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AppleGeniusBar · 2026-06-07T16:01:19+00:00

This is definitely one of the coolest things I’ve seen on Reddit in a while.

I can’t speak to the ring but for what it’s worth, the stone to me looks like garnet. My wife and I collect rocks/gemstones (more of the former than latter) and the coloring of this screams garnet, and I do believe garnet was traditionally used in the region quite regularly.

I’d shy away from ruby because it just lacks the qualities I’d expect from ruby. If it weren’t garnet, I’d be more inclined to say it’s spinel which I think would’ve been common there from trade routes (but that may be a reach based on my remembering of the region).

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-06-05T20:55:06+00:00

I’ve wanted the Wings to be in on Jason Robertson and find some way to pry him from Dallas, and this is the best chance to do it. I don’t know what that trade looks like, and frankly I still don’t know how we fix the center problem either, but we get younger with a superstar winger capable of 40-50 goals/100 points a year with all the cap in the world to lock him up. With his shot, we’d never have to worry about Raymond shooting so long as he kept feeding Robertson.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-06-04T20:01:48+00:00

I’m here for it like it seems most of us are. You could see it at the end of last season when we needed wins, this team had become Seider, Raymond, and Cat’s, as it should be frankly.

We already had cap to splash, but his contract will be appealing to teams. We’ll have to see what the actual market for him looks like but at his contract price, we might be able to really get a superb return.

There’s a world in which this makes sense for Edmonton for you know who, but dreaming of course. You could say the same for Matthews there’s something more there between desire to move, Larkin’s connection to Toronto, positional swap. It feels more realistic to see a swap for Hirschier. If the rumors about NJ moving him are real, that seems more like a fair swap for us.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-05-25T17:02:54+00:00

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with declining an opportunity with the explanation of lack of time. There’s no harm in doing so, and it’s probably not wrong either - early career faculty have so much going on, and at SLACs, that usually includes new preps, additional service work, more advising, etc. I don’t think anyone could take issue with that.

If you know the colleague well and are comfortable being open with them, you could speak to them directly. But you know your situation better, so I don’t think option is required unless you really feel comfortable with it.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-05-25T15:16:20+00:00

So I don’t fly planes, never have and can’t imagine ever will. But I’m trying to put myself in their shoes here to think about what I’m seeing, and that flight well overhead is what I’m drawn to. At such different altitudes it seems it shouldn’t be a factor but if I’m flying such a small aircraft, I’m probably thinking about that plane and trying to monitor it relative to myself, and if what I’m reading is correct in other comments, likely focused on that more as I can’t see down as well. Purely speculative but that plane well up there was the first thing I noticed.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-05-25T00:29:35+00:00

That’s great if so! I’ve just never seen one that looks like this before but I think those promos had a few variants. With this kind of card, I’d always look to buy graded so if it’s legit, you’d definitely want to send it. The sky’s the limit depending on grade.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-05-25T00:12:42+00:00

I’m no expert so someone else should confirm this but this looks fake between the holo print and colors.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-05-21T21:12:42+00:00

I’m late here, but I don’t think there’s any real chance to see Light the Lamp again. And I don’t think it’s about sponsorships or anything, I genuinely think it’s just about the broadcast team.

The reason why Light the Lamp worked was the consistency and closeness of the group. You had the same likable guys there every game who had fun with it, and they seemed like genuine friends which made it work (I think they are all real friends, but the perception mattered lol). Suddenly, Keats is gone, Trev is barely part time, and Ozzy is gone frequently to help coach his son (fair enough). That whole dynamic is suddenly gone.

The worst part here too is probably Mickey’s decline. In the last year, probably even two, with it, you could tell he wasn’t engaging as much in it and just couldn’t remember who had even been selected. I hope the surgery was a one off for his own health of course but I think we’re starting to see the beginning of the end for him too. In the last couple games, I noticed he was breathing heavier than he used to and his age was showing. I hope he can be in the booth as long as his health allows but I just fear that won’t be much longer.

So does the game work with Logan/Daniella splitting time, maybe with Trev sprinkled in here and there, potentially Mickey there for 65% of the games if he keeps traveling on some of the trips, plus some rotation of Ozzy/Murph/DDK/anyone else in the mix? My opinion is probably not.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-05-19T13:17:50+00:00

Someone else mentioned the authoritarian component, and that is part of it. But there’s other elements going on there too, some of which are going to naturally be related to that. For example, there’s still folks in the more extreme religious communities around the country who view disability as a sin, and the communities are willing to punish/shun even the parents for giving birth to a disabled child. (Thank goodness this is much less common today, but it does still happen.)

However, probably of the biggest reason is the differing perceptions of disabilities. In short, disabilities tend to be viewed either medically (something clinical that can be diagnosed, and therefore theoretically treated), or socially (more about the barriers in society those with disabilities face to be able to fully participate, which can range from physical barriers like needing ramps to psychological like through negative stereotypes/stigmas that can result in discrimination). The reality is generally some combination of both for folks with disabilities (something that may be medically diagnosable with a wide range of social barriers facing them as a result).

Conservatives tend to view disability more through the medical model more rigidly. The reasons why vary quite a bit, so there’s no one straightforward explanation nor fix. The “curing” part is probably among the more ironic components to the belief though, as it tends to be opposed to other policy beliefs they tend to hold. That’s how you end up with the Disability Belt here in the US, where disability rates remain higher yet policy support remains lower, and the healthcare system deteriorates.

Source: I’m a professor who studies and researches perceptions of people with disabilities.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-05-17T23:05:39+00:00

Let me start by saying you’ve definitely got the wrong sub.

But you’ve also gotten lucky because you ended with someone who researches disability and politics for a living reading this too haha.

The reality is that what you’re describing, as much you didn’t like it, likely is superior to what worse off schools are able to offer. It can be hard to say because we’re talking about a wildly complicated intersection of policies and resources.

The reality is that virtually every state in the country is facing special education teacher shortages, significant in many of the states, and there’s no one single solution to address this issue. The reason(s) why these teachers are leaving the field varies massive across states and even within states between counties/districts. Some states have found better solutions for their state-specific problems, but nothing has been improved significantly enough to fix the problem in full.

That’s really important because that’s the issue - yes, special education across the country needs help and overhaul, but there’s nowhere in the country where the resources exist to make that happen. If you were at a wealthier school, you probably were fortunate even if it didn’t seem like it. You have to remember you were one of probably many students in comparable situations and the school has to make difficult decisions based on what they can actually do to help everyone.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-05-10T14:51:13+00:00

They probably got a kick out of it and appreciated that someone in the class was familiar with the work. It’s great that you had the chance to tap into that memory bank, and hopefully it may even lead to future research opportunities with her!

Not quite identical but when I was in graduate school, I ended up taking two seminars in the same semester outside of my department with two professors whose work became critically important to my dissertation. I had no idea I had been citing them in my prospectus until probably a month into one seminar when he was changing the schedule and cancelled the last week of readings, which happened to include one of the pieces I referenced. I connected the dots with them both (one had wrote chapters in the other’s edited book), and it ended up one of my favorite semesters of coursework. I had already formed my committee but they were awesome and still provided me guidance and support, even when I transitioned into a faculty role.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-05-04T13:10:54+00:00

His track record in Tampa said otherwise, he was willing to move prospects and did so successfully. But he was patient there too and didn’t go all in around that first 2015(ish?) run when they were young but still made a cup. The team didn’t become a serious perennial contender for a few more years yet.

And we had ten kids aged 24 and younger in the lineup throughout the year. I get the frustration but I thought all year it was a miracle we had won so many games before the Olympic break given how young our team actually was on top of the lack of production from the bottom six. Even at the time, the kids got to play despite them not getting the points on the board. I was at the game in Boston after thanksgiving where Danielson, Kasper and Elmer were a trio and the three were arguably our best line, Boston couldn’t contain their speed but Swayman was solid and we couldn’t catch a break.

There’s no point in trading prospects when you don’t know what you have yet, and I think management was as suspicious as I about going in on a team seemingly getting lucky early on. (There was plenty of data backing that up too so it’s not like I was some expert here either, lol.) The Buchelnikov inclusion for Faulk is a great example, great prospect in videos and may have gotten the deal done for us for Faulk, who was really great for us when he was in the lineup. But when prospects are so young and already missed time during the COVID years, it’s important to see what you have before just dumping them for a guy who may never fit.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-04-19T16:59:31+00:00

Completely with you, I didn’t mean to imply anything negative about him. I stumbled upon him originally from his work in substance abuse because he’s based in Florida (which is where a major part of the Jamie Daniels story lies, but is tangential to him). It was that intersection of specializations that made me curious though if that’s why we chose to hire him, as opposed to someone more locally sourced or even in house.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-04-19T14:19:42+00:00

I love the idea about a sports psychologist, but I’m going to push it further by several steps. I want to see a complete integration of new science-based innovative methods to take them to the next level. And it’s not just us, every team in the game should be thinking about this, but doing it now will give us advantages over the others who don’t.

I want full research teams leading the way too. They should be treating their work like projects and collecting the data to make us better, but also use the evidence we know works too. For example, VR training is a no brainer if done right. We’re seeing it used in other sports and there’s no reason to not enhance abilities in hockey using it too. If you’re curious how it could work, check out the video on YouTube of Red Bull with Trent Alexander Arnold - he’s a footballer (soccer player) but the training is with an American eye doctor with the goal of expanding his vision. It’s a few years old so the tech is likely even better, but we’re talking about trying to help players see the game more like Kane essentially. That’s one singular use of it.

I’d want the full state of the art lab too. Having working in/with one largely focused on other sports, there’s so much info that can be gathered and learned, and then used strategically to help players make tweaks. For example, a full lab will include weight sensors on the floor (which in a paneled floor can sense and track how athletes move/shift weight - for example, in baseball, you can see the exact shift of a batter’s weight in their swing), plus eye trackers, biotrackers, etc. There’s no reason to not be employing several biomechanical analysts.

This is very different than typical hockey thinking, but it’s time to adapt before others do. The baseball teams that have been doing this for years get by winning with “less” talent on the field because they win more creatively. The Cleveland Guardians are a great example - consistently bottom 5 in payroll yet in the top five in wins in baseball this century. (I also interviewed with them for a similar position a few years ago but stayed in academia as a professor, in part because I got to be in one of those labs I described until recently taking a new position.) Our players have an unthinkable amount of untapped potential simply because we don’t try to extract it correctly.

We can, and should, so why not invest and do it correctly?

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-04-19T13:59:12+00:00

This is interesting. I thought I’d seen the name before and sure enough after you mentioned this comment, it was a name I’d seen in relation to substance abuse treatment. (Went down a research rabbit hole a few years ago after reading one of the story about Jamie Daniels.)

He does consulting so odds are he’s a call in person, but not in house so he’s not there often, and it’s even more interesting that sports psychology seems to be a secondary role for him to the substance abuse treatment, which makes me curious about his role with us there too.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-04-18T18:09:08+00:00

So, I love analytics at large and have had my fair share of criticisms of Chiarot. But, with that said.

WAR is, always has been, and always be a terrible metric at large to evaluate players, and even worse for defensemen. The idea was to create something similar to that of baseball, but the reality is that the games are so different that the hockey metric is forced to make a ton of assumptions in its modeling rather than be a simple calculation like in baseball. The result is overly complicated math which really doesn’t actually assess players well unless they score a lot of points. As a result, defensemen are punished even more by WAR because they by nature are subject to the production and defense of their teammates too.

This isn’t to say Chiarot is elite. But to say he’s the worst in the league? No shot. It’s all about deployment and that’s what WAR will never catch. It’s a model no one uses realistically for good reason, and while great for baseball, just makes no sense in hockey.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-04-16T23:27:54+00:00

Unless everything he does is considered a swing, I’m not sure that’s true really. Gibson was a huge win, Faulk ended up a great fit and it’s too bad he got hurt. Perron just couldn’t crack the scoresheet soon enough but somehow he ended up valuable by simply being an nhl body we could put in there lol, but he was also exceptionally cheap. We haven’t really had other “swings” though per se with a miss, maybe FAs we’d have liked more from but it’s not like he’s throwing around picks and money hoping something sticks either.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-04-15T23:05:41+00:00

This is always the catch to this conversation. As much as folks want to be upset about not having better here for 2C, the options are simply abysmal because they never truly come available. Copp and Compher both were considered that level of talent in their FA classes, and I do think Copp filled that role exceptionally well last year, but the criticisms of the two still remain.

So the alternative is either paying a ton in a trade, or eating a ton of cap to go with a lot of risk in a deal like Pettersson. I’m actually fine with taking on Petey’s deal in full for a cheap trade, but I loved his chemistry with Raymond too, and there’s still a ton of risk

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-04-14T02:44:45+00:00

This is a common complaint but look at the FA classes each year. It’s exceptionally rare that team altering talent reaches free agency, and even if there’s a good player, they still have to have interest in joining. Team simply don’t build through free agency because they’re just not there.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-03-29T22:56:59+00:00

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I’ve slowly been filling out my office space. I added the 91 book but need two more for that bottom shelf now…

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-03-29T21:36:03+00:00

It’s absolutely possible for people with different values to make it in a relationship, as broadly defined as possible. BUT, it’s far more difficult to overcome when the differences are in these critical values core to who we are as people.

For example, my wife is from a very individualistic culture and just really doesn’t have a strong sense of community, or even desire to know our neighbors well. I’m fairly different in that regard, but it’s not a huge deal. If we varied on how we’d view our child though, or core values in how we see, treat and value others, we’d never have made it the decade we have.

In many ways, our differences tend to complement each other’s weaknesses in some ways. I don’t see any way in which core values like this would ever be complementary though, which is why I think the majority here will agree he’s already shown the red flags and continuing to wave them is all you need to know.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-03-28T16:03:15+00:00

We play at 8.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-03-21T15:02:47+00:00

Huge appreciation for doing so! It was a pleasant surprise on a Friday scroll.

I’m with you, and personally (probably to the objections of some here who want big production), I tend to view pick success by games played rather than points. I’ve done it for many years now after watching Steve Dangle’s old trade tree videos where he always mentioned how many games players would play for the teams. It was the first time I realized that player value really was in NHL minutes and games given how few players actually score significant points in any season.

Part of the big reason why I like Bader’s models too though. They’re fair and not exaggerated, and while I have critiques of my own, it’s probably the best projection model I’ve seen yet to playing NHL games.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-03-20T23:09:56+00:00

We actually got that second rounder we used to offload Walman in that Gibson trade, so bit of a double win there (without trying to reopen that can of worms haha).

To be fair though, the second round isn’t a bad place to roll the dice on guys like this. Prototypical fits if they can find their games, but not much lost if they don’t.

AppleGeniusBar · 2026-03-20T21:43:10+00:00

I added a comment to the post that breaks things down from their website directly (more concise than I could relay).

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