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Korpisalo now owning and building the record. Jones may have a shot at the TOI record (they said something in the 60's is the current record.)

I'll worry more about the entertainment value of playing against better players once the Sabres have won a, singular, one Cup. For those who woke up this week, the main issue with this year's lottery (vs. any other recent year's) is that they split it in two, the first half of which was well before the "qualifier round" games. It would be like holding it in late March when seven teams have been mathematically eliminate, using a placeholder for those still battling for a spot. The 'qualifier round' was technically not the playoffs (even the NHL logo changed last night), but rather replaced the stretch run that didn't get played out due to COVID. Think of it as the Penguins, Oilers and Nashville crapped out down the stretch, while Montreal, Chicago and Arizona went on amazing runs. The 15 teams that aren't playing in the Conference Quarterfinals are all lottery teams, as usual. The probabilities were the same. However, because those eight teams weren't decided at the time of the initial lottery, they used placeholder and are now giving them an even shot. Since they are seeding 9th-15th by regular-season record, they should have either (a) used those for determining who got the #1 by the slot that won, i.e., Florida as 12th, or (b) had a single placeholder initially with the total probability of 8th-15th (24.5%), and then held a weighted lottery: Minnesota: 24.5% (6.0/24.5) Winnipeg: 20.4% (5.0/24.5) NY Rangers: 14.3% (3.5/24.5) Nashville: 12.2% (3.0/24.5) Florida: 10.2% (2.5/24.5) Toronto: 8.2% (2.0/24.5) Edmonton: 6.1% (1.5/24.5) Pittsburgh: 4.1% (1.024.5) Really, though, they should have just waited, assigned the above probabilities (the originals in parentheses, not the new recalculated ones), and then run the whole lottery today. Edit: my (b) option would be difficult due to the 2nd and 3rd overall picks probabilities being affected by which slot won first.

Best of the big name (McD, BK, Wendy's) fast food burgers. Plus, those little onion rings are great (especially if you put them on a burger with BBQ sauce.) Other that, though, they pretty much suck.

Well, they did have a 6.50% chance of picking 1st vs. 3.06% for the 8 remaining. As I said before, it was holding the "first phase" of the draft lottery before the qualifier round was over that made it seem f'd up. The whole thing all should have been done tomorrow.

Lost in "Qualifier" round = failed to qualify = missed. Q.E.D. Yeah, not crazy about that possibility. However, had the season ended normally with them out of the playoffs, they would have had a chance to jump up to #1, too.

Just to clarify ... we can say that the Maple Leafs missed the playoffs, right?

Hit (if you could even call it one) didn't look bad at all, but his reaction after it sure did. One of those cases where a skate catches wrong and a joint is asked to do something that it should.

Read that article, too. One quote worth noting: They likely weren't sleeping with masks on and were in a cabin together all night. Plus, singing and cheering, where you're forcefully breathing out ... It's concerning, but there were some factors that you hopefully won't see at schools (ours has said that it is unlikely that there will be performing arts in the foreseeable future.)

Why isn't this the 'Stanley Cup Qualifiers 2020 Thread'? ? This is like watching the end of the season, after the Sabres have been officially eliminated, to see who makes the playoffs. Wake me when the actual playoffs start ... ? (In all seriousness, I forgot that they had started.) Edit: apparently, that's because they haven't really started.

Microsoft Explorer, the internet browser, was replaced by Edge. Edge uses Bing as its default search engine, since it is a Microsoft product. I use Bing within Firefox and/or Chrome.

All search engines frustrate me, but they do it in different ways. I like to mix it up.

Of course! After all, I just found it with, ironically, Bing. ?

You might need this ...

What a pain in the @ss. Edit: meant to say ... What? A pain in the @ss?

Got bored, so I messed with this unrelated Kraken to get ... The Skyneedle integration wasn't the best, but you get the idea. ETA: alternative coloring

I haven't read a single post in it, but from the title, I would start here: (Note: I linked to Pg. 7, since the thread started in 2018, but the posts on pg 7 and 8 are from 2020.

In some cases, that might be true. However, in many cases, there are (or can be) some multiple of two number of classes (homerooms) per grade. So, you have half the homerooms' teachers there on M/Th and half on T/F. On their off days, they are teaching online. It gets harder with more specialized teachers in older grades.

A key part of these plans is that half the kids will be on one two-day pattern, while the other half will be on a different one. So, it will look like: Monday: Group A in school, Group B online Tuesday: Group A online, Group B in school Wednesday: Group A and B online, School cleaned heavily Thursday: Group A in school, Group B online Friday: Group A online, Group B in school This reduces the maximum number of students on buses, in school, etc, to half. Plus, it gives a good cleaning in between.

Note: Not my concepts. Some violate good practice "rules" (no words, no sticks, etc.)

My point was that we are in a stronger position now, with several key players (in particular, Jack) being more developed than they were then. It was too early to make those moves. Additionally, the O'Reilly trade (to bring him in) was a great trade on it own merits. It was the set of moves, in total, that Murray made, combined with Botterill trading the one piece from them that actually panned out for relatively little in return, that put us in the bad position. I agree that making lots of that type of move (as Murray did) is a bad idea. However, individual ones at the right time can have a big (positive) effect. If we can get a legit second-line center, who can effectively cover (not just fill in) that spot for 2-3 years until Cozens is really ready to take it, we'd be notably better off.

Let me preface by saying that there's no way that I make the proposed trade, but ... There is a big difference between 2015 and now. Jack was literally just coming into the league, Sam was in just his second season and we had no Dahlin. Fast forward a few years and and that exact player was the biggest thing we were missing over the last two seasons, and will be again, if we don't bring someone in. Also, while it was too soon, the biggest problem was the number of moves made all at once. If you look at the O'Reilly trade in isolation, it would have hurt our prospect pool, but wouldn't have emptied the cupboard.

Fixed it to stay in this thread, rather than being deported to the politics thread (note: I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with the initial statement.)

'Sex', which has been interpreted as including sexual orientation and gender identity, is the protected class. Title VII: "It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." While generally enacted because of mistreatment of minority groups within these classes, the law does not specify that one must be a member of a minority group to claim wrongful treatment based on a protected class. It may be harder for someone in the majority class to show that they have been discriminated against, but as far as I know (not an attorney), they can still successfully claim discrimination.

Because they did just a little better, on average, in their games. Yes, it's arbitrary, but when you look at the fringe teams, the cutoff is always arbitrary. There are normally 16 total (8 per conference) because 2^3 = 8, not because there's (necessarily) a real distinction. Here, they said that not finishing the season meant that there was some uncertainty left, so they added a round to settle things at the (expanded) fringe. They could have included more, but they also could have included fewer. Having half of the 8 locked in and then the other half get picked from a group of 8 in an extra round is reasonable.