“Leafs took the Panthers to 7” in golf form

Holy mama bring me (two days of) Big Boy regular season hockey in September

Larry Brooks when somebody slightly shorter than Rempe gets in the lineup ahead of him:

All this time I’ve been focusing on Kevin Lowe only winning 5.5% of all Stanley Cups awarded

North Dakota South Dakota

And that’s why he was never drafted

Big changes announced by the Canadian Football League: - Left-handed TDs now worth 10 points instead of 11 - Football to remain inflated for all five periods - Lines must be painted on field in English and French

MSG finally putting shots on goal on the score bug? What other technological developments from 2007 were Sam and Joe holding up for all this time?

Nobs

Might as well start a thread to track these now, for my own benefit: Flan Iron Detroit Puma (Guessing Canadians also go for the uh-DEED-uhs fallacy but as yet unconfirmed on air)

[On 7th tee] “You know what, Sam, we talked to young Brennan Othmann, he said he’s got siiize, he’s got speeeed, he can shootit, he’s smaaart, tremendous family.”

Sensible for one party here to be proactive to inform the other that they want no part of having such a toxic association

Japtain Taptain Miller

Pictured here pulling the face you pull if you see someone signed Andrej Šustr to a professional tryout

Fair, since you can’t predict exactly when the major news event you want to bury it under will happen

Not the metaphor I’d have chosen

The answer that literally ones of you have been waiting for: Ryan Sproul*, who racked up one PP assist in his 3:43, utterly destroying Bitetto's one assist in 4:49 *Also the reigning Ranger I Have No Memory Of Ever Being A Ranger Award winner

Of the 54 D-men to get at least one second of regular season PP time since 12/13 for the New York Rangers, 26 scored at least a point and a mere one of those has a higher PP points per 60 rate than il signor Antonio Bitetto. Many kudos to anyone who can name that man (in the next 30 minutes).

Noted PP2 specialist Anthony Bitetto remains available (just have to persuade him out of the retirement I was shamefully unaware had happened)

Only the second Little Leaguer I can closely relate to, after Chris Drury (watching the New York Rangers and not being able to do anything to make them good)

Even ignoring the fact that the season doesn’t start for another six weeks, why are reporters still characterising unsigned RFAs as holding out? (I know why)

Drury’s not going to let a surprising failure to plummet all the way to the bottom of this list ruin his International Day of Medical Transporters

If nothing else (and there is plenty of else), disqualifying Zdeno Chára for playing a whopping 6% of his career games in the previous quarter century suggests the eligibility criteria needed some work

Kaapo Kakko wakes up in a cold sweat the night after another underwhelming Kraken defeat leaves them 6-14-3

Intriguing move by the Canucks to bring Kravtsov back, since it raises the realistic possibility of Drury trading for him specifically so he can tell him again to go and rot in Hartford or Chelyabinsk

Probably fine if they do offer it standalone (since there is DZRO else in their portfolio I want to watch) but the prospect of reintroducing blackouts absolutely stinks and there’s a 35% chance they don’t get it up and running by October based on past experience www.nhl.com/news/nhl-ann...

From the publication soon to bring you: “GM Stan Bowman made an audacious free agent goalie signing, in a bid to solidify his Hall of Fame credentials.”

I presume this gets called Steelers gold (yellow) in the same way as Penguins gold (yellow) and Bruins gold (yellow)?

Nothing for the troops?

Counterpoint: Most of the 7pm starts start closer to 7:30pm than 7pm

Nobody can stop The Athletic Big Board creep into every sport

I’m glad somebody is *finally* getting onto this

Entirely possible I’m misunderstanding but this does look like the playoff cap is essentially the headline cap number, so teams can accrue space, acquire players and end up with a post-deadline roster that’s compliant in the regular season and not in the playoffs?

The Inside Story on Player X Signing With Team Y: [Player spoke to other player from same country, who said he likes playing there] [Player spoke to GM and coach, who said they wanted to sign him] [Agent spoke to GM and agreed a contract, didn’t agree a contract with GMs of some other teams]

This is still missing the points that the Canes would’ve had to re-acquire their third rounder to do it and/or that if they’d signed him to $7.5m x 7, the compensation would’ve been two firsts, a second and a third (or four first rounders if they offered the same $60m over the 7-year max)

All new Coot(e)s news #cootesnews #cootes #news

He’s taking his top chucky cheese cheddar mitt talents to the Danglemeister University of Cawlidge Hawkey (TM)

The always exciting distributions of handedness for forwards and defensemen in the 2024/25 regular season For the second straight year, the Flames were both the most lefty at F and the most righty on D As usual, a bigger lefty skew at F than on D across the league

Ehlers about to drop the most analytically perfect 19-goal season we’ve ever seen

If you told me Gustav Nyquist, Nino Niederreiter and Erik Haula were on a permanent carousel each playing for three of Minnesota, Nashville, Columbus and Winnipeg every two years, I’d believe it (because it’s true)

Drury’s not going to let Zoom well-wishing and question dancing ruin his National Report Military Fraud Day

Unless the Canes were willing to go to something north of $58.5m over 7 years (making the compensation four 1st rounders), they didn’t have the 2026 3rd rounder to be able to offer sheet him, so something’s not quite adding up here

Thought this was about Kyle Dubas until I saw the name on the chart

Kenny Holland banking on Ceci having a nice bounceback playing alongside Nick Lidström

It’s also a day ending in a Y, so…

To be fair, when the Rangers signaled they were rebuilding with young players between 2018 and 2020, they didn’t specify it would be their own team

Springing out of nowhere is everyone suddenly describing contracts as “carrying” a certain AAV

Look for plucky little Mitchell Marner to thrive, maybe even in a top six role, in Vegas and get the recognition he sorely lacked during his time toiling away in Toronto

Possibly an intentional joke but I enjoy @evolving-hockey.com implying the name of the Leafs’ latest acquisition should be read the Scottish way

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