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By the way, if anyone needs to know how to beat this, I can post the technique. Extremely easy. No fraud involved.

Theoretically, the #18, #31, and #48 could get you close to the #6 pick. Maybe it'd be worth it if someone slipped out the top 3-5. Hanifin, Strome, Crouse, Marner, Provorov? Also of note, Edmonton's in a similar position. They hold the #1, #15/16 (from PIT), #33, another 2nd rounder (from MTL), 3rd rounder (from OTT), another 3rd rounder (from STL), no own 3rd, no own 4th. ###### could get wacky.

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Well, a #18, a #31, and a #48 is nothing to sneeze at. The #18 and #31 could be a #9-#13 pick. Add the #48, and it could be a #7-11 pick. Maybe we get back some change in the form of a 3rd or 4th if it's 11 or lower, etc. You really want a guy if you trade up three-picks-for-one though; there can be some really good finds in that #31-48 area.

No that's a modern-era hat. With the alternate B with the sword down. And the reason the hat is grey? It's a Sabres beanie you could get for free in a case of Labatt Blue. He just has the Labatt logo in the back. Source: got that hat for free in a case of Blue, then murdered four people.

After reading the the wiki about twelve times, I see the error now. My wrong: I thought the draft order was first determined by which playoff round a team exits, then by the order they finished in the regular season league standings. EG, Pittsburgh lost in the first round, and is the lowest in the regular season league standings among losers in the first round, so they get the #15 pick. Then Winnipeg (#16), Ottawa (#17), possibly Detroit (#18?), then the Islanders (#18/19). Under this premise, the winner of Tampa/Detroit determines if Detroit picks higher than NYI. If Tampa loses, they still pick lower than NYI because their season record was better. The rest of the first round field would have been: Vancouver (#19/20), Nashville (#20/21), possibly Tampa (#21?), St Louis (#22) But that's not right. It's actually finishes by playoff round only for division winners and higher (and then by regular season standing), leaving the #15-26 pick to be determined among the division non-winners (division losers?) by solely regular season standing - not just the #15-22 picks. In simpler terms, a team can win a series, but if they don't win the division, they still get sorted among all losers by regular season points. Or in different terms again: all first and second round losers get lumped together for draft order. Thanks for tipping me off that I'm full of . It also means that when we control other teams' picks, we should generally be rooting for the underdogs in the first two series to improve draft order, unless we own said underdog pick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pele5vptVgc I still like our draft position and our versatility.

edit: Pardon the derp; also see below. So both the Blues and the Islanders get bounced in the first round, which, among playoff expectations, has maximized our draft assets. So we got that going for us, which is nice. Islanders will be the #18 pick if Detroit beats Tampa, #19 if Detroit loses to Tampa. St Louis will be the #22 pick regardless of outcome. The STL #22 pick will go to Winnipeg from the Kane trade. So we're realistically looking at: 1st round - #2 [Eichel] 1st round - #18/19 (from NYI, from Moulson-Vanek trade) 2nd round - #31 2nd round - #48/49 (from NYI, from Moulson-Vanek trade) 3rd round - none (sent to WSH in Halak-Neuvirth trade) 4th round - #92 5th round - #122 6th round - #152 7th round - #182 This is a really versatile position to be in. The Islanders' zany Vanek trade and their recent season-ending downfall have opened up some really interesting opportunities for us. A lot of other team's 2nd and 3rd rounders have been swapped, which could make for a very fluid market of trading up/down. We could trade up the #48/49 and the #31 into the #20-25 pick. We could trade down the #18/19 into the #25-30 pick and an upper/mid 2nd rounder. (I don't think we'd do this.) We could trade down the #31 pick into the #35-45 pick and a late 2nd or mid 3rd rounder. We could theoretically try to make a run at McDavid with the #2, #18, and a prospect/player. (I don't think we'd do this. I also don't think EDM's up for it- unless McDavid's agent has already unleashed holy terror.) There's a whole zoo of trades possible for anything from picks to elite players by packaging any of the #18/19, #31, or #48/49 picks with any of our players. We could simply select all of our players, end up with Eichel, a mid-1st, effectively a late 1st, a mid 2nd, and a handful of Rochester and goaltending prospects. It'd still end up being nothing short of a great draft.

Worked for me now.

Feel like there's something up with the poll operation. Because OP editted the poll, I had to delete my vote (no biggy), but now I get an error (despite checking the requisite three boxes or any number of boxes): Only one poll question is visible. Also, dem socks: Also the triple-triple stripes from '77-'78 aren't bad either.

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He could claim it was an accident avoidance maneuver, as he only accelerated once the Camaro had pushed him outside the lines. Impossible to know the state of mind of the pickup truck or semi drivers.

Camaro's entirely at fault. Doesn't matter what the pickup truck does legally. Pickup truck wasn't going considerably slower than traffic, so he's not legally obligated to move right, especially if he has to accelerate to pass the semi. Camaro shows no patience, tries to cut off, then pass on the grass. Somewhat lucky no one ended up underneath the semi/trailer.

Well, he's not listening then. Nothing new.

This this this this this. Propellantless thrusters with regard to spaceflight are generally thought of by scientists to be on the same plane as cold fusion with regard to commercial energy production. I don't have the time or energy to debunk all of the crackpot theories that exist, but for educational purposes, I'll instead point people towards a well-written blog entry from a while back that succintly details the Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science. The first two are often the easiest to spot. For #1, if the information isn't presented in a peer-reviewed journal, or if one isn't linked to in a press-release or news article, that should be an enormous red flag. For #2, that's usually the big sign of the conspiracy theory crackpot ######. The others can be more subtle, depending on the scientific literacy of the reader, but understanding #1 and #2 is a great start for most readers. As for the EMDrive, a wiki entry on the device has been around for a while:

"We're all told at some point that we can no longer troll online about the children's game, we just don't... don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told." -Moneyballs

They just need to hire EA Sports to record his voice for computer generated sequences like Jim Hughson, et al. Then, using the new puck microchips or FoxTrax or whatever, just have Robo-Rick call the game. Have Rick record all the individually pronounced syllables, so Robo-Rick can generate new player names in the future too.

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I don't mind the black and red jerseys from the goathead era. They were a good jersey in a time when weird 90's styling was creeping into NHL jerseys. If there's a downside to those for me, it's not the logo, it's the poor trend of removing color from jerseys and and heading to black/white/red that so may teams did. So much black/white in those days. And that's the reason I like the third from that era- the red was a flash of color in an otherwise dreary NHL jersey landscape. In hindsight, I think these jerseys take a little extra flak because they were also the Adelphia corporate colors, but they still hold their place as the uniform of an amazing few years in the franchise. My favorites, though, are the classic home and away and the present home and away. For the classics, they're the genesis of the brand of Buffalo NHL hockey, plus the six-stripe socks were the . They did evolve from 1970-1995 in small ways. The final iteration had lots of great elements was elegant. The modern era isn't perfect -maybe the blue's a little dark and maybe the grey is pointless- but they're a great modern look at the beloved classics. They're the jersey we had really been waiting for after so many years of weird sluggy Reebok-designed dog crap. They're better than a lot of jerseys in the league. The turdburger's the worst for me. It's a trainwreck of questionable and risky design elements. A mostly-gold jersey would have been much, much better with a simpler, classier approach. It'll forever be associated with the worst years of Buffalo hockey. Also terrible is the slug, especially the road white. It came about from ownership accepting the fans suggestion that the franchise return to blue and gold, but then absolutely failing the design phase- opting to go with new Reebok fancy design instead of returning to an elegant classic. The designer of the slug logo has since publicly acknowledged the fact he up. Those terrible jerseys might not have been as terrible if they were centered with the present day logo.

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You're welcome. That's the fun part about analytics: it doesn't care about any of this. Player X scores Y PPG then goes to the NHL and scores (Y PPG x 82 x NHLe factor). Ain't no Z age. Ain't no W height. Ain't no R fatass. It's predictive, and there are limits, but the player could be scoring two points per game in juniors while shitting his diaper, and the math wouldn't care.

Johnny Gaudreau posted 80 points in his 40 game junior season with BC. His NHLe based on that season was 67 points. He scored 64 points in his 80 game rookie year for Calgary (82 game equivalent would have been 65.6 points).

That amateur blog reads like bad breakup poetry.

I get the impression Eichel's physically stronger on and off the puck.