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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.

Just for a counter point: If the options are that more people definitely die in NYC because of lack of services or more people maybe die in WNY due to increased infections/lack of services, then transferring patients could be the lesser of two evils. It’s not automatically an idiotic idea. It definitely depends on the specific situations at each hospital though.

Jets 1st at #12 overall, that’s got to be close if it’s not enough. You are looking at guys like: Askarov Holloway Mercer Bourque Zary Gunler Quinn In a perfect scenario, Perfetti drops there.

I was making a funny. US be like “Huh? Testing? Testing for what???” At the time I replied, Kas’ post said only “Testing for what?”. He edited and added more, making my joke less funny. Although it’s possible that it never was. Oh well.

Exactly!

I agree for the most part. There were a few large wedding receptions that had to be broken up by police, if I recall correctly.

Well, many many events have been cancelled on order of various government officials. Workplaces were ordered to close by governors. These were not voluntary actions on the part of the event organizers/business owners.

I think it’s a fact that the more people who are tested, the lower the death rate will look, because it’s always going to be the sickest people who are tested first. There is a lot we don’t know right now. Numbers like that will become more clear as we go along.

South Korea did an excellent job of testing symptomatic people, quarantining them, tracking people they had contact with and quarantining those people as well. They did a great job, and it was mostly due to early, aggressive testing practices. If the US would have been able to do that, that would have been great. It did not happen though. Now it’s a different ballgame.

Apologies. That was ignorance on my part. Never heard the nickname. Never really saw him play.

Chill. It’s a public forum. If you didn’t want anyone else to chime in, send a private message.

So you say that every NHL player is elite? They are of course, but when we use words like fringe, mediocre, good, elite, we mean relative to other NHL players, not relative to all humans on the planet.

Anyone old enough to have fought in WW2 would be 95, or at minimum over 90. So you are talking about a small fraction of the elderly population anyway.