StatsGuy Ry

Can we zoom out for a second to take a moment to appreciate the wagon of a run the NHL and hockey has been on in the last 6 months… Aside from a crazy playoff race that has 12+ teams fighting for only a couple spots with 8 games or less to go and only 2 have officially punched their ticket we’ve had, in no particular order: > #MNWild blockbuster Quinn Hughes trade > NHL returning to the Olympics > Art Ross sprint 🐐 #LetsGoOilers McDavid #GoBolts Kucherov #GoAvsGo MacKinnon All 120+ points and only separated by a couple > #CBJ from bottom the league into a current playoff spot under Rick Bowness > McKenna KO’s a dude for chirping his family, only to solidify himself as the #1 pick > #Sabrehood legendary run after firing GM, hits 100 points and will make the playoffs for the first time since 2011 > #Isles Matthew Schaefer rewriting the record books in his rookie season > #Vegasborn axe Bruce Cassidy with 8 games left while 3rd in the pacific > cue Torts!! > Mega Central arms race that will most likely see #MNWild or #TexasHockey knocked out in 1st round > #LeafsForever in shambles - part ways with Treliving a couple hours before the #FlyTogether Gudas rematch Where do the Leafs go from here? Re-tool, re-build, AI, burn it to the ground, Doug Armstrong in the mix? Nylander, Matthews: stay or go… 🍿 > @spittinchiclets x @netflix > #TheFutureIsTeal Macklin Celebrini hits 100 points > #ALLCaps Ovechkin with a casual 30-goal season and taking 73 games before his first d-zone start of the season > #LetsGoPens Sid with another point per game season and playoff appearance > #GoHabsGo Caufield only 3 goals away 50 > NHL insiders beefin’ with online doctors > 3 goalie fights That’s baseball @J_Swish24 @heatdaddy69420 What else am I missing??

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StatsGuy Ry

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3 months ago

@frank_seravalli Brad is a beauty. Got to know him well during the bubble in Edmonton. Very well respected among players and teams. Incredible career.

StatsGuy Ry

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3 months ago

@RingOfFireCGY Stats guy nightmare fuel

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3 months ago

@MikeGrinnell_ @GameNotesBud Rough call by the pxp announcer

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Aakash Gupta

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4 months ago

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

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4 months ago

Hard to believe that was Nikita Kucherov’s first career shorthanded goal #GoBolts > 3 points tonight after 2 periods > 5th straight 3+ point road game (NHL record: 6 games by Lemieux in 1992-93)