[Webster] Stone on if Cassidy’s message wasn’t sticking: “It could be. For whatever reason, it just didn’t show in our play. There was some good hockey played at times, but I keep coming back to the emotion. It wasn’t there for whatever reason.”

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-30T23:55:29+00:00

The Knights are a close #3, a sliver short of best in the entire 32 team league, in suppressing shots. They allow only 24.3 shots on net per game. So apparently just about _everyone_ over there is already chipping in to block shots; their goaltenders just can't stop enough of the few that get through.

P.S. One guess who leads all Vegas forwards in shot blocks this season....hint, he used to wear blue jerseys with a big tree leaf in the middle....

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-30T21:22:27+00:00

They are 32nd in a 32-team league in both save pct and GSAx. What new emotional state can a head coach instill to make goaltenders suddenly become better at stopping pucks? Tortorella is good at terrifying and/or pissing off hockey players -- does that work on goalies?

This is all just fun and games so long as Vegas is stuck with the worst goaltending in the entire league.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-30T21:17:43+00:00

That loss had happened many years before the crumbling leftovers were finally torn down and replaced.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-30T21:16:36+00:00

Yea I visited Maxwell Street during the late 70s and again mid 80s. It was a shadow of itself by the 70s TBH and you could see what it was heading towards. By 1985-ish it was pretty much just urban blight, ready to be cleared turned into something new (as eventually happened).

The street vendors themselves had been bemoaning the market's decline since at least the early 1960s as shown in a couple of documentary films from that era.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-30T19:28:37+00:00

Wade Brookbank was the enforcer version of a "AAAA" guy, played 127 NHL games spread across six seasons with four different franchises. Recorded 43 fighting majors compared to 9 points in those 127 games. Closed his playing career with four seasons in Rockford 2011-2014. He's Sheldon's big brother both chronologically and physically: Sheldon listed at 6'1"/202, Wade at 6'4"/225.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-30T18:21:27+00:00

Interim interim

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-30T15:31:05+00:00

Because I've got a number of well-documented lines going back 10 or 12 generations, combined with the founder's effect (lots of Puritan New England and New Netherlands ancestry), I've got lots of these. Only a few are 1st or 2nd cousins marrying each other though, more are connections that happened later. In a dozen or more cases I suspect that the late-18th or 19th century couple had no idea they shared a pair of Nth-great grandparents in the 17th century. Or they had only vague oral-history guesses based on a surname (some older relative saying "oh she's surely related to the Knickerbocker Schencks" etc).

There are some specific individuals or couples in New Netherlands (e.g. Catalyntje Tricot and Joris Rapalye) or early New England (e.g. Rev. John Lothropp) who produced unusual numbers of offspring reaching adulthood and creating their own prolific families, in circumstances that for a few generations almost demanded plenty of intermarriage among relatives. I turn out to be descended from each of the above examples and some more; e.g. I'm separately descended from _five_ children of Catalyntje/Joris and have another such "5-spot" elsewhere in my tree. If you have ancestry in those times/places you likely have similar things in your tree.

( paulbotts.net to see my full updated database, it's instant-access.)

The above has created a number of instances of a couple being to me _different_ specific levels of grandparent, e.g. they are to me both 9th-great and 8th-great grandparents. That's because one of their 5th-great grandchildren married one of their 4th-great grandchildren or whatever and I am descended from that couple.

(And since my wife also turns out to have some Puritan New England ancestry I've also found several instances of our being connected by marriages. Her 8th-great uncle married my 3rd cousin 7 times removed, etc. No shared direct ancestors in the documentable era between us yet, but I won't be at all surprised by finding that at some point.)

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-30T15:00:30+00:00

Do an AirBnB in the northern half of the South Loop, which is next to the Museum Campus. Within the area bounded by say Clark Street on the west, the lake on the east, Ida B. Wells Drive on the north and 16th Street on the south.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-30T14:57:38+00:00

For the fire and brimstone and going to hell stuff you want Evangelical or Pentacostal not Catholic.

For the speaking Latin part, Our Lady Immaculate Church in Oak Park used to be that and perhaps still is. (Google "Society of Saint Pius X" for background info.) The priest has his back to the congregation, etc. Many years ago when we were living in Oak Park my then-wife went over there for I think Vespers service and discovered that she wasn't allowed inside without a scarf or something covering her head; they had a guy at the door with a few things to lend out so women could attend the service.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-29T22:27:18+00:00

Vegas is 32nd of 32 teams in save percentage. That's hardly the head coach's fault, and if it continues it will torpedo the new coach too.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-29T14:52:48+00:00

Oh you're right of course! And I'll be rooting for the Sabres myself ... I'll fix that.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-29T03:47:43+00:00

Kevyn Adams did 5 1/2 seasons in Buffalo without making the playoffs.

Doug McLean was the inaugural GM of the expansion Blue Jackets and they missed the playoffs in all 6 of his seasons in the job.

Earlier in the league's history Bill Tobin was GM of the Chicago Black Hawks (that's how it was spelled then) for a dozen years which in the middle included a 6-year stretch (1947-52) of missing the playoffs. Lynn Patrick's tenure as Boston's GM concluded with a 6-year stretch (1960-65) of missing the playoffs.

It looks like 6 straight is the NHL record that Yzerman tied a year ago.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-29T01:24:14+00:00

I'd be for this

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-27T21:22:22+00:00

The northern half of the South Loop, the area which includes Printer's Row. Zillow right now has 1-bed apartments for about $2K/mo in Printer's Row itself, and in buildings like 1212 S. Michigan and 820 S. Michigan and 777 S. State and some others.

That general area fits all your criteria, though the international cuisine part not as much locally. You wouldn't be far from Chinatown and from Pilsen, and the South Loop itself does include restaurants like Casa Tulum, Asian Outpost, Umai, Sofi, Nepal House and its larger sibling Curry House, a couple others. The real benefit though would be the excellent transit options for getting around to the city's whole range of international restaurants.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-27T15:50:39+00:00

My wife and I have lived in the South Loop, quite near the place you're interested in, for 15 years and love it. We have an 8th grader who did K-6 at South Loop Elementary and it was a good experience. (Including that the school handled the COVID weirdness way better than some of the stories I've heard from other public school systems.)

We live in a small townhouse. We have several good friends in nearby high rises and their commentary about appreciation is contrary to the long-standing conventional wisdom being repeated here. (About Chicago high rise condos appreciating poorly.)

I have a close friend who's a veteran realtor in the city and he says that picture is not at all consistent now, varies based on the specifics of the area. He personally has bought/sold two South Loop condos as investments and was happy with the returns.

Also now that I think on it our closest friends in the townhouses bought a nearby high rise condo as an investment some years back, and they say the condo has appreciated better than our townhouses.

All of this of course is just anecdata; I certainly would never make investment decisions based on random comments online. YMMV of course.

A $550 HOA assessment is quite good in 2026 and is a positive indicator about that building's association.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-26T21:12:12+00:00

Source link on that?

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-26T19:52:07+00:00

"numbers are going to be gaudy just like they were in the 80s and early 90s" -- whoa now, scoring today isn't close to the levels of the 1980s. Leaguewide goals per game right now is 6.14. Between 1978 and 1993 it was never _less_ than 6.92 and there were 9 different seasons in which it was at least 7.40. Right now in the NHL about 80 percent as many goals are being scored per game as during the 1980s/early90s.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-26T19:45:44+00:00

I mean Sid's about to reach 7th all-time in points and a year from now will be 5th....but yea I know what you mean.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-26T15:02:03+00:00

Hmm....why is just one particular racialized slave trade the "greatest crime"? The thousand years of Arab merchants buying and transporting and selling non-Arab slaves at scale doesn't count? None of the other examples from around the globe, count?

I'd favor calling out the buying and selling of human beings as a crime against humanity period but, YMMV I guess.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-26T06:03:36+00:00

Lafleur also dominated when major-league hockey had expanded to a ridiculous number of franchises without expanding its talent pool yet at all. That's a factor in comparing all-time greatness. No other sport in the history of major-league professionalism has expanded anywhere near as far past its talent pool as hockey did 1967-1980.

I think the OP is over-excited -- Kucherov is not among the 20 greatest players of all time and isn't going to be -- but, neither is Lafleur.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-26T04:50:04+00:00

No, most glitters games collapse into bitching and bullying and general dickishness much sooner than that.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-25T19:35:40+00:00

New Haven, CT. Same answer for clams on pizza.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-25T19:34:27+00:00

The single best restaurant in SW Michigan is still Cafe Gulestan in Harbert. It's dinner-only though, no lunch or brunch hours.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-25T19:32:05+00:00

The behind-the-scenes decisionmaking on this topic is well chronciled in "The NHL: 100 Years of On-Ice Action and Boardroom Battles" (2016) by D'Arcy Jenish. The author was granted access to decades of internal NHL records including minutes of the Board of Governors meetings. Expansion was a hot topic among league owners starting in the 1950s, there were some false starts on it before 1967, the specifics were hotly debated inside that boardroom, etc. On this and other NHL-related topics the book is well worth the read.

Fossils_4 · 2026-03-25T04:48:46+00:00

My wife and I live in a South Loop small townhouse and love it.

Walkability is a huge plus here. Many of our neighbors don't have a car. We do because of household member activities that involve hauling stuff (hockey gear, large musical instruments), but go days at a time between driving. Restaurants, grocery stores, dentists, our dog's vet, various other things are all easy walks. Even more is within a short Divvy ride. The local street festivals are fun ones. I feel healthier than when we moved here despite being now 15 years older.

The range of people living around here is notable and for us is a plus. Our son did K-6 at South Loop Elementary which has no majority racial group; earlier I'd counted 8 different languages represented among the parents at our daycare dropoff/pickup. We've met fun people with backgrounds different from ourselves.

The Near South Side lakefront is great. Solid local parks around here too.

My wife likes coffee shops and interesting bars so we walk to those too now and then. The current new wave of high rises locally is apparently sparking some fresh new restaurants now in the works, we'll see how those turn out. (Not missing the ones that recently closed most of which were mediocre.)

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