MattPie

1: teams already can (and do) carry a 3rd goalie for the playoffs. I suppose you could expand the rule that in the last N games of the season the team can also have a 3rd goalie on the roster. Frankly, if a team misses the playoffs by a game and they lost in February or early March using their opponents EPUG, cry me a river.

Heh, duh. I even saw a picture of him playing at some point.

It's not going to be your #3 on the depth chart, of course. Many (most?) teams don't dress their #2 as the backup, so this emergency guy is probably #5 on the depth chart. I think there are a bunch of guys (especially older guys) that are never getting out of the ECHL that'd take that gig. That being said, I have no issue with the EBUG rule as it stands; it happens so rarely and it's kinda fun. I have little worry that one regular season game is going to turn the tide of a season for a team; if it truly does there were 81 other opportunities that make it otherwise. Yeah, I suppose the guy could throw the game. I'd think anyone who was on the list would be competitive enough that they'd want to look good given their one shot at 15 minutes of fame that they'd play their best. That's a tough one; look terrible at playing goal vs. possibly being a hometown hero if you stunk up the ice so bad as to let your home team win. For that matter, do we know if the Leafs are Ayers' team? He might be a Habs fan, lol.

7-1-2 and then 7-1-2 again, and then it's *maybe*. I'm there were people that lamented watching game film. "In my day, we sent people to the games. There's no way you can understand a team watching film."

As I'm reading it, quality is on the Y-axis, quantity is on the X-axis. So, the Sabres aren't taking a lot of shots AND they are little below average on quality. The Avs throw everything at the net no matter where they are on the ice. The Leafs/Flames/Canes cluster are throwing a fair number of shots AND they're from dangerous areas of the ice. And yes, Moe-ray-all seems to be doing the right things and may not be getting bounces. You could argue whether their approach or the Leafs/Flames/Canes approach is better with fewer higher-quality chances is better, but they're all on the "good part" of the chart.

So what we're saying is we'd have been fine if Botteril overpaid for Trochek? From the sounds of it, Buffalo and NYI were close and Buffalo needs to overcome the division playoff picture. Not a good look on Tallon if he trades the guy to the team that makes a run and eliminates them from the playoffs. Buffalo would have had to wow them to make that trade.

I agree with everything you've said before, but the likelihood of both Florida and Toronto suddenly being terrible after being OK for 50 games (barring injury or something) is probably less than the probability that the Sables only lose 7 more games this season (92 points). I would have said 10% from the hip, but I'm an optimist. My bold prediction: Sabres miss by 4 with 90, Floronto have 94 and 93 (don't care which is which that much).

Making up 6 points in 20 games sounds easy, but the simple math makes it look daunting. Toronto is on a 94-point pace thus far. I did the math over in the Simmonds thread, but the Sabres need to go 7-2-1 per 10 games for the remainder of the season to pass that. That's a game better than the recent hot streak. I don't think they'll hold that pace. If it were one team, maybe, but the cosmic billiard balls need to line up just right to have two teams flame out at the same time.

That's fantastic.

Goaltender looked really nonchalant until Kahun was well into the slot; do Germans not take wristers in a shootout or something?

Very true. The Sabres played a good 1/8 of the season, and those two (I'll take your word for it) didn't. There's a lot to wonder if this is turning point for three teams or an aberration. I tend to think by now you've seen how these teams are, but I could be wrong.

Toronto is on pace for 94 points right now, and they're not playing against the Zamboni driver every night we'll give them a game over that pace due to playoff run and playing at least one team that's playing out the string. 96 points. Florida is at a similar place with a 93-point pace with a game in hand on Toronto that'd put them at the same number of points (72) with a win in game #63. Let's put them at 95-96 points for the same as above. Buffalo is at 66 points with 20 games remaining. which is an 87-point pace. To reach those theoretical 96 points that's 30 in 20 games, 15 points in 10, for a record 7-2-1, a game better than their last 10. That's not impossible as they've proved over this stretch, but they're going to have to improve this pace to make it. I'll be happy to be wrong.

Not the same one, but...

I think (un?)conciously it's not hard to believe that a player works a little harder or some how gets a little sharper. It's also not hard to believe that their game slips the next year from burnout, relaxing, or extra stress of meeting a new standard.

Kubernetes is Google's FOSS container orchestration engine, and it seems to be rapidly becoming a standard. Docker Swarm and some others are competitors. The gist is: You create a kubernetes config file that says things like, "I want 3 mysql containers, 3 of these custom httpd containers, these data volumes, these network ports, etc" Kubernetes then has a bunch of worker servers that it starts up those containers and allocates the volumes and network, etc. and makes sure they stay up The containers like small VMs where they're built using a script (usually a Dockerfile) the same way every time; in this example the httpd container would for a web app would have something like nodejs or php and part of the build would copy all your website files over The big advantage is once you get everything working, you can create and destroy the containers at will since there's a script that does it for you For software or website upgrades, you build a new version of the container, and then tell Kubernetes to go use that, and it'll take care of it If your site goes viral, you can scale out by just saying "I want 5 or 10 or 50 containers of each now" This is better than I can express it: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/

Often. Now, I have seen... "inefficiency" between hiring managers, HR, and other groups where they don't get back to a candidate as fast as you'd think, but generally that's not the case. Somewhat related as IIRC you're a developer: this container stuff is the bomb. I can't believe how many stupid system problems I've had to fight with for years this should be able to solve. I'm digging deep into it as I'm now responsible for a bunch of Kubernetes container infrastructure and orchestration.

If anyone is passing through Central PA, stop at Knoebels. It's a small amusement part on the scale of FI, but: No admission; rides are X tickets ($1-3) or all-day pass Free parking They don't care what you bring in for food It's the best rest stop in the world for people travelling with a small child.

I think the point here is OtherRandall did the math and figured to stop from X m/s in Y m, the player's body is temporarily at 50 degrees from perpendicular to balance the forces. At least, that's how I took it.

I could have sworn the ice was at least 45 degrees tilted into a Sabres end a few times this year...

I absolutely didn't mean to imply that. My thought was that your line of work is more hazardous because the airborne chemicals are a lot more difficult to filter out.

I'm reading Randall Munroe's "What If?" right now, and it's so much fun. It feels like something our own Randall would be good it. Hockey content: there's no way that you could shoot a hockey puck fast enough to push the goalie into the net. https://what-if.xkcd.com/39/

As I'm sure you know, hospital masks are generally just a screen that filters out particles. If you're worried about not breathing in birds, something like a hockey mask is sufficient. If you're worried about bacteria, a particular grade hospital mask is fine since the screen is smaller that the bacteria. Viruses are smaller yet, but there's no reason a hospital-style mask can't be effective. Chemical masks are a whole different ball game, since those aren't particles. I think you're getting at people who wear a sawdust mask while painting, and wonder why they get sick.

So post the link from usatoday, and not a wingnut ? site. Perception means a lot, and posting links to Eklund's Science Blog isn't convincing, even if it occasionally reposts something legitimate.

A few thoughts: The company I work for put a self-quarantine directive a week or two ago for anyone who traveled to China recently and they're not to come into work for two weeks The flu isn't particularly relevant here, since we understand the flu well enough to know what steps are required to keep it reasonably under control Even now, no one particularly understands how bad Corona Virus is, so we're seeing China and others overreact after not reacting enough initially Using fringe sites for science isn't reliable; if the person in question actually knew what they're talking about they write an article with attribution for a site with at least some standards (I'd think even Fox News or MSNBC would accept an article for someone recognized for knowing what's up) Fringe science sites are for people who weren't good at science in school but blame accepted science instead of themselves

FTFY!