I am ready at the drop of a hat to present to any league's competition committee exactly how gold drafting works, what it improves and what it weakens, how it would have to implemented for a specific sport, with simulations, gorgeous viz, the works. I am dead set.

Poor Mads.

What a mind-fuck statement by the “White House pardon czar”

All that was missing was a “fuck ICE”

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

I’ll say it: Reimer was good enough. Did just about everything one could reasonably ask of him tonight (short of Pride Tape)

This Kalshi ad is just awful. Why is Paul Revere making a group-chat joke? Why does the script not make any sense? It’s entirely maddening

my most right-wing take is loving my spouse, playing with my kids, and letting my favorite sportsball team make me suffer every weekend is a good life bsky.app/profile/nota...

Six games into his stint with Ottawa this year, James Reimer has performed as well as or better than a league average goaltender once.

Has anyone else seen the Kalshi ad, about not betting against the underdogs? I’ve listened to it so many times, and each time I feel like I’m having a stroke: the voiceover dialogue makes NO sense. Was the script written by AI? Anybody else suffering like me?

There are currently 6 teams outside of the playoffs in the East with more wins than Vegas, who sits atop the Pacific

Since I haven’t seen anyone else say it: Stützle’s goal cleaning up Batherson’s breakaway is one of the most infuriating goals to allow, as a goalie. Silovs stopped Bath, but his D didn’t make enough of an effort to keep Stü off the rebound? Stick-breaking, screaming-at-your-D shit.

It sure would be lovely for the Sens to return to true-.500 tonight. And remain there at the Olympic break.

I was prepared for Ottawa to lose this one in a grinder, so I could write them off entirely… but noooo, into the breach and over the top we go again

The Boston Bruins have found the cure for male loneliness

The fact that the pads don’t match the jersey is driving me insane

New article up on LB-Hockey! 🚨🏒 Unearthing reasons behind Ottawa's underwhelming season outside of the obvious, and why their strategy when attacking in transition could be the root of disconnect between actual results & data-driven expectations. 🔗: lb-hockey.com/2026/01/31/w...

The Sens collapse in Nashville last week has already been surpassed; thanks Utah

11 games with implications for Ottawa tonight. One ongoing; all 10 of the others have gone against the Sens’ interests. They’ll be sellers soon enough, I fear.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Perhaps the most frustrating element about the Senators’ goaltending troubles this season is that the goalies are not abjectly *bad*… they are just consistently, painfully *not good*. It’s not weak goals killing the team; it’s the lack of big saves.

Another @theathletic.com article about Pride that elides the existence of Reimer and the various Russian homophobes in the league. Sigh. @robrossi.bsky.social

Seven teams in the East between 56 and 59 points; WC teams each have 65. Things are not likely to get much clearer before the Olympic break… but maybe?

Zub, Cousins, and Greig atop the chart… what a world

I’m glad they won, but Reimer is still playing sub-par hockey. Statistically speaking, at least.

It may be too late to matter - that remains to be seen, but it’s borderline (?) likely - but this is an extremely encouraging performance by the Sens.

So is an .800 save rate good? Asking for some apologists

I’m honestly surprised the administration has it together enough to hold access info for its peons

Not a single goddamned male hockey player. Color me shocked

Strip him of his pension and charge him with everything from war crimes to loitering. Run him into jail, or at least into bankruptcy with legal bills. Then do it to the rest of the administration.

I wonder if this is why Bezos is cutting WaPo’s staff by 50%

Don't think they are thatbad

The Sens’ road ahead looks murky at best. No first this summer, no playoffs… how is this team supposed to compete around this core, when this core has never won a playoff series, and there is little else of value worth trading?

Please tell me that the CTC is in full-boo mode

would love to know hunter shepard's internal monologue right now "2 calder cups, .920 career sv%, just turned 30, and I've been given less than 6 full games in this league...is it the eyebrows? the hair? at what point do I have a discrimination case?"

ICE is so awful it’s radicalized Chuck Schumer

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died in ICE detention centers already in 2026 than will die from mifepristone all year. These politicians are extremely dangerous to women.

IMO, Ottawa may as well become the first seller in the Atlantic. I don’t think a tear-down is in order, but let’s start restocking the cupboard, no? A shame Perron is unlikely to return much now…

.955 tonight! Unmelt the statue!

Not fucking surprised

This lives in my head rent-free

If Ottawa is going to sneak into the playoffs, the Sens will likely need to play ~.691 hockey. That’s like a 20-7-7 record the rest of the way, as an example. Or 19-6-9. Or 21-8-5. Do any of those FEEL even remotely achievable right now?

“Trying to dismembered me” Dude wants to be in Congress but doesn’t understand grammatical tenses. He’ll fit right in.

Stützle with his second OT-to-forget in two nights. I’m sure he’s running on fumes, but damn man.

Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:

Reimer’s at .900! Time for the Ring of Honour.

What a thousand-yard-stare kinda game. That’s a game that gives fans PTSD.