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Ruff speaking with the morning show, discussing a viral ailment Zucker is dealing with. Hasn't eaten solid for in 9 days, lost a lot of weight, doctors still haven't figured out what it is exactly. Even when he's over it, the weight loss and weakness will take a long time to overcome. Oy vey. I can't link this interview from my phone but it's in the 9am hour of today's show.

Could be right, I would expect Billion dollar franchises to have access to things we don't... But then I also hear stories of basic things getting messed up too just like I would see at my hospital lol. I have never had the privilege of working behind the scenes in a sports setting... Except one time I was the suture doc at a boxing match near me... Legit my whole job was to suture cuts in between rounds, they had like 4 docs, each with their own specialty, kinda cool. But just shows what access is available.

The fumbles sucked, but I can’t get angry when they’re the result of extra effort by the player fighting for every extra yard. Pretty sure it’s Chad.

I don't know all the medical stuff, but I know imaging tech is like any other electronics based tech... continually improved/refreshed. I've heard that the software that helps detect anomalies has improved by leaps and bounds (mostly articles I've seen about cancer detection). Also I would think that team doctors are more inclined to request blood tests and imaging than in the past simply because of the availability of these tools and knowing what severe bruising can do. I would bet that 10 or more years ago, this testing was used primarily if a player is showing symptoms but now it's used more routinely. If you look more, you're likely to find more. Which is great news; you don't want an issue to fester and get worse if you can treat it early. (Didn't clotting hasten... Mair's retirement? Or was is Kaleta? Or...?)

Some believe that Eichel wanted out before the injury, and not long after he re-signed the extension. Adam’s went on the spying road trip and did not like what he saw from the core. The Sabres tanking to the bare studs, acquiring Reinhart and Eichel, and still blowing the rebuild is a case study on sports management incompetence.

See that's where I don't know what these guys go through.... Typically for extremity clots, there are symptoms, swelling, redness, pain, etc... Then we get Ultrasound dopplet studies and easy to find, for ones in the lungs and near other structures, then we are looking for a CT angio or MRA/MRV and those just aren't tests that we do full body scans on. For CT, injectable dye has to be timed correctly to catch clotting and MRIs take foreverrrrr. I'm guessing a basic hypercoaguable panel is run at some point on these guys to see if the bloodwork shows, but even those tests aren't standard practice. Sometime it's just bad luck

Some classic stuff here.

So we are trading Tuch now??? why would anyone entertain this rumor? I don’t want Adams trading anybody. Fire Adams and let the new GM handle the roster.

At this point I don't care what people did during that very trying and scary time. There was a lot of information, misinformation and distrust going around. Now that we're out the other side I don't fault anyone for the decisions they made.

I don’t think Adams can fool anyone anymore. He traded for a player that can't stay healthy, he traded JJ without fixing the hole that caused. The defense has been badly constructed for years. And then there are our seven goaltenders...

I think he's down to Very Good. Peak Josh occurred in 2024.

Possibly better diagnostics/imaging to detect them?

If Tuch is dealt, it is unlikely the immediate return will make this a better team, at least for the near term. Even if the return is getting an appealing young player back, the already young Sabre roster won't be much better. It would not surprise me if Tuch rides out his contract and puts himself in a situation where he can test the market. What will the front office do? If it doesn't believe it can get a deal done, they will deal the approaching free agent player for a discounted value. This scenario has played out before as the Reinhart deal illustrated. How do you think that Dahlin and Tage will respond to the roster setback? I can see the same "Jack" get me the freak out of here scenario playing out again. Continued disfunction and incompetence are the hallmark of this cartoonish franchise.

Could grab Luca Del Bel Belluz and stuff from cbj.

Because hockey coaches are not doctors. Don't take everything they say literally.

We seem to have found Kevyn's ceiling as a GM.

It would be so Adams to trade Tuch to Edmonton for Matthew Savoie😛

San Jose or Anaheim would be the teams I look to. Columbus as well. Actually CBJ might be a good one because Tuch might be willing to sign an extension.

Ladd not Brad. Go Dawgs.

I dunno, not sure coming to Buffalo will give his career the boost you're talking about.

To Devils for a 1st and Seamus Casey. Then trade Power and/or Byram for a top 6 center/left winger.

Was just a bad game by our best players. When Cook and Josh fumble you are in trouble. Not to mention penalties killing so many first downs.

If we didn’t have bad luck we’d have no luck at all.

or they have really bad doctors.

If im Sabres, im calling the Kings and seeing what are they thinking about Quinton Byfield and offering Tuch one for one. Byfield is having a poor season. 2G and they might be thinking he needs a change of scenery. A player like Tuch could be very useful to them if they face Oilers again. Byfield is still just 23.