The ‘93 win streak included OT wins, and was also made possible by the fact the NHL played an 84 game season. The season would have ended after game 15 under a traditional schedule.

The Habs’ first round opponent is almost certainly going to be the WC1 team, which based on current trends will be either the Caps or the Rangers. I would hardly call that “cushy” (though whoever wins that series is going to waltz to the conference final over whichever squad makes it to the second round out of…

You don’t have to criticize Under Armour, Tom Brady, and Sport Illustrated if neither Nike, Rex Ryan, or ESPN will pay you too, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t some other reason to write it up if your target audience is interested.

Wait this is tonight’s obligatory hockey post? Not Team USA* beating a vaunted** Russian*** squad for the chance to play for gold?

Wasn’t Monterrey in serious consideration for the Expos relocation? Did they just fall off the face of the Earth after that or what?

how exactly do you prove a “feeling” wrong? 

I hate to tell you it’s tourists from Kansas rather than native New Yorkers packing your shows. You already perform for the deplorables.

Routine hits don’t end with the hit-ee getting carted off the ice.

I don’t know that I would call it “clean,” but it was pretty routine. Guys finish checks against the boards like that a dozen or so times a game trying to disrupt the breakout and wear out the opposing defenses.

Even the cleanest hits tend to look borderline when you’ve got 2+ inches and 20+ pounds on most of the guys you’re laying out.

It’s a routine forecheck pasting of the sort one sees a dozen times every game. If you want to see that called every time, points for consistency, but with how tight the refs are calling this game the fact that went unpunished is pretty telling.

Only in the strictest literal sense that some parts of the season had to be “higher” than the others.

The annoying thing is enablers like Leitch who engage in obfuscation, misdirection, and whataboutism to avoid ever acknowledging that they get played on a biweekly basis by transparent hoaxsters. The entire thesis here—that people need to “do something”—relies on an assumption that there was something to be done, when…

You’re glossing over the mistake he already made, which is to presuppose that this was a situation which called for doing something. If we assume (as the weight of available evidence counsels us to do) that Saleh was engaged in a jackass prank, the right thing to do is sit by and let his ass get booted off the plane.

• Some passengers back up Saleh’s story. Some passengers back up Delta’s story.

If you’re going with Netflix or HBO, your target audience isn’t the same kids who read the books, though. So what’s the audience—the grown ups who have fond memories of the books? Nostalgia has some cultural cachet that you can monetize, but the disappointing results from some of this year’s nostalgia-driven releases…

Adaptation seems like a dicey proposition—too long for a movie, too effects-heavy (not to mention graphic) for a kid’s TV show, too kid/YA-oriented to bank on an older demographic.

I sort of aged out of the series around the time of Visser’s publication, I think, but a few years ago went back to look at where the series went from there, and holy shit they had teenagers committing genocide. 

http://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativeadvantage.html

/CTRL+F’s “automation”