Winston

Personally, my least favorite is when "could have" becomes "could of" because of the contraction "could've." Same goes for could's partners in crime: would and should. When people mix up then/than or there/their/they're or your/you're, it still reads correctly in my head even if the error bugs me. But I have to double take when I see "would of" in a sentence. It just doesn't compute.

You friendly Canadians, you.

12.5% this year if standings hold 7.6% last year 6.0% in 2016 20.0% in 2015 25.0% in 2014 3.6% in 2013 Chances of getting 6 consecutive #1 picks assuming same standings: 0.00000103% :P

Rochester doesn't play until Friday.. Maybe getting him some pressbox time to catch up on Phil's system before eventually being inserted into the lineup? Idk, maybe grasping at straws there.

:beer: I wonder if there has ever been an NHL line with three O's. O'Regan-O'Reilly-Okposo would be cool. But keep ROR with Samson, please.

The later draw has been the recent trend. I don't like it- let me down early, then give me more time to speculate!! We lost the '14 lottery on 4/15 McEichel lottery in '15 was 4/18 TO's tank was rewarded on 4/30 Last year's crazy lottery was 4/29

You've piqued my interest.... :flirt:

Well I haven’t seen Black Panther, but I have a buddy at work that is obsessed with Marvel. Just an absolute fanatic. I have never been much of a movie guy, so there are plenty (most) of Marvel films I have missed. He owns them all on DVD, so he’s determined to have me watch them in “historical” order. It won’t be quick, but I’m down for it. But first, I’m watching Daredevil on Netflix per his recommendation. Just a couple episodes in, but I like the plot. And I love the camera work. The hallway scene... WOW

Unfortunately I'm not sure that matters. At least with most insurance companies these days. A dump truck damn near totaled my sister-in-laws car on the streets of Brooklyn. It wasn't her fault, so insurance paid for the repairs. But it was claim #2 in 2 months for her, both of them no fault. They upped her insurance significantly. Each claim is basically proving that you're a risk to them, be it where you live, where you park, how visually challenged the operators of large utility vehicles are in your neighborhood... at least that's how the insurance companies look at it. This sucks. Other people's administrative errors that come back to bite you effing suck. HR at my old job incorrectly allocated my 401k to some stupid fund. I set my contributions to receive the maximum match, and pretty much put it on autopilot. Moved and the same HR lady forgot to update my address. Now this is definitely partially my fault, but I didn't realize for some time that I wasn't getting statements. Again, I'm on autopilot. Finally dawned on me that I wasn't getting statements, so I went online to check my balance. That's when I realized it was in a "fund" accumulating 3% interest or something like that. Last year the market was up just a little bit more than 3% :P Thanks for the second savings account

I also think that about guys like Stamkos, Bergeron, Marchand, Kucherov, even Matthews... guys that are up there. But Crosby is 97.5 this year. McDavid is hardly over league average. Jack is at 98.0 So I think team goaltending is the factor that affects this the most. Eichel's PDO would look a lot better in front of Vasilevskiy. McDavid would be doing alright in front of Tuuka.

PDO is one of my favorite fancy stats! Here are the "luckiest" players so far this season. A glitch in the system omits Vegas from this list. They have several guys posting unreal PDOs. https://www.hockey-reference.com/play-index/ppbp_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&year_min=2018&year_max=2018&season_start=1&season_end=-1&rookie=N&age_min=0&age_max=99&situation_id=ev&pos=S&c1stat=games_played&c1comp=gt&c1val=40&order_by=games_played Note- you have to sort by PDO. The list defaults to games played even though I copied the correct link :P

I've been running some calculations to see if paying extra on my mortgage would be worth it. We bought a condo to be our home for the 5 years my wife has left in grad school. Chances are we will leave Columbus when that time is up. Or if we stay, we'll probably be looking for a bigger home anyways to start a family. For the sake of round numbers, let's say we have 60 months of payments before we sell. 5 years isn't a long enough runway for the extra payments to mean much. By my calculations, $400/mo extra would only net us $2700 in savings when we sell. I'd rather take that money and max out my Roth and start investing elsewhere (maybe even my company's lousy no-match 401k) before making the extra payment. But if we planned to stay 10+ years, I definitely would be pumping in the extra money. Unfortunately I have a short enough runway that the frontloaded interest is hard to dodge. Side note- I almost considered a 5-year ARM since I knew we would be selling in 5-6 years. But you just never know, so we went 30 year fixed. Has anyone else taken out an ARM with the intent to be out before rates change?

That was pretty clearly a “come here and explain the decision” signal to me. But thanks for posting the recap! I only saw highlights of the goals (blacked out on NHL.tv, couldn’t find a reliable stream). Some crazy sequences in that game.

You have to be in the A, at least on paper, at the time of the trade deadline, right?

Don’t you mean nevre??? :P

Must be those new pads, they’re still stiff. Giving off juicy rebounds :P

I thought so at first, but Dadenov buried that one right into Lehner’s belly. Should have gone far post but he didn’t aim at all.

Drunk guy accidentally takes $1635 Uber XL ride http://wjla.com/news/offbeat/drunk-man-takes-1600-uber-from-west-virginia-to-new-jersey-03-01-2018 "Bachman says he gave the driver five stars."

That was a solid 13 foot 4 inches of combined hockey giants.. Refs certainly stayed away from that one haha Chara landed some uppercuts. I’m not heartbroken that I’ll never receive one of those from him. Gio just had a beautiful tip pass to Krejci for a PP goal. He’s getting PP2 time

Pit-Bos is up to 9 goals, some huge hits being thrown, things getting very chippy. Highly entertaining!

Blasphemy! You can’t even get a decent chair for $5,000!

Yeah, payments during year 1 of 30 suck right now.. I’m chipping away $133 in principal each month while they’re sacking me for $339 in interest ???? Toss in the money going to escrow, and it’s discouraging how slowly I’m building equity compared to the total going out each month. Not surprising, but discouraging just the same. But it beats the hell out of renting for us!

There were some pretty hilarious responses to that on social media.. One of my favorites: "On this team, we value base hits, not bong hits."

We found our home inspector through our realtor. I understand being hesitant at the thought of that... My realtor shouldn't want me to back out of a contract, because then it's back to work and putting off their payday. But our realtor was someone I knew really well outside of our home search. The inspector he recommended was the guy that he trusted to inspect his own home back when he purchased it. Realtors have a ton of interaction with home inspectors and should know the best of the best. My realtor stopped by the inspection of almost every home he helped sell or buy, so he knew them all. If you like your realtor and trust their recommendation, I bet they could hook you up nice.

I came in 4th. 4th out of 32. And you know which places pay out??? Top 3.... We did get some cash for being the top seed during the regular season though. Presidents Trophy, if you will.