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I just looked up his stats in _The Klein and Reif Hockey Compendium -- 2001 Edition_. He was better before the trade to Pittsburgh than I remembered. But Puppa and Malarchuk were almost as good. Interestingly, the trade for Fuhr looks worse with these numbers. The only justification the authors could come up with was the psychological edge a 5x Cup winner gave Muckler and the team.

IMHO, Miller had the misfortune of following Hasek too closely. After the best goalie of all time, mere excellence is a letdown.

This is correct. In general, blue states make money for the red states to use. The late Pat Moynahan used to point this out whenever red state Senators would talk about dismantling federal programs.

One possibility that I hate to bring up: what if we can't develop a vaccine before VOVID-19 mutates too much for the original treatment to be effective? It becomes like the flu with 30x the morbidity. At that point, mitigation, containment, and treatment are all the only tools we have.

He has a couple of other videos referring to this, which I recommend. One option he did not mention would be an abbreviated season for 2020-1 with everyone's salary being pared for the lost revenue from 2019-20 and then prorated for the abbreviated season. For example, Eichel's $10M first would be adjusted to $8M due to the revenue loss and then to $6M for a 60 game season. Then the salaries start adjusting back to normal. This would require a partial reworking of the CBA and probably a couple years' extension and an ownership give-back like the 2022 Olympics.

Just got off the phone with my sister. A treatment couple of treatments are getting volunteers.

5. In protest to Barrasso's "All World" and Puppa's "All Universe" monikers, Clint Malarchuk put a calf skull on his helmet with the moniker, "All Hillbilly."

Desi got that eye injury that resulted in Edwards being called up and Al Smith quitting.

This is hard. The Sabres normally had solid to excellent goaltending. I have to pick Miller, in part because the team was so much worse without him from 2007-12.

In the OP: the Sabres operated at an estimated $2M profit? Wow. I figured they operated at a large net loss. Percentage revenue from the gate: At the start of The Big Lockout, estimates were that the league was that gate receipts were 50% of gross revenue. The league took the long view of decreasing that percentage by proving it could draw with OLN and giving a sweetheart deal to NBC. They hoped that it would lead to that mystic 4 word incantation, "American Network Television Contract" (not "Om Mane Padme Hum"). Unlike the 1980's deal with SportsChannel America, it worked this time. According to several media sources, our own Larry Quinn pushed through a lot of changes in the marketing, including the Winter Classic, that just kept hitting gold. Much of what the NHL does well now came out of his head.

Not yet for me either.

BTW, did I read right that Gov. Newsom (D-CA) is forbidding large gatherings of people in the state (concerts, sports, etc.) until 2021?

Aside from staying on their good side to get good raw data, not much. In this case, with the Communist Chinese now restricting even domestic research, basically none. The CCP had been relatively open with SARS, so the WHO took their initial responses at face value. Now that 21,000,000 cell phone numbers were deactivated, they and we have the incentive to push back. I actually worry that we are helping the CCP get a greater hold over the WHO.

This largely comes from right-wing sites. It is plausible, but it would require a mind-bogglingly combination of gaffes in the lab for this to happen. These researchers are almost certainly not the molecular biology equivalent of the last several years of Buffalo Sabres.

The only reason the Maple Leafs and Canadiens were so good in the O6 era was because of the home rules for player acquisitions; neither the New York Rangers nor the Boston Bruins won a Stanley Cup from 1942-69; only the 1961 team kept the Chicago Black Hawks off the schneid. The O6 era is not looked upon nearly as fondly in those 3 cities. For that matter, all the Cups for the Detroit Red Wings were from 1950-5. Of the 28 Cups won in the O6 and early expansion era, 23 of them were won by either the Canadiens or the Maple Leafs.

Prepping for a new job as a System and DevOps Tech Support Admin. Learning about networking and system configuration. Having issues uploading information to my upcoming employer.

There is a world-wide oil glut. This only works in a functioning worldwide economy. (It does not even need to be robust.) Thus, his net worth has taken a big hit.

I would probably move Johnson (high floor, low ceiling) for Strome (near ceiling, well past floor). Henrique requires a decent sweetener from Anaheim or a cap dump from Buffalo.

How significant is "significant" to you? The amount I would give up for Henrique is much lower than I would for Strome.

I have the Winter 1996 copy of Hockey Stars magazine that named RJ as one of the best things in the NHL: [...] Hands down, Jeanneret is the best play-by-play man in the NHL -- and he's so far ahead of the rest that there's no second best. He can make a boring game sound exciting and an exciting game sound like a life-or-death struggle. [...]

If you don't have enough time to evaluate fact checkers by cross-referencing them and the sources, I recommend consulting realclearpolitics.com. N.B.: they have a slight but definite bias towards conservatives in their editorials. Most of the main fact checkers (Snopes, Politifact, etc.) are generally very good. There are also bias checkers I recommend consulting when you read anything inflammatory. I strongly recommend the Christian Science Monitor for actual neutral reporting. Everyone I know throughout the political spectrum who read it swear by it.

Althpugh I agree with much of this sentiment, I figure that, with nothing else going on, it is one way to pass the time and keep our spirits up. Even without Social Distancing, I think it is natural for someone over 40 to be both more reflective and more nostalgic -- even though our memories filtered out how much the 1993-4 Sabres could not score, how horrible Dolly Parton's Country-Disco album was, or how controversial The Beatles were.

Dan Kelly, Foster Hewitt, Bill Hewitt, Danny Gallivan. Yes, that was predictable. They plus Ted Darling and Rick Jeanneret shaped what I think play-by-play of hockey should sound like. However, anyone who can keep up with the play is acceptable.

I would never call Ramsay-Luce-Gare a 3rd line. Among other reasons, most teams only had 3 lines; Buffalo was no exception - behind them and Martin-Perreault-Seiling were Smith, McKegney, Dudley, Gould, and Savard. This, aside from the deep, mobile, sound defence and Vezina goaltending, is why we can argue for 1979-80 being the best Sabres team ever. I will state that if LaFontaine is back before the playoffs, that 1993-4 team is in the running for best Sabres team ever.

Funny how different the game is when the NHL enforces the rules.