roboticyeti.bsky.social
Was @vankesszak on Twitter (and am still there as @Robotic_Yeti). Don't tweet a lot, but compulsively favourite and retweet. Huge Leafs fan.
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This NHL simultaneously wants to be seen as the most macho men in sports, while also wanting to have the public accountability levels of an ultra-premium beer league
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It’s so hilarious how much NHL players yearn to never have anyone care that they exist.
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Most of the tax gap is sorted out by accountants anyway. It's remained an excuse in hockey more than any other sport because a) It gives Canadian teams an excuse, and b) It gives players a more manly sounding reason to go to those places than weather, anonymity, and recently, ring-chasing
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It does, but nobody was calling out the Avs before they won either. Following MacKinnon draft year
Lost first round twice
Missed playoffs twice
Won 1 round 3x
Won cup
Lost first round 2x
Won 1 round 2x
That is pretty meh for a perennial darling of the league.
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Florida does have a real knack for going in for the kill when they smell blood
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i'm not trying to kick the Hurricanes while they're down, I would have liked them to beat the vile and detestable Panthers, but i think "system with a ceiling" is a better explanation than "perpetually unlucky" at this point
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The solution to systemic power imbalances is not to create siloed-off communities that rely on the goodwill of a small # of benefactors, the solution is to *take power*, which in most cases will mean organizing to win elections. Too many people on the left act as though you can opt out of power.
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damn canes are getting absolutely walked by the panthers. should probably blow up their core
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Mikkola’s boarded a defenceless player in the head, opened the player door when a player was being hit into it, and blindsided a player to the head in a 14 game span. He has gotten a total $5K fine.
Just a farce
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Against OTT Carlo had the 3rd best 5v5 score & venue adjusted xGF% amongst the Leafs D - behind his partner Rielly, and Tanev.
Against FLA he had literally the best 5v5 score and venue adjusted xGF% amongst all of the Leafs D.
But people are suggesting he was horrible?
Make it make sense.
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In the 13 games Carlo played in the playoffs, here are his 5v5 score and venue adjusted xGF% results by game (via EH)
vs OTT:
G1 2.63% (horrible!)
G2 70.74%
G3 52.64%
G4 51.21%
G5 40%
G6 69.26%
vs FLA
G1 53.36%
G2 47.59%
G3 28.49%
G4 13.32%
G5 50.94%
G6 83%
G7 46.29%
Universally bad though?
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Ignoring the excellent results he had in the final ~20 gp of the regular season, and his performance in the Ottawa series... Because he had very bad numbers vs Florida (who make a *lot* of D look bad) is definitely a perspective skewed by a very small sample.
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Now imagine a guy who spends hours a day "learning" stuff from a chatbot, getting word salad regurgitated into his brain, bouncing it back, with zero "what the *fuck* are you talking about?" happening.
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29 year old with a career high of 51 points? Oh baby
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Pierre Lebrun is gonna have a rumbling about it
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I am envisioning a $9-10 million contract in Toronto that is going to make the David Clarkson saga seem like small potatoes.