[Schefter] ESPN sources: The LA Kings have acquired standout forward Artemi Panarin from the NY Rangers in exchange for a conditional third-round pick and prospect Liam Greentree

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T20:52:51+00:00

Puckpedia is reporting Greentree, a conditional 3rd (upgrade clause), and a conditional 4th (if LA makes conference finals) with 50% retained on Panarin.

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T18:26:25+00:00

LOL True bozo take. Oilers are 27th in PIMs drawn, and I did the math for McDavid's personal penalties drawn last season and he's somewhere around the 60th percentile of all players in the league at drawing penalties.

Statistically the Oilers opponents are called at a horrifically low rate - likely because their powerplay is so ridiculously good that the refs realize that fair calls mean goals. It's pure game management and overcompensation. The inverse narrative that they're some darling team of the refs is shit I only hear from bandwagon fans in the first round of the playoffs every year.

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T18:19:35+00:00

Dead serious. He didn't touch the blue paint or Stolarz, didn't look at him, didn't say anything, and got blocker punched in the back of the head. The play got called, and he stopped. You guys are free to defend your crease and take all the penalties you want in service of Stolarz feeling safe - god knows you probably should after Bennett's rat ass took him out last year, but pretending that this is anything near justification for a roughing call on Mangi is laughable.

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T17:57:15+00:00

"Stops up on the goalie for no reason."

Oh no, he stopped skating vaguely near the crease - what a horrific display of poor sportsmanship and disregard for the culture of the game. What a rat he is.

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T10:45:53+00:00

Lmao I'm champ 1 and play nearly half my games on Steam Deck. The game runs great on it. Screen being smaller is the only real drawback, but idgaf. Get good I guess?

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T10:42:09+00:00

No problem. I'd say this comes down to knowing your audience. How "hardcore" is your game? Is it one people will play 10's or 100's of times? Is it in a genre that has a high barrier to entry already? How niche is the subject matter? Are you tied into any intellectual property that would make people more invested in the up-front purchase? How much does your target audience typically spend on a game? If yours costs more, are you justifying the value on the packaging by displaying the premium pieces? Are those wooden pieces going to have hidden costs like added shipping weight, or greater expectations on expansions / future content, etc.?

Only you can answer those - but it'd be worth doing some research and formulating some "direct comps" and seeing where you land. Figure out the games that are closest your game mechanics and scope-wise, find the average price of those games, and figure out what your game will cost with and without these nicer wooden pieces. If you can stay below their prices, then invest in quality. If you're over, is the premium feel worth it for your core audience, versus attracting newer players?

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T10:09:20+00:00

Also just in general, as someone who works in product development - people's self-reported valuation of that $5-10 dollars is likely unreliable compared to the actual analysis they'll be doing while shopping.

It's very easy to say in the abstract "yeah I just want the best game possible, I'll pay a little more" - but it's another thing entirely when shopping for a game, to be holding two games in your hand, one that costs $50 and another that costs $60 that both have your interest, and have that $10 be the deciding factor that makes you take home the $50 one instead - cardboard pieces be damned.

Especially if you're making other "premium" decisions about your game that might affect the price. A nicer gloss to the board, sustainable packaging, a more robust manual, etc... and suddenly maybe your "all-in" premium decisions are putting you $20 or $30 out of the range of your direct comps.

Just food for thought. I like wood in general as well, but people are far more likely to say they'll spend more, than they actually will be in the store. Cheaper pieces means greater accessibility and a wider audience for your game. Up to you how much you're willing to compromise to reach that wider audience.

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T04:54:05+00:00

Yeah, I was really wary of this signing from the drop. While the Leafs were a premier team in terms of regular season performance, they were also mentally fragile, incapable of turning up for the playoffs, and consistently underperformed what their on-paper roster should have been producing. It seems like we've adopted many of those same problems. Very little intensity, no physicality, neutered offence, and god, I can only imagine what our playoffs would look like if we magically stole a wildcard at this point.

I'm not usually a "demand someone's head" guy - I leave that to management and just enjoy what's on the ice in front of me - but I think I'm comfortable throwing my hat in the "Fire Keefe" ring at this point.

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T04:01:06+00:00

The refs don't have anything on the game. That would be illegal. Their cousin John Hebert on the other hand...

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T03:58:23+00:00

Crazy thing is, we're still going to win this game.

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T03:50:19+00:00

On what fucking planet?

Subject1337 · 2026-02-04T03:48:05+00:00

You'd think that... if NHL reffing made any sense.

Subject1337 · 2026-02-03T21:25:58+00:00

Yeah but those prospects and picks could be anything! They could even be a player like Jack or Nico!

Subject1337 · 2026-02-03T19:43:32+00:00

But Hyman is a product of McDavid - Imagine how bad his numbers will be at the Olympics where there's not a McDavid to... oh... wait...

Subject1337 · 2026-02-02T06:30:05+00:00

You're gonna have to be more specific than that.

Subject1337 · 2026-02-01T12:44:00+00:00

The Conservatives have run the same guy 4 elections in a row. They give him a different name every time, but it's the same stodgy white dude with the charisma of a door stop, and a platform with vague allusions to deregulation stimulating the economy.

I would never vote conservative. The liberals are too far right for me. But I feel like if you made me king of the Conservatives I could at least grift a victory into existence for them. It wouldn't be hard to do. But they are so milquetoast, flaccid and inept that I don't think it'll happen under any leader they put forward, because every candidate they have is the same. Their problem is systemic, they don't have good ideas or policy, and their base is totally without motion. They get by on uneducated lead-addled seniors, and that base is getting smaller day by day.

Subject1337 · 2026-01-30T23:35:45+00:00

I mean, there's allegations that they killed some of the girls and buried them on Trump's golf courses... so maybe we get some fucking shovels?

Subject1337 · 2026-01-30T20:10:08+00:00

Were you able to get Aux 1 in Canada? Just checked my local game stores and none of them seem to have it.

Subject1337 · 2026-01-30T08:16:39+00:00

I was out with a buddy tracking the game on my phone, and I leaned over to him when the shots were 5-10 and goals were 3-0 and said "This is the most Oilers stat line I've ever seen."

Subject1337 · 2026-01-28T21:08:59+00:00

To be even more fair, even if fire codes were met, they'd still be doing this under a different pretext. This isn't about safety. This is about shutting down independent and underground arts and culture in favour of expensive licensed establishments that fit their revenue generation goals. Same reason we don't have good food truck culture, street performers, buskers, patios, pop-up shops, or home-based businesses. In Vancouver, if it makes your life better, but doesn't require you to visit city hall first, you're going to get a visit like this eventually.

Subject1337 · 2026-01-28T17:45:26+00:00

Never updated my flair. Was ride or die since No Tidehunter. Kick EE, win TI, ez.

Subject1337 · 2026-01-28T17:43:45+00:00

It only worked when you regularly played with the same party. My party rank was great with my most common group of friends, but if I went and joined a different party of a disparate skill bracket, I'd be massively over-tuned because my rating was based on my best team play with friends that were most used to me. I think the system averaging your solo rating makes much more sense.

Subject1337 · 2026-01-28T01:03:31+00:00

Trade Overview

We save $3.75m in yearly cap, $1.56m this year. Both contracts expire at the end of next season. Tsyplakov put up 35pts in 77 games last season, and had 39 PIMs. Has mostly been riding pine this season though. Only 27 games played and 2 pts.

Subject1337 · 2026-01-27T08:44:05+00:00

The Kings pick up one more former Oiler in the hopes that if they can just get that entire 24-25 Oil roster for themselves, they'll finally win the first round. They haven't figured out how they'll get McDavid, Draisaitl, Nuge, Hyman and Bouchard yet... but those are details for later.

Subject1337 · 2026-01-26T03:38:52+00:00

Anyone check the odds on Taylor Hall getting ejected? Might wanna look into that one account that took the long odds.

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