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Tonight is the official start of Rochester Real Beer Week. http://rochesterrealbeer.com/ Lots of cool stuff going down.

I don't buy it. Here's why.. Streaming is another delivery mechanism. It does NOTHING to change who own the rights to broadcast the game. NBC pays to have the right to broadcast the game and slap their logo all over it. The same logo I see in any stream on any device I would watch the game on. Viewership is easily counted as the number of connected streams who are logged in and receiving the data. All along this has actually been a much more reliable statistic for driving the almighty viewership data. The set top boxes of old would never report back when they were tuned to a certain channel. The smarter boxes today at least report back when a box is on and what channel is being tuned. So if nothing else the broadcaster still has that information. The only remaining problem are the content delivery providers (aka TWC, DirecTV). They have to be the ones to block the streaming rights of the content producers because delivery over a competing mechanism is bad for business. At the same time those companies are already retooled to take on the streaming market. They are merely holding onto as much revenue as they can because the NHL hasn't put its foot down. It needs to do this and at that point the model is broken. Some people will continue to find value in a full blown TV subscription and will continue to have DirecTV or cable. Those who won't will have gone to a pure streaming model. They key is viewership and right now the amount of viewers will be going down as people drop their expensive TV subscriptions. So I get what you are saying.. but if I am operating the NHL I am all in on streaming the games, all of them, to anyone, anywhere. If you want to be the one granted rights to put cameras in the arena you have to agree to this and if DirecTV wants to hold out on it.. so be it.

The most likely would be Detroit or Columbus getting bounced back West. If they move 1 team back they would create an 8 team central and a 6 team pacific division. If they moved Columbus AND Detroit they could shift Colorado to the West. That hinders plans to expand into Las Vegas AND Seattle however. It's actually the most likely scenario that the Coyotes can't be considered to move East. They would move to a new market that would retain a 7 team Pacific Division.. so, Las Vegas or Seattle would be the likely choices. This leaves an opportunity for Kansas City at some other point to fill in the Central and the loser of the Coyotes franchise (LV or Seattle) to get the other expansion team.

qwksndmonster can appreciate typing with boxing gloves on as he is really StrongBad.

People will give you a break. After all you forgot your own name! Chime in more often.. but this time, remember who you are.

It is an incredible series to watch. Of course I lost power last night for most of the game, so that sucked. The NHL needs to stream all games next year. It just has to be done. There is no reason anymore to not do it.

Yep.. the only way the Coyotes could move to the East was if two teams moved to the West. I don't see it happening. But they need to move.

Sure, make them read the tank threads until they throw up? See if they can make it through the Stafford must go thread? Try and understand one of Yuri's posts? See if they can decipher some of the conspiracy theories on here?

The idea of a playoff beard is so horrible that EA Sports finally caved in to my one request for the NHL series and will introduce playoff beards in NHL 16. Playoff beards that will grow through the playoffs automatically. If it's in the game... One problem I have the with the positioning of the NBC statement is that is speaks to the "ideal beauty" concept. Guys don't need to shave in order to be beautiful. Accept who they are and market the beards... Ugh.. it's ignorance to the nth degree.

Was arrested for mopery.

Holy crap that's ridiculous. The NHL should be able to fire NBC right now. Ignorance abound. Why not also lobby to have them take their helmets off so we can see their young, beautiful faces while they are skating around? Gimme a break.

ESPN Sucks chose his avatar because he doesn't have a small dinklage.

Problem: Referees do not call penalties that impede the progress of the game. Any solution that does not address that issue is not going to help. Not at all. Fix the problem, don't create new problems on top of the old ones.

PA is really Terrence M. Pegula.

I might have to take a look. Like I said.. quality over quantity is usually how i roll. Always wise to have a lesser bottle hanging around so you can start with the best and then step it down a notch after the fact.

I totally agree. My exposure to whiskey while in my early drinking years was JD and so I came to the conclusion that I hated the stuff. Now, I know better. It's like that with tequila for a lot of people. They drink that non-premium Cuervo which is not 100% agave or they drink some other lower end tequila that is 100% and get turned off by it. Good tequila... oh.. man.. Anyway.. I've not had Evan Williams and not sure I will. I can afford the BT and ER so I go for that. I sampled Woodford Reserve Double Oaked one time.. I just haven't pulled the trigger on the $52 price point. I'm a huge oak character guy.

Well played! While I understand what you are getting at, generally speaking I think people would like to see you offer some insight of your own to the comments being shared in the Twitter link. I would agree as I think it adds a human touch to the post. And on with the show...

Isn't Evan Williams like 40% less costly as Eagle Rare and Buffalo Trace? (I love BT and ER). Not quite the same budget I am thinking. Although it was in college when I adapted the philosophy of buying a better product and then taking longer to drink it so I could savor it more. The extra cost of the booze was offset by the savings in ibuprofen.

Okay.. jumping in. 1. I pretty much never look at anyone's post count. It's information I don't need. 2. I pretty much never look at anyone's name.. they keep changing them. 3. I usually recognize the poster by the avatar or when I read their name in a quoted response somewhere else, or by their writing style. I use the same criteria I do anywhere else. 1. If you state a well formed opinion based with logical reasoning, you are in. 2. If you ask a question with the hopes of learning more, you are in. 3. If you make a statement as though it's been blessed by your chosen diety, you are out. 4. If you continually attempt to sidestep profanity filters, throw insults, and try to be snarky and fail, you are out. Most of the time I am sure I won't respond to posts of no value. There's little chance of it being worth the energy expenditure. There are exceptions though. Now, onto the good stuff. This place is great. It's highly addictive and even when I don't want to visit, I have to visit. So I blame all of you for that. It also helps that I love hockey, even if I won't always make time to watch it. Now, be good, do good.

If the demo for NHL 16 shows me its fixed the control issues then I will buy it for XBone. Otherwise. no chance. Playing Neverwinter right now. Crazy free game that I've sunk so many hours into... nice.

The Internet can now be shut down.

What tank? - "This statement brought to you by Selective Memory Erasers, Inc." Ted Black's? wha.....? oh.. nevermind. Bottom line Chicago is that damn good. Read an article by LeBrun talking about Coach Q's lineup change during the game to split Toews and Kane and immediately causing problems. Coaching.. it's where it's at.

The Burgerplex can barely get visible lines in the ice.. this might be asking a bit much.

DDB will never have that mullet.

I know where you are going. However, I've never seen fans not cheer a goal because a backup was in net. The whole idea here is that back to back games in the playoffs would be bad. in the playoffs you would have the same teams and same goalies. So if the .1 drop in save % occurred it would be within those parameters. In short.. I think we can all say there is no definitive data that would prove/disprove the back to back theory at this point time. So, it's back to personal preference.