Kevin McCurdy

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[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

If you insist.

A list of some of the finest food the city has to offer, not all of it is bougie, it's just good.

A couple of disclaimers: This isn't even close to exhaustive, there's a ton of food in this city and a lot of it I have not tried. Obviously food is subjective, just because I like it, doesn't mean you will and vice versa. This list only contains things I have found "above average to god tier"

Not all found in the last year, but Kevin (and often Bruce) McCurdy approved.

<Vietnamese>

Thanh Thanh Oriental Noodle House, my king of Vietnamese and fusion cooking. (101 St and 107 Ave)
Mini Mango (South of Ellerslie at 91st)
Mai Mai Viet Street Kitchen (23rd ave and 142nd St)
Saigon Taste (Stony Plain and 114 st ish)
Co Do Hue (several locations)
Da Kao Bistro (170 St and 95 Ave)
Dang Good (118 Ave and just west of St. Albert Trail)
Pho Hoan Pastuer is always an ok fallback.
Halong bay makes this list because their Pho Sate is almost as good as Thanh Thanh's.

I could make my own catagory for Bahn Mi, but Thi Thi's in Calgary is king. Mini Mango has lethal Bahn Mi as well. I have a massive soft spot for Viet food and I often have trouble branching out to other ethnicities that I should pay more attention to (Thai for example) as a result.

<Thai>
(not as much experience here many places to go check out)
Siam Thai (several locations, though I hit is at 137th ave and St. Albert Tr.). Their Tom Yum is fabulous.
Songkran Thai (St. Albert Tr and Sturgeon Rd, St. Albert)

<Chinese>

Good luck (as in good luck finding good chinese, there's a ton of "mid" in this catagory.)
One that comes to mind is Lingnan, though I haven't been in years.

<Ramen>

Kazoku (165 st and 105 Ave)
Menya Mori (124 st and 102 Ave)
Tokiwa (Stony Plain Rd and 118 st or so, Brewery District)

<Pizza>
Pizza Garage (St. Albert, expensive but worth)

<Burgers>
Jack's Burger Shack (2 locations, though I've only been to the St. Albert location)
JOEY actually makes a mean cheese burger
CRAFT Beer Market
Shiddy's (99th and just off whyte)
Rockin Robyn's (166St. and 109 Ave) This could go in about 5 catagories, but the Betty White is a ludicrously good burger.

<Fried Chicken>
Seoul Fried Chicken (Multiple locations, OG Whyte and 104 St)
HM to Northern Chicken (RIP)

<Donairs>
Swiss Donair (the "Xerxes, God King" of Donairs)
Donair Station (172nd st and 95th ave)
Simon King (91st St and 51st Ave)
Simply Donair (both locations)
DK Donair Factory and Restaurant (these are NOT Halifax donair, this is German Doner Kebab) (St. Albert)

<Shawarma>

Jerusalem (if you want an actual wrap, their Fattoush is .... not good)
Al Salam Pita Bakery (their Fattoush is incredible, and they have better platters IMO)

<Sit down pub/bar/etc>

Local (their Dragon Chicken is lit AF).
Leopold's Tavern (Whyte and Gateway)
Campio Brewing (109 St, South of Stony Plain Rd.)

<Italian>
Amore Bistro (108 st and 106 Ave)
San Remo Italian Bistro (St. Albert)
Nello's (St. Albert)

<Sandwiches>
Pals (Whyte Ave)
D'Amore Italian Deli (127th St, and about 129th Ave)
Mercato
Donnas (if oversized sandwiches are your vibe) (Boonies, Winterburn)

<Breakfast>
Hap's (Stony Plain Rd and about 163rd st.)
Hathaway's Diner (2 locations)
Socrates (St. Albert)

<Greek>
Koutouki Taverna
Little Village

<Other>
Taste of Ukraine

I am sure there's a million places I'm missing, forgot about, haven't been to, etc.

[Mathewjdp @mathewjdp]

@KevinMcCurdy Kevin, list em. We need to know

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@ShaneACarter77 Knee.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

Not a shocking development, no camp, nearly 20 games in to the season a conditioning stint coming off of LTIR is both allowed and should be expected from this kind of injury. Looking forward to seeing Savoie back in the threads in any variety.

[Bob Stauffer @Bob_Stauffer]

Regarding the @EdmontonOilers Matt Savoie:

Mike Babcock indicates as a younger player Savoie will need to go the minors for a few games when he is cleared to get back to playing

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@NJGilmour Called initially as a 5 minute after the fact and cancelled on review.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

Drew and I don't always agree, but I couldn't have said it better myself. That is one of the hardest hits I've seen in years. Holy shit, indeed.

[Drew Livingstone @ProducerDrew_]

HOLY. SHIT

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@DanOhta I'm not sure the IIHF would have called this a penalty, being quite honest, and they're more strict than the NHL on headshots.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

I have no stake it this, there's no elbow here, in fact this is one of the cleaner "devastating hits" I've ever seen. Feet planted, shoulder up through chest.

[SENS TALK @senstalk_]

Elbow to the head and knocked out cold. Not a penalty according to the @NHL. Joke.

Also a joke that not ONE of the #Sens stepped up and dropped ‘em there for Nick Cousins. Gotta defend your teammate.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@TorgrimsonKevin No contest there. There's ref enforcement and there's team enforcement, and the latter didn't happen.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@dilborg @jkamckenzie So what's the rule then, tall guys can't his short guys? Because he's got 3" on Cousins. He's already crouching. Look at his knees.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

Neither of those things happened. He took a couple strides, glided for quite awhile, crouched, ACTIVELY STOPPED and then hit him. The elbow was 100% pressed against his side, the follow through doesn't matter that's just what happens when bodies collide, the elbow is never the point of contact.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@oceandocean I dropped you a follow, I think we agree on enough other things that we'll find common ground in other places, even if not this hit. Thanks for keeping it respectful towards me.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@oceandocean For what it's worth, I appreciate that we've been able to disagree respectfully, albeit vigorously.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

No, actually he couldn't have. Any further escalation from Helleson would have resulted in an even bigger ass beating and an intent to injure penalty. Checking a guy awkwardly into the post is a lot less legal than hitting a guy front and center. You could maybe *MAYBE* make the argument that Cousins was in a vulnerable position here, but that was something that started when he looked down a fraction of a second before he got crushed. I don't know how the league would ever enforce this, even with a rule change. I'm not even sure the IIHF would have called this a penalty, and those guys are anal AF about headshots.

If you want to be mad about something, be mad that nobody on the Senators did anything about this. At least Podkolzin laid an asswhooping on Helleson. Where was the Sens response to this hit?

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@oceandocean Dude, it's physics, I don't know what you want me to tell you here. It's a clean bodycheck. Again we can have a conversation about changing the rules if you want, that doesn't change the fact this is a legal bodycheck the way the game is played currently.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

What Helleson did to McDavid was the result of poor positioning and loss of gap control of his defensive partner. Driving a guy through the post is always going to catch more heat than shoulder to chest. It's dangerous as fuck by nature. He had little choice given the situation, but McDavid has a bad history with posts and knees, so I understand why he was pissed off about it.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

https://t.co/8M66kZCZNX

I slowed this down to .25x. I don't know what exactly you want Chychrun to do here, he slows down visibly, Cousins sees Chycrun coming and inexplicably looks at his feet.

Is it bone crushing? Absolutely. Is it bad for Cousins' brain? Absolutely. But I'm not sure how you can call this a reckless hit, he did everything by the book. If the book needs to change that's a different conversation, but the refs reviewed this for a major and wiped it out completely.

[Everyday Sens @EverydaySens]

Reviewed and deemed no penalty. Cousins was bleeding and needed help off the ice. Hope he's okay. #GoSensGo

Benches then get into it. Greig/Giroux and Wilson have words.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@oceandocean Difference in the Kariya hit was that one was interference outright, this one Cousins had legal possession.

Also I see shoulder to chest, the knockout was from the glass-&gt;ice combination.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

You haven't seen the Stevens/Kariya, Lindros, or Bryan Marchment bashing his head on the penalty door, then. That last one was the one time I thought we were watching a player die on ice, closely seconded by a couple really bad skate cuts. Dale Hunter laid some ridiculously nasty (and illegal) checks too.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

That's a fair opinion. Given how much Cousins goes around headshotting and otherwise destroying vulnerable players (Gudbrandson, Valimaki, Bryson, Scheifele), I don't have much sympathy for him getting completely legally trucked. I think if you take hits out of this sport, you're fundamentally changing it for the worse. That said I share you CTE related concerns, generally speaking.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

Not Chychrun's fault he has 3" on Cousins and Cousins had his head down prior. The knock out is from smashing is head off the glass and then the ice. You can clearly see that if anything Chychrun is actively stopping and not attempting to hit the head because he's dropped in his stance. Cousins just got trucked because he got sloppy.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

@JeffVeillette This one should be in bodychecking 101, it doesn't get cleaner than this for a hit of this magnitude.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

This was written in the stars from the moment that release was sent.

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