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And Kane.

Ahhhh re-drafts. That has to be one of the most stupid click bait practices you'll ever see.

Are we still doing this?

That and the hour's worth of video it takes to actually get to the penalty shot in that clip.

One of them is Bill wearing a mask. It may be "Steve", it may be the other guy, but one of them was definitely Bill.

Last night proved it. An elite player would never be left alone like that. There's no other possible explanation for that goal.

But how is his body language?

That's still a million times better than just leaving the empty one on there. Shame on you, Dallas.

That Stastney spelling is going to take a lot of getting used to if that kid ever makes it.

Well it's gray right now.

Why does celebration always require the removing of the mouth guard?

@Drunkard, that all assumes that the leagues themselves don't evolve as well over that time. We're talking about experts at making money. They'll find new revenue streams should things change like that, they always do.

Just wait until you hear the expletives fly the first time anyone asks them about "almost winning".

The tv deals aren't with those providers though. They're with the individual channels that you're selecting in that a la carte service. The NFL ticket is really the only one that's tied directly to a specific provider. So that tv money will still be there, even if it's someone else paying the league for the rights. If streaming service X ultimately gets NHL broadcasting rights, they're still paying for it.

The players would be the absolute last ones to be thinking about a so called moral victory. That's a concept that exists solely to let the fans sleep at night.

But both of those games were at home. I'm not so sure I can buy into the concept of a moral victory if it occurs on your own field, when you have those advantages that you're not going to get anywhere else.

We may like to think that this is a Sabre problem, and to some extent, it is. But attendance across the league is down too, and I'm guessing you'll see similar numbers in other leagues over the last few years. The average attendance has dropped from last year for 21 out of the 31 teams. It's early, so those numbers can catch up. There's also the issue of what numbers actually get reported in each building, but either way, whatever they're reporting, it's down. A lot of the numbers are fairly small, so for the hell of it, I'll look at those with a change of +/- 1000 fans per game. You have 8 teams who decreased by over 1000 fans per game vs. only 2 teams that increased by over 1000. I'm not sure if there are any new arenas or if there were any renovations that drastically changed the capacity of any arenas, but I doubt that would explain away all these drops. And one completely unrelated note while looking at the attendance figures. Minnesota has played 10 home games and 20 road games so far. That must suck for them.

When it comes to depreciation, $120k banana has officially knocked cars from the top of the list.

Impressive accuracy? Half the teams in this league make the playoffs. On average, half the teams in the league will win over half of their games. So the teams that win are more likely to make the playoffs? That’s truly shocking stuff. What we’ve created is a new way to say that the win column is the most important. We’re one step away from solving world hunger.

10 minutes of 3-on-3, after that, it's a tie.

The Sabres have never won a "President's Trophy". That's a scientific fact.?

I'm not completely sure where you're going, but please tell me it's a ginger joke.

I love your description here. You may be the first person I've seen to be on the same page as me in saying that the bonus point actually goes to the OT/shootout winner, not the loser.

When are the playoff teams determined? At the end of the season. So the only column in the standings that matters at that point is the points column (other than tie breakers). So if one team has more points than the other, aren't they doing better?

It's a completely arbitrary cutoff though. You've just shown that sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. The points per game metric though, is identical to the actual standings. The top 3 teams in each division in points per game always make the playoffs. Then the top team in points per game out of the remaining teams in the conference also makes the playoffs. Tie breakers will be used in rare cases, but these criteria are met 100% of the time. So if you want to talk about literalists, points per game literally does decide who makes the playoffs. So yeah, if you want to push for a different metric, that's fine. But I'll stick with the one that the actual standings use.