Sportsnet and CBC have just put out a joint statement where they will be ending their agreement that saw CBC carrying NHL games.
No word yet on what it means for the Hockey Night In Canada branding.
It was SO clear that Blue Jays radio had to call Vladdy’s go ahead double off a monitor.
Sounded like it was in a studio & clear that Eric Smith was at the mercy of the tv pictures.
Jays & Angels continue this embarrassing charade of not putting their radio announcers on site
Our society has a problem with assigning morality to performance. It doesn’t matter how many saves Carter Hart makes or how many goals he allows. He either did something you can’t justify or he didn’t. No amount of saves will redeem him to me https://t.co/qgweJhlpdn
Thank you Steve Dangle for being the only hockey podcast I have listened to this week who has mentioned that Carter Hart should not be playing hockey rather than engaging in the discussion about his goaltending
Pete Hoekstra is the United States Ambassador to Canada. A man appointed specifically to understand Canada. Whose entire job, when distilled to its essence, is to comprehend why Canadians feel the way they do about the country directly to their south – the country that just slapped tariffs on their exports, questioned their sovereignty, and suggested they might want to consider becoming the 51st state.
And when a journalist asks him, with admirable patience, whether he understands where that frustration is coming from, he doesn’t say “it’s complicated.” He doesn’t say “we have work to do.” He says, with the serene confidence of a man who has never once been troubled by self-awareness: “Absolutely, no.”
Absolutely. No.
Not just no. He reached into the English language and found the one adverb that makes the answer worse.
This is a diplomat. This is America’s official representative to a nation of 40 million people who are currently being economically strong-armed by his boss. His job – his only job – is to understand Canadians. And he has looked that job squarely in the face and said: not today.
You genuinely could not find a better summary of current American foreign policy if you wrote it yourself.
“Say what you want”
Ok, I will. He shouldn’t be in the league. He’s a sick individual and if you defend him online, he won’t see it, but the women in your life that have been victims of Sexual Assault will.