MattPie

I believe the stock announcer phrase is, "The Kings will take that trade-off all day; their wing for the Sabres current #1 Center". You don't fight the pest if you're on the first line, you draw a penalty and smile at him as he skates over to the box for 2.

Barring major injury again, I think he plays as long as he wants to. Even 75% or even 50% Jack Eichel is pretty good, and if he's up for taking the pay cut I can't imagine there's not a team that'd pay him (say) $4M/yr for second or third line.

I think he went pointless in the first two (hence the demotion, right?), so it's 7 points in 5 games. There's no room on the Sabres for a player that puts up a point a game but falls down occasionally.

Now, if they took that $2M off the Hawks' salary cap for a few years, that'd actually be a punishment.

You should probably stop. It's clear nothing you say is going to get above PTR's FanComplianceFor% threshold. I'm also worried that you might not be meeting FanComplianceAgainst/Bruins% number too, but let's work up to that.

It works for me, not going to pay money to watch, still like the people here enough to visit and keep track of the team. If they team stays good, I might even turn the bandwagon guy in my avatar around and run towards it. There are many noble and ignoble things to spend time on in life. Missing the Sabres this year is neither; spend time on what matters to you.

For my sample set of one, a decent traditional aluminum-blade shovel lasts 15 winters. It was pretty shot and I tossed it before I moved; the top handle had cracked and was taped, the bottom edge of the blade had worn off the riviets a fair bit and was uneven. Still would have worked, but not on a semi-daily basis here.

That's what I did in the Philly area, because it was only a few times a year and when it snowed everything shut down so there wasn't a rush to go anywhere. Now that I'm in CNY and RosePie needs to get to school (via car) every day I don't think I have the luxury to shovel a foot+ of snow before 8AM on a regular basis. I really did enjoy spending several hours digging out though in PA; have a cold beer or two, talk to the neighbors, etc.

I think two things are unfortunately likely to happen: KO and/or Anderson wear down and teams start to figure out a game plan[0]. I voted 20 games, but really that might not be long enough. Right now, the team is a mostly unknown quantity; a bunch guys no one has seen playing a relatively new system for them. Sure, last year, but there's so much turnover. Once there's more tape good coaches will pick it apart. I don't know this team has another level to combat that. But it's fun living vicariously through the GDTs while the good times are here again. [0] if there's a way to game plan around hard work

At some point, the CBA allowed for a 2-week conditioning assignment in the AHL. Seems.. unlikely that the Sabres would send him some other AHL team though. I'm not sure there's benefit there enough to outweigh the risks.

What if he's on the "third" line with 35 or 40 points? For that matter, even using your 50 point season benchmark would we complain if anyone on the Sabres is putting up that kind of production?

In the second phone video of the goal, notice he skates by while the other guys are celebrating to track down the puck and collect it.

Well, the article too, to a degree. But yeah, easily could be "Player doesn't mesh with linemates, moves to different line and has much better results."

If you're going to say that, we're talk 90+ at least.

Interesting, many of the podcasts I listen to have the hosts reading copy (like an old-school radio broadcast), that seems like it'd be difficult to have different copy for different platforms. For that matter, I listen through Player.FM[0] right now, so I wonder how many platforms they shell out for. I wonder if there are slots like sports TV, where there are "national" that are everywhere, but then a set of slots for "local" (platform) ads. [0] I don't particularliy recommend them. It's fine, but sync across devices is a premium feature. Switching phones is annoying. I'm still on them through a combination of inertia and not wanting to tie myself to something like Amazon Music of Spotify that I may change my mind on paying for and similarly have to re-subscribe everything.

Realistically, it can probably go as long as it likes. There's not much required budget for making a podcast, and those two should have plenty of money from their playing days to live a middle-class lifestyle (or more spendy in Rivet's case) that this could make zero money and last forever. I'm not sure if they're employing producers or anything, however.

The Canadian Hockey Media did a fine job of cleaning out my gutters this weekend, I highly recommend!

Not sure on that, lol.

I'm a little wary of the snowblower; I'm sure it'll be powerful enough to move the snow, but if I end up with a longer driveway I'd be worried about running out of electrons. Takes two batteries, so I can't have a spare like the push mower (I have three of the big batteries right now)

Earlier this year, I picked up a battery-powered lawn mower, trimmer, snow blower, and leaf blower[0]. Since then, I can't fathom why "Leaf Blower" isn't a slang term for the "National" Canadian hockey media. [0] They're awesome, BTW. Maybe if I need a riding mower I'll go gas, but never for anything smaller than that.

King Clancy: Jack Eichel

https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/john-cusack-calls-barstool-sports-guy-a-sweaty-belligerent-punk-after-confrontation-at-baseball-game-b1936340 I assume this is normal for Barstool sports, since it fits my worldview.

Nice find. Insurance will insure a lot of things, just maybe with drastically increased premiums. No knowledge of the current situation, but there has to be some premium level that they'd insure the contract. It might be so much (like a significant portion of the remaining contract, for instance) that no one wants to flush that money down the toilet whether it works or not.

Unless I'm not getting it, it's frozen pizza branded Barstool Sports. They may be onto something, for unhealthy processed convenience foods, I definitely feel like those guys[0] would know their stuff. [0] Normally, I'd use "people" or "folks", but somehow I don't think women figure into that bro-fest much.