PASabreFan
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Not too often. Finding someone else's DNA has.
Isn't finding someone else's DNA the same as not finding another person's DNA?
Smell, it probably has nothing to do with this case. But they didn't find Kane's DNA. It's important.
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"Not finding DNA" has gotten a bunch of people released from prison.
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Really good insight here.
I've never sensed an employment agenda. As for changing how the game is played, I think X said it. Analytics seem to value, above all else, things we want to see in the game.
But he claims more shots on goal and fewer goals in the last 15 years. Analytics values shots at the net because they're proxies for possession.
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Thanks! (I'm really not sure what I confirmed for you that is new, analytics is only really a snapshot of what you are watching, using different filters of course).
Do you consider the analytics crowd to be only observers or do you think they have an agenda? Seems to me the agenda is 1. Get bloggers jobs with teams and 2. Change how the game is played.
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Every analytic these days has a bias toward shots on goal. The bias is toward more shots.
There are more shots on goal than 15 years ago, but fewer goals.
You said it all. We can close the thread and the debate.
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I'm pretty sure I'm with you on this one.
Wow, and I really pulled that one out of my ass. But seriously, I just don't see how analytics will help to turn the game into what a lot of us crave... more space, more creativity, more goals, more speed, maybe more mistakes, definitely more fun.
I just don't understand how you, or anyone else, lay the blame for this at the feet of analytics. Coaches have been focusing on defensive, limited-time hockey in order to minimize the effects of the skill gap between teams for as long as I've been a fan. Analytics may increase the efficiency of the process, but it's hardly new.
I'm not blaming analytics exclusively by any means. It'll make existing problems worse. "Build a better mousetrap." Sucks to be the mouse.
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Pegula will eventually learn. He did with the sabres.
What's he gonna do, fire Whaley and tank for the top pick?
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Boring, huh? Like the past 15 years of no scoring? When I was 8 years old, 2 guys, TWO! Scored 76 goals! My son will never get to experience anything like that thanks to Jacques Lemaire ruining hockey and the NHL doing nothing about it.
Here's the thing though. If hockey is going to take almost an industrial approach to making systems more efficient, to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of its human capital (I read the WSJ, I am smart), do you think it's going to lead to more or less scoring? It's gotta be less IMO. Also IMO analytics could be the death of this sport.
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F*ck this. The defense needs to do something here to get this game back under control.
Guess I'm going to go back to spending this Sunday like I've spent every Sunday of my life: doing other things with the Bills on in the background. What a joke.
It's a good start. Then eventually you turn it off and you're free.
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Interesting stuff, mjd. If Eichel and/or other rookies/youngsters aren't socially integrating, I'd say it's up to the older players to break the ice a little bit.
Eichel won't have any trouble making friends. I think the skate away from teammates with the head down is going to become a familiar sight to us. It's how he focuses. He came out for the opening faceoff of the scrimmage back in July and did it. It was very dramatic and it got a huge round reaction from the crowd, but it's not him being dramatic, I don't think.
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The Islanders stadium series jersey was very well received with that logo, but something's been lost in the translation here.
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That sort of tracking is on the way. Look into the SportsVU cameras if you're interested in the specifics.
Good. Maybe we'll get some good data. And maybe the dweebs will go back to mom's basement. Ma, the meatloaf!
If advanced stats was only used to choose the players you want on your team I'd be fine with it. When it is used to determine how players play the game, then yes, I think it sucks. Hockey is about skill and passion and doing whatever it takes to win. I don't want to watch a bunch of players out there simply making the safe play and basically just managing risk. I can go to an insurance salesman for that.
Well said. You're a musician. Can you imagine trying to quantify jazz to try and make it better?
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And they may have. That article only indicated one swab result.
I'm not sure how much we want to parse the phrasing in the article. I'm sure they swabbed every place they should have, and I think the article is referencing all results.
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Correct - that's the thing.
Also:
Have you tried interlocking your fingers?
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Ah, quite so.
Also, the Song recording there is precisely the thing I can do with my hands (like, my one party trick) that I have, FOR YEARS, sometimes misstated as a loon's call.
:bag:
Ah, jeez, I thought that was a weird thing only my brother and I did. When I was little, he taught me that. It took me months to actually do it.
You're talking about cupping your hands and blowing on the slit between your thumbs, right?
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I was going to proffer a really well-made pair of raw denim jeans and a classic wool sweater from L.L. Bean. I've owned the former for a little over 10 years and the latter for maybe twice as long -- and they're both just marvelously reliable -- comfortable and comforting.
But after the seasoned pan and the mourning dove, I don't know what there is left to say. Especially the mourning dove. Love that bit about how everyone can imitate one.
And I just realized ... I've often thought that the call of the mourning dove was also a loon call.
The loon... that's Jeanneret. I guess they're somewhat similar. Now, the mourning dove does make a dramatic sound when it's taking off and landing, I believe to frighten any predators. It's a high pitched whistling — and I just read it's actually the fluttering of the wings, not a vocalization.
I think you nailed it with the possible exception of "First Buffalo Goal"....but memories are fickle creatures...
I wondered about that as well.
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I believe you are correct on both counts.
Don't give up that easy. I wonder if (ack!) he deviated from year to year. I can hear him saying it both ways.
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Milt Ellis: My 24 year old, well-seasoned, cast-iron frying pan. Imbues a nice flavor in everything, dependable. Goes from range to the oven. I've been tempted by other pans, with their no-stick, easy-cleaning excitement. But the flavor is never the same. I keep coming back to the tried and true. Everything that comes out of that pan just tastes better.
No fair. I didn't think I was allowed expound on why the mourning dove is the Milt Ellis of calling birds. Its call is smooth, predictable, comforting. It tells you everything you need to know without a hint of sing-songy pretentiousness. They are reliable and perennial, returning every spring on almost the same date. And everyone can imitate them.
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The semicolon, the Matt Ellis of punctuation marks
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MIlt wouldn't have just said "7," I don't think. Not as sure about the next comment, but wasn't it "assisted by..."?
Anywho...
The mourning dove, the Milt Ellis of calling birds
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The appendix, the Matt Ellis of the human body
And the cream rises.
This is just...wrong. The cashew is the Gretzky of mixed nuts.
Gretzky was a pecan, the nut of nuts. They don't make cashews into Thanksgiving pies. The cashew is a disgusting, meaty, oddly textured throw-in to all nut mixes. It's the most plentiful because it's the cheapest, and it's the cheapest because demand is so low for it. It's a of a nut. Walnuts have class. They're not pecans, but they stand head and shoulders above the freakin' cashew.
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Makes me think the briefed Blackhawks have some confidence. Comments from those more familiar with the process?
Maybe. That's a lot of Hawks logos right there, yikes.
Clearly Bill Clinton assisted in drafting the language.
So WTF did the sheet say? No way Kane pulled "absolved" out of thin air.
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29. RC Cola jokes are the Matt Ellis of posts in this thread.
You magnificent bastard.
Patrick Kane: [Updated] D.A. Decides Not to Prosecute; NHL Determines Claims "Unfounded"
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Just for the sake of argument, if some guy was in prison for rape and for whatever reason his defense didn't have the results of a DNA swab, and after conviction it was revealed that the swab did not detect his DNA, don't you think he'd be released?
Eleven, call your answering service. Eleven...