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What is this based on?

Scandy trade posts moved to the new thread.

Well, no way to spin it -- this looks like asset mismanagement by JB.

Not at all surprised by this, but it's really not relevant at this point. It wasn't realistic to think this would happen during the season. TP could easily change his mind on this after the season -- just like he could easily decide to can JB entirely.

For the record: there is NFW that Florida is giving up Trocheck for McCabe plus a prospect. It will take Risto or Montour.

For those who have watched some of Dylan's WHL games this year -- does it look like there is anything for him to gain in playing another year at that level?

How long could a human live on Twinkies and water? I’ll guess 45 days.

I agree that assuming 2 of them are going to handle real roles in the NHL next year is ill-advised. It’ll be kinda disappointing if they don’t get one contributor out of the three of them though.

If he clears waivers now and stays in Rochester, maybe they can call him up without waivers if they need a warm body on short notice right after the deadline? And maybe giving him an NHL contract is to deter other teams from claiming him via waivers, so he gets a nice raise for the last third of the season and the Sabres protect their plan?

Hutton’s recent play is a low-key shocking development. And a win in the 2nd half of February to keep the season alive, when last year’s team had begun its irreversible nose dive at this point, with all those sweet 3rd-period goals (including the very nifty feed from Risto to Vesey!)? yessir — best W of the year.

Brutal. Separately: excellent hockey talk in here boys. IMHO, @dudacek is certainly right that we haven't seen any kind of shark-like strike from JB with his accumulated defense assets, that good forwards have changed hands while JB has been accumulating defensemen, that the Sabres are still dying for help in the top 6 and that JB is accountable for the outcome if his plan doesn't come to fruition. OTOH, @LTS is right that Scandy and Bogo had pretty much zero value starting this season, while Risto's value was quite depressed. Also, I think there was a reputable report that at least one of the good forwards did not want to come to Buffalo. Moreover, the book is not yet written here. I think Montour, Miller and Joker all look like they can be mainstays for a long time, and I'm more than happy to ride with them, Risto and Dahlin indefinitely. That group plus the good D prospects are still available as currency to trade for a good forward -- and in the meantime they are improving in value.

@SwampD -- any thoughts? Eichel was better tonight, that's for sure. He was a monster. And let it be noted that Reino was better than Marner. They are 5 under DeLuca .500 with 23 games left. If they go 7-3 and then 7-3, they will be alive with 3 games left.

I didn’t realize that he’s only 29. He needs to get TF over it, report to Rochester, work his butt off, not complain and get himself another contract. He’s still good enough of get paid to play in the NHL for another few years.

I’ve never gotten a flu shot.

But isn't this article a form of participation in peer review? Kind of like a crowd-sourced analysis of what is currently known? I know nothing about the author (or that website, for that matter) -- only that the linked article seemed to be written in a pretty dispassionate and objective manner. If you knew, say, that the author was a contagious disease specialist at a prestigious hospital, would you be inclined to consider his views in formulating your opinion about the gravity of the coronavirus situation? Or are the author and the article disqualified due to it being posted on that site?

The linked article was about coronavirus and nothing else. Do you think it was political?

Now this I agree with.

You’d think the prudent move if he wants another contract is to be a good soldier and play hard in the AHL, but he already reacted emotionally and imprudently with the trade demand. He might blow this one up too.

Do you think the number of cases and/or the number of deaths has been intentionally distorted? By a bunch of different sources?

Well, if you read my post, you’d see that I said I didn’t read the WHO document, and that I said the NEJM article says what the author says it says. But thank you for asking. As for the “disparity in hype” — do you think there is some kind of conspiracy afoot? My understanding is that corona is substantially more lethal than common flu, and that we are nowhere near understanding the overall risk.

Let’s chill out in here please.

OK, but this post was specifically about coronavirus. Let's try not to sling unrelated mud around so the thread doesn't get derailed please.

I don't think I "fell" for anything. I simply disagreed with you and @Weave reflexively disregarding someone's analysis seemingly for the sole reason that it was posted on someone's blog and not on a more well-known/"official" outlet. While it's certainly possible that the post is full of holes, biased or otherwise unreliable, this shouldn't be the default assumption simply because it wasn't on XYZ "reputable" website. There is a ton of ill-considered and scientifically unsound crap that is published on those websites, and there is a ton of well-written and sound analysis that is published on smaller blogs like this one. If you want to wait for the CDC or other government outlet to give you the official word on something before coming to any conclusions, that is of course up to you. I certainly would not choose that approach. I would read a bunch of stuff and try to figure it out. As for the end of expertise, as I've said here many times, a group of distinguished SabreSpace posters would have done a better job running the team over the last decade than the "experts" who have held the jobs (and been paid millions of dollars to do so).

Well, those articles may have been moved to different pages by the WHO and NEJM. In any case, the NEJM article s now here, and it says what the writer says it says: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191?query=featured_home I think this is the WHO article he was referring to (but it's long and I didn't read it): https://www.who.int/csr/sars/WHOconsensus.pdf?ua=1 I don't think he threw in those links in an attempt to mislead anyone. Well, right below "guest blogger", the name of the author is stated. And there are many, many blogs that include "donate" buttons -- not unlike how most newspaper/magazine sites include "subscribe now" buttons.

What? The post is written in a pretty deliberative and scientific manner. There is a link to a WHO report in the 4th paragraph. There is also a link to a NEJM report in the paragraph immediately above the "Diamond Princess" section.