Jedi

Problem is no one is utilizing it properly right now. Just like the Wii. It has such potential. But in addition to the problems above, no one is making fun games that use it. I could go on and on but I'm supposed to be working right now lol. I'll just say that I envision a good combination of controllers and motion sensing. Let me hold a controller while playing Halo, and sway my body to peek around a corner. Something like that. Give me a reason to bark orders. I think part of the blame lies in the fact that gaming is hugely so risk-averse. The big guys with the moolah only want cookie cutter games in terms of creativity. I don't think it's that we can't, but that those who can aren't allowed. Hence why indie gaming is bursting at the seams ready to blow, if it isn't already.

Mass Effect 3 was a game advertised as "Better with Kinect" in much the same way, that you could bark orders like "grenade" or "Kaden, go here", etc.  While I'll agree it's a great concept, the problem was that it was so poorly implemented that the delay between issuing the order and it's execution bordered on laughable.

Much easier to use the controller to throw the grenade or issue the order with one button than to issue the order and wait 3 seconds before the system realizes it was supposed to do something...

http://online.wsj.co...3574597722.html

More videos here.  Watch the first "Cell phone" video, and listen with speakers/headphones.

In unrelated news, I'm flying to Russia to try and lift Mjolnir.  Wish me luck!

"Paging Mr. Burke.  Mr. Brian Burke, please pick up the white courtesy phone."

Knew this had to happen sooner or later.  However, without being able to open up the coffers, I'm not sure how much difference it might make.

A little off topic...

 

Wonder if any "leaks" will take place for the Winter Classic jerseys?

 

I'm guessing they were designed, and probably a good number of them made this past fall with the hope that the CBA would've been completed prior to it's cancelation.

Saw a story on Icethetics about how someone was able to get pictures of player shirts that were made for the now-cancelled W.C.

All speculation, of course, since nothing official was released by either team, nor the NHL.

Hey guys,

It's probably best to leave discussion of why we do/don't like Family Guy for the Water Cooler, at the very least.  I understand that the subject matter makes it easy to wander into that realm of discussion, but people's like or dislike of that show is often rooted in political or religious viewpoints, which generally aren't approved content here on LGW.

If you want to discuss such things in PM's, you're more than welcome to.  But at the very least, they don't really pertain to hockey discussion, so it would be best to leave them off the boards "at-large".

Good help is so hard to find.

Hey, you get what you pay for. And I've yet to receive a paycheck from anyone here on LGW...

To quote the great Jayne Cobb from Firefly...  

Ten percent of nothing is—let me do the math here. Nothing into nothin'. Carry the nothin'...

For those who posted in my previous "Pre-GDT" thread, I'm sorry, but your posts were deleted, and it's completely my fault.  

I can't merge those posts into this thread without bumping Hockeytown0001's post down (due to the timestamp on the posts).  I think we all can agree that since he works so hard on the graphics on these GDT's, he deserves to have his work featured at the very top of this thread.

So Euro_Twins, Ram, and stevieisthebest, My apologies for your now-missing posts.  And sorry for the confusion to anyone else who's wondering what the heck is going on around here.

Fraser certainly wasn't perfect in his days as a ref but even his worst day meets or exceeds some of the guys they got now.  And Bill McCreary is sorely missed on the ice.

This x100. I always respected Bill McCreary above all others. You may not have liked the fact that he nailed one of our players for a penalty, but there was never a doubt in my mind that it was the right call.

Goodness, I hope he's ok.  Never want to see a player get injured, much less as badly as this looks.

Absolutely the right call to make.

I'll take the two points, but I definitely feel that the bad penalty call cost the Blues their chance in that game.  Over the course of a full season, though, I have no doubt the Blues will be on the better end of questionable calls.

Glad the NHL realized their mistake, and made sure that Backes doesn't get an undeserved black mark on his record.

20 years ago today, Gary Bettman officially took office as the first NHL Commissioner.
 
http://www.nytimes.c...mmissioner.html
 

The first week of the shortest month of the year offers professional hockey a rare share of the American sports spotlight. Football is finally finished, and the baseball players won't report for spring training for another couple of weeks. The sports news media poke their collective heads above ground, see Charles Barkley's shadow and realize there are six more weeks of college basketball until the Final Four.
 
So the stage was set yesterday (February 1st, 1993) at National Hockey League headquarters in Manhattan, where Gary Bettman took office as the first commissioner in the league's 76-year history.

 
The traditional gift for a 20th anniversary is china.  Maybe if we pool our money together, we can buy him a (one way) ticket TO China?

*edit* Props to the author of that story for the Charles Barkley one-liner.

The issue is we have 7 guys on 1 way contracts and Smith who is 2 way but isn't going back to the minors because a.  he shouldn't and b. won't clear waivers.  We are going to either lose a guy on waivers or Kenny has to make a trade.

 
Whether a contract is "one way" or "two way" has no bearing on a player's waiver eligibility.  That only determines the salary that player is paid, depending on where he's playing.  Best explanation of that (and the entire Waiver Eligibility process) I've found for that is here... 
 

Do 1-Way and 2-Way contracts effect Waivers?
 
Simply put, no they do not. This is a common misconception. 1-way and 2-way contracts have nothing to do with waivers. They are for salary purposes between the AHL and NHL. The confusion is understandable, most players with 2-way contracts are waiver exempt because of the reasons above. Most players on 1-way contracts aren’t waiver exempt. Just keep in mind that the chart above is the only thing that determines a players waiver status.

 
For what it's worth, Lashoff is on a two way contract too, but it doesn't matter since his salary is only $523k this year (he'd make $50k if he's playing in GR).  I believe that Lash is waiver exempt, too.

Oops.  My bad. 

 

Ummmmmmmmm....................... Nystrom is unfinished business for having the last five letters in his last name in common with two guys that just retired, both of whom Tootoo would have been honoured to play with.

Can't believe that thought hadn't entered my mind yet...

...oh wait, yeah I can.