NFL Nuggets:
- All quiet on the NFL front today, so let’s take a look at why athletes should stay off social media:
- Le’Veon Bell aired some laundry about his feelings for Andy Reid.
- “I’d never play for Andy Reid again … I’d retire first.”
- That then led to current Chiefs piling on to Bell.
- For example, the Honey Badger:
- “These fellas will blame everybody for their lack of success. That’s how I know I’m built different.”
- For example, the Honey Badger:
- Le’Veon Bell aired some laundry about his feelings for Andy Reid.
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- Russell Wilson was disappointed that all the Seahawks drama played out in the press & on social media.
- “Obviously I love Seattle, I love playing here. I’ve had a great career here so far. I’ve always wanted to play here for my full career, obviously. I think there was some unfortunate frustrations after the season… and I think, unfortunately, I think it got a little blown out of proportion a little bit.”
- Russell Wilson was disappointed that all the Seahawks drama played out in the press & on social media.
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- Von Miller would like everyone to ignore social media, because the Broncos have Drew Lock! Until they don’t!
- “[Y]ou don’t want to get too emotionally attached to the rumors. . . . You start thinking, ‘Oh, we’re going to get Aaron Rodgers or Deshaun Watson. But hold on, wait a minute, we’ve got Drew Lock. That’s who we’re running with. That’s who we’re going into the season with until anything changes.”
- Von Miller would like everyone to ignore social media, because the Broncos have Drew Lock! Until they don’t!
NHL Semi-Finals Preview: Montreal vs. Vegas
Look, I’m the first to admit that this is not what I expected. The whole isolated divisions thing made the playoffs harder to predict. I wrote off Montreal twice in my North previews, and I picked Colorado to come out of the West. The only picks I had right from this conference were Vegas & Colorado winning their first-round matchups. This is why I write on the internet instead of live in Vegas & eat at the sports books.
So, it’s with that amount of humility
Montreal has every conceivable disadvantage up against them. They are a defensive team, which plays best when counterpunching. Their leading regular season scorer, Tyler Toffoli, finished 20 points behind Vegas’ leader, Mark Stone. On average, Montreal’s top-6 finished 16 points behind Vegas’ best players. Mind you, it hasn’t mattered as much in the playoffs since the Habs defence has been lights out since they started mounting their comeback halfway through Game 5 versus the Leafs. Shea Weber has been ridiculous since the playoffs began, finally justifying the decision to part ways with PK Subban three years ago. Third-line guys like Brett Kulak & Erik Gustafsson have contributed valuable third period minutes, keeping Montreal’s backline from breaking down late in games. And there’s nothing that can’t be said about what Carey Price has done. The man has carried this team further than their talent pool had any right going. I’ve said it before – when Dryden won, he had guys like Lafleur & Robinson to help him win six; Patrick Roy might have been a rookie in 1986, but he still had crafty vets like Larry Robinson & Bob Gainey to help drag a young team across the finish line. Carey Price has literally no one who could crack Vegas’ top-9, and yet here they are. This has been Hall of Fame worthy netminding at exactly the right time.
Coming at him will be the buzzsaw that beat down the Avalanche, most people’s consensus pick to take the Cup. Stone, Marchessault & former Hab Max Pacioretty just kept going at the Avalanche, eventually giving Grubauer the case of the yips people expected Fleury to have had by that point. Throw in William Karlsson and you have four quality forwards that keep their foot on the gas the full 60 minutes. Vegas also has the luxury of three solid defensive pairings, led by Alex Pietrangelo & Shea Theodore, who proved more than capable of keeping Nathan MacKinnon & company out of their end. And that was helpful, because the lack of pressure kept Marc-Andre Fleury from losing his marbles during the second round. Robin Lehner was the one who took that 7-1 beatdown in Game 1 versus Colorado, so the needle is still at 100 – for now.
It looks like a no-brainer on paper, but the way things have gone so far you can’t assume anything will go according to plan.
Prediction: Vegas in five.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Montreal at Vegas – 9:00pm | NBCSN / Sportsnet / CBC
- NBA:
- Philadelphia at Atlanta – 7:30pm | TNT / TSN4
- Utah at LA Clippers – 10:00pm | TNT / TSN4
- MLB:
- Cubs vs. Mets – 7:00pm | ESPN / TSN2
- Blue Jays vs. Red Sox – 7:00pm | Sportsnet1
- Futbol:
- Copa America 2021:
- Paraguay vs. Bolivia – 8:00pm | FS1 / TSN3 / UniMas
- Copa America 2021:
- WWE:
- Monday Night Raw – 8:00pm | USA / Sportsnet360
That is a good sporting lineup. Enjoy!
Lol
https://twitter.com/DisgruntledAth1/status/1404603204667465728?s=19
He can’t wear it when he jets off to Cancun.
Oh, FLag Day. Whew!
-K. Hart
Now who’s going to host the Oscars?!
Ugh, Ted
Real time horn!
Its loud baby!
Are you inside??
Nah. but I can see the feed from my window
Real time!
Knights have it
Good for them. Been a while.
Everyone says they party at New York New York if you want to talk to some bar flies about their life choices
Real time horn
The Clippers should cruise to an easy win here, but I’m not going to turn it off because the Clippers have proven more than capable of blowing these.
It is the second round after all…
found a cool:
https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/2180019
That is an excellent read.
Great article!
– Thomas Jefferson, sarcastically reacting to a section written by John Jay
I haven’t seen a Canadian Defense collapse like like since the 1778!
In fact checking this joke (it might not be 100% accurate) I found a Canadian site referring to the righteous future American good guy army as “rebel forces.” Just who do you think you are, Cananada?
When in Vegas, be sure to order “Elvis French Toast” with bananas and bacon:
That looks fucking amazing.
I feel like the PTSD dog meme every time I hear Alec Martinez
There it goes again
“Martinez to Suzuki” that’s how you know it’s a hockey game youre watching.
He’s probably not a big goal scorer or Chiariot of Fire would be a thing
Showing some shriveled up old raisins in attendance at the Vegas game… Oh wait, those were famous celebrities apparently.
I’m super out of touch, when did they decide that icing wasn’t a penalty for shorthanded teams?
It was a while ago I think, but I def remember it being called all the damn time in the early 90s
Nope, it’s been allowed ever since the icing rule was created, like the 1920s or so.
Well fuck, maybe I am misremembering but it does seem like it is called far less often than it was. I thought it was due to a rules tweak, but maybe teams just don’t do as much?
Granted, I am pretty sure that many of my memories from 7the grade are significantly off
There was some tweaks with the goalie handling the puck but no, short handed teams can always ice the pick without penalty.
Offsides was different for a while back in the 90s, no tagging up.
The first season I really followed hockey was when the Rangers broke their curse, and I do remember they had an offsides call that wasn’t but no more detail than that
Well back then they also had the Mullet Rule, where every time you didn’t have a mullet it was a penalty. Luckily that’s gone now.
There was also the “helmet rule” where if you wore a helmet they called you a…um, word that people other than Kobe Bryant don’t say much anymore. And he’s dead.
At that point there might have been one guy who was still grandfathered in to no helmet. Sorry had to look up cause real time horn
Craig MacTavish!
I guess we’re watching on a delay cause the horn went off well before we saw the goal on tv
You’ve got (presumably) cheaper beer. Worth the delay.
9.75 for a local but not great lager…Yeah, assuming that is better than in stadium
But not entirely reconciled to the real time horn…Less exciting when they’re attacking the net but I know it’s not a goal in the next 20 seconds or so
Ask if they have Missouri-Style lager
More like Para-Yay! 2 goals may salvage the day. Chase. That. Dragon.
Just like Spain except they can actually finish.
Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear and Grand Tour has a new series on Amazon Prime about his attempt to farm his thousand acres in the Cotswolds. I’m only halfway through the first of eight episodes and I have had a few laughs, probably will stick with it.
I was curious about that series. I enjoyed James May’s cooking show
Looks like they dropped the entire first season late last week. His lack of mechanical aptitude has featured heavily thus far.
I watched a couple of episodes of Oh Cook, but I am not a foodie and it just didn’t set the hook in me. I’ve watched his Japan show three times, though.
Loved our man in Japan. I hope they do more
I’ve heard great things about it. Going to try it tonite after all the great sportsing.
Fuck, should have carped more diem. That looks awesome
Are any of the scalpers getting desperate?
Check back with scalpers/online places after the midway point of the 1st. I’ve had limited luck getting in that way
I will say watching sports on the west coast, in Vegas in particular is far superior than anywhere else
Red card is my favorite colored card!
Shhhh, not so loud or else Andrew Jackson might hear you.
LET’S DO THAT HOCKEY!
ICE AND STICKS AND PUCKS
Pucks deep!
Damn I miss skating. Def heading out to the rink when I get home
I wonder if there’s a local hockey league for middle aged women who only know how to figure skate?
Toe pick
I loved that movie when I was a tween
I’m going to make a blind bet that D.B. Sweeney has gone full Q.
NOPE! He seems quite normal, in fact.
“Ooh! Haven’t heard of that one before, sounds like something to add to my repertoire!” – Nathan Peterman
“I have some videos I can send you.” — Rex Ryan
Female staff have shirts that say “Our cup size is Stanley”
Good day for Stanley.
I would be extra impressed if they made athletic supportive undergarments for men with the same message
Sure, but we’d want it customized. Mine would say “My cup size is Mayo”.
I’m sure that would go over well.
If people gave you shit about it you could say you had testicular cancer.
All the people with tickets are heading in so I snagged a bar seat. Drinking a Vegas BIg dog lager
Is it bad that I recognize that bar from the one time I made it out for a Vegas-NYR game?
It’s the only place nearby that’s allowed to be open during games apparently, so you good
Someone named “Ivory Hecker” is trending on twitter and if people weren’t making “ivory pecker” jokes about her throughout her entire life I will be tremendously disappointed in the youth of today.
Oh god it’s a project veritas “expose”. Twitter should be fun tomorrow
It sounds like they got her to mortgage her entire future in broadcasting for one of their nonsense productions.
Also, for the idiots in the back, local Fox affiliates do not equal Newscorp and Fox news.
“DEEZ KNIGHTS”
Lol
Philosophical objections to exorbitant resale fees are being severely challenged by my desire to go in the stadium and join the main party
If it makes you feel any better, my regular season ice tickets average out to 341 per game.
Every one of my bets was wrong today. Huzzah.
I just discovered that “Missouri-American-Style Lager” exists:
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Hey! How the heck are other people getting these to post? Are you just uploading them directly?
Overheard: guy speculating on how horrible it must be to be a Leafs fan
If you could hook that comment to my veins that would be wonderful!
Respect to the dudes in the gold lame‘ sport coats in this heat!
Dry heat.
Just like an EZ Bake oven!
“Oooh, where did he get it?” — Marc Bergevin
I smell a Dok Boots on the Ground! Or that’s the rubber melting off the tires.
Vegas in 3
Habs forfeit a game to go party in Lv
/Habs fan
I think its time to find a cold beer and a spot in the shade
It took all of 2 minutes and 35 seconds for the first (not) career-threatening injury to manifest itself.
I think I might get the shirt with the font that looks like ‘Degas’ I am in favor of IMpressionist hockey
Seriously though, how is it 110/43.3 and there’s an ice game about to be played? Surreal
One thing about this ESPN crew is that they’re all having a “Popping Bicep” contest yet the female host is the only one that can wear a sleeveless dress. She’s winning.
Pregame atmosphere woo!
One thing that bothers me about the Spanish Copa Male announcers and panelists: They wear nice suits but they wear black sneakers with a very bright white stripe in the sole. They may be sponsored because they wear the same shoes.
C’est très gauche!
People starting to congregate in front of the stadium. I’m gonna go loiter!
Scratch that, it is way too hot to loiter outside
I wouldn’t buy a scalper ticket right away. Many times people have been burned in Vancouver because the same bar code got sold ten times.
$20 for the third period is a good risk, especially if the game gets out of hand.