DarthEbriate

Tyson Kozak (and the rest of the Portland Winterhawks offense) have gone ice-cold in their two attempts to close out the T-Birds. They have only 2 goals in their last 69 shots on T-Birds' goalie Milic. It's now to a deciding game 7 tonight in Portland.

This has been a weekend long remembered. It has seen the end of the Bruins and Leafs, and will soon now has seen the end of the Penguins.

Fantastic pass and the 0:40 second of the video freezes leaving those two forever waiting to connect their high five. Tales of R2's departure were premature. Whatever parts or gears were necessary for the playoffs were given to him.

Good. good....

I don't care if he's 4'2" if he can negate would-be deflections, box out would-be screens and block shots, and punt an opponent into next week they take a late hack at my goalie's glove after the save is made.

In my rise and downfall of Jackikin Eichwalker saga... Threepio is the most difficult character to define. I thought maybe Rick Jeanneret because of the narrator/translator aspect and the end-to-end participation, but RJ is much better as the Ric Olie character who provides exposition and even has the same name. I think in the end Threepio will be a bunch of different persons as he goes through different transformations in each of the prequel films. The more you know!

Signing an offer sheet = the ultimate "does he wants to be here?" test For Otter, probably $6M (1st and a 3rd) is the starting point. But Dallas has Radulov and Klingberg coming off the books so they'll have the space to refocus on Oettinger next season. They do have Khudobin and Bishop still signed next year, but Bishop may be on LTIR for the duration of his career.

You don't have to break the draft pick bank on an RFA offer sheet. I could see a team giving an offer sheet at the 2nd-round (under $4.1M) or 3rd-round level (<$2.05M) for one of those cap-strapped teams' depth guys. For example, Nicolas Roy of the Golden Knights would make a solid 3C addition on many rosters and Vegas might simply have to take the pick if Stone is healthy. (Case in point: the Sabres would have a tremendous upgrade replacing Eakin with Roy, in my opinion. And they'd still have 2 2nds in 2023)

Now *this* is podracing gameday threading.

That didn't last too long. Time to put on the headset and get back between the benches.

Weird. He's a darn good coach. They started the season as wanderers while the arena was completed and then had one of the biggest COVID outbreaks in the league. In mid-December, they were 8-12-6 as a result. The back end of the season they were just off a playoff pace. Not great, but not really "fire a really good coatch" worthy.

Highly recommended! Maybe visit in later May so it's just a touch warmer, but before the summer heat and tourist season mayhem. Or in autumn.

All the locations were great, but I did like Slovenia quite a bit. We only passed through Ljubljana but I thought it was really charming and would've loved to go to college there in an alternate timeline. Bled and the Postojna caves were both nice. As to the statue... we did have a guide give us a 10-second side note on it, but in the same breath mention that the President/First Lady basically treated their country with disdain, at least from a Slovenian point-of-view. I didn't hear anything about re-erecting said statue.

True. Maybe take Laaksonen instead of Bryson in the 4th after a Farrance pick. Laaksonen is still only 22 and was a definite long-term project pick so the jury is still out. He's also only listed at 172 pounds and 6-2... he needs to drink more beer. He had the 2nd most points as a D in ROC this season. It's just disheartening he can't get into the lineup for the playoff experience on a team with a famously thin D-corp this season (once Muel and Fitz were gone). Not even as a 5/6+PP specialist.

Doing some after-the-fact follow-up... Not a good look for Laaksonen to get scratched when the team is dressing 7 D because Weissbach is hurt and Samuelsson is also injured. Do we know if Laaksonen has an injury as well?

Three really wonderful weeks in Italy-Slovenia-Croatia. Minus some COVID for folks in the traveling party and COVID tele-health host no-show shenanigans. And a Happy Ramadan! (if that's an appropriate salutation) for your time away.

Power finished the season +3. He'll be a career + player for us.

The odds: tell me! Gimme gimme gimme all the odds.

INTERIOR: SabreSpace Cruiser. A blast door slides open. Ebriate walks in and sets down suitcases. So! What did I miss? Nah... I'm kidding. I lurked the 'Space and y'all kept me entertained in the downfall of Jackikin Eichwalker and the collapse of his new Empire Knights.

Own goal. In my experience there's no such thing as luck. But tonight the bounces have been Blue.

Seriously this could be 6-5 Buffalo in the lead.

Tarasenko's a pretty player. Now I can start worrying....

Still no worry, but the chances are high quality and it'd be nice to start burying some of them.

Butcher, Butcher, Krebs...

Ok... go get that one back. No need to worry or hurry.