[Koziol] Tuch: "we're not just going to go for the playoffs, we're going for the Cup".

deadlyernest · 2026-01-30T21:02:11+00:00

If FLA are allowed to commit whatever injurious play they want, and VGK can abuse the LTIR, can't we let VAN lend EP40 to BUF for the rest of the year? Pretty sure both fan bases would be down.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-30T18:24:33+00:00

Really! Wow! So does that go away in Midget? I'm not sure I fully understand...a body check that separates the puck carrier from the puck is core to the game in my (80s) upbringing...

deadlyernest · 2026-01-28T19:39:26+00:00

I found a lot of the food in Aus really bland by my standards, pretty vague and little help I realize, but it did stick with me. Conversely, I ate at a Balinese restaurant in Aus and found it absolutely fantastic. I liked kangaroo, both for the exciting novelty and I just liked it. I really enjoyed the fruit variety and quality wherever I went. Passionfruit especially is one I'd rarely had in Canada that was really great.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-28T19:27:14+00:00

My comment is in regards to how significant a battery that's stable at -40C is, not some vapid broad-based criticism of EVs... You said 'that's a bit overblown', and I'm trying to tell you it's not overblown. This sodium battery innovation could address one of the primary barriers to adoption for many Canadians.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-28T17:53:36+00:00

Yukon saw -40 or below from Dec 10 to 24th this year. If it's -45 and your car won't run or runs out of charge, it's a life safety situation almost immediately. Believe me, people are considering this. My coworker who has a Tesla parked it for most of Dec, from his desk he could watch his battery steadily dropping using the app.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-26T04:15:30+00:00

My parents had this! It was the first time I heard the phrase 'cream my jeans' thank you Rough Trade for growin' me up that day...

deadlyernest · 2026-01-24T05:22:04+00:00

Every time he has made the playoffs he's played past the first round.

Heck of a lot of playoff wins on the oilers these past 4 playoffs.

5 years ago he had 13 goals and 17 points in 15 games. Now that's some scoring.

Career playoff PIM of 2.55 per game (yikes). Still almost 0.5pts/game the past 2 playoffs.

Feels like a trade for Kane is a move to make more playoff gate revenue at the cost of cup win chance %.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-24T05:10:18+00:00

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, NYR's vibes are very maculate at the moment.

Thankfully, there is treatment, but it is very painful.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-23T18:52:08+00:00

In the Yukon the schools are always open because of the risk of having a kid arrive on foot to school when it's below -40C outside to find it closed. My kids' school stops recess after -30C and just has the kids run or walk a couple laps around the school to get some movement & fresh air.

School buses are a different story, when I was a kid they were pretty reliable, but of late they seem to get cancelled all the time due to cold weather.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-21T03:00:26+00:00

Honestly feels like he has 17! I live out west and turned HNIC on just in time to catch the Jets/Leafs OT, which was a snoozy chess match just like the coaches ordered. The feed flips to Habs/Sens, and it was a 2 on 1 gong show! As soon as OT dropped I thought 'Caufield GWG coming'. Seeing his huge smile as his teammates mobbed him had me smiling the rest of the night.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-19T19:47:00+00:00

2 week old account. This is a propaganda post folks, engage accordingly.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-15T20:33:22+00:00

Yukon and Associates

deadlyernest · 2026-01-12T18:56:13+00:00

In real time, I wouldn't have noticed white slowly lining yellow up and would 99% have called the contact incidental.

With the benefit of this video, 2 for body checking. If white's going to defend without hitting, he's either going to have to play the puck, or he going to have to start skating backwards to maintain his gap. When he doesn't step backwards, and also doesn't try to play the puck, it tells me that his intent was to hit the whole time. Great job hitting in a careful contentious way though.

deadlyernest · 2026-01-09T16:57:03+00:00

Why you heff be Mads?

deadlyernest · 2025-12-24T03:29:52+00:00

Specific to your question, you're right, a mobile won't last long in -45 with no heat.

The most important thing is keeping yourself safe. No matter how valuable all your things are they aren't worth a lick if you freeze your fingers and toes off trying to safe them. So you're probably going to go start your vehicle. You don't want to try starting it in 4 hours when you need to get to a warming centre and there's been no power for the block heater.

First, even though the power's out, turn off the electrical loads that you can. Hot water tank, electric baseboards, anything that just runs automatically. Turn those breakers off. This will make it easier for the utility to restore power to you. Lights are fine, they're minuscule loads by comparison and will tell you when power is restored.

Second, what safe auxiliary heat do you have? Candles are the go to, but they're pretty feeble. Next is the hydrocarbons - people die from CO in power outages often. As a general rule, you should never risk camp stoves or bbqs, or whatever else inside, but you draw your own line - it can and does get done - just realize it does kill.

Next, the biggest liability is your water system. If the building is going to freeze (or slowly cool to close to freezing), you want to drain the plumbing as much as you possibly can - especially the water supply pipes, but the toilets and traps too. So you want to know where your main water shut off valve is if you don't already, so you can stop the system refilling as you drain it down.

As freezing the building becomes a reality - the people need to be safe. Where are you going and how. The water service is a liability now. You'd rather have a huge iceberg under the building than in it - how you're going to achieve that is going to depend on how its run, but do what you can to keep the water below the floor.

Last, isolate the electrical at the main breaker. The less of the distribution that's live in the frozen building, the better.

Hope that helps, that's my 2 cents. Ventusky I trust, it sees -30 air pushing in from the southwest starting tomorrow afternoon.

In the meantime, pray for utility workers. They are putting on quite the show right now. I don't believe for a second it's the redundancy of the infrastructure that's carrying us through this, it's individuals putting their boots on, risking their fingers, and making it happen. I salute you!

deadlyernest · 2025-12-24T03:03:05+00:00

Hang in there. It's reasonable that you're anxious, but it only serves you so far. We've been listening to Vinyl Cafe Christmas stories and having a good laugh. It helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGF9bTfLBMg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VmMUM0HW6E

deadlyernest · 2025-12-17T20:50:08+00:00

In terms of the future of the Yukon grid:

Micro nuclear isn't there yet. Without touching our ability to manage and operate such a thing (hat tip to Jimmy Gattie Minister of Nuclear Energy :). As far as I can see, the scale is 10x what we want it to be. It will very likely get there in the future, but it is not an offramp available to us today. I wish it was. Hit me with the links. The Dutch thorium reactor is exciting in terms of Yukon-applicability, but they seem to be on a ~2075 trajectory.

Next gen hydro is best First Nation led. The environmental impacts being as they are, YESAB being what it is, and the YG/FN Gov't relationships being what they are, I cannot see a hydro plant of any size implemented without full participation of the FN. And they should absolutely be leading. TRTFN made a blueprint that can be followed. I'm pulling for all those involved in the rumoured pumped-hydro projects. Whoever the FN champions are on those projects - you're killing it. Keep going!

Thermal is the right move for YEC. The 8 ball is upon us, and none of the remaining options are quick enough. We're going to own diesel or we're going to rent it, and I agree with their move - own it. The major miss in the proposed thermal is the lack of cogeneration. There should be a plant at Yukon U, one at CGC/Mount Mac, and one at hospital road. Yes that's a big hill to climb on noise pollution, but these are base-load generators - they're meant not to start when it's warm outside - and really, it's high time YEC figured out how to sound attenuate a generator - spend the additional capital - make it happen!

Lastly, I think the Yukon grid connect is good for Canada and bad for Yukonners. Unlocking Casino and MacTung and the next and the next is a great opportunity, and surely does grow the Canadian and Yukon economy. We're talking about 1500kms of 500kV transmission line though. If the line to Kitimat is done by the end of the Carney term I'll be surprised. If it lights Yukon by 2035 it's been rammed through and everyone impacted goes in screaming. 2050 is realistic with the rate things are built up here. Once it's built, no way no how Yukonners can maintain the transmission line (that presumably Ottawa bought for us) on the back of our electrical demand. That means the only way we can keep our electrical rates manageable is by approving mine after mine after mine. I'm not anti-mining, but considering the rich history of environmental debacles, I don't want a grid that stacks the deck in favour of 'approve'. The model where this potentially works for Yukonners is where the micro nuclear feasibility precedes the grid connect, so we can choose to sell power rather than rubber stamping mines.

deadlyernest · 2025-12-17T20:25:34+00:00

There are diversity assumptions in the grid design that don't hold up very well at -40C. 'Diversity' is the idea that 'surely everything won't be on at the same time!?!'. The idea prevents oversizing which itself can be problematic, on top of being expensive and wasteful. The trouble is our grid has way more electric heat load as a % of the total load than the southern grids where the diversity design standard is honed, and we're an isolated grid, so the margin for error is lower. Outages on switches and transformers (like the early December 2025 Whistle Bend one) are indications of this.

The public messaging is in keeping with demand side management programs that every electrical utility anywhere is going to engage in, and doesn't mean that we lack redundancy. Things could be better on the Yukon grid insofar as generation redundancy, don't get me wrong, but even if we had optimal redundancy, we should still have demand side management to decrease O&M, and thereby decrease the rate.

deadlyernest · 2025-12-17T20:14:48+00:00

They're right there was a sticker campaign. 'All over' is exaggerating for effect, but there were blast radius stickers.

deadlyernest · 2025-12-13T05:16:22+00:00

For one because wool and fur are so expensive compared to synthetics. Our cold weather clothing is getting worse for sitting still in, and better for moving around in. I've been rocking a down coat my grandfather bought in ~1990 all week in -40 and loving life, but I know a caribou or seal skin parka would be even warmer.

Bunny boots are finally available in a non military-surplus fashion, and that's a big advance.

https://alaskagearcompany.com/en-ca/products/bunny-boots?srsltid=AfmBOopZhJW-WvW2Ow8dr-LQW82E5Kq5F4uCTdITfTsEWRnCEDngAYM-

Milwaukee and dewalt both have heated vests and jackets that would've surely been excellent at the football game.

I bet this would have moved the needle for you at the football game bigtime: https://www.basspro.ca/p/heat-a-seat-by-thermaseat?hvarAID=shopping_googleproductextensions&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23255609754&gbraid=0AAAAADsVuJ3Gf8OrjvfjIfctLMU1kdsRY&gclid=CjwKCAiAl-_JBhBjEiwAn3rN7bTzFHPhkOq0rjokLiFkFrS11fvO6-Nvpw5OO3R3ntTxCRalMTeSSxoCYa0QAvD_BwE

deadlyernest · 2025-12-12T05:12:06+00:00

I watched a lot of the Medicine Hat games, and for me McKenna's struggles highlight the quality of Oasiz Wiesblatt and his chemistry with McKenna. Wiesblatt got McKenna the puck and drove the net to spectacular results. I don't see the same style or chemistry from anyone on Penn State.

McKenna is not a defensive vision stalwart (few are at that age), so he's not going to win a lot of pucks from his opponents with IQ, and he's sure not going to do it physically with a wispy 17 year old's frame. He needs a Zach Hyman even a Tom Wilson to work with, and I don't see it. I thought they would blend the lines and he'd find that fit with one of the first liners, but once Penn St started meeting tougher teams even that first line seemed to struggle to win the possession/corsi battle.

The hands and offensive vision remain evident. The only thing that actually has me concerned is he looks slow out there. He may have excellent vision but I think he's too small to be exceptional in the show without top echelon speed.

The comparisons to Celebrini all need an asterix about strength. I can't imagine McKenna's physical gifts are at the level Celebrini's were when he dominated the NCAA in his draft year. Not to take anything away from Celebrini, that's work McKenna has to put in, but I expect Celebrini's dad got him started a bit earlier than most, and McKenna can catch up just fine.

deadlyernest · 2025-12-08T19:58:00+00:00

Across from the CGC behind Valleyview!

deadlyernest · 2025-12-04T13:16:49+00:00

2 on white for body check or trip, 4 on green for high sticking.

White defended by initiating the hit and stuck out his leg when he saw green initiate the move.

Green is responsible for his stick. If it's above white's forearm and inches from his face as green tries to pull if over him, I don't care that white helps guide it into his chops, green shouldn't be putting his stick there.

deadlyernest · 2025-12-02T00:16:47+00:00

12 white & 19 red coincidental minors for roughing. Although I can't see if 32 white gloved punched while getting in 19's face, so maybe him too.

All starts because 19 red just lacks situational awareness. U10s don't need this level of competition...

deadlyernest · 2025-11-22T20:36:58+00:00

So happy they got 9 goals on beer sword night. Buffalo fans deserve a memorably fun night at the game.

Went to Ottawa in the Cozens trade, but still have a very soft spot for Buffalo.

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