jimdahl

I appear to have underestimated: 1) the importance of getting defensemen that would advance through the rounds, 2) Anaheim (my prior that Boudreau chokes in the playoffs, I guess).

Notice that: 1) Padilla CRTs registrations began as early as April 8, 2) UND specifically said names were excluded based on domain name availability, and 3) most known Padilla CRT registration were of the form "undNICKNAME.com" or "goNICKNAME.com" It wouldn't be the least bit surprising if popular names like RoughRiders were excluded because they were too popular (and thus had the undroughriders.com and goroughriders.com variants scooped up long ago). It would be somewhat ironic if domain name speculation led to UND skipping all the early favorites and instead choosing something unpopular enough that it was still available.

Sorry if I was unclear, but not wrong Since there's a lot of confusion here about how domain names work, I was trying to clarify the technical point that flickertails.com redirecting to undsports.com doesn't mean the former is owned by UND. I could similarly make siouxsports.com redirect to undsports.com with no additional cooperation from UND. Obviously, that point doesn't preclude it from being owned by UND.

Blake works Padilla CRT, the firm that conducted the nickname suggestion collection. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakehuntermirzayan). They bought up hundreds of the most popular names.

Yep, while they're unlikely to be speculatively buying up bunches now (unless the fix really is in), it would be ridiculous of them not to snatch up the names they want BEFORE announcing the final three.

It's just a redirect set up by the owner of that domain, doesn't require any cooperation from the owner of the destination domain.

Thus guaranteeing that only a name so unpopular that no one has purchased it as a domain name by 2015 can be chosen. I would hope they wouldn't be holding out for nickname.com.

That's already been done. UND submitted the chosen 3 into the list along with all of the public suggestions

I wouldn't read too much into that, I think that means the literal name "no nickname" was rejected. "North Dakota" was on the accepted list. The rejection list were pretty clearly pretty mechanically rejected for technical or procedural reasons and do not necessarily mean a similar name isn't under consideration. Keep in mind that these (clearly) aren't edited lists, so every single submission has to make its way to one of the two so the rejection list is going to appear a little sloppy to us. The "under consideration" list is the important one.

http://ermines.com is for sale! Domain availability was apparently one of the criteria

Price is killing me, now I can only hope for him to get eliminated in two more

Good game, Rangers deserved the win. Lundqvist looked a lot more solid than game 1. Goal of the game goes to (who else but) Ovie. Three on one? You gotta cover him better than that NYR.

That was my primary comment on the game -- NYR are lucky he only let in two. As much as I'd love four in a row like that, Lundqvist is no rookie. He'll tighten up and make the series interesting. But, tonight's contest was goalie vs. goalie, and this one went Holtby.

Exactly my point. Ovie's hit (amongst other plays) somehow weren't penalties, but the scuffle at 3:00 left was roughing? The refs had the whistles in the pocket until they realized the game was almost over and wasn't tied. I don't love that the calls become looser in the playoffs, but everyone knows it and has the opportunity to adapt. But to call it so loose that hits like Ovie's aren't called, but then tighten up right at in the last critical minute and call a pretty soft penalty is annoying.

Definitely agreed, that was my point... after everything they let go in a game with 0 penalties called, the one someone decided to call with 3:00 left (a time by which refs have often put away their whistles in even the most penalty-filled playoff games), against the team up 2-1 was nowhere near the most egregious foul of the game. It was a pretty incongruous call.

11 shots total by NYI. Crazy. Also a penalty free game until they called WAS with 3:00 to go while WAS was up 2-1.

We picked pretty well overall on the forwards, we collectively haven't lost many. Only Ray77 is perfect so far, though would lose two if Tampa Bay is eliminated. Everyone has lost at least one defenseman, jimdahl has lost 3! Only ray77 managed to ditch his goalie in the first round, though Mafiaman still could if the Islanders win tonight. So, the game should still be pretty wide open after round 1, with a likely edge to ray77.

Meanwhile, the best of 9 NYI vs. WAS series continues...

When updating my spreadsheet to cross out the eliminated teams, I noticed no one took anyone from Vancouver. Is poor Vancouver the only playoff team that not a one of us wanted any of their players?

I expected the Islanders to be a bit hungrier than Washington in game 6, but was surprised how hard hitting they came out. Liked to see it get so physical at the end, as I like to think that will favor Washington if it carries over. But, the Caps historically don't have a stellar home game 7 record (1-4 in this situation since 08).

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=764971&navid=nhl:topheads

You gotta stay focused on the long game. If a game like that prevents the Isles from advancing, I think it'll be worth it for you. It will be interesting to see the final GA totals for the goalies at the end of round 1. Seems like each round earlier a goalie gets eliminated is going to be worth well beyond 10 points per round (could easily be 20 in some situations). If a goalie does too well (Price with 7 so far) he just buys himself a ticket to the next round where he's sure to rack up at least that many again.

Well, the Islanders revenge fight against Wilson (WAS) didn't go so well. Lee (NYI) threw the first punch and got the takedown, but spent the rest of the fight bashing his head into Wilson's fist. Laich (WAS) also managed to draw back-to-back 10-minute game misconducts/ejections by getting slashed twice by two different players during a faceoff in the 3rd. It's not clear the Islanders emotions were helping them last night. Hoping for more of the same on Saturday.

Well, Mafiaman, the good news is the odds of Halak getting eliminated this round just went up.

Those standings are better , but it's still going to matter about as much who exits this round.