Peter Lang

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

Kerwin #BellLetsTalk @JayAndDan @JayOnrait @tsnotoole

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

Prison is too good for this guy

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

Murry Gunty, the founder and CEO of Blackstreet Capital Holdings, used his private investment firm to buy the teams on his son’s path to NCAA Division I college hockey.

Then, he made the pathway more expensive for almost everyone else. https://t.co/HKJmzYxCxm

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

John Tortorella vs Paul Marner is the matchup we all deserve #VGK

[Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 @BezirganMocha]

EXCLUSIVE: Humboldt Father Speaks Out, Exposes Why Sidhu Still Avoids Deportation: “He Only Cares About Himself"

(WARNING: The contents of this story may be extremely upsetting or distressing to some viewers.)

On April 6, 2018, a double-trailer semi-truck driven by Jaskirat Singh Sidhu blew through a stop sign at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan, Canada, and collided with a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos players and staff, injuring 13 people and killing 16, most of them teenagers, including Chris Joseph’s son, Jaxon.

After pleading guilty and serving roughly four years in prison, Sidhu has been on full parole since 2023. However, he has continued to dominate headlines, fighting tooth and nail not to be deported back to India.

Jaxon’s father, Chris Joseph — a former NHL player and firefighter — says Sidhu is not the remorseful man the media portrays him to be, but a "selfish" one who affected his life “in the worst way possible,” and who continues to do so by seeking an exemption from the law after having destroyed 29 families.

“The last time I ran my fingers through my son’s hair was in a morgue. He was cold, and he was beat up,” says Joseph, responding to the truck driver whose reckless driving resulted in the death of Joseph’s son Jaxon, along with 15 others, yet who continues to fight against deportation to India on the grounds that he does not want to be separated from his own son.

While most Canadians agree with his deportation order, some columnists and politicians argue that he should be forgiven and not be separated from his family.

“You tell me which child of yours you want to give up, and I will be the keyboard warrior hoping for forgiveness. It’s not about vindication — it’s about what’s right and what’s wrong, and the future of our country,” says Joseph, arguing that giving Sidhu an exemption from the law would set the wrong precedent for other unqualified drivers and signal that Canadian lives do not matter.

“Everybody has told him he should be deported — the judge, the CBSA, the Immigration and Refugee Board, the Federal Court of Appeal — and he still keeps trying, because he is looking out for himself and he really doesn’t care about anybody else,” says Joseph, urging politicians not to interfere with the judicial process and to allow him to be deported as he is supposed to be.

In this exclusive interview with @MediaBezirgan, Chris Joseph addresses those who advocate against Sidhu's deportation, discusses the corruption within the trucking industry, and explains why he no longer trusts the mainstream media when it comes to this story.

[Jayson Stark @jaysonst]

"I’ll remember it for the rest of my life”

I'm unlocking today's column on Life After Game 7 for the Blue Jays so it's free for all to read

These guys poured their hearts out, talking about the emotions stirred by that game.

Great to tell their story!
https://t.co/QDb73MPR1C

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

Paul Marner is somewhere seething

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

Sidney Crosby is officially out for the semifinals and McDavid will wear the ‘C’.

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

Nailed it

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

Thoughts on Team Canada at World Juniors:

There's been a lot of discourse today about Canada's performance after bowing out to Czechia again. I've read a lot about roster construction, team toughness, how players were used during the tournament, and other things related to the team's inability to get the job done.

These things may have been an issue, but reality is the problem runs way deeper.

Here is the biggest thing that people aren't talking about:

Canada has WAY fewer youth boys playing hockey than it did a decade ago.

Looking at Hockey Canada registration and membership data, it's mind-boggling to see the numbers.

And the numbers in the biggest provinces (Ontario and Quebec) are especially egregious.

So why is this happening? Hockey is Canada's sport. It shouldn't be like this.

It's what we hear every day from families all over North America:

Costs are too high. It's professionalized at too young of an age. The stress of the youth hockey experience is too much for kids and families.

Community programs have been replaced by for-profit entities leading to higher costs and more pressure. Development has been replaced by super teams and rogue/outlaw leagues outside of Hockey Canada even before kids are 8 years old. At the older ages, hockey academies have become what families believe is the only way their kids will make it - shelling out INSANE amounts of money to send their kids to do so.

Ontario just got rid of residency rules which will only lead to less accountability and more club-hopping than there already was in the nation's craziest and biggest youth hockey market.

The reason why Canada was the hockey superpower for so long is because it was part of the fabric of the country. There was such a pride and passion for the game and what the game meant to the flag. There was such a sense of playing the game for something bigger than yourself.

Now rather than playing for the love of the game, hockey in Canada is like a job for many of these kids in the environment they're being put in. It's less about pride and passion and more about the path to making it. When in all honesty, it's the pride and passion for the game that is the biggest consistency in the kids that do end up making it.

If Canada wants to restore its hockey dominance, it better take a long look in the mirror at the grassroots and what is going on in youth hockey. If you have tens of thousands of fewer boys playing the game, you should probably look at that first. The bigger your pool of athletes, the more elite athletes you can develop.

"As many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible". That has to be the guiding principle.

There's a lot of great people in Canada doing incredible things for the game, but the system itself is fundamentally broken. If Hockey Canada is serious about getting back to the top, it has to start at the bottom.

[Carlo Colaiacovo @CarloColaiacovo]

Minor hockey in Canada can share the blame too. Kids between ages 10-16 Chase W’s and build super teams, while training with numerous skills coaches to improve their individual game instead of focusing on being coached and developing to play the game of hockey. Players on super teams don’t know how to lose and then struggle to deal with adversity. I see it first hand and it’s very troubling

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

Your move @BlueJays

[Andy Martino @martinonyc]

Mets bench coach John Gibbons told the team he is leaving. He is not retiring. He likes Mendoza and told them he thinks it’s time for some new blood in that job.

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

@JustinThomas34 @usopengolf 13 here JT, see you guys Monday!

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

Yesterday I made a post about the cost of playing 10u AAA hockey in Chicago. To say it hit a nerve is putting it lightly. Here's a follow up from the perspective of a hockey mom on the realities of the business of youth hockey. Must read.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

This is by far the BEST breakdown of why the NBA product sucks today.

He @PKSubban1 says it in the most respectful way possible.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🗣️ WATCH: “It’s the largest scam in human history. These are the richest people ever. Richer than Attila the Hun. It’s not sustainable.”

Sully explains how Trump/Musk/the GOP are (again) using tiny budget cuts to distract us as they cut TRILLIONS in taxes for the ultra-rich🎯💰

[D.J. Short @djshort]

The Blue Jays, always

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

Dollar Tree Ross Gellar has some thoughts

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Fox News host Jesse Watters: The fact that Canadians don't want us to take them over makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst.

We live in the absolute dumbest time in American history

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

This is amazing. What a story

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

Hey @kevinolearytv , before dissecting how you’d like to sell our country to the Orange Turd, what are your thoughts on Boats, Boating, Owning a Boat, Driving a Boat, and Boat Safety?

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

There's 41 million Canadians sitting on the world's largest amounts of all resources, including the most important, energy and water. Canadians over the holidays have been talking about this. They want to hear more. What this could be is the beginning of an economic union. Think about the power of combining the two economies and erasing the border between Canada and the United States.

I like this idea and at least half of Canadians are interested. Nobody wants Trudeau to negotiate this deal. I don't want him doing it for me, so I'm going to go to Mar-a-Lago. I'll start the narrative.

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

@MySportsUpdate @The33rdTeamFB @AdamSchefter You spelled “Aaron Rodgers” incorrectly

[Peter Lang @Langer24]

@arielhelwani Well said. Me and the guys I watched the fight with are barely casual Boxing fans, but we thoroughly enjoyed the undercard and will likely tune in for the next big card, regardless of who’s on top

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

Wow. BRUTAL words for her fellow liberals from Democratic strategist @JulieRoginsky on CNN:

“I’m going to speak some hard truths...We are not be party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us...When we address Latino voters...as Latinx, for instance, b/c that’s the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think we don’t even live in the same planet as they do. When we are too afraid to say that, hey, college kids, if you're trashing the campus of Columbia University b/c you’re unhappy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that is unacceptable. But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we do not know what to say when normal people look at that and say, wait a second. I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns, right? And so on and so forth. When we put pronouns after names and say she/her as opposed to saying, you know what, if I call you by the wrong pronoun, call me out. I am sorry. I won't do it again. But stop with the virtue signaling and speak to people like they’re normal. There is nothing that I'm going to say to Shermichael that I’m not going to say to your or I’m not going to say to somebody else. I speak the same language to everybody. But that’s not what Democrats do. We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking because our focus groups or polling shows that so-and-so appeals to such and such. That’s not how normal people think. It is not common sense and we need to start being the part of common sense again. Joe Biden is not responsible for that, neither is Kamala Harris. That is a problem that Democrats have had for years. I’ve been banging the drum on this for I don’t know how — probably ten years on this. We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say we understand you. We appreciate what you say because you speak our language. And, until we do that, we should stop blaming other people for our own mistakes.”

[Mrs. Butters 🥧 @MrsButters]

In honor of our future president appearing on SNL tonight, I'd like to take you back to what Pete has to say about Trump on SNL.