MattPie

Index funds with extremely low fees. Advisors sometimes beat the market, but less often beat the market when you knock a couple percent off for the fees.

First bold: +1. I'd regularly travel on the bike 100s of miles in a day and only do like 25 miles of highway when I couldn't avoid it. Second bold: Lane splitting is not what the jackwads on US highways are doing. In Europe and Asia they're doing it at low road and low closing speeds (like the cars are moving 10mph and they're moving 15mph). No one (except the jackwads) think blasting down an expressway at +30-40mph to traffic is a good idea. I never did any lane splitting on the bike, partly because I knew US drivers aren't very tolerant of it (stems from our whole "me first you last" mentality), partly because my BMW was on the wide side.

I mean, people say things like this, but Anakin became a powerful and famous person in the Empire.

OMG, I scooped Brawndo! LOL

I was going to say that the Bogosian situation could apply, where the team and player decided to part ways. At that point the team and player could then sign whatever they want. But IIRC he had to pass waivers for that to happen which is... "unlikely" to work with Dahlin.

It's been fascinating to see people reinvent the motorcycle and moped 120 years later like it's this magical new thing. In a fantasy world, I'd build a steam-powered bike and see if people complained about using on the (few) bike trails around here. https://hackaday.com/2020/01/08/the-ruscombe-gentlemans-steam-bicycle/

What road, out or curiosity? I grew up on the Elma/EA line (literally, across the street the zipcode was Elma). It's possible the rates are up to cover maintenance. The maintenance costs would be fairly static, but far fewer trips this year to pay for them.

Injury, or unexpected drop off. NHL is guaranteed, so lock up your money now. Someone might crush your head or knee in your next game (or you just lose "IT"), and you're scraping for 1-2M$ a year or out of the league.

Yeah, Thompson. My gut says he won't repeat this year, so locking him up in case he proves that he can would be ideal. I don't know the going rate, but whatever a 25-goal, 75-point center makes would make sense to me if he'll take it.

Crosby has been the captain since day one IIRC. Also, I think Centers and Defence tend to be viewed as the heart of a team more than wingers. I can only think of OV as a Winger that must always be a Cap. I don't know why this is, other than maybe wingers are considered my 1-dimentional vs centers.

I'm betting you're thinking of Dell; he went to San Jose.

There's this, Peters often has some dirt. And it makes sense, why give anything up. Maybe, MAYBE, if the Sabres are playing so well that they could go somewhere in the playoffs, but otherwise no.

I'd think it'd be faster to 3D print tables now.

Fake news, the real one has a moose and a beaver thrown in.

Same. I think Kane was playing for the Sabres the last time I watched a period of hockey, Sabres or otherwise. Hang on, having something to contribute here is a prerequisite?

Locking up the tweeners, nice.

Almost all drafts look good 2-4 years later, unfortunately. Rare is the player that gets drafted and then completely washes out immediately. The usual path is more like still good in the CHL for a year or two, then some time in the AHL where they just can't quite make the jump to the NHL by 24 or so. Anyone know how the CHL's no-AHL rules work in this case? Right now, he can play in either the AHL or NHL, but if he starts playing for a CHL team, is he stuck there unless it's the NHL or until he's 20? I'd think he'd sign a CHL contract and then be held to those rules, but maybe a loan changes that.

Have you guys really not joked about "Geez, can't you afford a <thing>?"

I like the old-school look of the whites, but either way. 🙂

This is a good point. The Sabres dumpster fire in net between November and like February sunk the season. Easy to say, but if you earse that part of the season the Sabres are an OK team, a step better than the other teams we're talking about here. I'd think even average goaltending gets the Sabres into mid-80s last year. Those teams made a bunch of moves, but (big) assuming the goaltending next year is average, I'm not sure the other teams' moves jump them 15-20 points up the standings to be clearly ahead of Buffalo.

I don't think I've seen a player go to the dressing room on a dive before. Maybe just a freak thing when he went down after being sucker-punched.

Are there any records from people that don't have a vested interested in spinning the story? Just looking for something impartial.

So a modern Holzinger?