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Winning the cup and help winning the cup are most certainly debatable in Zach's case. If any team could use a d-man with at least third line veteran savvy and leader ship it's Toronto. They took a pass. To find a team digger deeper into the barrel of useful d-men as Toronto is would be hard to find. Zach will find it hard for another gig. I have a friend that grew up with the Bogosians. Always talks about how *the old man* was a stickler for an honest days work and made sure the boys knew what a hard days work was. Called them *good people*. I have no reason to dislike him at a personal level and am glad he will be finishing his career on a very high note.

Is anyone picking up Zach? I'm betting the leafs thanked him and wished him the best of luck during their *talk*.

I've watched/listened to quite of few of TG's interviews and programs. This one is the first where it's him focused on the Sabres and the players only. Great listen and will give you some insight of what he see's and it's very positive. The *darkest days* where in the mists of the losing streak and some of the most competitive and skilled players had no faith they could win. He had to change that, one of the most difficult coaching tasks a coach could ever have. He firmly believes it happened in the last 2 weeks of the season. He could see it in the way they carried themselves in the locker room, in meetings, practice and in games. They have turned the hardest corner as a team. He thanked 4 players for their leadership and gave him all their support. Sam Reinhart, Kyle Okposso, Ramus Ristolainen and Eric Stall. Eric gave him a great very long text when he got the job. Did not and will not coach to win. Winning will happen when they learn to play as a team and get better individually and as a team. This team is to young and skilled to go into lock down mode with a one goal lead, they need to learn to play well and not worry about the win/loss column right now. Most rewarding thing that happened as interim coach was watching Casey Middlestat blossom. Stuck Dahlin and Jokiharju together and told them to *figure it out*. *I'll help you, but you need to make mistakes and over come them*. Was great to watch them learn and grow and get better every game without the fear of being scolded or benched. Loves Jack, coached Jack before. Has a great coach player relationship and has talked to him a few times and they where great conversations. Edit: Forgot the most important part of the interview IMO. Asked if he sent resumes out for other jobs? No, and for 2 reasons. Wrong message to the team. Told his team he wanted more than anything to come back here as their head coach at the end of the season, what kind of message would I send job hunting? Seen to many coaches that he was coaching against get an NHL head coaching job at the wrong time, team, situation and it didn't last and not because they weren't really good coaches. It's a long time if ever, to get a second try. I really wanted this job. It's the right time, team, place players for me. I know I will, and the team will, have success and I may not get another chance like this.

My wife made those one night for dinner, she called them biscuits though. I ate them. Thankfully she is much better now, but I am also much larger because of that.

Not sure what *little water* is. But I like Uisce Beatha, the *water of life*. For medicinal purposes only mind you....

I resemble that remark and second it.

If the NHL leaves the divisions as they are we will be picking a high draft pick. We may be super competitive night after night but it's going to be tough for a young team to win.

We get a *stats guru* right before the busiest month of the year between the draft ,trades and ufa pick ups. I'm a assuming he has numbers on just about everyone.

That is hilarious coming from an accountant!

Gotcha. It's passing the sniff test that it may be one of the better run Sabres teams we have seen since the *old days* of Darcy and company. A good person brings in a good person, who reaches out to another good person. The timing on this hire is very significant also.

Is trading Jack and Sam *gutting to the studs*? If it is then it has a much greater probability of success if the farm teams are fully stocked before the gutting, which I don't believe they are.

Some how, some way Terry made this happen. He's meddling, again.😏 His bio is quite impressive. Hope he does well.

Adams did say during an interview that he learned a lot doing the coaching search for Rochester. He said he was going to do an extensive search this time. I took that to mean he was going to try and learn as much as possible from the guys as he could and meet with as many as possible.

If you are getting compensation for performing tasks then you are in an employee/employer relationship.

That's the one! Stuck on a play loop in my brain for a week now.

We are either getting a retread or an up and comer. Granato is an up and comer with a try out period. Adams had to do the search and check all the boxes in order for this to be considered a competent head coach search. Some may look at this as Granato's to lose, but then the reverse of that is also true, a retread needed to win the job. If one of the retreads wows Adams and gets the job then great, if not I'm fine with Granato. as a side note I keep wanting to spell Granato as Granado. I keep hearing Ricardo Montalban singing a Chrysler commercial as I type Granado too...

Seems to be a belief that this ruling also paves a way for the IRS to be able to *tax* the benefits student athletes receive as they will now be considered *employees that are being compensated*.

He was featured between periods in a memorial by one of the announcers in last nights Tampa Isles game. The announcer barely made it through their memorial and was very emotional. Sounds as though he was a great person that happened to play hockey. And 58 is way to young....

I read this unsarcastically. It is great news if the Sabres do it right. Hand around the big club and get a taste in preseason then ride the bus for a year. Take it from there.

I can sympathize with that. Have we not been in a continual tank for 10 years? Did they not just get the 1OA? The rebuild officially starts with me with a competent front office, till then we are still intentionally tanking.

They are showing probable cases as less than 25% of confirmed cases. Everything I've read with antibody testing is saying that probability cases should be double of confirmed. Unless *probable* means something different to your County other than a wild guess as to how many have had it that have never been tested. I'm not sure if they will ever share or compile the results of a local blood bank doing free antibody testing in exchange for giving blood, but when I talked to them they where shocked at the high number of positive results of people that thought maybe they had it been never got tested.

You are really good at this, this time.

It's the safest place in town to meet. It's a sad city in a sad state.

https://erie.craigslist.org/tag/d/erie-vintage-nhl-electric-hockey-power/7323358939.html For those collectors that need that one last thing for their hockey heaven cave.....

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/good-news-mild-covid-19-induces-lasting-antibody-protection/ “People with mild cases of COVID-19 clear the virus from their bodies two to three weeks after infection, so there would be no virus driving an active immune response seven or 11 months after infection,” Ellebedy said. “These cells are not dividing. They are quiescent, just sitting in the bone marrow and secreting antibodies. They have been doing that ever since the infection resolved, and they will continue doing that indefinitely.” Ellebedy and colleagues now are studying whether vaccination also induces long-lived antibody-producing cells.