Everything posted by GoldAppleCorps
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Tough position of the USA. Hellebuyck's career in the playoffs is well known. Swayman was cross-eyed the last time out. Otter hasn't played. Won't matter because Brady Tchuck will just cross-check anyone near the net with zero consequences. This will work until someone on Team Canada drops him in the first 5 minutes. For some reason, everyone will act like a choirboy got punched.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Seems like every season. The Stars go on a season high 6 game win streak - and Minnesota matches it with 5 in a row.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Oh fer...
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Ahh, the stress free feeling of an multi goal lead going into the 3rd period.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Straight red. DOGSO
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Somebody is tuning in for "Forensic Files" right now, and is pissed that it's hockey.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
I know why it's happening. I'm just grouchy. No one makes San Jose start at 4pm their time.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Look, I'm accepting of these "past 7:30pm" start times when we're on the road in Western Canada and that sort of stuff. When we're at home, drop the puck at a decent hour. I work for a living and have a bedtime!
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Kolyachonok claimed off waivers from Boston. Boston claimed him off waivers from Dallas about 2 months ago. Promising defensive player. Loved Bastian's aggression. Looking forward to getting Bischel back, and hopefully slowing the parade to the IR.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Cash Money Brothers. If they don't wanna roll with it, fuckit! We'll roll over 'em!
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
The conventional quote is "Everyone's a tackle until they're not". While you'd like your Guards to be a little heavier and stronger, natural selection usually provides for two guys with the quickest feet and techniques to grade out as OTs. If you recruit kids to play Tackle, you'll find a few with a skill profile for Guard through straight body growth and development. Of course, this assumes that they all can be taught basic OL skill sets of balance, foot and hand placement, front recognition, and the like. I'd need my own thread, and more liquor and sedatives than currently available, to begin discussing the horror show I witnessed at the beginning of last season.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
FidoNet! I could read faster than 300baud
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Actually felt kinda sorry for the Kings player. He was in pretty good position, matched Mikko, and didn't do anything wrong. Moose just kinda moved one way, shifted back, and skated the puck about a foot clear of the defender before tossing the puck to the back of the net like it was practice. Just made them both look stupid.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
DeSmith stood on his head to equalize a middling effort against a middling team. No real tragic errors, but a continuous lack of precision in the defensive zone led to non-clearances. Prolonged defensive zone time meant less offensive zone time. Shesterkin likewise rescued the Rangers from another close loss. We have a playoff contending team on IR.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
I believe Edmonton had some bad injury luck (not like the Stars are gonna cry for them) thus far. Of course, what really happens is that later on, a cast-off goalie all of a sudden becomes impenetrable. Hockey is a sport where a goalie can get hot at the right time and just ruin every other teams' hard work!
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Moose came in with a full head of steam. He was under control, but got ridden off by the Isles player. Neither had any bad intentions. Romanov happened to be in the "perfect" position. As soon as it happened, I started looking away. Those hits are usually when you see a player lying face down, motionless, while a blood pool starts to spread. Thankful they got him up without a backboard or stretcher. Goaltender interference apparently has no real rule structure, and can only be determined after the fact by video review.
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ESPN and The Mouse vs. YouTube TV
Do you even Ocho if you're not watching "Slippery Stairs"?
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2025 Week 12: Texas @ Georgia
Georgia isn't #5 for nothing. They're a legit contender that eliminates variables by controlling the LOS. No single facet of their game is devastating, but put together, they keep the chains moving. When you slow the run, they throw play action to a TE that previously was sealing the edge, but now leaked out into the seam for 15 yards. Do you tell your pass rusher to ignore him again and have it happen again, or do you tell him to carry coverage? Next thing you know, they've put up 24 points and you don't have that many. Texas won the Sugar Bowl by not playing UGA's game. They played like a power SEC team. Texas played like an unpredictable Big 12 team. Over the course of the season, that introduces a ton of unnecessary risk, but when faced with a superior opponent, helps balance the odds for one game.
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2025 Week 12: Texas @ Georgia
Only thing Napier could tell him is, "It's simple! There's a hole on the left side of the Center. Just stunt your guys and blitz that gap every down. The LG will jump out of the way. Profit!". The silver lining to having completely inept OL play for the first 8 games is that there's limited tape on how to defend our offense if the "send the blitz" play doesn't work.
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ESPN and The Mouse vs. YouTube TV
Yep. <warning_nerditry_follows> They're also a computing company that basically set the gold standard for extracting and encoding video media. Today, running an app that lets you stream live video is common. Back in the Pentium days, when TV streams were analog signals sent over the round black 75-ohm coax cables, watching TV on a computer was instant nerd cred. It took a speedy (for the time) processor and specialized hardware. Hauppauge parlayed their proficiency at designing math co-processors (386 and 486 computers didn't natively know how to process mathematics) into extracting a video stream and encoding into a software file or playing it on the desktop. At any respectable nerd's house, the home network will include a NAS (Network Attached Storage - a minifridge or so sized box of hard drives that provides crap-tons of local storage) and a dedicated media server computing machine. The NAS will hold movies, music, what-have-you collected from various sources. The media server will be accessible to watch those movies either at home and, through a properly configured firewall and gateway (likely running pfsense) anywhere else he has a network connection. Our esteemed administrator proposes to set up a Hauppauge extractor to take the video signal from source like an antenna, forward the resulting stream to a video program, and stream it with a media server application. He's chosen an open-source (meaning not owned by a for-profit company) program as the media server, so that anyone who wants to can download a completely free app, connect to the stream he's providing, and view the game. As a bonus, that open source app natively supports Chromecast, so if you have the ability to connect your device (like a phone or computer) to a Google Chromecast item, you can watch the game on whatever TV you've chosen.
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ESPN and The Mouse vs. YouTube TV
This may be the first time I've heard "Hauppauge" since 1996.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
Thomas Harley to get 8 years at 10.6 million per. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/46762588/dallas-stars-d-thomas-harley-nets-8-year-extension Front office showing a lot of faith here.
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Texas O-line talk
I saw them pick up a couple of stunts and twist, the kind that previously had them chasing rushers into the backfield helplessly. On one 3rd and 2, Wisner couldn't get through a gap, but that was ok because the line has displaced the LOS by 3 yards to earn the 1st down. Neither of these things were happening consistently before yesterday. The OL wasn't a full on asset. They stopped being a liability, and that was huge progress in one week. It's 1 week sample, but I might allow myself optimism that we've got the right mix in the stew.
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2025 Game Week 6: RRS Texas v OU
I remember how shocking it was to learn that Adrian Peterson made a miraculous comeback from his ankle injury. Through sheer will and personal awesomeness, he healed his leg! Then I watched him take pitch after pitch and casually jog out of bounds for a quarter and a half. He couldn't cut upfield if you gave him a moped.
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The Dallas Stars 2025-2026 Season Thread: We can haz cup?
On paper, these are very complementary lines. Sam Steel is a perfect guy to dig pucks out of piles, back check an attempted breakout, and just generally do the grind work between Roope and Mikko. If you wanted all offense, you might swap Robo or Wyatt for him, but rolling in a game, you'd like Sam to set up his line mates for pretty play. Alternatively, he can collect the garbage when the opposition sends all their guys in panic mode to Mikko and Roope. I'm personally interested in the development of Lian Bischel this season. I think, at the end of last season, he was starting to get comfortable with the level of physicality a player his size should exhibit at the NHL level.