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Going into his draft season, the universal expectation was that Raymond would have himself a great SHL campaign and get picked in the top 3, possibly even 1st overall; he had an impressive body of work and he was coming off a spectacular WJC performance. Sweden's Lucas Raymond records incredible hat trick, including OT winner, to win gold at U18 Worlds [BarDown] Kid was self-evidently special. Raymond's SHL coach Roger Ronnberg may or may not have agreed with that "self-evidently special" part. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, I genuinely don't know. At the very least, Ronnberg did seem to hold the "kid" part against Raymond in a pretty big way. We're talking fourth-line minutes. We're talking no power play time. The Curious Case of Lucas Raymond [DobberProspects] If I had to guess, what it came down to was "We're Frolunda, a well-oiled winning team in one of the world's very best pro leagues. You're a smallish, scrawny 17-year-old. Unless you're blowing us away, we're not switching things up for you. At least, not this season." So Raymond played a limited role with Frolunda in his draft season. Unsurprisingly, the points didn't come. (4 goals and 10 points thru 33 games.) However, the underlying stats and the eye test both said Raymond was playing like a top-3 pick, production issues aside. The Curious Case of Lucas Raymond [DobberProspects] This past season, Raymond enjoyed an expanded role with Frolunda, putting up 6 goals and 18 points thru 34 games. Not the production I'd ideally like to see, but I'm not concerned; his play made it clear that the skill and smarts and potential are all still there and that the only thing standing between him and NHL stardom is time (knock on wood). He could've dismantled a Canadian major junior league in his draft season. But that wasn't his path. His path was playing in a notoriously low-scoring, all-defense pro league. tl;dr We got a really good player at 4OA.

Whelp, let's jump in here. LOWEST survival rate under the age of 50 is 99.834%. Straight from the CDC website. Simple division. 21,922,082 cases. 36,382 deaths in groups 49 years old and younger. LOWEST Survival rate under the age of 40 is 99.925%. 17,170,411 cases. 12,891 deaths in groups 39 years old and younger. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge What do you mean, SP, by LOWEST? Well you see... we literally have no statistics on ASYMPTOMATIC cases. People that had it and had such minor symptoms that they didn't get tested, didn't report it, didn't seek medical care, and are otherwise not even counted into COVID Case counts. We know, at this point, that we've pretty much accounted for the excess deaths. It's highly unlikely that the DEATH COUNT is higher - let alone at a higher percentage than missed COVID cases, PARTICULARLY for these age groups - you know, the groups that have minor symptoms across the board. The other thing that really pisses me off about this... the HYPOCRISY of deaths after vaccination vs. no vaccination in respect to comorbidities. Don't forget, Dr. Fauci himself said there's nothing to worry about in "breakthrough deaths" - they only died because of their comorbidities, not the disease. You know, because his vaccine is perfect! This is also the man that, last year, said that just because someone has massive comorbidities, doesn't mean they didn't die of COVID. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/fauci-debunks-theories-of-low-cdc-coronavirus-death-toll-there-are-180000-plus-deaths-in-us.html Finally, the last thing that pro-COVID vaccination jerks don't want to address is the argument that we could "reach herd immunity if you would just get vaccinated!!!" doesn't work... because these vaccines don't create immunity. They PROTECT you from major disease. Which, if you didn't know, being young, less-than-overweight, not hypertensive, and non diabetic (among others) does naturally for you. I'm 30, 5'9", 161lbs, and have no underlying health conditions. There's literally no benefit to me getting the vaccine; I had COVID in January of last year, I STILL have antibodies (according to recent blood donation) and your vaccine does NOT generate immunity. Which, by the way, the CDC removed from the "Vaccine" definition this month. Yeah, no joke - they literally changed the definition from "generates immunity to a disease" to "produce protection for a disease" JUST THIS MONTH! You can find the original definition on "way back machine" or archive.com, which you can do yourself. It's not a conspiracy page, it literally allows you to see a snapshot of any webpage at a time in history of your choosing. Hell, you could probably look up this site or Pornhub if you wanted, it doesn't discriminate or promote conspiracy. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20200714012119/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm So, anyone want to discuss? Or am I just going to get yelled at like happens on Facebook or Twitter? Because there's nothing but facts and links in this post. Would love to hear someone explain logically why I should be MANDATED to get vaccinated. P.S. I am fully vaccinated, as are my kids, against polio, MMR, etc. including whooping cough from just before my first kid was born. I believe in science - when the science has been around! Because, guess what? https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/drug-recalls this website should give you pause. Just because the government said it was safe, doesn't mean that they won't change their mind later. Oh, and you trust Pfizer to do the right thing always? Interesting. They've paid the cumulative highest dollar amount in criminal fines in their history in all of North America. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875889/#:~:text=Pfizer%20has%20been%20a%20%E2%80%9Chabitual,civil%20penalties%20and%20jury%20awards. Guess you better buy some stock. You might need it, since the government took this THERAPEUTIC (not a IMMUNITY-GENERATING VACCINE) and gave THE COMPANIES immunity. Kinda backwards, eh? Floor's yours.

Are they using different lettering this year? (NOW The Red Wings pre-season has begun!)

Yeah. Ken Kal said that last night on the RW broadcast

Just checked out a Dallas prospect thread and found an interesting tidbit: their announcer at last nights game said that Edvinsson was nr 1 on Dallas draft list.

Is that an Indian name? Like in american indian not show-me-bob-and-vagene-pls-indian. Has anybody seen any uppdated info on Kirill Ctrl+c-Ctrl+v? He was listed at 5'2" at the draft but looks alot bigger now.

I'd love to know who wrote that article. Because these vaccines SPECIFICALLY provide PROTECTION AGAINST SYMPTOMATIC DISEASE, NOT immunity. Those are mutually exclusive things. And if the MAYO CLINIC cannot sort that out for people, then how the hell are you supposed to trust anything?? Tell me, when will we achieve herd immunity against the flu? Never? Oh.

Or, you lose a ton of F'ing weight. We have the second highest rate of obesity per capita to SAUDI ARABIA. 2/3 of our country is OVERWEIGHT +. Again, herd immunity CANNOT BE ACHIEVED! The vaccine does NOT CREATE IMMUNITY like the polio vaccine! You're an idiot if you believe vaccines cause autism (not you). You're also an idiot if you believe the vaccine functions in a way to achieve "herd IMMUNITY" (maybe you?). Much like the flu, this will never go way. The terminology invokes CONTROL. And POPULATION DIVIDE. Hate your neighbor, they're trying to kill you since they're unvaccinated. Anecdotally, but our business's owner's wife has COVID. After HAVING IT *and* being vaccinated. She's 60 and overweight / maybe clinically obese, so of course she's symptomatic. Good news is on the horizon though.. BOO$TER$ FOR THE RE$T OF YOUR LIVE$. ******* giant money grab and ya'll are dumb. There's no other reason to force this into the arms of children. The survival rate in kids shoots up to 99.99997%. They're more likely to be trafficked or diddled by someone who is supposed to protect them. Why don't we put hundreds of billions of dollars towards feeding our kids better and teaching them how to be financially stable so they can afford more than pasta and processed foods? Oh yeah... because like cancer, the ongoing treatment is more $$$$effective$$$$ than the cure, I think. "Overwhelmingly better off" sounds real subjective. Am I 0.166% better off? Oh, no? Hmm... Lose weight. It'll help your heart, it will help your lungs, it will help your back, it will help your joints and the rest of your organs besides those listed. It will even help your most important organ- your brain! Yeah, I can link that NIH study too. Obesity is the killer. COVID is the accelerator. Obesity is a greater predictor of death "from COVID" than even age at this point. But let's not talk about the fatties dying while fast food stock prices have never been higher.