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"This guy's got weed on him. Detain him and we'll take you."

Story time. Not a DWI story, but a border crossing story, just for shits. About six UB undergrads, all under 21, packed into somebody's Nissan stanza, driving up to Niagara Falls CA (with a DD) on a Saturday night to go drinking at the night clubs. We know we're underage, and we know the border agents know we're underage, so when they ask where we're going, we know the standard safe response is "Goin to see the Falls." So we get to the border agent on the Canadian side of the Rainbow Bridge. We hand over our IDs, and the Canadian border agent asks us where we're goin. The driver responds, "we're goin up to the night club to get drunk. I'm the DD." Everyone in the car freezes with fear. I mean, he knows we're under age. The border agent hands back the IDs and says, "Welp, carry on. Don't do anything I wouldn't do." We start to pull away. And then we hear him scream at the top of his lungs "AND I DO A LOTTT!!!" We lost our laughing about that all night. The US folks aren't allowed to be that funny.

Watching the DVR now. Brendan Burke calls a damn good game. Good moonlighting hire by NBC. Kinda too bad he's with the Islanders in the regular season for the next foreseeable future.

Today at the Clintonville car show: a weiner, some nuts, and a dumper in back.

That line really kicked me in the nuts. Just brutal.

It's a time-honored tradition in preseason that rookies on the cusp demonstrate their determination, will, and intensity by fighting, thereby getting them noticed by coaches and fans. This isn't new. Guys that don't have a lot of tools go in thinking they gotta kick someone's ass like it's their first day in prison. Baddock found the biggest dude in the yard and broke him off a piece. Is it righteous? It's as righteous as fighting is to the sport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NIST_World_Trade_Center_Disaster_Investigation Report on the World Trade Center Disaster Investigation performed after the FEMA World Trade Center Building Performance study. NIST houses the National Construction Safety Team, created in 2002 because FEMA didn't have legal authority to gather the information it needed to perform a thorough investigation. The NCST is now effectively like the National Transportation Safety Board, but for buildings. The NIST findings are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NIST_World_Trade_Center_Disaster_Investigation#Findings The actual report is here: https://www.nist.gov/engineering-laboratory/final-reports-nist-world-trade-center-disaster-investigation Wacky conspiracy theorists love to all over these reports, which is what I suspect etienne is attempting to goad me into wasting my time discussing.

According to this: https://www.diebytheblade.com/2018/9/17/17869608/preview-buffalo-sabres-open-the-preseason-against-the-columbus-blue-jackets This is correct. Use the usual streaming whathaveyou.

Pairs from the scrimmage: Scandella-Ristolainen, Dahlin-McCabe, Lawrence Pilut-Taylor Fedun-Zach Redmond. Nathan Beaulieu-Zach Bogosian, Brendan Guhle-Casey Nelson, Brandon Hickey-Matt Tennyson, Devante Stephens-Will Borgen Hunwick was out with an upper body injury. It's worthwhile to note that Guhle-Nelson was one of the better performing pairs at CF% 56.80 over 127:15 last year. I'm starting to get the impression that Housley is either data driven or what he's seeing and deciding happens to match the data.

Are we going to win it all? No. OBVIOUSLY HELL YEAH WE ARE But it's a brand new team. Lots of stuff to watch. New goaltending, new defense, new top six, new bottom six. New scoring winger, new prospect wingers, new grindy wingers, new center(s), #1 overall D man in years and he's like five years old, new #6-7 D on the team. If you're not excited by the new stuff, you might at least be intrigued by it. Interesting season coming up. And I like hockey, so just going from offseason to regular season, I'm already at half-chub.

Aud needs better aim with poxes. Best of luck to Jeff.

I assume you're asking about the CF% for Beaulieu-Bogosian, which was 58.06 over 69:25 of 5v5, so probably ~5 games. Go calculate the GF% 5v5 for that pairing and let us know. Too slow, I went and looked it up. They saw 1 GF and 5 GA and the ice time was over a period of 16 GP (but some games could have literally been mere seconds together). However, the High Danger Goals For was 1 and the High Danger Goals Against was 2. Small samples, etc. Also notable: the on-ice SV% was 83.87, so take that how you will.

He might get beat out in camp by a youngin. Guhle shows promise. But Beaulieu's got the game experience and the one-way contract. If you want someone to knock out Beaulieu, look for Hunwick, but I think Housley takes a look at both Hunwick-Bogosian and Beaulieu-Bogosian in a few real games each.

Dahlin-McCabe makes 100% sense. Reference my analysis here. Housley loves Scandella-Ristolainen. And McCabe's relevant 5v5 CF% was highest with LH defensemen (Beaulieu, Scandella) and lowest with RH defensemen (Bogosian, Ristolainen, Fedun, Tennyson). Scandella-Risto was stronger than both McCabe-Risto and Scandella-McCabe. Dahlin could have started with Bogosian, but I think they need Bogosian to mentor D #6. I believe that will be Nathan Beaulieu based on a) contracts, b) experience, and c) the CF% of Beaulieu-Bogosian was the team high at an excellent 58.06. So that makes: Scandella-Ristolainen Dahlin-McCabe Beaulieu-Bogosian

Sup. Which story do you want?

Also, players may not be legally obligated to disclose mental illness to a team before signing a contract. In the land of labor law, that's a good thing.

Yep, that sounds exactly like Steve Yzerman. Good call. I mean, when I think Steve Yzerman, I say to myself, "now there's a guy that quits. He must be trying to scapegoat somebody." Not a single ounce of respectable determination in that guy. He's probably already trying to figure a way to quit the Detroit GM job in the first couple of weeks so he can blame Marion Ilitch for his inevitable dooming of that franchise. That's why Yzerman quit Detroit before, so that Mike Ilitch would blame Ken Holland for Yzerman's meddling. Yzerman's ruse was so successful, that when Mike Ilitch realized he had been bamboozled by Stevie Y, Ilitch croaked on the spot, and Ken Holland was convicted of murder. Damn that Yzerman and his quittin' attitude and letting other guys take the fall.

I think it's Detroit, and it's not just because Yzerman played there. Yzerman, since his playing days, has always wanted the GM job in DET. He was a VP from retirement in 2006 to 2010. In early 2010, Mike Ilitch tried to promote Ken Holland in order to make room for Yzerman as GM. Holland turned down the promotion. Yzerman left that spring for Tampa after turning down the Minnesota GM job. Ken Holland signed a four year extension in 2014 through this past season. Mike Ilitch passed away in February of 2017. Yzerman signed a four year extension back in 2014 (with one year left on his previous), meaning he's got a job with TBL through the end of this season. This spring, Ken Holland signed a two year extension, meaning he's got a contract through the next two seasons. However, Jeff Blashill has only one year left on his contract. I could easily see, in the spring of 2019, Holland being promoted (not likely fired, as he currently has 35 years with DET, but possible if he refuses again with Mike in the ground) and Blashill being fired (after missing the playoffs 2+ times), and giving the GM job to Yzerman with the ability to hire a new coach. FWIW, Detroit still has all of their picks in 2019 plus a 2nd and two 5ths, potentially a cushy start for a GM. I don't think it happens right now: Yzerman says he stays in TB, Holland just signed a new contract five months ago, and FWIW, Blashill's about to go to camp and likely wouldn't be fired right away.

Top 100 NHL Prospects: https://lastwordonhockey.com/2018/09/04/top-nhl-prospects-100-81/ Sabres: 93) Linus Ullmark 88) Tage Thompson 70) Alexander Nylander 37) Brendan Guhle 6) Casey Mittelstadt 1) Rasmus Dahlin Top 10: 10) Kirill Kaprizov (LW, MIN) 9) Martin Necas (C, CAR) 8.) Jesperi Kotkaniemi (C, MON) 7) Filip Zadina (RW, DET) 6) Casey Mittelstadt (C, BUF) 5) Quinn Hughes (LD, VAN) 4) Miro Heiskanen (RD, DAL) 3) Andrei Svechnikov (RW, CAR) 2) Elias Pettersson (C, VAN) 1) Rasmus Dahlin (LD, BUF)

Just to throw fuel on the fire, the Red WIngs are streaming their Traverse City games on Facebook with no geographic restrictions. So this "NHL rule" of not being allowed to stream out of market is BS, full of loopholes, or straight up being ignored. I'll be perusing the usual sources a little later on.

If he plays >74 games, he'll record >74 points. That'd be a career year, but it won't put him in top 10 points (which was 89+ points this past year). There's an alright chance that his wingers may elevate their own game, enabling him to break 90, which is a threshold that he himself is capable of, but not with dirt or injured wingers. It correlates to team success somewhat, as well. Of the top 12 point-getters (86+ points) last year, every one except McDavid was on a team that made the playoffs.

But if you shift everyone down one spot, it gives you much less variance to the curve: ??? 79 (+4) 61 (-4) 50 (-2) 47 (0) 46 (+4) 42 (+3) 34 (+1) 22 (-6) 21 So what we need to do is tank another year to acquire leading scorer.

Roysie Jr.

Berkeley admissions standards have slipped.