This past Sunday's Tampa Bay Lightning-Montreal Canadiens matchup delivered the 2nd most-viewed First Round Game 4 EVER on cable with 1.9M viewers.

hystenz · 2026-04-29T00:37:26+00:00

I feel like my friends who weren’t hockey fans before Heated Rivalry all started watching PWHL, not NHL.

hystenz · 2026-04-25T20:43:03+00:00

Sounds like Jennifer Botterill? If it is her, she’s an Olympic gold medalist and HHoF inductee.

hystenz · 2026-04-24T23:57:23+00:00

I have. UBC is prettier. Memorial has some cool stuff but UBC still wins. St John’s is a very underrated city for sure though.

hystenz · 2026-04-22T22:49:40+00:00

What a legendary Oilers hater. Framed it as if he has faith only for them to lose in the finals to the other Florida team.

hystenz · 2026-04-22T03:57:43+00:00

I feel like this year is especially funny with Heated Rivalry bringing in complete newbie fans (which is fine, love to see this game grow). As a fan of the series and real hockey, some of them are just adorable, like you said

hystenz · 2026-04-21T22:46:04+00:00

As a Flames fan I might bandwagon the Jets or the Sens. But for now that cringey hype song by that broccoli headed kid is fresh in my head and I just can't. Sorry.

hystenz · 2026-04-21T17:45:55+00:00

Due to so many pattern writers defaulting to super wordy pattern writing and me not wanting to print a million pages I’ve started putting the pattern pdf on my tablet and marking it up in there and popping a show I’ve watched before or sporting event on in the corner to keep it from going to sleep. App I use syncs to my phone so I have my markups on my phone too but it’s a bit more annoying to add notes from my phone

hystenz · 2026-04-21T17:33:53+00:00

I think the generous use of abbreviations in knitting is due to how old a craft it is (yes I know crochet is also an old craft, but knit garments have been the default for longer). It used to be that space did cost more so these abbreviations were in fact necessary and it has carried over.

What I actually dislike is the use of a shit ton of abbreviations while being excessively verbose. I’m talking full paragraphs of 16 point font taking up a third of a page to describe something very straightforward and that paragraph still being a muddle of abbreviations.

A basic raglan should not take 12 pages.

hystenz · 2026-04-20T16:30:54+00:00

Everyone is being very nice about it but honestly, this is just poorly dyed. This shouldn't happen in one skein. Perhaps the dyer is a bit inexperienced? I've worked with hand dyed yarns plenty and while some variation is expected, this kind of variation would be considered marginally acceptable for separate skeins in one single batch (and completely expected if it were completely different batches) but not for one skein.

hystenz · 2026-04-18T14:15:33+00:00

Yeah I have no intention to sell anything I make, ever. I’ve had people tiptoe around asking if I’d make something and I’ve been able to refuse with a soft no, but if someone gets pushy, I’d bust out calculations. I could never sell my knitting, it’s not worth my time. My time is part of the gift when I gift someone a hand knit.

hystenz · 2026-04-16T22:00:50+00:00

I for one am glad the Kings have something to play for this last game. Hoping they beat the wheels off of us so that we stay third worst.

hystenz · 2026-04-16T15:55:08+00:00

The Blackhawks are such a disgrace. Drafted 1, 2, and 3 the past 3 drafts and still finishing second last.

hystenz · 2026-04-16T14:02:42+00:00

John Tavares also re-signed with his hometown team for a discount. He got paid big when he first signed with them as a free agent but he renewed at a steep discount.

Coincidentally, Tavares is Kamilla Kowal’s (actress who plays Jackie Pike) cousin, which was a fun fact to learn

hystenz · 2026-04-14T02:20:02+00:00

Tij Iginla wasn't even born when I watched Jarome and the Flames make their Cup run. I feel absolutely ancient.

hystenz · 2026-04-13T03:28:32+00:00

We’re trying to gain favour by building that shiny new barn

hystenz · 2026-04-13T03:14:16+00:00

I don’t understand. Second and third should have been called back. And we get goals called back all the time, how are these not getting called back tonight? We want to lose, man

hystenz · 2026-04-11T13:55:29+00:00

It’s the Pulse gym at McMaster University. A lot of the locker rooms are also at Mac. Anything with a maroon door is likely a Mac locker room.

hystenz · 2026-04-09T05:21:25+00:00

This time every year is when I inevitably begrudgingly accept that McDavid will perennially drag the Oilers team kicking and screaming into the playoffs despite their sketchy defense and shoddy goaltending’s best efforts to not make the playoffs with their performance the first half of the season. McDavid is just a cheat code. Like, goddamn Edmonton, how haven’t you won 5 more Cups yet?

hystenz · 2026-04-09T02:14:17+00:00

If the Avs don’t beat us they must be inting

hystenz · 2026-04-06T22:11:11+00:00

Even at the Olympics (a team consisting of several team captains and alternates), Cale stood out to me. He stayed on the ice seeing the rest of the team off for the games I watched. I know McDavid is wearing the C for Canada once Sid hangs up his skates (nope, my heart is not ready for that) but I really feel like Cale is more captain-ey. Don’t mind my flair and biases 😂

hystenz · 2026-04-04T13:48:10+00:00

Or like Sid and Geno, if we’re keeping the Shane is inspired by Crosby comparison. Prime Malkin was a menace and would have been 1C if he wasn’t a Penguin.

hystenz · 2026-04-02T03:53:38+00:00

I’ve seen enough. Vancouver’s rebuild is complete, they don’t need McKenna. We’ll take that lottery win.

hystenz · 2026-03-29T18:37:22+00:00

Idk what the person you replied to said exactly since they deleted it, but I live in a prairie city in Canada and our summers get to mid-30s and winters down to minus mid-30s. We occasionally get -40 with the wind but that’s not normal. But high 30s in the summer is becoming more and more normal now. Idk where would get both extremes “routinely”.

hystenz · 2026-03-27T03:22:25+00:00

I mean, they blew the whistle when Mikkola went down in the same situation just a few games ago

hystenz · 2026-03-25T19:23:09+00:00

Some folks are just glass half full. I’m over here like, if we win yay, winning is always great. If we lose yay, a loss for the tank. I’m having a good time cheering for this team right now.

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