My dad found himself next to Sugar Ray Leonard at the urinals of a Rockville Pike restaurant in the late 80s and told Sugar Ray he thought Hagler had won the fight. Dad was probably lucky to walk out in one piece.

At the risk of sticking up for Billy, he’s not arguing Messi has nothing left to give to Argentina, but rather that the team assembled around him won’t be doing him any favors, no matter which generation. Are there high-quality players not being brought in, outside of Aguero? Maybe, I’m not up-to-speed on their best…

“Still though, at anytime I control everything about the direction my life faces.”

“He is a Family Guy script Pinnochio’d into a real man”

Starring Liam Neeson in his comeback role as Agent Craig Landis

It’s unlikely, and probably foolish on several levels, but Vlad Jr would earn my all-time love and devotion if he refused to show up and play for Buffalo.

I don’t know, it was a weird series. The Canucks hadn’t really had any problems scoring in the playoffs and then scored 8 goals in 7 games (4 in the last 5, outscored 23-8 in the series) yet somehow won 3 of those. I’m not well-versed enough to know how much Malhotra’s injury might have affected them, but it seems…

I hope he enjoys his settlement check for $1.50.

The possible Pens-Lightning first round matchup would be incredible. And would mean no possible Caps-Pens 2nd round series, which I can’t decide if that’s good or bad.

“That’s pretty much it for your season.”

At first I thought maybe the stick hit the top of the glass hard enough to have caused a cascading effect, but no it looks like it was mostly his elbow, damn.

Pivonka got a good shot in there before the gloves came off and almost one more at the 0:38 mark.

The former with a heavy dose of Canadian players and teams and with foreign players still somehow subjected to getting drafted alongside players from college and Junior hockey.

The only plausible answer is “hot goalie” but even then i have a hard time seeing it. If Nashville played great, maybe they could take them to 6 games?

oh hell yeah

I used to hold the biggest balls
Deep inside my castle walls,
Spend my nights with concubine-
Wasted, unchaste, drunk on blood red wine.
Being the king was pretty cool,
I’d have to say that ruling ruled
And I’d be in throne still
Had I not one day fallen ill.

“I might coach ball....But I will never sign that!”

I played a ton of games from the 1991 season on our Commodore 64. I’m sure there’s still some print-outs of team stats and standings in a box somewhere.

This was great, I had never heard of this story before. Coincidentally (?), the 1981 Strat-o-matic set was the first one my dad ever ordered for me, so I spent a lot of time obsessing over Dwight Evans and his league-leading 22 HRs (and his defensive rating of “1" in RF) and overusing Mark Clear because he could…