kipwinger

Don't worry, as you've (apparently) doubled down on being a trashy dumb*ss, I'm sure there are no wrong choices for you here.

Next you should do dead baby jokes or eat your own boogers. That would really show me.

Yep you won the day by being a lowbrow dipsh*t. You should definitely pat yourself on the back for that one.

Durrr hurrr...I use ethnic slurs...durrrrrrrr

As much as I think Veleno blows, I think he makes sense there. I don't like Blashill's tendency to try putting skill guys together. I think scoring lines need someone to dig for pucks and maintain possession. I think Fabbri-Suter-Ryan gets murdered in possession because none of them are going to be especially good at winning puck battles. Veleno would be. For now I'd do: Bert-Larkin-Zadina Fabbri-Suter-Veleno Erne-Ras-Ryan And after Vrana is back I'd do: Bert-Larkin-Vrana Veleno-Suter-Zadina Erne-Ras-Fabbri

I don't know that he's in "tank" mode, but he's definitely still in rebuilding mode. And it looks like it's going to pay off too (assuming we don't waste picks on guys like William Wallinder going forward). I think Steve wants the team to be competitive, but he's definitely looking to land a few more high end picks this year. I don't think it's unreasonable to think we trade any of Leddy, Bertuzzi, Fabbri, Namestnikov, Dekeyser, or Erne at the deadline. On those names alone you're looking at some solid draft capital. The future of this team belongs to Seider, Raymond, Berggren, Edvinsson, Cossa, etc. Larkin and maybe one or two others will be the veteran mentors. Bertuzzi was done here the moment he took the team to arbitration.

I know what the lines look like. I don't like Ryan on the 2nd. But I would like him on the 3rd. Ras and Erne create quite a few chances that I think Ryan would finish on more often than Namestnikov does.

Anybody willing to trade Zadina, Veleno, and our next two 1st round picks (lottery protected) for Eichel? Me too.

I’m sure I’m the only one, but I think Erne-Ras-Ryan would be a pretty awesome 3rd line.

I'm not "worried" per se. But I think skating could be the difference between him being a 60 pt. winger and an 80 pt. winger. I'm still very happy with 60, but 80 is elite.

He's looked really good. Still a little worried about his foot speed. He's going to need to add a lot of lower body strength to get that extra quickness up, otherwise I think he's going to struggle a little more against NHL defenders.

Anybody seen Joe Veleno? I swear he's supposed to be competing for a spot on the Wings roster but I just haven't really seen him around anywhere.

Now, to bring this full circle. Why is it bad to have overwhelmed hospital systems? Because then stuff like this (https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/569834-veteran-dies-of-treatable-illness-after-waiting-hours-for-icu-bed) doesn't happen. But Kip, if only there was a way to reduce the COVID burden on hospitals?!?!?! There is, get vaccinated. It's over 90% efficacious against hospitalization due to COVID. Nobody is trying to "vaccinate a respiratory illness away". Nobody gives a s*** whether you have the flu. They do, however, care if there are so many flu patents in the hospital that care cannot be adequately provided to everyone else. Public health officials are trying to vaccinate hospitalizations due to the illness away. And it ABSOLUTELY CAN be done. Just get your vaccine (and heaven forbid, maybe a booster shot too), then if you get COVID you won't end up in the ICU. The more you know.

Here's a pretty good journal article I just found on the topic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/ Pre-pandemic the researchers found that "at any given time, approximately two thirds of ICU beds are occupied, and approximately one third of these beds are occupied by patients requiring mechanical ventilation". So that seems like your baseline, but I'm not an epidemiologist (not that anybody would listen to me if I were).

Washington State Hospitals: We don't have any ICU beds left! Oklahoma Hospitals: We don't have any ICU beds left! Utah Hospitals: We don't have any ICU beds left! Alabama Hospitals: We don't have any ICU beds left! Georgia, Mississippi, and Florida Hospitals: We don't have any ICU beds left! Health officials: 80% of the ICU beds in the nation are full! Your sister: It's not really a problem. Stop over reacting America.

I got it. So you were pretending to be the victim, of something that doesn't actually effect you, on behalf of other (unnamed) people? While in reality you're perfectly fine? You should be a Democrat.

Fans are so dumb. So then Carolina wouldn't match and they'd get a 1st and 3rd back, but since Montreal is likely going to be a worse team the picks would be better than those Carolina gave up. So basically Montreal would be trading their draft picks for worse draft picks.

Jack Todd is such a whiny hack.

This just keeps getting better...

Damn, I didn't see this. Trolling at its finest. Carolina became a lot more fun once Dundon bought the team.

Carolina straight up f*cking Montreal in retribution for MTL offersheeting Aho. This is why you don’t see offersheets.

Lol. I thought you were going to Europe for a “work trip” in 10 days? Now Corona’s put you out of work and money? Poor baby. I bet it sometimes feels like the whole world is against you when you’re making up lies to win internet debates. Grow up.

Old age and obesity aren't contagious. COVID is.

2,210 people died from COVID yesterday in the US. Seems pretty critical to me. Edit: For comparison's sake Denmark had 2 COVID related deaths yesterday. Any guess as to whether they have higher rates of mask usage and vaccinations than us?

I think we should pause for a minute to appreciate the absolute outrage his Mantha comments caused around here. So good. The indignation was palpable. How dare he criticize a 20th overall pick? Lol