Neo

NOW ... I like him even more (referring to the chess savant who saw now, today and tomorrow in chess like no other, and not to the late in life bigot, a tortured victim of his own making).

I don’t know. The Mustangs was his Bantam Team. I’m not sure it was the jersey when he was there. Just a Google adventure! Man, does “was” sound grammatically awkward.

Oh, awesome!

Welcome .... I wear bowties. The board’s been silent on them. I also wear fedoras. The board’s expressed its disdain!

Christina Ricci at Chef’s!

Looking back ... my favorite moment: Yzerman trusting his own/staff’s instincts and drafting Seider. Yzerman’s calm resolve explaining the pick. The kid’s special reaction. A bowtie!

New name! Welcome to the board. Post early and often ... particularly if you're of the generation who watched 7 - 11 - 14.

@Crusader1969, too!

From today’s BN/Lysowski quoting GMJB in the Johnson pick: "When we talk about how we eventually want our team to play and how we play when we’re successful, it’s our defensemen joining the rush. Our defensemen getting pucks up to our talented forwards and we really felt Ryan fits the bill." ”Eventually” and “when we’re successful”. I dig it. He’s not drafting saviors. He’s building an organization.

Coincidence? I think not ... fate, destiny, romance ...

For no good reasons other than my own, I love “the kid from the Yukon”. Like many of life’s great joys, hockey is romance. God lives in Canada, and He sculpted and painted Whitehorse. Kids necessarily grow up differently there. Buffalo will be his Big City. Bring his mom and dad down for the development camp. Show them Hockey Heaven, downtown development, fans who watch practices, Niagara on the Lake and Delaware Park. Watch their eyes saucer and feel their cheeks ache from smiling. We see and feel, to a great extent, what we allow ourselves to see and feel. There’s a time and place for meddling owners, incompetent GMs, bad trades, lousy contracts, bizarre usage .... and the stuff of internet blogs. There’s also a time for the kid from The Yukon, heading south, to the bright lights and big stage he’s dreamed of and worked for. I want to feel his entire family’s joy, right now. I believe I do. I hope to see him play in two years. Build an organization and invite talent to join.

Good for him ...

Anybody wanna have fun? Go to Google Earth and walk around Whitehorse. Then go to Google Maps and look at images. Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world ...

Detroit could've traded back three or so and been confident in their guy.

I love Stevie Y.

I think Kakko’s going to fun to watch over the years.

IMHO ... while goalies can singlehandedly win, so can other positional players. Even if you assume they can disproportionately influence a game, it’s not enough to overcome the need for ten skaters per goalie on a team. There are too many slots to fill that are non-goalie. That, and they are developmentally uncertain, I believe, more so than forwards and defensemen.

At some point, the NHL will stop sending Bettman out. No comment on his effectiveness. Why would you want any big event to start with a hisss-fest? Wait, no it won’t, ever ...

Love the Sedins ... how could that crowd stay in its seats?

He used “their” with “data”!

No, and I’d stop eating tacos at 11 pm.

“Ossified” is the word my brain searched for and didn't find when I was posting. I kept going to “gentrified ,,, no, no, no”. It’s been on the tip of my fingers. Grateful!

Few things give me more pause than a man or woman “qualified” to be President. Here’s to President Trump and Cardi B.

Recognizing that I may sound Progressive, leaving you all to assume my account’s been hacked, I think that sending the next wave of traditionally “qualified” anything perpetuates just what you’re looking to change. For those interested, find Jordan Peterson’s work on the value of Progressive thought as an agent of change useful against institutionalized and corrupt assemblies that are obstacles to equal opportunity. Here’s to KP’s talents and insights, regardless of where she gathered them. Let the chips fall where they may. PS .... Life’s funny. I have eight hours of Diversity training, tomorrow.