Around the League 44: The Three Thousand Mile Final

[Chrispy]

They let Mo walk? That’s new.

What, you think they made him get a cab to the airport?

We're not the Panthers.

 

[raynman]

I mean if you fire someone you are letting him walk away.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Some of y'all might as well get mad at a random number generator.

 

[Lempo]

Some of y'all might as well get mad at a random number generator.

RND is a bullshit pseudo random number generator! It actually uses the internal time and real time clock to "generate" supposed "random" numbers!

 

[Porvari]

Hopefully Finland wins gold in Milan and Niko Mikkola becomes the first Finn in the Quadruple Gold Club. Because that would be kind of funny.

 

[MinJaBen]

I mean if you fire someone you are letting him walk away.

Yeah, the Mo comment is either first class trolling or you had a stroke.

Sad thing is I can’t be sure yet which is true.

 

[AD Skinner]

Success in sport and just life in general owes a whole lot more to luck than a lot of people are comfortable with accepting

 

[Unsustainable]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805484804575527240

Lorentz out there

Its really frustrating to watch Florida have the success they are because, for all intents and purposes, there's really no excuse for us to not be there. They are everything we wanted our franchise to be, and they built it up under our nose, using some major pieces we either let walk away (Forsling, Maurice) or they beat us for (Tkachuck). They are better than us at pretty much every facet of the game, and they have the higher end talent locked up long-term that we're letting walk away because the price might be too high.

Hard to look at what they have done and not feel a little hopeless about the short term future of the Canes, because the last couple years, as good as we have been, they're better, and I don't know if our front office has the desire to do what is necessary to change that. We'll hide behind excuses and tropes like "hockey is weird", or "the playoffs are a coin flip" and just continue BAU going forward of being good, just never good enough.

Bob vs Andersen is the difference

 

[A Star is Burns]

JFC, Mo had two separate stints here for like 13 years and was last here like 12 years ago or whatever. WTF kind of stupid criticism is that? There's no way he would have still been here. All time dumbassery there.

 

[Svechhammer]

Success in sport and just life in general owes a whole lot more to luck than a lot of people are comfortable with accepting

Some, sure. But far too often people will brush away legitimate weaknesses and deficiencies as bad luck and wonder why certain franchises and teams are incapable of taking that next step.

 

[Unsustainable]

Lomberg looks like Rod

 

[MinJaBen]

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Lomberg looks like Rod

The wearing the ski goggles trend so you don't get champaign in your eyes is not what I expect from hockey players.


Baseball, sure, but hockey players?

 

[Lempo]

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Lomberg looks like Rod

The AI development has plateaued, these haven't been getting any more believable as of lately.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

RND is a bullshit pseudo random number generator! It actually uses the internal time and real time clock to "generate" supposed "random" numbers!

Hey man, get out of the 90s.

Entropy (computing) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[LakeLivin]

RND is a bullshit pseudo random number generator! It actually uses the internal time and real time clock to "generate" supposed "random" numbers!

Raises an interesting philosophical question: is there any way to generate a truly random number? You could do things like taking multiple iterations and methods of choosing seeds and small enough time increments (nanoseconds) to come up with a number that is effectively random, but if you could model the process well enough your result could be duplicated and therefore not truly random.

I've got it: base the whole thing on whether or not something is called goalie interference; that's truly random!

 

[cptjeff]

Yeah, it really doesn't get much better than this:


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That moment is why, when the puck dropped, I couldn't help but root for Florida.

Maurice is a good guy and seeing him finally win was wonderful.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Its really frustrating to watch Florida have the success they are because, for all intents and purposes, there's really no excuse for us to not be there. They are everything we wanted our franchise to be, and they built it up under our nose, using some major pieces we either let walk away (Forsling, Maurice) or they beat us for (Tkachuck). They are better than us at pretty much every facet of the game, and they have the higher end talent locked up long-term that we're letting walk away because the price might be too high.

Hard to look at what they have done and not feel a little hopeless about the short term future of the Canes, because the last couple years, as good as we have been, they're better, and I don't know if our front office has the desire to do what is necessary to change that. We'll hide behind excuses and tropes like "hockey is weird", or "the playoffs are a coin flip" and just continue BAU going forward of being good, just never good enough.

There are some decent points in here but some of it is just false. The Mo thing aside, who are these players the Panthers signed long term that the Canes are letting walk?

 

[Discipline Daddy]

Raises an interesting philosophical question: is there any way to generate a truly random number? You could do things like taking multiple iterations and methods of choosing seeds and small enough time increments (nanoseconds) to come up with a number that is effectively random, but if you could model the process well enough your result could be duplicated and therefore not truly random.

I've got it: base the whole thing on whether or not something is called goalie interference; that's truly random!

Don't know the website but I had some nerd friends in college who showed me a website that generated random numbers based on the frequency of live captured data of neutrinos striking the atmosphere.

Good God it is impossible to type on my phone with all these damned ads. It's like my adblock is adding MORE ads to my screen.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

No RBA again

 

[cptjeff]

No RBA again

Goddamn it.

Also, day after the final doesn't seem like the best time to announce.

 

[bleedgreen]

I’d consider taking RBA’s career over Roenick’s, but those early years in Chicago he was at times the best player in the league. He was Yzerman/Sakic level for the Hawks, amazing individual player. I think Rod aged better as an all around player. Hard to argue Datsyuk. I’m meh on Weber, great player but I don’t know about hof so soon.

 

[Svechhammer]

Oof, but accurate

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805626773612224988

I’d consider taking RBA’s career over Roenick’s, but those early years in Chicago he was at times the best player in the league. He was Yzerman/Sakic level for the Hawks, amazing individual player. I think Rod aged better as an all around player. Hard to argue Datsyuk. I’m meh on Weber, great player but I don’t know about hof so soon.

Every year that passes I'm more inclined to agree with the rumor that he's being held out because he ripped the Cup out of Gary's hands in 2006

 

[chaz4hockey]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805484804575527240

Lorentz out there


Bob vs Andersen is the difference

Actually it’s more than that.

Florida learned from last year that winning the cup demands a level of commitment that is beyond what you think is possible .

Look how committed Florida was in not only physically taking out the opposition but also with fire and intensity to protect at all costs around the net.

A prime example was late in the 3rd in a goal mouth scramble—(I didn’t catch the number) A Panther went from behind the net out front to violently throw his body across the side net front blocking an open net by McDrai; that saved a tying goal.

Canes sadly don’t have those type of players nor ever approached a level required to win a cup (it’s a part of why they lost to Rags and they were a far cry from the commitment shown by the ‘06 cup team). IMO, the Oilers would have easily handled the Canes too (btw: Oilers will be much more dangerous going forward).

 

[HisIceness]

Oof, but accurate

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805626773612224988

Every year that passes I'm more inclined to agree with the rumor that he's being held out because he ripped the Cup out of Gary's hands in 2006

Was just thinking, the Blues/Knights/Panthers all won with former Sabres. If that's the key to winning a cup we may have no choice but to take back Jeff Skinner.

Also

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805678634876944715

I'm not sure I understand this from Detroits POV

 

[A Star is Burns]

Was just thinking, the Blues/Knights/Panthers all won with former Sabres. If that's the key to winning a cup we may have no choice but to take back Jeff Skinner.

Also

https://x.com/i/web/status/1805678634876944715

I'm not sure I understand this from Detroits POV

I'm guessing they have a plan of some kind, but I still feel comfortable in saying Yzerman is an overrated knob.