Steve

[getPucksDeeeeeeep @BeeTEE15]

Olympic Hockey:

- the games start on time
- no animated fake ads on the boards
- no ads superimposed on the ice or glass
- no gambling ads shoved in your face
- no live betting odds
- no broadcast sponsored parlays
- no ads on jerseys or helmets

fix your game @NHL

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

Can take the kid out of the western league but can’t take the western league out of the kid. Rob Blake got into a fight on the ride to the draft and he’s in the hall of fame just saying

[𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕷𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘™️ @CL4WS_OUT]

Hilarious clip from Joe Rogan of Rep. Tim Burchett responding to a reporter. 🤣🤣🤣

[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Community programs have been replaced by for-profit entities leading to higher costs and more pressure. Development has been replaced by super teams and rogue/outlaw leagues outside of Hockey Canada even before kids are 8 years old.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.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free."

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Nicki Minaj said something at Amfest that was really profound. I'm paraphrasing, but she said, "just because I want little black girls to think they're beautiful doesn't mean I need to put down little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes."

We all got wrapped up over the last few years in zero sum thinking. This was because the people who think they rule the world pit us against one another. @NICKIMINAJ rejects that. We all should.

[Wingmen with Matthew and Brady Tkachuk @Wingmenpod]

“You’re lucky we won that game, because if not I was going to kill you.”

Claude Giroux was not happy with Brady’s insane prank 🤣🏒

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

Is @tatemcrae actually a mole for Team Canada to break Team USA from the inside?!

[Hayley McGoldrick @GoldieOnSports]

imagine being worth a trillion dollars and sweeping the NLCS just to get battered by the power of friendship

[Austin Abbott @AustinAbbott]

Week 2 thoughts:

➖Tetairoa McMillan’s the real deal.. he recorded 100 yards in his 2nd career game, the wildest part is that his tapes even better..

➖Mark Andrews has 2 total receptions for 7 yards in 2 games this year.. you should be concerned.

Read more ↓

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Anyone else notice that when one of our heroes was assinated in cold blood if front of thousands of people including his wife and young kids that not a single store in America had to board up their windows?

That tell us everything you need to know.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨BREAKING: The LGBTQ community is furious with Legendary rapper Snoop Dogg after he said he’s “scared to go to the movies” after watching Disney’s ‘Lightyear’ film with his grandson and seeing an LGBTQ+ couple:

Dogg: "I didn't come in for this s***. I just came to watch the goddamn movie.”

[Missin Curfew @MissinCurfew]

Don Cherry speaks out on his disappointment in Ron MacLean and says that he is not welcome to his home in a recent interview with @joe_warmington

[theScore @theScore]

Red Sox fans seeing a team call up their top prospect:

[David Cone @davidadamcone]

Quinn Ewers was a perfect 1.000 recruit, learned under Steve Sarkisian, and made 2 CFPs - still undrafted

Will Howard is the reigning national champion who threw for 4,000 yd on 73% - still undrafted

Kyle McCord led nation in passing 4,779 still undrafted

Dillon Gabriel threw for 18,722 yards in college and got drafted 94th

The NFL isn’t engaged in a conspiracy against Shedeur Sanders…you just liked watching his dad play.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

I've never seen a politician lie as much or as blatantly as Mark Carney in my 25 years of covering politics.
Yesterday, when called out on saying something that wasn't true about Pierre Poilievre, he doubled down and called it a fact.
https://t.co/am2HQX8wQd

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Conservative CHANGE Plan:

1. Cut the Liberal deficit by 70%, cutting waste, consultants, bureaucracy—For a Change

2. Cut income tax 15%—For a Change

3. Axe sales tax on new homes—For a Change

4. Lock up criminals—For a Change

5. Put Canada First, by bringing home our jobs—For a Change

Read the plan at https://t.co/b1C1DKjLmX

[P.K. Subban @PKSubban1]

This is playoff hockey! Let em play

#nhl #espn #senators #leafs

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Business leaders, ex-bank heads throw support behind Poilievre with open letter https://t.co/FQr45hrkY7