God, Jeff Carter on the Blue Jackets. There’s a fraction of a season I’m sure we’d all have preferred not to remember..

It’s been 22 years since the franchise was announced, and nearly 19 since their first season. Geoff Sanderson played for them!

I see your point, but it seems clear from Deadspins choice to cover MMA (etc, and the NFL for that matter) that they do not see systemic brain injury issues in a sport as a non-starter.

I agree. I think the problem at this point is that the league is unable/unwilling to step in and regulate the sort of behaviour that fighting is supposed to address. Which we see here with Chara’s height functioning as a free headshot pass, instead of being something he’s supposed to manage in order to play within the…

I am of the opinion that The Institution of Fighting in Hockey is Bad, but, Derek Boogaard is not, and likely could not be, in the league today.

Kesler had to go back into a two-way/checking role and had far too many miles on him by the time the Finals rolled around (he suffered a bad hip injury in the conference finals, was a shadow of himself in the finals and had offseason surgery and missed months afterwards - but even before that his scoring was basically…

My point exactly.

I mean they added “depth” but not in a meaningful way (they were making all the cap space they could all season long, and probably could not add a better player than Lapierre one way or the other, but still).

Don Cherry’s going to cream his garish suit pants when some guy hacks Kucherov down in game 3 of the Conference Finals and there isn’t even a whistle

I can’t read those BriseBois quotes and not think about Manny Malhotra, who was a huge part of the 2010-11 Canucks, just a beast in his own zone who gave the team an extremely effective checking line and freed up Ryan Kesler (and the Sedins) for almost pure scoring roles.

Lundqvist is a sure-thing Hall-of-Famer

The weirdest part of all of this is that veganism was brought up by someone other than a vegan. 

Just like Winnipeggers who live on Priority III streets, am I right folks?

LOL, “bricked shoes,” that’s fucking glorious. 

Prescient

I thought he only did that for the Celtics

Thanks. Yeah Bernie’s flaws are absolutely real, and beyond the whole 77 year old president thing, valid reasons not to support him. Personally (relative to the US political center) I’d go Left over virtually anything else, but like I said it’s disappointing that he actually fills a gap in that respect.

As a foreigner who loves themselves enough not to follow 2020 election stuff yet, this is an earnest question: who?

They’re upwards of $400 at that resort. 

“When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong”