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Got it. Not end of story as outlined above it would seem. Yes, well things have changed. The "worse" of yesteryear would certainly end up with Child Protective Services showing up at your house.

Given that he was still deciding I am guessing the prep school didn't have a vaccination mandate? Or did they and was he deciding whether to attend or not as part of it? The next big fight. Reading this morning that JP Morgan is considering mandating vaccinations for its employees. Read another article where a nurse (in Houston?) was fired because she refused to get vaccinated. It's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out in courts, both those of law and public opinion.

Normal yes. So, let's say my child is 100% steadfast against being vaccinated. As a parent what do I do? Do I FORCE them to be vaccinated and then deal with the fallout of how i have "ruined" their life? When I try to get them in the car for the shot and they refuse, what do I do? Do I use excessive force to get them in the car? Do I constrain them? If I get them to a vaccination site and they refuse to cooperate then what happens? My point is not about rights, I know I have the right to decide. But reasonably, my child has the ability to act against my right. Given some of the conversation I have heard going around my 14 year old daughter's social circles... I really only expect it to be a matter of time before there's some legal case over it. I've already seen one child runaway from her parents because they decided to move her to a Catholic school so she wouldn't hang around a group of friends who supported "non-straight" relationships. They thought their daughter was being ruined by their beliefs. The girl didn't get far. She's threatened suicide. These things happen. As a parent you have to balance that with what you believe is best for the child. ---------- Stepped away after I posted this and I wanted to add more. Right now we are also dealing with a few families who are against the vaccination. They won't let their children get it despite the child wanting it. There are some parents who don't want those children around the group any longer. For the moment it's creating quite a stir. I've no idea where that will go but the odds are probably not in favor of a amicable outcome. So you couple things like that with the crap these kids get into online (not going to debate online access, that's another topic). Not just the ideologies that are shared but a lot of influencing on what their behaviors should be like in response to certain social issues. When Alabama was first in the news about blocking gender assignment treatment for minors regardless of parental permission there were a few people in my daughter's social circles that began to go on about getting rides to Alabama to protest. Rides from people who were offering to pick them up and drive them there to protest. As a parent, that's some downright crazy stuff to know about. Those days and these days are nothing alike. These days your child communicates with people from all over the world, instantly. In your days your social circle was largely limited to your school and any organizations you were part of that were outside your community. We see the ideologies that are spread within adult communities but its not just adult communities. I could go on with some of the things that I have seen. For the most part you want to chalk it up to kids' just blowing off steam or venting. But you know, there's those moments when a kid rolls into a school and starts shooting. Those stick in your head and you can't just ignore it.

Yes, it is. The way the world works these days is that you might be the adult but you aren't necessarily the final decision maker. I suspect a child will challenge their parent in court at some point. Beyond that, I can force a lot on my children. They in turn can make my life hell. It's not a one way street.

He wasn't all of a sudden a Conn Smythe winner. ROR was the same player with the Blues. He had the best playoff on that team in that run. It's not like he's followed it up with anything. He did not elevate the Blues. The Blues fired their coach and they improved when Berube came in and Binnington joined the club. Since then they've been back to the same team they were before. ROR is a very good hockey player. ROR did not jive with the ownership. It is what it is. Eichel is an exceptional hockey player. There are clearly issues or his name would not be in trade rumors. Whether those issues are enough to impact the team performance, regardless of who you bring in, will be a mystery because if he's traded we'll never know. If he's not we'll get a chance to find out. If Eichel is pushing his way out then I wouldn't be blaming Sabres ownership for trading him except that they could not build a team... but also Jack wasn't going to be patient enough to see what transpired. Both sides get blame. I'm not an advocate for or against trading Eichel. I simply have no idea at this point whether he is enough of an off-ice issue to register an opinion. All I know is I am sick of hearing about it and I only care if the Sabres win. Yes, I am not trying to insinuate that ROR would drive the success of a team. I am saying he was not the reason that the team succeeded. He wasn't the difference maker for the Blues and he hasn't been since then. He's been the same player all along. But more value is ascribed to ROR because they did win the Cup and he did win the Conn Smythe. I don't think that value is warranted.

We could go for the New Era but we know the Pegulas won't like that.

Anyone who thinks that needs a good smackin. Eichel is an exceptional hockey player. He is certainly the reason the Sabres did not suck more. But he may not be the answer to future success either... at least in Buffalo. And as much a deal people make over ROR (and I cannot believe I am bringing it up). ROR was not the driving factor of the Blues success that one season. He was who he always was and since then, because Binnington has been mediocre, the Blues haven't done anything notable. ROR was a good player, but he wasn't going to drive success on his own. I don't think anyone knows if Eichel would have been the answer. At least on the ice he sure as hell wasn't going to be the problem.

I'll confirm the bolded was an issue. I have said for years that I have a source (family member) of a Sabre who was in the locker room at that time. I do not have knowledge of anything current. I was, not only as a hockey player. I had lunch with a family member of his girlfriend at the time and he spoke glowingly of Eichel and how he hung out with the kids during large family gatherings. He was gracious, easy going, etc. I have no knowledge of his current status and I am no longer running in the circle where I would have lunch with that person again. As a hockey player, I definitely questioned him. Last year was when he showed a change. But overall, I'm not going to cry if he's gone. Frankly at this point no one will be happy with the return. No one will be happy if he stays unless the team starts winning. In the end, if the Sabres win, people won't care as much.

They have a queue process as well, but it's not necessarily queue up then randomly allocate. They release little bits of stock at a time but I think it still goes to whose next in queue. The bot dealers do a great job of flooding the systems. Walmart had XSX in stock earlier today. No clue how long it lasted. In fact.. you can STILL get an XSX via all access right now: https://www.walmart.com/cp/xbox-all-access/8571041 Go nuts. If you were planning on having Game Pass Ultimate anyway.. this saves you money over the 24 months.

All I see here is a team that has scored 152 goals without Eichel. 😉

I disagree with this. The people on this board are the one's who are going to go to the extremes. Most fans are going to stop caring until the Sabres are relevant again and at that point they will be back. They aren't going to jump ship. They don't care enough to do that. They will find something else to provide them value. Day in and day out they just don't care enough. As for all the young children out there who will lose their connection to the Sabres. Stuff happens. Some day they will grow up to understand the business of the sport. The dynamics of human personalities. Until then, they'll make their decisions based on their limited scope of experience and what they are taught or see from the more experienced around them. The height at which you place your idols is directly proportional to the probability they come crashing down. They greater importance you place on your idols is directly proportional to the impact they will have when they hit the ground.

If my family lived that far away they would probably never see me. My wife's sister lives 11 hours away. I only see her sister's family when they visit here (her parents are in Rochester). If I had only 2 weeks of vacation I can almost assuredly bet I would not be using it on that purpose unless there was some incredible milestone associated with it. If I didn't like them (and I don't really like my sister-in-law's family) I wouldn't even do it then.

I obtained my PS5 by pure chance. I logged into the Sony site and they had a queue and I managed to draw a low number. I obtained my XSX by pure chance. I logged into the Walmart site and they had the All Access version available (it was actually available for over a week after I grabbed mine). I have tried the PS5 on every other site, but all the other sites are not protected against bots, etc. Sony's site is really good. Basically everyone queues up for 30 minutes and then they assign random numbers to those in queue. Now, I had 5 different sessions in the queue, but only 1 of those sessions was given a low number. It is brutal though because most retailers are doing NOTHING to protect against it.

The entire Eichel saga reminds me of the political strategies these days. Keep putting out statements from all over that point to one thing to slowly wear down those who would have resistance to it (the fans). Eventually you get to a point where the fans are sick of hearing about and just want it to happen. They never wanted to happen initially but now the message is out there so much that it's fine.. just let it happen. I've never been 100% on the Eichel train. The season before last he really stepped up. This season is just an absolute aberration making it hard to judge anything. But at this point... I just don't even care any more.

No comment that NY and Vermont are also open. A few exceptions, K-12, etc. But businesses are full go.

Frankly they should get Tyce. Who wouldn't want the Sabres to have the Thompson Twins?

Why? He knows the Sabres franchise has all kinds of questions. Questions about its owners Questions about its star player Questions about its second best player Questions about goaltending If I were an established coach and other teams had expressed interest in me, I would politely decline the interview while I talked to teams in much better situations. What's the upside for Gallant in joining the Sabres? Why even consider it?

They key here is whether the player still qualified for LTIR. If Kucherov was healthy then he should have been returned to the line-up. Of course the Sabres and other teams get away with similar items like this throughout the season. We often see a player who has been in IR suddenly come back healthy as soon as there is another injury. How did that happen? Basically it happens because the team is keeping that other player on IR so they don't have to make adjustments to the roster. Injuries are not handled strictly in the NHL, it's that simple. Except, sometimes.

I don't want to get in the water because there might be a shark. Oh, you went in the water? I guess I can too. Or... if we're going to die from a side effect at least we'll die together. All I can hypothesize about it.

Around here? no matter what happens, disappointment happens.

Totally. I was wondering how long Trotz might continue to coach. Didn't realize he's only 58.. I had figured he would be north of 60, although not by much. I guess it could be a few more years... so then you wonder how long the associate coach hangs around.

And it makes you wonder if he'd take over for Trotz at some point...

Sure, but if you lived closer to Vancouver or Calgary their fans may likely do the same thing. Just like Bills fans will show up in another stadium and break all the tables at Staples and then chant like maniacs. 🙂

It could be that there are a lot of people that may have been exposed that it never impacted. Whether you consider them asymptomatic, having simply never gotten it, etc. How do you ever quantify that group? They're not going to the doctor because either they were never sick or not sick enough that it mattered. They were never tested because they just didn't care. Or perhaps, they simply just are not impacted at all. I don't even know if that's possible but I would suspect there's some level of exposure at which point the virus could take hold and that level varies for different people and that the level could be very high to the point one might almost consider them immune to it.