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I think the most amazing thing on here is that they have a team dentist.

Actually, in hindsight, it would’ve much better if we just got Tage Thompson. Instead, we also got some spare parts that killed our cap. It’s just unthinkable this trade actually happened.

I think you and the Pegulas have very different views of what risk is. To us, risk is installing a person who will keep our losing ways intact. To the Pegulas, risk could be losing money from hockey operations or hiring someone who doesn’t readily allow them to meddle. If this is true, then the Pegulas hired someone that is very low risk.

This is pretty much it. It certainly wasn’t a coincidence he was traded the day before the bonus. There is no hockey-related reason for this to have happened. It was the off-season. No rush. If there is still a debate, people can discuss whether it was JBott or TP who didn’t want to pay the bonus.

Until our legal system is muzzled, this would not be possible. The day the restrictions begin, there will be hundreds of lawsuits (likely from individual state AGs). I think states can enact 14 day quarantines for anyone entering them, but it’s extremely hard to enforce them. Who’s to say people are just driving through your state? At least with air travel, you know where their final destination is and can quarantine as necessary. Florida did this from flight from NY. Now, municipalities are starving for tax revenue, so won’t close their borders.

It’s easy to know who was fired, as there’s a published list. But, who is left in scouting? It’s possible they could’ve already established their draft board for the coming draft, but the question is does it still exist? Or, was it “lost” once everyone was fired? This reminds me of the 2017 Bills draft. At least they waited for the day after the draft to fire everyone. Pegs must’ve really wanted these guys out of the building.

I wonder what this means for the draft. With no one at the helm, do they still have a draft board? If not, do this mean we’ll be trading them away for assets (2C)? Also, does hiring a “business” (or non-NHL) guy mean that we won’t be shy with offer sheets?

I’m not talking about lying, yet rather not disclosing the truth. I think there’s a difference, because I’m certainly not going to call the Pegulas liars. They are not, but they are also not required to give fans the truth. Over the last hour, I watched the press conference. It was full of evading the truth. This is OK. I guess I don’t fully understand the financial story. Are the Pegulas heading to the poor house soon? They certain can’t dig another well given oil and gas prices. Are we heading towards a sequestration (ie suffering)?

I watched a great talk recently on how to spot untruthfulness that was given by an ex-CIA. Of course, there’s always the body language thing, but there’s also the “too much information” thing. This is where the person starts giving information outside of the question that was asked in order to try to convince or distract. I think the “we have a little bit more information than maybe a fan does, some inner workings that we see some positives in” statement immediately comes to mind. It was an unnecessary thing to say. This wasn’t a decision made in the last 3 weeks.

Disagree. Botterill definitely set up an amateur scouting operation.

I just don’t like how they failed to do their due diligence via a proper search. Of course, they definitely have done their fair share of GM interviews in the past, but they should’ve place the interim tag on Adams (through the draft) and took their time. There was no rush.

Nine Inch Neil alright, that was 2

Selling the franchise is a different scenario. In this case, they would no longer own the team, investment money would likely be recouped. New owner would be open to move team then.

I get that Sabres news is slow and we all want something to discuss, but this moving the Sabres is a complete nonstarter. The Pegulas have invested an enormous amount of money in the Buffalo area, especially around the arena. They would stand to lose all of this if they were to move. Then they would be tasked with running 2 sport teams in different cities. All those synergies dissolve. It’s not happening. I never say never, but I think I may make an exception in this case.

A lot of people are bashing the Pegulas and they certainly deserve it as the owners of the team. They’re meddling owners and they end up making the wrong choices. However, they also own the Bills and are fairly hands off. Well, at least they know when not to get in the way. So, they are acting like Jekyll and Hyde with the Bills and Sabres. Why? My guess is that it takes a pattern of trust to be given independence. Anyone who is a supervisor of employees knows what I’m talking about. McBeane has earned it and did so relatively quickly. JBott has not, which is JBott’s fault for not proving he has a clue. Then the Pegs start messing with the team, in a bad way. Once we get a competent GM and start winning, I’m sure the Pegulas will step back. There won’t be a president of hockey operations because that will automatically demand that they back off. They won’t.

Agreed. I hope these current events put things in perspective for these GMs. Seasons can end at any moment, while players get older and out of shape. It’s time to use every tool allowed in the CBA to improve your team. So what if a GM gets mad at you and swears never to be your trading partner for the next 10 years? Chances are one or both GMs will be out of a job by then anyways. And if you sit on your hands while being a gentleman and your team is losing? You’ll be out of a job too. It’s a do or die league. It’s fine if a GMs swears another GM off. This is done within divisions anyways and it’s accepted. In fact, an offer sheet within a division is a double hit against an enemy. Maybe teams in the NHL don’t consider themselves adversaries.

I think it’s time to dust off the offer sheet. Things are getting desperate now. Offer sheet Cirelli to something that couldn’t possibly be matched. TB May have to move some players to free up space, but they’ll only have a week to do so. If GMs get mad, eff them.

This may just be a function of how many clubs have never won the Cup. Only 11 teams have not, which includes a handful of expansion teams. However, anyway you slice it, it’s still sad.

Testing for what? What I’m saying is it’s hard to prepare testing when you won’t know what you’ll be testing for. This virus wasn’t recognized to be infecting humans until January. At that point, I don’t know what criteria this ranking would use to measure our govt to get off their ass and develop a test.

N95 masks need to be fit-tested. This is why they are not likely to be effective for the general public. For example, I failed it with a particular 3M mask, but the 3M 1860 fit me perfectly. And I’m not just saying it felt comfortable, but the test pokes a hole in one and connects a tube to the hole. This tube connects to a machine and can tell if you have the proper seal. There’s multiple reasons for the drive thru testing sites. They are efficient, keep people out of the ER, and maybe most importantly, they are outside. This virus can stay aerosolized for 3 hours in a poorly-ventilated room. This goes down exponentially with every liter of air. It doesn’t stand a chance of infecting someone outside.

Yes, this will takes months to a year given all the red tape, but will be good thing to ha e for the “next round”. Fresh frozen plasma can be given, as it was during the Ebola outbreak, but would only be done on a very small scale. It would also need to be pooled and will come with risk of infections and you need willing donors. Millennials need money, right?

There’s no reason to believe this virus will not lead to immunity, at least temporarily. In fact, Eli Lily is teaming up with a small biotech company (these evil drug companies!!) to reverse engineer naturally produced anti-Covid antibodies. The way they are doing it is extremely cool. They received a vial of blood from one of the first patients in the US to recover. They then sequenced the immunoglobulin regions of each B cell to see what antibodies they were making. They have about 500 candidates to test for in vitro viral neutralization. This antibody(ies) will then be mass produced. This will be a form of “passive” immunity.

While MERS and SARS do show seasonality, however these (mostly MERS) pop up at any time of the year. Here’s a good read detailing how this infection will eventually be limited. Your #2 is probably going to be the most important. https://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/will-covid-19-go-away-on-its-own-in-warmer-weather/

It could. This is why China has yet to go back to life as usual. They are still largely under self-quarantine. Social distances is really just buying us time until factors such as ambient temperature and our ability to deal with sick patients (either via extra bed space, medicine, or a vaccine) changes. There will also be increased “heard immunity” (People who have been infected and developed immunity) as time goes on. What is likely to occur is a switch to the Southern Hemisphere. But, it will likely be back, but we’ll then be much more ready.

How’s the game going? We gonna come out winless again?