Vadim Kai

Building and getting new products to market at @AMD. Hockey player 🏒. #RollTide 🐘.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

#shuckershockey #austinoysterco

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People-watching at the Bastrop Buc-ee’s, it’s like someone drop-shipped Silicon Valley straight into rural Texas for the sight tour.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

https://t.co/JcHh6JiaAg

[Brad Elliott Schlossman @SchlossmanGF]

Michigan State vs. North Dakota. The most first-round draft picks ever to play in a college hockey game. On Halloween. In Austin, Texas.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

@SchlossmanGF It's all great and I'll be there but what's with $300+ tickets on @Stubhub for a college hockey game?

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

@seanshapiro Any word on which cities are the lead candidates to host U18 next year?

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@barstoolsports Bring @NHL to Austin, TX already!

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@seanshapiro With so many injuries to the key players I don't think the Stars were objectively a top-3 team in the Western Conference going into the playoffs. This was a second stage exit team at best, even if they got matched against someone other than Wild or Avs in the first round.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

Not really. When you talk about the Stars of the last 3 years, the depth of the squad is the first thing that comes to mind: 3 equally good lines. This time around it was anything but: starting center is out, Seguin hole was not filled, Rantanen is playing visibly injured, Lundkvist injured... Every line has a yesterday's AHLer on it, and no matter how amazing the Stars are at developing talent, that's just too many AHLers for the playoff squad. Myers and Benn have been atrocious. Harley couldn't get going. A perfect storm.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

@seanshapiro @stoopidsportfan You said it all in this article. He was arguably the worst Stars player this series, and that "one more year" was so unnecessary.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

The current (arguably) best 15-year old hockey player in the world is born and raised in Round Rock, TX was not on my bingo card. https://t.co/1aWoK0wxT8

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

Fun fact: a hockey player designed this beauty. https://t.co/niVHTYHiXW

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

"After starting to play hockey in Austin, playing up against 10U competition as an 8-year-old, he started playing for the Dallas Stars Elite, making the seven-hour, round-trip drive four days a week from Central Texas to Dallas." A proof that if you are born in Texas and serious about playing hockey for living in the future you only have 2 alternatives: 1. Move to Dallas 2. Join a travel team... But probably only the first option makes sense. A second team wouldn't hurt.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

@christogrozev Based on the number of Russian tourists on my last trip to Japan, Russian economy is doing just fine. At least the Moscow part of it.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

“Let’s take a @tesla robotaxi!” - I suggested to a friend from out of town who had never been in a self-driving car before. Shortly after we were stuck at a broken stoplight in East Austin, a left turn light would never turn green. After about five minutes of sitting there with zero movement, and a few cars angrily passing us from behind, it was pretty clear we could be sitting there all night as the car was just patiently waiting for the turn signal to turn. The funny part was the lady in the front seat wasn’t allowed to do anything to help us. So we had to call tech support and wait until they logged in and moved the car for us by hand. A 7-minute ride turned into a 25-minute ordeal. Needless to say, my friend wasn’t really sold on the whole thing. Not saying this issue is unique to @robotaxi, I’m curious how a @waymo car would handle the same situation. Growing pains.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

A typical night in Dotonbori, streets crawling with tourists, bars filled with students and young professionals, grabbing dinner and drinks after work… And then there was this man, quietly sitting in a dimly lit alley. And it’s him I remember the most from my trip to Osaka.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

If only the box office had been as appreciative of original stories as it has been of sequels and remakes... It's been one of the major topics at South by for the past couple of years now. Success stories like Sinners and KPop Demon Hunters remain major outliers. And then there's a whole topic of distribution/discovery...

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@seanshapiro I'd be surprised if it isn't so already. I've always felt that the whole point of playing at DIII school for anyone with professional hockey career aspirations was to bide your time, playing against decent competition, and make a jump to DI once the opening becomes available.

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@Buccigross Why don't you go watch Mr. Nobody documentary before writing such stupid things? I heard it won an Oscar the other day or what not. Fun fact, this movie doesn't exist in the Russian media, like at all.

[Vadim Kai @vaddykai]

@seanshapiro Jim should at least inquire about trading for Nikishin.