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Fair. Sheltered 5v5 and regular power play time just seem like the right balance, to me.

Seriously. What The Athletic is doing is not akin to a raptor attacking injured but valiant prey -- The Athletic is more like a bird of carrion, ripping off what's useful from a carcass.

don't agree that either of those guys belong in Roch. I'd like to see Casey sheltered on a wing. Dahlin? Pssssh. He'll make mistakes, but that guy clearly needs to be in the NHL.

I thought he looked better last night. I'm really hoping that they don't toss him out there at center -- shelter him on the wing, for a while.

I'm guessing you didn't attend TBN's funeral as a "newspaper" of record. That publication is clearly, deliberately, inexorably pivoting to being some sort of new-fangled internet-based entertainment site. They're not remotely trying to remain that which you would seek to protect. And their e-board? They're little more than apologists for crony capitalists. Fare thee well, TBN -- you've sluffed off the mortal coil of newspaperdom, although I think that your actual date of death is TBD. Oh, and insofar as sports coverage goes, The Athletic is clearly the choice to make.

Just caught the Gritty meme reference (because I'm an old who doesn't catalog internet stuff as well as younger folk).

YMMV.

The Bills-Panthers connection is a little much.

And do the players care about the fans? And, when you think about it, does anyone really actually care about anyone else?

Also - lol - I swear I thought Gritty had a bowler hat on. It's an effing helmet, idiot.

Not in Miami, apparently.

Sheesh. Who was the player who got badly injured because of some slippery concrete ring between the seating and the field? Watched it. That is nucking futs. This oughta go in the "do the owners care about player safety" thread.

Touche’. Did Coughlin’s daughter also get the run of some unprofitable retail space at the team’s facility? Make some lousy merch design decisions? Anyway, I think my issue is specific to ownership. These owners, more specifically.

RB, I get, to an extent. But WR?

Looks like my Twitter/consumer brain was playing checkers, while the Flyers’ creative team was playing chess. That thing is hideous and weird, and that’s how the franchise is going to play it. Full marks.

This is also a fair take. There's something corrosive about the current environment on social media. Roll-outs like this seem to face an inevitable knee jerk tsunami of negative reactions. I do think Gritty is pretty bad, though. The fook's going on with that bowler hat?

That's a tough story - I'm sorry for the abuse you and others have had to endure from that man. I was imprecise and probably implied things I didn't intend when I talked upthread about abiding people with whom I disagree and invoking love that never fails. I don't have the time or energy to expound now. But, for present purposes, I would suggest that what you have in mind above when you use the words "love" and "solves" (solution, etc.) is almost certainly different from what I have in mind. Right now, I am thinking of books I've read by Thich Nhat Hanh, for starters.

^ I mean it when I say: Good on the Bills for hitting a layup shot in terms of getting fun content out there. This reminds me of the Timmy Howard stopping things meme.

Jeebus Christmas. Just saw an animated Tweet of that thing doing a ... stomach twirl (?) under an array of flashing stage lights. And someone was like: "TFW the edibles kick in."

Holy moly - she does bear a striking resemblance to her mother, nah?

Oh, it's not? I think you take an overly formal view of matters to get where you want to be (or feel you need to be). I'm full of surprises. And as indicated, this is not something I'm perceiving in isolation. If the Pegulas had to date proven capable of running a merit-based and professional operation, this Instagram post would have likely breezed past my attention. But there's more nepotism and cronyism in PSE than I care for. Actually, it appears that cronyism is much less of a problem than it used to be.

As with most things, the fact that this particular situation is not currently problematic or might never prove problematic does not mean that, as a policy or practice, it's something that should be condoned. Just a bad look, imo.

It's mixing business matters with personal matters. Simple as that. Bad practice. Par for the course, though, I'm afraid.

It's part of the overall picture. Consider how PSE has gobs of resources, but put Kim's brother in charge of a major part of operations, how they feature generally terrible designs from their kids (remember the striped-propeller-beanies? (or whatever they were)), and how they provided a store-front for a Pegula-daughter-restaurant-concept that, as far as I can tell, has not caught on but is being propped up by PSE bucks. I understand that pro sports franchises are proverbial "toys" for the owners. But the fact that it's becoming a playground/sandbox for the entire family is not to my taste.

Hear, hear.