We went from “Marner sucks in the playoffs…”
to “Marner’s unbelievable why couldn’t he be this good in Toronto??? oh my God of course this is happening he’s a lock for the Conn Smythe…”
to “see, Marner sucks, I said it from day one!!”
Beyond idiotic. He had an unreal playoff. Vegas doesn’t get 2 wins away from a Cup without him this year. No question he was nullified the last couple of games. Carolina’s a well-oiled machine that calibrated to the series and found a way to shut Vegas down like every other team they faced in the playoffs.
I mean, I still think Ottawa’s better than most people do. They ran into a juggernaut early.
I guess part of why I don’t have a hard time seeing guys who leave Toronto do well is because I believe a Toronto Maple Leafs Stanley Cup victory is the biggest prize up for grabs in all of hockey - maybe all of pro sports - and however hard you find it to see ex-Leafs be successful, I think it’ll be orders of magnitude harder for those guys to watch the Leafs go on a run that they could have been a part of.
I was so pumped when Jordan Staal handed Freddy the Cup first last night. That shit was beautiful. Cant relate to people who’d hoped he wouldn’t get there….until Carolina matched up with Marner and Freddy became the lesser evil.
Our time will come.
Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government.
Democrats and voting-rights groups say the proposed rule is clear evidence that the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.
The Carney government just dropped a $3.2 billion food security strategy and it’s worth understanding what it actually does.
Right now, only 11 cents of every dollar you spend on groceries reaches the farmer who grew it. Five companies control 80% of the grocery market. And Canada exports billions in agricultural products while turning around and importing processed versions of the same food from the US at a markup.
This plan attacks that problem structurally. $1 billion goes toward food terminals and distribution hubs so independent grocers can buy directly from Canadian farmers, cutting out the middleman. The Competition Bureau gets a funding boost to go after the property control tricks big grocers use to block competitors from moving in nearby. And Farm Credit Canada gets $1 billion for domestic food processing so we stop exporting raw product and importing it back as something more expensive.
The targets are concrete: expand the Ontario Food Terminal by end of year, open two new food terminals and 10 regional food hubs by 2028.
This isn’t a handout to Loblaws. It’s infrastructure to break their stranglehold on the supply chain.
Will it fix your grocery bill overnight? No. But building real competition into the system is how you get lasting price relief, not a rebate that disappears after one quarter.
Trump’s threat to not renew CUSMA is as believable as his pledge that peace is at hand with Iran, which is as believable as his promise to bring down prices on Day One. Stop listening to his frantic rants—and to his apologists in Canada. /2
Jordan Staal is having an unbelievable Stanley Cup Final BUT he had just 2 goals in 13GP rounds 1-3
To give him the Conn Smythe would be a mistake. It's not FINALS MVP
Goals:
Stankoven 11
Staal 8
GWG:
Stankoven 3
Staal 1
EVP:
Stankoven 13
Staal 7
#SoundTheSiren#ForgedInGold
😂😂 Nancy Mace tried to expel the only Black Muslim woman in Congress.
She just lost her own seat instead.
Ilhan Omar is still here. Nancy Mace is not.
Karma doesn't miss.
The Masterton is kind of a silly trophy because it ends up being a misery competition. People will always feel 'snubbed" over who had it harder. This kind of sentiment happens every year in one way or another.
If I’m following you because of #GH stuff and you post or re-tweet MAGA BS or election conspiracies I’m unfollowing and possibly blocking. I’m not playing around with any of that, sorry.
I realize Dylan Larkin fits into the NHL Age of Player Empowerment thing, but this seems like such a different situation than Hughes, Tkachuk, Marner or others who were like “I’m not re-signing here."
He’s got 5 years left. Now, if *this* starts a trend, things get interesting.
Have to give Minnesota some credit (and I say this with all seriousness) for being on Dylan Larkin's list & seemingly becoming a destination:
- 1 playoff series win in 12 years
- not a no-tax team
- have arguably the toughest current playoff path (DAL, COL)
- not ideal weather