Rod sneakily built in a 35 pound cinderblock lift into the Canes offseason workouts, called it “Blue Collar Presses”, and the boys never thought anything of it…
Turns out he was having them practice lifting the Cup all season long 🤯🔥
(via @Canes)
I enjoy the @NHL playoffs, but the mute button gets a workout big time, especially when these guys are on. Both MacLean and Botterill are insufferable and Hrudey is not far behind.
.@Sportsnet, you need a complete overhaul on your product. It stinks.
One minute you have Ron “the Snake” MacLean rambling on about his sister’s kid in Oakville marrying a deli owner who used to be an Olympic-level curler, who makes the best pancakes he’s ever had.
The next minute you have Jennifer Botterill campaigning to make face washes a suspendible offense and crying about violent actions performed in an inherently violent sport in which everyone who plays does so by their own volition.
Finally, no Social Justice Night in Canada would be complete without Kelly Hrudey trying to score some leftist points by going on and on about his or a player’s “mental health”.
HNIC was an institution—something Canadians once considered a highlight of their week. It introduced a lot of Americans to Canadian hockey culture from afar. It had a captive audience during the first intermission, when one of the most entertaining figures in NHL history, Don “Grapes” Cherry, would shoot straight from the hip with amazing and insightful hockey analysis that has not since been matched.
Today, that same program stands as a source of embarrassment for the same fans that once made it the institution it was.
The worst part is that it doesn’t have to be this way. HNIC could be resurrected by simply hiring the correct analysts for their audience—a task so easy that a child could do it.
@SportsnetPR
Claude Lemieux killed himself the other day. One of the beacons of the NHL. June is Men's Mental Health Month.
It's not "I like to have sexy time with someone who is the same sex as me and look at me in my parade" month.
The fact that any team in the NHL would do this shit on the heels of losing Claude is pure trash. They're 4% of the population and 98% of them don't even know what icing is.
Fellas, if you're feeling like you hit rock bottom and you don't have any other way out, you do. Reach out to anyone. Call a friend you haven't spoken with in forever and a day, and just say hi.
The suicide hotline is 1-800-273-8255, or 988. Reach out. You're worth it.
🇬🇧 “If I criticize a Jew, I'm antisemitic.
If I criticize a Muslim, I'm Islamophobic.
And what are you, if you criticize me?
What are you if you try to replace me?”
He has a point