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I wanted to pick ridiculous languages which aren't COBOL -- I deliberately omit that from my resume because I don't want to deal with it unless it is an extreme emergency. TBH, the only reason I used Python was because it is the one language you can use across the board in the tech stack. I prefer every language you listed to Python.

Oh, man. That is horrible.

I deleted my last political rant. It is not appropriate for the board. However... I am tired of people twisting every gaffe by ownership as a reason to slam their character. You don't like how he made his money? Fine. I am not thrilled either. But I understand why he did it. There are lots of good reasons to be angry with the Pegulas, how they have handled the team, how the team has performed, etc. But that is a reflection of their hockey management acumen, not their character.

I could write it in PDP-11 assembler or APL, if those are preferable.

#!/usr/local/bin/python import sys games_left = 27 num_losses = 13 while( games_left > 0 ) : num_losses += 1 games_left -= 1 print( "number of games left = " + str( games_left ) + "; consecutive losses = " + str( num_losses ) + "." )

<PoliticalBecauseItNeedsToBeSaid> We need more people like the Pegulas in NYS. We need lower taxes, less regulation, and everything that helped them become billionaires. IF they are bad people, I want more people like that changing the employment culture in NYS and bring us to the 1980's. I am sick and tired of NYS chasing people out of upstate with such gusto because of our idiotic politics. I want Buffalo to be a business hub again. </PoliticalBecauseItNeedsToBeSaid>

Great info! Thanks, PA! The original is apparently credited to Bud Wilkinson after WW II. Hank was one of the first to make it work in the pros. We Bills fans, unfortunately, can remember the No Name defence throttling teams for many seasons. Joe Collier, another failed Bills head coach, also did a lot with early 3-4 defences about the same time.

Good job from PHam for noting the lack of attention to detail. He says it goes back to DDB. For those who point the finger at Jack et al., he had some grist for your argument: sloppy play in practises is tolerated. We need to have guys who don't think that's acceptable. But the coach needs to do it first because then those who don't accept the bad practises feel emboldened. I recall that Nolan used to stop practises so often because guys were so far out of position in drills that it got on some nerves. Were those players, coaches, GMTM's guys, the Pegulas, or who? This drives me nuts. My friends and I were harder on each other in a frozen back yard than these guys are.

IMHO, Ringo and Stephenson did the best they could with teams whose morale was undermined by mercurial decisions by RCW Jr. They may not have been good coaches, but they weren't that bad. Addendum: I don't recall Harvey Johnson. They were all successful co-ordinators, so at least their appointments in the circumstances made sense.

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Hank might have been the worst Bills coach ever.

Sadly, it is a special event for the Sabres.

People forget that their goons were tireless checkers who played a very simple game aside from the hook-and-hold to compensate for their lack of skill. They were a goonier version of the 1996-2001 Sabres except that they had a top line of HoFers and a good 2nd line.

Every team should put in their guys in scoring droughts or looking for their first NHL goal out against us.

IMHO, they are not rubbish -- but you have to read they with a bit of skepticism. For instance, Dallas Smith had great underlying numbers for most of his career as a defenceman. The caveat is that his partners were Bobby Orr and Brad Park. Similarly, you can imagine that Dave "Cementhead" Semenko's good number might have had something to do with his linemates Jari Kurri and Wayne Gretzky. Some of Martin Brodeur's number were a byproduct of the Devils' defence. On the other hand, every metric in existence tells you what you already knew about Dominik Hasek: He is the best goaltender ever since shots on goal have been recorded. It also confirms that the 1997-8 Sabres really were a mediocre team with a GREAT goaltender. It also may tell you something unexpected. For instance, in the 1981 Canada Cup, Gil Perreault was hands down the best player in the tournament before he got injured and it wasn't close. Not Trottier, Gretzky, Lafleur, Robinson, Potvin, KLM, Fetisov, Kasatonov, Salming, Steen, Kurri, etc. Nobody.

I have a list of 8. Many of them come under, "look like you are more cohesive than a drunk beer league team."

I am a hockey systems guy. There are various systems that give a decent structure for the players to work within. They are obviously looser than they are in football or basketball, but they still exist. I can tell you, loosely, what the strengths and weaknesses of the basic systems. Consider me an educated, but still naive, amateur. My Background: I was lucky enough to be at a hockey camp where Fred Shero and Floyd Smith were featured trainers. Bad news -- Shero outclassed Smith in ways even a 10 year old could see. When I was at University of Maryland, Bryan and Terry Murray allowed me and other UMd players go to their Saturday practises and game-day skates to watch and ask questions. (Yes, I did meet GMTM there.) At Michigan State, Ron Mason had open practises for students, so I watched them and asked him questions afterwards. He was always very free with information. Moreover, the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Math Department I was in was also a junior hockey coach who organised the coaching clinics run by Mike Ilitch, whom he went to college with. So we spent hours (and I mean hours) converting hockey structures into precise mathematical/statistical models. He was a differential geometer and I was an applied guy who could create models and run simulations, so we melded perfectly. Also, we were doing what we now call sports analytics in 1992.

Why is this forgotten?

Dahlin does not have NHL-level positioning instincts yet. IMHO, they have deteriorated since Housley was canned.

I know someone who sets up appointments. Let us say that the distribution of the vaccine across the state would not be an optimal solution to a transportation problem in an introductory operations research course for industrial engineers, applied mathematicians, and statisticians.

One is in WNY; the other is in NYC.

Yes. My sisters are two of them. One of them has multiple co-morbidities, so I am very pissed. There is no excuse for this level of abject incompetence.

Skinner-Eichel-Reinhart Olofsson-Cozens-Ellis Ellis-Ruotsalainen-Quinn Ellis-Ellis-Ellis I'd live.

Who might be this year's Sheldon Keefe? How would you feel about Chris Taylor?

Rick Dudley asked. Someone rebuffed him. Honestly, I would consider taking Darcy back. That feels unhealthy to me, though.