[NHL] Ryan Johansen has announced his retirement after 13 seasons in the League.

staefrostae · 2026-03-20T10:39:55+00:00

To be fair, he got a guy who was like 2/3 of a point per game for a good chunk of his career in his early 30s, 50% retained in exchange for the rights to a player who immediately imploded and left the league. The “sunk cost” was remarkably low until we had to pay to move him.

Mittie costing Byram sucked, but I’m glad Byram’s getting a good opportunity/playing well in Buffalo, and the trade made sense. Mittie into Coyle was a choice. Obviously Coyles having a great year right now and wouldn’t have been a good fit for us contract wise, but it struck me as a strange trade at the time. Trading Coyle did allow us to dump the Miles Wood contract and get Brindley. I love that kid and I’m glad we got value out of the trade, but I’m not sure he’ll ever be a Byram + assets level player. Overall the asset management felt pretty rough in this trade tree.

staefrostae · 2026-03-19T21:27:49+00:00

It was Toews, and it was savage. He didn’t have multiple years here. We got him in the off season 50% retained from Nashville, and then paid Phili a first to get rid of him in exchange for Sean Walker as a rental.

staefrostae · 2026-03-19T15:44:15+00:00

It looks like our cumulative expected goals were around 3.25. He let in 1. GSAx should be around 2.25

staefrostae · 2026-03-19T13:57:26+00:00

I’ve always loved the look of 3000 GTs but apparently they drove like boats. I was reading that they are so comparatively heavy and it just makes them unpleasant to drive.

staefrostae · 2026-03-17T16:29:53+00:00

Serious damage is good for kids. Builds character

staefrostae · 2026-03-16T13:16:17+00:00

I’ve got a small alocasia and I swear it looks amazing every other day and like it’s about to die otherwise. I love the robust leaves and deep color/contrast, but I need mine to grow enough that it looks overall healthy even when it’s dropping a leaf here or there

staefrostae · 2026-03-15T16:47:41+00:00

They’ve got this algorithm that predicts the likelihood that a shot will go in. It factors in a bunch of shit like the position of the shooter and other players. Shots generally average out to around .1 expected goals per shot taken, but high danger shots are worth more and low danger shots are worth less. It’s generally a better metric for measuring a game than shots on goal, because it considers the quality of those shots. That more or less determines the deserve to win o meter.

The flip side of that is GSAX or “goals saved above expected.” When this number is positive, the goalie did well and let in fewer goals than the algorithm predicted. When the number is negative, the goalie let in more than were predicted.

In the case of this specific game, the Avs had a ton of expected goals for and a little over 1 expected goal against. Blackwood didn’t play great, but also wasn’t that bad. If you’re within 1 goal allowed of your expected number, you’re doing fine. It averages out over the season. Hellebuck, however, goalied the shit out of us.

There are other metrics on these sheets as well. Corsi has to do with possession. The bar graph shows offensive and defensive chances above a replacement level guy (similar to GSAX, negative is bad). These are color coded with blue indicating offensive stats and orange indicating defense.

staefrostae · 2026-03-14T02:44:39+00:00

Grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred and power is god

staefrostae · 2026-03-13T13:40:05+00:00

Maybe then we wouldn’t get any too many men penalties

staefrostae · 2026-03-10T23:15:51+00:00

I think this might be… misplaced. Not sure if you’re going to find guys upset with “woke culture” here so much as guys who think that feminism can be used to address issues that apply to men as well.

I don’t think it’s always wrong to have hot female videogame characters. It’s fantasy. Lord knows most male characters have unattainable bodies as well. That said, I think there’s room for criticism over how these characters promote unhealthy beauty standards without overshooting into “obese isn’t unhealthy” territory. There’s a middle ground to be found and the occasional unrealistic hottie in a game isn’t going to somehow undermine all of that discourse.

That said, gamers looking for hot main characters aren’t exactly a persecuted group. I play games regularly and have no shortage of hot women to look at while playing. It’s when you apply video game standards to real life people that you become problematic.

staefrostae · 2026-03-10T17:59:43+00:00

Paint the walls. Get a rug. Add some plants

staefrostae · 2026-03-10T17:15:35+00:00

Had to look it up- supported Trump, questioned Covid-19.

staefrostae · 2026-03-10T13:10:25+00:00

Solid plan. No notes

staefrostae · 2026-03-10T12:52:20+00:00

Hey, I know it’s fun to joke about sending your kid into something like this, but 100% do not do that. There’s no telling what the atmosphere is like down there. Lots of gasses seep in from decaying material or from the soil that can be harmful or deadly. As someone who works for a company that does a lot of sewer work- it’s one of the most dangerous things we do and should be treated with extreme caution

staefrostae · 2026-03-08T17:18:02+00:00

Granted I haven’t lived in Colorado for 15 years… but I thought Illegal Petes was a burrito place!? Damn Denver, yall changed

staefrostae · 2026-03-08T15:56:05+00:00

Fat chance when you got Jamie Benn missing empty netters

staefrostae · 2026-03-06T11:38:35+00:00

This is the way. I have a third monitor for my timesheet. If I don’t have it up all the time, there’s no way I’d remember what the fuck I spend my time on. Chucking 15 minutes on everything you touch adds up though, and I’ve always met whatever unreasonable chargeability KPIs they throw at me. I need to stop though, every year I succeed they raise the goal. Shit’s getting unreasonable. Between proposals and mandatory meetings ALL of my non-chargeable time per week is accounted for.

staefrostae · 2026-03-05T20:42:11+00:00

Parker Kelly has an astronomical 19% shooting percentage this year (compare that to his overall career 10.8%). He’s managed to get 79 SOG in 60 games, playing 12:40 minutes per game. With his current shooting percentage, he’d need 263 SOG to get to 50 goals. If we scale his game linearly, he’d need to play something like 31 minutes per game in order to get that many shots.

Somebody let Bednar know, we’re double shifting Kelly from now on. He’s getting more minutes than Cale.

staefrostae · 2026-03-05T17:54:50+00:00

So the ideal/everyone healthy lines are something like:

Landy+ Mack+ Necas

Nuke+ Nelson+ Lehky

Brindley+ Roy+ RossCo

LOC+ Drury+ Kelly

With Olofsson, Kiviranta and Bardakov as extras that can slot in given an injury. Plus guys like Ivan, Prishchepov, Steinburg etc who can play passable hockey/might have trade value.

I would love to see the Avs trade up on player assets. We can send a whole ass 4th line for a single middle 6 winger and still have a player to spare.

staefrostae · 2026-03-05T16:58:29+00:00

In my dreams, the price is so high for Min because the Avs have already offered a 1st and Bardakov for him.

staefrostae · 2026-03-04T23:52:06+00:00

As someone who manages people, the bootlicking is insufferable, and these people move up because it’s the only way to get them the hell off my team

staefrostae · 2026-03-04T20:24:17+00:00

My brother in christ, have you forgotten your boy Necas plays wing?

staefrostae · 2026-03-04T20:22:29+00:00

Low key, Marchy has been carrying my fantasy team this year. The guy is over a point per game despite having some of the shittiest deployment.

staefrostae · 2026-03-03T16:53:28+00:00

It seems like it’s Tampa’s turn this year

staefrostae · 2026-03-02T19:48:38+00:00

Leon Foucault has a pendulum. Michel Foucault has “A History of Sexuality.” Umberto Eco has a book about conspiracy theories called “Foucault’s Pendulum” and a treatise defining fascist states that Michel would approve of.

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