Compete Level

MacKinnon ate a slice of pizza in a moment of weakness after Canada’s loss and has checked himself into rehab

Saw a picture of five of the US players with Karoline Leavitt and someone else, Tage Thompson was wearing a MAGA hat

I'm really beginning to miss when NHL players refused to talk about anything other than hockey cliches

Crosby’s out at least four weeks, I think that cooks the PNES’ playoff chances

Matthews and a 4th maybe

Schaefer and Celebrini seem like “they’d only be traded for each other and there’s no point to doing that”

Sam Malinski basically took Girard’s spot as Colorado’s undersized second-pair D

Trade freeze is lifted, surprised Kulak returned this much

[COL/PIT] Brett Kulak for Samuel Girard and 2028 2nd round pick

I got to watch the final game with my parents (late 70s) and son (now 18!) and it kinda felt like it could be the last time we get to experience something like that together. I can't even be mad about the outcome. All time classic game in my opinion, right up there. I remember taking the 2009 Stanl...

I'm sure the Sharks are hearing offers for Celebrini after his Olympics

US Men’s Team is attending the State of the Union



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.

I can’t imagine that many of the US players had a good game in terms of xG, given how much Canada caved them in for two periods. I don’t think Quinn Hughes, Faber, McAvoy, Werenski, or Sanderson looked back out there at all.

I wonder how hard it was for guys like Suzuki and Horvat to get their rhythm playing 10-11 minutes

And, you know, I guess I could go to blue sky but I feel that it's less the platform than the medium? Just the absolute worst way to communicate. My oldest came upstairs just before this while I posting about the olympics (she's home sick from school) and asked what I was doing and I told her I was...

Marner was better in the earlier games in my opinion. Forgot about Jarvis, he looked pretty good yesterday. I didn’t think they got much down the middle past McDavid — needed to have MacKinnon drive his own line.

My takeaways: 1. US PK was huge. Larkin winning the draw on the 5 on 3, all the hard work from Trocheck and Miller. I basically assumed Canada would score at least one on that but they didn’t really get any A+ chances. 2. I felt like the middle six for Canada didn’t show up that much, which is proba...

MacKinnon: “You be the judge of who was the better team today”

I feel for some of the Canadian guys but not him, enjoy your stuffed animal Nate

I do think there’s a difference between being actively MAGA and just not political enough to be against the head of the FBI being in the room (or Trump calling, for that matter). My guy is that for most of those dudes it’s just “Wow this guy is here and I got introduced to him and also just won gold...

To this point I’d assumed Larkin was just a blank slate up there