MattPie

Maybe someone told him he has a great shot, but needs to be able to score in tight too and he's working on it. True though, he doesn't seem to have a swagger from earlier in his career, I choose to believe he feels the weigh of a Buffalo on his shoulders and is learning to bear it.

I haven't watched that closely, but on the bright side, the 6-on-5 play the last couple games has been pretty impressive. It'd help if they scored goals, of course, but they're controlling the play and not giving up ENG.

If you want to get nit-picky, the Blackhawks timeline also includes the lockout where prospects and borderline players got an extra year in the AHL/CHL/overseas leagues to develop.

Probably more accurate to say you either need great GT *or* a great offence. The Sabres have neither, and I just don't see Lehner making the leap.

Indeed, the math is nearly insurmountable at this point. The numbers say they need to play at a 110-point place for the rest of the season. The 06-07 President's Cup team had 113 points for the season.

Woah there, avocados are pretty cool.

Well, Bills bumped by the Ravens. They have to be one game better for the next 5 weeks, since it appears the tie-breaker isn't going to help.

Corporal Harbaugh is mad.

They'd instantly be the 5th best team in the league!

As god as my witness, I thought turkeys Sabres could fly!

Update: 24 games played 16 points 32 lost points (getting close to the halfway point)

I'm not sure this team has anything else. At the 1/4 pole, this team probably isn't going to magically get better unless it truly is them getting used to a new system and losing some Badylsma-habits. I just don't see it. There's no race to get back into, they'd have to suddenly become a *very* good team to even sniff the bubble.

I was thinking it had to be a Finn with lots of Ks, and As, such as "Jukka-Pekka Hämäläinen" (not a real player).

Interesting read (even if I only read the executive summary). I was trying to figure out what the ships were doing up in the basin as the docks are towards the ocean, but it looks like it was a staging area away from U-boats. It reminds me of Portsmouth Harbor in the UK; narrow inlet to a much larger bay/basin. Also, if there hasn't been a number of Halifax <genre> Explosion band names, I'll be disappointed (genre = [blues, punk, folk, calypso, etc]).

KBC: Haven't been to a game there since it was relatively new in the late 90s; just a place to see a game The Aud: I remember the Aud when I was kid, but never got there as a adult to give a meaningful comparison MSG: cool, but pretty dank and small Philly: just a place to see a game Carolina: just a place to see a game DC: just a place to see a game

I think I have, but I've been cozying up to Terry and Kim, so I get all the perks. You should try it!

I'm kinda sad it isn't bleep-bloop new wave or Casio rap given the time period.

There are enough variations of Red White and Blue around the league, Blue and Gold stays (don't really care which Blue). If you want to unify, change the Bills, there's even more variations on Red White and Blue in the NFL; go with something unique.

Hey now! So qwk mentioned stilted in another thread and somehow I stumbled onto this. Someone tweet this at Gerbe. and this:

:) As far as I can tell, npm is a Node.js version of things like apt or yum for OSs. There's a bunch of libraries and modules in npm, that you can 'npm install foomatic' and then use the foomatic library in your own code. Similar how you can do 'yum install emacs' to install a software package on an OS. NPM should take care of dependencies, so if the foomatic library needs the barorama package to function, it'll install both for you. It's a cool way to manage software libraries, but it has some pitfalls. The main pitfall is when the package you install changes, it might break your code. Or, a while back some guy rage-quit one of the package manager tools and pulled his packages, but one of his packages was required by tons of sites and broke things. That's where something like (as far as I can tell) the npm "yarn" package comes it. It acts as a proxy and cache for npm, so you're only downloading packages from your local yarn cache. That way, if a package disappears off the internet, you still have a copy so your stuff doesn't break. And, from what I understand you can keep the package versions stable so something doesn't change under you without warning and break everything. But I'm just a network/system guy, not a developer so there may be glaring errors in all that. :)

One correction: we have Net Neutrality now (thanks, Obama). The current FCC head wants to destroy it. "Once Net Neutrality dies and your ISP get to decide what you can conveniently access..." is more apt. To put it in local terms, here's a scenario: HFboards decides to cozy up with FIOS and give them a bunch of money to make them their "preferred" hockey discussion site. FIOS comes by to tell SDS, implying that if he ponies up, they won't limit the bandwidth FIOS subscribers get to SS. Then Comcast comes along and limits the bandwidth (or blocks) everyone other than the NBCSports Hockey Forum. Obviously, hockey sites aren't the issue, but Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Goodle TV/Music, Youtube, etc. all care about this. It's letting your ISP to sell your access to the highest bidder. And since there's only one option in many places, you're stuck with it. I want my ISP to be a utility. The water and electric don't care what I do with their product. My ISP doesn't get to adjust what I do on the internet. If you think it's far-fetched, it's already happened to Netflix which is why the rule is in place. Comcast slowed Netflix down unless Netflix paid up. Extortion: nice internet service you got there, shame if anything slowed it down. I forget where it ended up, but that was the idea with ISPs. They wanted to/did classify it as a utility so the ISPs couldn't mess with it. Now that there's a suitably anti-consumer administration in place, they're tossing that rule.

Oh, either we're talking about different things or I've completely missed the point of the tool. This is the npm I'm looking at: https://www.npmjs.com/

I don't think it's Kane's "fault", but Kane with Eichel means Eichel shoots less, and with his shot, that's not a good thing for the team. Eichel's shooting is down 10% from his career average this year.

Eichel has 5 goals in 21 games. It's not working.

Updated. It's not looking good. I'd be pretty surprised if this team has it in them to win-out 2017, or on-average be the 5th-best team in the league until April (based on last year's finishing standings).