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I'm unfamiliar with the reliability of starlink.

I think it's bad. I also can't put aside the conflict of interest.

He isn't in the vicinity, almost everything we look at from the eye test to analytics says the Sabres get worse when Cozens is on the ice. Hence why I said "lesser"

Isnt foot speed and quickness a major reason that Novikov is still in the AHL?

So he's physical. That's what we got, he is big and has a physical element, he is basically lesser Alex Tuch. To the bold, havent mentioned his production that will be 2 full seasons old but since you bring it up, there is a lot of evidence that that might have been an outlier year. I think he can do that a couple more times but I don't believe that Dylan Cozens is a consistent 30g scorer or a 70pt player in the NHL. His pp production or massive lack there of will keep him out of that realm. Cozens is not a finesse player is a short hand way of saying Cozens can't use his soft skills to get things done. That's a massive problem. Tkachuk is a physical player with finesse, Cozens is a physical player who certainly at minimum lacks vision and passing skills. It is why he is so bad on the PP. Its not a trick, I am genuinely curious as to what skills ppl believe cozens brings to the table.

That's not what I am asking. What are the skills that he brings that are above replacement level? What is it that makes Cozens good? Skating, shooting, tenacity, physicality, vision, iq, defensive acumen ect... what is it? I think I ran the math either in this thread or elsewhere but Cozens comes out to a 20g player based on historical sh% info.

What is Dylan Cozens good at? Dead serious, what do ppl think he is above average at?

What about trading with someone like LA? We could probably get Jordan Spence from them without too much pain or suffering and that would help give us a legit 2/3 pairing RW who isn't crowding 30.

Nah, keep them so the locker room had adults. Rather that than a 3rd round pick that might be a solid 4th liner in 7 years.

Gms love tall defenders

Disgusting conduct from the United States here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/politics/us-joins-russia-ukraine-un-vote/index.html I think we have enough evidence at this stage to know Trump plans to abandon our allies, make a deal with Russia, and divide up the mineral rights in Ukraine to benefit himself and his handler Elon Musk. Disgusting behavior and truly the downfall of American ideals of freedom and democracy. Refusing to name Russia as the aggressor, when they literally invaded another country, is such a low bar to clear that the fact the Trump administration refuses to, makes it all the more damning. Trump will emulate Putin and the US will fall into a hollow oligarchy. We are rapidly approaching the Rubicon.

Idk if things have changed since but found this from 2021 when Ted Cruz ran away to Cancun and the state had major power grid failures. https://limos.engin.umich.edu/deitabase/2024/12/27/2021-texas-power-grid-failure/

When you're as arrogant as EM and his lot are, they have no concept of their own inabilities. They believe everything they done is correct and everything they think of is wise. When things go sideways, even though they did it, they will blame "the others" whoever they determine them to be. Usually they pick enemies or those too weak to defend themselves.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5151673-department-of-education-cuts-trump-musk-doge-research-funding/ This article notes that while the headline DOGE and other far right sources want to run with is 600 million of DEI funding cut, the truth is far more complicated and many programs that are not simply DEI are going to be impacted long and short term but what can only be described as using a chainsaw to conduct brain surgery. There is a correct way to make cuts and reduce spending, impo we are not seeing that and the lack of transparency is increasing, not decreasing.

This is a data collection program that helps us monitor and that identifies women and infants at high risk for health problems, monitors health status, and measures progress toward improving the health of mothers and babies

I'm sorry but if Cozens needs us to trade Byram and whatever else so we can get a center that will lift Cozens out of the analytics gutter... the problem is Cozens. Buffalo can keep Cozens, that's fine but they certainly should not be making trades with the idea of "how do we help Cozens" at the forefront.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-officials-decline-russia-started-ukraine-war-rcna193357 yikes

The Apple thing is interesting. Sounds like most jobs will be in Texas and they are creating an AI center there which IMO seems flawed considering the issues with Texas' power grid and the fact you need to cool those servers that run your AI and Texas is a fairly hot place most of the year. Still, there are very low regulations for businesses so it probably balances out for them. Curious to see if Apple does fully invest the 500billion. One fault we have in NY is they haven't been good at balancing worker and business interests. Everything needs some balance and NY probably needs to look at regulations and taxes and figure out where it can clean things up in terms of regs and where it can make taxes (property) more palatable to business. Of course maybe business has become so cutthroat that you really can't anymore.

I don't know Joy Reid much other than clips here and there. I don't watch MSNBC or really any news. I like to read my news and have been using https://ground.news/ It is fairly good at telling you how that source leans or where it falls on the left to right spectrum.