So let me get this straight with TNT. They start to show like the first 5 minutes of the Rangers vs Capitals game and then black it out due to "contractual requirements"? Isn't this supposed to be nationally televised and local blackout rules don't apply? #NYR
NHL Referee Chris Rooney's Mom, Margaret, has passed away at age 92. Chris is her youngest of ELEVEN boys, assuring her entrance into heaven today.
Chris was supposed to call my ESPN game in Raleigh last night, Game 1,501, but he got the call from home Wednesday morning in North Carolina after landing.
Like my mother, Mary, Margaret, was an extreme South Boston, religious, prayerful woman of steely, simple faith. My Mom says the rosary every day.
Chris tells me his Mom has been praying for this day for a month. I sometimes peek into the living room and see that faraway look in my Mom's eyes as she stares out in space missing my Dad and saying her Hail Mary's in the afternoon. My Mom has buried her parents, husband, all her siblings, a son, a grandson, and a great granddaughter. She's sad and tired. Yet, like, Margaret, 100% full of faith.
Margaret Rooney was with all 11 of her boys this past Tuesday in Boston as Chris was honored for game 1500. One last day with her 11 boys. She died the next day. Thank God, for answered prayers of faith, hope, love, and mostly, peace.
Margaret got her "one more day" with her too-many-Southie boys-on-the-ice eleven, who played floor hockey in the living room for hours with a milk carton for a hockey puck. And it was simple and perfect. Faith, hope, and love. The old school big family of mayhem, love, and excitement that are slowly vanishing.
God is good and you were great, Margaret. Rest, "Hon." 🙏🏻☘️
I’m at a cancer treatment center getting my 27th dose of radiation. My doctor recommends 35. @UHC refuses to pay for more than 28. I’ve fought them for weeks to get full treatment approved. This is my Hail Mary to hopefully get them to reconsider.
I miss when ESPN would show highlights of games instead of now where it's just a bunch of goofs debating 24/7.
Nothing beat eating a bowl of cereal sweating the clock in the top left before you had to leave for school.
Kids these days will never understand...
Assuming this is indeed true, I can't believe this group of players is more concerned with Drury's actions than with their own performance on the ice.
To quote Herb Brooks: "You worry about your own game. Plenty there to keep you busy." #NYR