MattPie

I did the math recently, and buying certain craft brews are cheaper per alcohol unit than light beer. In some cases, the calories work out too. I just switch in a quart of water between beers to stay hydrated if I'm doing something outside. I was kinda cheating, I can get Storm King for <$40 case at Victory, which stacks up well against any beer and everything else I'd want to drink. Hop Devil is the same price and doesn't quite edge out light beer, but I get to drink Hop Devil.

Besides the concessions income lost (or at least the contract money lost to whomever runs the cocessions), $3M / 75000 is $40 per seat. That seems a little low.

SGMRB

FTFY.

Sorry about the false alarm then. Works for me though. :)

What's the rationale of letting lame duck scouts make decisions?

Make sure to account for teams tightening up for the playoff push and conversely, throwing in the towel and becoming sellers.

I think you can set twitter to not show followed accounts likes, so you'd only see his original posts.

At one time, ESPN was the gorilla in the room and had cable providers over a barrel. Back in the day when there were only 50-60 channels on your average cable they had huge ratings.

It might work out better if you follow https://twitter.com/OleanTHsportsinstead of the person's personal account. That being said, I just scrolled through his feed and it looked at least 95% hockey.

Looks like Youtube TV is carrying NBC and NBCSN in their $35/month plan. That should catch a lot of the playoffs, considering it appears it's getting the NBC hench-networks as well (including the golf channel for the Sabres 2017 post-season). I'm not bothering with it this year, but when the Sabres are in the playoffs doing it for two months is a lot cheaper than going out to bars every other night, if not as enjoyable. Plus, it will work with a Chromecast for easy TV viewing. Here's me being happy about hockey for a day! Linky: https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/

Personally, I'm wary of Lombardi trying to do the LA style here. And I'm not Drury has many qualifications other than "Former Sabre".

Had to go check to make sure it wasn't a PHam byline. Cool, can't hurt unless it hoses us on contracts or something.

In 3D space, I think it's a sphere. I think arch gets an honorable mention here.

2nd paragraph: you could also argue that picking up dynasty cast-offs hasn't actually produced a cup, or even that many sustained periods of good. They went for stretches making the playoffs, but I believe 16 of 21 teams made the playoffs in the 80s so it's not as impressive as it would sound.

You can never have too much RB depth, even at the expense of starters in other positions. ;)

I'm thinking Bills go RB in the first round after losing Gillislee, right?

FTFY!

More points, and based on the chart above, he's solidly in the middle of #2 picks in the last couple decades, even taking into account some of those guys may have started playing pro at an older age and some (I'm looking at you, Malkin) played in a much more wide-open era (and on more wide open teams). Without doing the exact math, it's Eichel, ROR, Okposo, Kane, Samson, and Risto, the last three being in the same neighborhood of points (mid-40s). After that, there's a noticeable drop to Gionta and Moulson, and another to McCabe and Foligno.

I keep wanting to bring Audette into this conversation, but I don't really think he belongs.

I'm not sure I see that much difference between the Hawks willfully bad management (coming from the top, the owner not wanting to spend money) for a decade and a team ruthlessly setting up their future by sacrificing results in the short term.

Unless I'm misreading the above, NJ has nothing to lose and everything to gain, right? If some other team wants him, have NJ sign him then trade to that team for whatever.

Take a Wild---- guess!

What's that saying about sandwiching a lie between two pieces of truth? :)

The idea was Darcy was competent but limited by budget. That turned out to be wrong, but it's not unreasonable to say that a guy that did OK given limited budgets could be pretty good with more financial resources.