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So 90% of Buffalo's commuting is done by car. Let's assume 85% of Buffalo's commuter jobs are in the downtown area since that's easily the most job dense part of the city, and then let's assume that (based on the data) 85% of those 90% of commuters are driving alone in a car, you're looking at about 30,000 people going straight into the downtown part of the city every day by themselves in a car. Does +30,000 look better to you?

I don't get it. Why would anyone trade for a player opting out his NHL contract?

Sometimes I wonder (okay, I don't wonder, I assume) if young players don't fully understand the reality of pro sports insomuch as they put their faith in the "adults in the room" to get things right and then after a few years in the league the crushing reality sets in that these "wise elders" don't actually have any idea what they're doing and your faith in them was totally misplaced. McDavid might be looking at guys like Thornton and Stamkos and is wondering "what's really going on here?". And he would be right to do so.

Player tracking is going to be a really powerful tool in time. It's going to allow us to do one of the things I've always wanted to do: study the flow of play. The way players influence one another, and the way individual players start, contribute to, and finish scoring events, is going to be huge for player and group evaluation. Does this grouping of players generate higher quality sequences of hockey? What happens when we plug player x into group b? We probably wont really get anything useful from player tracking for like...a decade.

I honestly think the Sabres are in better shape. It will require this season to let it materialize, but I can't see how Edmonton is better than us next year (if there's hockey).

This all seems like a stunt by the reporter to drive clicks. If you want players to give honest answers, don't give them a hard time for not giving you the boilerplate non-answers you clearly expected to hear. Connor McDavid is frustrated that he's the only good player on his team and keeps getting hurt? That he's still rehabbing and it probably ruined his summer? Shocking. August is the worst.

I gotta beat Harrington to it!

I'm very here for all this pro-Pommers stuff, if only because so many people hate the idea.

I don't think that's a hot take at all. I think that's the only option if things play out that way. I also think I will have no choice but to log out for a few months if that is the case, because all hell will break loose.

I'm looking forward to the forthcoming "Jack and Dahlin don't like each other" narrative.

I work in the suburbs sooo

Half of the east side is empty lots because white people are too scared to live closer to where they work.

The Buffalo metro area has over a million people. The city might be small, but the suburbs push a lot of traffic downtown and ain't no one carpooling.

I don't even believe that Yzerman likes him.

It would be really good if they moved the Bills downtown, but placing it correctly is going to be tough. Ideally it should go right next to the arena where the Baltimore St Lot is, but there really isn't enough room there and too much development has already happened between the casino and the arena. I'd love for that parking lot to go, but I don't think a stadium fits. There really aren't any good answers for putting the stadium downtown without causing some pain or displacing people.

This is correct.

It's for the Sports Illustrated Body Issue. It's the list of athletes modeling for it this year.

It's distinctly possible, though I have my doubts. This movie is set to close out the 9 movie story of the Skywalkers, so I think it's going to have a to have a somewhat happy, or at least tidy, ending in order to give them a clean slate for the next Trilogy that is going to tell a completely different story. I think they're going to need to give fans an ending with some closure so that there are no limits on what they can do in the future.

I think we're supposed to see Kylo Ren as feckless and bumbling, a half-assed version of a real bad guy. But the question has always been: to what end? To me it certainly feels like the story we're going to be told is one of the fragility of the dark side of the force. For all its raw power it never seems to be able to overcome something inherent in the Skywalker bloodline. We get that started way back with Vader's redemption arc in the first trilogy. I mean, Kylo worships a dark side icon who wasn't even a full convert in the end! Sure, Kylo kills Han without trouble: Han isn't a Skywalker. But Skywalkers seem to be unable to kill their own. I feel like there's a reason they brought Darth Maul back...

Correct.

Also, I'm really hoping for the Kylo Ren redemption arc because I've always felt that him sucking ***** as a bad guy was intentional.

Imperial Star Destroyers? A ghost fleet? Rey with a scary lightsaber and very obvious Sith eyes? C3PO with spooky red eyes too? Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

It's IG-11 you ignorant slut (I had to look it up to make sure it wasn't IG-88) This entire thing feels like a setup. "Oh, it's not Boba Fett. Oh it's not IG-88, oh it's not..." Right up until "jk it actually is Boba Fett"

Carl Weather is a distraction but Werner Herzog, Pedro Pascal, and Giancarlo Esposito aren't?

We'll be there on the lawn!