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The Sabres play real hockey tomorrow. That's all I care about. REAL. HOCKEY. So does the rest of the league, so that's a bonus.

Nah, it's always blank for me. I support the team, the players come and go. It's a business. If I put anything on it, it would only be a player however. I wouldn't put the other things suggested like 50, season 50, etc. I'm not saying people shouldn't.. I just wouldn't.

Well, my guess is that these guys all know each other for the teams and have each others backs. So, when an Arizona player gets out of line in Toronto the favor gets returned. I think it's quite reasonable to believe things like that happen.

So when does he get removed from the EA Sports NHL 20 cover? What an idiot he is.

At one point I had aspirations of a political life. I could only imagine how some of the things I had done in my past would come back now. Granted, I've never done anything that would be construed as racist by then or now standards. However, there are certainly other things that would not pass today's litmus test.

Did they? Just because they had to use him that way does not mean they wanted to use him that way. I'm not going into the round and round over some guy named Ryan and that his departure meant the Sabres were all about Mittlestadt as 2C. Sometimes you have to make a move that will force you to rely upon someone in a position you know they aren't suited to be in. If nothing else, and if the truth is that they viewed Mittlestadt as a good 3C, then it lends more credence that they felt very strongly that 91 had to go. Either way, just because they used Mittlestadt at 2C does not mean they thought it was the best spot for him.

To me this would be the worst part of things at this point. If he has called out others for things they have done in the past he probably should not have done so when he had his own skeletons. As for the situation itself. I am tired of hearing about what people have done in the past when it relates to judging who they are now. While each past event should be judged on its own, so too should be the evolution of the person in question. People make mistakes, and sometimes, in some social circles, you may be prone to making some choices that seem perfectly fine at the time. It's only later, when we grow wiser, that we realize how ignorant the decision was. Holding these things over people's heads ignores everything else they've done in their lives. Judge them as a whole, not as a part. I am sure we are all full of mistakes, which, if brought to light now, may damn us to eternity in the same ways that some of these past moments of poor judgment are used to judge those in the public light.

I would imagine they do it the same way Sabrespace posters endure the off-season. ?

The half-empty was the Pilsner. It was full not 6 minutes prior to that photo being taken. It was empty less than another 6 minutes after. I then had the Red Ale. The wife has the Irish Stout. I stayed away from the IPAs intentionally. It was midday drinking and I was, in theory, keeping it calm. ? The beer was good. The food was decidedly mediocre. Oh well, can't win them all. Tomorrow night we'll be at Seven Story brewing in Bushnell's Basin. They're a real favorite and being right on the canal is awesome.

I am currently using a Meraki MX64. We are Meraki partners, so I completed the CMNA training and they shipped me a free stack - MX64, MR33, MS108 with full licensing for 3 years. It's really nice. ? I had an Aerohive XR600 before that (I still have it) but I like the Meraki better. If I were buying something I would probably buy a $300 router from TP-Link.

The number of contracts coming off the books leaves open the possibility of tooling the roster to its true potential. Tampa will be in a tough situation to keep all their players, Boston will be getting a bit too old, Toronto.. well. hah. Contracts expiring at the end of this season for Buffalo: UFA: Sobotka, Sheary, Vesey, Girgensons, Larsson, Wilson, Bogosian, Scandella, Hunwick RFA: Reinhart, Rodrigues, Mittlestadt, Montour, Ullmark, Thompson, Olofsson, Lazar Rostered: Eichel, Skinner, Okposo, Johansson, Ristolainen, Miller, McCabe, Dahlin, Hutton Basically, they can let the UFAs walk or trade this year and get something. They can qualify whomever they want for RFA and sign them. Only Reinhart will really be a question mark with regards to contract. They will have money open to make things happen.

Today is the wife's birthday, and as I usually do, I take the day off and we go where she wants.. Today's morning was a hike at Harriet Hollister park and then a stop at Irish Mafia. We usually turn these things into multi-day events. It's fun.

This is dark right now.

From a consumer router perspective, I've had incredible performance from TP-Link. The Archer AC1900 AC2600, AC3150 should work well. It depends a lot on how much space you want to cover and the composition of your walls, etc. You can invest in a router that allows application prioritization (QoS). It's port only, but the concept is that it will throttle back other traffic being allowed out the port so that your prioritized application is not hindered. If you want to prioritize by device you'd need to spend a bit more than that. I haven't used consumer routers in a few years.. my Archer C9 was my last one. It was solid in terms of coverage area and CPU/RAM for handling the traffic flows. I currently show 34 connected devices in my house. So, I need something a bit beefier. ? It's often used improperly, that's for sure.

Maybe they should put more money into their employees and less paying for emu trainers.

Meh. This has no bearing on trading Ristolainen. There's no way the organization is all in on making the playoffs this year anyway. They are setting up for next year. You don't have to like it, but with where Toronto, Boston, and Tampa currently sit, the mountain they need to overcome is pretty high. Get him healthy, the season is long.

Speed tests are nothing more than a representation of throughput between two points on a network for a specific period of time. However, the Internet is a big place and it changes constantly. The Internet does not obey QoS tags. But yes, a network provider can prioritize certain locations, etc. So, a speed test can be influenced by many factors. Your catvideo reference is a good one. You may have 1G service, but the other end of the network may throttle your connection, so, you can get mad that you are not getting 1G of throughput but it's really that the other end isn't sending that fast. It's like talking to someone who speaks very slow. You can't make the conversation go faster, despite how fast your brain can process information. I appreciate their attempt to over-simplify things for the common consumer, but that information is 100% not accurate. The problem with saying that is that someone is going to try and test it. Most consumer routers can't even handle 94 different traffic flows, regardless of the bandwidth utilization. On top of that, you have to account for the additional overhead on packets generated by 94 different traffic flows which reduces the amount of throughput. Then there's latency, packet loss, etc. to account for it all. Sigh...

Sigh. I work in the business (not for Spectrum) and I'm well aware of what goes on and how it all works. A "speed test" is a joke in and of itself. First, it doesn't even measure "speed" it measures throughput. Second, throughput varies by destination. The only test that matters is the throughput you get on a particular service flow. Having 100M of throughput doesn't make anything faster unless you have a single flow of 100M open to a destination, and then it reduces the time it takes to transfer the data overall, but it all moves at the same speed. And regardless of what anyone says and complains about, all providers offer "Up to X..." and anything you get is "up to" so, they are not lying. If you are getting better performance from another provider, then that's awesome. Use them, be happy with it. I have had Spectrum for 20 years (TWC, etc.) and the only times I've had problems were when there was an equipment issue down the street that caused signal levels to drop. Every service provider faces a point where they enhance infrastructure or play the contention game. Every, single, one. Because no one (consumer) will pay for the level of service required to avoid them. Right, you can't truly offer 1G because of overhead on the line. Spectrum offers 940Mbps downstream as well. We offer 1G GPON service in our customer base as well. It's not truly 1G of course. Your BW estimations for services are accurate. Netflix quotes you needing 25Mbps per 4k stream. YouTube is likely using less compression (they also have a hell of an infrastructure). Even if you have 1G of throughput and you want to stream, those throughput speeds are based on optimal packets. The fact is that the interfaces can only handle so many packets and if you are sending smaller packets through the port it will get congested. In addition,, network devices have certain constraints. Fiber remains far more efficient than HFC and Ethernet in terms of packet handling, etc. This is a good reference i found on a quick Google search.. I've read numerous articles, information such as these. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/security-center/network-performance-metrics.html

Here's what I am taking away from that game. First, a few defensive breakdowns led to easy goals that are not to be blamed on the goaltender. I'd put two on Johansson and none on Hutton. Second, the defense was loose, in favor of pushing the puck up the ice. The first two periods were very much attack, attack, and then get your arse back to defend. The 3rd period was almost none of that. It was almost the perfect way to demonstrate that "hey, if you stop doing what you did in the first two, even a bunch of AHLers can beat you". That's a solid lesson. It'd be even better if it was orchestrated. Before 3rd - Coaching: "Okay, boys, let's go 1-2-2 the 3rd period and see how that looks." After Game: - Players "Coach, I think we need the 2-1-2 from now on." Coach thinks.. they get it. ? Overall, I think the Sabres played very loose and were taking chances and I think they were rewarded for it. Pittsburgh adjusted and the Sabres kept pushing some of those chances but also let off on some of the pressure they had as well. I'm not concerned. Not in the least. I was happy to watch hockey again.

Audio levels are up.. wish the video quality was better...

Audio is very quiet.confirmed on my iPad and fire stick.

They playing at Penn State? IN the arena Pegula built? I think they do this every year now don't they?

I loved him in Knight Rider.

You can't start a guy who isn't on the roster. So every GM has some control over it. It does happen. But if it is, it means that the coach and GM are not on the same page and that's a bad thing.

13... period. Strangely enough, I wore it and my wife wore it in high school (we did not know each other). My son wears it, and didn't even know that either of his parents wore it until he picked it himself. My daughter wears it, but she knew both of us had worn it and saw her brother wearing it. 13... it's not as popular in hockey as it could be. But that's my number, and that's that. ?