MattPie

That's a good question without a good answer. Traditionally in the USA, it's been white dudes. That has progressed some in the last few decades, but probably not enough. We all bring our own biases. Let's take this example. Is Mullet a jerk? Yes. Can you sucker punch someone? No, it's a crime. There are a number of people that are saying "It's OK because that guy was a jerk." As soon as we go down the "it's OK to commit physical violence or a crime if the recipient isn't likeable" path, we end up in a very dark place.

100% on the bold. Cops/prosecutors/etc are people and some will ignore the law if they don't like the victim.

That one should be changed. Not because of him entirely, just because there are so many of them around. Maybe Bjork? 🙂

Exactly. I doubt the team would have given him a long term deal. There were serious conversations on this board about what we could get for him in a trade (and it wasn't a ton). After that All-star game, it clicked into place and he's what you see today.

This. I saw a Gates Orlando jersey in Carolina Game 1 (2006) and it make my freaking day.

Nah, Varada. 🙂

That's fair, it's not ideal. Unfortunately I'm not seeing a easy dataset to pull from. I still think a lot of people have inflated expectations of what scoring looks like in the league.

Hope is great, but according to this math the average for a #7 pick per 82 games is around 46 points. (128+209)/602 * 82 https://morehockeystats.com/drafts/pickstats

I think that's the point, thnigs need to be corrected. Beane has had a few years to correct the o-line, and drafting might just be a string of bad luck. But if the Bills roll out the same O-line next year, it's a problem.

I'm sure Toronto will be salivating that in 4 years Cozens will force a trade to the Leafs because everyone wants to play there.

Yep, at least the last 30-60 seconds of the 3rd they literally stood behind the net, and the other team had no intention of trying to go get it. Can't figure out what to search on YouTube to find it.

Amazingly, his TOI is much lower this year compared to any other year in his career.

Good question. Maybe take it to your county (?) board of elections, the State AG, or a respectable media outlet (rules out Fox News). That being said, not an entirely uncommon name.

It's the 2023 version of Marty Biron's 2006-07 white goalie mask. Maybe!

Bet that person is furiously hiding the entrance to their secret evil genius lair built under the basement right now.

Didn't feel anything in Ithaca. Kinda disappointed, lol.

It's a bell-end. 😉

I can understand not wanting one. In my experience, buyer pays the inspector $N (N ~= 500), they look at the house, and find at least around $N of things to "fix" and the seller either fixes them or eats it. For the buyer, it's a little work to possibly get some money off the house plus piece of mind. For the seller, it's an immediate deduction from the asking price or an additional cost to them. I still wouldn't buy without one even if it meant missing out on a house.

I think everything that's normally done for a flip is below the threshold for a building permit, and selling as-is doesn't mean you have to meet code or anything. It's scummy, but like selling a house that's badly in need of repair the buyer can buy anything they want, ill-advised or not. I'd probably not buy without an inspection but I understand what the market is like so that's easier said than done.

I mean, looking at that draft, there are (by my rough count) 8 players taken before Lemieux that have played fewer games, and 16 players taken after FOR THE ENTIRE DRAFT that have played more games. VO is not one of those players, but he's only a couple dozen games behind. After the 1st round, it's more likely any player will not play a significant amount in the NHL than will. Even 1st round picks 20-30 that year are 50% to be in the league now. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl2014e.html

There was just some confusion, Tage's Hindquarters are at the upper body level for the rest of the team.

Not impossible, looks like LA, EDM, and VGK are essentially tied for the last two division spots, and there 2 teams 5 points behind for the wild card spots. So it'd take LA and EDM to play a game or two better than VGK to put them into the Wildcard, and COL and CAL a good run (or a bad run by VGK) to be out of the wildcard at the end of the season.

Interesting, I'd make a call and see too. It seems like that might be one too many G in the kitchen next year, with UPL, Comrie, Levi (?), but until you find one that's a legit NHL guy I think you keep looking. Being 27, I assume it'd have to be Comrie and Demko on the Sabres, with Levi and UPL in Rochester given the waiver situation.

There's always a GM that thinks a player is just in a bad spot and it'll totally be different on their team. In fairness, the dysfunctional 2010s Sabres were probably the best chance of that being true, but so far it appears that Jack is Jack. Change of scenery is a thing (Jost), but not always (Risto).

IIRC, at the all-star break in 2017 the Sabres were in 8th place, and then lost a bunch of the next games to quickly put them out of contention. That was the first year of the "Lost Point Countdown".