MattPie

I noticed three waves of kids (mostly based on Facebook); there are the people in my graduating class (94) that have fully grown kids that were born in or just out of HS, a bunch more 10 years later at a relatively "normal" age, and then a bunch of the "almost too late" babies within the last 5 years. RosePie is the latter; the window was closing for MrsPie and I.

Ties sucked from the standpoint of watching the last 5 minutes of play. 3-on-3 is fun. I bet the number of Shootouts would drop considerably if 3-on-3 ran for 10 minutes. I don't mind the shootout either; it's a regular season game so why not.

Good idea. I look forward to teams in the 14-16 spots throwing games at the end of the season to be able to wreck the B-league playoffs and get the number 1 pick. I also look forward to teams that are legitimately terrible (like Buffalo and Ott'wa this year) drafting 8-16 forever and only the hope of hitting on franchise-changing players in the middle of the first round to get them out of the basement.

I wish I could find MODO's post about relegation (as MODO (the team) was a few years ago). If I remember right, once the season ended, there was a whole playoff system where the bottom 2 teams facing relegation had to play a playoff series against the top two teams in the SHL-1 league, while teams #3 through 8 or something of SHL-1 played their own playoff brackets. If one of the relegation teams lost their series, they were relegated and I think all the contracts on the team were voided. After, the SHL-1 top-2 played the winners of the 3-8 series for the SHL-1 championship. In NA terms, the Sabres and Coyotes would play the Marlies and whatever other good team right after the regular season ended in a series with an NHL berth for next season on the line.

PA, I think you're the only one hearing those voices.

That's a really interesting idea for the regular season. Still play every team in the other conference twice. I'm not sure how you'd get 4 rounds of playoffs though, so it's a non-starter losing out on the revenue. I guess you could play the two conferences against each other at the end, but 1-8 match-ups aren't always that great. I'm trying to figure some solution where you'd take the losers from the first round and play them against the opposite conference winners, I guess. That doesn't fix the issue where the 8 teams in the premier league that don't make the playoffs are out, but the top 8 in the B-league are in.

Suddenly, I may be in Buffalo around Easter; run to this thread to see if the meet-up is late in March again.

FTFY.

I think that would make the mountains easier to see.

Watching the replays last night, my guess is the review found that Anderson had an opportunity to disengage, but chose to move towards Larsssson leaving the crease (probably to instigate a call). The best shot was the camera to left of the goal, where all three players are facing. I'm surprised the goal stood.

You're a bastard. :)

Are you counting (as presumptive as it may be) Guhle and Nelson in there? Both seem to have some potential.

There's a Facebook group called Internet for RVers or something, there's a lot of good links in there. MrsPie was toying with the idea of doing that to home school RosePie and we'd ramble while I work remote 100%. It's very likely not going to happen, but I'm still in the group (I think). Might want to check in on that; reportedly our current administration's tax plan raises the standard deduction so far fewer people will need/want to write off. I suppose it's good in theory for me, but it means the owning a house has almost financial benefit for me. While I'm on tax policy, the people I know that have run the IRS' new withholding calculator have said the new rules mean that many aren't withholding enough and they'd end up with a nasty surprise next year without adjusting. In a few cases, their take-home is the same as it was before the tax cuts. This. I hate looking way up at a TV, too.

And those dastardly villains were smart enough to take fliers on 4-5 other guys before Johnsson since they knew he'd be that good and still be there! :)

Nope, I want the Leafs to be terrible and not ready. Frankly, I want this game to be a blowout which sends them into a tailspin.

Very cool, thanks. I read Ivanhoe a number of years ago, so this would be an interesting contrast.

I'm worried the Sabres blew it with Boston and Tampa. You know Babcock is saying, "these guys just took it to the best teams in the league; look past them at our own peril".

It'll be tough for NBCSN tonight, homer for the terrible American team without its star, or homer for Toronto whom no one south of Fort Erie cares about.

LOL. It auto-returns at the end of the loan, or you can (usually) return it early via the app. It's all just bits.

It's talked about some above, but the player had to be (on paper) on the Amerk's roster on Feb 26th to play in the playoffs. The Sabres did this with Criscuolo and Baptiste. The Sabres can send guys down after that, but they can't play in the playoffs, and they'd have to pass whatever waiver/no-movement checks.

It's pretty good; Overdrive or the newer (but sometimes slower) Libby apps work pretty well. Generally, you can download the books in epub or Kindle format to use in those readers (like an old-school nook or other phone app), but the books do expire after your loan is done.

The guy was an upstate/WNY guy, and later taught at SUNY Binghamton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner_(American_writer) BTW, I ended up giving up on Tolkein's translation of Beowulf, instead finding an older prose version. Still fairly tough and disjointed, though. I just finished reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, so apparently I'm on an Old/Middle English kick. I found this person who apparently loves translating stuff from a bunch of languages into modern English, which is good for me. His Gawain was pretty good (at least I think), I wish I had found his Beowulf first. https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/GawainAndTheGreenKnight.php

I had no idea until I saw a picture of it after the fact.

Perhaps "catch" is the wrong word, but pucks seem to bounce off Lehner, where others the puck "sticks" to them. That's what I'm talking about. This is an interesting read: http://www.usahockeygoaltending.com/news_article/show/524951

I get the feeling the difference between the OK and the great GTs are the ones that are OK put that rebound where Lehner did, and the greats either "catch" the puck with their pad and can then trap it, or choose the angle of contact so the puck ends up in the corner.