Elmer Söderblom (traded from Detroit to Pittsburgh for a third) is a defensive third-liner.

Brayden Schenn (traded to the Islanders) is a middle-six forward.

Timothy Liljegren (traded to Washington) is an extremely average defender.

The best part about writing a book is planning and researching. The worst part about writing a book is writing the book.

Nicolas Deslauriers (traded to Carolina) is a fourth-liner (just).

Jordan Eberle (2x5.5m extension with Seattle) is a top-line forward, puts a lot of little pieces together all over the rink.

move slow and repair things

Corey Perry (traded to Tampa Bay FROM Los Angeles for a second) is a fourth-liner.

Nick Foligno (traded to Minnesota, where his brother is) is still, like basically for all his career, a second-line guy; primarily defensive value; healthy impact on penalty differential.

Logan Stanley (traded to Buffalo) is a #6 defender.

On trade deadline day I like to post charts for interesting players who change teams, mostly isolated impact summaries like this one: bsky.app/profile/hock... They're overviews of my best estimates of how a skater can individually impact their team's results as of this moment.

John Carlson, traded to Anaheim, is a very strong creator of offence at 5v5, and is extremely good at passing the puck to scorers. There are defensive weaknesses but they're considerably less important to his overall impact.

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I've never been a registered arms dealer in any country on the earth.

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Huh. Not sure what to make of this. (all situations)

Kiefer Sherwood (5x5.75m deal with San Jose) is a borderline top-line forward.

Tyler "chaos giraffe" Myers (traded to Dallas, 50% retained, for picks) generates a lot of offence, a good chunk of it for his own team.

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Please, call me Mr. Tofu. Dr. Tofu is my father.

One brillant idea here is to combine the inputs and outputs in the middle instead of trying to connect precisely the sources and destinations, creating an unreadable spaghetti.

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Elimination and Qualification Season Is Now Upon Us

On the road (at 5v5) the Rangers shooters have scored 62 goals on 61.3xG (+1%). At home they've scored 36 goals on 51.1 xG (-30%). How is that kind of discrepancy even possible.

Reading some Bonhoeffer too; including some of Ethics. "The persistent effort to hold on to the ethical as a topic beyond its appropriate time springs from the frustrated desire for continued prestige by those who have excellent attitudes but are ineffectual in life." Drag me I guess, eesh.

I see people assuming that Matthew Schaefer is gonna be a slam-dunk for the Calder and I gotta agree with that from where I sit.

If Dallas defeat Vancouver in regulation tonight then the Canucks will be the first team eliminated from Presidents' Trophy contention.

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One of the best shots I think I've ever seen

this one has hair

Man knows what's up

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Lots more boos for Matthews from the leafs crowd than I expected.

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This man is a) a legitimate hero in the most literal "dive into frigid water to save a drowning baby" sense but also b) a differently heroic sort of person for getting "I love to eat" as a direct quote in the newspaper. Rare combination of talents.

I only use D3 a little bit but a strikingly important part of my whole career, both in math and in viz, is the huge amount of free software. Linux and its whole ecosystem, matplotlib; simply enormous amounts of useful software free for anyone to use.

[wip] Working on a little desk reference of dates of recent hockeying things.

Can some Calgarywatchers tell me what they think of Yan Kuznetsov this season?

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If a guy crushes in 100 games of soft deployment he should get, I don't know, at least 50 games of tough deployment before we decide if he can hack the next level or not. Especially considering how tough deployment in the nhl is not, in fact, that much tougher than any deployment.

Kinda disheartening to see org mouthpieces like garrioch say that Spence isn't a top-4 defender when he so clearly is. Some day we'll appreciate transition defenders properly.

Not a lot of Detroit in that first period

Cool Von Karman vortices coming off the Canary Islands. VIIRS/Suomi NPP. go.nasa.gov/46q0nMy 🛰️🖼️

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1 day left to apply for Sport Data visuals journalist at The Guardian. jobs.theguardian.com/job/10032205...

JT Brown does a great job on the Kraken broadcasts. Need more doing it like him.