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That is probably the best. Skepticism as the default.

In Game 3 of the 1973 Playoffs between Montreal and Buffalo, Frank Mahovolich received a truly unique bench minor. What was it for?

Both of the elimination games for our series against Vancouver are on YouTube.

The third was Gary Bromley.

Why not let the league stabilises after the last expansion first? I never understood that.

He was correct. The only national hockey pundit in 2005-6 who I saw had written that the Sabres could make the playoffs explained that, "never under-estimate Lindy Ruff's ability to get blood from a stone."

I can speak to this from the point of view of both the accuser and the accused. In 1995, I was accused of sexual harassment which I did not do in grad school. I had a roomful of witnesses (the student visited me during Chess Club), including a couple of undergraduate females, but that did not matter to the disciplinary board. The long history of praise on student evaluations from female students for not being sexist did not matter either. On the other hand, the level of discrimination in academia against religious people is worse than Conservativism, Inc. says it is. And pure mathematicians openly discriminate against applied people. In 1989, I had several professors tell me that I did not belong in mathematics grad school for one or both of these reasons. I complained to the Director of Graduate Studies, but without a recording or something from them in writing, I was SOL. The fact that I was politically only slightly left of centre at the time was also an issue for many professors. (I am now centre-right for the US.) My advice: record everything so that any malfeasance is on the record.

Furthering your point: the biggest racist I have ever known was my Chinese grandmother. She called me a half-breed to my face in front of my Chinese relatives. She looked down at every other nationality, skin colour, etc., but held a specific contempt for Caucasians. She knew the struggles of the capitalist Chinese forwards and backwards, but she was somewhere between oblivious to aggressively ignorant about any other group. And she thought that she treated people equally, but it was relative to the elitist hierarchy in her mind.

True. I stand corrected

I think that waiting for the evidence to come is the best course.

It makes me wonder how much of Babcock's coaching prowess was more about Niklas Lidstrom being an all-time great.

Columbus may regret this hire sooner rather than later.

Not cool if true. Very not cool.

Drat. How do you manage to stay more than 4 years younger than I am, SDS? 🙂

Fun piece of trivia: the centre red line was not allowed to be solid red for decades because people could not tell the difference between the lines on a black & white TV set.

Welcome back!

There are some big differences that favour the 2005-6 team: 1. Miller was older than Levi. 2. Drury has won a Cup. 3. The 2005-6 team was a more veteran team, particularly on defence.

@LGR4GM I find @mjd1001's arguments very persuasive. 10% above $8.08M is a shade under $9M. Why not a hair more than that.

I wish there were an emoji for something like "very interesting" or "fascinating."

Just wondering what the black-red-silver-white dark base uniform would look like with the original insignia and the traditional blue-and-gold dark base uniform would look with the black-red-silver-white demonic goat.

I loved football. But after the NFL screwed Dr. Omalu with CTE, the callousness of the football world (many fans included) towards the toll football can take on the players, and the perpetual over-saturation of the NFL, I am on the verge of hanging up on it.

You may be right, but until someone else reports it, expect to be called out on it routinely. Learn the lesson of a poster on HFBoards. Very shortly after game 6 against Carolina, he reported that Jay McKee would miss game 7 with a staph infection. Until it was confirmed 12 hours later, he took a lot of flak. And he had never been wrong before and has never been wrong since. Virtually none of us have a spotless track record; this, if you with a lesser record keep cramming this down people's throats, you can expect a lot of negative reactions. Oh, and don't be insulting because someone disagrees with you.

This thread would be far more credible if it came from people on the board who are relatively "in the know".

Total of both.