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slafkovskys · 2 years

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“Aww did you miss me” for Logan Cooley

“i’ll see you in class tomorrow, y/n,” taylor says as she breaks away from you at the door to her hall. you send her a grin as you turn on the staircase, ready to continue up the two more flights before she calls out again, “wait! do you want to meet at the cafe for breakfast? i have been craving a croissant.”

“we just got one this morning,” you stare at the redhead and she rolls her eyes, leaning against the wall as she looks at you expectantly for an answer. you sigh, “just text me and let me know what time.”

“will do,” she sing-songs before pulling open the door and disappearing down the hall. you continue to pull yourself up the stairs, silently cursing at your past self for making the decision to wear heels.

as you come to a stop in front of your door, you raise your eyebrows once you hear muffled noise coming from the other side. you unlock the door and push it open, covering your mouth with your hand to stop the laugh from escaping when you see what’s on the other side. “oh my-”

logan holds up a finger, gesturing to the phone that he had pressed to his ear, “no, you’re not listening to me. he said that it was an optional skate, but i don’t think that it is optional at all.”

you set down your bag and the box of leftovers you had taken from the restaurant before kicking off your heels and climbing into your bed. between you and logan, it’s a tight squeeze in your twin xl but you make it work just like you had been doing for weeks now. he winds an arm around your back, resting it on your hip while you lay your head on his chest, listening to the steady thump of his heart.

“look, can we talk about this later? i’m busy. doing what? don’t worry about it,” he snaps at whoever he was on the phone with before dropping it beside him on the bed. he huffs, “you were gone for a long time.”

you use your hand to push yourself up, trying not to smile, “aw, did you miss me?”

“that depends,” he gestures with his now free hand over to where you’d left your takeout box, “are those for me?”

“you broke into my dorm and used one of my face masks, logan. do you really think that you deserve my leftovers?” you adjust his fuzzy headband before poking at his hardened, blue cheek. “which one is this anyway?”

“i’m breaking out and we have media in a couple of days,” he practically whines, now using both hands to pull you fully onto his lap.

“as long as you used the one that was in the purple bottle. that one is for your skin type,” you look down at him as his hands run over your hips. you watch as he swallows a lump in his throat.

“i mean, yeah, of course i did. only an idiot would use something not for his skin type,” he laughs nervously, hooking his index fingers in the front pocket of your jeans, “but, you know hypothetically, what would happen if i used one not in a purple bottle?”

“oh, hypothetically? it could break you out even worse,” you look at him with a raised eyebrow, “you used one of mine, didn’t you?”

“i did, yeah.”

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#logan cooley #draft night asks

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a-s-levynn · 4 years

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I made a separete post because it is long as it is, also i don’t want to pick from who’s tag should i reblog it so here it is anyway. Thank you so much @dreamsarelikedragonflies @tales-of-hisirdoux @nikibogwater for the tag! <3 I’m actually still surprised that people tag me in these because i’m probably the least interesting person on this site. So it means a lot! TmT <3

rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better

tagging: oh man there isn’t going to be 20 for sure... NO PRESSURE TAGS, if you don’t want to, you don’t have to, no hard feelings: @bored-already @spellcasterdouxie @littlerainsworld @isawhisperer @echigo825 and anyone and everyone who follows me can consider themselfs tagged and feel free to refer me as someone who tagged you if you want to jump on this train!

name/nickname: for gaming: Daster for the last couple of years, and here Levynn seems to get picked up (well no surprise there given my url)

gender: female on paper, but i really could not care less

star sign: saggitarius

height: around 5′3″

time: 23:06

birthday: in november

favorite bands: Slipknot, Bullet for my Valentine, Stone Sour, Thousand Watt Stare, Pretty Reckless, Nirvana, 30stm, Ice Nine Kills etc.. i really don’t have an absolute favourite.. maybe Slipknot but it depends on my mood really

favorite solo artists: Corey Taylor, Christian Martucci, Sugizo, Andrey Vinogradov and many others

song stuck in my head: Hunger by The Score

last movie: Mindgamers

last show: Prodigal Son

when did i make this blog: in 2008, but i’m too lazy to look up the exact date

what i post: whatever my brainrot decides to fancy at the given moment. Also ToA screenshots until i run out of the episodes

last thing i googled: Axeman of New Orleans (i just had to fact check on something)

other blogs: @skyholdlibrary (i’m actually going to make content on this again but i didn’t really had enough time but soon!) @angryedgelord (this one is on indefinite hiatus because of reasons) and @dasterplayswow (but i don’t really have the energy to keep this one up)

do i get asks: sometime, and they are all greately cherished!

why i chose my url: because i have this ever evolving OC who lives rendt free in my head for ca. two decades, and i like the name

following: 1666 (don’t judge me, i never clean out the inactive blogs)

followers: 528 (but i’m sure around 300 probably are inactive or bots)

average hours of sleep: 3-5 on good days

lucky number: i want it to be 32 but it’s 8

instruments: i dabbled in bass guitar, i had a drumset sold from under my ass so i almost learned that. In middleschool i had to learn to play on a recorder (music specific class, yey! no i can’t sing well, i had a good rythm sense)

what am i wearing rn: black sleeveless shirt, dark grey hoodie, dark grey sweatpants, a black sock with white x-es and a darkgrey-lightgray striped one

dream trip: all over the world really. but i want to be on an old tall ship also ride a camel through the desert

favorite food: suvlaki in the wrap version (which is not the proper way but the ultimat streetfood way but i like it)

nationality: please don’t. some of you know and that’s fine but i’m not proud of it

favorite song: currently In my bones by The Score but i’m definitely going to say something else tomorrow because it solely depends on my mood

last book read: The Renegade by Dale Avery

top three fictional universes: Riyria, Mass Effect and

favorite color: probably black but i love me all the colours

#tag games #tagging game #long post

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murdercene · 4 years

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6, 13, 30, 33, 49 and 8 for dmitri? ^.^

HI HANNA THANK YOU

6. which party member do they relate to the most?

this is hard because he kind of doesnt relate to anyone more than the others? he relates to jonah and his family, rice’s trust, ciara’s vibe, shirleys love for his crew, tildar’s feelings about betrayal. i feel like he maybe relates the most to ciara but i actually dont know!!!

8. what are three songs that suit them?

incredibly hard to pick only three from my playlist lmao so here are five instead

mouth of the devil - mother mother

eyes open - taylor swift

one day robots will cry - cobra starship

bottom is a rock - mother mother

thanks to you - all time low

13. what do they dislike about themself? why?

hooo boy i mean. he really doesnt like.... i mean, his past? the choices he made? the people he trusted, the things that led to him almost killing the queen, even though he was mind controlled, he still feels it’s his fault for trusting andrei. other than that he generally likes himself, i think?? like he’s good at what he does and he’s hot

30. what do they seek out from others?

hmmmm. trust. his intuition is all he has right now and it failed him big time, and now he’s just trying to prove to himself that he can trust it again. he seeks out people who he can lean on, and who can lean on him in return.

33. what makes them cry?

betrayal, getting hurt by people he trusts. if he doesn’t care about the person he doesn’t give a shit what they say or do lmao he just gets angry, not sad

ive already answered 49!!!

#answered #dnd #dmitri #northern fights #easily-lost

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caravaggista · 7 years

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Hi Amy, I'm a high school student who wants to major in art history. I know that a large part of history in general is asking questions, however I'm unsure about how to ask better questions, would you give some suggestions and examples of higher level questions to ask about an art work? P.S. you blog is amazing and thank you for all the resources!

Wow, what a great question! Some of my college students don’t ask how they can ask better questions, so I was so excited when I saw that you are a high school student thinking ahead. Thank you!

I assume you are taking art history at your high school. This is good - your class has already given you the framework you need to move from basic questioning to more in depth questioning. Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? You would think that with art history, the Five Ws + How? would be simple enough to answer. This is not always the case, however, and sometimes the simple questions of Who? or How? or Where? can take an art historian years to answer. A good example of this is attribution: who made a work of art? It sounds like an easy question, but as someone who has shed blood, sweat, and tears on attribution, I can tell you it isn’t. The same is true of iconography (’what’?). On the surface, subject matter shouldn’t be hard to identify or propose, but it can be. All this to say that if you are worried that asking some of these questions is too basic, you shouldn’t be - you will undoubtedly keep asking them as an art history major, and the answers will not always be easy (or even possible) to find.

Asking (sometimes deceptively) basic questions is all well and good, but how can you ask more in-depth questions about works that are already the subject of lengthy discourse, like the Mona Lisa or the Sistine Chapel? This is, essentially, the writer’s question. To arrive at a probing question, you may want to:

Practice slow looking. Slow looking is exactly what it sounds like - sitting in front of a work of art and taking time to really look at it. This will be hard to do during a class session, but you can do this after class (or beforehand, if you know the period or artist being covered). As part of the slow looking exercise, write down your initial response to the work, and note throughout your time looking how your initial response has evolved and why.

Question a work of art’s formal elements. Think about color, line, texture, light, shadow, space, perspective, volume… Why do you think the artist made the decisions s/he did? Here is a list of formal analysis questions to get you started. If you email me, amy [at] caravaggista [dot] com, I can send you the “Questions Sheet” I give to my students.

Ask yourself what ascribes meaning to a work. In a similar vein, you can consider why a work of art is being discussed in class (in other words, why it has been deemed important). Is it the subject matter? The composition? The work’s cultural or historical context? The fame of the artist? The expense of materials used? All of the above, and more? Why or why not?

Look at a work of art using a particular methodology. Art historians use lots of different methods to analyze works of art. If you haven’t yet learned about art theory or methods, consider picking up a copy of Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk’s Art History: A critical introduction to its methods (Manchester University Press, 2006). The authors examine the origins of art history as a discipline and explain each major method in practice, from formalism to semiotics (and more!). Examining a work of art using a particular framework can yield surprising and inspiring results!

Read about a work of art you are having a hard time formulating questions for. Specifically, read art historical articles about the work and consider the author’s argument. Do you agree with their analysis? Why or why not? Is there an aspect of the work or its context that you think should be more fully addressed (or considered, in the first place)? What evidence does the author use to support their analysis?

This is by no means an exhaustive list of ways to ask better questions, but I hope it helps get you started! There are no bad questions; all questions help deepen your understanding and analysis.

I’m going to include a break here. After the break, you’ll find recommended reading and resources.

Recommended Reading

Many of these resources are geared toward how to write about art, but I recommend them because the first step in writing is asking questions, and these authors’ discussions could be informative!

Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing about Art. Boston; Toronto: Little, Brown, and Company, 1985.

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking Penguin, 1977.

Hatt, Michael and Charlotte Klonk. Art History: A critical introduction to its methods. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006.

Huntsman, Penny. Thinking About Art: A thematic guide to art history. West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.

Pop, Andrei. How to Do Things with Pictures: A Guide to Writing in Art History. Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, 2008.

Taylor, Joshua C. Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.

#art history #history of art #art history student #asking questions #asks

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roseacisco · 6 years

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EC Weekly: Gaming, crypto, shipping and the multiple future strategies of tech

Niantic EC-1

Illustration by Nigel Sussman

Greg Kumparak published the first part of his planned four part EC-1 series on Niantic yesterday, focusing on the founding story of the AR/gaming unicorn from Keyhole and Google Earth to a complicated spinout from Alphabet. Lots of great nuggets on how companies get formed and built, but one I particularly enjoyed was this one:

Like most companies, Google doesn’t like when employees leave. Especially employees who ran key parts of the company for years. Leaving means competition. Leaving means potential opportunities lost.

John [Hanke, CEO of Niantic] eventually sat down with Larry Page to figure out what it’d take to keep him within Google . They talked about John’s interest in augmented reality. They talked about a book called Freedom by David Suarez, which centers around an out-of-control AI that taps a network of real-world operatives to control the world (the earliest hints of Niantic’s first game, Ingress, already sneaking in here years before it’s made.)

John wanted to take his interest in AR and his background in maps and gaming and mash them all up and see what it could look like. Larry wanted it to happen within Google.

What I loved is that Eliot Peper wrote a piece for Extra Crunch just a few weeks ago about the importance of speculative fiction in the creation of startups, and also gave a guide on just what books he recommends to find your next startup.

Expect Part 2 of the Niantic EC-1 to drop early next week as we do a rolling release.

Game streaming is the new battlefield among tech giants

Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch

Game streaming is quickly becoming one of the most important strategic arenas for owning users, with offerings from all major tech and gaming companies. Devin Coldewey provided a comprehensive strategic overview of the stakes involved this week, and why so much money is being poured into a technology that until now seemed impossible due to bandwidth and latency. It’s like Super Smash Bros: Tech Melee edition:

Google and Amazon bring cloud-native infrastructure and familiarity online, but is that enough to compete with the gaming know-how of Microsoft, with its own cloud clout, or Sony, which made strategic streaming acquisitions and has a service up and running already? What of the third parties like Nvidia and Valve, publishers and storefronts that may leverage consumer trust and existing games libraries to jump start a rival? It’s a wide-open field, all right.

Plus, in case you missed our live conference call, you can read the transcript of Lucas Matney and Eric Peckham talking shop from GDC.

Crypto 2.0

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Yes, yes, there is a crypto winter, for sure. But this is precisely the time that all the real product development and engineering work is going to take place. Longtime TechCrunch columnist Jon Evans dives into some of the most promising veins of the next-generation of blockchain and crypto technology, finding much to be excited about:

It may seem strange that, even as the public cryptocurrency frenzy of 2017-18 dies down, we seem to be in the midst of a Cambrian explosion of blockchain advances, initiatives, and iterations. But it seems that now that (some of) the get-rich-quick scam artists have been filtered away, the true believers and technical devotees can get back to work building what they believe to be the future.

Is it? Well, maybe not the future, but very possibly a nontrivial part of it. As I’ve argued before, though, cryptocurrencies and decentralized apps don’t need to conquer the mainstream and replace the existing tech megacorporates to succeed, any more than Linux had to destroy Microsoft in order to become enormously influential. All they have to do is provide a viable alternative in other to keep government and fiat currencies somewhat honest. I’m pleased to report that we’re noticeably closer to that state of affairs than we were a year ago.

How to not announce your startup (and avoid prison time)

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I’ve been doing a lot of research around the new culture of Form D filings for the past few months. Those threads finally came together this week in a comprehensive overview of how startups are now filing their rounds with the SEC:

Here’s the secret about Form D filings today: the norms in Silicon Valley have changed, and Form D filings are often filed late, not at all, and many startups are advised to lie low in the hopes of avoiding stricter SEC scrutiny. What was once a fait accompli is now a deliberative process, with important decision points for founders.

Extra Crunch contacted about two dozen startup attorneys, from the biggest firms in the industry to the one-person shops with a shingle out front. Getting straight answers here has been tough, if only because no lawyer really wants to say out loud that they actively recommend their clients violate government regulations (there is that whole law license thing, which apparently lawyers care about).

The ethics of internet culture

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Our resident technology ethicist and humanist Greg Epstein interviewed The Atlantic correspondent Taylor Lorenz about the challenges laden with social platforms and their effects on youth culture. Far from a Manichaean view of these tools, Lorenz provides distinctive nuance, serving the good with the trenchant criticism. Lorenz from the interview:

I would say Instagram is just like a microcosm of the broader Internet in a lot of ways. Yes, there is toxic, problematic and awful stuff. There’s also a lot of positive amazing stuff. I actually tend to focus my writing mostly on the more positive things. I write about how people use any social platform, but it ends up being a lot about Instagram because most [young] people are on Instagram, to create and to connect with people.

Like all social platforms, there is a fair amount of misinformation, Nazis, things like that. Those people are always going to be on every platform and they’re going to try to exploit it. I think it’s the job of the platform to police this type of stuff. Instagram has done a better job of mitigating that type of bad content compared to YouTube and Facebook. It’s still there; you can never completely eliminate it.

Improving web accessibility

The original simplicity of the textual web has given way to much richer media content, but that transition hasn’t always been easy for users who rely on screen readers and other technologies to access one of humanity’s most important learning and knowledge resources. Accessibility consultant Beth Franssen walked Extra Crunch through the latest developments on how to make accessibility work again before lawsuits proliferate:

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires US businesses that serve the public to provide equal access and accommodations to everyone, whether through a physical building or a digital experience. Just as stores provide ramps as well as stairs, websites need to accommodate people with varying abilities, from movement disorders to visual and auditory impairments. The number of website accessibility lawsuits raised against private companies more than doubled last year. A single plaintiff won $100K in a similar ADA lawsuit in 2017.

Shipping and logistics is getting a tech makeover

Our guest writer John Eden discusses the two forces that are reshaping shipping and logistics:

… technology is not the only force driving change. Regulators are taking a fresh look at the lives of workers in the gig economy, often concluding that many folks classified as independent contractors ought to be treated as employees. As we will see, this is causing a sharp uptick in the creation of small-motor carriers. At the same time, oddly enough, driver scarcity is forcing innovators in the shipping and logistics space to think very hard about how to entice new drivers into the market.

A Tale of Two (other) Transcripts

If you missed our other live conference call this week with TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino on all the announcements out of Apple’s big launch event this week, do be sure to take a read.

We are also trialing a new experiment — using feedback from Extra Crunch members — to transcript some popular Silicon Valley podcasts as a member benefit. This week, we published an episode of ‘This is Your Life in Silicon Valley’ interviewing Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf.

Our next Verified Expert

Eric Eldon published our next Verified Expert attorney, this time Cooley LLP lawyer Mike Lincoln.

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fmservers · 6 years

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EC Weekly: Gaming, crypto, shipping and the multiple future strategies of tech

Niantic EC-1

John wanted to take his interest in AR and his background in maps and gaming and mash them all up and see what it could look like. Larry wanted it to happen within Google.

Expect Part 2 of the Niantic EC-1 to drop early next week as we do a rolling release.

Game streaming is the new battlefield among tech giants

Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch

Plus, in case you missed our live conference call, you can read the transcript of Lucas Matney and Eric Peckham talking shop from GDC.

Crypto 2.0

Andrey Suslov via Getty Images

How to not announce your startup (and avoid prison time)

Henrik Sorensen via Getty Images

The ethics of internet culture

Alexander Spatari via Getty Images

Improving web accessibility

Shipping and logistics is getting a tech makeover

Our guest writer John Eden discusses the two forces that are reshaping shipping and logistics:

A Tale of Two (other) Transcripts

Our next Verified Expert

Eric Eldon published our next Verified Expert attorney, this time Cooley LLP lawyer Mike Lincoln.

Via Danny Crichton https://techcrunch.com

#TechCrunch

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thrashermaxey · 6 years

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Ramblings: Dobber’s thoughts on Drouin, Chytil, Zacha, Seabrook, Howard, Hinostroza, Comtois, Kovalchuk and so many more…(Nov 22)

Ramblings: Dobber’s thoughts on Drouin, Chytil, Zacha, Seabrook, Howard, Hinostroza, Comtois, Kovalchuk and so many more… (Nov 22)

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To all my American friends out there – Happy Thanksgiving. I enjoyed my favorite meal of the year a month ago, as I’m Canadian. But now I’m jealous that you get to enjoy it now. Although you’re stuck watching football on your Thanksgiving (we’re blessed with hockey games on Canadian Thanksgiving!). Have a safe holiday and leave the belt at home.

So it turns out that all Pavel Zacha needed was to show that he dominates at the AHL level in order to properly get a chance at the NHL level. Prior to this latest stint, his only time in the AHL was a three-game run back in 2015 (three points). This time he was down for four games and got five points. Upon this latest recall he saw 16 minutes four out of five games. In his first 10 games before being sent down he saw 16 minutes just three times. A big part of that, too, is the fact that he is now playing with Jesper Bratt as opposed to Tommy Stonehands or Jimmy Lunchpail. Zacha has four points in his last three games and those are his only four points of the entire season. He’s earned PP time as well – Wednesday he saw 18 minutes of ice time and one minute on the second PP unit and scored on it.

Looking at Zacha’s career numbers, as a rookie he had 13 PPPts with just 1:50 per game. Between that and the AHL it tells me that he thrives when given room, but has trouble creating that room himself. I suppose Bratt’s speed opens things up a little for him.

Taylor Hall has a two-point game (Wednesday), a four-point game and five zero-point games in his last seven. Frustrating for fantasy owners.

Damon Severson has six points in six games, five at even strength. Will Butcher is pointless in eight games despite manning the top PP unit. Butcher has just one point at even strength this season. Playing with Ben Lovejoy is tying his hands, in my opinion. Meanwhile, Severson thrives thanks to his partner Andy Greene holding the fort. I also think at 24 and in his fifth NHL season, Severson is coming into his own. I’m not saying he’ll get his 57-point pace. But he’ll absolutely get his career high (currently 31 points).

Jonathan Drouin has 19 points in his last 19 games, seven of them on the power play. He’s been at his best with Max Domi and Andrew Shaw. He and Domi are helping each other rebound.

Domi has 26 points! Last season Domi picked up his 26th point on February 15 (funny enough – against Montreal).

Carey Price allowed four (or more) goals for the 16th time in his last 38 starts.

Alexandar Georgiev got shellacked in his first game in early October. Since then, thanks to Wednesday’s shutout, he is 4-1-0, 2.02 GAA and 0.936 SV%.

Filip Chytil now has a goal in five consecutive games. He’s seeing regular PP time and Wednesday his ice time topped 20 minutes. He’s now playing with Chris Kreider and Kevin Hayes and the line has been very effective. It also allows Mika Zibanejad to play with Vladislav Namestnikov, which boosts Namestnikov’s potential.

Kreider now leads the Rangers with 12 goals and 20 points already, having his big breakout in his seventh NHL season. Power forwards take an extra couple of years and I feel like he would have this last year had he not been injured. All 20 of his points have come in the last 20 contests.

Ryan Strome picked up his first point as a Ranger and saw over 17 minutes of ice time. He’s been playing with Brett Howden and Jimmy Vesey, and getting no PP time. This makes him a solid third liner and 35 to possibly 40 points.

You don’t need me to tell you that Sidney Crosby returned to the lineup and picked up three points. But I feel like it’s pretty big fantasy hockey news so there – I said it.

A few things to come out of that Pittsburgh – Dallas game though:

With Matt Murray giving up 16 goals in his last four appearances, seeing Casey DeSmith get a win and continue to add to his stellar numbers has to concern Murray owners. But to me, DeSmith’s value is a house of cards. The team is just playing better in front of him right now. It’s “buy low” time on Mr. Murray.

Tanner Pearson is still playing with Evgeni Malkin and Phil Kessel at even strength, and he’s a part of what is now a pretty decent second PP unit alongside Jake Guentzel and Derick Brassard. He has three points in his last two games.

Landon Bow is a 6-5 goaltender who was never drafted despite a solid WHL career. He had been invited to camp by the Ducks (2015) and the Stars a couple of times before finally getting signed to an NHL contract a year ago. His AHL numbers leave something to be desired and he’s a career NHL backup. But he finds himself in the NHL this week thanks to the Ben Bishop injury. After Anton Khudobin got pulled, Bow came in and stopped all 14 shots he faced. He is definitely not the answer for you if you need short-term help though. His purpose is to warm the bench while Colton Point gets some badly needed games in for Texas.

Tom Wilson is up to six points in five games now. His Hit totals are down, from the usual 250 per year to a pace that would put him at about 170. He already has two PPPts and with TJ Oshie and Evgeny Kuznetsov sidelined, he will continue to see the ice time there.

Brent Seabrook had nine shots on goal for Chicago. Under the new coach he’s being given tons of power-play time and he has really been letting loose with that shot. It hasn’t developed into a lot of points, but the situation bears watching and if your league counts the SOG stat he is worth owning right now for that reason.

Geez, Carolina fired 29 shots on goal in the first period alone against the Leafs.

Carolina line combinations with Victor Rask (zero points, two SOG) back in the lineup:

24.8%

MCGINN,BROCK – STAAL,JORDAN – WILLIAMS,JUSTIN

22.2%

MARTINOOK,JORDAN – SVECHNIKOV,ANDREI – WALLMARK,LUCAS

20.9%

AHO,SEBASTIAN – FERLAND,MICHEAL – TERAVAINEN,TEUVO

15.9%

DI GIUSEPPE,PHILLIP – FOEGELE,WARREN – RASK,VICTOR

Jeff Skinner has 13 goals in his last 15 games and the Buffalo Sabres have won seven in a row.

Shayne Gostisbehere is minus-6 over his last three games and his now third-lowest in the league at minus-11 (Mathew Barzal minus-12, Tomas Nosek minus-13).

I don’t know how, but Detroit has won nine of its last 11 games. What?

What that means is that Jimmy Howard is a great goalie own right now. Way better than Murray, Mike Smith or Cam Talbot. Howard has won six of his last seven starts and he’s allowed two goals or fewer in five straight.

Andreas Athanasiou scored twice Wednesday and he now has 13 points in his last 12 games. He’s also fired 19 SOG over the last four games.

David Pastrnak doesn’t have a point in either of the games without Patrice Bergeron around. Pastrnak’s great, but I’m a little concerned about this. He’ll still get his points, but I’m doubting it will continue at the superstar level without that line (with Brad Marchand) being complete.

Mike Hoffman is up to 17 straight games with at least one point. He did it with less than four minutes in the game. Oye. I’ve never owned him, but I remember in the summer saying I wouldn’t touch him with a ten-foot pole. Hopefully you didn’t listen to me.

But Louis Domingue and Steven Stamkos were the stories. Domingue stopped 40 of 43 shots and he’s actually faced 153 shots in his last four starts and yet he’s won three of them.

Stamkos had four points, which snapped a bit of a mini-funk for him. JT Miller (three points) was also in a slump, with just a point in five games heading in. Miller played with Stamkos and Yanni Gourde, while Nikita Kucherov was moved to a line with Brayden Point and Tyler Johnson.

Under the new coach, the Blues saw some line shuffling. Robert Thomas and Robby Fabbri played with Brayden Schenn. Thomas also saw the most ice time of the season, up over 19 minutes, and he scored the Blues’ only goal – the first of his career, set up by Schenn. This is his big chance to make a rookie impact and so far so good.

This really bothers me. Looking at the Top 10 scorers on the Ottawa Senators, Chris Tierney sits fourth with 18 points…yet he’s 10th in PP ice time per game among that group. And despite seeing the fewest minutes there, he’s still sixth in PPPts. So he’s getting it done, yet last night the likes of Bobby Ryan gets four minutes on the PP and Mikkel Boedker gets 3:27. Tierney just 1:50.

With three assists Wednesday, Mikael Granlund now has 22 points in his last 19 games.

After a couple of partial seasons, Cam Atkinson had 39 points in his first full NHL year, followed by 40 and then 53. After that he broke out to 62, but then was hurt the following year and produced similar numbers though in just 65 games. Now in Year 6 as a full-timer (Year 8 overall), he is on a point-per-game pace. Watching Vinnie Hinostroza a couple of times this season (and of course last year), and listening to what the local commentators say about him, as well as coaches, scouts and GMs over the years (I lock onto this stuff, put it in the vault, about all players – I devour this stuff and never seem to forget it which is why I don’t easily adjust my opinion in future years), I can’t help but feel that his career production will follow a similar path to Atkinson’s. A 40- or 45-point guy for a couple of years, mid-50’s in 2020-21, low- to mid-60s in 2021-22 and then upward from there if given the right linemates (which Atkinson has). If you’re patient with this player, I believe it will pay off.

Josh Mahura got some time on the PP for Anaheim and picked up his first point – an assist on the power play.

Max Comtois’ game with San Diego Wednesday marked the last one he is allowed to play there in his conditioning stint. The Ducks now have to decide if he plays in the NHL or goes back to junior hockey. No other option. Considering he has played 10 NHL games and activated his entry-level contract, my guess is that he is back in the NHL.

I’m panicking about Ilya Kovalchuk, but it’s too late. Nobody in my league wants him. Can’t even give him away. His ice time is down under the new coach, and that coach was quoted as saying he didn’t trust him in tight games in the third period, and called him a “power-play specialist”. So we have another Sam Gagner on our hands, folks.

Adrian Kempe left the game in the third period with an LBI and did not return.

The one game I didn’t comment on, of the 14 Wednesday, was the game that I was watching as I wrote these entire Ramblings – Winnipeg and Calgary. But I have nothing to say – nothing jumped out at me worth noting in fantasy hockey.

See you next Monday.

from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-rambling/ramblings-dobbers-thoughts-on-drouin-chytil-zacha-seabrook-howard-hinostroza-comtois-kovalchuk-and-so-many-morenov-22/

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Ramblings: Give Up Your Hats, Niederreiter is Back! (Jan 5)

As seems to happen every year, weather has intervened causing the postponement of the Panthers-Bruins game last night. We will have to wait and see when the makeup game is slotted for, but this has offered extra games for head-to-head playoffs for specific teams in the past. Last season the Hurricanes benefitted with a couple of five-game weeks.

The challenge is that because of the bye week that every team gets, the schedule is already jam packed in the second half. It’s near impossible to reschedule a game without forcing a team to play three nights in a row, an untenable proposition. A few years ago, we saw games rescheduled for the day after what was supposed to be the final day of league play. Reviewing the schedule for each team, this feels like the simplest means of getting that makeup game in.

The one slot in the schedule where both teams have a sufficient break and wouldn’t disrupt their established travel plans is Sunday, February 4. But it might be too soon to get the arena. The Celtics have a day game scheduled on that date. In any case, stay tuned for how it is rescheduled as there will be some advantage to be gained.

In the mean-time, this is good news for James Reimer owners. The Panthers have been riding him for 12 straight starts. He has been good, but got banged up against Minnesota both physically and on the scoresheet. An extra day off on the road doesn’t mean much, but it does prevent him from having to go back-to-back as the Panthers were scheduled to do. I’d look for a strong bounce-back game against Detroit tonight. After that, the schedule eases up with only three games before their bye week.

Rasmus Ristolainen was given ejected for interference with this hit on Mikko Koivu:

{source} <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Alternative angle: <a href="https://t.co/nurpLgKMkY">pic.twitter.com/nurpLgKMkY</a></p>— Giles Ferrell (@gilesferrell) <a href="https://twitter.com/gilesferrell/status/949095371178958848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2018</a></blockquote>

Interference? Nah. Hit to the head? There’s definitely contact, but he actually gets him in the chest first. This one is in that grey area where the hitter has to be able to avoid head contact, even though that’s an uncontrollable aspect at full speed. Eventually, players are going to go low more often, but that unfortunately means more blown out knees. It’s that, or open ice hits continue to die their slow death.

I don’t know what the correct answer is, but in terms of whether or not Ristolainen will face supplementary discipline, I don’t believe it will go beyond the game misconducted assessed in the game. Patrick Maroon got two games for a direct hit to the head on a player who really wasn’t eligible to be hit. There are a ton of circumstantial boxes that this doesn’t hit, but we shall see what the Department of Player Safety has to say.

Koivu, by the way, was bloodied but returned helping contribute to the onslaught against the Sabres with a goal and two assists.

Nino Niederreiter, meanwhile, contributed a hat-trick in his return from injury. The line of Koivu, Niederreiter and Mikael Granlund contributed nine points total. The Wild are a whole different animal if they’ve got this line rolling as an effective #1 unit, freeing up Eric Staal and Co. to feast on offensive zone starts and favourable matchups.

We’ll see if Niederreiter’s return gets this line going. His results have not been particularly spectacular, although with 14 power-play goals over the past two seasons you have to wonder if it’s time for the Wild to load up one unit, with Niederreiter on it.

I’m normally not one to get excited about a hockey fight, but when Nazem Kadri rips out a hunk of Joe Thornton’s beard I’ll tune in to the sideshow:

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Take my pop psychology for what you will, but I do believe in some positive value for a player like Kadri getting into a scrap, especially against someone so much larger, and especially given his scoring slump. Kadri scored a power-play goal later in the game, ending his 12-game scoreless drought. Kadri was going to turn it around eventually given his placement on the Leafs’ top PP unit and his general scoring prowess. I suspect him to continue scoring in that 50-60 -point range.

Kevin Labanc has been on a hot run, but with Logan Couture back, he has been shuffled to the third line and the second PP unit, so he’s back to waiver fodder in your average league, unless we see further changes.

Tomas Hertl has lingered on the second line and top PP unit, but is scoreless in five games. This could easily result in him getting moved down the lineup, however he has been a part of the turnaround their PP has seen over the last month. I suppose we just have to keep waiting for him to put it all together. Whatever the case, San Jose hits their bye week after Sunday’s trip to Winnipeg, so you’ll likely toss all your fringe Sharks overboard.

Aaron Dell spot start opportunity tonight! Don’t miss out. With Martin Jones going against the Leafs last night, we should expect Dell against the impotent Senators. Check GoaliePost to be sure. At this point spot starts from Dell or Carter Hutton are likely better than whatever your third goalie is offering up.

Hutton made his third straight start for the Blues, all victories. With St. Louis’ slumping scoring (which I discussed on Tuesday) they have leaned more heavily on their goaltending. Hutton has been a more consistent option and is all but guaranteed to start at least one of their next three games before hitting their bye next Wednesday due to this weekend’s back-to-back in Washington and Philadelphia. Whether or not you have room for Hutton is another story.

I don’t trust Hutton enough to give him a full-time spot on my roster, but I’m inching into that territory. He came into this season with a career .910 save percentage across 106 appearances, which maybe isn’t a large enough sample. He has an outrageous .944 save percentage in 13 appearances. Taken as a whole, his career save percentage is up to a sub-standard .914. I’d expect something closer to this going forward. All those caveats established, I have all the time in the world for a goaltender on a heater as long as I’m not expecting a long-term solution.

While he’s hot, you could deploy Hutton as a strong third option or even a #2 alongside a stud like Andrei Vasilevskiy or Sergei Bobrovsky and come out with elite goaltending. This is especially true in rotisserie leagues where you may not have weekly minimums requiring you to carry a more frequent starter.

All this goes for Dell as well. In fact, I feel much stronger about his talent and potential to steal Jones’ starting gig. Of course, anyone who had Jake Allen for the first half of last seasons knows how precarious his hold on the starting gig is.

By the way, regarding St. Louis’ offensive woes, they are now 3/38 on the power play since Jaden Schwartz went down. Hints of Columbus’ mid-season implosion here?

It doesn’t matter who the Islanders put in net, they just keep coughing up goals. They are the cheat code for daily fantasy. Simply plug John Tavares and then pile on a smattering of players off the team facing them that night. They are the only team that still sees it’s betting line at 6.0 goals, all other games have adapted back to the 5.5 goals over/under line now that scoring is back to the usual ~5.5 goals per game. Don’t just use this for daily fantasy, but also for streaming options off your waiver wire.

How long does this continue before the Islanders go shopping for a netminder? Who could they reasonably acquire? This situation is growing untenable, although I have to admit to enjoying the hell out of it. Halak and Greiss, the new Lehtonen/Niemi!

Last night, the Flyers got the Islander bump.

It was mostly the Flyers’ usual suspects who got in on the act, but they made a line change worth noting:

#1 24.1% PATRICK,NOLAN – SIMMONDS,WAYNE – WEAL,JORDAN

#2 16.5% FILPPULA,VALTTERI – RAFFL,MICHAEL – VORACEK,JAKUB

#3 15.7% COUTURIER,SEAN – GIROUX,CLAUDE – KONECNY,TRAVIS

#4 11.6% LAUGHTON,SCOTT – LEIER,TAYLOR – WEISE,DALE

Indeed, Wayne Simmonds was dropped to line three, but maintained his spot on the top PP unit, where he does most of his work. He scored a goal, and shouldn’t lose too much value dropping down to a different line. He saw an initial boost jumping onto the top line, but hasn’t done much beyond PP work for the past couple of weeks. He may as well be on the third line in that case.

Travis Konency is the latest Flyer looking to get the top line spark, and boy does he need it. Konecny does have four points in the last four games, but has been useless for fantasy owners all season. He had a goal and five shots last night. So far so good.

Ivan Provorov had a three-point night, but don’t think that this is where he gets going. He’s still behind Shayne Gostisbehere for PP time and the Flyers don’t have enough secondary scoring to push Provorov beyond a 40-point ceiling, which he may not even hit. Teams need to be elite to drive multiple defenders above that mark, especially with the prevalence of one-defenseman PP looks.

Brian Elliott started his 15th straight game. Only two games remain before their bye week. Can he hang on?

The Hurricanes suffocated the Penguins 4-0, getting a big performance out of Sebastian Aho who scored this beauty:

{source} <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sebastian Aho, my word <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Redvolution?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Redvolution</a> <a href="https://t.co/RKXMkX4ppi">pic.twitter.com/RKXMkX4ppi</a></p>— Stephen Laidlaw (@SteveLaidlaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveLaidlaw/status/949101703684612096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2018</a></blockquote>

Aho has 10 points in the last eight games, demanding to get back into the mix in all leagues.

Cam Ward and Jonathan Bernier both posted shutouts last night. I do not trust these goalies in the slightest.

Nick Ritchie claimed Devon Shore’s spot on Dallas’ top power play unit, netting a goal. He appears to have all the tools necessary to be a demon in this spot. We’ll see if he sticks. Shore did maintain his spot alongside Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn at even strength, however.

Just throwing this out there:

{source} <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It was incredibly savvy of Ryan Kesler to wait until they stopped calling slashing to make his return to the lineup: <a href="https://t.co/tNgcHq6Xza">pic.twitter.com/tNgcHq6Xza</a></p>— Stephen Laidlaw (@SteveLaidlaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveLaidlaw/status/949139337366532096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2018</a></blockquote>

Some indications that Jaromir Jagr may be retiring, or shutting it down:

{source} <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gulutzan suggests Lazar in tonight and he will have an update on Jagr tomorrow. Starting to wonder if the update might suggest the “experiment” may soon come to an end. Just wondering. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Flames?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Flames</a></p>— Roger Millions (@RogMillions) <a href="https://twitter.com/RogMillions/status/948981377730412544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2018</a></blockquote>

As fans, this would suck, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it led to one last hurrah for Jagr at the Olympics. I’d also expect him to continue playing back home in the Czech Republic. Either way, Jagr hasn’t been fantasy relevant all season. Whether or not he does retire, not much changes on that front, other than that Calgary will continue to look for right wing solutions.

The Flames called up Marek Hrivik from the AHL, but he did not get into the lineup last night. I don’t have much enthusiasm for this call up. While Hrivik has scored at a point-per-game pace in the AHL this season, I don’t like that it took him until his age-26 season to reach this level. He is very much a fringe prospect in my books. It’s not that he can’t be an NHL player, but rather I don’t expect him to have much in the way of fantasy value. Read more about Hrivik here.

After being rumoured to be available for the past couple of weeks Anthony Duclair has officially requested a trade. I discussed Duclair’s potential last week:

Duclair scored 2.0 points/60 at 5-on-5 through his first 99 games in the NHL as a 19-20 -year-old. Impressive stuff, but he has fallen off in the last two seasons with Arizona. How much can we attribute to growing pains, and a bad environment? Last season was a total write off. This season, he’s up to 1.56 points/60, which is okay. He is shooting at the highest rate of his career. I definitely think there’s potential for Duclair, but I want to see him get back to 2.0 points/60 before considering him truly intriguing.

If he can’t score at a good rate as a lower-line player, he doesn’t stand much chance of getting elevated to a spot in the lineup where he can gain relevance, so we are talking two hurdles here, not one.

I always wonder who benefits from this information getting out. Duclair’s name has been on the block for a while. Either the player is trying to light a fire under the team, or someone in the organization wants to pass the buck for the situation not working out onto the player. Either way, it seems to me that the Coyotes have had little luck in drumming up interest. I can’t imagine this request helps them get a deal done. How many times have we seen it take over a year for a trade to go down after such a request? This news will only further diminish Duclair’s foundering trade value.

He did, however, score a goal last night. There’s hope!

Some promising news here for those who have stock in Kirill Kaprizov:

{source} <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Update: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mnwild?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#mnwild</a> GM Chuck Fletcher is currently flying back from Moscow, says he had good meetings with both Kaprizov and Svetlakov. <br><br>It’s the first time the Wild has sat down with both prospects</p>— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) <a href="https://twitter.com/RussoHockey/status/948725357435412481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2018</a></blockquote>

For what it’s worth, this was clarified to indicate that this was the first time that Wild GM Chuck Fletcher had met with these two, not that it was the first time the Wild had met with them.

Kaprizov is still years away from coming to North America, but at least they are opening a dialogue.

The interesting part of all of this is that Fletcher is in the last year of his contract, and may not still be with the Wild by the time Kaprizov’s KHL deal is up. This news is still positive, but there are so many wrinkles to this situation.

Thanks for reading! You can follow me on Twitter @SteveLaidlaw.

from All About Sports http://www.dobberhockey.com/hockey-rambling/ramblings-give-up-your-hats-niederreiter-is-back-jan-5/

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