Pause, count to seven, press play

Their quarters run in 2015 underlies how good that team probably was, too.

They blew up against England with two terrible mistakes defending in the first 15 minutes in a game they were almost definitely the better team in.

She went left because the puck went left. Players are allowed to play the puck; they don’t have to just let the goalie pick cover it because the goalie wants to.

Players are allowed to get between the goalie and the puck. Some might say they are supposed to do this. The forward doesn’t have to just let the goalie cover it when they’re outside the crease.

Rigsby initiates contact by lunging out to try to cover the puck; to me it’s the definition of incidental.

So’s Hakeem Olajuwon.

C’mon man.

Does he project worse than, say, Pascal Siakam?

The flying spaghetti monster is a hockey mascot.

k.d. lang killed it too.

Sam Bennett of the Calgary Flames famously failed to do a single pull-up at the NHL Draft Combine:

Just for clarification, the Super Bowl airs on two channels in Canada: the American channel hosting it (FOX, CBS, NBC or whoever) and the Canadian broadcaster rights (CTV I believe).

At issue here is that Canadians watching the game on the American network received the Canadian commercials airing on the Canadian…

I was in Portland for the Western Hockey League Finals in 2014, and with an off-day before Game 1 of our series set to go at the Moda Center and a freshly received tax return in the thousands of dollar, considered getting tickets (potentially very nice ones) to that evening’s Trailblazers vs. Rockets playoff contest.

I…

The thing about those guys and Juolevi is that none of them were in the CHL this year, and the Marek thing reads to me like they’re talking about a player who was there this season (this may not necessarily be the case — just how I read it)

Neither Anaheim nor New Jersey is a “very, very prominent” team though.

Logan Brown strikes me as a decent bet based on the evidence (Ottawa pick, first rounder, minimal improvement in scoring year over year, an OHL GM is much more likely to be the source for Marek), but my out of nowhere guess would be German Rubtsov.…

The province didn’t pay a lick for Edmonton’s arena. They didn’t even pitch for the community rink, so the city had to cover that too.

As for how much the city paid for, the cost of the building needs to be paid as the building is built: materials need to be purchased, wages paid, etc. Katz’ portion is being paid…

1-0. You score by being CLOSER to the pin. No one was closer here, so no score. If it were second shot, the second stone wouldn’t be closer than the opponent’s stone, so 1-0.

It could have something to do with the fact that all those brown people come from countries that get to vote on this sort of thing ...

The other interesting thing is that it probably worked out perfectly in the long: Zagitova skated a harder routine, Medvedeva skated a beautiful one, and they ended up tied for it. The strengths cancelled out on two excellent skaters, and really, that’s probably good result.

The thing is that Zagitova’s scores weren’t that amazeballs (Osmond’s components were also better, for example). They were strong, and they should have been because she’s a good skater, but it’s that she had such a big lead (1.3 points on the short, then another 3 points on the long technical) that Medvedeva basically…

I mean, they kind of did. Medvedeva was 2.5 points down on Zagitova on technical rating, and they finished tied overall for the free skate. So she made it all back on artistry and components, which is pretty impressive. It’s just a really hard gap to make up with component scores unless your opponent is really not…