. I mean it has been heading that way anyway for many years already. Seems like every other year they come up with a new way to advertise on the ice or within the game.

From my observations ... 99.5% of the people I see at stores and in the general public space are wearing masks over mouth and nose. Only time I really see people not wearing masks is if they are going for a walk/run outside around the neighborhood and staying very far away from others. That’s my daily practice as well. Along with hand sanitizing, and washing hands. Some people may be doing overkill, some people may be doing underkill, but by and large I see almost everybody complying to a greater degree.

As long as they can safely play a sport and have some semblance of a decent length season, with few to no Covid cases, I’m all for playing. At this point I couldn’t care less who’s in the division or what teams the Sabres will be playing. Do it smartly, safely, and drop the puck!

My low expectation level for Cozens is that he makes the team. Stays healthy. That he isn’t a liability on the Ice too often. That he shows improvement in all aspects over the course of 56 games or whatever the season is. I don’t need him to be in the top six. I don’t need him to get 35-40 points in the shortened regular season. As a rookie, I don’t need him to “wow me” with sick mitts and highlight reel goals or plays. If he does ... well, that’s a bonus. As a sophomore, I’ll hope he builds on a good solid rookie campaign.

Like I’m sure many, Once the vaccine rolls around to the “average joe”, will be nervous and apprehensive about taking it. Some won’t. Most will. I thought I read one of the vaccines were made back in January, and have been in trials for over 10 months. Not sure which one. I thought that was interesting... I’m not saying or telegraphing a position one way or another. I just found that interesting. Personally, for me and me only ... I’ll have to think about getting the vaccine. Again, “thinking about it” doesn’t mean I lean one way or the other.

Meh ... 😂

Meh whatever as in ... not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. My input regarding the look of the site is inconsequential. At least that’s how it seems. Hence the meh.

https://www.wgrz.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/erie-niagara-county-yellow-zone-covid-positive-test-rates-top-9-percent/71-a3338460-06aa-46a3-b67e-8b4801bc8489

The top banner “sabrespace Buffalo Sabres news” in regular mode. Isn’t there in night mode. It’s very different. I assume that’s on purpose for some reason. I don’t know if others care, but it would be cool to have the same banner as night mode colors in the night mode. meh ... whatever.

How Cozens visits Alaska ...

It also may be a product of the improved team in front of Ullmark, and not necessarily him improving at all. That seems to be overlooked often...

One can project that out to many topics. Not just sports. The problem is, there’s a growing number of people who don’t have that mindset instilled in them at a young age or even early adulthood. But in the narrow scope of sports and forums or by extension social media, it’s quite pervasive. And a healthy portion of participants don’t see it. Or try to Internet tough guy bully you into thinking their way. 😂

Began watching Lovecraft Country last night. 1st episode was intense! I like it.

Yea, on a deep or well stocked team, Olofsson is a middle six winger. On a team with depth issues, he slides up.

mRNA > live attenuated. If one has the choice ... get the mRNA.

Meh... I just click in the last page number (like this is currently 4 pages) and scroll until I don’t recognize a post I’ve already read. Works for me ...

A lot of IF’s have to happen...But if they do (which I have my doubts).... Hall will want 10 -11 mil per on a 6-8 year deal. In my opinion ... if that’s the case, I hope the Sabres say thanks but no thanks.

To me, it looks like no team did exceptionally well IF you are the kind of fan that expects teams to hit on 50% or more of 6th round picks. I believe in this round, if you can get one or two decent NHLers in a ten year span. A player who has a long (over 500 games) career... you drafted fair in the 6th. So, the Sabres didn’t do any worse or better than the vast majority of the other teams. Just like the 7th round was in the same 10 year span.

As anyone with eyes could see, for the 7th round, the Buffalo Sabres did no worse, and no better than the vast vast majority of teams. So they didn’t “under perform” or "over perform" compared to almost every team. Who’s had NHL time? So i took a 10 year sample. From 2007 - 2016. In my opinion it’s too soon to judge anyone drafted in the 6th round in 2017 or more recently to determine if a team drafted well in the 6th. If you disagree, then post the more recent years if you want. I added the Buffalo picks (if there are any) just to see the names. And yes, i am well aware that this round is pretty much a crap shoot, but i think there’s no harm in giving a little credit to the teams. 2007 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 152 Philadelphia Jon Kalinski L 22 1 4 5 0 2009-10 153 Phoenix Scott Darling G 126 0 0 0 2 2018-19 158 Columbus Allen York G 11 0 0 0 0 2011-12 160 St. Louis Anthony Peluso R 148 4 10 14 220 2018-19 161 Philadelphia Patrick Maroon L 513 97 132 229 586 2019-20 162 Carolina Brett Bellemore D 121 4 16 20 79 2014-15 164 Toronto Chris DiDomenico L 27 6 4 10 14 2017-18 167 Tampa Bay Johan Harju L 10 1 2 3 2 2010-11 168 NY Rangers Carl Hagelin L 604 101 165 266 254 2019-20 171 Pittsburgh Dustin Jeffrey C 131 18 15 33 12 2015-16 172 Dallas Luke Gazdic L 147 5 3 8 206 2016-17 173 San Jose Nick Bonino C 626 122 160 282 171 2019-20 175 Atlanta John Albert C 9 1 0 1 0 2013-14 179 Buffalo Paul Byron L 448 89 96 185 125 2019-20 ————————————————————————— 2008 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 152 Tampa Bay Mark Barberio D 272 14 42 56 115 2019-20 156 NY Islanders Jared Spurgeon D 653 82 198 280 114 2019-20 157 Columbus Cam Atkinson R 571 198 170 368 142 2019-20 160 Tampa Bay Luke Witkowski R 131 2 11 13 162 2019-20 163 Edmonton Teemu Hartikainen L 52 6 7 13 16 2012-13 164 Buffalo Nick Crawford D 165 Carolina Mike Murphy G 2 0 0 0 0 2011-12 169 Chicago Ben Smith R 237 29 25 54 8 2016-17 170 Colorado Jonas Holos D 39 0 6 6 10 2010-11 175 NY Islanders Justin DiBenedetto L 8 0 1 1 2 2010-11 177 San Jose Tommy Wingels C 448 62 81 143 254 2017-18 178 Philadelphia Zac Rinaldo L 370 18 24 42 753 2019-20 ——————————————————————————— 2009 Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 152 NY Islanders Anders Lee L 493 172 129 301 303 2019-20 158 Toronto Jerry D'Amigo L 31 1 2 3 2 2014-15 159 Dallas Curtis McKenzie L 99 10 13 23 131 2017-18 161 Minnesota Darcy Kuemper G 215 0 4 4 26 2019-20 164 Buffalo Connor Knapp G 2 0 1 1 0 2013-14 165 Florida Scott Timmins C 4 1 0 1 12 2012-13 171 Calgary Joni Ortio 37 0 2 2 2 2015-16 172 Philadelphia Eric Wellwood L 31 5 5 10 4 2012-13 175 Washington Garrett Mitchell R 1 0 0 0 0 2016-17 176 Boston Tyler Randell R 27 6 0 6 47 2015-16 178 Carolina Rasmus Rissanen D 6 0 0 0 4 2014-15 179 Los Angeles Brandon Kozun R 20 2 2 4 6 2014-15 180 Detroit Mitch Callahan R 5 0 0 0 0 2016-17 ——————————————————————————— 2010 Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 154 Columbus Dalton Prout D 264 7 31 38 321 2019-20 157 NY Rangers Jesper Fast R 422 55 92 147 116 2019-20 162 Edmonton Brandon Davidson D 174 9 14 23 78 2019-20 165 Boston Zane McIntyre G 8 0 0 0 0 2016-17 168 Nashville Anthony Bitetto D 183 2 25 27 122 2019-20 172 Vancouver Alex Friesen C 1 0 0 0 0 2015-16 173 Buffalo Cedrick Henley L 178 Ottawa Mark Stone R 449 149 236 385 147 2019-20 ———————————————————————————— 2011 Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 152 Toronto David Broll L 5 0 1 1 5 2013-14 157 Winnipeg Jason Kasdorf G 1 0 0 0 0 2015-16 158 Columbus Lukas Sedlak C 162 15 12 27 56 2018-19 160 Anaheim Josh Manson D 385 21 76 97 348 2019-20 164 Calgary Laurent Brossoit G 68 0 1 1 0 2019-20 167 Buffalo Nathan Lieuwen G 7 0 0 0 0 2013-14 170 Nashville Chase Balisy C 8 0 0 0 0 2017-18 171 Ottawa Max McCormick L 71 6 4 10 78 2018-19 174 Pittsburgh Josh Archibald R 183 32 25 57 56 2019-20 177 Washington Travis Boyd C 85 8 23 31 10 2019-20 178 Tampa Bay Adam Wilcox G 1 0 0 0 0 2017-18 179 San Jose Dylan DeMelo D 269 7 57 64 131 2019-20 ————————————————————————————— 2012 Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 156 Toronto Connor Brown R 324 59 83 142 68 2019-20 158 Minnesota Christoph Bertschy C 9 0 1 1 8 2017-18 161 Tampa Bay Jake Dotchin D 103 3 20 23 112 2018-19 162 Colorado Joseph Blandisi C 101 10 21 31 78 2019-20 163 Buffalo Linus Ullmark G 97 0 1 1 4 2019-20 167 Washington Riley Barber F 12 0 0 0 2 2019-20 169 Chicago Vinny Hinostroza C 246 34 66 100 61 2019-20 171 Los Angeles Tomas Hyka R 27 2 5 7 2 2018-19 175 Boston Matt Benning D 248 15 46 61 126 2019-20 176 St. Louis Petteri Lindbohm D 40 2 1 3 37 2016-17 179 Nashville Marek Mazanec G 31 0 1 1 0 2016-17 181 Los Angeles Paul Ladue D 69 5 13 18 22 2019-20 ———————————————————————————— 2013 Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 152 Florida Josh Brown D 93 4 6 10 67 2019-20 159 Buffalo Sean Malone C 1 0 0 0 0 2016-17 166 NY Islanders Alan Quine C 106 10 18 28 22 2019-20 170 NY Rangers Mackenzie Skapski G 2 0 0 0 0 2014-15 172 Toronto Antoine Bibeau G 4 0 0 0 0 2019-20 174 Washington Brian Pinho C 0 0 0 0 0 2019-20 180 Boston Anton Blidh L 28 1 1 2 7 2019-20 ———————————————————————————— 2014 Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 151 Buffalo Christopher Brown F 171 San Jose Kevin Labanc R 284 50 99 149 128 2019-20 176 St. Louis Sammy Blais L 83 9 11 20 32 2019-20 178 Chicago Dylan Sikura R 47 1 13 14 0 2019-20 ———————————————————————————— 2015 Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 152 Buffalo Giorgio Estephan C 154 Edmonton John Marino D 56 6 20 26 20 2019-20 157 New Jersey Brett Seney C 53 5 8 13 31 2019-20 158 Philadelphia Cooper Marody C 6 0 0 0 0 2018-19 159 Columbus Vladislav Gavrikov D 69 5 13 18 18 2019-20 165 Boston Cameron Hughes C 1 0 0 0 0 2019-20 166 Calgary Andrew Mangiapane L 122 25 20 45 32 2019-20 168 Winnipeg Mason Appleton C 82 8 10 18 24 2019-20 ————————————————————————————— 2016 Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 159 Buffalo Brandon Hagel L 1 0 0 0 0 2019-20 162 New Jersey Jesper Bratt L 185 37 63 100 30 2019-20 173 Chicago Blake Hillman D 4 1 0 1 0 2017-18 175 Florida Maxim Mamin C 33 3 1 4 12 2018-19 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So ... Who did well in the 6th round in this ten year span?

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. If you choose to be alone, or with one, or with many, I hope you have a fun safe and enjoyable day.

Yes. It’s the Last season. Then ... free at last free at last!

Depending how contagious an infection is, usually 50% to 90% of a population needs immunity to achieve herd immunity. No country is anywhere near those numbers. US population is 330 million. Canada population 38 million.

Was in the mood for air fried mushrooms and blue cheese for dipping tonight. Solid choice....