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Not only did he score but he was out on the ice late to protect the lead.

I'm on a 4x40 schedule. Once in a great while I'll work on a Friday for something that I want to be over and done with and not weighing on my mind over the weekend... like maybe a couple times a year. I had a family crisis several years ago and while I took just a couple days off to deal with the acute phase of it, I got into the habit of working 40 hours and no more. Oddly in the aftermath of that I got promoted. It's not how much you work (at least in some fields), it's the quality of your work. If you're regularly working 60-70 hour weeks, quality drops off. By cutting back to 40 I was getting almost as much done insofar as the quality of my work was much better.

You earned those sick days and should have been compensated for them. At my company people have two retirement dates: Their last day at work and their last day on the payroll. All you have to do is come in on that last day on the payroll and they cut you a check for all those sick days, personal days, vacation days that you didn't use while you were working. It's not "pride in being at work", it's being compensated for what you earned.

There's a huge difference between "I don't want to work" and "I don't want to spend every waking hour at my job."

A direct result of the philosophy of participation trophies. But it sounds like they're *not* participating. I'm sorry, but if you need people to work 70 hour weeks you don't have enough people.

You could go back to my early reactions... I was hopeful like we always are when a new face shows up, but I always felt he sounded like a used car salesman.

Wow. Hard to argue that point.

I'd rather have Kevyn's second round pick than JBott's first round pick.

No way man. My neighbor did that once. Now he's on The List.

That's the lifestyle I aspire to.

They can plan just fine. Assume he's not going to be part of the Sabres org going forward. There. Done. If they make a trade for a 4D, how would the presence (or not) of Johnson affect that?

I was with you until the last sentence.

The one with the bigger paycheck: Bad team with immediate opening. Are you saying you're regular now? So the fiber is working, eh?

I thought the old stadium was 123% nicer than the new one. The new one is butt ugly, but it does have a roof which is necessary when it's 108°F out.

I would say the pandemic affected how people think about work. People will work fine, but the pandemic opened a lot of eyes in terms of who really makes a lot of industries run and how little they get paid. When you realize how much money Elon Musk or Uncle Starbuck are making from your efforts, compared to what you yourself make, it affects how one thinks and talks about work.

That was sarcasm.

I mean he was only a 7th round pick so he should feel fortunate he made the squad at all. Right?

Savoie meets his new linemates

We do 10ish. Slightly more if you know how to work the system. Yeah, 3 strikes could be legit caught something and it doesn't want to go away. Especially with Covid, if you're not sure, stay home. Where I work the policy at one time was that there wasn't a published amount allowed for sick time/personal time. One year, my wife needed surgery, which I cleared with my boss ahead of time, plus I got legit sick (flu) twice in the same year. I took 80 hours of time. The next year during my annual appraisal, my boss noted it. I told him the two illnesses had doctor's notes and the other was cleared with him ahead of time. He said that's fine, but don't think you can do that every year. You might not get fired for it, but if there are layoffs it could be a possible discriminator. Now they say it's just straight 40 hours, no questions asked. Most people don't use it. I nibble it a bit but didn't use most of it last year.

It would be good to get him into a game to let him see what he can expect. As far as what I expect from him, it would be kind of like what JJ and Quinn produced for the Sabres. Maybe an early hot flash but mostly just trying to hold his own out there.

Unfathomable? More like, logical. Of course we would have a playoff drought with that lot.

My dislike for Eichel has zero to do with the surgery to be honest. And I think he was on his way out (as far as Adams was concerned) before that issue came up. Kevyn understood the locker room dynamics and knew Eichel was not the guy to build a team around.

The Panthers.