Their top end is still stacked, McDavid, Dreisitel, Bouchard among others. Their problems though haven't really been addressed: goaltending still seems like a problem (unless Devon Levi turns out better than expected) and depth. They definitely haven't been looking good defensively so far I would say. How Babcock turns out is anyones guess. I would never count them out, but in my book they are not the favorites.

Depending on mid-season moves, injuries and how form develops many of the same teams as last year were good probably continue so + Florida. Montreal will be very interesting if they take another step forward.

You say it like it would be the same people or even the same departments working on these. Of course, you could fire a lot of the marketing/partnership department abd hire more engineers but that's a huge undertaking and not something you can undo easily.

Oh yeah, Finland has never lost to one of the not large hockey countries at the Olympics ever so. And the 11-0 win over Italy was convincing. (Not sure if Slovakia is counted to those or if that was the first)

Anywho, it's unclear for me still where the take about the rough Olympics came from. One bad game and otherwise quite successful.

Hmm, do you mean the Slovakia game? Yeah that wasn't great. But the win against Sweden and Italy were solid.

I wouldn't call bronze medal behind the two largest hockey nations in the world while missing Finlands best player rough? Also, they really challenged Canada in their match.

Seems Meier got a 1 gamw suspension afterwards, so misses the semi-final

Would be interested to see with data for a few newer years, if the trend has continued similar to pre-covid or not.

The whole division playoff format is just dumb... Like DAL-MIN is a ridiculous match up for the first round. They should play 1-8 or even, I know crazy, 1-16.

Pakko sanoo et se olis kyllä aivan kamala ajos aurinko laskis joskus yhden ja kahden välissä keskitalvella täällä etelässä. Näkisin mieluummin kesäajan vuoden ympäri ihan et sais enemmän aurinkoa elämään.

The blog is 14 years ago, do we feel this has been accomplished? I feel like Julia could be a great language for all science based development, but it hasn't really grown to any significant size which is unfortunate. This is the major blocker for using it it feels like, I tried to do advent of code and even googling simple or elementary things was challenging.

Eihän se oikein ole realistista siirtyä takaisin käteiseen enää, se määrä infra mikä riippuu digitaalista maksuista vaan kasvaa jatkuvasti. Tietenkin käteinen toimisi kriisitilanteessa kun tarvitsee välttämättömyyksiä mutta kaikissa muissa tapauksissa sä häiritsisi normaalia toimintaa todella paljon.

This is good predictions to be honest. But you never knlw with the Tkachuks!