They've played .575 hockey in the past 20 games, but even if they continue that for the rest of the season, their poor start means they'll still fall short of the playoffs - even though they might genuinely be a "playoff" team, were it not for Laine's injury.

Even just a few points higher would mean that being "in the mix" would be a reality, rather than a hope (as it is now) - and then could then learn those lessons on the fly.

So are you saying they would or would not be higher up the standings if Laine had stayed healthy?

Feels like this could have been written at any time in the last, say, eight years? I remember one finance expert keen to play down her own (excellent) dataset at least as far back as 2017.

Among his more 'provocative' works is the 2018 paper "Thinking with Birds: Ornithology and Indigeneity in Taiwan."

Are you coming to China for any of your research on this?

@lefisch.bsky.social

Multiple straight minutes of Chinese Olympians applauding their president (rather than the other way around) if I'm not mistaken!

CCTV absolutely does!

Yes! The article mentions the teams were in China at the time, but it all, of course, kicked off in Japan *before* they even landed in China, which just served to stretch out the whole painful, week-long episode.