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Is he playing well? What is he showing out there? What message do you send to the team if you promote a talented but selfish player to a top line and demote someone from that line who is working hard? I would bet good money that if Jack thought Skinner should be up on a higher line, or Staal, or Hall they would say something to Krueger. Right now I don't think anyone is saying anything and Skinner isn't doing anything to make him promotion worthy. There's an assumption that moving Skinner up will result in more offense, but perhaps that is not the case.

Conversely, Skinner is getting paid $9M to play like he is an NHL player and not a whiny brat. Skinner does nothing to help himself. When he hasn't gotten his way he lets his play drop off. if he were truly offended by the demotion why wouldn't he be out there proving everyone wrong? You want to blame the organization, and you can for the contract. That GM is gone now. The level of play by the player is squarely on the player themselves and no one else. Skinner needs to step it up. Bottom line. or perhaps he'll be upset enough to waive his NMC and someone will take him.

Right.. but until the tweets are deleted they are out there.. and when people take screenshots they remain out there. No big deal, there are plenty of blowhard twitter accounts out there. Well, they aren't going to admit defeat either. I can only imagine the behind the scenes benefits those people get for staying on board. They didn't know them to be untrue in this case. They don't know there was no fraud. If they knew there was no fraud that would mean they had access to things they should not have had access to. However, the chances of there being any truth to it was slim. Yep. As it should have been.

Players slamming some Blues after the game. 🙂

Sure, but if you look at schedules I'm not sure where the openings are to fit in any other games without trying 3 games in 3 days, etc. Double-header? One game played at 10am and another at 7pm? The 10am isn't going to due the broadcast viewership much good. hard to say all around. To me they call up the next players and go.

He can't acknowledge that any more than a GM can acknowledge he's about to fire a coach. Sure one is the international stage of politics and effects the leadership of our country but fundamentally its the same thing. If you are trying to win at something you can't come out and says "It's really just a joke and I don't expect to win." I care. The message has to be sent that these actions are not tolerable, at any point. Yeah.. and Trump was back in a few minutes posting as POTUS on Twitter. Won't amount to much. Real action is required and unfortunately I do not have faith that politicians will rise up to make it happen. Ultimately politicians cower away from taking meaningful action. Politicians by and large lack any real leadership capability and are more a group of compromisers and manipulators. Its a rare politician that can truly lead and make those tough decisions that serve the country and not themselves.

I'd rather the league just give teams who can't ice a team the "L" in the schedule and move on. With the jammed schedule already any changes in schedule are going to have significant ramifications and it will only get worse if the game that was moved suddenly needs to be moved again because the other team had infections. It's a tough way to operate, but these are tough times.

That's correct. The Sabres wanted him back in Germany to develop.

Sincerity doesn't have much to do with it. They had the right to do it and they took advantage of that right. Accepting their right to file the lawsuits does not mean you give Trump the benefit of the doubt. To me it means I accept the rights afforded to Americans under the rules we have in place and that we should be stating that they are not within their rights or that we should constrain those rights. Good men don't take away the rights of others because they do not agree with them. Those rules might need to be changed, but at the time, those are the rules. 100%. This is why Congress needs to act against Trump even if there's no chance of the action succeeding before he's out of office. They need to send a clear and strong position that actions like this are not tolerated and have serious consequences. This is both for the citizens of this country as well as sending messages to those in other countries who are laughing their ***** off at us. I love this response. This is a great example of how we can talk to each other and guide each other to understanding.

Could we just let players pick their own songs and be done with it. well, then people can criticize the players choices and not the club itself.

I also agree that people are more politically engaged than before and I think its growing. In a strange twisted way I believe the election of Trump actually encouraged that engagement. I still don't believe they are engaged enough. The problem is not just at the Presidential level. There is also a difference of being engaged and I suppose being intelligently engaged. A lot of people who are engaged are simply following their associated groupthink. The escapist entertainment and celebrity issue is not purely an American issue, of course not. But at this point 50 years ago I dare say it was an issue in this country. Prior to television perhaps it was less so. You can think the ability to share images in real time as helping that. Other countries are other countries and they are completely different social beasts with different cultural norms. I am not going to try and associate them because its very hard to do so. I do think, much like political engagement, there are a lot of people who do want to understand each other. The problem is that there is an old school who does not want that to change. They do not want equality for those who are not white. They do not want to face their racism. They believe that the American way of life is synonymous with the White way of life (whatever that is). Those people are the ones who continue to sow the seeds. The problem is that today the few that want to hold on to those ways label anyone who speaks against it with an extreme tag. Are you anti-American/ Are you anti-Law Enforcement? Naturally those who are solid critical thinkers know that's absolute trash. But, and as you suggest, there is a large portion of the population who do want to question what they are being told. They believe the labels because they have associations with Law Enforcement or Republicans or Democrats and they don't want to think critically about their association. It's much easier to just believe the label or to dismiss it with the "It's not a problem here, in my town." I believe a lot of people strongly believed that in Buffalo and Rochester. Then you see a video of the police pushing down an older gentleman in Buffalo and you have the Daniel Pride death in Rochester and I think (hope?) it opens eyes. But.. yes.. a lot of people refuse to listen. They don't want to hear a contrarian opinion. They are as closed off as those who are spewing the contrarian opinion in most cases. You end up with two people(sides) shouting at each other and no one listening. Where's the sense in that? It's not generous, its accurate. My reference to the election fraud situation goes back to the specific interactions on this forum regarding the lawsuits being filed and the claims that anyone who presented an opinion that Biden had not yet won the election were sowing the seeds of discontent. The claim made by Eleven is that those who said that are responsible for what happened yesterday. It had nothing to do with overall statements made by the criminal in office. The conversation was not about what Trump said. It was about the fact that Joe Biden can be declared the victor of an election by media agencies but that does not make him the winner. The process is the process and he is the winner when the process ends. Until then, the legal means of fighting election results are afforded to all Americans and to question their use of them is to suggest Americans should not use all legal means available to them to achieve their goals. It's not just a statue that is convenient for when you it aligns with your thinking. It's the way we do things whether it works for you or against you. I don't like Trump. I didn't like him when he was nothing more than a failed businessman and wasn't even yet a TV celebrity. I sure as hell did not like that the Republican party trotted him out as their candidate. I despise his very existence. But I respect that he can say what he wants (within legal reasons) and he is afforded the right to file lawsuits. I don't have to like it and I want nothing more than for him to be convicted of breaking the law but that's out of my hands. I can only say that I believe he should be convicted and I can put pressure on my representatives (although living in NY most of our representatives would already want that).

This should not be a surprise. Parents sue schools because their kids don't get picked for a sport or the school play. They run out and start alternate sports organizations when their kids don't make a team. Our culture is full of examples of people who don't accept they didn't have what it takes and then make excuses about it. It was bound to make it to the highest level at some point. Our government is a reflection of the us. You are right though, it's absolute BS. There is a difference. The fact of the matter remains that when the discussion over fraud was happening the facts were that the people filing lawsuits had the right to do so and until those lawsuits were concluded there was no definitive outcome. There was a most likely outcome and that was acknowledged. The facts are that there is a process to the certification of the votes and the completion of that process signifies the end. It was not fiction. Claiming that it is fiction is as baseless as claiming that there was election fraud. As for the person who died. I don't know enough about the situation. Why was she there? Was she part of the protest? I don't know. You certainly didn't know at the time you wrote this. You have been emotionally charged over the entirety of the discussion on the Presidential election. It is understandable. However, it does not mean those who do not agree with you are wrong. It does not mean that they are inciting riots or encouraging terrorism. The entire discussion was around the rights of those people to use the court system to contest the election. That's a conversation about the rights of Americans. Anyone saying they did not have that right was arguing against the rights of Americans. I will continue below. Are you claiming that Sabres0311 knows how these terrorists would act? You are lumping him into this group and that's patently unfair. He has not indicated any association with them. Much like we prognosticate how a player will play on the ice or a GM will make trades, we don't know, we have hope. It is not up to him to insure there is a peaceful protest any more than it is up to you. Simply claiming this demonstrates a lack of understanding of the situation. As I have said, these are highly emotional and inflammatory times and those who fall victim to it will find themselves attacking each other verbally or physically. There is no benefit to this. Once you move to those actions you cease to be engaged in an environment of discussion, debate, education, and understanding and instead are only interested in destroying. it does not matter what your political leanings are, it is wrong. ---------------- Now, I'll comment on yesterday. It is clear that this country has an issue. I am hopeful that actions like these prove to those who were on the fence just how wrong they've been. Whether it was being a Trump supporter, or refusing to acknowledge the racial double standards of law enforcement (and many others). If you had a group of BLM protesters standing in the street with weapons they would have been shot. Yesterday you had a large group of protesters (they were protesters at that time) standing around with weapons. Nothing happened. That's just one of many CLEAR examples of the racism that exists. Now, move to the even more egregious act of violating the sanctity of our government. Every person involved has literally become the terrorist that we've spent trillions on attempting to exterminate in other countries. There is no difference between what they did and any group of extremists in another country invading their government with force. Not ONE IOTA. Imagine if you will a world where China, who has heavy interests in the financial well being of the United States, invades the United States because they feel that Democracy is not longer being supported. A coup attempt has occurred and it is in their best interest to move in and makes things more stable. Imagine it.. it seems far fetched but it is exactly what the United States has done in Middle Eastern countries. The people of this country need to step the F back and recognize what path we're heading down. I'm not sure they will because today, sitting right next to my headline on the terrorist attack on our nation, was a headline saying Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are discussing divorce. That's the sick twisted BS that has led this country to where its at. A few pages ago Weave wanted to know how we get better political candidates? It starts with Americans being far more interesting in who is running their country and far less interested in what two celebrities are doing with their lives. Americans, by and large, are not interested in politics. It's too complicated and they write it off as broken and beyond repair. They choose to ignore it because fixing it is work and its much easier to claim its just beyond repair. They'll justify it by saying that their lives are okay, so it's not a big deal. As long as I can read about Kim and Kanye it must be okay. As long as I get my person in office the next time it will fix things. It's the lies we tell ourselves to help ourselves sleep at night. If nothing else I hope that yesterday was a punch the punch in the fact that breaks people out of their pacifistic attitude towards government. For all those who want to Make America Great Again, or believed it was Great Already, yesterday was an insult. That was not America, that was the same type of event that we openly condemn when it happens in other countries. It's time to take off the red, white, and blue glasses and recognize that we are broken. We have been broken and we can no longer go on acting as though someone else will put it back together for us. Every American, if you believe in this country, should be standing up to the bullying tactics being enacted and punching that bully in the nose. Not physically, although physical action requires physical reaction. If you have not yet promised your house and senate representatives that if they do not take action against this criminal President you will vote them out of office (regardless of party affiliation) it should be the next thing you do. Make it known that your representatives already failed once at removing this idiot from the office. They failed the American people. All of them. They serve the citizens of this country, not the other way around. Yesterday was an attack on the foundations that make us the nation we are. It cannot be tolerated by anyone who considers this their country. There is no left or right, blue or red here.

Still thought Cozens was one of the better players on the CAN team in this game. They seemed to rely more and more upon him. He was out there near the end of the game. He made some really good puck choices in his zone, under pressure. He's not going to knock people around, but he moves the puck very well and does not seem to panic. Ready? He's about as ready as he's going to be at this point in time. There was nothing wrong with him. He was dominant in this tournament among his peers. He's not going to dominate a game all by himself when playing in a game like last night. Canada fell down early and never recovered. They tried but failed.

Greasy/fatty food is the hangover cure. It's that simple. Garbage plates exist for this reason. 🙂

Yeah. In a game where so many US players seemed to try and force the low probability passes and plays Johnson made solid choices. He had the one stumble at the blue line early on but things happen. I was impressed by his composure and control. Also liked Berard.. but the rest of the team seemed to be overconfident and almost didn't know what to do when Slovakia finally stopped playing afraid of the US speed and pushed back. They can't do that next round.

Well... he did violate PED rules. I'm not sure he deserves much good will at this point.

I'm only peripherally following this but it doesn't appear to be following the path of terrorism. Seems like someone decided to commit suicide in a very demonstrable way. My suspicion was on a person who was laid off from AT&T and that was the last straw but I also read a possible link to 5G causes cancer type stuff too. I'll have to read more but I don't think this was terrorism.

I wonder what people will say when the economy crashes. No way should there be any confidence in the economy with the current pandemic and now we're digging bigger holes to pay later. Need to start looking for a new place to put my money.

I don't think so. End of the 1st. Score: Canada - 4 Germany - 1 Shots on Goal: Canada - 11 Germany - 5 That's hanging with them. Very well could be the goal scored after the time ran out (but didn't) and their legs deflated them. Certainly Germany benefited from the 5 minute PP (despite giving up a shorty on the stumble by the goaltender). Remove that fluke goal and the goal scored with .02 seconds left and you have a 2-1 game after 1. I'm not sure how you define hanging with. But in my world.. that's keeping it close when they should be dominated by Canada even if Germany had a full bench. That's a team full of NHL 1st rounders. They should dominate this entire tournament... no way it should have been that close after 1.

Watched Wonder Woman 1984. Wished I didn't. For every bit as good as Patty Jenkins did with Wonder Woman, she equally as poorly with WW84. If I had paid to see this movie, in ANY form, I would have been pissed. It's awful, like, I'd rather watch Green Lantern awful. For 2 hours and 34 minutes I wanted to the movie to be over. The only reason I continued to watch it was because it was family movie night. But no one was happy we watched it after it was over. If you liked the movie I really am interested in understanding what you liked about it.

Hard to say. Austria is skating a young squad on purpose. Kasper is 16.. freakin 16.. it hits home. That's how old my kid is. I also laugh when they say Zegras is a big kid and then say 6'0 170. My son is 6'2, 172lbs. Of course he lacks the skills that Zegras has. 🙂 I did not see Sweden, but I feel like I need to say that game Austria is too young, Germany has only 14 skaters and was actually hanging with Canada until their legs died later in the game.

You could take it one step further. The owners get miffed and the same stone walling happens. GM shelf-life removed from the equation. Unless you are the Coyotes ownership doesn't change all that often. I get it.. I'd love to see it as well. I just don't think it will happen.

The only way it can be consumed is with alcohol. And by that, I mean drink the alcohol and forget you left the eggnog on the counter so it goes bad and you have to throw it out.

That's classic.. but man.. they can NOT sing.

And this is exactly the kind of backwards thinking from executives at MSG that will kill their business. People don't care and they are leaving traditional TV offerings (including satellite) in mass numbers. This is similar to telecom companies who tried to hold onto copper assets for too long (although there are other factors in play there). Cable television is dead and being tied to that platform will result in negative hits to the regional network. MSG should want to maximize their viewing audience, not protect cable companies or satellite providers. The Sabres should want this as well. The Sabres are constrained on how much money they can make per home game. The seating capacity of the arena is fixed. I am sure they have a target ARPU but it's not like they can up the number of seats to increase the number of units they can sell per game. They too should be looking for that wider audience because they can then charge MSG more for a wider coverage. In addition, they can strengthen brand awareness and improve out of market merchandise sales. The key is not allowing anyone but MSG to produce/distribute the content. Single producer, multiple distribution channels leads to maximizing reach and ultimately revenues. But... nope. Let's tie ourselves to a medium that is declining at a rapid rate. Sigh.