A message from Niklas Edin:
The Curling Academy teacher in 2003 asked his students about their long term goals. “Make it to a Nationals”, “Win the Nationals and qualify for the Worlds would be cool!”
What about you? The 17-year old who just started 3-4 years earlier: “Win 5 World Championships at skip, the record is 4! 🤓 The teacher prob rolled his eyes at that point but also saw a drive and motivation that was through the roof. 🙄🤔
The 7 years to come the boy lived, breathed, ate and sh*t curling 365 days a year. “No curler can possibly train more or better!”… Then came the injuries followed by surgeries, year after year. Doctors told him to quit sports and stop training or a wheelchair would be waiting👨🏼⚕️”.
“No sir, I got tournaments to play and titles to win! 🫡”
The years passed, the injuries kept coming but the titles also started coming. The relentless work had paid off and from that point there was no looking back! 😈
8 World Championship golds 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
8 European Championship titles 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅
3 Olympic medals 🥇🥈🥉
(Ranked #1 in the world was cool as well! 🤩)
Dream of that young foolish boy came true…and then some! 🤭🥹 Which leads me to make a tough and scary decision. To quit while ahead and have time to explore what else is out there! 👨🏼🦯
Don’t worry tho, I’ll be close to the game, watching, coaching, commentating and hopefully playing in the Rock League! 🕺🏼
To not forget anyone, I wanna thank everyone who’s been onboard this incredible journey and helped steering the ship through storms and peaceful sunrises! To all you fans that have been so kind and happy to follow our games closely! 🥹 To family and close ones cheering from afar 🥰
I hope you enjoyed the ride!? I sure did! 🤜🤛😎
🥹🫰🥌
- Niklas Edin
Really enjoyed Rock League season 1. Sixty of the best curlers on the planet, 6 different squads, multiple formats. Fun to watch. Would love to see in person. 🥌
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The Vegas Golden Knights have relieved Bruce Cassidy of his duties as head coach.
John Tortorella has been named head coach.
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Team Asselin 2026-2027 ⚜️
Skip: Félix ASSELIN
3rd: Julien TREMBLAY
2nd: Jesse MULLEN
Lead: Jean-Michel ARSENAULT
Next season we are all in. Playing more often and entering stronger events trying to slowly establish ourselves as a top team.
Go big or go home. Let’s fucking go!
In hyper-remote Nunavut, northern Canada, lies a one of many large bodies of fresh water. Yathkyed Lake is about 45 miles (72 km) long and unique in the world.
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Do you remember that very night -- the night before the day of all days, four years ago?
How many of us didn’t sleep at all.
We sat in the dark in silence, in front of our laptops, refreshing news feeds.
Here was Blinken saying the invasion was inevitable within the next few hours. Here was Zelensky speaking in the middle of the night in Russian, pleading with all Russians to come to their senses at the last moment and not take a fatal step.
Here was the news that the runways of Ukraine’s largest airports had been blocked with overturned vehicles.
We sat with Flighradar24 open. Here at 1 a.m., over northern and eastern Ukraine, an American drone was making multiple circles, monitoring the massive Russian grouping on our border from Belarus to Crimea.
A plane seemed to have taken off, evacuating Turkish diplomats. They must have been among the last ones... Russia had closed all airspace along its entire border with Ukraine later on.
In journalists’ chats, hundreds of colleagues just as sleepless. “Guys, be ready… it seems like today.”
But hope, of course, died last.
Maybe today it would pass. Maybe it was still a bluff and blackmail, because that would be logical. They couldn’t possibly go through with such madness. It would be a catastrophe of biblical proportions and a bloody slaughter in which it would be impossible to win. They couldn’t fail to understand that.
And then -- “live” on Russian TV (in reality, of course, everything had been recorded well in advance as part of a pre-invasion propaganda performance) -- Putin’s face, distorted with sadistic hatred and a smirk of gloating, announcing the “special military operation.”
What is there to say, four years have passed since that night.
If someone had told me then that four years later independent Ukraine would be at the forefront of the entire free world,
fighting alone on equal terms against the full military power of Russia,
with the Ukrainian flag over every regional capital that was free from occupation that night,
with Ukrainian-made drones and cruise missiles that smash Russian oil refineries, airfields, and giant military factories every single night
— I would never, ever have believed it.
And yet, through unparalleled heroism and enormous sacrifice, fighting Ukraine has changed the course of history.
She disproved all the arrogant skeptics who were burying her alive back then and giving her no chance, already ready to run and “negotiate” with yet another deranged maniac hungry for blood and territorial grabs.
Glory to Ukraine!
80% of curling medalists are in
Rock League - Toronto April 6-12 👀
8 GOLD medalists 🥇
You just fell in love with 🥌 & you don't have to wait 4 years to see these awesome stars on the ice and off it!
Curling's a vibe, @rockleaguecurl is gonna be 🔥
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