One of those cases where a metric/stat tool that measures you against your peers when you are, by all accounts, clean, and your peers (1995-2010 era 1B/DH) are all taking elephant steroids, may not tell the whole story

He had a bar called Bubbles Mansion in Halifax that was notorious for serving high schoolers and for Smith always being there coked up and harassing young women. It's alarming what you can get away with for decades in a mid-sized town just by being Canadian TV-level famous.

get in losers we're Fitzgeraldposting

In the middle of the season...?

I mean it's one thing to say a player COULD theoretically go, and another for the team to voluntarily give up a key player to miss regular season games (and have the player forfeit stats and playing time for no money)

Dutch squirrel starts talking like the sound of a lawnmower running over a plastic toy

"Expected" by who, Nightengale?? Agents? Bichette's camp? A dream you had? You can't just drop one of the biggest free agency nuggets of the year in the 20th paragraph of a rumor piece and then disappear in a smoke bomb

Team Canada's still stuck in a Summit Series mindset where the Soviets were fancy-boy stickhandlers and we used good ol' fashioned Canadian Grit to just beat the shit out of them. It worked 50 years ago and hockey hasn't changed at all and that's why we need a Sam Bennett/Tom Wilson/Corey Perry line

I say this as someone who would never go out of their way to praise a Montreal Canadien but Nick Suzuki is, in every conceivable way, a better hockey player than Sam Bennett

In 2006 they left Crosby off the roster in favour of Todd Bertuzzi and that's why we never talk about the 2006 Olympics

The Team Canada braintrust is run by a bunch of ex-goons from the 80s days who still prioritize sandpaper and grinders over actual skill players in a short 6-game tournament.

Sam Bennett is gonna be suspended for RKO'ing a Slovakian defender in the round robin and get a free Italian vacation.

bucatini? oh I see you're into that hard stuff.... you gotta give me a week on that one chief but yeah I can score you some bucatini