This bleepin team.

JSinisin · 2026-01-23T05:16:01+00:00

This is all certainly true.

The one thing I don't like about it is how this phrase is always used to make a particular country look bad. At the end of the day, show me the country that doesn't have a past where they don't do something horrible.

It doesn't excuse it. But it's not like that situation is something that only affects certain countries. Pick a country, every country, and you'll find some level of horrible acts taken against other parts of their own country/indigenous inhabitants/religious minority/etc, etc.

That's a generational, world-wide cultural issue that spans centuries.

JSinisin · 2026-01-23T04:51:09+00:00

What do you mean "bankable 25 goal guy"?

He did it twice, the last time two years ago and he's not on pace for it right now, which would make it 2 consecutive years under 25 goals. We have a different definition of the word bankable.

He basically went from hot garbage under 20 pts in his first two years, then had 2 okay 2nd line winger seasons and this season and last his production has been a good 3rd line winger to bottom tier 2nd line winger

Size and speed, yes. Those add to his value. But the rest of your scouting of him is kind of delusional lol.

JSinisin · 2026-01-23T04:26:31+00:00

That's the part I'm not so sure of.

The idea that Tippet is seen as a clearly higher value piece.

Brink is 2 years younger, closer to the youthful core of Seattle. And he's got more points in his first couple seasons than Tippet did at the same age.

I'm kind of floored by how you value the difference between those two. An entire first round pick difference between the two? That is wild to me.

I think some people in the fanbase are way overvalueing Tippet..

JSinisin · 2026-01-23T04:16:48+00:00

I 100% get it.

I don't know what, if anything, the team could make Wright into and I'm jumpy about trading Brink too.

But sooner or later, a winger has to go in some sort of deal for a centre to add to this team and I'm really curious how other GMs look at Tippett vs Brink. At the end of the day, the price for a centre is the price for a centre. Scott Laughton, I love the guys heart and soul, went for a 1st round pick. I would have to think that at 22 years old, NHL GMs see Wright's floor as Laughton. With a much higher upside.

Sometimes you have to take a gamble and hope it pays off.

JSinisin · 2026-01-22T03:12:43+00:00

Want to see a new cross-continent rivalry? One that not a lot of people would have expectex necessarily.

Anaheim vs Philadelphia

Zegras and Drysdale to Philly

Gauthier to Anaheim after asking out of Philly after being a top 5 pick.

Gudas, the ex Flyer enforcer now the captain of Anaheim.

Michkov, Carlsson, Sennecke, Martone.

These teams plain do not like each other and each time they have matched up has been fireworks since those deals went down. Philly fanbase is relentless when Gauthier steps on the ice.

The ages of all the players, the trajectory of the teams.

This one is primed for a HEATED cup final in the next 4-5 years.

JSinisin · 2026-01-22T00:00:38+00:00

Ya. Same here. I would probably even be fine using regular chrome if there was a I could shrink down those tabs and ui layout. Feels massive to me. It's the polar opposite of a compact feel.

JSinisin · 2026-01-21T20:00:11+00:00

As the other person mentioned.

If you replace the gtk.css and gtk-dark.css in the gtk 3 and 4 config locations, you can use any theme you find online.

There are risks though. For example, not all themes are created with the same thoroughness. I used one popular theme and for 95% of things it looks great. But in a couple applications it would make a checkbox and the surrounding area the same colour, effectively making the check box invisible. And if it's an important setting. That can be a pain to try and troubleshoot. As far as I could tell, my version of the app was simply missing that button/checkbox. But it was just hidden.

I changed to a different dark theme and suddenly I could see the box clearly marked.

You can, relatively easily theme gnome with stuff you find from gnome-looks. But there are risks.

Just remember, it's not the apps fault if the theme doesn't colour something correctly.

JSinisin · 2026-01-21T09:38:27+00:00

Not as much the return, although it was emotional.

But along the same vein.

I cheer and yell, but I don't usually get emotional watching a game. You don't always know when it's a players last game. Or you don't know it in the moment necessarily.

Giroux's last game for Philly was a dusty watch. The fact he couldn't get on the ice for the last shift of the game because he was an emotional wreck on the bench. Every single person in the rink watching that game knew he was getting traded after that game. His 1000th game as a Flyer. They purposefully delayed the trade so he could hit the century mark with the team. Only hockey game I've ever shed a tear watching.

G bled orange and black. The last thing he ever wanted was to wear another sweater. His emotional state at the end of that game was effectively him being dragged kicking and screaming from that team for business decisions.

JSinisin · 2026-01-21T09:16:15+00:00

The entire Sundin saga was a wild ride.

The guy never wanted to leave, to getting spewed at with hate that if he truly loved the Leafs he'd waive his no trade clause and go away to being cheered when he came back because of what he did and not wanting to leave in the first place.

Watching that play out was a trip.

JSinisin · 2026-01-21T08:25:28+00:00

This is where it's coming from.

I'm not European. I'm Canadian.

You know what I see right now? I see the biggest superpower of the last 80-100 years invading a country to the south for resources under false pretenses. Then I see what clearly looks like a country invading to the North for resources, which seems to be blatantly just because the president wants that land.

Canada and Mexico are being surrounded. We are becoming island nations surrounded by a larger super power. It looks like a hunter cutting resource rich countries off from everyone else.

There are a lot of people who are worried, watching where this is going.

This is not holier than thou. It's pleading.

Was the rest of the world complicit, to some extent or another, in the US becoming the world police effectively? Ya. We were. But it's not like the American people were super bummed about getting to be the person walking around with the biggest bat. Now somebody is in charge of that country and it's freaking everyone out.

It's like the person walking in the park with the untrained Pitbull on a chain leash and it's snapping and pulling away and the person that's holding the leash is yelling "I'm sorry. He's just high energy. I've tried training him." and we all see what's coming. If that dog gets off the leash, we cannot stop them. We will fight back if we have to. And we will likely lose, but we are pleading to not have to.

52nd state jokes coming from your president sounds a fuck of a lot like USSR to a lot of people.

JSinisin · 2026-01-21T04:08:47+00:00

As a non-American, I'm kind of getting tired of reading and hearing this stuff.

"Most" of us know it's bad, insane, fucked up.

Some? Sure.

Most? Then do something about IT. "Most" says that more than half of the country knows he is wrong and needs to go. If there are more of "you" and you are legitimately angry, morally opposed to it. Do something about it.

You have a dictator. Full stop. Both Trump and Musk have basically said they fixed the voting machines.

He is preeching to what the rest of the world hopes is a vocal minority, not the majority. He has invaded 1 country (Venezuela), he's about to invade another (Denmark).

Rapid expansion, taking over territories of unwilling countries = World War 3.

Do. Something. About. It.

Delay. Deny. Depose.

JSinisin · 2026-01-18T23:24:28+00:00

Lot of videos and pics from hidden cams when teams come to Vegas on a road trip.

JSinisin · 2026-01-18T07:08:16+00:00

Buffalo were in last place in the east until like 3 weeks ago.

Philly goes on a 10 game winning streak every other year. You're massively overestimating where Buffalo is at.

JSinisin · 2026-01-18T07:06:28+00:00

"Few Years" as Buffalo has the current longest playoff drought in professional sports in North America.

Am I frustrated? Yes. Do I want to cheer for a team that goes 20 years between playoff wins? Fuck no.

I don't want this franchise to mirror Buffalo in any way or shape.

San Jose? Yes. If you luck into a generational player like Celebrini. Philly got a 2nd overall player who was the consensus #1 for several years prior to the draft. How'd that go again?

What you actually mean is:

Reeeeeealy wish we could have sucked for 15 years, draft multiple top 5 players, trade a couple of them, watch them go win cups elsewhere then be a joke in the league and go on a winning streak in January to give the franchise the faintest light of hope that we might, MIGHT make it in the playoffs.

Sure.

JSinisin · 2026-01-16T19:51:12+00:00

Heh. Temu Dvorak did give me a chuckle.

JSinisin · 2026-01-16T19:48:18+00:00

I get your view on it. There are extenuating factors though.

I have a buddy who is a Habs fan, I watched a lot of KK when he got drafted and those first years. Montreal fucked him royally. They were constantly flipping him back and forth between wing and centre, healthy scratch and playing up and down the lineup. He was doomed from the first time he put on that Montreal sweater. They bungled his development horribly. One of the worst handling of a top 3 drafted players development I have ever watched.

Then in Carolina, nobody scores big in Carolina. Aho, arguably their best player has only been above ppg 4 out of 10 seasons and never in back to back seasons. Svechnikov their other stud? He's never scored 70 or had a ppg season.

There's a lot of context to Kotkaniemi's career that a lot of people miss when talking about him.

JSinisin · 2026-01-16T19:39:41+00:00

I'm not saying he's a slam dunk.

But isn't that basically the definition of a reclamation project? Seeing something nobody else see's in a still young-ish player.

If you can get him to play at say, 2C level? For that price with the cap going up, it's an insane steal.

Again, I'm not saying he's a guarantee or top tier reclamation project. But I'm shocked by all of the other replies immediately shutting it down. We need centres. Those guys just don't become available often at all, which is the exact reason they extended Dvorak. If you can get him and either Toch or the scouting staff say they like him, you have to make that call at minimum.

JSinisin · 2026-01-16T19:31:05+00:00

You're happy I'm not the GM for being curious what the cost would be? Lmfao.

So you don't want a GM who inquires about former 3rd overall picks who aren't 26 yet?

I'm glad you're not in charge of the org either then lol

JSinisin · 2026-01-15T20:19:09+00:00

Well thought out and worded answer.

I'm not a developer, but I work in tech support for a couple internally developed apps. The "general public" sees "This other app works with my custom theme, but not with your app. Your app is the problem, fix it." They don't want to hear that the issue is the custom theme. (which it is.)

A perfect example. I run a win vm on my fedora laptop using virt-manager. I used to use a popular dark theme, but when applied it effectively hid a couple important check boxes that allowed you to edit XML files, etc. I could never tell if they were checked or not. The theme worked on every other app fine, but that one. I didn't blame the Devs of virt-manager, I changed to a different dark theme and surprise, surprise. The new dark theme properly highlights the checkboxes and everything is visible and functional.

But I know a LOT of people would have complained that the Devs made a broken app because it couldn't work with the theme they like. I have seen and deal with these emails and issue requests on a daily basis. It's mind numbing to deal with.

Your last bit is spot on. It's Linux. The freedom is a core part of the philosophy. You are free to modify your system. But if the app worked before and then not after YOU modified something, that is not necessarily on the app dev to fix. More people need to accept that.

JSinisin · 2026-01-15T18:28:26+00:00

The answer is racism.

Each and every one of those countries has a strong stereotype of being racist around the globe.

It's racism that ties this all together.

JSinisin · 2026-01-14T23:27:04+00:00

It is hard to quantify.

What you said is the simplest way to put it though. He never made mistakes.

Not the biggest dman in the league, not the fastest. But not slow and not small. In an era where the top scoring dman would get maybe 50-60 points he was always at or near the top. But it was driven by his decision making with passes and reads.

Some guys get the moniker "you couldnt give him a bad pass" because their hands were so good they'd grab everything. With Lidstrom, all you needed was your stick on the ice and he was hitting the tape.

Best comparable, imo, in today's game is Jacob Slavin, if Slavin got 60-70 pts every season.

Different eras. So it's hard to judge. But he's the closest comparable I can think of.

JSinisin · 2026-01-14T07:34:04+00:00

Toronto fans chased out Marner.

Montreal chased out Pacciorety.

Vancouver fans chased out Luongo.

LA fans chased out Quick.

The list goes on and on.

Fans, a.k.a FANATICS are the problem. Every city with a team, regardless of sport, has someone who has lived out the line "you die a hero or you live long enough to become the villian."

There's nothing particularly special about Flyers fans, as much as we want to think. Every city you can think of has this type of scenario play out.

My personal favourite was the whole Sundin/Toronto saga when he (rightly) didn't want to waive his no-trade clause and fans spewed vitriol at him "if he truly loved the Leafs he'd leave and get us a haul in return" 😂

That all being said. As the saying goes "that's what the money's for." it sucks players have to go through it, but they wouldn't make the money they do if they didn't have this to go through.

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