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  1. 4 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Who says we are outplaying them?  We’re not. 

    Studio host on Bally. The guy with Sevy.

    5 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    What a soft ass goal to give up there. We have 1 period to save our season. 

    Yeah, it’s one you’ve got to stop at this time of the season. Period.

  2. 2/3 of the goals were off the rush. Third goal was just a throw on net and see what happens goal (which isn’t a bad play considering Thompson looks shaky). Like I said in my previous post, Dallas’ issue was not being able to set up any offense in the Vegas zone. Dallas plays great when they cycle the puck but they weren’t able to do that in game 1. Vegas totally shut down their side of the ice by blocking shots and quickly exiting the zone. I will also say, while Jason Robertson is a nice player, that kid needs to toughen the fuck up and go win a few puck battles. Would love to see more greasy play out of him. 

    That’s been my quibble with him. Great regular season player but can’t be counted on in the playoffs (yet!) when you’ve got bite and scratch for goals when the rink shrinks.
  3. I was shocked you guys didn't go after better goaltending at some point during the season. No way you're going to win a Cup with Wedgewood stepping in for a slumping Otter.
     

    Wedgewood is a terrible backup on a team as good as the Stars. Amazed we didn’t upgrade at that spot last summer.
  4. Dude he was bad last night. This was mid season Otter. He must be better or we won’t get out of this series. 

    I had to go back and find last year’s Stars postseason thread to remind myself where I got the advanced stat “report cards” and reading some of those comments by us was interesting. Otter was not very good in last year’s playoffs either (he allowed 4+ goals in seven of 19 starts). Then he struggled quite a bit with his form this season until the last month or so. Not a good trend.
  5. 26 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    She looked and sounded like someone having an episode of that sort. Off the chain and off her rocker. What was Biden doing in 1998? Being a Senator in DC with no reason to frequent women's dressing rooms at department stores, I would imagine.

    She thinks she's being clever. I think Trump raped E Jean Carroll at Bergdorf? Did it happen in a dressing room? Was it 26 years ago? I know she was fuzzy on the timeline and MAGA jumped all over that fact.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:

    Never. This is what the whole lawsuit about his compensation pointed out - the board is beholden to him in way more of a way than they should be. They are all in on him.

     

    If this was a rational BOD, they would have ejected him when he bough twitter.

    Can the shareholders not revolt and replace the board/Elon when they feel the value of their investment is at risk? Or does Elon own too much Tesla stock for that? (I'm a market moron, BTW, and did not stay in a Holiday Inn last night.)

  7. 31 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    considering his penchant for banging porn stars I'd bet it's more likely than not that he has at least one illegitimate child

    And how many has he aborted along the way.

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  8. Stars' Game 1 analytics. Suter, Marchment, Benn, Seguin and Stankoven were DAL's top five skaters last night according to this. Lundkvist, Miro, Roope, Pavs and Harley were the bottom five skaters (with Harley being last). Otter was our worst "graded" player. He was not good but I'm not sure he was worse than Harley or even Roope.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

    We just dominated possession, but Vegas was really good last night at just not allowing us any space.  I don't remember them being that good defensively, even last season.

    Top line was complete ass.  

    The fact that Vegas went six-deep (at least) in the d-corps is pretty much the #1 reason Vegas won the Cup last year. They're big, bad and good. It was mentioned several times last night that even this year Vegas is the #1 team in the NHL in limiting shots from the slot. They pack it in there with these huge d-men and make you do something about it.

    I take a little solace in the fact that we looked better equipped to attack Vegas in the second half of the game but the Knights were pretty much playing a typical, defend-a-2-goal lead on the road for the final 30+ mins.

     

    1 hour ago, Skipper said:

    They pretty much doubled us up in hits.  It was pretty damn clear in the arena that Vegas came to play playoff hockey from the puck drop. Obviously that will never be the Stars style and we don't have their size but I was rooting for someone to risk a boarding call just to send a statement.   The start from the Stars seemed similar to the Mavs game where they thought they could just ease into the playoffs.  We played better as the game wore on and advanced stats had it as pretty much a 50/50 game from an expected goals perspective but obviously need a better start on Weds.   Also, special teams was supposed to be a big Stars advantage in this series statistically and that clearly didn't play out last night.   

    But yeah - I definitely recall losing game 1 at home to both MN and Seattle last year then playing much better game 2.  Hopefully that repeats.

    Vegas isn't going to be deterred by something like that and as you mention, it's not really our style.

  10. So, it was kicked around on this thread -- or maybe another -- what happens with SS detail if the orange dipshit goes to jail, soon for breaking gag order or later if he's convicted. Well, the SS goes to jail too!

    https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/23/could-trump-go-to-prison-if-he-does-the-secret-service-goes-too/

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    The U.S. Secret Service is in the business of protecting the president, whether he’s inside the Oval Office or visiting a foreign war zone.

    But protecting a former president in prison? The prospect is unprecedented. That would be the challenge if Donald J. Trump — whom the agency is required by law to protect around the clock — is convicted at his criminal trial in Manhattan and sentenced to serve time.

    Even before the trial’s opening statements, the Secret Service was in some measure planning for the extraordinary possibility of a former president behind bars. Prosecutors had asked the judge in the case to remind Mr. Trump that attacks on witnesses and jurors could land him in jail even before a verdict is rendered.

    (The judge, who is holding a hearing Tuesday to discuss whether Mr. Trump should be held in contempt for violating a gag order, is far more likely to issue a warning or impose a fine before taking the extreme step of jailing the 77-year-old former president.)

    Last week, as a result of the prosecution’s request, officials with federal, state and city agencies had an impromptu meeting about how to handle the situation, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

    That behind-the-scenes conversation — involving officials from the Secret Service and other relevant law enforcement agencies — focused only on how to move and protect Mr. Trump if the judge were to order him briefly jailed for contempt in a courthouse holding cell, the people said.

    The far more substantial challenge — how to safely incarcerate a former president if the jury convicts him and the judge sentences him to prison rather than home confinement or probation — has yet to be addressed directly, according to some of a dozen current and former city, state and federal officials interviewed for this article.

    That’s at least in part because if Mr. Trump is ultimately convicted, a drawn-out and hard-fought series of appeals, possibly all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, is almost a certainty. That would most likely delay any sentence for months if not longer, said several of the people, who noted that a prison sentence was unlikely.

    But the daunting challenge remains. And not just for Secret Service and prison officials, who would face the logistical nightmare of safely incarcerating Mr. Trump, who is also the presumptive Republican nominee for President.

    “Obviously, it’s uncharted territory,” said Martin D. Horn, who has worked at the highest levels of New York’s and Pennsylvania’s state prison agencies and served as commissioner of New York City’s correction and probation departments. “Certainly no state prison system has had to deal with this before, and no federal prison has had to either.”

    Steven Cheung, the communications director for Mr. Trump’s campaign, said the case against the former president was “so spurious and so weak” that other prosecutors had refused to bring it, and called it “an unprecedented partisan witch hunt.”

    “That the Democrat fever dream of incarcerating the nominee of the Republican Party has reached this level exposes their Stalinist roots and displays their utter contempt for American democracy,” he said.

    Protecting Mr. Trump in a prison environment would involve keeping him separate from other inmates, as well as screening his food and other personal items, officials said. If he were to be imprisoned, a detail of agents would work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, rotating in and out of the facility, several officials said. While firearms are obviously strictly prohibited in prisons, the agents would nonetheless be armed.

    Former corrections officials said there were several New York state prisons and city jails that have been closed or partly closed, leaving wings or large sections of their facilities empty and available. One of those buildings could serve to incarcerate the former president and accommodate his Secret Service protective detail.

    Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, declined in a statement to discuss specific “protective operations.” But he said that federal law requires Secret Service agents to protect former presidents, adding that they use state-of-the-art technology, intelligence and tactics to do so.

    Thomas J. Mailey, a spokesman for New York State’s prison agency, said his department couldn’t speculate about how it would treat someone who has not yet been sentenced, but that it has a system “to assess and provide for individuals’ medical, mental health and security needs.” Frank Dwyer, a spokesman for the New York City jails agency, said only that “the department would find appropriate housing” for the former president.

    The trial in Manhattan, one of four criminal cases pending against Mr. Trump and possibly the only one that will go to a jury before the election, centers on accusations he falsified records to cover up a sex scandal involving a porn star. The former president is charged with 34 counts of felony falsifying business records. If convicted, the judge in the case, Juan M. Merchan, could sentence him to punishments ranging from probation to four years in state prison, though for a first-time offender of Mr. Trump’s age, such a term would be extreme.

    If Mr. Trump is convicted, but elected president again, he could not pardon himself because the prosecution was brought by New York State.

    Under normal circumstances, any sentence of one year or less, colloquially known as “city time,” would generally be served on New York City’s notorious Rikers Island, home to the Department of Correction’s seven jails. (That’s where Mr. Trump’s former chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, 76, is currently serving his second five-month sentence for crimes related to his work for his former boss.)

    Any sentence of more than a year, known as state time, would generally be served in one of the 44 prisons run by New York State’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

    The former president could also be sentenced to a term of probation, raising the bizarre possibility of the former commander in chief reporting regularly to a civil servant at the city’s Probation Department.

    He would have to follow the probation officer’s instructions and answer questions about his work and personal life until the term of probation ended. He would also be barred from associating with disreputable people, and if he committed any additional crimes, he could be jailed immediately.

     

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