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https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1185619666150068224 Kind of makes Marner look like small potatoes. .023% of the cap per point.

It's good to see that "If we don't get what we want from elections, we're going to turn to separatism" is becoming the watch word of every angry baby in Canada.

This is more or less word for word the justification people used for Pogge over Rask.

I think anytime someone sticks to a principle of theirs it's a show of integrity, provided it's genuine. Even someone like Tim Thomas, who I think was wrong and misguided, at least seemed like a genuine nutjob instead of an opportunist. But as CtB has pointed out this isn't an issue of...

The latter. But to be crystal clear, I don't use "endorsement" to  mean like a full-throated statement of ideological unity but even just a "I don't find this person sufficiently repellent enough to be nowhere near him" sort of thing. The point I was making with Bush and the Heat was that I...

It'll apparently be Samsonov in net tonight for the Caps.

Just to be clear, I very much mean the opposite. While attending may not be an explicit endorsement of the President, I think it still is. And to be emphatic, I in no way think that Trump is smart enough to know that this isn't an endorsement of himself personally.

"The League" has no authority beyond the will of the owners and I don't think there's any actual mechanism here by which the league could enforce such a policy. If owners wanted the practice to stop, they'd stop the practice. But that ignores that most owners are conservative Billionaires or...

I don't have a problem with that either but I do think that absent something like that, it is valuable to see where people stand on these things.

Also, leaving aside whether or not it's a bad thing for Athletes to take political stances(it's not) the idea that Trump has made the event so toxic that leagues should avoid it altogether just normalizes his behaviour. With a President with even a hint of decorum it's a non-issue for everyone...

Well, and that's the thing. It's not that he makes it about politics necessarily, it's that he's incapable of viewing anything outside of the realm of personal aggrandisement. Everything is a reflection of him and he says as much. As much as I dislike George W. Bush, I don't think he ever...

This is why it's so bogus to say players should go irrespective of politics. Previous Presidents would crack a joke or two, talk about the importance of teamwork and then shake hands. Any team that visits the current White House is turned into a prop as the idiot talks incomprehensibly about...

The fact that teams went during both Bush administrations as well as the Clinton and Obama years is a pretty good sign that the current issue isn't about "politics" or picking a political side or even about a particular President's policy decisions. Nobody is objecting to White House visits...

If this were the first instance of them having a pretty large ethical blindspot at the intermingling of ethics and money interests I might buy that but it's not.

It's passing on pro-regime viewpoints uncritically and unsourced. You can't just put "people say..." in front of propaganda and get to claim it's "just reporting".

I don't know if scoring a bunch of goals on McDavid's wing early in the season proves anything definitively but it is a little weird how quickly Calgary gave up on Neal.

Hmmm. It's almost as if running what should be a journalistic enterprise as a tech start-up means the bosses will ultimately side with potential sources of new capital over ethical standards. If only someone had seen it coming. But who? Who could possibly have been wise, and handsome, enough to...

Obviously we saw a lot of configurations over the years the Sundin and Roberts played on the Leafs but I don't remember Roberts spending a ton of time on Sundin's wing. It was Hoglund primarily in the early years.

https://twitter.com/SanJoseSharks/status/1181698499487813633

Fun fact: Nick Suzuki is related to David Suzuki. Not a very exciting lineup for the Habs this year but it's a pretty balanced top 3 lines.