MattPie

3-on-3 seems to result in goals often enough that I'd be down for 3-on-3 until someone scores, but the NHL is also worried about time and flights and whatnot. The TV people don't want regular season games that go on forever.

I feel like people don't remember the terrible hockey that was overtime before the 2004 lockout. Both teams played the trap in order to not lose a point and it was a miserable 5 minutes of grinding. For that matter, the last several minutes of the game were the same thing. If they did implement 0 points for OTL, you'd see teams skating 1 center and 2 D for OT and skating the puck around in circles in order to keep it from the opposing team.

At the same time, what Bill Peters allegedly said wasn't OK 10 or 20 or 30 years ago either. I haven't been following this soap opera that closely, but I the ones I do know are: Bill Peters used a racial slur towards a player 10 years ago: not OK now or then Babcock allegedly has been bullying players up until his Toronto firing and Franzen commented about how it happened years ago: not OK now, maybe "the culture" was OK then but it's still an a$*(%*# thing to do Crawford allegedly kicked Avery during a game and punched and choked Sopel: maybe that's the culture of hockey too, and is feeding my growing distaste for sports in general. It certainly hasn't been OK for someone to physically abuse another employee at work for decades, I'm not sure I give the guy a pass for it. So what are people complaining about? Essentially, people here are upset that players are speaking up that some coaches are/were gigantic a$(%*$# and they're tired of it. If I had a boss like that, I'd be out of there in a heartbeat. In sports, there's a such a limited number of jobs players don't always have that luxury and even asking for a trade may end your career. Maybe Crawford has cleaned up his act, and that point I guess I give him the benefit of a doubt that he's seen the error of his ways. Peters can go to heck, racists need to be run out of town. I'm less likely to give Babcock the benefit of a doubt if he cleaned up his act in the future since it's now and I'm completely fine with judging him by today's standards.

Good call. The Taro Pie 0.600 now the new meter-stick for a good team. Also: https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/04/taste-test-mcdonalds-taro-pie/

It's time to retire the DeLuca .500, since while it's generally indicative, it has flaws in that if completely ignores OTL points. I'd like to introduce the Pi .600. A team who hits .600 PPG is a good team. You're welcome.

It is wrong that I wish Kane got a better shot in? I'm certainly not an "out for blood" person, but Gudas is one of very (very) few players I wouldn't mind seeing put out of the game with a shot like he normally dishes out.

Hah. Depression is a debilitating illness. At what pay point is "take this job and shove it" OK with you and not a "quitter"? $100k? 50k?

I think that's overcorrection. The Bills are terrible and the Cowboys are awesome - everyone Um, wow, the Bills just laid waste to the awesome Cowboys, they must be awesome too! - everyone The truth is in-between, but I think the Ravens are as actually good as people thought the Cowboys were.

Same here. I haven't been to a game in Buffalo since the 90s. I've seen them @ NYR, Philly, DC, and Carolina since then though.

Since I went to a Canes game that one time, this year they've decided to start sending me promo emails. I've been invited to "Skate with the Canes" day where I can go to the rink and skate and whatnot. How do you think they'd feel if I showed up in a Buffalo sweater?

Is there really not a Don Cherry thread yet, or did it get created, heated, and implode?

25-10-47 = 97 points.

I had a friend that ended up the Director of Communications for the Rochester Arts Council that way... Good luck!

I can't believe we're three pages in and no one has mentioned Sabres greats John Scott and Nathan Paetsch.

I suppose it may end up changing the NHL's draft rules though. There's a better path for a player to stick it out in the NCAA for 4 hours and be UFA now. If I'm at year 3 and making some ad dollars, maybe I stick around for year 4 and choose my NHL team. I wonder if the NHL will switch over to something more like the CHL rules for NCAA players.

I hear (that, not our) Taro's not doing well these days; he's barely more than a root vegetable. (I'm here all week, folks!)

If the players are wearing actual play jerseys from the 70s, I can totally see bringing players back too. Eichel and Perrault skating in away and home #11s seems like a slam dunk.

This is correct, for most Cast type models (Chromecast from an app, etc.) your user device (phone, browser) just tells the cast software in the TV/stick what to do. If you're running a duplicate screen via HDMI, Cast Screen, or some wireless screen protocol, your user device is doing the work and just displaying on the TV. Full vs. Sabres shouldn't matter, they're not streaming all the games to you at once. I think think of a few things that may be affecting things, such as some other wifi in your area popped up since then (your neighbor's new super-high-power wifi interfering with things, air traffic control[0], etc.), or the NHL package upped the bitrate on the feed and your internet/wifi/device can't keep up. For intance, maybe the NHL is streaming 60fps or 1080p now and wasn't before. I'd try eliminating pieces to see if you can narrow it down: Try watching on a computer wired to your router (eliminates wifi, casting issues) Try watching on (hopefully the same) computer over wifi (eliminates casting issues) Check if being close or far to the router matters Try a recorded game vs. live (I seem to remember the recorded games working better, probably because they're not trying to keep the feed so close to real time) If there are options for the stream quality, try reducing things. [0] IIRC, some airport systems are next to the 2.4GHz wifi frequency bands so there can be interference.

I'd go all-in and do a third with three of the current logos howling at a full moon.

This seems appropriate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2008

Check there!

SO much work stress this week, even on a Friday. ;)

I think it started before, but 15 years ago, ESPN could be profitable by just airing sports and showing highlights because there wasn't another way to consume that. Now with Youtube/streaming you don't need to tune into a TV channel to catch a show. So they made it about the people (either their own people or the sports) to men (mostly) can get into their soaps. There's almost surely a link to the Dennis Miller era for Monday Night football too, where media companies decided that people need to be entertained *while* watching sports rather than just getting extra info about the game they're watching.

Interesting article. I don't doubt the conclusion, although I think the method is a little suspect. It calls any game where teams are on opposite sides of .500, which would include a bunch of evenly matched games. Since it's talking football, the example would be a 6-5 team vs. a 5-6 team. This doesn't strike me as a trap. It'd be interesting to re-run the numbers using (say) <.400 teams vs >.600 teams for true mismatches. Additionally, using football with limited numbers of games doesn't seem ideal. Not for statistic issues, but that it seems less likely that the Pats will flub a game against the Dophins since there are only 16 vs. the Sabres flubbing the Rangers tonight in game 12 of 82.

The after has a very Gone with the Wind feel to it for some reason.