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I’m really going to miss this place. When I bring my family back to Buffalo each summer, we would bring the kids there. My son even cried about this. They should’ve given us at least a season’s warning. I think this is pretty much the same thing that happened to Toys R Us. When private equity gets involved, the business is done.

This is apparently not insight. It happened to us!

I think people need to realize that a POHO will demand to take away as much power from the Pegulas as from JBott. For this reason alone, there will be no POHO. Pegs likes his little hobby.

This will be an incredible pay cut, for Bogo and his agent, just so he can ride the bench on another team. Comparably, he’ll be working for free until the season is over.

I thought Mitts was slightly above average at Minnesota. He should’ve stayed an extra year. I’m not sure if it was because he wanted a paycheck or the Sabres convinced him of something unrealistic.

So, what do you do with them then? Let them sit in the press box? It seems to be they should be allowed to sit on their couch at home and collect their paycheck, unless they care about the game enough to look for an alternate employer who wants to play them.

So, “waiving” needs to occur before terminating a contract? What if we don’t care about the last 1/3 of said contract (ie we’ll pay it, as long as he goes away)?

I don’t get this process of waiving and I hope someone can explain it to me. In the NHL, it seems it’s a precursor to sending a vet down to their AHL team. What if we don’t want to do this? Can’t we cut/release players like they do in the NFL, washing our hands completely (minus the cap implications), and allow them to sign wherever the heck they want?

I’ve been there to meet China. I understand the govt can be overbearing and go out of their way to be so. I also have Chinese physician acquaintances, who are overworked and overburdened. It’s not a shock that they were unprepared for this. Instead of building islands and skyscrapers, perhaps they should look inwards and improve what they already have. Interestingly, the medical profession is a few notches below the engineering profession. I hope that changes. Until then, they’ll continue to be a 3rd-world country. All that said, today was a good day, Bogo was waived.

I take back the word “reporting”. You are right that they are not reporting this, but they did release/leak such numbers, not once, but 3 times. Not only that, they also posted numbers for the day before for comparison. These numbers were a tad bit less than the ones being released. So, this wasn’t likely a computer glitch. So, back to your original assertion, I was not pulling these number out of “thin air” as you suggested. As for the mortality, I never suggested this would be mirrored outside the US. Wuhan has 11M people within its city limits and likely many million more in the metropolitan area. This is beyond the experience of many of us in the US. Here, we don’t have the experience dealing with a city this large. The hospitals are probably nuts even without the virus. But, when it happened, this system was thrown into panic and chaos. Do you really think the government would’ve quarantined such a large city, called in the military, and built 2 1200 bed “hospitals” in days for a virus that had caused less than 400 deaths at the time? Let’s run some numbers and we’ll be on the conservative side. 11M people in city limits. 2.1% mortality rate. That’s around 230,000 deaths of everyone is infected, which is likely the final outcome. The Germans have shown this virus can remain alive outside the body for 8 days. A woman in HK contracted the virus through the ductwork from the quarantined lady who lived above her, who she never had direct contact with. I’m not trying to be a fear monger, but 20,000 deaths in the first month doesn’t exactly seem that outlandish.

Tencent has been reporting these numbers. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871594 I think it’s best to look outside what our mainstream media is feeding us. Btw, these numbers are fairly close to what viral epidemiologists have been targeting.

I would be a little careful here. The influenza virus isn’t taking out heathy people in the 30s. Plus, the number of deaths is severely being underreported and is likely over 20,000. At best this is exposing the Chinese medical system as well below substandard. At worse, this is a virus will a mortality of over 20%.

Number of cases have unexpectedly leaped by quite a bit. Who knows how the Chinese black box are reporting, but some people believe that the ability to test has now been exhausted. They are making this diagnosis clinically via symptoms and chest CT exams. People in Hubei have a fever and a chest CT shows a pneumonia? You got the diagnosis. The way they are counting dead people has also changed. Maybe this has to do with the WHO inspecting. They still haven’t let people from the CDC in, but I’m sure they know the people who are on the ground there. Let’s hope it’s not a political welcome wagon considering the WHO has been downplaying this threat since day 1. They are singing a different tune now.

Good. He should continue that production for the rest of the Amerks season. No reason for him to come up.

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I think I would be more worried if Mitts immediately began lighting it up in Roch. It would point towards a ceiling of a great AHL player, but someone who just can’t cut it in the NHL. What we have now is a player with obvious flaws on full display. If the coaches can correct these, he very well may be salvageable. Coaches can focus on fixing him instead of the pressures of running an NHL team. The only obvious problem, which can’t be corrected, is that he should’ve been sent to Roch last year. Let’s hope the damage can be reversed. He should stay down the rest of the season and expect to spend next year too.

I think the Sabres had someone like this (Linus, Berglund?) in the recent years. Contract was voided. It may or not be the best way to go. It depends on how big of a locker room problem he is. Addition by subtraction.

If he’s not traded, we’re going to eat his salary anyways. Might as well get rid of one of the last Tank vestiges and be done with it. I guess the other question is if he is waived, not claimed, and refuses to report to Rochester, what happens?

We had no chance to build the farm. Everyone worth an ilk is playing on the Sabres, sans Cozens. Once we have the Sabres stocked, then the farm can be stocked. Otherwise, there’s not much in Rochester.

I know we got issues, but doesn’t this describe the Sabres?

I’m not so sure we’re getting a top 6 forward for Risto, so maybe the next best thing to focus on is letting less goals in the net. Are there any goalies that could be pried-out for Risto? I think the wait for UPL may be too long and he’s no sure thing.

Or he just saved $100 on car insurance by changing to Geico.

Remember when Terry offered Patty the GM position? That should tell most of what you need to know. It’s not that he knows just as much as us in hiring the correct hockey person, it’s that he knows considerably less. How are we so confident he would hire the right hockey czar? That’s arguably more important than hiring a GM and HC combined.

It all depends on the ratio of risk to benefit. If moving Miller makes your team better, you make the trade and move him. In fact, any player should be moved if it benefits the team long term. Of course, this all hinges on who is coming back, but the principle holds.

Not me. I like mine rock hard. Seriously though, this is a move by either 1) a GM that does not have a plan or 2) a GM that wants to put the best players on the ice and isn’t going to be bullied into a undesirable trade.