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Explaining Dominik Hasek

Explaining Dominik Hasek Popular View The reason you probably clicked on this link is because the popular view of Dominik Hasek is that there is no explanation for the things that he did. His style was so unorthodox that it defied easy pattern recognition and left almost everyone who watched him scratching their heads. If you google "Dominik Hasek goalie style" you will get all sorts of explanations about how he was simply willing to stop the puck with any part of his body, or that he was extremely flexible (that he had a slinky for a spine), or that he was just really competitive or athletic, etc. See below for examples of these kinds of explanations from Wikipedia and Reddit. You may even believe one of these or have your own somewhat related theory. Obviously, I disagree with all the conventional explanations and I hope to convince you by the end of this post that Hasek's style is as definable as the butterfly and you could even teach it! Who Cares? Before I get into a...
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Election 2023!

  The Day After Just like in 2019 I thought I'd share my thoughts and analysis of the latest Alberta election. I would have loved to share my predictions for it in advance but given my job I try to refrain from public comments during the actual election (however my last guess before the polls came in was only 1 seat off!). Best-on-Best? Before I get too far into politics we're going to take a digression into hockey...you may have heard that just this month Canada won the IIHF World Hockey Championship . On the other hand there's a pretty good chance you didn't hear that and an even better chance you didn't watch any of the games. The reason is that this tournament is not well timed and many of the best players in the world are in the middle of the NHL playoffs. For that reason many of the best hockey players in the world don't compete (for example Connor McDavid was not playing for Canada) and therefore hockey fans don't pay as much attention to it as the t...

The Bible is Wrong but God is Real

Okay that title is a bit aggressive. I hate making definitive statements like that and would certainly have preferred to say 'the Bible has some scientific and historical problems but God is probably real'. That said, you would have been far less likely to click on it if I did so here we are... For any Christians reading this I acknowledge that you likely won't want to accept what I'm about to say. That's totally fine. I'm not interested in forcing my views on anyone and I don't think it really matters if we all agree on the interpretations of Genesis. If you're open to a new approach to Genesis I encourage you to keep reading but if not that's fine with me too. If any of you were Christian but don't practice anymore or are 'spiritual but not religious' then I suspect you clicked on this because you have probably felt at times that parts of the Bible didn't make sense and perhaps you didn't find answers that worked for you so now ...