expatriatedtexan
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Dude took horse steroids like they were candy.
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Obviously did some shit lol.
I arrived on scene once for a guy in his 70s. Tall and thin dude. Him and his wife just got back from a morning run together. He goes up to shower, and while taking a shit vagals out (straining makes your heart rate drop) and has a heart attack.
Wife doesn't check for a while, why would she. We arrive with her giving CPR to her husband who was not quite but fairly close to Rigor Mortis. We had to work him because of the unknown time he was out.
One of the saddest things I've ever seen. You need to work your ass off to get into your 70s and be going for runs.
Dude then has a hard shit and it kills him.
expatriatedtexan
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Even after war I gave up on it quickly.
I was like, I've seen enough shit, but this is worse lol. One of my friends always gets dark difficult calls, and he's sane, just had a kid and has a stable marriage.
I'm over here like HOW?!?!
expatriatedtexan
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Yeah, my wife's department had MVA call that involved an infant last semester. She ended up coordinating with both the department chaplian and insurance company to get a therapist to do a whole shift group therapy session and then for the folks that were still having issues had the ability to continue with therapy. Calls involving kids, toddlers, infants... have to be the worst thing ever.
I've always told my wife, I'd make one hell of a fire-fighter. But I am not the man you want to roll out with on med-calls. I would be a terrible EMT/Paramedic. I'd be torn on some calls between taking care of the victim and beating the shit out of the attacker.
Besides, while I can do pain just fine, I can't do other people's pain. I have no idea why, but someone else getting hurt freaks me out. Guess I just like everyone else more than myself?
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I feel like what takes you out in your 70's+ is just as likely, if not more so, what you're genetically predisposed for.
Just like how there's high level athletes in great shape, that got long COVID, and it really f***ed them up.
He could have had heart disease in his family.
Generally speaking, being fit, as long as you're not juicing up every day, and eating properly, is the best way to increase your lifespan. I would imagine it's a long game though. The earlier in life you start, the better.
Just gotta dodge those genetic bullets. Reminds me of that Norm MacDonald bit.
There might have been something undiagnosed that lead to a predisposition in that case, no history, but the point is really just that crazy things happen, and don't strain in the bathroom when you're old lol.
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Let me tell you, brethren, this has to be the least interesting or fully committed I've been for this team ever since the last season with Roy as coach, where the whole squad was an utter mess. Like, I have no hype whatsoever for this team and any moves they make simply do not interest me at all since we lost to Dallas because of our coaching staff and star players looking like trash (both internal issues, not external ones where trades/signings will make a difference). We're the Western Conference version of Toronto, and nothing really matters until playoff time for me personally. Not sure how much I'll be around here for HFAvs, so good news for the blokes who dislike my posts lol.
Yep I have zero excitement for next season. Not sure if I'll even tune in to games before the TDL.
I mean if course I'm sure I'll still come here and troll though since the lazy mods won't ban my account
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ABasin
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I believe that one of the reasons for this malaise, is not just that the team lost in round 1. But also that there is no asset management to discuss or get excited about. Avs have no high draft picks, no young assets, little cap space, lots of existing contracts.
Hence, we have no new high end young players to look forward to, no likely tangible improvement in players to look forward to, probably no meaningful trades to look forward to.
In other words, same old, same old. And the same old wasn't close to good enough last month.
Tough spot.
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I am feeling frustrated rather than apathetic. The Avalanche are a very good team. 90% of the league would kill to be as good as Colorado. But anything short of greatness is unacceptable.
A year ago, I was convinced MacFarland was one of the top GMs in hockey. More time has shown that to be untrue. Through numerous hit-or-miss trades, there's been a steady disintegration of the on-ice product. It's not just MacFarland's moves that have made me lose faith. Every interview he gives, usually after one of his many trades, reeks of demoralization. There's never any confidence or excitement. He's always spewing tired lines about "how hard it is to make trades in the NHL" or how the team "is trying to lock up a playoff spot," when the sentiment should be focused on capturing another championship.
Reading this tweet after Game 7 rubbed me the wrong way. I know it's an illogical take, but MacFarland has sung Nill's praises in interviews one too many times for my liking. Admiration feels like it's wading into idolization territory. I don't expect CMac to have Sakic's swagger, but I also expect better than "the enemy is so good" followed by excuses of "the salary cap, trade market, reasons X, Y, and Z made things tough for us." Every other team has the same challenges. Figure it out.
A year ago, I was convinced MacFarland was one of the top GMs in hockey. More time has shown that to be untrue. Through numerous hit-or-miss trades, there's been a steady disintegration of the on-ice product. It's not just MacFarland's moves that have made me lose faith. Every interview he gives, usually after one of his many trades, reeks of demoralization. There's never any confidence or excitement. He's always spewing tired lines about "how hard it is to make trades in the NHL" or how the team "is trying to lock up a playoff spot," when the sentiment should be focused on capturing another championship.
Reading this tweet after Game 7 rubbed me the wrong way. I know it's an illogical take, but MacFarland has sung Nill's praises in interviews one too many times for my liking. Admiration feels like it's wading into idolization territory. I don't expect CMac to have Sakic's swagger, but I also expect better than "the enemy is so good" followed by excuses of "the salary cap, trade market, reasons X, Y, and Z made things tough for us." Every other team has the same challenges. Figure it out.
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Next thing CMac might do is let Makar go because his next contract is gonna be about one mill more than he’s willing to pay
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I suspect I may get some blow back for this, but I don't specifically need the team to win the Cup, in order for me to enjoy watching the team and/or to feel good about their season.
If the Avs top 100 regular season points, get into round 2 and play a competitive round 2 series - that probably makes them a top 6 team in the league, and I'll probably be OK with that result (particularly if they do it while continuing to develop young players).
Kind of like either Toronto or Winnipeg this season. Very good regular season(s), won a playoff round, were competitive in the 2nd round. No Stanley Cup there, but that's a damn solid season, all in all.
If I become so binary that I enjoy the game and/or the team ONLY if they win the Stanley Cup, I'm not sure that's worth it.
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Part of why they ended up trading Mikko is because they know they're going to have to back up the GD Brinks truck to Makar's home.
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You’re probably right, but I really doubt that CMac let Mikko go for anything more than 1.3 mill or something. He offered Mikko 11.7 and Mikko was probably asking for 13 mill. Maybe even 12.5 could get it done.
CMac rather waste 2.5 mill on Miles Wood who isn’t even making the lineup if Avs are healthy, than give that extra one mill to keep Mikko. That’s very smart management
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I suspect I may get some blow back for this, but I don't specifically need the team to win the Cup, in order for me to enjoy watching the team and/or to feel good about their season.
If the Avs top 100 regular season points, get into round 2 and play a competitive round 2 series - that probably makes them a top 6 team in the league, and I'll probably be OK with that result (particularly if they do it while continuing to develop young players).
Kind of like either Toronto or Winnipeg this season. Very good regular season(s), won a playoff round, were competitive in the 2nd round. No Stanley Cup there, but that's a damn solid season, all in all.
If I become so binary that I enjoy the game and/or the team ONLY if they win the Stanley Cup, I'm not sure that's worth it.
That's not where I am as a fan of the Avalanche. Some years, getting in the playoffs and doing some damage is a success. This was not one of those years.
Colorado reached the apex in 2022. MacFarland has had three years to get back to that level. He's traded practically every future asset, along with a franchise icon, and the club has one series win to its name. That's not acceptable.
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And what has Mikko done since round 1?
The other day I saw a highlight of him coming through the neutral zone with his head down and getting trucked by a no name oil player.
/Fire Bednar
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He still has 21 points in 16 games. Hockey is not a one man sport. Dallas is getting nothing from guys like Robertson, Duchene, also getting less than what they should from Johnston
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For me a Cup is obviously what I want out of the the team and I'm guessing everyone as well. But I think my biggest frustrations come from what seem to be a consistent dismantling of the team in the present and in the future.I suspect I may get some blow back for this, but I don't specifically need the team to win the Cup, in order for me to enjoy watching the team and/or to feel good about their season.
If the Avs top 100 regular season points, get into round 2 and play a competitive round 2 series - that probably makes them a top 6 team in the league, and I'll probably be OK with that result (particularly if they do it while continuing to develop young players).
Kind of like either Toronto or Winnipeg this season. Very good regular season(s), won a playoff round, were competitive in the 2nd round. No Stanley Cup there, but that's a damn solid season, all in all.
If I become so binary that I enjoy the game and/or the team ONLY if they win the Stanley Cup, I'm not sure that's worth it.
Yes we expected some cap casualties after the cup win and that did happen. But so many of the moves post 2022 have been so puzzling. Some moves to extend the window and some all in moves as it should be for a team at the end of its window. But the extremes of some of these moves have left the org in a horrible spot short and long term ironically.
I really think the negotiations were turning ugly.
I know they had a difficult time with Rants's previous contract, so it's not a huge leap to speculate that Sakic and CMac were tired of dealing with them. Carolina offers Marty, who Sakic and CMac both covet, and suddenly, things begin to shift in a new direction. Meanwhile, Rants and his agent don't know any of this, and they continue to believe that there is no way Sakic and CMac would ever trade Rants, so they keep trying to grind it out, getting as much as they can.
And along the way, there is no communication happening at all. Sakic and CMac never go to Rants and his agent and say: "We've got a really great offer from Carolina, and we're gonna take it unless you want to sign a team friendly deal." They just take the deal, not taking into consideration how bonded these players are, and how mentally fragile they can be.
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We don’t really know for sure what went on during those negotiations, all I know is that you just can’t keep letting your top players go and expect to win. It doesn’t work that way. I mean show me a recent winning team that let couple of their key and top players go and still won. I can’t think of one
CMac Stevie Y, and Jim Nill have the the same number of Stanley Cups as General Manager.
Getting everything (Players, Staff, etc.) to align and execute all at once seems to be rather difficult.
Nill has some major contributors (WJohnson, Otter, Mikko) who will no longer be significantly outproducing their contracts as early as next season.
I'm going to be curious to see how he manages the next 3 or so years.
Give me some better insight into how how to evaluate what the Avs have done since 2022
I just wish the Avs could poach some of the Stars amateuer scouting/development team. IMO, it is their biggest flaw as an organization.
Getting everything (Players, Staff, etc.) to align and execute all at once seems to be rather difficult.
Nill has some major contributors (WJohnson, Otter, Mikko) who will no longer be significantly outproducing their contracts as early as next season.
I'm going to be curious to see how he manages the next 3 or so years.
Give me some better insight into how how to evaluate what the Avs have done since 2022
I just wish the Avs could poach some of the Stars amateuer scouting/development team. IMO, it is their biggest flaw as an organization.
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we're in that weird Pittsburgh territory after Crosby's first cup in '09 aka 'when is (if at all) is the next cup coming for our franchise players....
Crosby's 2nd cup didn't come till like 8 years later then it was back to back.
we'll see how it goes for us.
Crosby's 2nd cup didn't come till like 8 years later then it was back to back.
we'll see how it goes for us.
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