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A view on the US coronavirus response from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52775216

https://theconversation.com/masks-help-stop-the-spread-of-coronavirus-the-science-is-simple-and-im-one-of-100-experts-urging-governors-to-require-public-mask-wearing-138507 Masks help stop the spread of coronavirus – the science is simple and I’m one of 100 experts urging governors to require public mask-wearing They give a very strong argument for wearing a mask. Definitely worth reading if you’re one of the people opposed to wearing a mask. I truly don’t get the opposition to mask wearing. It’s about all we have right now. If it can allow us to open up and get back to a semi-normal life, why in the world Wouldn’t you wear one?

Was it buffalo 39? If it’s that “homie” or “89” guy, they’re wrong WAY more than they’re right (at least from what I’ve seen, but I don’t go there anymore since Michael Pachla (sp?) left). buffalo39 is the guy with legit inside info. If he said it, that makes me nervous for sure. They may as well just sell the f-ing team if Eichel wants out.

https://www.nhl.com/sabres/video/jack-eichel-52820/t-277437090/c-5384812 Full Eichel interview. I wanted to listen to the entire thing after hearing that quote. He’s definitely not happy with the results of the last 5 years. But I (still) don’t get the impression he wants out. He talks multiple times about the strides the team took this year. Talks about how they’re a young team still learning and getting experience. He raves about Ralph Krueger multiple times. Raves about some of his young teammates. And even says he’s not frustrated with the direction team is headed (I think...). He seems pissed/frustrated they missed this 24 team playoff by less than 1 point more than anything else. Not surprising. Other sabres fans can decide for themselves but I feel better after listening to the whole interview.

https://todddurkin.com/inside-the-head-of-an-nfl-football-coach-meet-buffalo-bills-head-coach-sean-mcdermott/

This interview makes me sad that it’ll be so long before we get to watch Dahlin play again. He says he’s working non-stop every day to get bigger+better. I believe him. He already looks like he’s bulked up some. BTW, turn on the auto-generated YouTube caption feature for the last few minutes of the interview where Swedish reporters get to ask questions. The translations it generated for me were hilarious.

To me, anyone working in one of the 4 major professional sports leagues is at the top of their field. I don’t view it as “NHL strength and conditioning” or “hockey strength and conditioning”. I view him as a strength and conditioning coach that earned one of only 31 NHL head strength and conditioning jobs in the entire world. He didn’t start out in hockey. It was his lectures and work with three professional rugby teams in the United Kingdom (the 3 teams he worked for won the European Rugby Champions Cup, three English Premiership Championships, and two English League Cup titles) that got him one of those 31 NHL jobs, putting him at the top of his industry. Ive never even heard of anything like this happening before, have you?

We haven’t even truly made it through the first wave yet, let alone any potential 2nd wave in the fall (which I pray doesn’t happen). I think it’s a bit too soon to be declaring victory and saying it was wasted money. They’re leaving the field hospital up in case it’s needed. Even if it’s never needed (hopefully that’s the case) I would still rather be prepared than lose a bunch of lives that didn’t have to be lost. The NY Governor was responding based off the projections provided by the CDC & federal coronavirus task force, as well as what was happening in NY at the time. NYC hospitals were being hit hard when this was built. We were 6 days away from running out of ventilators at one point. At harder hit hospitals in NYC, hallways were filled up with patients waiting on rooms (for days at times). Thousands of doctors, nurses + first responders came out of retirement and from out of state to help with the surge. I have a doctor friend who lives/works in NYC and saw it up close. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/war-nyc-doctors-describe-fight-against-coronavirus-cases-surge-n1169521 'This is a war': NYC doctors describe fight against coronavirus as cases surge’ “Our hospital has never, ever, ever seen anything like this,” one doctor said.

What jerks. Spending money to potentially save a bunch of lives and avoid what happened in Italy. They should have just stayed unprepared and ignored the virus as the hospitals in NYC were quickly filling to a dangerous capacity at the time. That’s what a real leader does, right?

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/05/24/new-york-approves-opening-of-training-camps/

https://theathletic.com/1833050/2020/05/23/why-the-lightning-were-one-of-two-teams-to-vote-no-on-24-team-format/ (Athletic sub. req.) Sounds like players will be quarantined. I kind of figured they’d have to be.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/colinharper/2020/05/22/goldman-sachs-is-hosting-a-call-about-bitcoin-gold-and-inflation/ Goldman Sachs Is Hosting A Client Call About Bitcoin, Gold and Inflation

I saw that they have over 1 million mask requests. No wonder they’re overwhelmed...

https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries “SOME ARE WINNING - SOME ARE NOT WHICH COUNTRIES DO BEST IN BEATING COVID-19?”

I more/less feel the same way, that’s why if they weren’t going to go with the normal 16 team playoff format I thought it should have been 20 teams, or even 22. Chicago and Montreal’s mathematical odds of making the playoffs were just as slim as the Sabres. But If they are determined to go with this 24 team format, obviously I wish the Sabres were included in it like was originally mentioned. They drew the line right above Buffalo’s name. But I get it, They had to draw the line somewhere and they may as well include a few big market teams (to try and make up for lost revenue) sitting on the bubble. Im not mad or anything though. I accepted long ago that their playoff hopes were dead. That losing streak sealed it. Even if they were included and managed to make it past the 3 game play-in and into the playoffs, there’d be a big asterisk next to it. I will be pissed if we still don’t get a shot at the #1 overall pick though. IMO They have to at least let the 7 teams not included have a shot at the top pick. If they go with that other format that only allows the top 4 teams a shot at #1 overall I’ll be annoyed.

They expand the playoffs by 8 teams and Buffalo is STILL missed the playoffs. Only 7 teams miss. ? We better at least get a shot at the #1 overall pick. Originally they were talking about only drawing for the #1 overall pick and only allowing teams to move up 4 spots (like the old rules before they made all the changes to the draft lottery and the start of the Sabres rebuild), which means the Sabres couldn’t win #1 OA. But under that scenario they also would’ve been one of the 24 playoff teams, so I could’ve lived with it. It would’ve been cool if they had taken the top 6 in each division like they originally talked about. Bummer that a team like Montreal gets in and not the Sabres. They have 3 more points but they have also played 2 more games than the Sabres (we were set to play them the day the season was postponed). Sabres also have 3 more Regulation wins, and 1 more OT win (Montreal has more shootout wins. They’re 4-1 in the SO). Sucks to miss by a hair like this. IMO they should have went with a 20 team play-in format. There was a good article about this on the Athletic. https://theathletic.com/1817525/2020/05/19/which-teams-are-most-affected-by-the-nhls-potential-playoff-formats/ Going with 24 teams is unfairly changing the odds too much for teams that truly earned their playoff spots. This format kind of feels like it’s meant to get teams like NY, Chicago (huge playoff market) and Montreal into the playoffs.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext ‘Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis’

https://theathletic.com/1825510/2020/05/20/sabres-file-suit-against-immigration-officials-in-support-of-team-strength-coach/ (Athletic. sub. req) ‘Sabres file suit against immigration officials in support of team strength coach’ Crazy. Immigration says that he hasn’t risen to the top of his field, but how can they possibly say that? There’s only 31 NHL head trainer jobs in the entire world and he’s one of them.

https://wgr550.radio.com/articles/news/best-case-scenario-is-phase-2-will-start-at-the-end-of-may I don’t think this will apply to Sabres players since they won’t be playing if they go with that proposed 24 team format. But I wonder if Buffalo is potentially being considered one of the hub cities for games? With a hotel + the 3 NHL sized rinks all within walking distance of each other.

That’s great to hear!

@BuffaloBillsGospel @TheBrownBear How are you both doing? Hope all is going well.

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