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Canucks turn down an offer from Pittsburgh for JT Miller as the return was all draft picks. Interesting as it indicates the Nux are not in 'tear it down and rebuild' mode. Risky, but probably the right policy as they'd risk wasting Pettersson, Hughes and the young Russian contingent's best years.
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- Mar 2008
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- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until I can forgive them for hiring Jose), Liverpool, and Dortmund
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I was in LA this week visiting family so a steady diet of Kings games (3 games during the last 6 days), including seeing the game against Columbus at the now named Crypto.com arena. I have not watched a lot this season but the broadcast featured some new trick, or new to me, where there are black line tracers that follow the puck during power plays and during over time. This was so annoying. Way worse than Fox's glowing ring around the puck back in the day.
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- Mar 2008
- 7575
- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until I can forgive them for hiring Jose), Liverpool, and Dortmund
- Del Taco
They used it when the Kings had a power play and only when the Kings had possession of the puck. Then they used it for both teams during OT, as you can see from that footage (esp. since the Kings barely had possession during OT).
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After Wisconsin won the Women's title for the seventh time (defeating Ohio State in the final), the men's tournament starts today
BU have jumped out to an early lead against Western Michigan in the first game
Full bracket here
https://twitter.com/followthepuck/status/1637604578060279815?s=61&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostHP's lads doing a bit better than mine
Men's Hockey finally a BIG sport
PSU will either figure out how to beat Michigan and it will be the greatest win in the program’s history by far or, more likely, we’ll get blown out by them again and it will just be a bummer ending to a season that looked so promising in the fall.
PSU just doesn’t have the high end NHL-caliber talent that Michigan or Minnesota have.
It could be worse. We could be Wisconsin. They did get high end talent and finished 37th in the pairwise and then fired Tony Granato as coach.
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Youth sports are messed up.
One in a series by Westhed and others about how one of the top youth leagues in the country is full of corruption - parents buying teams or at least the right to run the team. 10 year-olds' hockey is not bringing in a lot of revenue, obviously, so they're doing it just to give their kid more ice time (presumably).
https://www.tsn.ca/hockey-canada/for...nces-1.1942040
And then there's this Cohen Brothers-esque character.
https://www.startribune.com/white-be...uit/600264852/
Olson worked as a paid employee of the nonprofit hockey association and oversaw charitable gambling, including sales of pull-tabs, electronic pull-tabs, paddle tickets and raffles. The money raised helps defray costs for the association, which serves about 800 kids.
Charitable gambling accounts for a big part of the association's fundraising. A 2021 audit found gambling produced more than $31.9 million in revenue, $4.6 million in net revenue and $871,362 in profits. In 2022, under Olson's management, total gambling profits dropped to $680,387, despite an increase in revenue.
Trouble began brewing in May 2022, when the board approved opening a bingo hall. Olson, who was paid a salary of $129,000 last year, said with the added responsibility she would need a raise, but none was approved at that time.
I'm not sure what pull-tabs are or the difference between revenue and net revenue in that sentence, but that's a lot of money for raffles.
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The NCAA final will be Minnesota Golden Gophers vs the Fightin' Pollsters of Quinnipiac (Bobcats). In Tampa.
Minnesota and it's NHL-pick-stacked roster beat BU and it's somewhat less-stacked roster with a big third period. Q beat Michigan and it's absurd roster, which is great because Michigan's whole thing is insufferable.
Quinnipiac seems to have lot of players who were born in the US but played Junior A in western Canada.
Good season for BU. They, as well as BC, have been in the doldrums for a while.
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