MattPie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_television_markets Looks like Buffalo is 53, although Rochester is a separate market. The two of them combined is +-31. So not as bad as you'd think. That being said, cities like Salt Lake City (who was it that was talking up SLC during the Vegas/Seatlle Expansion?), San Antonio, Portland OR, and a few that are in NC and California are larger without an NFL team, but not sure the NFL would put a second or third team in those states. Portland or SLC seem like the biggest targets, but even those aren't that much bigger; I don't know if there are similar Buffalo/Rochester neighbor markets though should be counted with Portland or SLC though. For the NFL, Buffalo is probably sitting fairly well. The market is small but not Green Bay (roughly the same size as Rochester), and that doesn't count the Toronto market. I couldn't find a list of North American markets all in one place (so I don't know if things are counted the same), but Toronto-Hamilton appears to be as large as the biggest US markets (some say 8M, which is what NYC counts in the above link). I think Toronto is probably the only serious risk for Buffalo moving, the NFL (I'd think) wants a "local" team for the sixth-largest city in North America (plus Hamilton/NF). To jump to the NHL, the Sabres' position is less solid since there are nearby hockey teams and big markets that don't have a team already.

Sometimes, sure. Building a new stadium in the parking lot of the old one isn't going to change much in OP, I fear, unless they're planning on turning those corners into some copy of HarborCenter and hope people will drive out to OP for a meal and drinks. If they had put the stadium downtown I *might* believe it, but even then a gigadollar+ is a lot of service jobs to employ to break even. Just looking at payroll taxes, you'd have to create 250M$; given 40K$/yr jobs average paying 8K$ taxes, no way this is going to create 30,000 jobs. There's a lot of estimating in there (and I think I aimed high), but it never seems to work in our favor. Still all of us paying out for a rich person's toy.

FTFY. Same skim, different optics when it's a stadium.

For that money, I'd let the team move and pocket the $500 per-person in NYS (1G$ / 20Mpeople), or if I'm feeling it, put 500M$ into infra and education and pocket $250 for everyone in the state. What BS.

Fan Council seems like a low-cost, good optics thing to me. And unless you're 100% sure the team will be sold, you keep working like it's not going to be so you're not caught flat-footed if it falls through. The only people that praise a developer this much have a lot to directly gain from that developer winning contracts.

I get what you're saying, but I see images of people protesting in Moscow and people making public statements. It's not like the iron fist of the old days where no one would even dare say anything.

Hasek is wrong on this one. Sure, it feels good to try to hit back at Russia any way possible but as others have pointed out the players are stuck in a hard place. They can't denounce Putin without likely consequences. I guess they're lucky that it's not at the point where they're forced to praise Putin or be deemed not sufficiently Patriotic. As it stands, if a player, let's call him Alex O, were to start making statements in support of Russia and Putin in the war, the club may be able to suspend them due to the bad publicity, just like (I'd hope) the Habs would suspend someone if they said poutine was terrible, or the Sabres would if a player liked ranch on wings. Your employer doesn't have to employ you if you make a negative spectacle of yourself. (The CBA in the NHL might get into this, don't know) As for boycotts, I'm all for it. Money talks and I don't get the impression that Putin has the iron fist dictator thing going in Russia. The oligarchs and powerful people over there will start to put pressure on if this starts hitting the bottom line (at this point I can't imagine it not).

I agree here, while the crosscheck was cowardly I don't think it was truly an intent to seriously injure the guy. It could have gone wrong and Cozens would have been looking down some career altering "prior offender" status. (see: Kaleta) I still say confront Nelson to his face next time they're out, or even try to hook Granato into putting him out opposite Nelson on the next face-off. I also think half that league are scumbags, with the league's tacit encouragement. It's all part of the complex calculus of the NHL that leads me to not watch many games.

I mean he did skate behind him through the entire neural zone, past his own bench, to hit the guy, and then peel off into the opposing zone nowhere near the play. But I can understand the opposing view here, I just think it's a dumb risk to take. If Nelson gets injured here Cozens is suspended (in-person hearing, I'm guessing) and is now a repeat offender.

I don't think I do. You take the guys number and take care of it next time you're on the ice together. Hitting someone unawares isn't OK.

I like Cozens and all, but that was some cheap-#$%% stuff right there. People here'd be calling for someones head if I Sabre was coasting to bench and got crosschecked from behind into the boards.

It's been awhile, but I've seen the Sabres play in Philly a few times when I lived there, DC a couple times, MSG, and 2006 Game 1 in Carolina. I think that's all of them, and those are all more recent than the last time I saw them in Buffalo, which would have been 98 or 99 when I still lived there.

I can also see that being different; guy was traded away, as opposed to whatever you want to call Eichel's situation, hold-out/malcontent/forcing-a-trade. I can see it both ways, but personally bygones apply here and be pleasant to the former team Captain. Short highlights, "thanks for the memories, Jack, Let's Go Buffalo, beat Vegas" should do it. Some fans will hold a grudge, but there's no helping that.

Dozens? Are they giving away tickets now?

I don't know if Eichel completely warrants a mention, but he was the face of the franchise for like six years and the Captain for a few. It's not unreasonable to show some class now that it's all over.

Yeah, to be honest with the current state of tech a pickup is a not a good case for electric in a lot of ways. Of course, most people use them like a normal car other than a few times a year so the F150 WILL BE FINE.

I think it'd help, but maybe only if you stayed put for a few days. I don' think a couple m^2 of solar panels are going to charge it too fast. A quick Google tells me sunlight at best is 1360W per m^2 for 4 hours per day, and solar panels are 20% efficient. With those numbers, a well-trained human on a bike can beat those numbers (in theory I can average 220W for an hour, and I'm *not* well trained). So really, the answer is include a stationary bike-generator with the truck. In reality, if you have that use case and you only own one car this may not be the vehicle for you. Our plan here is to have an electric car as our daily car and our very low-use second car will be gas. My car hasn't left our property since December.

We could talk about those numbers all the time and people would learn the context, but culturally hockey is all about those per-season numbers. For instance, we know what a good GAA (even if it's a flawed stat), SV%, or (team) P% look like. Using GF/60 or points per game or whatever could be fine if collectively the hockey world started treating them like batting average or ERA in baseball. (I'm surely showing my baseball ignorance in those examples) Question is, did he break out the giant grin and point at teammates in celebration?

Whoops, misread this as a 'Millennials don't watch things on TV thing" Not from the Verizon app. I suppose I could screen-share it, although I think I tried that at some point and it's blocked somehow; I'm guessing the byzantine rights structure the NFL uses probably doesn't allow the Verizon deal to be shown on a screen that's not connected directly to their cell network or something. Similar to how the streaming audio (at least last time I tried a few years ago) can only be played on "home" systems like a computer or Roku, but is blacked out on a phone even if you're on the same home network.

I'm sure there was some way to stream it to with the Twitgram or Door Hinge or the Amazon Meta program or something. (Fun fact, this firmly GenX person can only watch games on my phone via NFL app and their deal with Verizon; no cable and no reliable antenna due to distance to stations)

I think you have to at least put in something for the guys that Eichel plays with, or even others on the team. As someone implied above, the someone in Vegas just got gifted the 2nd best D pair and 2nd best defensive forwards on whatever team was opposing them where they've been facing #1s before this. If you really have to do it for this season, see what happens with Vegas' collective PPG, Goals, or Wins before and after. You even get some time to analyze pre- and post- Tuch without Eichel playing until now.

A Roku stick is like $35, I have one in my Vizio Smart Cast for times when the ChomeCast doesn't like something (or RosePie can use the remote). I have one on the monitor on my desk too, for doing the odd stream or AirPlay screen mirror (mostly for working out, my bike trainer is in here too). Depending on what you're doing with a cracked stick, you might in a legal grey area (or even not so grey). No judgement, everyone can make their own decisions. I don't know if anyone is really cracking down (pun intended) on it, but they could I suppose.

Ah, good for the dev; that's a get-rich dream when you write some little game.

I'm in the control group for no reason other than it has to be making money somewhere, so likely selling your info. 🙂

User-provisioned Infrastructure. It's when the user creates the cloud systems required to run a cluster. The alternative is Installer-Provisioned Infrastrcuture (IPI), where the installer software creates the required stuff in the cloud for you. IPI is easier, but UPI can be customized more. In this case, I'm betting it's supposed to be UPL, which is Unknown-quantity Player Luukkonen.