Curt

I don’t recall ever directly addressing you before, but do as you wish I suppose.

Love Lays, but Ruffles and Pringles are good too. I don’t know all these brands, but I don’t like kettle cooked as much as classic or baked types.

Counter point- If Forsberg didn’t have his own injury problems, no one would be arguing that Colorado lost that trade. Forsberg’s NHL career was actually shorter than Lindros’.

Without Dahlin, LD looks like McCabe, Pilut, then Montour playing his off hand. ? Doesnt look like a strength at that point.

Looking at the charts/number of new cases per day, it looks like they are just entering that exponential upward part of the curve. I hope your right that it doesn’t hit badly there (or anywhere else) but I don’t really think anyplace is immune to this.

Well first, I never said that I didn’t care about your opinions. Quite the opposite in fact. I’m legitimately asking you: What do you believe? What do you think this is?

I don’t get you. What do you think about all of this? You think it’s just a normal flu variant? You think the experts are lying/wrong? I honestly don’t get your thought process. Also, are you in the US? Sweden? Things are pretty bad in NYC area. Do you know anyone being personally affected by this?

Buffalo should be interested in whoever Mike Bales tells them to be interested in.

It is close. Sakic has longevity on his side. At peak, I think I would take 1)Forsberg 2)Lindros 3)Sakic for a playoff run. They are all pretty close though, all great.

Eichel is no Forsberg. He just isn’t.

This is exactly how I feel about both of these (Dahlin and Ike) proposals. Lindros was traded for a several good players, one of which was probably as good as him, so it kind of is a no brainer in retrospect.

Then lets also assume that Forsberg doesn’t get injured and remains better than an uninjured Lindros.

It wouldn’t be a terrible idea. Better than going into next season with Hutton. However, Henrik probably isn’t going anywhere. He has a NMC, loves NY and he’s the King. I think he just wants to stay there. Only way I see him leaving is to chase a cup as a backup or something, but the fact that he is still there leads me to suspect that he has probably made it clear that he doesn’t want to move.

I didn’t remember Boyle being THAT good, but you are right.

Only Tampa, Carolina, and maybe Montreal (they had Eric Desjardin, but he was only 23 at the time) have won the Cup without a D with at least multiple top-10 Norris voting finishes, in the past 30 years. So, 2-3 teams out of 30.

Peter Forsberg went to Philly later in his career, yes, but that has nothing to do with what we are talking about right now. When he was part of the Lindros trade package, he was a prospect playing in Sweden.

If you are getting the exact equivalent of the players in that trade, then yes, because Forsberg alone was better than Lindros, but if you are getting a bunch of random pieces then it depends, because it could turn out great or terribly.

No. Corona viruses have been around for a long time. This is just a new type that appeared in 2019. A novel corona virus.

Agreed, that’s what we all want. It’s probably going to be a patchwork type of improvement though, with little outbreaks popping up here and there over the next few months. Some places will probably require re-shuttering at times. It’s going to be a balance between reopening things and controlling outbreaks as we come out of this thing.

This is kind off topic, but this is true, and I feel like indulging. Another reason that flu was so bad was because it was so destructive was because it was especially deadly to people in the prime of their lives (20-40) with especially strong immune systems. It left a lot of children without parents and a lot of jobs without anyone to perform them.

I honestly do feel for you and all health care workers. My fiancé is one, currently in Westchester NY. I think the constantly shifting of policies is happening everywhere as hospitals are forced to adapt their policies to their availability of resources. It’s certainly not ideal, to say the least. I don’t know if we are doing too much social shutdown, as I haven’t studied epidemiology. However, I do feel that if the healthcare system in general was more prepared (resources and organization) less social distancing would be necessary because we would be able to handle a greater influx of cases. PS: There will be more frustration and difficulties ahead. Try not to get too discouraged. Do your best. We are all lucky to have healthcare workers like you who care so much about what you do.

This I am not understanding. You are talking about 1918, right? The people of that time most certainly did do things to try to stop the spread. Scientists/Doctors urged “social distancing” type measures. Some places headed the advice, others did not. It was a totally different world then, but that pandemic was a huge social issue that had people terrified. It wasn’t something that just happened in the background as people went about their daily lives. It destroyed communities. If you’re point is just that this is not as bad as the 1918 pandemic, then yes, of course, I think all would agree. I know you are just venting to an extent, but you go from lamenting how unprepared the health care system is for this in one post, to saying that this is not such a big deal in the next.

Is this a joke???

This is basically my stance on Botterill’s performance as well. I feel that the team is in a better position than they were when he took over. He has done some good things. His main downfall to date is his inability to assemble a competent forward group. There are certainly reasons to want him gone and reasons to think that he deserves just one more year. I’m on the fence with him.

He is bigger and stronger than McCabe. He is pretty huge, McCabe is average size. Not that it means he will be better.