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Looking at it from the other side: the other C’s have been at C the whole run up as well, and maybe the coach has faith that Cozens can shift to wing and be a difference maker there, while maybe he doesn’t feel that about some of the other C’s. Its all kind of unknown until they line up for a game. Then we’ll see what the coach actually does.

Yeah, any patient with Covid gets marked as a Covid patient, regardless of why they are in the hospital. It’s because they then need to be treated as Covid positive, which requires a lot of extra precautions and work on the part of the hospital. The hospitals then received extra funding based on how much of those extra precautions they needed to do. It’s not a scam, it’s the whole point of the extra funding.

Whoops! Meant Columbus.

Toronto, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Boston, Columbus, Detroit, Sabres

Huh? If this was meant to clarify anything, I don’t think it did.

This is actually a pretty good idea. Could definitely save a little cap space like that

If they carry 3 goalies on the active roster, something that was always an option btw, then that’s one less skater that they are able to carry. If that was their plan all along, this information doesn’t change anything.

Interesting. Looks like guys on their ELC still have to share rooms. Seems dumb. These are elite athletes making millions per year. Get them their own hotel room. What if a guy snores or is just really annoying. Who wants to room with that guy?

NHL players share hotel rooms? I would be absolutely shocked if this happens regularly.

I like that they can quickly and easily approve this, but when the actual games might happen seems to be an unsolvable riddle.

My favorite part is how the French guys hold hands and hug each other so that they don’t get too scared.

Correct. No Eichel, Matthews, Dahlin. Maybe not even a Lafrenierre. For teams looking for D though, there are a bunch of high quality D prospects who will go in the top 20.

My wife has signed up for it. They aren’t yet sure when their hospital will get doses though. Maybe next week.

While I agree that playoff hockey is almost always more intense, and better hockey because of it, fighting actually decreases even further in the playoffs compared to the regular season. And it’s still fantastic hockey without it. Haha, what do you want? No one has an actual answer. I’ll say maybe a little bit, but not too much.

Thompson before and after pics.....

It’s not a flu virus. It’s a coronavirus. And, yes, there is.

Well, he probably will get force fed top PP time, because he is an absolute weapon on the PP. He probably will deserve that PP time.

I tend to be more on the “Olofsson isn’t THAT good” side, but I don’t think we should get too sure of ourselves. To act as though he can’t possibly get better at ES is silly. He could, even if it’s less likely than for most rookies. The NHL is still a different league which posed new challenges to him. If he can find a way to get open a little more often at ES he has everything he needs to be a great goal scorer there as well. Also, your 40-50 point projection was probably with him playing on a 2nd-3rd line? Still comes off a little odd when considering the fact that in his rookie year he produced at over a 60 point pace.

Actually there are not plenty of doses for everyone who is at risk right now. You know what else might improve someone’s mental health? Knowing that their high risk mother/father/grandparents/sister/brother/child has gotten the Covid vaccine.

Fair enough, I too have seen some pretty negative opinions on him as a prospect leading up to the draft. I honestly do not seek out news regarding the WJC team Canada roster, so haven’t seen what sources have been saying about that, apart from what’s been posted here.

From people here, it think the general feeling was that maybe he wouldn’t. I think some of that was residue of the feeling that he was a reach at where he was drafted. However, he is one of the top goal scorers available to team Canada, and I don’t think it can be stressed enough that the team Canada HC is his OHL HC. He is the coaches guy. He already knows and trusts Quinn.

Cozens plays video games too. You can play video games and still be a hard worker. Apart from your misguided burn, I agree. There seems to be a pretty clear attitude difference between the two. Cozens’ dedication and work ethic appear to be top notch.

They honestly may have invited fewer RWs to camp to begin with because they knew from the start that Quinn was a near lock.

Owners are constantly complaining about losing money, yet the value of their companies consistently skyrocket. How is that a failing, unsustainable system???

Yeah, that’s his OHL head coach. I would be very surprised if Quinn doesn’t make the team, because his coach will be the guy picking the players. Quinn is “his guy”.