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9 hours ago, Doohickie said:
That's true; fixies are passé. Gravel grinders are where it's at these days.
Very true, which is why I have one. It'll be sad when it's not cool any more because I really quite like the bike lol. I hear ATBs are the next new thing; all the versatility of a gravel bike without the expensive integrated controls!
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2 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:
Yup, they would get impaled on steering wheel.
IIRC, at some point that stopped making the steering wheel shaft a solid piece, and made it telescope. Because when the front of the car is compressed, the solid shaft would push back into the passenger compartment like a javelin.
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12 minutes ago, triumph_communes said:
Guy who spent four years in college wanted to spend another month to graduate. Total non story. Sabres all the way.
I'm the first person on my mom's side of the family to go to and graduate college. I never really felt it, but to a lot of my relatives it was a really big deal. I don't know it has anything to do with this, but there are reasons the guy may have wanted to finish it out. Another is if he washes out he has a college degree, and not "a bunch of credits and a semester of incomplete classes".
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10 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
I'm gonna say ejection and hitting a stationary object.
I'm betting it's not ejection, but impact on dashboard/steering wheel.
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2 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
Let me guess, the hipsters on their fixies hang out there?
Somewhat. 🙂 The hills here are too steep for fixies to be a big thing, lol.
My local gravel ride happy hour has been there before, along with the local MTB club. It's a bar in downtown Ithaca that doesn't blast music or serve Lite beer, so most of the people aren't there for the bikes. 🙂
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10 hours ago, Doohickie said:
Not sure if this is a thing in WNY, but a lot of bars and craft brewers open early on the weekends to host soccer watching parties for the Euro matches, and they're a pretty big draw. For a lot of people they don't know much about soccer; they just want a beer at 9 am on Sunday (and due to a law passed during Covid that's now possible in Texas).
Not really WNY, but the Bike Bar in Ithaca (it's bicycle-themed strangely enough) has the games on in the morning. I wouldn't know if I didn't follow them on Insta (they do occasional bike rides) however.
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On 5/27/2023 at 10:05 AM, Wyldnwoody44 said:
It's a similar argument to the seat belt, in PA "I belive" you don't need a helmet but must wear Eyewear. That makes complete sense. A helmet protects me, but again, if over 18, it should be my call.
IIRC, in PA you can ride without a helmet as long as you have had your motorcycle endorsement for two years. Interestingly, it also applies to passengers but I find it unlikely that all those back seats riding around without a helmet went through the test process to get one.
On 5/27/2023 at 11:59 PM, SwampD said:I think if anyone makes it to 79, they should be allowed to kill anyone one they want.😂
That would line up with my preconceptions of Texas. 🙂
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I was there in 2018 for a conference (granted, not a great sample just being around downtown), but it was a fun city to hang out in for a week.
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I don't pretend to know the ins and outs of player availability, but it's always appeared that players could jump "up" a league right into the playoffs if needed. The rule is almost entirely about teams not loading up their AHL team with NHL talent after they're out of the playoffs (going "down" a league, so to speak). Teams can play guys from a lower league at any point from what I can tell (see Doug Janik, 2006, Buffalo Sabres, played 0 regular season games, 5 Playoff games).
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5 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
The only thing that might make an all star game in any sport interesting to me would be if they had them play a different sport.
The Hockey all star game could be a basketball game. The basketball all star game could be hockey. Baseball players could play football and vice versa. Mix and match. Now that might be fun. Otherwise, I skip the whole thing every year and wish it didn't exist.
Legend has it the Leafs have an internal All-star golf tournament secheduled every year for late May.
50 minutes ago, French Collection said:I would rather watch them golf than play the all star game.
I never want to watch anyone golf.
5 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:Don't the NHL do a world vs North America format once?
Yes, they did. I can't remember if it was in the 90s or late-2000s, whenever it was I remember the Sabres being good. That narrows it down a lot.
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20 minutes ago, JujuFish said:
That's not bad, but since the NFL insists on doing things like London games, I still think a neutral 17th game is better.
It's be interested if the neutral sites games weren't necessarily NFL facilities too, although though may be difficult in some cases. But you could play overseas neutral, Canada, Mexico, US places that don't have an NFL team (like Salt Lake City or the Meadowlands). On the infield at NASCAR tracks, minor league baseball stadiums... you know, maybe not.
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8 hours ago, Claude Balls said:
Just a reminder Flagg, this is Rochester, not Buffalo. We call it "490", not "the 490". Calling any interstate "the" is such a Buffalo thing. 😆
It's not just interstate! I grew up down the 400.
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12 minutes ago, IKnowPhysics said:
Nobody's slowing *****. The league will (and has to) claim that the team is staying until the last moving box is loaded into the station wagon. You can't tell the one fan that maybe they'll stay, we'll see. Daly will die on that hill until they unveil the new locked-in location and it's time to market the new logo.
But even if they do move, it's the middle of May. Preseason starts in four months. The league releases it's schedule in two months. The team likely wouldn't be able to logistically coordinate a move that fast anyways without a plan already in place, so Daly's not technically incorrect. 2024-25, however...
Super-unlikely they're not playing in AZ next season.
QuoteOn February 10, 2022, the Coyotes signed a three-year agreement to play their home games at Mullett Arena, beginning with the 2022–23 NHL season.[8] The additional cost of completing the arena to accommodate the Coyotes was approximately $19.7 million, which was paid by the team.[2] During the Coyotes' tenure in the building, it officially has the lowest permanent seating capacity in the NHL.
Deals can be broken, but it's not like there's a pressing need for the Coyotes to move for 2023-24.
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1 hour ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:
OTOH the Penguins are a train wreck right now - salary cap issues, no talent in the minors, overpaid veterans, etc. - and they are going to be a train wreck for several years. The GM position isn't as desirable as you may think.
7 minutes ago, Weave said:?????
There are only a couple of them open every year and they pay exceptionally well. Noone that wants to be a GM is going to turn down a GM job unless they have another GM offer.
Exactly. Plus, if you're the kind of person that wants to be in charge, you don't turn down the opportunity. If the GM navigates it well, they become a highly-desirable GM down the road for any team with a tough situation. I think the only way someone turns down a GM offer is if the ownership is terrible (I don't think that applies to Pittsburgh).
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2 hours ago, Marvin said:
I am trying to figure out how Salt Lake City supports both the Jazz and the Coyotes running at the same time.
Even without the Jazz, SLC is significantly smaller than any (?) other NHL market. it's a little bigger than the Buffalo/NF metro area, but add in Rochester that nearly doubles the Sabres market. Plus, unlike eastern cities there isn't another population center a couple hours down the road. Six hours to Vegas, eight to Denver with not much between.
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I've had mustard ice cream (as part of a dish with a sage waffle and escargo) and ghost pepper ice cream, so why not ranch? I'm not running out to try it though, I don't really like ranch enough to bother.
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28 minutes ago, nucci said:
why do we need a president of hockey ops and a GM?
So we can (hopefully) keep Karamanos by offering an equivalent position.
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43 minutes ago, French Collection said:
Why Nickel City?
Up here Sudbury is called the Nickel City as it is one of the world’s biggest nickel producers.
For awhile in the early 20th centrury, the US nickel had a buffalo on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_nickel
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On 5/5/2023 at 8:00 PM, shrader said:
I asked my wife when we will stop using months when we say our son’s age. She said never. So this made me do the math in my head to show her that there’s clearly a line where you need to stop with months. I realized that I just turned 500 months.
so yeah, I don’t know where that line is, but I’m way past it.
We joked about that when RosePIe was little; I was around 480 months at the time.
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On 5/12/2023 at 9:18 AM, Zamboni said:
Fun fact. Rob Ray did not want to be a fighter or goon when he reached the NHL. But because his lack of “skill” compared to his peers, he found a way to get a call up to the Sabres and stick. So he did not by nature have that mentality or view on life when he was drafted by the Sabres. Once he made the Amerks, that’s how he found his niche and a way to stay a pro hockey player and eventually get called up by the Sabres. I’m sure he’s not the only example of someone who did not want to fight, but there was no other way to stay a pro hockey player.
From what I've seen, NHL All-Star John Scott falls into the same category. Undrafted, played through College (Mechanical Engineering) caught on for a bit in the AHL and then NHL, and made a career out of it. Not because of his playing ability. His autobiography is titled "A Guy Like Me: Fighting to Make the Cut". Georges Laraque seems like a similar personality.
There are probably more enforcers out there that this describes than you'd think. Now, if we want to talk about "rats", the story may be different.
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20 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
Is Roch still the Lilac City?
I've heard Buffalo called the City of No Illusions.
I saw the latter on a list, but have never heard that one before. Buffalo is living under the illusion that anyone outside WNY who wasn't born there cares about Buffalo, so there is that. 🙂
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Ithaca, "Ten Square Miles surrounded by reality"
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5 hours ago, Brawndo said:
The final option would be a tournament of non playoff teams where the teams that finish 32-26 play for the Top 8 Picks and 25-17 play for picks 9-16.
This would give non playoff teams extra games for additional revenue with the extra games, make each series the best of three with the higher seed getting games one and two at home and the lower seed getting game three.
Yes I realize there is no way in hell the NHL does any of this.
I bet you'd see even more gymnastics towards the end of the season if you're sitting in 25th place, it'd be pretty enticing to the org lose a few games and possibly be the best team in the hunt for the big prize rather than playing for picks 9-16.
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On 5/11/2023 at 8:40 PM, JohnC said:
An interesting issue is how does Torts fit in with the new appointees who are now his bosses? What happens when Torts is instructed to play the younger players more? If his response is no because he is trying to win more games, is this front office going to quickly dispatch him? It's my impression that Torts is a strong-willed and stubborn person who doesn't seem amenable to being told what to do. It's going to be interesting to see if this new configuring of the staff meshes with the current coach.
I think Jones and Torts would be on the same page being dinos, not sure about Briere. But we only really know what torts is; no idea how the other two will look compared to their peers.
The even randomer thread
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Something tells me this thread inspired the poll. Likely the incredulity that someone would not wear a seat belt.