The new, improved NHL Player Tiers are here.
We made a list, then passed it around to ~ 20 NHL executives, coaches, analysts and scouts, trying to build a consensus ranking of the league's 125 players, split into four groups.
This is that list.
Nick Chubb dislocated his left knee and tore his MCL, PCL, and LCL with cartilage damage on October 10, 2015 vs. Tennessee. He injured the same knee tonight vs. Pittsburgh.
True story: In 1978, Eddie Van Halen got so pissed at David Lee Roth backstage that he threw a bowl of guacamole at him. The guac didn’t hit Roth. It hit Steve Perry, though, and Steve Perry cried.
Actor and longtime aviation enthusiast Harrison Ford was piloting a plane at the Hawthorne Airport in Los Angeles on April 24 when he crossed a runway where another aircraft was landing.
A little more directly, you get to make a "personal choice" if you're homophobic, but if you're an ally ... gotta do what's best for the room. Interesting tactic.
Blackhawks pulled the plug on Pride jerseys for the entire roster? Huh.
At the GM meetings, I asked Gary Bettman if the idea of respecting an individual's choice, like Ivan Provorov, applied to players who actually want to wear Pride jerseys.
VGK fan Kenneth was already in line waiting to Logan Thompson’s autograph when he heard about the trade.
Thompson signed his jersey and said “guess you gotta get a new one.”
James Corden, Camila Cabello, Billy Porter and Idina Menzel stopped traffic in LA for a flash mob with a cover of Jennifer Lopez’s “Let’s Get Loud” to promote
#CinderellaMovie
Thursday: Wow, Colin Holderman has ruined the Pirates season
Saturday: Wow, Colin Holderman has ruined the Pirates season
Sunday: Wow, Colin Holderman has ruined the Pirates season
Wednesday: Wow, Colin Holderman has ruined the Pirates season
ALERT: There is a large black bear in the Highland Park neighborhood. The bear is calm (currently resting under a tree), but it is a wild animal and is unpredictable. Avoid the area if you are not here. If you live in Highland Park, get indoors.
All due respect, this is and can never be the worst Burger King in the world.
In 2014, the South Side BK lost its franchise license but got away with pretending to still be a BK for months. MONTHS. People only realized when they started serving food in plain wrappers and cups.
Logan Thompson found out about the trade this morning - the phone woke him up at about 9 a.m.
So he came to the Sphere knowing he’d have the world’s weirdest autograph session.
If you ever wondered, Monday was proof — Gary Bettman and the NHL are who we thought they were.
The worst parts of a bad day, and why they were so bad:
still hard to believe that the NHL rolled basically every game into ESPN+(well priced, good product, lots of people already use it) after so many years of NHLTV (hundreds of dollars, extremely bad, loathed by all, used by few)
the best, most subtle part of the Western PA accent is dropping "to be." I was always cognizant of most of the other stuff, but I made it well into adulthood before realizing that "my car needs washed" is a weird thing to say.
When Chris Pronger found out we had eight d-men ahead of him in the NHL99, he wanted to know who they were.
I cut a deal — I'd tell him if he guessed correctly. He did in order, and gave scouting reports/anecdotes about them. It was a blast.
The owner of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a soft, weird and stupid man whose only accomplishment is destroying what was handed to him, so the Trump endorsement makes sense.
Re: the Coyotes, I keep coming back to this — I feel bad for their fans, but every single stadium deal on the books, going back decades, has been a complete and utter grift, and I respect Tempe for calling bullshit when their time came.
they’re handing out Kit Kats at Sheldon Keefe’s house tonight. doesn’t sound like those are Marner’s favorite — he’s a Twizzlers guy — and frankly, you gotta wonder what that means for Keefe moving forward.
Truly disgusting and shameful stuff going on at the Post-Gazette, a great newspaper owned and run by toxic, racist losers.
Solidarity to the many, many, many good and talented people who work there.
🚨Woah. It appears that **Giant freakin' Eagle** has "made the decision to halt sales of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .... until the publication demonstrates an equal commitment to all those in the communities it serves."
“why does anybody care about the royal wedding? why would anyone waste their time?” i say as i settle in for the 44th of 162 yearly three-hour baseball games.