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  1. Neither is possible. Rules changed, QO is based on AAV. Brock’s deal is grandfathered through so it applies to his QO, but row QH’s and EP’s would be based on AAV.
  2. The way the Sedins talk about it, it is not just about fitness it is about establishing pacing. Learning what the max your body can do over 40S and get the timing for about what a shift should be.
  3. I know you are not intersect in this but. 1. Not experimental outside of the general idea that all medications are experimental in that we track all of them for adverse events. Proven safe through literally hundreds of millions of doses given. 2. Not gene therapy and there is no mechanism for mRNA of any kind to alter someone’s genome. You are thinking of KRSPR technology which is a different thing. 3. It prevents transmission to a very high degree. Even in the group that do test positive post immunization it is usually because of an intrinsic or extrinsic immunity problem that has effected vaccine efficacy. Even then though they are still much less likely to get sick if they do test positive. 4. God has nothing to do with this. All of this is clear and the evidence isn’t even hard to understand. What is the difference between Alberta and Ontario who are going to have to take Alberta’s patients under the weight of Alberta’s collapsing health care system. Hmmm, it is vaccination rates, why because the vaccinations are preventing most transmissions and mitigating most illness. But agin, I don’t think you are interested in the truth but here it is anyway.
  4. I think it is truly a global phenomenon not just American. That is what the web is reactionary thinking to minuscule bites of misleading information taken out of context. Well that and porn.
  5. That was where it was in the Detroit/Colorado days. That is part of why the cap came in.
  6. My saviour. Isn't he premier of Alberta now? At this point though, I just say to myself, it isn't logical anymore it is just emotional. People make crazy bonehead decisions all the time over their emotions.
  7. I agree and disagree. At this point part of my biggest frustration is the people that “do the research” but have no background to understand what they are reading. The amount of misinterpreted,misleading, cherry-picked stats that get misquoted to me to convince me that they have figured out where all the health care professionals are wrong is just staggering. I sit there with two degrees in molecular biology and an MD and nobody wants to here what I have to say, they just try to convince me I am wrong and they have figured out that this virus that has killed 4M people, that is eminently preventable now and is burning through unvaccinated communities is all a lie too…well that is where the argument always falls down.
  8. Wow got to the point where watching and drawing grand conclusions from clips of bag skates. You know we need hockey back when. Context, yes that is important. Could also add that a player who spends more time training off the ice can come into camp in fantastic shape and need a few days to readjust the muscles to skating. Seems reasonable thing for a vet with a longer training camp than usual to do knowing they will have more than enough time to adjust back to hockey specific fitness. It is also probably mentally very refreshing to not focus on being on the ice all the time for someone who has been a pro as long as OEL. Sometimes just takes a few days to get legs going even for pros. Maybe, being a number one d that plays a lot of minutes has the experience to know not to blow everything on day 1 of training camp.
  9. I love the don’t believe in modern medicine group, they are fun. Don’t believe in what you tell me about vaccines, weight, smoking, exercise, alcohol. Now fix my heart attack. I remember giving someone the clot busting drug after a heart attack and it actually worked. That is rare and a lot of taxpayers dollars went into his arm and that asshole tried to unhook himself from all the equipment to go for a smoke after throwing a tantrum to his very worn out looking girlfriend. These assholes won’t listen to what you tell them but want every medical miracle to keep them going when it is needed. Ultimately they cost tax payers more, frustrate everyone around them and generally act like toddlers. Sometimes you just want to say that if they don’t believe in medicine then stay home and die of your heart attack. What was life expectancy before modern medicine? In the 40s? Is that what you really want or are you a snowflake that only wants to do what you want to do?
  10. They are getting very close. That would be awful to have to do that as a doctor. COVID has already convinced a lot of doctors that were getting close to retirement to pull the curtains on their careers.
  11. Well yeah, you took your body from one extreme to the exact opposite. You developed in a pure aerobic area that favours light weight and endurance and flipped the switch to something the exact opposite. Had you developed as a power lifter and then tried to do the Tour d’France you would have said that building an elite aerobic base and learning the dietary discipline was the hardest part. A lot has to do with what your body type is too. If you are mostly slow twitch endurance athlete and then abandon that system for pure fast twitch you are restructuring a lot. Hockey is more balanced. Need a decent aerobic base but not an elite one, need a good strength base but power to weight ratio more important. Anyway, that is fantastic. The amount of remodeling your body must have done would require an incredible amount of work. I stuck to cycling and climbing. Never could settle into weight lifting consistently and those sports always prefer skinny anyway.
  12. I get that. Actually the area around where the Panthers play is fairly inexpensive as far as rent/prices go. Most likely the players are not living that close anyway. ‘Fun city Miami and certainly lots of ways for young men to blow tonnes of money.
  13. That may be true at a rep level but at a pro level, building the cardio base is slow, time consuming specialized work to do it well. It is also the hardest to achieve truly elite levels at, though those aren’t all that essential for hockey. Now getting to a basic minimum just takes time and some dedication and is achievable by most. Can’t compare players from generations ago to current ones, those were hockey players not professional athletes. Hi level players get coached on diet and training regimens from childhood now, it is developed from such a young age that it is mostly ingrained. Players like Jake are now the exception, not the rule.
  14. Interesting. Wouldn't have thought the mRNA would survive the digestive system. More likely being used as a cheaper way to make mRNA vaccines but would purify them out. (verified neither mRNA or DNA survive the digestive tract, they are metabolized by pepsin) Going to guess the same group of people that are good with GMO foods so that can use roundup will be mad about GMO foods that may help keep them healthy. Then again they did say vegetables so that Ven diagram may not connect.
  15. I got a penthouse condo in Miami for almost nothing and generally do a lot of my shopping there because it is so much cheaper. NHL players at the high income bracket spend very little of their earnings on cost of living, most of it goes in the bank. This is why sales taxes are selective to the poor and favoured by certain political groups, they don't effect the wealthy nearly as much as those spending 100% of their income on daily living expenses.
  16. He is saying only wants to play for American team.
  17. Glad to see you back Rob. Jumped in like you were never gone.
  18. This is what going for "natural immunity" gets you.
  19. The always reliable Hockeybuzz is reporting that bridge deals close on both Hughes and Petterson. At the same time mistook Dahlin's deal as 9M per and saying that they are signing similar deals. All that is worth a big steaming pile of nothing but hey good news if there was anything to it.
  20. He actually looks pretty lean. I think need to also look at his play as to reasons he is out of the league. He also didn’t help himself with his social media showing off his flouting of many of the COVID rules.
  21. These variants aren’t something that just occurs once. Anywhere virus is replicating at high rates is at risk. The country names were just where they were first identified, they can occur spontaneously anywhere. This is a misunderstanding that it only occurs once in whatever country and that travel bans will stop it from occurring in your country. Best way to prevent re-occurrences of variants and development of new variants is to reduce viral replication. Only model for that is immunization and social distancing. Anytime there is a new variant of concern though lockdowns and travel restrictions are important but by the time it is identified, the cat is usually out of the bag. So unimmunized are a reserve for the development and spread of variants, not just the spread.
  22. I think the basis of the argument was that Eichel wanted to avoid that surgery but wanted to try the anterior approach with synthetic disc which is a much less invasive approach but is still considered to be experimental. The Sabres or at least their doctors seem to favour the approach you had if they had to go to surgery. Ugly situation and I hope your pain starts to improve and you can get out of hospital soon.
  23. No doctor is going to be able to say we deny service because you made bad choices, we just keep patching you up and saying make better choices. The thanks for that is blame and protests. Yes, it is a lot like dealing with teenagers in that this is not in any way about logic, at this point it is emotional and often linked to other issues. A lot of what is going on is people that feel powerless want to feel they have power. Sometimes it is because of past traumas, sometimes they just believe they are outsmarting all the public health professionals with their lack of training and misunderstanding of the situation, sometimes they just watch Fox News and believe it is a plot to (fill inthe blank conspiracy theory). As a doctor I can’t fix stupid and can’t triage someone away because they fell into a conspiracy theory rabbit hole. As always we just try to do the best with the staff, facilities and supplies we have. Whether you decided to jump head first into an empty swimming pool or deny simple, safe preventative measures for a pandemic our job is to try to patch you up and send you out to do the next stupid thing.
  24. Thank goodness they have our discards to get them to the cap floor. Surprised they didn't want Ferland's contract as well.
  25. Depends how you define worst. Buffalo tries to be good and tanks every time a shiny star is available and next years top pick looks as good as any in a few years. Arizona just tries to stay cheap and if they can get competitive they do but that is secondary. They are definitely tanking now but that is as much to do with economics and they don't really tend to make a policy of it like Buffalo. Arizona is definitely the worst franchise because they don't have the fan base, don't have a building to play in, don't have the budget to build and even got themselves in hot water and stripped of pics. Buffalo is just grossly incompetent, they have great fan base and their franchise is not in doubt.
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