MattPie

Acadia was the plan this summer, but some health issues messed that up. MsPie and I ate some food that ended up being recalled and the company is still figuring out what happened (3+ months later). We're both kinda fine now though, although worried about lingering effects. Anyway, Acadia. We were there in 2019 before I got back into cycling and as soon as start cycling again I started thinking about the carriage roads and the big paved loop in the part. I had a plan to those a couple times during the trip. Ah well, next time. On a side note, I also have a Specialized (gravel) and a Trek (old MTB).

I read about this recently, it's now on my bucket list. https://hikebiketravel.com/cycling-the-cabot-trail-on-cape-breton-island/ (Hi @Sabres Fan in NS!)

Not hot, dreary.

Bold: yeah, but Barasso came into the league on fire; Buffalo will accept nothing less now, lol. I do think Hasek and Miller have poisoned the fan base a bit, if the Sabres get even decent play it still looks mediocre after seeing some elite seasons.

To pick a TOTALLY RANDOM example, Ryan O'Reilly's cap hit is $7.5M and he put up 21g 58p last year. There were ~22 Centers that were around a point a game last season. Tage isn't getting paid like a #1 star center.

Do we go with catapolta, or poltaput? Or just call it a polta-pow.

Might have to go further back than that. D probably play better on the traditional side because I've always played there. Their first pee-wee coach put them on those sides because that's just what you do. All the little things that should be automatic (like, stopping a puck getting past you on the boards) is just that little bit faster since they've been doing it on the same side for 10 years. I remember a time when the Sabres PP1 was entirely left-shots, and I think PP2 was entirely right-shots. That's not the same situation on the PP for a D, but interesting. I don't remember when that was, but I think it was one of the times they've been good in the last 25 years. That'll narrow it down quite a bit, lol.

There is a theory which states that in a universe if ever the Bills win the Superbowl, that universe will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

I do IT work for a large company with some fairly peculiar/strict rules about how the network works. I spent a *bunch* of time over the last year or two getting an install process working for a compute cluster (Red Hat Openshift) to work around the peculiarities, automated almost all of it, and wrote what I feel are OK docs on how to make it all work. We've had a few people on my team and other area in the company run through the docs with success. This whole thing follows a kinda "Open Source" model within the company so I'm not on the hook for it to work outside my team; it's provided "here's what we're doing, if it helps you we'd love to hear about it". I'm trying to help someone on another team else get through the install, and dude just will not read the docs or follow the process. He's just way off in the weeds running into things that I figured out and automated around. I'm frustrated that he's struggling even though I can honestly say it's his own doing. But I still want his project succeed.

Immediately what I thought of when I saw this, lol.

What do you make of this?

The Sabres have had luck in the past with the 2A 2B 2C 4 line setup.

Dude, you always bring the facts. Thanks. You last paragraph I think is spot on. My guess is he never tops last year in goals, but drops down to a reasonable SH% and hovers around 30. People that are predisposed will complain that he got a big contract on one year, but in reality he's being paid like a 2C 30 goal, 60 point guy, which is probably where he ends up. The league average is something like 9.9%, I don't think he'll drop below that.

This is the data that makes the contract look solid. I think I'm on record here questioning if this is a career year, but even sliding back to 25/35/60 still puts this in a decent place compared to his peers; it's a good deal.

Yeah, I read it as snark. "It's sooooo obvious to me, but other lesser people, like the Bills, might not have thought of it."

That makes a ton of sense. When you get down to the tail end of the draft, you can mostly pick the guys you like that are left, and not worry as much that the one guy that gets past you.

Realistically they don't, they probably jettison everyone over 25 that has value and reload with picks.

I think by the later rounds you'd almost have to scout every player since the order becomes largely random. I guess with video you can watch every game and at times get a two- or three-for-one, but it's not like you can focus on five players in a game. Maybe liberal use of rewind to watch several guys in a game.

But does a decent job of preventing goal scoring, I believe. This is the stat line of a Stanley Cup winning forward. GP G A Pts PIM Playoffs GP G A Pts PIM 43 6 7 13 28 25 3 3 6 4 I do not think this is much different that what Z does on a decent team.

I agree, for all the "there's no place for $SABREPLAYERNAME on a Stanley Cup team", there are enough examples that have gone on to win a Stanley Cup. Ruhwedel[0] and Paille immediately come to mind. [0] He was injured in the ECF and doesn't have his name on it, but did get a ring and a day with the cup.

I assume the new style is to build an EQ into the active part to make up for the deficiencies of the cabinet design?

Breakout year for the all-star.

If you were in Buffalo, you could check out Radio Equipment Corp on Vulcan. We used to drive up there in college to pick up supplies for my EE courses. I looked, I don't think they even have a website any more. Edit: this place has a similar vibe, not sure where in North Jersey you are https://www.greenbrookelectronics.com/ Active speakers can probably be made passive with a soldering iron and some terminals. 🙂

No no, not that one. It's not as well known. No no, not that one. It's not as well known.

I feel like there's a Dead Kennedys song that starts with "to drunk to" that sometimes applies here.