Leafs win tonight. I have a good feeling.

This is starting to feel like when the pga tour had the liv tour come and take some stars. Now we have split sites when with half and half and the tour suffered for years.

I got the best seats in the house. Laptop hooked up to the big screen TV, ready to pipe in a HD stream of the game.

No traffic. No parking headaches. No drunk assholes (except myself). And a lot cheaper…. a lot.

My WiFi has been a little wonky lately, so I usually have to refresh the feed a half dozen times – usually at the absolute worst times (last minute of a period, overtime, fight, powerkill, etc).

I’ll be using the Toronto feed if I can find one. The Florida feeds are unwatchable – just blatant fluffer homerism to the highest degree.

First rule of Hockey Superstition Club is ….

Speaking of existential crises, game 5 tonight motherbazkers! Let’s fkn go already!!

I make the assumption that they will continue to work on this site. I have some concerns about HB. I was never banned or anything but you would see other people being banned for absurd times, no answers, no responses and no communication from the people in charge. When MiB left, I tried to communicate with just about anyone there – and mostly I found people who had already left. It doesn’t feel like it’s got a lot of runway left.

I think at some point HB is just going to be AA and Joel hate posting at each other every 6 minutes with Strider popping in every 13 days to say something insanely conspiratorial; it’ll be like a Sartre play without any existential crisis. – MonkeyPunk

Dozzer inadvertently confirmed something about HB that I had long suspected : the moderation system is completely on the fly and the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing. There is no moderator-only forum on HB, according to Dozzer. I don’t recall his exact words, but it left the impression that there used to be a mod-only forum, but there no longer is. On other large busy forums, moderation decisions are discussed and often voted on in private between the mods and admins only. Decisions to lock a thread or delete a post might be made unilaterally, but any decision to ban somebody usually required a discussion and consensus unless it was a blatant porn spammer or something like that.

Worse, Ek won’t respond to emails, private messages, or social media tags. Contacting Ek is kinda like praying – you never know if he’s actually listening or not, and then usually nothing happens anyway.

That’s not a good way to run things and it makes things difficult on the mods like Dozzer who are trying in good faith to keep things going smoothly, but their hands are tied by wonky outdated software and a site admin who is AWOL when you need him.

Mike and Bill seem like they have ducks lined up in a neat row compared to HB. I have hope this site will continue to improve with new features because it’s built on an actively-supported codebase and not some ancient stack written on clay tablets.

There’s a couple more HB posters I would like to see over here, but there’s probably 100 or more I am happy never to see again. I’m glad you’re here Monkey.

Lol