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I’ve been watching the last ~30 minutes of game play — the Sabres look like a real NHL team. It’s amazing to behold. Also, the Casey Mittlestadt Reclamation Project is in full swing. That’s big.

I see. Arrogant ***** who are full of sh1t and like to sniff their own farts, etc. ... aren't con artists, necessarily. Venn (sp?) diagram time or something: All people who are con artists are full of sh1t (and they *know* they are), but not all people who are full of sh1t are con artists.

Okay. I don't disagree. That is also the language of someone who is full of sh1t. Many people who are full of sh1t believe their sh1t. What indication do we have that Krueger was knowingly engaged in deception with his sh1t?

So he's full of sh1t. But how do we get the sense that this was a con? He coached hockey in Europe for decades, with some success I hear.

Are we getting Lafontaine back?!

Full of sh1t, I get. Incompetent, I get. But this, I don't get. In order to engaged in a con, the person perpetrating the con has to know that they are deceiving other people. On what basis would this be inferred of Krueger?

I can't recall if I, or someone else, posted it elsewhere here: Towards the end, he was giving me Michael Scott vibes. Michael Scott is not a bad person (far from it). He's a hilariously bad business manager, though.

That’s wonderful. This also explains, I think, why Dunleavy seemed on the verge of tears when he called the closing seconds.

Fun hockey is fun.

This is a fun game.

The feedback immediately above makes Karmanos sound ... Beane-like?

Well, I’ll be. Hat tip to you and @PASabreFan. Not for nothing: That’s basically a battle between player safety and the gambling industry (the sharps), with line-setting winning out in sports other than hockey.

Man, that's any professional sport -- including even baseball, I would imagine. This is why leagues have permitted teams to euphemize what an injury is, so that opponents can't target it. I think opponents get the 411 on injuries anyway.

I re-watched the ceremony's video - well, parts of it. Thoughts: 1. I didn't - and still don't - recall Doug Moss. 2. Where was Perreault? 3. Mike Wilson?!

The more I think about it, I don't think that was any form of treatment. I think it was a diagnostic test of some kind -- as in, confirming that Jack's neck was jacked the fu*k up.

i did not. it's possible someone else did. i am looking for video from that rangers game - that's apparently where it's from. i recall jack recoiling in pain at one point as a trainer tried to work out (or test?) his neck.

TOO MANY COOKS!

Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce.

Also, now I feel badly for having some lulz over these screen stills

Seriously. The NHL should let Eichel wear a red pinnie during games, as he will probably be unable to keep his head on a swivel after this surgery. More seriously: Neck surgery is no effing joke. My sphincter is and will remain a bit clenched about this, even if only in spirit and not in actuality.

Oh, for sure. I was totally sympathetic to the person telling me the story. Ha. My sense is that his affect is generally pretty flat. The person telling me the story didn't say he acted offended -- it was felt that Dahlin just sort of scowled slightly and then sulked off (probably to try his luck at another bar).

A collateral benefit: There'll be no more need for PSE hospitality staff to feel awkward for denying him an adult beberage when he requests one at a team/PSE function. As the story was told to me: He wasn't a prick about it, but he wasn't cool about it either. In fairness to him, I'm sure he'd have been served in similar situations back home.

Disagree. The neutral response is in-line with what I spit-balled above. Allen said he is "still debating" whether to get vax'd in the midst of a global pandemic. He said that statistics and logic will be his guiding lights in deciding whether to get vax'd. He added that he could go either way at this point on the matter. What statistics? What logic? If you're going off stats and logic (i.e., science), then you're getting vax'd. End of story. This is nothing more than a diplomatically-phrased questioning (i.e., rejection) of the indisputably overwhelming need for mass vaccinations in order to beat this damn virus. Whatever. The greatest QB of all time is into all kinds of nonsense and snake oil remedies, so the fact that our guy is a public health doofus shouldn't hurt his prospects as a franchise QB.