The NHL used to give up Jack Schitt to expansion teams.

Expansions teams don’t have to be bad, its the fact that THIS team, made of players mostly picked to get to a salary floor, and acquire future picks to build with, shouldn’t be HERE. 65-70 point season with some sparks from the unwanted players? LIKELY, 8th seed, going down 4-1 in the 1st round? SURE why not, 2nd…

Under these rules, the Flames might still be in Atlanta.

What is happening is not replicable. Even with a slightly more generous expansion draft (which is a bullshit excuse, btw), you have to hit every single move out of the park and get career years from everyone involved. This is pure insanity.

I don’t understand firing an oddsmaker for this, or for when Leicester City won at like 5000-to-1 odds. Sure it’s terrible short term for a sportsbook, but it’s great in the long run. How many people do you think are going to put down $100 on Seattle at 500-to-1 after this Vegas run? Every expansion team or cellar…

If Vegas wins the Cup, it’ll only be second to the Miracle On Ice as the most improbable underdog story in hockey history.

A lot of people made token homer picks for the Knights to win the Cup when the odds were 500-1 in preseason. Sports books stand to lose a LOT of money if that happens.

Quite the opposite - Vegas is losing their collective ass because this team can’t stop winning.

i heard that too but I swear they said Yanni

Interesting. I saw a similar story but heard they were moving it to Yanny.

Well obviously they need a few hundred million in tax dollars to build a new dirt oval.

Except this was probably the exact reason he was brought in: to lend his reputation as a wall against public opinion as the other owners took a look at Jeff Loria’s exploits and said, “Hold my aged cognac.”

Everyone’s making it about guns (which is obviously an issue) but we’ve had guns in this country since, like, its inception. But mass shooting after mass shooting like this? Something has changed.

George Carlin, too.

Shades of Bill Hicks’ weather forecast from the LA riots.

There’s also something societal happening here. When Columbine happened, it was earth-shattering shit because school shootings weren’t some normal thing. But we’ve literally had two Columbines in the 1st half of this year alone.

All of these teen shooters were born in a post-Columbine society.

It’s America, dude. We’re a fucked up society that’s beyond hope.

I’m a sport / target shooter (not a hunter). I would so very gladly give up my guns if the government could magically get all the guns out of everyone’s hands (except police / military). But seeing as how that genie doesn’t seem like it is ever going back in the bottle, the next most logical (to me) step is to…

This is funny because a group of old friends are planning a summer trip, and we picked a major U.S. city none of us had been to that was roughly in the middle of where we all live. We settled on Minneapolis, so obviously we wanted to go see a Twins game. We excitedly checked the schedule to discover they are playing…

Most NFL fans probably can’t name more than 10% of the non-skill players on their own teams.