MattPie

Reading through these, I'm glad I didn't post anything; I would have been way too optimistic.

Heh, no problem. Even with that spread, I'll wager that you'd make up that extra $800/mo on home expenses. Furnaces roof, along with the little stuff like lawn care (seed, fertilizer), landscaping, minor repairs, dishwasher, etc.. I'm not sure if you $1000 included property tax and whatnot too. They always quote you the mortgage price, but neglect to mention the (around here) $500/mo you have to sock away for property and school taxes. In any case, house sale is moving along, repaired most of the stuff the seller wanted so far, getting things cleaned out and packed. I went the "pod" route to try it out. Unless it goes pear-shaped, seems like a great deal. For +-$100 more than renting a truck, I get the pod for a month, and since it's local, they pick it up on a scheduled day and drop it at the new place 1-2 hours later direct.

I'm guessing Risto has a ton more ice time, since he plays like 33 minutes per game.

I saw that after I finished the seasons looking up the show info. I'm a stickler for spoilers so I often avoid reading anything about a show before I've watched it. I'm also now resisting the urge to start buying/borrowing all the books.

Amazon Web Services, essentially when people say "Cloud". They're pretty similar to the other AWS ads, just with an accent. "G'day, my web sahvices go faster than shimp on the barbie, mate, and AWS helps mah keep up." FYI: listening to "London Calling" album currently; I thought you'd appreciate that. I'm not sure it's changing everything for me yet, but I dig it.

I think that's "knoughn".

If you click on a Midnight Oil album in Youtube, you start getting *Australian* AWS ads instead.

The Expanse is a decent watch, which is a surprise coming from SyFy. It's a different take on space opera, being set in within the Sol system (our solar system) and using "plausible" technology (rail guns, nukes, and thrusters, not blasters, photon torpedos, and warp drives). Three seasons (up to current) on Prime video, maybe other places too.

MUST BOTHER TO REMEMBER TO WATCH.

If my wild, no-information speculation is correct, not really. The Canadian kids that are "sure things" are gone by the second round and then it's a crap-shoot with various European leagues hoping players can adapt their game. Using 25 legit players per team, there are only 775 players total. I'm not sure how much turnover there is per year, but it's not inconceivable that there are only 75-100 open spots per year to be filled. Someone with more time could probably query how many players with >300 games retire/quit/etc each year; the rest is churn of "temps" that come in and don't make it. I looked quick but didn't see anything obvious to find a team roster with career games played to see how many were vets and how many are newbies.

https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/BUF/draft.html There does seem to be a miss starting in 2010. I'm not expecting the last few years to have hit yet, but prior to 2010 there were a lot more hits in round 3 or later. I wonder if it's overall better scouting across the league. With so much video and information around on the internet, it's less likely there are diamonds in the rough. I started looking at other teams teams, and I'm seeing fewer players post-2010 in the later rounds too. One notable is Minnesota 2010 pick, Johan Larssssson. The Coyotes, Bruins, and Wild have little to show from their 3+ round picks too.

Nice article. I really wanted "Don Perry" to be the OCR misspelling Don Cherry's name, but apparently he was an actual coach.

Same here.

I'm only pointing out they're less efficient at protecting the slot than NHLers not playing for Buffalo. That's hardly an insult.

I took "house hockey" not 12U as the insult there, but if you like, yeah, take the age out of that and it still stands.

@MODO Hockey , depending on how October 2019 goes it might be a better atmosphere in Sweden than in Buffalo.

It's the Route 14 Bus, stopping at Lancaster, Paradise, and Kinzers. http://www.redrosetransit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Route-14-weekdays-8-28-17.pdf

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year season to come, whispering that it will be happier.

My house is under contract, inspection results tomorrow. It's a great time to be going back to renting.

Will he assimilate?

A friend refers to it as "the bus station of the skies", lol.

I suspect those things are related. If you're affulent enough to take off work and travel to another country for a sporting event, you might as well get some middle-class shopping done while you're at it.

Yeah, those Leaf fans don't know how to lose 4 of 5 like we do. Let's Go Buffalo!