LTS

Awesome.. now I know I am 13 seconds behind. ;). Be back with you all soon. Cheers!

Get to Gary. I’m on drink #2 already.

All of his videos were flipped horizontally… it’s not his fault. 🙂

Having Weekes on the coverage will help. I’m a fan. I like Bucci as well. overall though? Not great coverage.

Didn’t expect a trade of number 1.. but eyes will be on the top 10 picks to see if the Sabres accept a little less to move up to grab a player that they want that slips but might not get to 14.

Nights like this it sucks that I stream… but I can handle the delay. Here we go.

Broke out the IPad to watch the draft and hang with the board tonight. I’ll be drinking, but I’d have been doing that anyway.

Remember these moments when you talk about inexperienced GMs getting owned.

You are so burnt out my friend. I understand. It will get better. Or we need to get together for a drink... if you still do those kinds of things. 🙂

Wonder who ends up with the #14 overall pick tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if that's used in another trade so a team giving up a top 10 doesn't fall too far. Just saying... 🙂 And that's fine.. because.. well even if it's not.. that's a great return for Risto. And the Flyers fans can look forward to Ovechkin/Risto more often now!

Oh. Well then.

C'mon... they chose the name Guardians and then made their logo look like Thor's helmet. The next thing you know, Cleveland will be in a Marvel film.

Only a scant few hours left before Buffalo burns itself down, only this time they can't blame Jim Carrey.

Almost should be an exemption made for that guy... just be allowed to get rid of him. He'll love Russia.

Jack Eichel farted. Film at 11.

Do we know that the Sabres did not go for him? I'm not aware of any information that says they didn't try. Ladd doesn't actually play anymore right?

It's only government control if you are forced to vaccinate. Of course the real motive behind the control thinking is that they were required to wear masks, etc. Which is government control, but not necessarily a bad government control. 100%. I thought about drunk driving as a great example and I am glad you referenced it. The only difference I see to drunk driving versus vaccination is that one requires you to put something in your system to reduce the risk of harming others while the other requires you to put something in your system to increase the risk of harming others. There might be some difference there (not that I want to put thought into it). I do think, on the surface, that it's similar enough. Not sure what you are getting at.

The heads are saying that the deals Seattle had were to pick players and trade them. We know Pitlick is being traded. I wonder if Borgen is one of those players as well. Certainly seems like picking 14D was only because they had deals in place to convert some of them via trade.

Vince says hello.

That's true, it's easy. Easy for you. It's not easy for others who have have been bred to think differently and act differently. Place different values on different things. People on the outside of cults find it easy to say that the cult is ridiculous, that's it's so obviously bad, yet people end up in cults all the time. They find it hard to leave them. Changing minds isn't as easy as telling someone to do something or not do something. I think pointing out that 1% of those who get COVID die is a bad stat. First, not everyone gets COVID, so it's not even 1% of the population, it's 1% of the population who gets it. So now with basic math we can say it's less than 1%. If I go to the WHO site, it says roughly 191 million COVID cases, and 4.1 million deaths. 191 million out of an estimated 7.8 billion. 4.1 million out of 7.8 billion people have died. That's .05% if my horrible math skills are correct. For a lot of people they look at that number, or the 4.1 million out of 7.8 billion and they don't see an issue. For others, it's a lot of avoidable death. All in all, I think we have to understand why people feel the way they do. Their perceived risk tolerance is high enough for them to warrant not getting the vaccine. I should also add, that if we are not willing to try and understand why someone thinks the way they do, why should we expect them to try and understand the way we think?

For some that's true. For a great many people it isn't. It's a well tread marketing move to sell people on the actions that will occur. Once people hear it enough they stop questioning it. They get sick of hearing about it. They perceive the pain of hearing about it as worse than it actually happening. It's all a sales job.

This phrase can be used about so many things. We face low percentage risks every day. When they happen they should be a shock, because they are low percentage outcomes and should not be expected to occur. You can lower your chances of death from COVID with a vaccine, but you cannot eliminate it. Similarly you can lower your chance of heart disease by not eating fast food, but people still go for that. You can lower your chance of skin cancer by staying out of the sun, but I was just in Key West and I can assure you that mindset is not thriving there either.

Ahh, I didn't think of it that way. Derp.

I don't know that it's spin or bull. I've not seen anything from Eichel where he's indicating he wants stay. I know players want to win, but if he's fed up with the losing and wants to move then regardless of the reason it means he doesn't want to be here. I'm not faulting him for that, but I wouldn't want him here either if I were trying to run a team. I do believe if he's not dealt he'd do whatever he had to do to facilitate a trade, such as playing (if he can) and playing well.

Define instrument? -------------- I don't think the Sabres will trade Eichel for an ROR like return. I don't think the owners are even smart enough to realize that if they do something like that again they will not recover the fan base. Given that we've not heard anything about Eichel staying with the Sabres I believe the return will be good enough. Probably not good enough for many on here, but good enough for the majority of fans. It will also be interesting to see how it gets spun once it happens.