you can't boil everything wrong down to one issue but i think this might be a pretty good candidate for The Issue nonetheless

lol. lmao www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...

lol

Seravalli is a moron but it's pretty credible the threat of an offer sheet pushed the Ducks to finalize the contract

It's hilarious to see how everyone loves to take anonymous New York financiers being quoted in the FT as gospel as soon as they say something that's ideologically flattering.

This happened to my buddy Sir Percival

Weird number of people trying to convince you that America deserves to win at soccer. Incorrect. The last thing America deserved to win was the Second World War

*sigh*

the Leafs are signing a bunch of bottom sixers because after Robertson and Macceli went they didn't have anyone to play in their bottom six except Joshua and Lorentz and a bunch of AAAA guys like Groulx. they overpaid Sissons but otherwise it's not a huge shock

no problem with the Teddy Blueger signing but if it goes awry i will nonetheless refer to it as a Teddy Blooper

the Sissons deal is also kind of gross but given this centre market and all the cap space floating around I'm not super surprised. Roslovic i'm content with. swing a home run on Werenski and I'll forgive you, John

Bobrovsky deal is the first definite mistake of Chayka's tenure

I think you still consider dealing knies for a really great return (i.e. Werenski) but that contract is going to look like a screaming bargain in two years if doesn't already

one thing I'd have to say is Trump turned me back into a rabid Canadian nationalist. 1812! 1812!

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Bring me Zach Werenski

well he's ready to keep pace with our defence group

Going to Guy Who Jumped Overboard for advice on Staying On A Boat

My students are always learning my six sacred techniques then trying to use them against me in battle. Obviously I'm going to use the secret seventh technique to defeat them. Every day with this.

I'm sure other people have already noted this but the Canadian football team is wearing some of the worst jerseys of all time

me: should i chronicle history or document current events? funk soul brother: write about now

first team to pick ten hall of famers in one draft. already many people are saying this

this isn't in a class with Rask for Raycroft, Kessel I etc. but in its gap between concept and outcome it's just brutal

It's cool how the first round of the draft takes 14 hours for some reason

Because he's a goalie there's a 10% chance he will morph into Hasek next year but otherwise this is something for nothing

I'm running in 2028 on a platform to place every "alt"-account poster in a Supermax prison

People complain about the performative flopping in soccer, but that's really just enforcing patriarchal expectations of men to suppress their feelings.

That's like the first known top five pick to move pre draft in years too. For bowne Byram!

Famous last words but boy I like Washington's end of that trade a lot better than St Louis'

it's still above the IPO. same old bluesky obsession with breathlessly reporting downward fluctuations as if they're a stake to the heart of the vampire

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

🎶you can't buy certainty in the goalie market🎶 🎶and trying is a waste of cap🎶

At a certain point everyone needs to come to grips with the fact that the reason voters around the globe are electing the parties they are is because many of them are atavistic racist morons and not because [random policy you prefer] wasn’t enacted

Glad to see the Sens fans coming around to what we've always said about Brady Tkachuk: that he's an incredible loser who sucks

Even as a godless heathen it is impossible not to be annoyed by what a fake-ass Catholic this man is

it's fun that we seem to be a main character in transparently dumb progressive slop images now. "Canada has designed a test that turns cancer into skittles" and it's a woman with 13 fingers using a microscope to look at a stamp

Yeah if there's one thing you can say about the hockey universe it's that they're never willing to criticize the leafs

Raddysh feels like the kind of move the leafs had to make. I think more likely than not it's an overpay and there's a real chance it's a disaster, but if they're trying to do something in the next few years there were pretty limited options

i appreciate the NHL releasing the conclusion letter on the report but i do think they should have left more detail

This problem will become moot soon because no one will be literate, but to be a consistently entertaining blogger type you need more than one move. The snarky asshole tone works and it's fun to write but if that's all you have it curdles real quick

See that's the raised Catholic difference. Adult converts never sat and wondered at 8 years old whether their lie to their parents qualified as a mortal sin and if they risked eternal damnation if they failed to confess it to the weird old priest who smelled funny.

Boy the leafs under Chayka love a smokescreen don't they? "We might hire Joe Pavelski! Patrick Roy! Merlin the Wizard!" And then it's "here's the most Mid Retread we could dig up"

If you made ‘The Office’ today millions would die

we knew this was coming but it absolutely sucks ass. what used to be a national tradition now gated behind more fees

I don't love it but you can see the logic. Ersson is a placeholder. Benoit for Andrae is a third pair D who can only hit for a smaller one who can pass. Woll for a third feels like the one that'll potentially sting but if he can't be consistent/healthy enough to start a third is about what that gets

Every temperature system preference is just "what am I familiar with" but it is funny seeing all the insane nonsense people use to defend fahrenheit. "Balancing the four humours"-ass scale. Backward and primitive