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IIRC, at some point that stopped making the steering wheel shaft a solid piece, and made it telescope. Because when the front of the car is compressed, the solid shaft would push back into the passenger compartment like a javelin.

I'm the first person on my mom's side of the family to go to and graduate college. I never really felt it, but to a lot of my relatives it was a really big deal. I don't know it has anything to do with this, but there are reasons the guy may have wanted to finish it out. Another is if he washes out he has a college degree, and not "a bunch of credits and a semester of incomplete classes".

I'm betting it's not ejection, but impact on dashboard/steering wheel.

Somewhat. 🙂 The hills here are too steep for fixies to be a big thing, lol. My local gravel ride happy hour has been there before, along with the local MTB club. It's a bar in downtown Ithaca that doesn't blast music or serve Lite beer, so most of the people aren't there for the bikes. 🙂

Not really WNY, but the Bike Bar in Ithaca (it's bicycle-themed strangely enough) has the games on in the morning. I wouldn't know if I didn't follow them on Insta (they do occasional bike rides) however.

IIRC, in PA you can ride without a helmet as long as you have had your motorcycle endorsement for two years. Interestingly, it also applies to passengers but I find it unlikely that all those back seats riding around without a helmet went through the test process to get one. That would line up with my preconceptions of Texas. 🙂

I was there in 2018 for a conference (granted, not a great sample just being around downtown), but it was a fun city to hang out in for a week.

I don't pretend to know the ins and outs of player availability, but it's always appeared that players could jump "up" a league right into the playoffs if needed. The rule is almost entirely about teams not loading up their AHL team with NHL talent after they're out of the playoffs (going "down" a league, so to speak). Teams can play guys from a lower league at any point from what I can tell (see Doug Janik, 2006, Buffalo Sabres, played 0 regular season games, 5 Playoff games).

Legend has it the Leafs have an internal All-star golf tournament secheduled every year for late May. I never want to watch anyone golf. Yes, they did. I can't remember if it was in the 90s or late-2000s, whenever it was I remember the Sabres being good. That narrows it down a lot.

It's be interested if the neutral sites games weren't necessarily NFL facilities too, although though may be difficult in some cases. But you could play overseas neutral, Canada, Mexico, US places that don't have an NFL team (like Salt Lake City or the Meadowlands). On the infield at NASCAR tracks, minor league baseball stadiums... you know, maybe not.

It's not just interstate! I grew up down the 400.

Super-unlikely they're not playing in AZ next season. Deals can be broken, but it's not like there's a pressing need for the Coyotes to move for 2023-24.

Exactly. Plus, if you're the kind of person that wants to be in charge, you don't turn down the opportunity. If the GM navigates it well, they become a highly-desirable GM down the road for any team with a tough situation. I think the only way someone turns down a GM offer is if the ownership is terrible (I don't think that applies to Pittsburgh).

Even without the Jazz, SLC is significantly smaller than any (?) other NHL market. it's a little bigger than the Buffalo/NF metro area, but add in Rochester that nearly doubles the Sabres market. Plus, unlike eastern cities there isn't another population center a couple hours down the road. Six hours to Vegas, eight to Denver with not much between.

I've had mustard ice cream (as part of a dish with a sage waffle and escargo) and ghost pepper ice cream, so why not ranch? I'm not running out to try it though, I don't really like ranch enough to bother.

So we can (hopefully) keep Karamanos by offering an equivalent position.

For awhile in the early 20th centrury, the US nickel had a buffalo on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_nickel

We joked about that when RosePIe was little; I was around 480 months at the time.

From what I've seen, NHL All-Star John Scott falls into the same category. Undrafted, played through College (Mechanical Engineering) caught on for a bit in the AHL and then NHL, and made a career out of it. Not because of his playing ability. His autobiography is titled "A Guy Like Me: Fighting to Make the Cut". Georges Laraque seems like a similar personality. There are probably more enforcers out there that this describes than you'd think. Now, if we want to talk about "rats", the story may be different.

I saw the latter on a list, but have never heard that one before. Buffalo is living under the illusion that anyone outside WNY who wasn't born there cares about Buffalo, so there is that. 🙂

Ithaca, "Ten Square Miles surrounded by reality"

I bet you'd see even more gymnastics towards the end of the season if you're sitting in 25th place, it'd be pretty enticing to the org lose a few games and possibly be the best team in the hunt for the big prize rather than playing for picks 9-16.

I think Jones and Torts would be on the same page being dinos, not sure about Briere. But we only really know what torts is; no idea how the other two will look compared to their peers.

Smugtown was a light-hearted joke, but it's really a thing. A Rochestarian I knew mentioned it; it's from a book. https://rocwiki.org/Smugtown Related: How many Rochestarians does it take to change a lightbulb? 50. 1 to change it, and 49 to comment on how much brighter it is than the one in Buffalo.

In another thread, city nicknames came up. Ft. Worth is apparently Panther City, Buffalo is the Nickel City, Binghamton is Parlor City, Rochester is Smugtown. Post you favorite city nicknames here! (it's the off-season)