Brandon Schamp

Biology Professor, Algoma University
Interested in competitive dynamics, statistics, sports.

In Spock vs. Kirk, I nearly always choose Spock.

Views are my own

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@WatchMyReview It was Shanahan's idea that they just needed as many post-season chances and one time they'd break through that led them down that path. Obviously looking back, the plan was wrong.

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@WatchMyReview They could have surrounded the core much better with good young players if they weren't also obsessed with keeping own-rentals and using draft picks to get vets and then signing vets. In the rearview, it was a huge error.

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@Rainmaker1973 Nobody who wants to be in charge is allowed to be in charge.

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@RepDonBacon Can you add variance to these graphs? I'm genuinely interested.

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@WatchMyReview His blind spot for Berube persists

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@GamblerNine @logopatt I'd have been fine if Pelley had told us the good things he hears. Seems obvious!

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@WatchMyReview I agree with you most of the time, but the issue with that press conference is that it got that way because Pelley was evasive with answering the obvious question and reporters kept pressing. The issue was Pelley.

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@NightShiftMD @simmonssteve I know! and why wouldn't be be prepared to answer that!?! If he did the 'deep dive' he said he did, he would have heard that many didn't think much of Chayka.

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@mirtle What did the press conference tell you about Pelley? It suggested to many, myself included, that he didn't have a good explanation for his hiring of Chayka. He says he did a deep dive and felt good, but didn't articulate what good things he heard.

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@mirtle Was Pelley telling the truth when he said Tie Domi wasn't involved at all and that the Search firm didn't represent Chayka?

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@Arunthings @TLNdc Wow, so he doesn't know Cassidy is available?

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@JeffVeillette Agreed. Dismissive answers are given by people who don't have good answers. The question was good, but framed terribly. Everyone wanted to know why the Leafs thought everyone who didn't hire Chayka over the last six years were wrong.

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Hoped the Leafs would poach one of the best or go with a bit of an innovative President like Gillis with a strong and promising AGM from elsewhere taking the GM spot. This was...not what I expected.

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This is a really tough question to ask, but just a terrible answer.

[Rink Rat Report @RinkRatReport]

Steve Simmonds’ question to Keith Pelley about John Chayka

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Microplastics and nanoplastics were found in 100% of healthy brains, 99.4% of diseased brains, with much higher concentrations adjacent to brain tumors
https://t.co/8BDxeOtXJr

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This is foolish and simple minded. We can't do our own research for many things. I have a PhD and I can't understand many different kinds of research. What he's not saying here is that we're not trusting experts, we're trusting the process they've used. It's essential.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

RFK Jr: "We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism."

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@WatchMyReview I always wonder about this. I mean, every single one of those guys have never cared about anything as much as they care about hockey. Seems unlikely this is about not caring.

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@mirtle So Berube apparently was involved with picking players to target. And yet Pelley doesn't seem to recognize that not only is Berube getting terrible results, but he didn't know enough about skillsets to help target players for his own system! It's lunacy to keep him in there.

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If Pelley really claims that the goal is to be evidence-based, Berube shouldn't still be coach. He doesn't need an expert GM or President to tell him.

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but its not a coaching issue lol