Michael

Is there another Wotherspoon in the league that requires you to put the first inital in? Parker is the only oneI can think of.

Hockey.

He's not good, but with the ridiculously bad center luck this team has had, it really couldn't hurt and actually might help.

it's visible (a teensy bit) even all the way down here in Raleigh

The Sabres currently have the following positions ibjured/otherwise not in the lineup:

1C, 1LW, 2C, 2LW, 4RW, 1LHD (usually plays 1RD)

The following have also missed notable amounts of the season: 1RHD, 2LHD, 3LHD (who usually plays 1LD), 1G.

OOOOOF

What camera shows that being a goal?? (Leafs Bruins). It definitely might be but the SN broadcast has shown no conclusive evidence

fair enough

NHL Data hoarders >:(

@hockeyviz.com (a thought inspired by your repost of this gorgeous viz) Have you ever tried heatmapping zone entry paths? Maybe there's certain players who always enter from the left wall and drive deep, some who enter and cut across, some who stop up to make a pass, or maybe it's a f(coaching)?

so this is a lie, but I'll leave this up in case other people are confused too -

turns out there was a whole separate live updates feed for it that you somehow couldn't get to from the main election results feed

@nytimes.com live election updates has done a whole lot of ignoring the NYC mayoral election tonight

Singlehandedly juicing the league point totals.

looks like we might finally break the 4-3 streak!

the public analytics show a pretty massive gap between the actual PK (2nd) and the expected PK (28th) suggesting the gap is primarily Lyon making timely saves. It still looks better schematically to me though, but I'm not enough of a hockey mind to know why. What do you see?

I mean yea that would be preferred, but the context of the quote is that he's lamenting their inability to bounce back from a bad first in the second.

Ahhh ok

A nagging issue that physical? Am I reading that right?

scratching Spence is a choice

thwaroated again

(it works better out loud cuz thwart and throat sound pretty similar even if they're spelt pretty differently)

I did *not* have Shaquille O'Neal calling himself "Tyson Ko-Shaq" on my list of things to happen tonight but it did on @tntsportsus.bsky.social

Imagine someone from June of 2023 just came out of a coma and heard "Leo Carlsson goal, assisted by Jacob Trouba and Cutter Gauthier"

I miss him

LMAO "Vladdy when you signed your extension this past summer, is this where you thought this team would be"

Vladdy, tentatively: *looking back and forth* "yyyyyes? yes"

Vladimir Guerrero Jr wearing a Leafs jersey before the Jays game

VLADDY JR IS THE FIRST PERSON IN A LEAFS JERSEY TO WIN A GAME SEVEN IN OVER 20 YEARS

The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series

I agree, I just don't think many of the FLA chances last night had that extra time and space – BUF PK clogged up lanes like crazy. If the model accounts for time and the position of the other players I guess my eye test is wrong, but if it's a blanket bonus factor I think it overestimated this game.

Ok Lyon was really good yesterday, but it didn't feel like he was 4.something GSAx. Are shots on the PP by the same shooter in the same location considered to be worth more xG by nature of them being on the PP?

@evolvingwild.evolving-hockey.com Are The Buffalo Sabres?!?

This post is for maybe 3 people:

The fact that "racewalks" fits in the NYT Strands today and somehow isn't the spangram is a testament to the genius of the puzzlemaker.