That Aud Smell

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also, kevyn adams is heavily reminding me of someone ... a celeb type ... i can't think of who.

for whatever reason, the use of "human being" made me chuckle.

I really liked this post. Eichel is a wonderful talent, a game-changer. Generational? Probably not. A rare player for any given team to have? I'd say so. He was just horribly miscast here in Buffalo, which is such a shame. Now, I acknowledge that the "casting" that occurred wasn't totally of the team's making. I reckon he wanted some of it, demanded some of it ... or just felt obliged to take it on.

One of my favourite things about the Sabres - a true legend.

This may be posturing, but it’s not a leak. This is an unequivocal statement from PSE’s spokesperson. It is a frickin’ hammer too. I love the Bills. But, honestly, f**k outta here with that bullsh1t. And fook off, NFL.

Shameless. And this is a really, really good point by the same writer (Florio, I presume):

Eichel flew commercial? And checked a bag? Colour me skeptical.

I really just like Smell. Or, as @PASabreFanonce said (typed) during the infancy of my activity here, Smelly. The Judge Smell stuff was really just for the lulz. We all know that if there were a lawyer on this board who'd serve as judge, it'd be @Eleven. Of course, if he were angry Eleven at that time, he might contemporaneously serve as jury and executioner. The Gretzky Principle.

I am wondering that as well. The common thread I could imagine: They are both guys who had long, solid professional careers (I am using that term beyond the NHL, obvi) because they made the absolute most of what they had. Maybe that translates to being good at helping others do the same?

Just facts. Edited, @LabattBlue, to reflect that my post had some facts and ... some opinion. 🙃

I’m far from sold. He’s got a bit of a Simpsons monorail vibe to him. He’s got a white collar conviction in his past (felony fraud), and then that wacko interview he gave recently where he said he may well die penniless? No thanks.

I snorted. Also, I think Catt is more Penna’s speed.

Niagara, Orleans, Erie, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Wyoming, Genesee. Eight. (?)

The situation with Eichel right now is terrible. The thread is just a function of that.

Mass vaccination remains our best hope of managing this disease. But sh1t like this (the public comms to which David W-W refers) from the government and other established institutions does NOT help the cause, at all. This whole thread is illuminating, actually -- and maddening.

Freitas is a great guy - terrific doctor.

No one has a crystal ball. That said: Great post. Solid reasoning.

Nice. S.UCK IT, VOGL!! And I will gladly take a share of that L.

John Vogl should have checked with @Hoss first - the latter was very clear yesterday that that Twitter account is in fact Eichel's. Not presumptively his. Definitively his. 🤔

Ich bin ein Berliner!

thanks for catching that - twas an intentional homage!

Anecdotes like this are discouraging. Research, valid data, and expert interpretations of the same are what (should) drive policy, and people should comply with that policy absent a compelling reason not to. I think I posted this months ago: An uncomfortable (and, I think, un-discussed) truth about mass vaccination campaigns is that they will - in very rare instances - create unwanted side effects, ranging from mild reactions to, in still even more rare instances, serious injuries or death. As a society, it's up to us to take on and spread that risk acrost 100s of millions of people. The alternative paths are far worse for us, as a society -- e.g., periodic collapses of regional hospital systems (terrible, but not catastrophic) or the development of some doomsday variant (probably quite unlikely, but it becomes more and more likely as transmission goes on). As to the latter, I don't get the sense that COVID-19 is just going to become endemic and fairly manageable like influenza. It seems as though, if it continues to circulate, its viral tumblers are going to hit a jackpot combination of lethality.

So does this mean no more low-event hockey, as an overall strategy? I can get with that. What was that other odious term that Bylsma and maybe even Housley used? "Small ice"? "Small space"? Something like that. The idea seemed to be to get the game to occur in isolated areas, in isolated moments. It just seemed to create such dull, dull hockey.