Hockey

For over 30 years, the winner of the National Hockey League's top prize has gone to an American team. It's a sorry legacy for a country where ice hockey is not just a sport, but part of the national identity. About 40% of players in the NHL, across all teams, are Canadian - more than any other country.

Last year, the Oilers flopped during the final game of the seven-game series against the Florida Panthers.

It's a sore point for many Canadians that the league's most die-hard fans have gone so long without a trophy, and yet remain willing to spend big money and travel big distances to support their team.

Literally everytime

I don't think my body will survive this series.

The Oilers are 7-0 in game 4s when Stuart Skinner starts.

Please tell me someone else is watching this.

Not sure why ChatGPT added my bird but I said make it interesting and thats what we got

Florida coach Paul Maurice did not shake hands with the Carolina Hurricanes when the Eastern Conference final ended. And he asked Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour not to shake hands with the Panthers, either.

He has just said repeatedly throughout this postseason that he thinks the coaches shouldn’t be part of it — reiterating that after the Panthers eliminated the Hurricanes on Wednesday night, even going as far as convincing Brind’Amour to sit it out himself. In that moment, Maurice said, nothing should take the attention off the players on the two teams that just played a series.

“There’s something for me visually, with the camera on just the men who played, blocked shots, fought for each other, it’s end of one’s season, it’s excitement for the other,” Maurice said. “The last thing that a player on the Carolina Hurricanes deserves is 50 more guys in suits, they have no idea who they are and that’s not a negative. There’s something really kind of beautiful about just the camera on those men who played shaking hands. And we should respect that.”

Ovi really did grow into the leadership role, but there's something to be said for the knowledge that someone else would have been the NHL's best leader if opposing goalies had stopped four more of his shots than they actually did over the course of his career.

(Also Messier is enough of a blowhard that receiving his endorsement feels like a character attack.)

Nick Olesen scored with 49 seconds remaining in regulation and co-host Denmark stunned star-studded Canada 2-1 in quarterfinal action Thursday at the world hockey championship.

Un-fucking-real

It was announced Saturday afternoon that Brad Scheifele, father of Jets centre Mark Scheifele, had died the night before. Despite the news, the younger Scheifele suited up for the game against the Dallas Stars, scoring what would be the team’s final goal of the playoffs before they were eliminated in overtime.

After the news broke, the True North Youth Foundation received more than $65,000 in donations, mostly based around Scheifele’s No. 55 jersey number.

The foundation’s Dwayne Green told 680 CJOB’s The Start that donations based around 55 — like $5.55 or $55, or even $5,500 from both the Dallas Stars and food delivery company, Skip the Dishes — have been the order of the day.

Anyone interested in donating can do so at the foundation’s website.

Or do you still mostly hate us??