DarthEbriate

If into the @Randall Flagg recordings you go, only pain will you find. And we'd still have Berglund for ... two more seasons?... this deal is getting worse all the time. Until now, as all the big salaries are off the cap and we have our draft pick out of it. The other sad part is to look at the UFA centers this offseason. Having money to throw around on them isn't exactly the most interesting idea. It almost certainly requires a trade to land a 2C. And I like Mitts, but until he plays a full 200-foot game in Rochester he doesn't deserve to get back to Buffalo.

It's pretty obvious that Uncle Jason Lars and Aunt RaKru are going to have to be fired in order to get ***** the farm and exploring the Stanley Cup Alliance... I like the rosy view better. The ... nightmare... feels a little to close to home.

I think this new defenseman is going to work out fine. In face, I was also thinking about our agreement. About me staying on another season. And if this defenseman does work out I want to transfer a D to another team this year. You mean this summer before the harvest? Sure, there's more than enough D-men.

Glad her health has returned! Mmmm... scalloped potatoes and Malilbu. Also good with pineapple and Malibu are slices of jalapeno as garnish. If you go for a little spice now and again. This week was birthday week aboard the Ebriate starcruiser. So we did 1st-date-anniversary homemade Chinese dumplings (shrimp/celery, red bean dessert), then ice cream cake and Chicago-style deep dish for hers, then stroganoff and banana cream pie for mine. All very tasty and all homemade because our restaurants are closed and even delivery/takeout is now pretty reduced. She doesn't like banana cream pie, so I'm pretty much just eating banana cream pie at this point.

No player (even Gordie Howe) wins against Time. I really like Simmonds' game overall and I thought he looked fine for us to close the season. He threw some checks and the ice opened up for his linemates here and there. But what I expect of the current Wayne Simmonds is a 4RW who can go up to 3RW for part of the season with injuries. This team needs the next Wayne Simmonds, a power forward coming into his prime. Of course, the caveat would be cost. If JBot can move Okposo's contract and only retain a portion of it for one year and we need a veteran 3/4RW, then sure, swap KO at 6M for Simmonds hopefully for 2M or less.

This Sabres-Sens series is gorgeous. The Senators are really good, and I'm OK with not having to play Hasek in this series (even old Hasek). Connolly and Kalinin are now out of the lineup, but the team is chugging right along.

One of those is not like the others. Schoenfeld has that gaudy career +/-. Sure, it's a meaningless stat on the game-to-game. But +230 in 13 seasons? (And minus only when he was sophomore and an '80s Red Wing.) That's impressive. Sadly, he was before my watching time, so I am uninformed. But he looks steady, steady, steady. Satan was a slick perimeter sniper, but all of his highlight goals that I can remember are in close to the net. And he was also super consistent through the dead puck era. Satan has the better name by far...

They've got a 2:08 Hannan spot and a 2:42 Hasek 70 saves spot. So... just think of the extra time you'll have available. Myself, I might watch the 7-6 Ottawa game tonight. Or... try to sync-watch The Big Lebowski with my Dad tonight. He's starting to get a little stir-crazy.

Perrault, yes. Alas, I can't take Sabres-era-Pominville over Sabres-era Peca. I get the love for Pominville. "Scary good!" A solid ironman streak. Scored a lot in a high-scoring coming out of the lockout. He's a really good player. Peca was eliminating the other team's top line night in and night out. Year after year of 20 minutes/night, all the D-zone starts (45% O-zone for his career vs. 56% O-zone for Pominville), netting 20 G/season in the deadest of the dead puck era, finished with a positive +/- consistently, and add to it the Captain Crunch highlights. Swap them I don't believe it's a contest. Prime Pominville on Hasek's Sabres is a very solid winger. Prime Peca on Miller's Sabres is Drury + the Selkes + the hits. I look at it as I'm picking a one game playoff or a single playoff series. Who do I take? Pominville? Peca. (And again for closure it's all moot because Perrault wins.) Teppo!

I seem to recall getting through security in DTW on my way back home from a work week. By the time I got to the gate the Sabres were winning, and then it was tied as I boarded... and I arrived home hours later to a victory. Can't wait to get to this one, but I'm still beating busy Philly soundly.

I'm not so worried about the every indication statement because we all speak in generalizations from time to time. More focused on the the statistical side. It depends on what you're pulling your data from and what you're pulling your data for. For example, I woke up warm (maybe a light fever) with a sore throat. The throat has lingered for an entire week and I still don't feel 100%. But nothing else. I know a whole bunch of people here in Seattle who have felt crummy in some capacity for at least a day or two since Jan 1st. Were any of them COVID? Maybe. Was anyone I know directly tested? Not to my knowledge. We all just hope we don't spread it to someone compromised and if we get it or got it, that we get by without much fuss. The statistics have to account for all of that. To compare (and my apologies Grandma, for being glib. RIP, Grandma!), my grandmother passed in January. Now, did she die from leukemia with which she was diagnosed in Q3 2019? Or did she die from the cold/flu that became pneumonia in 2020? Or... did she die because she said she never wanted to get to 100, and 2020 rolled around she said "the hell with this" to it all and stopped eating and got sick, which led to being moved to hospice where she died within a week? She made it to a sassy 99 and 10 months, and she'd very likely want us all to think she died of old age. So which statistical category does she get? Everything can vary depending on a certain point of view.

One of the best player names: Michael Funk

This is where I'm at as well. NHL 12 went into the 360 some time ago and started up a campaign to replace all the NHL teams with European teams. Then, the Hamburg Freezers began their affiliation with Rochester. Good times. I was tracking to see what sort of progress was made by the players and picks. Did they become as good as the NHL players once were? Did their salaries work? Did certain draft picks become stars? One fun thing is that the system kept some of those young players and allowed them to be drafted without their likeness and with different stats. For example, I drafted a Nathan MacKinnon that's like 6'5" or something with the final pick of the 2013 entry draft instead of 1st overall. But he's got good stats. I assume he'd have been a top 5 in 2014.

Working. Reading the news and other websites instead of commuting. Planning to organize the bookshelves... Planning to do yard stuff... Planning other house stuff. Lots of quality procrastination! Edit: But I haven't binge-watched anything yet. Not a drop of any specific film franchise.

Game 1... this team doesn't just stick check or wave their sticks at people. They play the body and position and pin. Everyone checks. And very few icings.

It isn't friendly, whatever it is. Five days of peripheral sore throat... it just kind of lingers on. Simply have to keep lobbing off more limbs and kicking it back down. (Edit: into the fifth day.)

I am sorry to hear this --- Good luck and good skill to you in the hunt as this gets underway. This is going to be a weird ripple effect --- first restaurants/little shops that need the constant customer turnover, then the bigger companies that already have allocated project funding that will carry through the short-term, but not be supported for new projects into next year. It'll rebound, and hopefully you land an even better gig on the next bounce. In a hockey parallel, it's kind of like the Sabres offseason. You shut down every restaurant and bar and service for a month --- and whole boatload of folks essentially become free agents. Except --- some of the employers/teams will contract altogether during the lockout, or a new crop of rookies enters the workforce.

These colors bring back great memories of never-say-die hard-nosed teams. Plus, the colors are my jam: full black, lightsaber red. But we look beautiful in these 50th anniversary duds. We just need new memories with next season's squad. And capes. We need capes.

Can this new band be one of those overstocked acts with two drummers, four guitarists, a percussionist, some keyboard players, a keytar synth player, a backing vocal section, and horn section and string quartet on occasional numbers? And does this band write its own material?

Into exile, we all must go.

It's just subconsciously reinforcing the importance of social distancing. We're all on our own little isles for the moment. And at least we have something with carbs... wait, not the light stuff!

This makes me happy. I mean... when we get to the Ottawa series and Carolina and our team starts falling apart with injuries, I'll be sad. But what a run. Listen to that crowd when Gaustad touches a guy, or when Afinogenov carries the puck (in the first 5 minutes). It's louder than for Eichel. Maxim louder than Jack... think about how far we've fallen, and what we need to get back to that day. And build toward it. Thank you for sharing this, @darksabre!

(But, please do stay hydrated) From sunny Seattle, I will report that although sequestered in my cell in the detention area (aka working remote/staying home), I got a sore throat all the same. Is it it? Who knows. But the sore throat was there Friday, weakened, went down to nothing Saturday, and is now back a little bit on Sunday. I intend to kick its ass (again, if it is it) and make mention of power (play) converters again next season and three or four many seasons thereafter. Alas, if all goes the way of the Death Star, I vow to Force-Moulson-Ehrhoff-Ghost all the game day threads with many a Star Wars quote until we win a Cup.

This will be a day long remembered. We've seen the end of Season and we'll soon see the end of the Rebellion. Stay safe out there 'Spacers! And find a new hobby? Hobby, you still with me? Wait, you mean, apart from interjecting hockey threads with Star Wars quotes? (Don't take this one lightly, all signs are it incubates for a long time meaning you can feel great for a week, and even then have only minor symptoms yourself, and still infect those you care about who might not have the system to withstand it.)

Wow. But yes -- the NHL will have to follow suit, there's a lot of stadium/locker room crossover there. Here in Seattle it's already pretty wild (a usual 1 hour commute is in 30 minutes, or pretty much no slow downs whatsoever), so it is only a matter of time until lockdowns are pretty much mandatory for our population to wait it out.