Ripjiggen wrote:

I kind of like chewing ice off my line keeps me hydrated.

you know people and fish pee in that water right?

I can’t watch any more of this crap. The 4th line is terrible. All the stupid penalties and now 2 more. Wake me up when Ek is back and this 4th line never plays and someone named other than kaprizov or zuccarelli has a shot on goal.

It took them way less than 7 years

basseyes wrote:

Glad centers aren’t important.

Don’t fall into Joes trap…

Tired of spurgeon on PP1. No one else is saying it but he doesn’t belong there and he’s been there the entire time they e struggled. Let’s talk about faceoffs no, let’s talk about guys who aren’t meant to be in a position they are announced to.

Ok we used to have “wild ear tug guy” at intermissions with gorgeous. Now we have mustache twist guy and I don’t like him at all.

Reef W wrote:

Lithium is capable of much higher current than lead acid if there is a short. You want the fuse to blow instead of your wiring melting.

Yep, what Reef says.

tswoboda wrote:

Agreed. They’re getting spanked right now, not playing good hockey at all. But that’s not going to last forever

Exactly just like winning the rate they were was probably not going to happen forever either, but it sure was fun.

My son loves his 30 so far! First Vex we have owned. Its not for me (I dont want a round dial anymore), but its what he wanted and he got a great deal on it and likes it which is most important.

Reef you are probably right and that is what I thought too its just really damn annoying! I had to blow in 5th gear yesterday to get rid of it. I just dont want to damage the engine. This has done it since new as well so I figured it was normal.

Yeah the last several weeks have not been good but more concerning to me than just losing to those teams its they are getting blown out in many of them. LA blasted them twice, Oilers and Panthers each did once.

Well the snow persisted the entire day and into the night. Probably ended up with 4 or 5 inches in total. In the range of where they said it would be but low end for sure. Now I need Grouse to figure out my snowblower LOL I dont like how it runs, but only used it once last year. Kept forgetting to bring it in. Grr. Procrastination got the best of me. Its not a gas situation its like the governor or something engine revs up and down when not under a load.

Bearcat89 wrote:

They offer the most undesirable wheelers and sxs on the market. So no surprise those weren’t moving. Sucks to see them going under but it’s not that big of a surprise

Ever since Textron took over things went down the drain. Couple that and the divorce with Robbie Gordon, which many details have never come to light with how that ended the Wildcat XX was left crippled. Its a fantastic machine, but they never launched a turbo OR 4 door model and both were Production ready so just 1 model offering. Then they cut the Havoc which was a great machine as well and I believe they only have 1 workhorse SxS now. ATVs again only a few models from where they used to be. Certainly doesnt breed excitement for your brand when there is no selection.

Just go 1 and 0 for the game you play that night problem solved.

I think there are far more pressing things to worry about now vs a couple percentage points on Faceoffs. Id rather focus on getting our guys healthy, Boldy and many others stop taking stupid penalties, shore up the PK and get spurgeon off PP1. All, or most of those things require very little work just effort. The FO thing takes a lot of dang practice and we have seen the progress Rossi has made, but we arent changing those numbers overnight but we can fix a lot of what else ails this team pretty quickly. We have had this tired argument for how many years now? Now that we arent arguing about crappy goal tending we have to focus on something else that we really cant easily fix.

In positive news it sounds like Faber is or will be OK. Unsure if he will be out much.

I think we need to get into the analytics on where these faceoffs are. O zone, neutral, D zone? Strong side, weak side? After an icing and a long shift? Not all faceoffs are equal so it would really be important to get down to the bottom of this now that we moved on from the goalie mask padding.

Polaris is not Arctic Cat. It was well communicated that if you did NOT order a snow check sled from AC you were NOT getting one and that has been the case the last many years. Now was there a chance someone put their name on a sled and didnt get it and lost their deposit? Sure, but that is not at all what AC was selling as bill of goods to the consumer. You dont order one in the Spring, you dont get one. There wasnt supposed to be any inventory because that was their way of clearing out old inventory that had been sitting.
Polaris and Doo operate far differently. Cat used to be that way too, but we were all told this changed 5 plus years ago or so.

You guys are really going to tell the wife tonight when she gets frisky that she is getting anywhere from 1 to 8 inches arent you? LOL

Yeah St Cloud never really had that many employees, but 1 losing their job still sucks. This plant is state of the art and almost fully automated. They had folks once they were opened from ALL of the big Japanese companies reviewing what they had in place including Suzuki, Kawasaki, Yamaha and I am sure others. At the time AC still had a working relationship with Suzuki and was just starting one with Yamaha. I dont believe any of the suzuki engines were built here 2 stroke or 4 stroke. This plant builds any AC developed advanced 2 stroke or 4 stroke (not many mainly just ATVs). The 650 H1, 550 H1, new 600 (all 4 strokes in ATVs), then the 600 dfi, 800 dfi and now 858 dfi 2 strokes (snowmobiles). There might be others but those I am pretty confident are all produced here.

Very valid question Randy. My typical annual raise was 3% with a promotion or two that bumped it more but I didn’t double my salary to match the double in cost of a machine you use 3 months.

The last new sled I ordered had an MSRP of 7999 and it was an 800 limited edition. I did not pay MSRP. Now a 600 lists for like 15k. That’s around a 100% jump in not that long. The EPA has a lot to do with this because of the requirements which drives up costs whether it’s clean 2 stroke or 4 stroke.
Back in the 90s I was trading every year for a new one and paying $500 to boot. Those days long gone.

Randy Wieland wrote:

These impacts affect the community as a whole, not just the employee/family

This will hurt Thief River Falls pretty bad. DigiKey is a much larger employer than AC is, but this will not be good if things dont turn around.
Many people dont remember this, but Textron actually owned Polaris many years ago. Guess what, they ran them into the ground and then sold them off. Different times now, but actually not all that much.
When they owned them it was actually also a period of time when we had very little snow for several winters much like recently. The pricing of the machines was not nearly as out of line as they are now however.

gim wrote:

The track shifted south. Its not even snowing anymore to the north. The main line is now in the west metro south towards Mankato.

Yeah its snowing VERY lightly here now didnt get anywhere near what was forecast. Maybe close to 2 inches, but that is a stretch I think.

The news while seemingly bleak I dont think it means the end either. There are a lot of options that could come of this and the most likely would be a competitor buying them from Textron. CFMoto is one of the many names that have been floated to have US based manufacturing.

Looking at prices doesnt affect me buying it, I need it when I need it but I always find myself looking at the prices and it astounds me the variations in pricing. Some stations change daily while others could go weeks without changing.

I find my most stable prices and generally cheaper at the small station in st Stephen. Actually it’s almost always cheaper I cannot remember when it was higher even by a penny.
If a station buys fuel today and the price jumped 10 cents they jack the price up. That gas isn’t in their tanks yet. If the price drops 10 cents they hold the price steady.

Stanley wrote:

They cancelled my kids school already about 6 tonight. We are in the heavier band but we will see what we get.

seems to be trending south may have been a bit premature. Royalton right?

Eelpoutguy wrote:

Did I hear someone say pulltabs?

IDK but yesss

Well we can forget about two KK’s on the roster. Traded to Seattle