The good news is that the New York Rangers are very close to being a Stanley Cup winner. The bad news is that the changes needed to get over the hump are difficult and ugly.
AOC casually raised $75K+ for low-income families by playing video games for a few hours while educating current & future young voters on the GOP Senate's indifference to pandemic economics. The kind of outreach that Dems typically spend millions in consulting fees to figure out.
@seahawksfan2314
@usopen
@SportsCenter
I have made a lot of mistakes in my life but none of them have led me down a path where I am trying to defend Geno Smith from the US Open Twitter account.
The Democrats could win elections and push their agenda through with relative ease if someone with influence and guts told Pelosi and Schumer to step down and put some younger people in charge who could get young people to give a shit and vote.
@elonmusk
@MedvedevRussiaE
Hi Elon. I am a $TSLA holder and I want to affirm that your participation in a thread in which a prominent member of Russian national security predicts US civil war is very good for our brand. Keep going, sir! 🚀 🚀 🚀
PHILLY!!!!! DON'T PULL THE GOALIE PHILLY! YOU'RE ALREADY ELIMINATED! TORTS DON'T DO IT! A REGULATION WIN WON'T HELP YOU! TORTS IT DOESN'T MATTER FOR YOU ANYMORE! PHILLY PUT THE GOALIE BACK! TORTS STOP IT! TOOOOORTS!!!!
Every women's hockey biography is like, "she has a master's in biochemistry and is a cancer researcher at Sloan Kettering" and every men's bio is like, "his favorite cereal is Fruit Loops.'
@charlieweissr
Hey Charlie, while you're fearmongering about government wealth retribution, do you want to remind everyone how much state appropriations paid for you to coach football at Florida and Kansas public universities?
@laurenacooley
@crousselle
YOU have a platform you could be using for good. Instead, you're using it to downplay the impact of mental health. So fuck off.
I think Leon Draisaitl is probably pissy because he's second in the NHL in points over the last three seasons and has to be accountable to a media group that blames him for Ken Holland's bad team building.
Tony DeAngelo spending four years calling liberals soft snowflakes and then deleting his account hours before Biden could be named the projected winner of the election is basically the perfect metaphor for the fragility of the white male ego.
There's a very easy solution here and it's Connor McDavid wearing a pride jersey/using pride tape and then daring the NHL to publicly punish him for doing so.
"Bettman's decision was criticized by many players - including the league's top player, Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid who called the policy 'disappointing'."
This is dumb, and a step backwards. NHL, you are being dumb and backwards.
@Davey_Todd
@KalamazooWings
Hey Davey! I just donated $35 (Justin Verlander's number) to the Trinity Place Shelter, which houses LGBT youth in NYC. I made sure to note that it was in your honor. Thanks for bringing attention to a very important issue!
@deadeyebrakeman
(After the woman says to put the pasta in the blender while she puts the pasta in the blender)
"So you just put the pasta right in the blender?"
Jack Eichel is about to complete his fifth NHL season and hasn't even really come close to playing a single playoff game. That is pretty terrible for the sport.
@D_Booth7
@Nike
Because the way I see it you have two choices here:
1. Commit to the bit and maintain the integrity of your argument by agreeing that "Make America Great Again" is a bad slogan on the basis that it's "open to interpretation."
2. Admit you are a hypocrite.
Your call.
Oilers' Dave Tippett on the CHI sexual assault scandal: "I don't have much comment on it. I have some personal relationships there, so I don't want to comment too much about it. It was an unfortunate incident (11) yrs ago that, I'm sure, you'd go back and do things differently."
I'm not saying Steven A. Smith's hockey coverage will be high art but the average sports fan would 10000% rather listen to him do his thing than a sleepy 3rd-liner from 2002 deadpanning into the camera about getting pucks deep and The Code.
@D_Booth7
@Nike
Hi David. After reviewing the slogan, I have reason to believe it is metaphorical and not a literal mandate to be accepted at face value no matter the circumstances. Happy to help with the clarification here.
Picture this: You're a Florida Panthers fan. Your team traded three first-round picks to go all-in for the Stanley Cup. You score only 3 goals in a sweep by your state rival. You then watch Frank Vatrano torch that same team in the Eastern Conference Final.
Adam Schefter, a standout at the Denver Post before becoming a PR laundering hack who abandoned any moral compass so that he could report contract structure details 5 minutes before everyone else,
Marvel actress Evangeline Lilly attended the D.C. anti-vax protest last weekend where RFK Jr. compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust, saying she's for "bodily sovereignty":
I appreciate that the NBA knows Drake and the Warriors yelling at each other is good drama and marketing, whereas the NHL would have 8 different TV jabronis yelling about how classless it is and then trot out Bill Daly to talk about why Game 2 will be played in an empty arena.
Of the $67.2M cap hit the Arizona Coyotes now have on the roster, 57.6% of that is allocated to pseudo-retirements, cap retention via trade, and contract dumps.
To repeat, that is 57.6%.
Rodgers spent the entire pandemic using his astronomical profile to sow doubt in medical experts and then runs right to the best one that millions can buy the second he has a serious injury. I'm sure he has zero self-awareness about it, too.
The Rangers really fired the entire coaching staff and half of the front office, made a bunch of meme moves, and now are the only thing standing between the Lightning and their third-straight Stanley Cup Final appearance. I don't believe it.
Henrik Lundqvist's ability to do public speaking in his second language better than most do in their first language is simultaneously ridiculously impressive and extremely unsurprising.
NYR win vs the Islanders. Hurricanes lose. CBJ probably going to lose. Florida currently losing.
The Rangers are legitimately in the playoff hunt. It's no longer pretend.
Holy shit.
Me, selling the sport of hockey to a casual fan:
"Yeah so Vegas traded a second-round pick and a player they weren't allowed to trade to Anaheim in order to acquire a player who retired three years ago."
@D_Booth7
@Nike
Ahh okay. So you agree that MAGA is a bad slogan? Since it's open to interpretation? When was it great? What does it mean for America to be great? I bet the KKK have a very different idea for what America being great is than I do. Do you agree with this?
I am not a Mets fan, but I have been around the Mets long enough to know that this ends with Matt Harvey pitching 7 innings of shutout baseball for the Phillies against the Mets in a 2019 Wild Card game and 500 news sources publishing a "The Dark Knight Rises" article.
Émilie Castonguay played DI college hockey, has a bachelor's in finance, a law degree, interned for the Canadiens, has been an NHLPA certified agent for seven years, and speaks two languages.
Posting this to get ahead of the trolls.
This video should be required viewing for every NYC tourist. Not even LeBron can get away with interacting with others on the Subway. Sit/stand quietly and stare into the distance until you reach your stop.
Nick Kyrgios is the perfect anti-hero. Possibly the most talented tennis player in the world and he treats it like a 9-to-5 job that pays the bills. He just wakes up every day and decides if he plans on giving a shit about his next match. Legendary stuff.
To all the angry dogecoin enthusiasts replying to this thread who listen to Andrew Tate, don't own deodorant, and haven't been invited to a social gathering in 3 years:
I see you. I hear you. I will be better going forward.
Mika Zibanejad celebrates goals like everyone is singing happy birthday and he's embarrassed. Chris Kreider celebrates goals like he just led a siege of Alexandria.
Chris Kreider going from 30 to 31 goals on Henrik Lundqvist Night is a metaphor for the circle of life as Igor Shesterkin becomes the new heir to the throne. In this essay etc.
Jeff Gorton turned an AHL-caliber defenseman and 3 months of Kevin Hayes into Jacob Trouba and Brendan Lemieux.
I mean, that's A+ GMing right there. It doesn't get any better than that.
Every time the Leafs lose two games in a row the city of Toronto puts more pressure on the players than JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis and then everyone acts like the reason the players are struggling mentally is that Auston Matthews wore Crocs to the rink.
Kreider literally takes himself out of the play after Panarin scans the ice so that Panarin doesn't even attempt a risky pass to set him up for the hat-trick. The vibes are ridiculous.
Tony DeAngelo really ragequit social media under the pretense of trying to "concentrate on my play" and then put together probably the worst three-game stint of his NHL career.
Scary situation in the OHL right now. Skate-first collision in the Niagara crease. Niagara goalie Tucker Tynan had all his equipment removed and was rushed off the ice. Looked like there was a pool of blood. The TV reporter sounded frantic and was urging people to donate blood.
Saying that "I think we try to eliminate all distractions" is a hell of a thing to say in light of, well, the literal reason he is at a podium speaking.
Benoit Allaire is insatiable. Shesterkin was too easy. He rehabilitated Quick in 2 months. Domingue dominant.
In the next game the Rangers will play a goaltender they found at Chelsea Pier just to prove a point. He will save 28 of 29 shots.
Igor Shesterkin playing one (1) playoff game and immediately breaking a Rangers record that's existed since the Kennedy administration is real sicko stuff.
DeAngelo fell in the 2014 draft due to character concerns. He was traded twice as a prospect. He was suspended by both the OHL and AHL for bad behavior. Both AV and Quinn needed to discipline him.
He's not a jerk because he supports Trump. He supports Trump because he's a jerk.
"The Rangers have no replacement for Trouba" is a funny thing to say considering there is a right-handed defenseman on the roster that the locker room literally nicknamed "Baby Trouba."
Cannot stress to younger Rangers fans how ridiculous Artemi Panarin is. The team handing a blank check to an unrestricted free agent and him just casually Doing The Thing for four seasons is basically unprecedented.
Adam Fox earns $11M this season. The 2021 median household income in New York was $75,147, according to the US Census.
At prorated pricing, the median New Yorker would have to pay $34.16 to slash Corey Perry.
Tortorella is not a perfect messenger but history rarely hands us perfect messengers. He's an old school hockey lifer embedded in USA Hockey and NHL crony circles. That he stepped up and said this, presumably while hoping for another coaching job, is a big deal.
Heartwarming moment at NYR training camp as Chris Kreider takes Nils Lundkvist to the side during drills and teaches him the entire history of Justinian's tax code reformation during his rule of the Byzantine Empire.