Cascade Youth

Lol if you thought the “maintain our lifestyle” slide was scary, wait until you see the PE PowerPoints…

In hell, every night at 5 pm they serve meatloaf and discuss whether the tank was a success.

(UPL not so much.)

Quinn belongs.

Dahlin clearly has the coach he needs now. Excited to watch him continue to develop.

Always remember that, at the end of the day, all of these people are basically, in some form or another, gym teachers.

My biggest nightmare right now is Adams getting fired. It would mean that this was all for nothing.

My biggest fear at this point is that Adams is fired within the year - which would mean that this was NOT the plan (or that the plan was executed poorly) and it has all been for nothing…

Congratulations Kevyn Adams for holding firm.

Jack gets his disc replacement. The Sabres get their heart transplant.

For those of you saying Eichel hasn't actually said anything about wanting to be traded, or denigrating the Sabres' management - Jack Eichel is clearly a student of the Aaron Rodgers School of Passive Aggressive Advocacy, and he's enrolled in the "How to Say Something Loudly Without Actually Saying It" class where they teach you how to plausibly deny/blame the media if your agents' messages start to go south from a PR standpoint. To put it more simply: come on. Eichel has done and said plenty. I continue to blame both camps: Adams for deciding the relationship isn't salvageable (though Adams gets major credit for not caving in and taking a crappy deal - yet), and Eichel for being a bit spineless (ironic, I know, given that he's got a spine issue).

Who’s Jack?

This is an underrated point. Fish's strategy of using a medical issue to create a wedge with the Sabres had the consequence of lowering his value and market to the point where a deal couldn't get done. It was totally stupid.

Well I sure missed out on that…

No sir. YOU are the one making blanket, false statements like: "the CDC Director literally said the vaccine isn’t lowering the spread of delta variant" and "CDC outright has stated repeatedly it doesnt stop anyone from transmitting" These are things YOU said that are false. Own it.

IF THEY GET IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. That's the part you keep overlooking/ignoring. IF a vaccinated person gets Delta via a breakthrough infection, the levels are similar. (Note: other studies have suggested that the levels don't stay similar as long in breakthrough cases, meaning less transmission time, but that's a different point.) BUT YOU SAID: The Director didn't say this - literally or figuratively. What she said was that for vaccinated people who nevertheless get a Delta infection, for some period of time, they may have similar levels of virus.

Says YOU. Other people just read his post and take him seriously. And they can die from that.

No, but you’re decrying the lack of civility when some of us blast those posters who show up and drop outright lies into this thread. People are dying because of this crap. Maybe you think it’s all overblown, but for the rest of us this is deadly serious stuff and it shouldn’t be tolerated - you’re taking issue with my tone instead of someone making up deadly nonsense about Covid.

How about the facts behind these claims? This ok?

So you’re satisfied that this poster has sufficient factual bases to back up this claim?

Please point out where the CDC has repeatedly said that vaccines don't stop the transmission of COVID. I showed you an ACTUAL CDC statement that says the opposite. You then said well, but it's based on bad science so they're really saying the opposite? This is beyond demented. Nobody - not a single credible person - has said vaccines are the "complete answer." The issue is risk/benefit. Tens of millions of people have gotten the vaccines and the actual documented cases of serious side effects are statistically close to zero.

No, you outright lied in your post. Now you're calling it "nuance." Just absolute garbage.

THIS IS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY SAID: AGAIN, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

What are you talking about? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/fully-vaccinated-people.html "A growing body of evidence indicates that people fully vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna) are less likely than unvaccinated persons to acquire SARS-CoV-2 or to transmit it to others."

Look, I'm sorry you're offended by what I wrote. You've reported me so I'll live with the consequences. I have a ton of family in NS believe it or not, and they're just like me in tearing their hair out over the unvaccinated resisters. Anyhow. There are posts upthread that are posting outright lies about the science and the medical situation, coupled with conspiracy theories about Big Pharma. Woody, a self-proclaimed medical professional, seems to be cheering them on for reasons that only he can understand but I feel well within my bounds to call him out for being so irresponsible. I am just beyond sick of it all and I'm sorry if I've gone too far in expressing it - but this is literally life and death to me. I've lost people to COVID. I'm concerned for my kids if this thing lingers and mutates. Like this for example - this is a complete lie, but it's allowed to wallow here for all eternity but hey, at least it doesn't attack any poster.