Compete Level

Cacophony wrote: ↑Tue Feb 24, 2026 10:09 pm Connor Helebyuck medal of freedom recipient

practice wrote: ↑Tue Feb 24, 2026 2:01 pm Isn't there a good chance that the speech is like 2.5+ hours long? It feels like an appropriate punishment for all these guys if so, I bet they so rarely have to endure boredom or sitting still without a phone

watching either Tkachuk forced to sit still for so long would be a fun consolation

US Men’s Team is attending the State of the Union :babcock: At least I have zero intention of subjecting myself to it. I’m trying to think of it as “We just played for our country and now we get to be honored by it” but it’s clear these assholes are psyched for Trump. In a twist, Kyle Connor is ska...

(not that those guys see any disrespect to the office)

I could buy the "we respect the office of the president and are honoured by the invitation" if the fucking president himself has spent more than a decade disrespecting the office itself.

A bunch of guys laughing about "having to invite the women's team too" was shitty.

Never meet your heros, etc but allowing Patel into the room was never going to lead to good things

Grand Moff Larkin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 10:51 am

As players roared when the president shouted out Connor Hellebuyck for his masterpiece in earning the United States its third men’s hockey gold medal, Hellebuyck yelled, “How you doing, Don?”

Aww booo

Bring back message boards. I recently Wayback Machined a couple of message boards I was involved in 2+ decades ago and got some good feels and memories of that kind of communication.

sutterfamily wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 9:18 am Like, feels kinda nuts but Canada had almost no secondary scoring from forwards almost the entire tournament (not counting France, obv)

Yup, this was noticeable to me -- I probably heard the names of those three, Sid, and Wilson probably as much as I heard the rest of the forward group together.

Sorry dude

I’m hoping the same for Hellebuyck, given his parents seem like actual nice people but who knows

I dunno man, the screenshot I’ve seen is Larkin holding the camera with him, his medal and Patel. Apparently he shouts Kash out by name so

Cool that Kash Patel is partying with the boys, per Dylan Larkin’s IG live

Well we now know that Hellebuyck CAN win big games

Of course, it was always going to be this way

Good lord

Jesus chrost

How many men did the USA get away with

Nate how do you miss that

Oh man that Helle save

Beauty shot