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I have a hard time understanding why the NHL won't clean up its house on dirty plays. If you want to let guys drop the gloves and go at it, that's one thing I could live without but OK, the players know the score there, but that still doesn't justify letting guys get away with so much crap during play. On thing though, if Kasper, Edvinsson, Johansson and Soderblom all stick this season and the Wings finish at least at the euqivalent of 500, suddenly the development pipeline looks a lot less futile than it did 2 months ago. Now I have to believe Lalonde was part of the reluctance to bring up/play the young guys and not just Yzerman.

However this ends the Wings deserve to win this game - but Vasilevskiy.

is this the same rehash we got a couple of years(?) ago that didn't have anything solid to it.?

I wouldn't say the signs are completely unambiguous yet, but the preponderance are indicating the Fed may had taken the foot off the brake a little too early. I don't blame them for that, they are always guessing where things are, but the problem is that in this environment, if the Fed decides the best policy is to push short term rates back up 100 basis points, the Trump administration with go absolutely kamikaze on the Federal Reserve. The outcome of that could be far worse for us long term than the Fed just holding tight, and if they do that we may be looking at 3-4% inflation for a while, which the public isn't going to like. Hopefully they take that wrath out on the GOP in 2 yrs.

No doubt Ozzie had his moments - I suppose the basic knock is that when you are only facing 15 shots a night you should be sharp on those. That may not really be fair but I think it's not an uncommon view among non-Wing hockey viewers from Ozzie's era.-

Goalie hasn't been that strong a position on the Wings since almost forever - Sawchuck I guess. Hasek was a great goalie but the Wings were too small a part of his career to claim him as theirs. In Osgood's best years the rest of the team was so good he didn't have work very hard so he's hard to compare to goalies from more 'normal' teams. We thought Crozier would be HOF after his rookie year.

the national leader in wind power generation is dead red Texas. Let that sink in if you think Trumps speaks for conservatives about windmills.

why do you want to go and introduce facts in place of a perfectly happy RW narrative.

A point that bears repeating. There is no connection.

The numbers are what they are. Ozzie certainly played for some better teams than Howard but for whatever reason I was just never impressed with Howard's play - he just never struck me as a 'great' goalie. I suppose the way the selection is put you can put him there because there was only one goalie through much of that period and it was him. Taking a more general window, he wouldn't be on my list of great Wings at all.

There is a lot of basic business blindness going on here because of the bright light reflecting off the shiny new toy. Energy has never been free, will never be free. Even if the marginal kiloWatt can be genated for next to nothing (as per solar or even fusion) the capital input, transmission cost, and maintenance of power systems are and will remain substantial. If AI answers continue to cost a lot of energy, then they will have cost associated with them and people will use other ways to get the same information. Right now the IA you are getting is coming to you subsidized by the suppliers as market investment, but if the cost doesn't come down, they eventually have to make money and the cost will go up and the free stuff will go away and the market will narrow. The energy consumption will have to fall to get the kind of application rates they are dreaming about.

I guess it depends what you look at. I pulled the current rosters a few years ago and at the time the age histogram for pitchers showed more proportionally more pitchers into the middle 30 than the histogram for hitters. That didn't look at performance, just rosters. Maybe teams are just more willing to keep older less effective pitchers around than hitters!

True enough for Hasek, not so much for Ozzie. Osgood appeared in 565 games for the Wings, Howard in 543.

looked like a completely different team from the flyers game. Raymond playing at another level. Thought Edvinsson, Johansson and Soderblom all played well. So the the Wings that much better or was Montreal just flat? Tune in Saturday for the next installment of "how high can the Wings fly!"

For me the thing is that I'm a lot less confident in all the supposed pitching depth we have. I see a lot of downside risks with a lot of the young guys that people seem to be assuming will just step up and dominate. I hope they will too but I don't see the credentials to persuade me to believe it.

and pitchers suffer slower age related decline than hitters. They have no requirement for millisecond reaction time. OTOH they are do get injured more so you have to evaluate the trade off on the years. The age related risk between a 27 and 30 hitter is probably greater than between a 27 and 30 yr old pitcher, but the basic injury risk over a any given contract length is going to be higher for all pitchers.

Or something. Losing the handle is one thing, but sometimes he tries passes that he should be able to see just aren't there - I have a harder time understanding how you fix that.

Lysenkoism come to America. What a country!

Imagine for just a minute what folding up FEMA would do to property values in hurricane areas. CA has the fires, but if CA gets serious they actually can do a lot to reduce their fire risk - but there is nothing the gulf states can do to stop the hurricanes from getting stronger as the atmospheric energy levels go up.

And the MAGA defense of Musk is tragically comic.

If push comes to shove, CA can afford it, Tx can afford it, how will all those other Red gulf coast states? Even FLA couldn't.

Keep up Tiger, it's not egg anymore, it's 'the large reproductive cell'.

yeah - it's curious. Even accepting his claim of Asperger's, which may make one 'socially awkward', there now seems to be some effort to conflate that into 'physically awkward' in Musk's defense when there is no such connection.

sadly, there is no such thing as 'personal' on the interwebs anymore.

well let's be precise. There is always downside risk that deflation becomes self amplifying, so the value in a small level of inflation is to give the Fed some downside travel on their target without triggering deflation. That's the one side that the 2% target comes from. On the other side, inflation at any level where it is actively felt by consumers will also set off a bad chain reaction of overbuying ahead of price increases and increasing long term interest rates choking off investment across the economy. The question again is were is the sweet spot. At 3% inflation, money losses 25% of it's value in 10yrs - that's pretty easily felt. At 2% is 18% of it value. At 1.5% it's 14%. That's getting to where people don't notice it much - so again, 0-2% is the range the Fed targets. It's not magic, and the people who say the targets are arbitrary are either just poorly informed or have an agenda for a different policy - for instance - support of inflation as a way to reduce the relative national debt. If you support tariffs that are going to drive up prices, you should support the Fed still tightening enough to keep the rate of inflation within target.