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Ryan Wilson
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Penguins writer for @HockeyHotStove Co-Host of @Hockey_Hurts podcast. Former underachieving Division III Hockey Player. Phish. Bills.

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I went around the league and looked at the other 31 rosters then came up with six trade targets for the Pittsburgh Penguins based on their need of a depth defenseman

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Terry Pegula is worth just shy of eight billion dollars btw
The Bills are hiring for a staff photographer that isnt quite full time hours but theres no way you could have another job.

You'll be going to home and away games, covering training camp, mini camp, preseason and regular season games, taking player portraits, etc etc etc.

17.50 an hour. Lol. Wtf.
February 19, 2026 at 3:32 AM
What a huge strength it is for AEW to acknowledge their main competitor when it is appropriate. Danielson saying "WWE" live on tv during tribute gives it proper weight and attention.Tap dancing around reference is always distracting, weak, and feeble

Which is why the other company is what it is
February 19, 2026 at 1:56 AM
The coolest way any wrestler has been over this century is Brody King eliciting fuck ice chants.
February 19, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Get their ass
February 19, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Between the country itself and how they built the roster this US team isn't one I find myself rooting for.

I didn't care when Sweden tied it and I felt nothing when they scored.

Sucks that it is like this, but it is
February 18, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Quinn Hughes is just too good. Too much time and space. What a player
February 18, 2026 at 10:40 PM
This is the kind of game Team USA shouldn't be trying to eke their way through, 1-0 in the final part of the third period.

Just bring the goal scorers next time for christ sake
February 18, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Anyways heal up, Sid
February 18, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I dont like the immediate 3v3 for the single elimination games.

Should be 10 min 5v5. 4v4 5 min. 3v3 5 min, shootout
February 18, 2026 at 6:15 PM
I forgot it was 3v3. Buckle up
February 18, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Super disappointed by the Sid injury and ehat it means for rest of Penguins season, but definitely not mad or upset.

Playing for Canada at the Olympics means so much to him and the NHL stole that from him for 12 years.

I would never want him not to go if it was an option for him
February 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Well you can definitely cross this idea off the list
I went around the league and looked at the other 31 rosters then came up with six trade targets for the Pittsburgh Penguins based on their need of a depth defenseman

hockeyhotstove.com/defensive-tr...
February 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The only outcome you really didnt want to see coming out of this tournament. So of course
No Sidney Crosby to start the 3rd
February 18, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I would sign the dotted line right now for a Binnington implosion even if a US loss was part of the deal.

Hockey men deserve comeuppance
February 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I feel like Mike Trout is a guy who has the most to gain from this.

Guy is top 50 in WAR of all-time and nobody cares about or talks about him, like at all.

Put him on the Red Sox 2012-2019 and he is a megastar
“You can go back in time and move one athlete to a different team in their prime. It cannot be to your favourite team. You can use your power for good, or for pettiness (e.g. making Brady spend his best years on the Browns). Who do you move and where?” FUNBAG!
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February 18, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Not sure where you slot him in the lineup, but it is great to see that he is back on the ice
February 17, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Only one country's coach has to address something like this at the Olympics
USA 🇺🇸 coach Mike Sullivan opened his media availability today sending condolences and prayers to families connected to the shooting at the rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
February 17, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I think if the US women don't close it out on Thursday it will be the most disappointing loss of this run, including the 2014 missed empty net.

Canada just doesn't look like they have the juice
February 16, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The thing is if you took Leon Draisaitl off the Oilers and put Matthew Tkachuk in his place the Oilers don't even make the Final.

If Draisaitl replaced Tkachuk on the Panthers the result is likely the exact same.
February 16, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Tom Wilson is a disgrace
February 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Trying to skate through Mark Stone at the end of the period while you're on the power play is such a brain dead choice as the underdog
February 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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I am ready at the drop of a hat to present to any league's competition committee exactly how gold drafting works, what it improves and what it weakens, how it would have to implemented for a specific sport, with simulations, gorgeous viz, the works. I am dead set.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on tanking: "It's so clear that the incentives are misaligned."

Silver said the believes tanking is worse than we've seen before and said that's what led to the recent fines as an effort to put all teams on notice. Silver emphasized again the league is focused on fixes.
February 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Jack Hughes is a slippery fella. He looks like he has jump. They should put him with Tage or bump him up with Matthews and Guentzel
February 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Jake is so easy to root for. I miss my guy in Pittsburgh
February 14, 2026 at 10:17 PM
I'll hand it to the in-rink DJ, Use Your Illusion 2 is the superior album of that double disc
February 14, 2026 at 10:13 PM