Oh hell yeah

How about some good Winnipeg and hockey-related news? Jennifer Botterill is one of the best to ever do it and is (finally) getting the recognition for it.

In 2024-25, they never were worse than -5 xG at 5v5 cumulative on the season - only got as low as -4.15 in December. Jets are now at -8.32 xG.

Confirmed it was not good! Might’ve been real bad, actually!

Quick reminder that the Ducks played (and won) last night, in Vegas, in overtime

Great play by Terry to find the puck and get it across the slot for the goal. Schenn had a great view of it after nudging a guy in front of the crease.

Also: NHL broadcasts this year have noticeably had the video lag behind the sound by about half-a-second - and it becomes obvious when it cuts to the action shots from cameras at ice level being on time, and then cutting back to the main view often shows what just happened again

Oof, Scheifele caught drifting to the crease instead of covering his guy who eventually scored the goal

At least Schenn probably recommended a good spot for dinner in Anaheim. Real good teammate

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

this is the play in which sheldon rankins conjured a scorigami out of absolutely nothing. 30-29 had happened plenty of times and so had 37-29. scorigami only happened because the refs didn't make them stick around for the extra point

Facing Celebrini yesterday and Carlsson tomorrow is going to be something (note: not a good thing for the Jets)

Well, at least Winnipeggers will at minimum get their money back on their Grey Cup tickets. Will be gross seeing too much green in the stadium though (read: more than 1)

Who would've guessed?

lmao

Corey Mace gets his 2-and-out because he knew Buck Pierce was going to be uber-conservative and that a Benevides defence is as soft as a hot knife through butter

Go Ti-Cats, win it for Ted Goveia

A couple of pucks the dribbled to the edge of the net in the 1st period and in the flurry of chances at the end, but Jets essentially got severely outplayed the second half of the game. Arniel’s line blender did zilch. Too many players couldn’t keep up with SJS’s young guns when they pressed.

Yeah, Fleury with Pionk was never a good idea and both of them were awful on that sequence

With the amount of dangles he's attempting, even he is hinting at his desire to be a forward

Arniel putting out a 3rd period roster blender because the 2nd period was slow/ugly and thus far no one looks like they know how to play with each other

Proof (if we needed it) that algorithmic amplification is dramatically accelerating, and perhaps even driving, the unravelling of our democracies. Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause. on.ft.com/49LNvCy

Important thread

Canada's flag is literally two colours and somehow they still manage to sneak in as much black as possible and now throw in a different tone of red for the hell of it

Remember how it took like a decade to open Portage and Main? And lots of people were mad and scared about all the potential terrible consequences? And then....it has been totally fine. And no one is mad or even cares anymore. So yeah...build the damn bike lanes and let's get on with our lives.

On one hand, this is hilarious watching the CPC fracture when the “going gets tough” at budget time, right before PP’s leadership review On the other hand, this could just lead into the Reform/SoCon’s tightening their grip even further on the CPC

Everyone is getting excited but will be crushed when Amazon’s price tag for even hinting at anything that might be related to James Bond will be prohibitively expensive

Posing the question should get you politely but firmly ejected from society by a large man dressed like an usher at the opera. He just appears with a tight smile and quietly suggests that it would be best if you don’t cause a scene.

On Wab Kinew and populism. His populism. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The most important crossover happening in Canada right now:

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Kings just suffocated the life out of Jets offence starting at the 2nd period today. Of course, they don’t really do themselves any favours without much offence to be found below the 1st line and PP unit, but couldn’t even find the greasy, grindy goals of Lowry’s ilk

LAK making WPG’s power play work for it. As soon as any player crosses the blueline there’s an opponent hounding then and forcing Jets to hasten their passes, inevitably flubbing one of them for easy clears. Full credit to Kings on that aspect of the game

stay tuned

Ehlers scores his first goal with his team, on the power play, with a shot that rings off the post, against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. Where have I heard that one before?

Carney budget feels like a boomer’s ideal “if I piss off both sides, I must be doing something right” centrist fever dream

Wab taking a cue from other Conservative premiers by immediately jumping on surface-level headlines to establish a narrative instead of fulfilling his promise to fund and resource the provincial justice system is abhorrent

The far right radicalization of young men is a serious issue. Fanning male rage was a big part of the MAGA movement and is part of the game plan on the Polievre Conservatives. In my latest piece I discuss the toxic impacts on schools and democracy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Oh man, elbows aren't supposed to bend that way. That sucks for Daniels

“Hot take! I like the Jets better without Ehlers.” Uhh… *tugs at collar*

Ouch

From last place in the AL East (and otherwise not living up to the hype for many other seasons prior), to being a millisecond and millimetre away from winning it all, ultimately losing to one of the best pitching performances ever. That's a stinger, for sure

No way on a broken bat

I don’t watch baseball because I know 95% of baseball games aren’t like this. But damn. This is top 1% of sports games I’ve watched in a while

Just Toronto sports things, lol

Oh yeah, he's channelling the clutch tonight

Bombers season finishes with a poorly designed and thrown dump pass to Oliveira and then an interception. Kinda fitting, tbh

*sigh*