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Brilliant, and timely; when will we ever have another goalie for PM? @MarkJCarney, it’s your chance to do something remarkable.
Call it the Ken Dryden Program of Goaltending Excellence, headquartered in our former goalie factory, Quebec. Free equipment is just the beginning.
Last night. I was talking to a guy I’ve coached with for three years. We get along great. Huge mutual respect. Great results.
Sitting there with the other coaches. he mentioned his first protest was in the early summer of 2020. I said, “Me too! Maybe it was the same one.”
A guy is out there actually thinking in real time to answer questions as deeply and thoroughly as possible, and the mouth breathers think he’s doing a verbal storm surge for shits and giggles. Read a fucken book, “media” men.
Paul Campbell retweeted
Yep and his name is Terry Fox
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Anti-intellectualism is a cultural plague. “Snob” was a useful label for pointing out pretentious pedantry that created distinctions in order to separate the desirables from the commoners.
Now, I’d take a roomful of insufferable prigs over a single self-righteous tldr populist.
This has become the most consequential miss in modern hockey history. Without exaggeration, it’s set NHL hockey in Canada back at least a couple of years.
I was shocked to learn the true source of this cryptic wisdom. It has an almost Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse structure.
Find a goalie who plays well for your team. Hold him close to your heart and never let him go. Love him unconditionally, for all his is and what he means to you, because he won’t be worth a dime by the time you break up.
I’ve had this happen a few times. Biggest common risk is whacking your head on the way down. Once you know what to look for, you can often feel it coming and get low, either avoiding unconsciousness or at least getting prone for when it happens.
You gotta hand it to him: Brady standing there with a huge smile saluting the whole crowd as they savaged him during his tribute video was a WWE heel-worthy performance. Everybody in the building played their role perfectly tonight.
I have never said this before, but goddamn it I’m proud of the Sens fans tonight. What a performance.
A roast is a tribute of sorts, right? Roasting returning players who left on bad terms would be the height of entertainment. Their worst blunders, dumbest media moments, most embarrassing gaffes.
A fizzle reel.
You can stand at the top of the crease. Saros often posts up there facing the side boards when his D has the puck behind the net. The forechecker has to avoid you.
But you can’t move there as a player is skating through. That’s interference every time.
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Holy shit, this is a real quote from Devin Cooley, the distilled essence of goaliemind.
I just learned a great line for de-escalating verbal conflicts between parent groups in the stands.
Addressing and facing your own group (but speaking loudly enough for both sides to hear): “Simmer down, everyone. I don’t want to end up on YouTube for this.”
4. If your side’s parents are being shitty, address them with a strategic motive for stopping - “Lay off the refs - the last thing we need is an enemy for the game/tournament/season.”
5. Cheer the other goalie’s big saves. It diffuses total tribalism without seeming disloyal.