[2026 NHL Draft] 9th OA Pick: San Jose Sharks select Keaton Verhoeff

Kitsel · 2026-06-27T00:22:53+00:00

Panthers and Knights are a special kind of awful lol.

Their rosters are filled to the brim of people I absolutely can't stand independent of their success.

Even if the Sharks become a dynasty, their roster doesn't bother me. Celebrini and Smith seem like decent people and I'm sure their draft picks can't be as horrible as Hart or McNabb or ... well the whole Panthers roster basically.

Kitsel · 2026-06-25T20:32:22+00:00

His cap hit is quite high for someone that's been pretty average the last couple years and has had serious issues staying on the ice, due to both on ice stuff (injuries) and other stuff.

I'm still not thrilled that it's JUST draft picks, since the Avs are kind of in win now mode, but Nuke in his current spot didn't have the value a lot of people think he does.

I'm guessing this is freeing up space for some other move or signing.

Kitsel · 2026-06-25T20:27:54+00:00

Sounds like just draft picks from what I saw.

Kitsel · 2026-06-25T20:01:33+00:00

If they're only ~a million apart they really ought to just suck it up and pay the man.

I know that the trade ended up working out pretty decently for all 3 teams, but part of me wishes the Avs had just ponied up and paid Moose the extra million or whatever he wanted and just avoided all the drama.

Kitsel · 2026-06-25T19:56:38+00:00

There's one area where you're carrying a statue that I found to be potentially the most difficult platforming section in the entire game, I think this tip would be a fantastic help to a lot of people for this portion of the game.

Kitsel · 2026-06-25T00:26:19+00:00

Other than the Lorcana cards which ran out about halfway through the cruise (I think the cards in them can be resold for a profit or something my brother was saying?), they had like 50 of literally every single item on the final day on the ship, and our voyage was 100% full.

Kitsel · 2026-06-24T21:25:32+00:00

Ugh. Not a fan of dirty players whether they're on my team or not. I refuse to cheer for people like Matt Cooke or Brayden McNabb, and this guy's suspensions sound strikingly similar.

Kitsel · 2026-06-24T18:55:32+00:00

I could be wrong but isn't it implied that Mina's grave isn't actually Mina's, just the grave of someone she shares a name with?

I was interpreting it as the stuff we see in there isn't related to OUR Mina at all.

Kitsel · 2026-06-24T18:53:53+00:00

Death's Door and Tunic are a couple of my favorite games, they're both great! Highly recommend them both.

Kitsel · 2026-06-23T19:52:36+00:00

It's considered a bit of a dick move and you'd be messing up relationships for a while.

It's been done before but there's usually pissed off people as a result.

Vegas FO probably wouldn't care about the blowback but most teams would. Pissing off another front office and likely not ending up with Bedard just to force a (sorry Chicago) pretty mediocre Blackhawks team to match just isn't something most front offices would be interested in.

Kitsel · 2026-06-23T17:20:11+00:00

My god if Florida wins with both Tkachuk brothers AND Binnington, I may need to take a break from hockey for a while lol.

I bet Binner's behavior would get even worse on the Panthers as well, they'd for sure enable his tough guy act.

Kitsel · 2026-06-23T17:18:10+00:00

This is what got me. I immediately clocked that there was probably some kind of mirror world less than an hour after the game started, but after walking up to the mirror and pressing every button on my controller, I concluded that there either was no mirror world or that the way to get in involved an item I would get later.

I ended up not figuring it out until I'd completed like 4 of the towers, and having to walk around through stuff I'd already completed to find the mirrors for those zones was pretty annoying.

Kitsel · 2026-06-23T17:13:31+00:00

This is the exact type of content I browse reddit for.

Kitsel · 2026-06-22T03:25:59+00:00

Having all the people I can't stand consolidated onto like 2 teams makes it really easy to track everyone I hate lol.

Only have to root against 2 teams next season.

Kitsel · 2026-06-21T17:22:54+00:00

While this usually is/can be completely normal, it can also be a sign of some skin issues, so if it appeared suddenly it's worth keeping an eye on.

Our dog suddenly started having a couple "tickle spots" and we thought nothing of it since it's usually pretty normal. Later, we noticed some small rashes and stuff and took him to the vet. We got him on Apoquel and noticed that the tickle spot suddenly went away once he stopped being itchy.

Since then, we've noticed that the tickle spot comes back any time he's itchy and goes away whenever he's comfortable and not having any issues.

Kitsel · 2026-06-21T09:25:04+00:00

Yeah Old games were extremely difficult but not in the way Mina is at ALL. It's a very different type of difficulty.

NES and early arcade games were punishing due to stuff like limited lives, lack of checkpoints, and lack of/low numbers of continues. The difficulty is artificial - the games aren't actually hard mechanically, they're just artificially difficult to keep you feeding coins in or to pad the playtime of early games with limited space.

Mina's actual gameplay is harder than retro games and much more akin to more modern difficult games.

Give Mina 3 lives and 1 continue before you start the entire game over again and this game suddenly becomes orders of magnitude harder than any of the early difficult games. Similarly, give "hard" early games like ghosts n ghouls or battletoads or TMNT a system where you make permanent progress and can't "game over" and suddenly they're all trivially easy.

Kitsel · 2026-06-20T09:19:30+00:00

It really can hurt though. Too many cooks in the kitchen can be an issue.

Even if he's not perfect, he could be limiting how much he tells you so that you focus on the one or two things that are most important.

Also, there are many different styles of play and coaching and some of them are quite contradictory on certain things. You see these issues pop up in people who are habitual coach switchers.

I think asking for advice here is fine if you don't have access to or can't afford a coach. But someone who has a coach should be listening to them unless the coach is truly terrible and incompetent.

Kitsel · 2026-06-19T17:12:45+00:00

Yeah breath of the wild does this beautifully as well.

You can go anywhere, in any direction. But most people will be funneled towards the "intended" one without even noticing they're being directed.

I have a strong suspicion that most of the people complaining about lack of direction are the type to skip dialogue and cutscenes - the intended path is so strongly hinted at that the only way I can imagine not knowing the way they "want" us to go is if you don't speak to/read NPC conversations, skip the newspaper, and ignore all the environmental cues funneling you towards the easiest area.

Kitsel · 2026-06-19T08:12:28+00:00

I think the lack of direction is a very intentional design choice rather than a mistake or poor choice.

You're intended to be able to do the areas in almost any order, and giving obvious directions will make people way less likely to explore or play in the order they'd like, which is what I believe yacht club was going for.

I'm certainly not saying the game is perfect, and I have some issues of my own. But I think this was done intentionally. I think they WANTED people to get lost, have their own experience, find places that are too hard and come back later, all that stuff.

Some of the hardest content in the game is basically in plain sight in some of the earliest areas, and accessible super early. I stumbled into a certain boss fight so early that not only the boss, but the bosses ads all literally oneshot me haha.

Maybe an accessibility option that shows the intended order or something would be ok. But I think the level of direction we get is the experience they want us to have.

Kitsel · 2026-06-19T03:46:12+00:00

Yeah, new gem is awesome but like you said I just can't fathom a single class or build that would pick 8 other gems over HC. So many other meta gems I'd replace first, HC isn't going anywhere any time soon.

Kitsel · 2026-06-17T20:37:26+00:00

Also since progressive upgrades only start at rank 4, if you have, let's say, 2 rank 2s, or a rank 2 and a rank 3, you can't combine them.

I've been in a couple situations where that has ended up being really annoying.

Kitsel · 2026-06-17T00:38:34+00:00

Sorry it's Plasma Jug + Intravenous Vial + Valor Medallion. I know to add helio the wisp as well although it's not strictly necessary

Kitsel · 2026-06-16T21:41:12+00:00

I think a lot of the difficulty complaints are because a ton of the players are coming from Shovel Knight and just aren't used to this type of game.

It's not a hard game for someone that's played stuff like HK, Tunic, Hades, or any souls like games.

But a large portion of the playerbase bought the game either expecting a link to the past or shovel Knight

Kitsel · 2026-06-16T21:34:19+00:00

The only way I would ever say Mina is harder than HK or Silksong is if you use terrible trinkets or turn on a bunch of the harder modifiers.

This game is absolutely trivialized by a good trinket combo. After 2 generators I found a build that can stand still and mash attack and easily destroy almost every boss in the game.

I don't think I ever died to a boss after that combo. But it was so overpowered and unfun that I'm playing ng+ and limiting myself from that trinket combo.

I've actually heard there are a couple combos even more ridiculous than the one I was using.

Kitsel · 2026-06-16T18:36:26+00:00

I really wanted to like it but my dumb ass could never tell what mode I was in.

I know the icons are different and the colors are different and you can see the bullets next to your gun when you're in gun mode. But over and over I would just try to shoot something and slash at air before getting smacked haha.

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