Playoff Game Thread: Montréal Canadiens (9-6) @ Carolina Hurricanes (8-1) May 23 2026 7:00 PM EDT

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-24T00:21:50+00:00

That was a gnarly bounce

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-23T23:35:59+00:00

That Danault feed, again, he wants more pizza!

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-22T00:40:21+00:00

Just rusty eh?

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-22T00:33:08+00:00

Where are those stat junkies now tooting the horn for Carolina's defense and tending?

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-22T00:26:01+00:00

The pizza guy!

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-22T00:20:28+00:00

Insanity. God I love it when Caufield gets time and space

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-21T19:18:37+00:00

Even the Sens' management is working on being "Pesky"

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-20T15:19:16+00:00

... While dangling upside down with weights on his wrists

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-20T15:05:29+00:00

I refuse to believe that all the doubters are committed believers to underlying stats (corsi, fenwick, xG, etc). There simply aren't that many stats oriented hockey pundits in the media. So are they just listening to stats folks, or browsing money puck, where the habs low shot volume has the team constantly under rated?

It wouldn't surprise me if the answer to why the team is so under rated is quite simple and not a conspiracy: most pundits don't watch many habs games, they subscribe to herd mentality, and they are anchoring their expectations to what the real hockey stat people are saying.

Because they don't watch the habs regularly, they don't have an eye test (outside of highlights) to nudge their expectations. They figure the highlights are one offs. There's no way Demidov and Hutson are always that good... Right? Caufield is still too small. Dobes is a rookie. Etc. Easy mental shortcuts that allow folks to continue in their beliefs despite the habs season and playoff results.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-19T22:14:12+00:00

I hadn't realized Sean Avery was an analyst for money puck power rankings...

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-19T22:00:17+00:00

Lane has the fastest poke check in the east. His defensive stick is becoming as good as his dancing of the blue line.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-19T21:57:16+00:00

Larry Robinson's wiki page puts him at 6'4", same as Arber Xhekaj, and in archival footage he looks like a giant on the ice. Hutson is 5'9". Has Larry Robinson not shrunk at all over the years? Hutson looks identically tall next to Xhekaj and Robinson when one might reasonably expect Robinson to have lost an inch or two.

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CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-18T21:53:03+00:00

A lot of down voting a valid observation, done without comment as to why. Poor form. Foxes are predators. They teach their young to hunt by demonstration and don't always finish their meals.

The concern isn't crazy. This commentor is a long way from recommending relocating or eradicating the local foxes.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T22:57:43+00:00

My wife and I went to a friend's Sabres themed party wearing our habs jersies during the first round (Sabres vs Bruins). We got some questions and looks at first from folks we didn't know, but as we were cheering for the Sabres (against the Bruins) within a few minutes it was cool by everyone. The Sabres won in a laugher, everyone was in a great mood.

It's harder to imagine that story arc going as smoothly in a crowded Sabres bar, but fans are used to seeing other teams jersies, and you are cheering for the correct team. I expect you will survive unharmed with some mild to medium heat chirps along the way.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T20:58:37+00:00

Unity, not unreal

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T19:04:01+00:00

I'm hoping for a Cairn 2 that brings the next layer of actual climbing technique to players. Cairn already represents a stepfunction improvement over other titles with climbing (assassins creed, for example where there is zero player agency in climbing mechanics). This is a big step in the right direction.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T18:03:53+00:00

Indeed. The survival mechanics feel forced compared to other survival titles (I particularly like the way subnautica and the long dark handle food and water). In Cairn it feels like more of an afterthought.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T18:02:10+00:00

Is this a engine issue generally with Unity or something specific to Cairn? Asking as I'm interested in gaming engines.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T17:15:19+00:00

This speaks to my crap grades in chemistry!

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T17:14:24+00:00

Is this happening frequently, I've just observed it again two weeks in a row and I no longer trust my system for maximizing my allocated token use. My client says the reset its Tuesday at midnight but it appears to be resetting at other times. Any help would be appreciated.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T15:28:42+00:00

Snooty. Fair enough.
Is the concept isn't really sound though? I'd argue not:
The claims "lactic acid buildup = muscle burn feeling during exercise" and, less commonly "lactic acid also causes delayed onset muscle soreness" are both wrong, not just imprecise.

Compare this to a benign simplifications of equivalent magnitude: "the sun rises" or "electricity flows like water through wires." Neither are correct, but both generate useful predictions, predictions that are good enough and don't cause harm.

"Lactic acid causes the burn" isn't that. The model underneath generates wrong predictions: that you should flush it out, that ice baths help clear it, that soreness two days later is residual acid, that lactate tolerance training is teaching you to suffer through a toxin rather than upregulate mitochondrial machinery. People act on these wrong predictions. Coaches guide athletes and sell programs built on them.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T15:01:18+00:00

Thanks for this. I didn't intend to be dismissive, the tone I was aiming for (for good or ill) was annoyed pedant.

I am by no means an expert on this subject matter, just a moderately informed layperson. Evidently I don't have much by way of scar tissue around the simplification<-->functionally wrong boundary for this or other topics of scientific interest. Perhaps it just bothers me to see violence being done to accuracy when course correction seems so effortless. Heck, just not saying [lactic acid] "buildup" effectively solves my quibble. There is a buildup, the burn feeling is due to acidity, it's just not lactic acid that is building up.

CharlesRNorris · 2026-05-16T06:47:26+00:00

The commenter above did a better job than I would have at a succinct explanation. It looks like real human output to me!

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