Brind'Amour is correct ... you could name the award after Slavin. He's the very model of the criteria.
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Brind'Amour is correct ... you could name the award after Slavin. He's the very model of the criteria.
That’s completely missing the point.
Nobody here said he’s lying but he’s making the only statement about it he can really make. It might be 100% true. But since he can’t really say anything negative about it or publicly expressing concern then it might be less than 100% true.
Just like RBA. Everything he’s said up til after he signed the new contract was he ONLY wants to coach here. But after he signed his comments seemed to indicate that he may have a desire to coach somewhere else in the right circumstances- and he was glad it didn’t get to that point. But just weeks before he said he wasn’t worried about it, it would get done etc. which it turns out wasn’t 100% true or maybe not 100% complete, but was also the only comment he could really make.
Doesn’t mean we think he’s lying so much as the range of comments he can make about it are severely restricted.
ThinIce
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Thanks to all of you who provided your thoughts on streaming services. Signed up for YouTube TV this morning and cancelled my U-verse!
I made the point in the first place, so ...
You don’t have a monopoly on the points.
You made a post. Someone replied expressing the opinion that you can’t just believe what they say in the media. You criticized their reply. Your critique missed the point that’s all. Keep arguing though, it suits you.I’m trying to convince my wife to do the same. It’s a losing battle, despite her constant complaint that our bill is too high. Were you using U-verse for internet too? If so, who did you switch to?
Nah ... I'll just keep calling out people making up opinions out of whole cloth and presuppositions. That's my beef whether you guys understand where I'm coming from or not.You don’t have a monopoly on the points.
ThinIce
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We had the full AT&T bundle - wireless cell service, internet and U-Verse TV. When they raised our U-verse bill by $21 per month a few weeks ago, it was the final straw for us. Cable TV works great, but it's ridiculously overpriced. I don't lose U-verse until June 10, so I'll have an opportunity to see how YouTube TV stacks up - but it's an incredible cost savings. Now that the bundle is broken, we may investigate whether it makes sense to switch our cell and internet service, too. But that's not a priority.
Yeah, I've had pretty good success keeping cell and internet separate from TV ... but there's too many ways to slice it up to ever really make sure it's always the lowest price combo. Sadly, we're in an era with an ever changing environment for this stuff. Staying flexible (contract free) is more important than ever.
I’ve only ever had Verizon for cell service and that’s not changing, they keep my future daughter-in-law employed. If I drop U-verse, I don’t want to move to Spectrum cable, from the posts I see on the NextDoor hell site, they have a lot of outages, even while my AT&T service is uninterrupted.
ThinIce
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You can drop U-verse and keep your AT&T internet. That's what I'm doing. Our AT&T internet comes with HBO Max, so that's a benefit. Take a look at the streaming options - I was focused on Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV, both of which provide about 80-100 live channels for less than $78/mo. When I signed up for YTTV today, there was a special low price of $52 for the first 3 months.
ThinIce
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No, it isn't part of the package - but you can add ESPN+ to your streaming apps if you want.
The full Lady Byng voting is below. Slaving had more votes than 2nd and 3rd combined. Turbo was 18th, Jarvis was 20th with 1 first place vote, Guentzel was t-37, Aho was t-57, Burns was t-64 and Staal was t-71.
View: https://x.com/mdefranks/status/1796315837525111214?s=61&t=ZT8KDHkGMyk7V3JAuh5_ag
View: https://x.com/mdefranks/status/1796315837525111214?s=61&t=ZT8KDHkGMyk7V3JAuh5_ag
HeyKurtz
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LOL...your son mentioned this conversation to me at the end of one of our meetings yesterday!
Also, in response to other subsequent comments in this thread...
I kept Spectrum internet when I dropped cable and it has worked really well. Spectrum, however, raised my price a few months later and I'm strongly considering switching my internet to AT&T Fiber, which was just laid down in my neighborhood and should be available in the next month or two.
cmaleski2
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Wow, that type of landslide makes Slavin a likely candidate to win it again.
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That’s as big a margin as Barkov in the Selke voting.
Yup, and both of them seem a bit inevitable to keep that momentum given how the NHL voter pool handles those two awards.
cmaleski2
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At some point they are going to give Auston Matthews the Lady Bing award at least once, if only as a consolation for not winning the Hart or Selke despite being worthy of both awards.
As Brind'Amour said, Slavin is almost the exact definition of the Lady Bing criteria. This is sort of his consolation for never really being considered for the Norris. Cool as it is for Slavin to be as good as he is while being 'gentlemanly' it would be better to me if he, once in a while, wasn't so gentlemanly. It's always such a stunner when he runs into someone with force.
As Brind'Amour said, Slavin is almost the exact definition of the Lady Bing criteria. This is sort of his consolation for never really being considered for the Norris. Cool as it is for Slavin to be as good as he is while being 'gentlemanly' it would be better to me if he, once in a while, wasn't so gentlemanly. It's always such a stunner when he runs into someone with force.