MattPie

I think it's funny that you feel Salon is actual journalism. :) I used to read it often, but I haven't much since the last interesting column disappeared (King Kauffman's Sports). Every once in awhile I go back and it's just so shamelessly liberal and hysterical; I like my shameless liberals more measured and reasonable.

Trollin', in my 5.0... :)

Yep, always works. :)

"Question one: neither of the candidates have endorsed a proposed 10 ft monument to the Ten Commandments on the White House south lawn, why do you hate America? Senator Sanders, let's start with you."

This sums it up to me. None of us (likely) are NHL coaches, so to say this should happen or that should happen is presumptuous. In a case like this where both ideas seem like good ones, you just have to trust that the folks making the decisions make the right call.

I don't know the answer to this question, good thing we have coaches and whatnot. :)

That only really works if the playing time is equivalent between the two leagues. NHL playing time is more valuable than AHL playing time (IMHO), it's just a matter of how much more valuable it is. To put it other terms, if my goal is to be an architect of grand office buildings, sending me to design homes does have value to my career, but it may not have as much value as being assigned to designing the bathrooms of a grand office building and gradually being assigned larger pieces.

Who let him out of the can?

My advanced stats tell me he's scored his two goals from almost the exact same spot. :)

I'm not, but I think it'll be great. :) Moving back is on my radar. There's a lot of upheaval at my workplace right now, and coupled with changes to retirement benefit there's a better chance that I'd move on now. Plus, having RosePie near her grandparents and cousins would be a huge plus.

Reinhart: slow start or AHL-bound?

I think it's largely a thing with the number of people that have moved away from Buffalo. I run into people either from Buffalo or some sort of "my relation is from there" all the time. There are a couple of places around Philly that will always have the Buffalo game on.

Same here, although I've been thinking about testing Kodi, but I don't know how long it'll be before that works with the new streamer.

I've used my PS3 for 90% of my GC watching, which has a pretty terrible client but is smooth maybe 70% of the time. It'll sometimes get into a funk where is switches between bitrates or pauses regularly to catch up but isn't smart enough to kick down to a lower bandwidth and be stable. I've never really tried the PC method, but with my new laptop that's easier so I'll have to try it. You're right though that actual HD feed from cable/antenna looks better than GC, but when I had Comcast I almost never got an HD feed for the Sabres.

Uh oh, I'm agreeing with wookie. They may be the better 5 as individuals, but I don't think many feel like they're the right 5 for one team's top-6. As a parallel, the small-forward Sabre era (2007-2010, say) had too many small, skill forwards on the team. There's no reason you can't have 1-2 of those guys in your top-6, but if it's the majority of the top-6, you're in for trouble.

He's got to turn this around fast. He's also a selfish player since he's trending for no assists. Has anyone ever been in the top-10 of the league in goals with zero assists? He's trending for a -164, too, worst in NHL history.

McDavid has zero points and is -1 in 2 games, bust.

I'd never go back to CenterIce even if I had cable. Having to remember to record the games ahead of time, figuring out what channel the game is really on (not what the guide tells you), often getting the away team's feed, and having the end of games cut off because the recording didn't go long enough was for the birds. Hopefully you don't feel like I'm ganging up on you, JJ. ;)

I'm guessing Rochester is in the Sabres "area", so you won't get any Sabres games live on gamecenter since they're available in your area on TV. It only really works if you live out of town, and even then I don't get any national games (NBC, NHL Network, etc.) or games against my local team (Flyers).

That just proves children people have terrible taste in music. :) That's not the song I'd have preferred, but it's done now so there's no reason to whine about it.

When a goal is scored and the ref misses it, the play can go on for 10 minutes and that'll be wiped out when the play stops and the review goes back and checks it out. Are you guys mad about that too? The process needs to be streamlined, but "correct" is better than all the arguments for flow and let them play, etc.

How so? We run both (more Chrome than FF) and haven't see anything off.

I'm confused as to how this particular rule makes (or doesn't make) money. It's a tradeoff decision "Fairness" vs. "game flow". I don't know which will turn off casual viewers more, delays for review or the perception that the refs blow calls. It's not going to stop the die-hards either way. FWIW, I've seen people here say things like "the NBA is unwatchable due to the inconsistent refs" and similar things about the NFL the last few seasons. Maybe hockey is on to something.

I get what you're saying, but at the point of a frozen puck, both teams have an equal shot at possession. I haven't looked at the rule, so I don't exactly know what the rules are. I'd say the ability to challenge should end when the defending team gains control of the puck, but if the rule is when the puck leaves the zone I can see that too. Control of the puck is somewhat nebulous (right, Buffalo fans?) so I can see the point of having a more deterministic marker like the blue line. Maybe some arbitrary time as well, like 20 seconds, but then you have men huddled around a screen to figure out which centisecond the puck crossed the blue line if it's close. I don't love the rule and I bet it'll get tweaked a bit before it assumes it's ultimate form, but I think it has some value too. I'm not sure putting it in the coaches hand is the right call though, I'd have just made offsides part of the booth review.

Because of that? So if we were talking football, you'd be mad if someone scored a touchdown if on the previous play there was a missed offsides?