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[Michael Menzies @Menzies_4]

The NHLPA is involved in the process of Babcock’s potential return because of the allegations brought forward by Blue Jackets players three years ago. At that point in time, there would have been an investigation had Babcock stayed on as coach in Columbus but he chose to resign instead. And the investigation never happened.

[Frank Seravalli @frank_seravalli]

To add to @DarrenDreger’s report, sources say the NHLPA has specifically requested that the NHL delay Mike Babcock’s hiring by the Edmonton Oilers until a formal investigation can be completed.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Okay this is genuinely insane.

SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.

It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.

AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.

They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.

So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.

In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.

And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."

One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.

AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.

And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.

The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.

@SpaceX

[Elliotte Friedman @FriedgeHNIC]

FWIW:
Andersen is not listed as injured, he is a scratch

[NHL Rumour Report @NHLRumourReport]

Elliotte Friedman: Re Sebastian Cossa/Red Wings: I think Edmonton has some interest, and maybe it does happen, but this morning I was told it's nowhere near as far along as it's being portrayed - FAN Hockey (6/9)

[Kevin Weekes @KevinWeekes]

**Keep an eye 👁️ **
Per sources, some nuggets for you fans ;
I’m told G Cossa could be on the move with @utahmammoth among the interested clubs. F Berard also could be on move from @NYRangers . G Skinner among options for @Senators . #HockeyX

[NHL Rumour Report @NHLRumourReport]

Elliotte Friedman: Re Red Wings: There's all these Sebastian Cossa rumours going around right now; there's people throwing out on social media saying that there's a done deal...I don't think that's true - FAN Hockey (6/9)

[Jason Gregor @JasonGregor]

"I don't want to hear another word from the NHL, the NHLPA or the Oilers about how mental health is important to us. I'm sorry, but this guy gets off on warfare on his players. I've never denied he knows the game of hockey from a technical standpoint, but he is a bully. That is who he is. To say I'm disappointed would be putting it lightly," Commodore on Babcock potential hiring.

[Bruins Media @BruinsMedia11]

I can officially pour some water on the fire. As I mentioned last night, the Sebastian Cossa deal was not over the finish line yet. However, I don’t believe it was ever as close as @klimaslid, @KevinMcCurdy, and myself originally thought, Apologies.

I don’t think a potential deal is dead, but I highly doubt anything happens before the Cup is handed out.

#LetsGoOilers

[Daily Faceoff @DailyFaceoff]

Former NHLer Jesse Puljujärvi loses World Championship medal, fans urged to check karaoke bars https://t.co/VjL3YEK0UM

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Remembering Jon Lord of Deep Purple on what would have been his 85th birthday

One of the greatest pianists in Rock History!

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Just found out that in 2021, the UN tried to declare food a human right, two countries voted against it.

The United States and Israel.

[Top Tier Hockey @TopTierPucks]

According to @FriedgeHNIC on 32 Thoughts, Edmonton is forcing Darnell Nurse out of Oil Country. Nurse has the option to work with management to try and facilitate a trade this summer or Bowman will just dump him next year once his NMC ends

#LetsGoOilers

[Klima's Lid @klimaslid]

Last night, I put out tweets on a Cossa trade based on trusted info. A trade for Cossa appears to have fallen through and there are no updates. Did I make a mistake? Possibly, but I own my mistakes & won't make excuses. I would never relay info that wasn't sourced.

[Paul Chandler @PaulCha94025901]

Why doesn’t @ABDanielleSmith just call an election this October and save Alberta tax payers a bit of money ? An election is likely cheaper and she can run as the separatist bigot anti immigration supporter she truly is.

[NHL Rumour Report @NHLRumourReport]

Elliotte Friedman: Re Mike Babcock/Oilers: I think it's ownership driven, I think this is right from the top; a lot of what's happened in Edmonton at the end of the season has been right from the top, the coaching change, the pursuit of Bruce Cassidy, and this - FAN Hockey (6/9)

[Karman Gill @Kgill39]

Friedman confirms this Mike Babcock decision by the Oilers is ownership driven just like the Knoblauch firing.

[Bleed Oil Blue @BleedOilBlue]

WOW! 👀

Bob Stauffer just said on Fan590 in Toronto that Connor McDavid will re-sign with the Edmonton Oilers for seven more years.

"I don't think there's anybody more committed to Edmonton than Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl... I expect the next contract to be a seven year extension."

Oilers fans will love hearing that. 🧡💙

[NHL Rumour Report @NHLRumourReport]

Elliotte Friedman: Re Oilers: Basically Darnell Nurse is being told, you can work with us [to find a trade] this year, or we'll do it on our own next year - 32 Thoughts (6/5)

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

For 30 years, Christine McVie stood on the biggest stages in the world.

For 16 of those years, she was quietly living an entirely different life that almost nobody knew about.

No scandal.

No headlines.

She simply disappeared into the English countryside and became anonymous again.

Before she was the voice behind Fleetwood Mac classics like:
• “Everywhere”
• “Don’t Stop”
• “You Make Loving Fun”
• “Little Lies”

…she was Christine Perfect, born in a tiny Lancashire village in 1943.

Her father was a concert violinist.

Her mother was a psychic and faith healer.

Christine originally studied classical music until one moment changed everything:

Her brother handed her a Fats Domino songbook.

She abandoned classical training almost overnight and fell completely into blues music.

After art school in Birmingham, she played with local bands, struggled financially, and eventually moved to London where she survived by dressing shop windows on Regent Street.

She was close to giving up music entirely.

Then came Fleetwood Mac.

In 1968, she married bassist John McVie and soon joined the band herself — not as “the wife,” but as a musician talented enough to earn her place.

Then fame arrived.

And slowly, the pressure destroyed everything around it.

By the mid-1970s, Christine and John’s marriage was collapsing while the entire band was emotionally imploding around them.

Instead of breaking apart, they made Rumours.

An album built almost entirely from heartbreak, affairs, resentment, jealousy, and emotional wreckage.

Christine quietly poured her own secret relationship with the band’s lighting director into songs like:
• “You Make Loving Fun”
• “Over My Head”
• “Oh Daddy”

She performed those songs every night only feet away from the husband she was divorcing.

Rumours sold over 40 million copies.

Then came another painful chapter:

Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys.

Wild, charismatic, self-destructive.

Christine later admitted he awakened parts of her she had been afraid to experience.

In 1983, Wilson drowned at age 39.

Christine rarely spoke publicly about it.

The silence said enough.

Years later, after another failed marriage and decades of nonstop fame, touring, and emotional exhaustion, Christine made a decision almost nobody expected.

In 1998, she quietly left Fleetwood Mac.

No dramatic farewell.

No media circus.

She simply went home.

She moved to Kent, England and disappeared from celebrity life completely.

For 16 years, she lived almost anonymously:
• gardening
• walking local streets unnoticed
• cooking
• recording quietly in a converted barn studio

She later said:

“I loved being able to walk around and nobody knowing who I was.”

That was the hidden half of Christine McVie’s life.

One part global rock legend.

One part woman trying to rediscover peace.

Then, in 2014, after conquering her fear of flying, she called Mick Fleetwood with one question:

“How would you feel about me coming back?”

The band said yes immediately.

She returned to Fleetwood Mac like she had never left.

On November 30, 2022, Christine McVie died at age 79.

After her death, Stevie Nicks wrote that she only realized two days earlier that Christine had been her closest friend since 1975.

Christine McVie’s double life was never about hiding secrets.

It was about survival.

A woman who helped define one of the greatest bands in history then spent 16 quiet years learning how to simply be human again.