In an ideal world, Tom Wilson’s suspension would have been upheld. But the moment Austin Watson had his suspension reduced, it became painfully obvious this would be the outcome. Neither should have had their suspension reduced. But the NHL is dumb and they have no one to blame for this fiasco other than themselves…

By the book, the refs handled it correctly. The Canucks had possession of the puck, but it falls under the “scoring chance” grey area.

Seconded.

Paul Heyman should have a statement out about his client soon.

Buzzfeed didn’t refer to them as witnesses, so that’s probably on Deadspin.

I don’t think you read the original article.

“Kate (the Uber driver in question) also said she told five people about the alleged incident soon after it happened. BuzzFeed News corroborated basic details of Kate’s account with all five individuals, who all declined to be named in order to protect Kate, in addition to…

The driver confided in 5 individuals.

Bonds immediately comes to mind. And I think Beltre didn’t have a good enough early portion of his career. It was good, but not Hall of Fame good. Post-30 though, he’s been outstanding.

Yeah, they’re not a terrible team. Also, I enjoy how apparently it’s their analytics department’s fault Jonathan Huberdeau, Nick Bjugstad and Aleksander Barkov all missed pretty significant time due to injuries. And Aaron Ekblad got concussions and was mishandled by his coach. Very few teams can lose their top center,…

From what I understand, that departure was inevitable. Gallant and the front office had huge differences. If your coach and your GM aren’t on the same page, guess who’s winning that battle every time? The one who has the authority to fire the other.

Contract has finally ended, so no, he’s not. But LOL NHL for letting someone getting paid to play hockey be a part of the Department of Player Safety.

They’re trying to cheap shot their opponents into submission. Either that or Pronger will teach the players how to demand trades.

I can’t see the Golden Knights keeping Marchessault past this year. Heck, he might never play a game for them. Marchessault was a fringe NHLer before the 2016-17 season and then, suddenly, 30 goals. People will pay a premium for scoring. Find an idiot and get a first or second round pick for him.

I’m still trying to figure out why McPhee didn’t just take Sami Vatanen or Josh Manson from the Ducks. I like Shea Theodore, but McPhee literally passed on two quality defensemen, both of whom would immediately be the best defenseman on the Golden Knights’ blue line. That (along with the whole Erat and Latta for…

Right away? Considering Nolan Patrick is the only lock to be an NHL regular right off the bat, not very good. But down the line, they could be pretty good. I don’t get why everyone thinks this draft is so bad, other than if you just compare it to the past two, which were extremely deep.

So why didn’t an NHL team sign Martin Erat just to expose him to the Golden Knights? That would have been A+ trolling and an automatic GM of the Year award.

Schilling has a pro-ketchup on his sock agenda.

Guessing his agent is Paul Heyman?

I emailed Jonah, asking him for some advice about doing a trade value rankings for another sport. Jonah Keri is a very awesome person, and he said Bill had a legitimate issue with him doing the MLB trade value rankings.

Here’s a transcript of the Florida interview. None of these questions seem dumb. http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=128718