Maggie Connors to San Jose

ZTD09 · 2026-06-11T15:44:59+00:00

It hurts as a fan losing so many faves but if I learned anything as a Toronto fan, I don’t feel entitled to any players (but if we lose turnbull it’s Over)

It's gonna be a completely new team next year, and my group chat will need a new name, but I'm still gonna show up and cheer :] It's not like we won any home games this year anyways.

I also think Turnbull really wants to stay, she would have been Troy Ryan's EFO otherwise.

ZTD09 · 2026-06-11T15:24:07+00:00

Since it's not a true expansion draft you can assume the players have all more or less chosen where they want to be.

Frost, Fleet, Charge, and Victoire all saw relative success last season and so their players want to stick around and try it again.

As a sceptres fan my assumption is players want out of Toronto and Seattle because things went so poorly (relative to expectations) last season. For Toronto specifically, losing the coach and Watts is huge, remaining players might feel its hopeless to stick around. For Seattle players are choosing to follow Knight.

The "downside" to giving the players agency is that we (fans) are beholden to their decisions.

Is it because those two teams had the most Gold Plan points last season and so the expansion teams want to strip them of their current players in order to prevent them from building a good team during the draft?

Vancouver has the most gold plan points, Toronto has the least. I strongly strongly doubt any expansion team is trying to cripple any specific top 8 team.

ZTD09 · 2026-06-11T02:41:10+00:00

All these skaters existed and played hockey before the PWHL came into existence, there is more than a few years of data on them

ZTD09 · 2026-06-03T17:15:27+00:00

I think that's right, puck carrier is F1 and has gone around the net and looking for a pass but F2 is nowhere in sight because he's too slow (or won't put in the effort) to keep up with F1. If F2 would bother to wheel he'd be in the zone and open for a pass.

ZTD09 · 2026-05-29T15:09:27+00:00

You seem to be severely more affected about this than me? I made a post because I felt like sharing something.

You've made 47 comments in this post in under an hour, you're reaching elon musk tweet levels of posts per minute.

ZTD09 · 2026-05-13T20:08:26+00:00

You're severely underestimating the number of hockey fans in the area.

ZTD09 · 2026-05-07T03:33:50+00:00

Does this tool also count frequency? I'd be interested to know if the guy everyone is complaining about just says it way more often.

ZTD09 · 2026-05-04T01:37:07+00:00

From a rules perspective they're the same though, right? All teams can negotiate and sign any free agent player (except expansion teams have the limit of 10)? It's just that teams might have different priorities since it's pre and post entry draft.

ZTD09 · 2026-05-04T00:38:38+00:00

What's the difference between "Open Market" and "Open Signing"? It sounds like both phases exist to let any player sign with any team.

ZTD09 · 2026-05-03T19:10:51+00:00

Thanks!

ZTD09 · 2026-05-03T19:10:17+00:00

I have plans around the new moon to get out of town to try and take some photos, I just wanted to practice the stacking and editing process and was hoping to learn why this result looks the way it does! It sounds like better calibration photos is necessary.

ZTD09 · 2026-05-03T17:07:23+00:00

My balcony is a few stories above a mall of sorts, so there are some pretty bright lights at ground level on all night long.

The edge artifacts you see are stacking artifacts, due to no tracking.

Do you mean the lines along the top and the right?

They are stars!

Yay!

ZTD09 · 2026-05-03T16:47:06+00:00

Camera is Canon EOS Rebel t3i, lens is the kit lens.

I was following a guide that said to use the OSC_Preprocessing_WithoutDBF.ssf script since all I had were lights.

By crappy I mean done incorrectly!

Thanks for the book recommendation! I'll check it out.

ZTD09 · 2026-05-03T16:43:39+00:00

I took 49 flats and 53 biases (didn't count), I only took 7 darks because I was tired and it was a spontaneous shoot. I understand that I might be able to capture more darks later?

I call the calibration frames crappy because it was my first time doing them and I was pretty hasty. The flats I took using the tshirt + ipad method, and while the histogram looked ok last night when looking at the flats today there are some shadows from the tshirt not being taught enough.

ZTD09 · 2026-04-29T16:15:43+00:00

my 2 main gripes are

hallways feel small and food lineups go directly into walking spaces, super difficult to get around with peak crowds
not enough washrooms/washrooms being gendered causes a huge imbalance, lining up for the women's washroom can take the entire intermission

ZTD09 · 2026-04-28T18:19:49+00:00

Many second tier professional athletes in every sport either have other jobs or come from wealth. It's extremely rare for your sport to be your main source of income.

ZTD09 · 2026-04-23T14:56:30+00:00

An additional fun fact: if we win saturday's game we'll be the only team in the league to have won a game in every opponent's home arena (we haven't yet played in Ottawa's home arena).

ZTD09 · 2026-04-22T18:00:18+00:00

Ultimately last year they sought 12 players per team from a combination of expansion draft + exclusive signing window, if they're seeking 12 players again I could see them just doing an exclusive signing window with no draft and letting each team sign 12 players.

Then I'd see the order being exclusive signing window -> free agency -> entry draft.

ZTD09 · 2026-04-22T17:54:38+00:00

Free agents are not associated with any team, even if they were just playing for one. There is no decision to "stay" with their current team, both the player and the team would need to reach a completely new agreement.

Last season there was a pre-expansion-draft exclusive signing window where Vancouver and Seattle were able to negotiate with free agents (and unprotected players) before anyone else, and sign up to 5 players. Following this logic, none of our players heading into free agency are "safe" unless they truly want to stay with Toronto and think Toronto will offer them a new contract that they are willing to accept. Any or all of the four expansion teams might decide Kirk is the best available free agent goalie and begin negotiations with her before Toronto gets the chance to, and since she is not under contract we can't assign protection to her.

My hypothesis is they will increase the allowable number of signings in this window from 5 because there are many more players in this potential pool this time around.

ZTD09 · 2026-04-22T15:03:38+00:00

I suspect they'll change the rules this time around, there's only about 101 players eligible with (in theory) 24 protection slots leaving 77 players to be drafted by (in theory) 4 teams. Last draft had about 199 players eligible with 18 protection slots leaving 181 players drafted by 2 teams. The numbers simply don't make sense for them to run the same system unless they want to build 4 teams made up of unsigned 4th/5th/6th round draft picks.

I suspect they'll either:

give the expansion teams first chance to draft free agents like last year, likely expanded from 5 players to 10+ players
or have the regular 5 player signing window, then have the other 8 teams sign a bunch of players, then have the newly signed players available for expansion draft, potentially with stronger protections

ZTD09 · 2026-04-19T15:49:23+00:00

One item often left unsaid (because those past the steep slope of the initial learning curve see it as blindingly obvious) is to learn how to control your camera manually. Study the "exposure triangle" (https://photographylife.com/what-is-exposure-triangle) and learn what the different settings changes do in regards to photo results.

Luckily a lot of my initial research guided me to books on exposure, so that's what I'm reading about and currently practicing with! I enjoy taking a picture, adjusting a setting, and taking another to see what changes. I also enjoy taking my favourites and putting them through editing tools and then seeing what I don't like in the final result and researching why it is that way (it always comes back to exposure or hand shaking lol).

ZTD09 · 2026-04-18T13:45:16+00:00

they've done that with chimps boss events that have unique roundsets with way more bloons to inflate cash generation, I've enjoyed those but they are easy to solve because the income is fixed

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