Eleven

I have this weak feeling in my stomach that US/CAN are going to continue to dominate group play, and then the Nordics are going to turn it up a notch, as they almost always do. This tournament will be won by some country with a flag that involves a cross and the color blue.

Yes.

NHLN is the worst. Also, I feel bad for Austria, although they did give us the Habsburgs and Hitler. NM, I take it back; I don't feel sorry at all.

So I just ran into the family of Indy 6th round rookie DT Curtis Brooks. Really nice people! Since Allen isn’t playing, I’m gonna root for the kid to get a bunch of sacks and make the team.

Hey @bob_sauve28 that was a perfect title change, thanks!

The crowd who is into this stuff was empowered/emboldened recently. Anyway, not sure this counts as the Amerks themselves *having* a racist incident, more like *responding to* one. Glad they did.

Hey @dudacekwhat happened to these threads?

I'd kiss @Hank on the forehead. Maybe even his cheek.

G-string?

A lot of us can't wear US flag stuff or fly US flags anymore because of the way it's been co-opted by certain groups. It's been this way since about 2003-4. Like @Weave, I'm sorry this phenomenon has been exported northward. EDIT: I miss my US flag swim trunks, but let's not pretend that I'd fit into them today, either!

Yeah, it's terrible. I've been to the Chautauqua Institute. (I've never had the kind of money it takes to maintain an apartment there, though!) It was always a safe space for open discussion about the arts, religion, politics. It was kind of a fun place when one was in an intellectual mood. Until about three hours ago. Now it is as broken as a Tops on Jefferson or an apartment in Louisville. It is horrible. Horrible. And wow--your family had a place there! That--we must talk--is incredible.

Salman Rushdie has been stabbed at Chautauqua. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62524922

This is a characteristic I think I see in Granato, too. It'll take a little while longer to evaluate him, of course, but I think I see this.

Good idea; me too.

Oh, please. No one's believing the false naiveté. And the only thing that hasn't worked out in my life so far is marriage. No need to feel sorry. It could have been, but it isn't. It's a countermovement (per above).

None of that addresses the point. What happened to you, anyway?

Because the symbol of a countermovement borne from hatred for an initial movement dedicated to prevent the killing of innocent black people is probably not worthy of a hockey team's support. But you knew that. Anything more belongs in a politics thread. Preferably on 4chan or truth social. But you knew that, too.

This is the one.

Can someone explain the hashtag to me? AFAIK, Robin Lehner is decidedly NOT "Vegas Born."

Umm? The Monday part of Monday? All I know is I read something saying the series finale is Monday.

Next Monday

Chicago managed it. Edmonton is managing it. But it is better to swing and connect on a couple of early contracts. Cozens just isn't going to be one of them--there is no incentive for him right now.

So art shrines, which save exactly as many lives as sports shrines, are more worthy? Seriously, where are you going here?

Inquiries into the giving activities of the wealthy seem to inevitably result in this type of goalpost moving, which is exactly why the initial shot across the bow of the Pegula yacht (not by you) was not in good faith. There are tons of kids who skate at HarborCenter, which I doubt is profitable. There are tons of events at Kleinhans Music Hall, and I am certain that isn’t profitable. Maybe someday someone will give a momentous speech at Pegula Arena or whatever it’s called at Penn State, like MLK once did at Kleinhans. Maybe not. Either way, I think it is doubtless that the wealthy contributing to cultural institutions—whether the culture be sport, music, visual arts, etc.—is noble. Sorry it’s not a hospital this time.

They have. Those causes are Penn State athletics, Buffalo pro sports, and Buffalo COVID relief, as far as we know. Now someone will ask why they aren't donating publicly to a food bank or building a hospital instead. It never ends. I wonder whether the same questions were asked of Mary Seaton Kleinhans (who directed her funds to cultural institutions rather than hospitals) or Ralph Wilson (who wasn't exactly philanthropic while on this side of the dirt).