As someone who wore a Toronto hat in your (awesome) LF bleachers in game 2, just having Miller is enough to swing a series.

I agree, in the sense it’s almost too easy to make fun of a hobby designed for 10 year olds that is only carried on by 50 year olds who get off on imagining bizarre financial gains and/or sneering at said 10 year olds in their shops.

hooray for promotion truthing

Do you count multiples? I’m guessing Messier’s went in every time.

Same reason we have to know the university of every NFL player.

You keep saying “today’s NHL”, but it’s been that way at least since the end of the Gretzky Oilers.

The Sabres won’t have to “give up” a home game financially: The league pays the “home” team for the Winter Classic as much as they’d get from a home sellout, and then the league gets the rest.

Looking at off the court matters, with the US dollar as it is, if you’re MLSE and you want to do a fire sale/rebuild, now’s the time to avoid spending.

LeBrun’s great. Burnside gets a little Toronto Sun in his reasoning (his anti-other outdoor game thing was bizarre) but he knows his stuff.

Melrose is a third-rate Don Cherry impersonator whose only real accomplishment beyond playing was having Gretzky drag him to the finals only to be outsmarted by Jacques Demers.

Liked his writing, though it was tainted by the fact it was on ESPN’s weird NESN-light side site.

That was the thing with mid 90s to mid 2000s: If your team was good, it was great, hard hitting hockey. If your team sucked (Montreal fan here, they definitely did), you were watching 1-0/2-0 games with guys holding each other more than hitting.

Parity’s toned down most of the rivalries too much, but a random regular…

Added bonus: Ignoring adds nothing to the page, and if everyone does it, it doesn’t show up. Complaining only gets more people complaining about complaining, so a complainer is probably giving about 50 page views instead of 0.

spolier alert: he was a nice guy, Nicole was, at the same time, a total ignoring skank and a clingy nag, and even in the hypothetical he doesn’t “remember” after plunging the knife in.

spolier alert: he was a nice guy, Nicole was, at the same time, a total ignoring skank and a clingy nag, and even…

He wrote it on a gigantic advance about 10 years ago. The scandal forced the book to be pulped and the Goldmans were able to get the rights to it to satisfy the bankruptcy judgment they’re owed.

The book is OJ complaining about how his relationship went downhill, and then one chapter is his “hypothetical” of how it…

He wrote it on a gigantic advance about 10 years ago. The scandal forced the book to be pulped and the Goldmans…

If it is implied in my sentence that the Nordiques didn’t deserve to be ignored, that’s definitely not my intention.

I’d put Yzerman ahead, but after looking it up it’s a surprisingly tough call (the author did a piece somewhere else about how tough it was).
 
One factor is how hidden most of Sakic’s Quebec years were: despite today’s retro nostalgia, you couldn’t pay someone in English Canada to watch a Nordiques game until ‘93 or so.

I really don’t understand why you keep throwing in “American” as if it’s any sort of weight on the rankings.

He does make an appearance on a list in the book...you won’t regret the $6 to find out where.

This. It’s a fun read, especially as a time burner on a flight or something, and there’s some great facts and fun lists. They also don’t take themselves too seriously.

Really recommend people buy it.

His Montreal years were incredible, and he was a consistent all star in Chicago as well.