MattPie

I think "hitting top to bottom" too much to ask for. The draft is still fraught with peril, but going from 30% success to 40% success means one more player every other year or something, which doesn't sound like much but means that you become a team that has players pushing to get into the NHL, which makes trade capital to fill in holes where they come up.

A lot of people in WNY don't need no internet, da yellow pages is right dere yaknow. Also, had someone give me a 7-digit phone number here in Ithaca yesterday; I forgot people did that. I've lived in areas that have multiple overlay area codes for a long time. Related Complaint: back when I used to ride around a lot (especially pre-smartphone), I'd be on a trip and see an advertisement for something useful with a 7-digit phone number. No idea what area code I was in, so couldn't even call if I wanted.

+10 on that, I'm a young (or emotionally stunted) 45. Microsoft Word did what a string of English teachers couldn't: taught me how to use a semi-colon. 🙂 If you want to go down the rabbit-hole, there's an article linked from my previous about "Logical Punctuation". I tend to use it (contrary to American style) based on doing IT/code/etc. work since I was little, good to know it's a legitimate controversy rather than me just being a jerk. https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/05/logical-punctuation-should-we-start-placing-commas-outside-quotation-marks.html

Meh, that was going around several years ago (probably 10). I adapted pretty quickly somehow, and I don't even think about it. Interesting that it's coming back around as "new" and "cancel". Who knows, this may be the article I read back then, not sure: https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/two-spaces-after-a-period-why-you-should-never-ever-do-it.html TL;DR: it was a product of monospace font typewriters in, mostly in the 1950-1980 period before computers came along. Before and after, typographers (people who lay out printed stuff) used proportional fonts (like nearly all computer fonts are now) and it wasn't needed. The various style guides agree on one space, so that's good enough for me.

I doubt you'd be alone. My economics 101 class taught me doubling the price will not double revenue unless the demand is inelastic. The demand for beer and nachos at a Bills game is fairly elastic, people we either pregame more or just skip that second (or fourth through eighth) beer; your revenue ends up roughly in the same place or some moderate gain. Ticket demand, being a constrained resource, are probably inelastic; as long as the Bills are good people will sell the place out.

Jaro Halak.

Data Engineers (as I understand the ones on my team) generally bring in data and clean/process/etc it from whatever format and weirdness it started into something you can use to train models, as well as merge it in with other data. Plus maintain the data set history, etc. Someone above mentioned garbage in, garbage out, and this is taking the raw data and making sure it makes sense. Depend on the job environment, that might extend to other adjacent roles, like developing models and whatnot (which seems to be the case based on that rpubs link above, seems like Mr Barlowe doesn't just massage the data).

Disclaimer: I know nothing of Buffalo restaurants and whatnot; I've been to Salvatore's once or twice a couple decades ago My guess are the ads are aimed at getting middle-class-, middle-age+ men to remember that the place exists for when it's "time to get gussied up and go somewhere fancy", so they're probably doing their job. I'd guess that people in Buffalo that *frequent* upscale restaurants know all the options and their pros and cons already. On the topic of Salvatore's (the original one), it always struck me as what a poor or middle-class person's idea of what a fancy restaurant looks like. Maybe my time being a coastal elite (lol) has made me jaded, but the few really upscale places I've been to were very understated in comparison.

Surprisingly few players with only one game, most of all Joel Armia. Did he really only play one game with the Sabres? And I never got to use my "Armia: One" joke when he scored.

Mark Astley, never gonna give you up. (Only reason I remember him is whatever NHL9x game I had at the time had him on the starting lineup for quick games)

While that looks good on paper, have you ever had some part of your life that just isn't worth the financial gain? For me, it was moving and trying to sell things. In the end, giving stuff away for free was so much easier[0] that while having a bit more cash would be nice the annoyance of it wasn't worth it. It's possible Pegulas are there too, they're sick of running a crappy team (their own part in that to be debated) so they'd rather just sell it or give control away so they don't have to think about it. [0] I'm not talking about high-value items here

What a child.

🤷‍♂️ Who could have possibly predicted this!?

Probably depend on the player. North American players probably value the Stanley Cup for the most part. Everywhere else, most players probably had NHL players or teams they liked, but their real passion is their national league, and country. The FIFA World Cup outshines any of the national leagues there, I don't see a difference for hockey.

FTFY

Tuch-era postponed...

I'm surprised it took this long to cancel it.

82 points probably is a good goal, really. That's "the Sabres played for 2/3 of a season at a playoff bubble place". Given some of the current roster, I'd be pretty happy with that result.

Had a little flood over here, had to throw the wet blankets somewhere. 🙂 (just in case, no actual flood, just a poor joke)

9 points equates to a 11-12 game winning streak, or 11-12 games above average for the rest of the season. How, you ask? To be on playoff pace, you need to capture 1.2 points per game (give or take a few 0.01s depending on the year). Each win is 0.8 points above that number. This isn't insurmountable, but to hit 0.600 points per game (which Boston and Pittsburgh are pacing at right now), the Sabres need 1.37 points per game. Over a full season, that paces 112 points meaning the Sabres need to be one of the top two or three teams in hockey for the next five months.

What I see there is if the Sabres were to play the Leafs every game and maintain their .598 pt%, they'd make the playoffs. Badly worded. There's list which the Tweet calls "most beaten lest", of which the Jest and Eulers are tied at 29.

This is the energy today needs.

I think in this case there's merit. Not Khudobin's merit, but the Sabres really do need NHL-level G and this might be an option. You'd be right if this were a JAG-replacement-level forward, we have metric tons of those already.

Ah, much better.