brelic

@mojo1917 @OccamsRazor

Thanks guys! 
 

Round 2 tomorrow night!

Hey fam! How is everyone?!

Flyers hockey is back and it's glorious! Damn that forward lineup is DEEP!

Hart is the real deal. 

The only question mark for me is on defense. Did not like Braun on the top pair. Let's see what happens when Ghost is ready to go. They have nothing to lose by trying Provy/Ghost, Sanheim/Myers, and then probably Gus/Braun.

GO FLYERS! **** THE PENS!

23 hours ago, WordsOfWisdom said:

 

I don't know what the figures are for influenza but I think the kill rate for the flu is way lower. Probably less than 1%. 

The mortality rate for the seasonal influenza is around 0.1%. 
 

They’re estimating the mortality rate for COVID-19 to be about 3-5%. 
 

Pretty significant difference. 

Just now, pilldoc said:

 

Exactly!  That is why my entire family gets the flu shot.  We actually know someone from our church whose son cannot get the Flu Shot because of a host of medical issues and sadly it has taken him 4 weeks to recover from not one but tow bouts of the flu because of others around him not being vaccinated.

 

BTW ....great example you listed above. Thanks.

I don't know what it is with the modern idea that vaccinations are just not that important. It's the SOLE reason we're not all dead from the measles or smallpox or a host of other infectious diseases.

The anti-vaxxer movement is a strange one, isn't it?

4 minutes ago, pilldoc said:

 

Actually you are ..... I feel the same way.  No virus is gonna keep me from enjoying life.  However, there are hundred thousands of kids and adults who are immnocompromised due to a myriad of reasons who can't fight infections like you and me.  "IF" you become infected and don't know it, you can be risking the lives of those individuals whom you might interact with on a daily basis.  Therefore  just caution is a necessity.  Listen closely...I am not saying one has to live in fear...but one needs to be mindful of others out there who can't fight infections.  That is why it is called flattening the bell curve.... give folks in my industry a chance to get a vaccine or a treatment plan in place.

 

Taking this nonchalant attitude that nothing is gonna keep me down is fine but we MUST be thinking about other individuals in our daily world.  It begins at home and with each and everyone one of us doing out part which begins with good hygiene.

This is the primary reason I get the flu shot each year. It's not for me, it's for my daughter, my mom, my dad, my nieces and nephews... If it can help in any way, I'm in.

18 minutes ago, WordsOfWisdom said:

 

Obviously I would stay home if I wasn't feeling well. I wouldn't go out and infect other people. 

 

 

You can and would infect other people even if you were feeling well. Symptoms can be absent for a few weeks. 

I enjoy talking hockey with you, but dude, it's not about you. 

Also, happy birthday  Enjoy a Corona - the virus free kind.

9 minutes ago, WordsOfWisdom said:

 

All I'm saying is..... it can't be stopped at this point.  It's making the rounds. I imagine everyone is going to catch it sooner or later. 6% of people are going to die from it (whatever the figure was) and there's nothing anyone can do about it. There's no containing it any more. It's too late for that. So why not continue to live our lives and try to preserve as much normalcy as possible?  Hiding at home is not going to prevent this thing from spreading. It'll just crash the stock market and kill off all of the businesses. 

 

I don't think I'm being selfish when I say we should carry on and try to keep things as close to normal as possible, because there is NO other alternative. We don't have a choice. If every business shuts down then we're dead anyway, whether by Coronavirus or not. 

 

 

 

It absolutely helps to eliminate as much non-essential gatherings, travel, and contact as possible. Hockey is absolutely non-essential. 

2 minutes ago, OccamsRazor said:

 

Wow so he was making light of this issue and then comes down with this...wow...how crazy dumb is that.

 

It seems this and the news of all this is everywhere. And we know the media must be loving and all the panic it is causing.

 

How it will be solved i can't even say. One thing is for sure it doesn't seem to be slowing down.

People's reactions are so bizarre.

My sister has a trip planned overseas for the entire family (incl. 4 young kids) and said when they get back, they'll keep the kids at home for 14 days (mandated from our Dept. of Education).

I said "What about you?"

"Oh, I'll go to work."

"Um, doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose?"

"No, it's fine. I should be able to handle it."

"Mmm-hmm. And what about your patients? What about mom? Dad? They're in their 70s - prime demographic for mortality."

And she has a PhD! Love my sister, but she's just as stubborn as I am sometimes lol. 

5 minutes ago, OccamsRazor said:

 

What is with this comment i am ignorant of the situation of which you speak can you shed some light on this to edjamacate me?

He did this two days ago, was diagnosed last night.

1 minute ago, pilldoc said:

@brelic

 

I posted this in the other thread ....

 

 

"IF" ...the NHL were to follow the NBA route ...

 

One creative/interesting thought I had was that the NHL may consider a method to get all teams to 71 or 72gp.
So they may immediately suspend games for teams at the max mark (currently 71gp... or 72) and allow closed-door games between other teams to get there. This at least puts all teams at a fair-GP count.

Worst-comes-to-worst and the NHL can't get the last 11 or 12 regular season GP in... they head straight to (closed-venue) playoffs, on schedule (Apr7th-on) based on top 8 of each conference .....

 

Also ...think about all the players nursing injuries this would give teams time to get healthy and could impact the competitive balance(ebbs and flows). I don't say this as a negative i just find it interesting to ponder.

It would be interesting for sure.

I'm just not convinced this is going to magically get better in 3 weeks. I would guess based on what I've seen that it will get much worse in terms of infection rate, before it gets better. 

There are too many stupid and cocky people like that basketball player who was touching all the mics as a display of, what, primitive male behaviour? Well guess who was diagnosed with COVID-19 two days later? Dumbass.

Hockey and other sports are so insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Let's see how this all shakes out!

Caps and Devils cancelled their practices this morning. 

NHL will have announcement at 1pm EDT. I suspect it will be shutting down the season until further notice. 

We'll always have the 9-game winning streak. 

This is probably the last night of the season ... unless they shut it down today.

I can't imagine the NBA shutting down and the NHL *not* following suit when they share arenas, facilities, dressing rooms.

Yes, it sucks. There's a very real chance it derails the playoffs. 

I have a trip scheduled to Boston next week with my daughter to see Billie Eilish. So far, the # of cases in Boston are low, but that could definitely change in one week.

Our Department of Education just released a press release saying ANYONE travelling internationally (I'm in Canada) must self-quarantine for 14 days upon return - children are NOT to be sent to school during that period. 

SO basically, I'm faced with cancelling and forfeiting about $1500 or having my daughter miss two weeks of school. 

Ugh.

3 minutes ago, mojo1917 said:

 only outward facing models need consideration

 

hey - to derail a thread, what happened to the drama tree...what's this Echobats business ?

Echobats is still just the two of us, but in a completely different direction. We've been getting a lot more traction doing more pop type stuff, and honestly, we just don't have time to do full organic band based stuff. I wrote so many songs that would fit the Drama Tree mould, but it takes a lot out of me because I'm writing all of it - drums, guitars, bass, keys, and then I'm performing, recording, mixing, producing it all as well.

Long-term we are focusing on the production, writing, engineering side of music, and what we release as Echobats is proof of concept. We are taking on up and coming talent and helping them express the very best of what they have to give - baby steps right now though.

Long story short, Girl That I Love (current release) is a very poppy and mainstream song. Upcoming releases are a bit grittier (heh).

My biggest problem is that I just love writing music of all kinds. I'm like a squirrel that way lol.

3 hours ago, CoachX said:

Totally agree. If there is technology that makes goals like this more obvious,  then get it going.

 

I would think more cameras inside goalposts would be the obvious solution

What about a goalie crotch cam? 

4 minutes ago, WordsOfWisdom said:

 

I think the issue most fans find is that they can't watch games involving other teams due to blackout issues. The team that plays in your home market owns that market. The NHL allows them to essentially make the rest of the games disappear whenever their team is playing.   

 

I realize fans can buy additional sports channels and sports packs, but typically the blackout rules still apply.

 

Unless you pirate your NHL channels, chances are you can't arbitrarily watch a game of Colorado vs St. Louis IF you live in Toronto AND the Leafs happen to be playing that same night. 

Do you mean on regular TV (Bell/Rogers) or through Game Center?

I have Game Center (watch on TV through Roku, or iPad when Im' away) and never have any problems. The only games that are blacked out for me are when the Sens play the Flyers - apparently, they consider me to be living in Sens market (I'm in NB).

Are you saying if the Leafs play, every other game that night is blacked out???

3 hours ago, WordsOfWisdom said:

Also, the playoffs in the NHL are so long that most fans have long since tuned out by the time they're half over. I mean for goodness sake, they're stretching well into June

100% agree. 

Hell, when the FLYERS were in the SCF against the Hawks, the last thing I wanted to do with my late May evening was watch hockey. Sun is out, BBQ, camping, beach season and I'm supposed to care about HOCKEY??

Simple solution. Start the season in September, say the 15th. Back to school, vacation is over, back to hockey. That backs things up almost an entire month, so playoffs would be done by end of April. 

3 hours ago, WordsOfWisdom said:

Let's not stereotype shall we? Toronto fans watch everything. They're well aware of what good/bad hockey is. There's enough hockey passion in Toronto alone to fill 10-15 cities down in the sunbelt, and still have room left over. They don't call it the center of the hockey universe for nothing. 

 

It would be more appropriate to say that fans outside Toronto aren't watching anyone except their own team, and probably watch only when their respective team is winning. (More fair-weather fans exist outside TO.) Fans in Toronto will typically watch any team, as the ratings attest to, and are aware of what is going on around the league. All of the top hockey minds in the media are in Toronto. 

Count me in the camp of fans that only watch their team. 

I bleed orange and black. That's it. Don't watch any other teams, any other games, or any other sports. 

Who are these Leafs people are talkin' 'bout anyway? They can't even spell the plural right!!!

4 minutes ago, mojo1917 said:

If the playoffs started today we could beat the Pens, they're a mess.  

True, but it's still the Pens, and they just seem to be a bad matchup for the Flyers. But no other matchup would give me more satisfaction to win  I love me some good Battle of Pennsylvania action.

TB has enough depth to overcome Stamkos, I think. Their biggest issue might be entitlement - the *expectation* that they *should* win.

I want no part of the Trotzlanders lol. They give us fits. I honestly think that would be the worst matchup for the Flyers. 

5 minutes ago, radoran said:

Not to get all Jim Mora here, but I'd just like them to win a round before we start saying they can win a Cup...

I believe they can win a round this year. Matchup will be important, but they definitely have the depth, talent, and coaching to do it. 

I don't think we'd beat the Pens, Bolts, or Isles (they seem to have our number this year). But I think we can beat the Caps, Canes, Jackets, Rangers, or Panthers. 

6 minutes ago, radoran said:

The important approach IMO is to take it one round at a time, one game at a time, and not go in thinking "well, the Blues won the Cup last year so we can, too!"

I can only speak for myself, but what I take from that statement is along the lines of, FINALLY, we realistically have a shot at the Cup. Probably not gonna happen this year - usually teams go through a deep run or two, go through the learning curve (so many young guys), and the bitter disappointment of losing.

But we CAN win the Cup, which we haven't been able to say for way too long.

Coots (flu) is a game time decision. He will take warmups.

If he can play, Farabee will be sent back to LHV. 
 

If he can’t, G moves to center and Farabee will play wing as emergency recall. 
 

Everything else stays the same. 
 

11 minutes ago, flyercanuck said:

@CoachX  @elmatus

 

 Ya, I'm not arguing that we have "one of the best"...but I do believe they're easily a top half scouting team. They've been pretty consistent hitting on 1st round picks, especially considering they're not usually top 5ish..I think once you get further down in the rounds it's a lot of luck hitting on them, but some teams do seem to be better than others. 

 

 Another thing is the actual drafts. Philly has had 2-2nd overall picks...JVR and Patrick. Think we'd have a better team maybe if we'd have got Drew Doughty instead of JVR (drafted #2 the next year) and Eichel instead of Patrick ? Would Pittsburgh have won 3 cups with Bobby Ryan and Erik Johnson, who went 2nd overall and 1st overall in the following drafts? 

Crazy that of the two times we had the 2nd overall pick, we basically ended up with two of the weakest picks in the last 15 years.