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I don’t know know much about Musks pay habits. Do his engineers and scientists at SpaceX and Tesla complain about pay? Both companies are growing and innovating so I would assume he recruits top people that get paid very well too. Not all jobs are the same

Sound like hands on parenting. Several of my kids friends (now in their 30’s) are still saddled with big debt. At least a PA will have resources to repay.

I should not be surprised. We laid off many over the past 10-15 years. The improved processes were cited the reason, but it was probably just cost cutting. Isn’t Agile development supposed to embed QA in the process?

I am a boomer. I had to take out low interest student loans that I was able to manage because of a lot of factors. Mostly, I minimized what a borrowed by starting in a community college, I worked part time while going to school, and I lived a minimalist lifestyle in college (no trips to Florida, no touring Europe to find myself). I earned a BSEE degree that started me off with good pay. Loan payback was just part of the routine and was factored into my budget. It was an expectation, a follow up to a commitment. I never considered not repaying it. The world is now different, college costs are sky high, and those days are over for a lot of reasons. I am not a fan of student loan forgiveness either. At least not blanket forgiveness, but I could see some levels of forgiveness for those who work to support the underserved in healthcare and educational capacities. In general, other tax payers should not have to pay for your decisions, your commitments, and your debt. I’m a proponent of more and better planning and preparation for high school students. Better and more realistic guidance at high schools. I’m a proponents of student loan limits (based on student progress and performance) and loans at the prime rate plus ~0.25 for the bank processing fees. I am a proponent of better utilization of trade/vocational schools, military service, and community colleges as options after high school. I am a proponent of state universities - many of which also make huge profits - and streamlining costs at state schools. Private universities are making huge profits, should we look at their tax records too? I’ll bet we can find ways to tax those endowments. Entrepreneurs like Musk (your example) build companies, drive innovation, create jobs, and the spin-off from their companies creates even more jobs. Where do you think these students work? The student loan problem has ZERO to do with successful entrepreneurs and everything to do with people making poor decisions and a system that needs serious course correction. Fix the root cause of the problems instead of blaming successful and unrelated entrepreneurs for doing what many of these college students dream of doing.

Interesting. Software QA is a discipline that almost disappeared in my field (aerospace and defense). The number of folks involved did significantly decrease over the decades. Not that it isn’t important, it seems instead that the SW development processes have improved over the decades and quality is embedded into the process in each stage, and not something you do after the fact. As you stated, software development is a field that looks for younger people in entry level positions in general.

Yup. I retired at 62 and had to fill the gap to Medicare at 65 for me and my wife. It’s expensive. You pay off your home and then health insurance for 2 is easily like another mortgage or more.

Sounds like you don’t have kids or if you do, you don’t know many of their friends. The millennial and Z generation face a different world than Boomers and Xers did when it comes to college costs. I’m 65 and put 3 millennial kids through college. I know lots of young people (age 22 thru 40) that had to take out big loans to get a degree. Many were not properly prepared by parents and were feed a pile of lies in high school about this very subject. Not enough of them utilize the community colleges to get a solid, low cost start - and to help them figure it out. I blame parents and poor high school guidance for much of the problem with student loans and the expectation that you will make a lot of money if you go to college. It amazes me how a student today can graduate from high school and not understand the very basics of loans and debt - every kid should be required to take personal finance in high school. Credit and debt, interest, loan amortization, taxes, insurance, savings plans and budgets, the use of spreadsheets and tools - make this mandatory for high school sophomores. Next, stop lying to high school kids about pay after college. At the end of the day your financial compensation becomes a function of your chosen field, your degree, your actual job performance, your own career planning, your ability to communicate and work with others, your geographical location, and even a bit of luck.

Agree. I know a younger lady (now 37) with over $140k in student loans after completing 10 years of college which included 3 school changes (2 private schools), a useless English degree, and finally a masters in speech. Poor guidance in high school and limited knowledge by her parents, today she just hopes for loan forgiveness.

He was supposed to be a 1C and better than Draisaitl, no?

Especially if the loss was to Buffalo.

I would not trade Mitts this season, let see if the step he took is a real one. We are going going to need him.

A really, really, really dumb trade made by the Sabres was trading Alan Haworth, a kid we developed who had just scored 21 goals in only 57 games. He also had 16 goals in 49 games the prior year as a rookie. You could see the kid could score goals. Bowman drafted and then traded Howarth with a 3rd, to the Caps for a 2nd and a 4th round pick - neither pick panned out. Haworth strung together 6 straight 20+ goal seasons, including a 34 goal season. Scotty missed on that one.

The Sabres won the big trade with Detroit by a mile. Every player involved, except for McCourt, played their best hockey as a Sabre.

I sure don't doubt you on that and it was probably part of it, but Punch was initially pissed at McNab for complaining about fan boos (and expectations) during the regular season. Once you got in his dog house you probably stayed in it. McNab went on to score a lot of goals for Boston.

Not quite. McNab complained about the booing because the Sabres were in a slump and playing poorly and the fans did not like it. It was the year hangover from losing the cup and the team could not get going. Fans expectations were sky high. Punch was pissed at their play and the fact that McNab thought they were above being booed. All NHL teams were 99% Canadian. All the teams were playing for Canada.

It was a desperate move by Darcy. The Sabres pinched pennys, Peca held his ground and it got ugly. Did not Darcy agree to reach Peca’s original demands, only to have him hold ground and force a trade? Peca did win another Selke after the trade. He was still very effective and his leadership helped the Isles.

You can say that about almost every newspaper in almost every city.

Which is why I added the part about bringing in a better goalie than Toker and Comrie.

Adam’s was smart to bring in Andy. I still wish he brought in some better goalie help along with him though (I.e. better than Toker and Comrie). Erik Johnson will likely have a similar impact. A player past his prime, but he will bring much needed veteran experience and know-how to the blue line.

Pa-NO-KA sounds more hockey like-than Pa-NO-cha. Lots more upside with the KA sound. I remember Chicoutimi.

Sure he can replace 26 of Andy’s games, maybe 40 at that level or better. Asking for 52 is a lot and carries a high risk, especially since we have not seen a commitment to team defense yet. Sure, they added two defenders that will help, now the forwards have to do their part. I’m pulling for the overall team play improvement that could come from another year of maturity and leveraging of off last season’s experience.

If the bold is true I will be very upset. The core needs to win right now or else they could start accepting the loses. I think they might be a few veteran players short of a playoff team as of today, but if the core players all contribute big again, and some more kids evolve and step up they could make it. Too much depends on Levi to make me comfortable and have high confidence.

Doing what you say is important and so is building a winning team. Some GMs, actually most GMs I should say, do not get to lose four years in a row. This is his year #4 and this is the year that KA should elevate this team into the playoffs The talent is there (thanks to him and his staff) and there are tons of assets to work with to address this teams shortcomings They missed the playoffs by one win last season They scored 296 goals but gave up a whopping 300 goals They were an abysmal 17-20-4 on home ice. They were 28th overall on the PK. They were dead last in faceoff win percentage. It’s pretty obvious what has to improve. I am behind KA on most of his moves and even some of his non-moves. But this is the year he must get this team into the playoffs. Getting there should be his goal and his focus. If they don’t make it this season that really is his problem, even if he does exactly what he says. The questions are did he do enough and what is left?

All the comments above mine are correct, but Lance is correct too - everyone of these guys will be competing for a spot in training camp. Murray, Weissbach, and Biro are very much long shots.

@PASabreFan is looking for Kevyn.