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  1. The only one I really see playing heavy minutes on the D is OEL. He will get PP and PK time and be on top 5v5 pairing. Quinn won't be on PK, OJ is a good PKer but won't be on PP. Hamonic, Poolman likely to play some PK but not going to get a whiff on PP. Same with Schenn when in lineup. Myers could in theory play both but is unlikely to see any PP time but has been excellent on PK and will likely be top minute guy there. I suspect we will see the right side fairly evenly distributed with only LD 3 getting significantly lower minutes because of the two in front of them.
  2. Did the refs really, usually what I saw was cross-check to the head, penalty. Hard to argue that is bias. Playoff hockey is played a lot less on the rush with all the clutching and grabbing, so bigger guys who are good PKers usually look better because it better fits their skill set and ability to use their reach. Myers struggle more with the wide open hockey played in the regular season.
  3. North American racist rhetoric doesn’t necessarily translate across the ocean. Not saying they don’t have their own, anyone who has spent time in Europe sees that, it is just goes in distinctly different directions has its own rhetoric. Personally I have never made any professional decisions based on what my brother is doing and don’t assume that all hockey families do.
  4. Chychrun is the piece they kept to build around. Keller is a terrible contract that should be untradeable. Don’t see it happening.
  5. most surprising thing to me, Brock 6’1” 208, Gadjo 6’2” 209. New power forward? Sutter not ready to play, least surprising thing.
  6. Eichel is to blame for these deals. McDavid earned the money, Eichel never did. Now every too player coming off rookie deal thinks they should get too dollar on second deal. Only salary control anymore is rookie deal.
  7. Didn't JB have press conference scheduled for this morning? Haven't seen anything from that.
  8. 16M in cap space should be enough to get this done but sounds like the agent wants to walk them to UFA in minimum time, this is where JB does need to dig in his heels which is unfortunate. With all the changes and the nightmare of last year, they really need to be in camp, they need the reps with the team. Very disappointing but the agent isn't dumb, he looks at JBs offseason and knows he is battling to keep his job and is holding his feet to the fire.
  9. He is after all playing for the powerhouse NJ Devils. Glass houses Jack.
  10. I remember reading about the mass shooting in a theatre a few years ago. There was no delay, no concerns about the people in the theatre, tactical team went in and took out the shooter without delay or much concern for collateral damage. Seemed very much a shut this down with extreme prejudice kind of response.
  11. I think it is more a matter of his age and cap hit, with the cap likely staying flat, there are going to be some raises going out to Boeser and Bo over the next couple years, second contract for Hoglander etc. His is the only contract expiring in that time. He also plays the most easily replaceable position at wing. It is that or give up another first rounder to try to convince someone to take Myers.
  12. Bronchitis is just an inflammation of the bronchi by definition, it has no defining pathogen until you define it. It is almost always reactive (asthma/cops) or viral. In your case probably COVID. Barely anyone got the flu last year because of the efficacy of masks and social distancing as well as. A general decline in travel. Flu is very, very underestimated and terribly understood in general. It is not a viral gastroenteritis, it is not a cold it is SICK. Sweats, shakes, fevers cough and muscle aches that can go on for three weeks.
  13. While one of the great things about mRNA vaccines is their plasticity, but changing the sequence to target the stable areas of the spike protein would require a return to trials and wouldn’t be out for probably at least another year. The current vaccine has clear demonstrated efficacy against Delta, it just isn’t as good as against the original strain. As mRNA vaccine usage expands to other products there may be the chance to make rapid changes but much more data and long term efficacy and safety data will be needed to make that leap. In the immediate future the boosters will be the same vaccine as that is what is approved, they will need to demonstrate efficacy outside of the small group they are currently boosting before recommending boosters for the general public. The bigger issue is really the global immunization rates. In today’s world with such an infectious pathogen, nobody is safe until everyone is safe. We are very insular in our thinking and mostly just worry about ourselves and those around us but with global travel and very little of the impoverished world immunized there is a rich breading ground for new and worse strains to develop.
  14. Oh the lies of trickle down, supply side or whatever you want to call it. It depends on the absolutely ridiculous notion that the wealthy got wealthy because they like spreading wealth around. It is ludicrous that those who profit most from the system don't have to pay into it. Look at what places offer Amazon to build warehouses, Amazon has the money let them pay. Billionaires hold cities hostage to pay for the arenas for their playthings. We characterize ourselves as democracies or even liberal democracies but then let the few truly wealthy determine most policy especially tax policy. This is not democracy and it is not capitalism, it is an economic oligarchy bordering on serfdom for most wage workers.
  15. It is more than a little ironic that a guy that makes this big a deal about diet has no qualms about taking money from the purveyors of sugary, fatty treats and coffee with more fat than Big Macs.
  16. Seems to me that we are giving credit to the wrong person. She copied the practices of the elderly ladies in Istanbul. Maybe we should give them the credit. Typical colonial thinking, credit the person who copied the innovators and brought it to European culture.
  17. That is why I try to separate someones actions from someones religion. There are a lot of religious people who do terrible things and try to use religion to justify them, this isn't isolated to Christianity. There are a lot of secular people who do terrible things and use all sorts of other justifications as well. I don't understand the sense of persecution there. If anything Christianity is way overpowered in our governments and has been a strong force of persecution at a lot of times in our not so distant history. We try hard to have freedom of religion but fail miserably at giving individuals freedom from religion. Again that is not a charge at individuals, it is just historical facts. People do come up and spread a lot of crazy ideas about these vaccines. I can understand that people can get lost in that even though the vast majority of what I have heard doesn't pass any sort of sniff test. Then there is the fear mongering that is just demonstrably false but sounds sciency, things like this is gene therapy or it is going to change your RNA (like they even understand what that means) or my current favourite, this is a form of global population control.
  18. I talk to a lot of people with concerns about the vaccine and tell you most of the time they are just calling to try to see if they can get me to follow what they believe, no to get information from me. This is one of the few people that changed their minds and is making the responsible choice and you are crapping all over them. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Lets reward people for making the socially responsible choice even if it isn't on your timeline.
  19. I thin a lot of this comes from shared border and news channels in the US. The American brand of Christian extremism colours many Christians poorly. They often are using religious freedom as an excuse for anything they want or to try to crush what they find distasteful. This brand of Christian extremism has been used to try to justify slavery and racism, anti LGBT bigotry, violence against women and women's rights. Again and again it happens. I try to separate the actions of individuals and their churches. Hate is hate and as someone who is not religious but went to Catholic school and have had a lot of exposure to it I just always have such difficulty fathoming how anyone can read the stories of Jesus and say this is the person that will help me justify my prejudices or hate. It just doesn't line up. In the end though I think what you are seeing is, again, some people just really don't want to be told what to do, for a lot of different reasons, and that this is just another in the bag of tricks that has been used to justify socially irresponsible behaviour.
  20. This was always the point when the social distancing started and there was not an immunization. Mitigate the case numbers to the point they don't overflow the health care system and people don't start dying of other things that could have been fixed. Without vaccines though it was always going to be a case of it burning through most of the population at some point. With the vaccine though the calculation should have been able to change but two things happened, Delta and Trumpism. Again and again I talk to people who think they have outsmarted all the public health officials and experts but have no clue about the even simple cherry-picked statistics they are mis-citing. It is unfortunate that ignorance continues to be valued more than sense of community. So many people live with such a central locus that they can't see beyond their perception of their own self interests even though they are working against them. Alberta is a case I use again and again to illustrate to people the benefits of immunization and social distancing. Telling people only what you think they want to hear in this situation leads to this. When Alberta declared COVID over and suspended all measures regarding COVID the end result was predictable, they were just hoping by stopping testing their numbers would go down. We continue to live under the Tyranny of the minority who are yelling about personal freedoms while trampling all over everyone else's.
  21. I think this is a decent take. I would say he had a good offseason because he was able to fix a lot of the mistakes he had made. Ultimately everything he has done are a balance of risks. The chances that Erikkson, Beagle and Roussel were going to be good useful players for us was much less than the chances that OEL will be worth his salary at least over the next few years, Garland was a sweetener to take on that contract and a good one. Losing out on a chance to draft another skilled winger does not hurt as much as if one of the top D or C were available at that area. Wing is our area of strength in young guys atm. The Poolman contract is something people have gone a little crazy about, again the errors were made prior to this preseason. At the point he was signed we had one NHL right D. There may have been players people liked more but there was also significant competition in the marketplace for him. I get why Benning took a flyer on him. Tanev like player that is even better skater, OEL and QH could really use a Tanev like player to solidify their games. If he provides quality minutes beside one of those two he is worth it. This team is younger, faster, bigger and more skilled than last year. This year they will also have something important to a young team and one that has had a third of its roster turns over, practice. For all the grumbling about how bad the team or certain players looked last year, people need to remember there was no camp, little if any practice Will they be good, I think they will outscore their defensive issues and be a pretty good regular season team. In the playoffs they will likely be too dependent on Demko to really be considered a contender.
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