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I get the thought process, but unless they can get a relative can't miss generational talent like Connor Bedard, they need to keep Dylan and add around him. Not unlike what they did with Yzerman. Stevie didn't win his first Cup until he was 32 and they had added pieces around him like Fedorov, Larionov and Shanahan. Dylan is 25 and is a 30 goal scorer. I feel like Yzerman is on the right track with the guys we have in the pipeline and will add pieces and a coach who can maximize their talents.

None of the above.

Frustrating it took so long, but I guess better late than never. Really bummed we missed out on Gallant last year. Need a proven head coach, not a nostalgia choice.

I think with Shep, he doesn't have that depth perception or whatever to be able to tell how far a ball has been hit. So many times you just get the ho hum, fly ball to left field and often times you know it's gone before he does. He doesn't have that "crescendo" thing going on like DD does. Fly ball! Way Back!!! It's deeep!!! Don't love Gibby or Morris either. With Gibby's health, if working games helps his physical condition, it's all good. Some cringey moments for sure with him. One would think a time will come in the not too distant future when he's unable to continue because of it. Morris often has good analysis, but his ego/back in my day take gets in the way too often. CMo has improved but he needs better flow and has to get more of his own style instead of a Rod Allen clone.

Thank you! Now that the team has improved, it's time to upgrade the booth. Nobody can kill an exciting game quite like Matt Shepard. I'm worried the Tigers are going to have their March 26th moment with Mike Goldberg on the call situation.

Waiting for LordStanley to post Dan Dickerson calls...

What's a guy gotta do to get fired these days? Been a Detroit sports fan for a long time, and have never seen so many excuses and deflection of blame than has been afforded to Blashill. It's mind boggling to me. Don't know if it's because Yzerman is at the helm or fans have it in their mind that it's impossible to win without 10 Hall of Famers on the team or what. Tired of hearing how he doesn't have talent, blah blah blah. I'd like to think this is his last season, but I've thought that the last several seasons. It's been brutal to watch these past few months. It's not necessarily about winning every game, but the lack of competitiveness and motivation has been startling. It's concerning how it will effect the players long term.

Nope, not kidding. Again, very exciting, great game and all that. Have great memories of it all. It's just starting to get that Progressive commercial becoming your parents kind of thing. I can remember as all the endless talk of the '68 Tigers as a kid from the "old people". Cool at first, but after a while, you realize they're still talking about the good old days, because the current teams aren't so great. We've heard the same stories over and over, mostly from McCarty who doesn't seem to have a whole lot else going on. He's become a caricature, doing money making events with Claude Lemieux. Then having Mickey pretend to do the commentary because he missed it...just all kind of cringey. Not saying forget the whole thing happened, or not enjoy the memories, but I'm kind of ready for a new chapter.

I'm kind of hoping after this anniversary, we kind of move on from it. No doubt it was exciting and changed the direction of the team and the future. But we've heard every story from everyone involved ad nauseum. Let's look forward to a new generation and make some new storylines.

I think Leah Hextall is bad luck, in addition to just being bad. It's a toss up between her and Buccigross. ESPN finally gets hockey back and this is what we get? Longing for the days of Tom Mees, Gary Thorne and Dave Strader.

It's cool. For the record, I wasn't in any way trying to imply that the people of Ukraine don't matter. Just that there are millions of others in insufferable situations and we should be as concerned about them as well. Its about confronting my own biases as well. Grew up in a very conservative household and drank the Kool Aid for many years. The cops wouldn't shoot them black folks if they just cooperated. If they just worked hard like we do and pulled themselves up by the bootstraps, they wouldn't be living with crime and poverty. We don't need affirmative action, they need to earn it like we did. I'd like to think I've evolved over the years, but just when I think I have, I realize I still have a long way to go. When I watched the Trevor Noah clip, my initial reaction was that it was more PC Bullshit. Then after my conversation with my internet friend, I had to ask myself why does the Ukraine situation affect me differently than other equally horrific situations? It's Putin, it's the economy, the threat of nuclear war, their heroic leader...maybe? It's more likely that I'm relating to people who are more like me. I'm not feeling for the people of Yemen or Afghanistan or Haiti, etc, as much because I'm not seeing myself in them. I'm not relating on a human level. I've been to Honduras on several occasions to provide services through a charitable organization and it lulled me into thinking that must mean I don't have biases or prejudices. I'm honest enough to admit I do. No, not everyone and everything is racist, but I need to do better and I don't think I'm the only one.

I would think the "good guys" needing help are the children being intentionally starved to death. But that's just my woke opinion.

Right. He played for the KHL team because that's what he had to do to qualify to be a part of Team China. They didn't have a men's hockey program to speak of, but as the host country, they were given a spot in the pool. So China allowed the North American players to play for their team based on certain criteria in order to expose the game in their country.

Most female basketball players have to go to Europe to play during the WNBA offseason because they pay substantial salaries there. There are North Americans playing in the KHL as well.

Spoke today to a friend/colleague in Yemen. Their situation is no less horrific and heartbreaking, yet the World basically doesn't care. If you happen to see Trevor Noah's take on this, it kind of puts it all in perspective.

Those are probably the dumbasses who were protesting mask mandates and realized how stupid they looked and changed course. They at least get credit for changing on the fly.

The Ukrainians have done what the US Media failed miserably at. They made those stupid assholes bitching about "muh freedom" because they had to wear cloth over their face or get a life saving vaccine look like total idiots. Yeah, Bubba, you were so brave to walk into the 7-11 in your tactical gear and assault weapon and berate the teenage girl who asked you to wear a mask. Not easily "inspired", but damn those Ukranians are bad ass.

I just dislike Sean McVay more than I like Matthew Stafford.

Whoever hired Biz for TNT deserves a raise. His interview with Yzerman was entertaining.

True, not many white, middle class or better Americans could. I mean not the African American ones. Too many in this country don't have a place to live or food to eat or medical care. Doesn't seem like the USA is all that "rich". I thought this summed up the false perception versus reality very well: “I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures,” Nina Strohminger tweeted late Wednesday. “One of them thought it was $800k.”

I'll never understand all the Blashill love from Red Wings fans. Amazing how someone who has failed at all aspects of his job still gets so much support. But, but, he has no talent. How many coaches that get fired are loaded with talent? As many good things as Yzerman has done, I just can't get on board with him keeping Blashill around for so long. Heard Yzerman on with Stoney the other day and he seemed unconcerned about the team and felt they are exactly where he expected them to be.

https://www.nhl.com/kraken/news/vancouver-canucks-equipment-manager-red-hamilton-searches-for-seattle-kraken-fan/c-329375328 On the topic of malignant melanoma... Incredible story.

Honestly, I don't really have an issue with the reduction of the quarantine. They're not saying if you're coughing and feverish to go to work. They're saying asymptomatic and a negative test. I feel like more people will quarantine if it's only 5 days and not 10. At the same time, I don't know of many in the general public who are getting tested if they are asymptomatic. I know of several people who just aren't getting tested because they don't want to miss work or be stuck at home for 10 days. I'm at the point I really don't know what will work at this point.

The dumbasses are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. This was posted on Reddit. Speaks for so many. Whether or not anyone will listen is something else. My career of treating patients has ended Heavy Content Warning After more than three decades as a physician, the Q maniacs have succeeded in driving me out of providing care to patients. I, like many of my colleagues, am moving into medically-adjacent work, where we can continue to apply our training and decades off knowledge without ever having to come in contact with sick people. I've been able to deal with the years of patients who attended Google Medical School, and the hours wasted explaining things such as why cinnamon cannot be used to treat diabetes, or that garlic and beetroot can't treat HIV. And Lord save me from essential oils. COVID and Q finally proved to be the one of amateur "experts" that was too much for me. The horrific deaths are beyond what you might imagine. They emerge almost unrecognizable to their families. Since June, I have never seen a horrible case of someone who was vaccinated. I have seen people struggling to breathe through lungs that have hardened to near uselessness, begging us in their ignorance to give them the vaccine now. We can tell, almost without fail, which ones will die when they come through the door of the ICU, but we do everything in our power to keep them alive - BIPAP, ECMO, ventilator - knowing we are stretching out the inevitable. We use paralytics with ECMO and ventilators, then ease them off to see if they can function. And as the drugs wane, the look of terror emerges, the tears. We try to calm them, to swallow our desire to scream at them: This is your fault! This didn't have to happen! Often, their spouse or their uncle or neighbor is nearby, dying along with them. And we work hard for those rare cases where we can pull them back from the edge. I could deal with all of that. What I can no longer handle is the screaming, not from the patients, but from the families. They are not screaming in anguish, or in recognition of how their foolishness has led them to this point. No, they are screaming at me. Because, you see, I am part of the global conspiracy to commit genocide. If only I would give 10,000 mg of Vitamin C - even though the body can only absorb a maximum of 100 mg a day, with the rest creating the world's most expensive urine - they would be saved. Or hydroxychloroquine. Or ivermectin. Those have never been studied, they assure me, and when I tell them they have been, they snap that I don't know what I'm talking about. I want, oh god I want, to tell them that if we are the ones responsible for killing their loved ones, then why the hell have they brought them to the hospital? Why throw them into our clutches? I know the answer: They know it is all lies. But their egos are so huge they cant bring themselves to admit it. My breaking point came three weeks ago. I dealt with a particularly horrible case. This was a husband and father, 38 years old. A wife, two daughters, one son. All of age to get vaccinated, none vaccinated. If you could have seen his face, and the ravages left by both COVID and the time he spent prone on his stomach. An enormous clot kept reforming in his leg, and we had been forced to amputate his foot in hopes of keeping him alive. When he was awake, the look of terror in his eyes, the crying, the pain. It was nothing new. But the begging, over and over, "Don't let me die." And "Give me the vaccine." All I could tell him is "We won't let you" - although I never said we might not have any choice in the matter. And I told him, repeatedly, it was too late for the vaccine. He begged me to bring in his family. A nurse called them, because they had never come to the hospital. They refused to wear masks, and so would not be admitted. The nurse told the wife that her husband was likely dying, and was begging to see them. All she cared about was masks. She would only come if she and her daughters didn't have to wear any. The nurse came to me and told me the wife wanted to speak to me. I got on the phone and she ordered me to cure him with ivermectin and vitamin C & D. I explained to her, those do not work, they have been extensively studied and the amount of ivermectin needed to treat even mild COVID would kill a human being. Once again, I was told I was ignorant. I asked her to come down to the hospital, to bring her children, to at least wait outside. Somehow, she agreed. The nurses were all busy, and I took over the role they usually perform, comforting the dying. I sat beside the man's bed. Through tears, he rasped out sounds I could vaguely understand as a question. I guessed at what he was asking, and assured him that yes, his family was coming. He was so frightened, and I could tell he knew death was unavoidable. I'm not religious, but I knew he was, and I talked about the comfort of Jesus as I held his hand. About a minute later, he coded. We tried to save him, but there was nothing to be done. He died. Twenty minutes later, I heard from a nurse that the family was here, that they had made a ruckus down in the lobby demanding to be let upstairs without masks, and had been thrown out of the hospital. I consulted with a few colleagues who agreed to cover me so that i could speak to them in the parking lot. I took the elevator down, and asked security to point out the family that refused to wear masks. Fortunately, they had not left. I stepped outside, went to the wife, and identified myself. I told her that I was sorry, that we had done everything we could, but her husband had passed a few minutes earlier. I did not manage to get the words of the sentence fully out of my mouth when I felt the fist strike my face and heard the screamed words "You murderer!" I fell backwards, tripped, and plopped onto the pavement, the back off my head striking asphalt. I vaguely heard the words being screamed about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and god knows what else. I heard "you could have saved him if you listened!" I tasted blood from the top of my lip. It took a moment to know it was seeping from my nose, which she had broken. My mask was getting wet, and thus useless. Security grabbed her. They were getting ready to call the police, but I knew if they did, I would become the next national target for the Q maniacs. I told them to just put her in her car. I wasn't going to press charges. I went back to the hospital. I started looking for a new job the next day. I will never treat a patient again. Thank God.

Yup, this. I'm cashing in my chips and leaving the table. Politics and health care do not mix. The same people who will call it a hoax, not wear a mask, not get vaccinated and call you names then want their life saved. It's one thing too when it's the stupid patients, but the number of physicians, nurses and other health care professionals who have been brainwashed by all the right wing propaganda is sickening. Having lockdowns and mandates at this point is useless. If you can't get compliance, which we can't, it isn't going to do much. All we can do at this point is get fully vaccinated and hope that we and our loved ones aren't one of the rare breakthrough cases.