Cara

The Worst. Supporter of local libraries. Managing editor of Arctic Ice Hockey.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

The Ministry has fallen.
Scrimgeour is dead.
They are coming.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

@jaredbook Are the teams just going to take the train between Ottawa and Montreal?

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

@jaredbook Yeah all those flights tells me that they're all sick and need a minute.

[Down Goes Brown @DownGoesBrown]

What do these teams have in common: Kraken, Rangers, Devils, Canucks?

They've all won a playoff series more recently than the Lightning.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

Why don't they combine their non-broken body parts?

[Penguins PR @PenguinsPR]

Forwards Sidney Crosby (lower-body) and Evgeni Malkin (upper-body) will not play today versus Dallas and both remain day-to-day.

[shireenahmed.bsky.social @_shireenahmed_]

There were THREE trans non-binary athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Three.
Quinn (🇨🇦 soccer), Nikki Hiltz (🇺🇸 athletics), and Hergie Bacyadan (🇵🇭 boxing).
This hysteria is so harmful. And this is part of Kirsty Coventry's legacy.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

Does this mean all of a sudden Quinn is not eligible for the Olympics after they won a gold in 2021? I am not even saying they'd for sure make the team, but it is WILD and targets only a hyper-specific demographic of people over a non-issue.

[Thomas Willett @ThomasWillett9]

The new Olympic rule bans only trans women from women’s events; trans men aren’t mentioned at all. If this were truly about fairness and safety, it would apply consistently. Targeting one specific group raises serious questions about the real motive.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

@AGretz The fact this is even a discussion is weird to me.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

I think Jack Hughes might be the dumbest hockey player around and that is saying something. What does he think the HHOF is for? Has he ever been there?

[ESPN @espn]

Jack Hughes says he wants his gold-medal-winning overtime goal for Team USA in the Winter Games back from the Hockey Hall of Fame, which is displaying it in Toronto.

Full story from @wyshynski ➡️ https://t.co/YziOG7YN35

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

@HLLivingLoco The vibes were vibing with their espresso

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

@HLLivingLoco I know you are a Ravens fan, but as a fan of drama above all and only caring about Lamar and his balaclava, I am absolutely feasting on the weirdness.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

@HLLivingLoco Five years is also a lot for players age wise. He's five years older and will be making the same or more cap hit wise.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

Okay feeling spicy: if this is Miracle 2.0, the US is the USSR in this scenario at least politically. Talent wise the teams were pretty equal, but standing in the western world the US is closer to how the USSR was viewed that the US.

[Jordan Brown @theonlyjbrown61]

@PeteBlackburn This was Miracle 2.0 and you know it. The stars had to align just right for them to win and they did, congrats. Btw, any idea who won the gold in 1984?

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

@HLLivingLoco the jets tanking

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

What I find most interesting about it is that we are seeing the US use it like the USSR did against Canada. So essentially the US is treating beating Canada like the USSR might have.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

Okay I have been shouting about this privately: read The Greatest Game Ever Played by Todd Danault. It gives a lot of context for how men's hockey, especially best on best, is often used as a political tool.

[eddie @bleauliner]

idk if anyone else has brought this up but i was pretty young the last time nhlers were in the olympics. did canada go this hard for the celebration when they won in 2010 and 2014? i’ve literally never seen anything ab it

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

I cannot say this is exactly how, but I have read a lot of historical non-fiction, so it very well could have been from excerpts in those books. I know it was primary sources for Indigenous slurs and a lot of teaching around them.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

Okay I have really had to think about this. I think the N word and other racial slurs in particular came from reading old books where they were still printed. And talking with my mom or teacher about it (I would bring books from home to school sometimes).

[RednBlackSalamander @9mmballpoint]

This has made me genuinely curious about something: if you're white, and you didn't grow up in an explicitly racist household, how did you first learn about the n-word? I can't imagine there's a standard procedure for that sort of thing.

[Cara @HappyCaraT]

@HLLivingLoco I feel horrible for Josh, but