Especially since he has his head down and is in control of the puck. I’d say the refs have been pretty good about letting things like boarding calls go when a player turns at the last second. If they do miss something egregious I would rather the league office assess the penalty at the next whistle. The Kucherov hit…

Totally agree and I don’t think anyone can blame the loss on that call. The scope of offsides review needs to be seriously looked at, the trapezoid removed, and the delay of game penalty needs to be revisited. Personally I would just treat it like an icing call on any puck that goes out without hitting an opposing…

That’s because it hasn’t been that long and there are some other generational talents coming up now. The defenseman’s role is changing and there was a lot of talk about who would be receiving the proverbial torch (Bourque -> Lidstrom -> Subban, Karlsson, Doughty, Keith, Hedman ??). Everyone refers to Chara, Weber,…

The NDA is the big red flag for me and it’s screams shady sales tactics. The terms may not be bad if they offered that same deal to every top ~200 prospect and I also have no idea where that puts this prospect, but they likely employee several competent actuaries that structure the risk with these deals. I also have…

No because the elbow was not equivalent to a head-to-head hit in the NFL or hockey or any sport. If you retaliate on the ice for a missed 2-minute minor, you’re a goon. The only exception are goalies since they are more focused on keeping the puck out the net than responding themselves. That elbow is the equivalent of…

I think it’s more referring to professional athlete’s penchant to drink and gamble, leading to some less than rested players. Even if they don’t go out the night before a game, chances are a lot of them go out the night after a game and are a little sluggish for the next game. A lot of teams arrive early because of…

Sure, save $100-500 on phone to avoid being distracted and then go and spend hundreds on a GPS and music downloads because you can’t resist Facebook?

Your “though...” implies an opinion that creates a Toronto as a victim in this scenario. Do you also comment on every missed call for any sports highlight? Irrelevant things are irrelevant.

Not sure if you’re talking about talent or consistency or value, but, as overrated as I think Eichel is, Eichel is and was the best talent on the Sabres.

Fuck off with that take. In today’s NHL you can’t take a cheap shot worthy of suspension and justify it by saying it’s retaliation for an uncalled 2-minute minor.

He braced his arm on the glass to avoid taking the full brunt of it to his shoulder. A good hit is when you put your shoulder or hip into somewhere between the hip and the shoulder of your opponent and just like leg checks are dangerous for both players, a missed shoulder check can separate your shoulder when you hit…

I’m not sure if they’re a trolling bigot or an outright bigot, but I find this especially funny because I’m pretty sure Lauren is trans in which case she would know a little something about what this person thinks men’s games are. Which I find even funnier because it took me up until the first remember some guys…

There are still great (appropriately priced) windows laptops with older i7s comparable to the mbp, but the cheaper ones all lack in either size, quality of parts, a larger SSD, or ram. They also tend to come out of the box with a bunch of bloatware, but are upgradable and you can always flash the base OS which makes…

And that’s why corporate IT departments love them, because the volume breaks and their relative durability. I still stand by the number of times I dropped my MBP would have decimated a thinkpad. There is a small dent in the corner of the still functional screen from a time I fell asleep and it fell off the side of my…

Drop the useless touchbar for the MBP, double the SSD on the asus, the processor on the MBP is likely better, and fit it in a metal body at least half the thickness of that thing. Apples to oranges.

The old macbooks plastic bodies were shit, but I wouldn’t trust the thinkpad’s plastic body to hold up as well as my aluminum bodied macbook pro. Just specced out the cheapest thinkpad to a similar standard that my 2011 mbp (oldest i5 available, 8 GB ram, 500 GB SSD) and it came to $1599 list price so let’s call it…

Show me a top of the line windows laptop that is 1/3 the price of a macbook pro... I’ll wait.

Counterpoint: The elderly/older Americans are more likely to live in rural or suburban areas and are more likely to have a subscription than urban dwellers read the local paper at their local library, american legion, barber shop, etc.

Yes, but if you are on any other site “The Takeout” gets listed before “The Root”, while the rest are in alphabetical order. This is clearer if you’re on a .kinja.com blog or kinja.com.

I think that is most easily explained away by the big cities voting democratically and their newspaper coverage being generally better because they are serving a larger population.