MattPie

That's actually a real thing; I didn't realize it until somehow my wife got one in junk mail a few months ago. https://www.jpeterman.com

We got missed by this one; maybe an inch of slushy snow over night. Good luck NS!

And Kansas City liked Todd Blackledge more than Jim Kelly or Dan Marino. No one is saying not to move up, but if you do you're risking even more potential assets doing it. You better be sure (and I don't think anyone really is with these guys) you're getting Elway, Kelly, or Marino and not Blackledge, Euson, or O'Brian.

I think we're all in agreement here; don't mind this last deal, but at this point it seems like the QBs are all 50/50 shots (pulling that out of the air, unlike Zay Jones; hey-oooo) so it'd be questionable to make a bigger play at one guy when the risk of failure is significant. Take the best available at 12 (or move up trading some player you may get rid of anyway, or MAYBE use the Tyrod pick to move up a little more), but don't sell the farm on any of these guys. EDIT: I fully expect at least one of the top-6 QBs in this draft to be very good, I just don't think anyone reasonably can predict who with the trade-offs each bring to the table.

So far, unless I missed stuff, they didn't give up a pick in this yet. They've improved their position at the price of losing an existing asset. That's not quite the same as combining picks to move up, where you end up with fewer asset(s) in the end. As a mostly disintrested observer, this seems like a good deal if they weren't happy with Glenn. Combining picks may tougher to swallow as the team needs a bunch of players AND (from what I read here) there's a chance that all the high-rated QBs are Vince Youngs and not Cam Newtons.

It's possible FAs would want to stay away from Cleveland. #BecauseCleveland

I noticed three waves of kids (mostly based on Facebook); there are the people in my graduating class (94) that have fully grown kids that were born in or just out of HS, a bunch more 10 years later at a relatively "normal" age, and then a bunch of the "almost too late" babies within the last 5 years. RosePie is the latter; the window was closing for MrsPie and I.

Ties sucked from the standpoint of watching the last 5 minutes of play. 3-on-3 is fun. I bet the number of Shootouts would drop considerably if 3-on-3 ran for 10 minutes. I don't mind the shootout either; it's a regular season game so why not.

Good idea. I look forward to teams in the 14-16 spots throwing games at the end of the season to be able to wreck the B-league playoffs and get the number 1 pick. I also look forward to teams that are legitimately terrible (like Buffalo and Ott'wa this year) drafting 8-16 forever and only the hope of hitting on franchise-changing players in the middle of the first round to get them out of the basement.

I wish I could find MODO's post about relegation (as MODO (the team) was a few years ago). If I remember right, once the season ended, there was a whole playoff system where the bottom 2 teams facing relegation had to play a playoff series against the top two teams in the SHL-1 league, while teams #3 through 8 or something of SHL-1 played their own playoff brackets. If one of the relegation teams lost their series, they were relegated and I think all the contracts on the team were voided. After, the SHL-1 top-2 played the winners of the 3-8 series for the SHL-1 championship. In NA terms, the Sabres and Coyotes would play the Marlies and whatever other good team right after the regular season ended in a series with an NHL berth for next season on the line.

PA, I think you're the only one hearing those voices.

That's a really interesting idea for the regular season. Still play every team in the other conference twice. I'm not sure how you'd get 4 rounds of playoffs though, so it's a non-starter losing out on the revenue. I guess you could play the two conferences against each other at the end, but 1-8 match-ups aren't always that great. I'm trying to figure some solution where you'd take the losers from the first round and play them against the opposite conference winners, I guess. That doesn't fix the issue where the 8 teams in the premier league that don't make the playoffs are out, but the top 8 in the B-league are in.

Suddenly, I may be in Buffalo around Easter; run to this thread to see if the meet-up is late in March again.

I know Buffalo people will chuckle, but when your local snow removal plan (and budget) works on the idea that it'll snow 4-5 times per year instead of per week, this is a big deal. It's heavy, it's wet, and it'll be more than a foot (at least!) when it's done. At least I still have power; at least one of my coworkers is already out (heavy wet snow, winds, and trees don't mix).

FTFY.

I think that would make the mountains easier to see.

Watching the replays last night, my guess is the review found that Anderson had an opportunity to disengage, but chose to move towards Larsssson leaving the crease (probably to instigate a call). The best shot was the camera to left of the goal, where all three players are facing. I'm surprised the goal stood.

You're a bastard. :)

Are you counting (as presumptive as it may be) Guhle and Nelson in there? Both seem to have some potential.

There's a Facebook group called Internet for RVers or something, there's a lot of good links in there. MrsPie was toying with the idea of doing that to home school RosePie and we'd ramble while I work remote 100%. It's very likely not going to happen, but I'm still in the group (I think). Might want to check in on that; reportedly our current administration's tax plan raises the standard deduction so far fewer people will need/want to write off. I suppose it's good in theory for me, but it means the owning a house has almost financial benefit for me. While I'm on tax policy, the people I know that have run the IRS' new withholding calculator have said the new rules mean that many aren't withholding enough and they'd end up with a nasty surprise next year without adjusting. In a few cases, their take-home is the same as it was before the tax cuts. This. I hate looking way up at a TV, too.

And those dastardly villains were smart enough to take fliers on 4-5 other guys before Johnsson since they knew he'd be that good and still be there! :)

Nope, I want the Leafs to be terrible and not ready. Frankly, I want this game to be a blowout which sends them into a tailspin.

Very cool, thanks. I read Ivanhoe a number of years ago, so this would be an interesting contrast.

I'm worried the Sabres blew it with Boston and Tampa. You know Babcock is saying, "these guys just took it to the best teams in the league; look past them at our own peril".