They would receive max funding from the Canadian Olympic program as high achievers, plus their popularity undoubtedly gives them good sponsorship cash.  I don’t imagine they’re rich, but more than comfortable enough to not need actual jobs.  

If you’re coming to Deadspin for a detailed technical break down of their performance, you’re doing it wrong.

What reggie said.  Also, despite being the greatest player ever, he was never great at breakaways.  He wasn’t bad like some will have you believe, but there were some who did it better.  

The vast majority of the players in this year’s tournament are pros, some of them make really good money too.  

In 1992, there was a great doc on the 20 year anniversary of the Summit Series that aired on CBC. In it, Clarke admits that the slash was intentional, but not necessarily the intended result.

If he were throwing a draw, sure.  At that weight, it was DOA.

Sweeping would have made no difference. He threw an in-turn, and sweeping would have made it miss even more. You can’t change the trajectory of the stone, you can only keep it straighter and drag it further.  They had to lay off and hope that it curled where they needed it to curl.  It didn’t.  

At least in 1998 when Canada got blanked in a shootout against the Czechs it was by arguably the greatest goalie of all time.

Montreal doesn’t really have any assets, period. 

But fucking is certainly a necessary part of their long program.

Same reason that so many actors hook up after playing love interests in a movie.  Julia Roberts alone makes the case.  

5) All of the above. 

Catherine the Great can’t have been the only one.  You’d be alright.  

If she’s like my mom, it’s because she has the time and energy to make a real effort more than once a week now that the kids are long gone.

Every now and then, I whip a back slap at a fly and connect.  Nothing feels better than smoking that fucker and seeing it hit a wall.  I’m a manly man.

It’s amazing how flat out oblivious people can be. They don’t have a clue that they’re rude or annoying.  Probably because most of us let them get away with it time after time.  

I can let it slide, as long as it’s quick, and once. Sometimes you gotta know if you can hold your pee to the end, or if you need to make a quick sprint in order to enjoy the rest of the movie without pain.

Or there’s a dink in his mouth.

I think you’re giving her way too much credit.  Sometimes things just suck, and suck hard.

The NHL is an entertainment product. The fact that this is one of your all time favorite moments means that the NHL was very good at its job. The fact that drunk NHL players picking teams is no longer a thing that happens is better evidence that the NHL isn’t very good at its job.