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Then and now, Taylor Hall and Gene Principe. .@GenePrincipe hasn't aged a day!

Meanwhile in Tobleronistan

Dogs enjoying the little things

There came a knock at my gate, and a young warrior, small but formidable, stood ready for battle. She was perhaps nine. Behind her, at the sidewalk, a parent stood like a supply wagon. The sash carried badges of past campaigns. She looked up at me and spoke the words every American fears and longs for: "Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?" In Japan, sales require months of relationship. Tea is poured. Cards are exchanged with two hands. Here, a nine-year-old general appears on your own land with a binder of product, and resistance has never once succeeded in the history of the republic. "What is your strongest unit?" I asked. "Thin Mints. Everybody gets Thin Mints." "And if I refuse?" She did not answer. She looked at me. The parent shifted weight. Somewhere, a wind chime rang. Refusal, I understood, was technically possible the way swimming to Hawaii is technically possible. "Four boxes," I said. "Most people get more. They freeze." THEY FREEZE. Forward logistics. This child carries doctrine my family needed three centuries to learn: the campaign is won before it is fought, in the freezer. I bought nine boxes. I am told this is called a start. Dale confessed he buys from three generals, granddaughter, coworker's daughter, the girl at the supermarket table, and hides the count from his wife. Tribute, he calls it. Correct. This is not commerce. This is fealty, paid annually, in cookies. I was not hungry. I was outranked. A man does not negotiate with a general who brings Thin Mints. He surrenders, and calls it a donation. The boxes are in my freezer, as instructed. They are nearly gone. She said she would return next year. I have already begun setting aside funds. One does not meet such a commander unprepared twice.

Every post of this guy’s is a complete masterpiece

It's funny how often anti-stat arguments end up with "Oh yeah? Well stats don't account for [thing that's routinely analyzed with stats]!"

looks like pink lemonade was invented by a clown and the original batch was balls and asshole flavored. good news tho, clown's dead

5 team building lessons from the Hurricanes’ Stanley Cup win that the #Canucks should crib as the rebuild begins: - Volume is king at the Draft - Don’t obsess over height - Value > everything - Adapt or die - Double down on skill Opening for all to read: nytimes.com/athletic/7361621…

But they’re both under six feet tall?!?!?

Government abruptly suspends citizenship certificates issued under 'lost Canadians' law. Thousands granted citizenship certificates after change late last year, @LizT1 reports cbc.ca/news/politics/canadia… Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

This quote was my favorite

This is really good and wotlrth your time.

Interesting storyline for NHL Finals: Carolina Hurricanes GM Eric Tulsky has a PhD in Chemistry from Berkeley. Before joining them in 2014, he was offered a job with Apple to work on battery tech (but turned it down). Started in the analytics department and since hired neuroscientists and mechanical engineers for the NHL team. The Athletic profile has this anecdote: ➡️ “In 2021, Tulsky was the Carolina Hurricanes assistant GM and had built a small analytics department in the organization, with a web developer, a data engineer and a neuroscientist helping him lead the team’s push into new frontiers for the sport. But because of what he saw in the tracking data, Tulsky believed his next addition needed to be someone who was working on autonomous vehicles — perhaps “a robot submarine,” he says now — and had an advanced mechanical engineering background. “I knew that that was the kind of problem that put people thinking about the kinds of data that we had and the kinds of problems we faced,” Tulsky explained. It goes without saying that there aren’t many robot submarine engineers working in NHL front offices. So Tulsky began a deep search through universities’ mechanical engineering departments. He would scour the faculty listing and professors’ research interests to see if they might align with what he was looking for, then reach out to learn more about their work. He started with the top schools in Canada, reasoning that there was a greater chance he would find someone interested in working on a hockey problem. And that was how an NHL team came to fund the PhD research of a young engineering student named Jonathan Arsenault at McGill University in Montreal. His thesis, the first to be backed by a professional hockey team? “Quantitative Analysis of Hockey Using Spatiotemporal Tracking Data.” ⬅️ *** NYT/The Athletic: nytimes.com/athletic/6286244…

The smartest man in hockey

Haven't had a second guess like this for a while Wordle 1,822 2/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The Stankoven, Blake, and Hall line 5v5 shares for the postseason via NST: •67% shots •63.8% high danger chances •68.2% expected goals •72% goals The three of them scored exactly 50% of the 5v5 goals for the Hurricanes

Every blogger hire on this Canes team should go by their twitter handle on the cup engraving

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