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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.

1) Wasn’t Botterill a forward? 2) Having and NHL dad and being rich can certainly help someone develop as a young hockey player, but a guy still has to be evaluated for what he is as a player. He doesn’t get a bump purely because his dad was good. “He can’t skate, BUT his dad was great!” That doesn’t work. 3) By all accounts, Samuelsson is big, strong, a good locker room guy, and hardworking. Captain material. Not much offense in his game. His swing skill is really the skating. Reports that I’ve seen have been mixed. I don’t know if it will be good enough. If it’s not “good enough” for him to keep guys in front of him, he probably won’t be able to play in the league. If it’s “good enough” he could probably be a 5/6/7 who gets PK mins. If it is close to NHL average he could probably be a shutdown 2nd pair guy who is your #1 PK option. That’s the hope at least.

Ulf Samuelsson

I can not imagine them adding MORE games by having a tournament like this. We will be luck if the actual playoff teams are able have some sort of shortened tournament to get a Cup winner.

The only freedom that has really been suspended is the freedom to gather in large groups. What would you propose as an alternative course of action for this situation? Not a rhetorical question.

For those who don’t know. Mattias Samuelsson is the son Kjell Samuelsson who spent 14 years in the NHL as a big bruising defenseman. I’m sure that Mattias has had access to the very best training both on and off the ice for his entire life.

URI - Upper Respiratory Infection

I’m neither a epidemiologist nor a fortune teller, so it’s the best I can do. Sorry you didn’t like my phrasing, but I think you understood me just fine. All projects predict that we are approximately 2 weeks from the peak in NYC area. From my point of view, this thing is just starting, so it’s too soon to pass judgment on how bad it is.

Maybe to you it’s not as interesting as 9-11, but it sure is not boring for health care workers. P.S.: The virus is almost definitely not even near having its worst effects yet. So may get less boring, oh goodie.

I would think that % is going vary based on how contagious a condition is. It’s not going to be the same for all illnesses. It hasn’t even been proven that people are “immune” once they have had it once. Though they probably are, in large part.

Agree. My fiancé is working at a hospital in Westchester. Staff there are starting to test positive. This could move very fast. The monster you see on TV today is in your living room tomorrow.

We for sure have yet to see the peak of this thing. So I think it’s premature to plan on easing up after this 15 day period. Wait until cases start to actually decrease before easing restrictions.

It’s not. Hockey players’ listed heights are not with their skates on. I’m 96% sure of this.

While this is mostly true, it’s true of a lot of goal scorers. If you are going to be good at just one thing, that’s the important one. It’s not really a slight to call someone “just” a goal scorer. That being said. To make that work for you, you do need to actually score at a decent clip, something Skinner did not do this season. However, I would not discard his long history as a goal scorer by focusing only on this past season.