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@AdamZHerman

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Hockey content at Bleacher Report. Five-time Color War Champion. Ville Leino once used me as a bodyguard.

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@AdamZHerman
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2 months
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.
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4 years
I am no longer impressed that Nicholas Cage managed to steal the Declaration of Independence.
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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.
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@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.
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4 years
I have been informed that I was beaten to this thought.
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4 years
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.
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4 years
Ben Shapiro retweeted this so I'd like to make an addendum to my original tweet: Ben Shapiro is trash.
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Think about how many really good journalists and TV personalities whom ESPN opted to lay off in order to finance this crap.
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Andrew Marchand
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Aaron Rodgers now just criticized ESPN exec Mike Foss on ESPN's Pat McAfee Show.
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@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! 🚀 🚀 🚀
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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!!!!
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3 years
John Tortorella was on ESPN's The Point to discuss what happened in Chicago. Here is part of what he had to say.
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4 years
Oh wow DeAngelo kneeled
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Pete Blackburn
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Jacob Trouba with a front row seat to Tony DeAngelo’s funeral
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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.'
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@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?
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7 years
@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.
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@elonmusk @MedvedevRussiaE It's working! Line go up 📈📈📈
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3 years
My dream job is "NHL employee who was tasked with calling Gary Bettman to explain the Kodak Black Incident,"
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3 years
Heartwarming: This homeless man treats two dogs with more dignity and selflessness than society has afforded to him! Thank you CBS News 😍😍😍
@CBSNews
CBS News
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GRAB THE TISSUES: This homeless man took time to celebrate his dog's second birthday by having cake together and singing. 🐶 🍰
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The President of the United States is openly claiming that US marshals intentionally executed a citizen without due process.
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Trump: We sent in the US Marshals, took 15 minutes and it was over... They knew who he was, they didn’t want to arrest him and 15 minutes that ended
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The text messages revealed in the Brian Flores lawsuit are absolutely stunning.
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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.
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4 years
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.
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10 months
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.
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"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.
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2 years
@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!
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@AdamZHerman
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4 years
Mika Zibanejad's plus/minus tonight was 0 and I think that should finally put that moronic stat in the graveyard where it belongs.
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@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?"
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7 years
I am always in awe of the people who voice disappointment over the fact that society is progressing towards diplomacy.
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Joe Scarborough
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Young men in the 1940s liberated Europe from Nazism and the Pacific from the Japanese Empire. Today, too many stay home playing video games.
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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.
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6 months
Whole lotta people think a 21-year-old deserves a potential head injury because he shot the puck in a silly way.
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6 years
@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.
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@AdamZHerman
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3 years
For contrast, here is what Anthony Bourdain wrote upon finding out about allegations against one of his closest friends, Mario Batali.
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Daniel Nugent-Bowman
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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."
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3 years
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.
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6 years
@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.
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2 years
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.
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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,
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The Coyotes have an organizational philosophy and their young players are buying in.
@AZSports
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Arizona Coyotes' Dylan Guenther and teammate Jack McBain had their water turned off this week after they did not pay their utility bill.
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Credit to the Sharks for forcing Reimer to look like a clown on his own rather than protecting him by ruining it for everyone.
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I once watched an entire 82-game season in which Brandon Dubinsky led the team with 54 points.
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120 points for #NYR Artemi Panarin
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5 years
Kaapo Kakko wins it in OT by himself.
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3 years
The most unrealistic part of Lost is that Evangeline Lilly listens to a doctor.
@MarlowNYC
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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":
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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.
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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%.
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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.
@espn
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Aaron Rodgers provides a post-surgery update. (via aaronrodgers12/Instagram)
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2 years
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.
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4 years
The average attendance for the OHL's Kitchener Rangers in 2018-19 was 6,859.
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JUST IN: Tulsa Fire Department says Trump rally attendance was about 6,200
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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.
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@ScottAdamsSays Keep going bro. You can lose even more. I believe in you.
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In the playoffs #NYR have been shorthanded 28 times. They've outscored the opposition 3-2.
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4 years
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.
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$8M cap hit btw
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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."
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@HolmanTravel @cafreiman I have news for you: People in socialist countries also own smartphones.
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Two weeks of Tom Wilson/Rempe discourse
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@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?
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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.
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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.
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@Eve6 Wow to announce this publicly I bet you had to swallow your pride.
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7 years
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.
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Just @KingJames & the @cavs making the Monday morning NY subway commute. NBD.
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Tired: Junior hockey players named Brayden/Jayden/Kayden Wired:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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@herandrews Cosplaying as Hall Monitor outside of a subway station is actual antisocial behavior.
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3 years
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.
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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.
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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.
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7 years
I strongly disagree with their politics but, purely evaluating them as journalists, both Wallace and Smith uphold the standards necessary.
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Tyler Motte walking into the New York Rangers locker room every spring.
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A first-round pick can get you either Tanner Jeannot or the literal Norris Trophy winner. Good league.
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5 years
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.
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Shane Doan does not appear to be very happy about the Martin Hanzal trade.
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3 years
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.
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Joel Quenneville says he’ll meet with Gary Bettman in NYC tomorrow. Says a team meeting was held today.
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Ken Holland says, "you can't win 5-4," Which is literally not true.
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6 years
Hockey is For Everyone
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Interesting, uhh, moment at the Utica Comets (NJ Devils AHL affiliate) game tonight.
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7 years
Lol the Eagles clowned the Patriots with their own play.
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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.
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2 years
Igor Shesterkin playing one (1) playoff game and immediately breaking a Rangers record that's existed since the Kennedy administration is real sicko stuff.
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1 year
Look, the answer here is simple: Make the ice inside the goal transparent and put someone underneath who can look through it like it's an aquarium.
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The New York Rangers are now the only NHL team to not release a statement.
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4 years
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.
@BlueshirtsBreak
Greg Kaplan
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Tony DeAngelo has had a dreadful two games here but you can't say anything about it without showing who you voted for in 2016.
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Idk what I am doing.
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"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."
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5 years
When you acquire too many overtime losses and accidentally move up to 2nd overall.
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4 years
Now $150K.
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4 years
Here's a statistic I had to check three times just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating: The New York Rangers rank 4th in the NHL by regulation wins.
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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.
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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.
@NHLPlayerSafety
NHL Player Safety
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NY Rangers’ Adam Fox has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for Slashing Tampa Bay’s Corey Perry.
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Kakko with the sticklift, Roslovic with the support, and then Gustafsson with the perfect floater on net. Wennberg is the Hero but that's a team goal.
@NHLNetwork
NHL Network
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Alex Wennberg’s first goal of the playoffs was a BIG ONE! @NYRangers | #NYR | #StanleyCup
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Adam Herman
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(Henrik Lundqvist looks at the camera)
@walsha
Allan Walsh🏒
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Marc-Andre Fleury post game: “As a goalie, you’re only as good as your team.”
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@tombogert Telling a former Bayern and Liverpool that he doesn't have the balls to chip you is WILD
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2 years
If Igor Shesterkin gives up 14 goals on the next 14 shots he faces, he'd still lead the NHL in save percentage.
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2 years
Alright, I'm going to say it: Igor Shesterkin is the best Rangers goaltender since Henrik Lundqvist.
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For no reason at all I just remembered when Mats Zuccarello made what I think is the greatest pass I've ever seen.
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Wow, Jacob Trouba with ANOTHER headshot against the Penguins. Can you believe this guy?
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@GersonBorrero Wow, can't believe the Democrats are politicizing politics.
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Adam Herman
3 years
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.
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Adam Herman
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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.
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