OT: Bullshitting at the Barbershop

[jstewismybastardson]

 

[Comeds]

I ordered two new Habs jerseys. The #21 Nate Thompson jersey came in today. Fits and looks great!

The Stumptown one should be here Tuesday. My way of combining my new favorite show with my favorite NHL team!

 

[forty_three]

Who here uses NHL.TV?

I have been a center ice customer for a long time but am about to cut the cord. Just wondering what it's like, how good is it? HD picture? Any streaming issues?

Are games blacked out?

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Who here uses NHL.TV?

I have been a center ice customer for a long time but am about to cut the cord. Just wondering what it's like, how good is it? HD picture? Any streaming issues?

Are games blacked out?

I think this is my third year using it.

Quality of your home internet definitely makes a difference. Whatever compression method it uses is nowhere near as good as some other services like Netflix. Which is to say that the quality breaks down much more easily than on Netflix, so it's clearly not buffering as well (to be fair, I'm sure Netflix' backbone is much higher quality than NHL's).

I upgraded my router last year to a Netgear Nighthawk AC1750 (from an 8-ish year old router) and it made a big difference. Quality is perfect now on a 2018 Roku Ultra on the 5Ghz network channel.

As for blackouts, most NBCSN games are blacked out and games in your local market are also blacked out. It's not great once the POs come around since the NBC family carries all PO games, but it's good for the regular season.

 

[forty_three]

I think this is my third year using it.

Quality of your home internet definitely makes a difference. Whatever compression method it uses is nowhere near as good as some other services like Netflix. Which is to say that the quality breaks down much more easily than on Netflix, so it's clearly not buffering as well (to be fair, I'm sure Netflix' backbone is much higher quality than NHL's).

I upgraded my router last year to a Netgear Nighthawk AC1750 (from an 8-ish year old router) and it made a big difference. Quality is perfect now on a 2018 Roku Ultra on the 5Ghz network channel.

As for blackouts, most NBCSN games are blacked out and games in your local market are also blacked out. It's not great once the POs come around since the NBC family carries all PO games, but it's good for the regular season.

Thanks.

Sucks that they black out local games, since that is the main loss to me when cutting the cord. But it turns out that my local Internet provider offers a bundle that is like 20 bucks more a month that gives me NBCSN and local Fox Sports when I upgrade to gigabit internet. I might just have to go that way.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Thanks.

Sucks that they black out local games, since that is the main loss to me when cutting the cord. But it turns out that my local Internet provider offers a bundle that is like 20 bucks more a month that gives me NBCSN and local Fox Sports when I upgrade to gigabit internet. I might just have to go that way.

Yeah, might be better. I'm technically in the Hurricanes market (even though I'm 170 miles away), but I'm a subscriber mostly for watching Sabres games, so I only miss out on 3-4 a year.

 

[Comeds]

I think this is my third year using it.

Quality of your home internet definitely makes a difference. Whatever compression method it uses is nowhere near as good as some other services like Netflix. Which is to say that the quality breaks down much more easily than on Netflix, so it's clearly not buffering as well (to be fair, I'm sure Netflix' backbone is much higher quality than NHL's).

I upgraded my router last year to a Netgear Nighthawk AC1750 (from an 8-ish year old router) and it made a big difference. Quality is perfect now on a 2018 Roku Ultra on the 5Ghz network channel.

As for blackouts, most NBCSN games are blacked out and games in your local market are also blacked out. It's not great once the POs come around since the NBC family carries all PO games, but it's good for the regular season.

Sorry, my Nighthawks alert went off. I have to turn it down a notch, somethings gotta give.

Dammit!

 

[forty_three]

Son had his first on ice warmup before tryouts in the next few weeks.

45 kids showed up. 16 are girls. Including all three of the other goalies. Last season, there were 4 girls on the team, and both other goalies were (the goalies graduated). This year, looking at who was out there there are at least 7 skaters who stand a better than average chance of making it. And one of the other goalies is ready.

The boy is really gonna have to learn to talk to girls some time.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Son had his first on ice warmup before tryouts in the next few weeks.

45 kids showed up. 16 are girls. Including all three of the other goalies. Last season, there were 4 girls on the team, and both other goalies were (the goalies graduated). This year, looking at who was out there there are at least 7 skaters who stand a better than average chance of making it. And one of the other goalies is ready.

The boy is really gonna have to learn to talk to girls some time.

Only 1 2008 year kid made the peewee A1 team at my sons association ... a girl

/looks like my sons team may end up being placed in a tier with the seattle junior and the everett junior silvertips u12s ... not looking forward to the away midweek evening games

//thats like driving from mesa to glendale

 

[puckhead]

The boy is really gonna have to learn to talk to girls some time.

All 5-hole jokes, all the time

 

[DragonfromTO]

Son had his first on ice warmup before tryouts in the next few weeks.

45 kids showed up. 16 are girls. Including all three of the other goalies. Last season, there were 4 girls on the team, and both other goalies were (the goalies graduated). This year, looking at who was out there there are at least 7 skaters who stand a better than average chance of making it. And one of the other goalies is ready.

The boy is really gonna have to learn to talk to girls some time.

That sounds like the kind of attitude that leads to cooties

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

[forty_three]

All 5-hole jokes, all the time

That sounds like the kind of attitude that leads to cooties

Update, one more goalie showed up last night. Also female.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

[dash]

Not to nitpick, but I would substitute Wile E. Coyote in for Yosemite Sam.

 

[DragonfromTO]

Not to nitpick, but I would substitute Wile E. Coyote in for Yosemite Sam.

I thought Carl Spackler was the obvious comp

 

[dash]

I thought Carl Spackler was the obvious comp

For sure, but I was keeping it in the Looney Tunes family and Wile E. was always trying some new gadget or contraption in order to get the Roadrunner.

 

[dare2be]

Poor doggies, especially the one on the right side of the frame.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Poor doggies, especially the one on the right side of the frame.

Yeah at the very least I hope they confiscated his animals. Dipshit nearly killed them both.

 

[dare2be]

The one on the right looked injured, or at least stunned.