I still think that GMs and the sports world in general place too much value on the concept of clutch, something that has always been a knock against #29 in any conversation about the goalie. I don’t buy that, but others do, and if you roll off a playoff performance where you were clutch through and through, it could…

The Sens don’t win without an incredible performance by Anderson, but they also don’t win if the refs call this game like it’s supposed to be called. The Sens success has less to do with their 1-3-1 and more to do with the clutching, grabbing, and interference that killed hockey’s product in the late 90s.

I wonder if this is a longer term game than just this series. If you a) feel that Murray gives you an even chance to win relative to Fleury, and b) you think that your team’s defense is at a point where it’s giving him no protection, and c) you know that you have to deal him before the expansion draft....then there’s…

the retool is easy - get Letang back.

This sounds a lot like having an enforcer in hockey. But there are two huge differences that make it a bad idea:

She has a bright future at United Airlines in front of her.

the pens can’t send the caps packing fast enough. should washington advance, the whole playoffs is cheapened by the dirty crosby play (both ovechkin and niskanen’s involevment). they faced no consequences (sorry, losing matty nisk for a game and a 5-min penalty is essentially no consequences given 87's impact) and…

YESSSS

Great hot take on something that you admit you have zero insight into. Stats show that a little more than 35% of hockey fans are women. If that translates directly into attendance, which it probably doesn’t (per the Oilers, playoffs skew towards male attendees), then the move is justified. Add in that the female head…

This whole Trump presidency is awful. But this post is awful too.

He’s absolutely right, and basketball isn’t a sport that suffers from a lack of offense - it suffers from a lack of defense. If they made both sides of the game more even by calling things like travelling, you might have a less top-heavy league, where only offensive talent seems to matter, and only a few teams can…

As someone who pays dues to USA Hockey, I think this whole story is a bunch of PC-bullshit literally taking money from me. Hear me out:

Two different questions here - 1) would you kill him, 2) would you kill him if you knew you’d be killed after.

There’s a ton of venom in the comment thread, which isn’t surprising - that’s the way any thread talking about wealthy people goes.

you wear a real pair of gloves, then this doesn’t happen. this is methot’s doing- there’s an upside to less equipment because you get a better feel. however, you wear big padded gloves for a reason - because it’s legal to whack a stick 3 inches away from where it’s illegal to whack a set of hands.

also lacking context from your article - schumer’s motivation here is to get republicans to change the law for confirmations to require only a simple majority as opposed to a 60-vote threshold.

this is the kind of stuff that convinces me (a skeptic of much of the current feminist movement) that even though i don’t see it on a daily basis, women have to deal with old farts like this on a regular basis, and it must be brutal.

Ehrmagerd, I did something on national tv and a few of the hundreds of millions of people on social media trolled me. Apparently some people are mean-spirited! Must be a reflection of how society is going to shit! Or, maybe, not turning from shit into a diamond fast enough!

Worse than hearing deadspin staff’s thoughts on politics: hearing deadspin readers’ thoughts on politics.

counting the number of times they mismanaged the clock in the 4th forgets what they were doing in the latter half of the third. when you’re up that big, you just need to end the game fast. they totally hillary’d this one for america.