That Aud Smell

Why would Malone be the 4C as Yerdon suggests? Isn't Girgensons more likely to centre that line?

Isn't Malone one of those AHL vet types who earns the same in the A as he would in the NHL?

My kid who has nearly zero interest in sports of any kind LOVES that song (she loves kitsch and irony, of course). Whenever Zemgus scores, I send her a screenshot of the box score update from my Score app along with an egg emoji. She had looked up some translation of the lyrics back in the day (which I can no longer find), and there was something about "eggs in the basket, are you ready?" - an apparent reference to scoring goals?

I’d forgotten that piece of the story. So he yells as part of his leadership shtick. The yelling to me is secondary, even tertiary. The intensity of the demands that he places on his teammates is what I took away.

Well now, wait a second. I don't think the narrative here is that Drury, MacKinnon, and those hockey leaders from a similar mould are yellers, beraters. My takeaway from the Wyshinski (sp) article linked upthread is that MacKinnon is relentlessly intense and demanding - on himself and his teammates. I don't know that he needs to be "yelling" in order to relate to a teammate that it's unacceptable to sleep walk through a passing drill in February. Shoot - he could do that quietly in the player's ear during a rest. Also, he doesn't need to be yelling when he's telling people, flat out, that they can eat sh1t in the offseason if they choose, but, during the season, they will eat the right stuff. Like I said: That is a*sshole and d1ck behaviour, but it has also proven effective. I've posted here about the stories about Jumbo Joe's style of leadership. Quite different. Yet again OTOH, did Joe Thornton ever win anything? 😬 Do we have an OT-ish "what makes a good captain" thread? Maybe it would be a good offseason thought project.

I remember that being inferred. Was it ever confirmed? Some sort of abdominal injury (hernia)? I like the player. He's good and useful. But I would not call his game heavy, nor would the word "jam" be used to characterize him when he's on the puck. And that's a deficiency. I looked at teams playing late into the playoffs, and I felt like they have role+ players comparable to Olofsson, who can also play with their hair on fire. So, to me, he's more than a replacement value player, but short of being someone who's part of the team's long range plans.

Isn’t Olofsson a player who was being discussed as ineffective for stretches last season? I know that he rounded into better form, but then we’re talking limited sample size. I’d be reluctant to commit to a 5* year term with him.

like all of us.

Meh. Progressing well and resting are sufficient for the day.

also nice of the family to accommodate @PASabreFan by specifically acknowledging "well wishes" this time.

That's welcome news.

this is correct. whoever kick started it seems to have covered their tracks, or never left any to begin with. When the tennis match was unhelpfully announced as “canceled,” that did momentarily add fuel to the fire.

Better to blame the brokenness of human nature. Adam and Eve?

first class. thanks. the piece quoted above is especially helpful to my understanding of the moving parts.

Appreciate that. I will allow: The suddenness and ambiguity of the initial announcement, combined with what appeared to be credible information regarding the ICU being involved, followed by no reports or information** for a couple weeks, made this sort of thing inevitable. **There's some talk on that upthread; perhaps you could weigh in on the journalism ethics question I posed.

Jessica Pegula's match won't happen today. Most reports on Twitter say the match has been canceled without further explanation. Ugh. A 30-second look seems to reveal that (1) Jessica's was the last match of the day on her assigned court and (2) another match is also being canceled for the day. So this is presumably because the matches before them went long, and they ran out of time/daylight.

Let’s just hope that the Twitter rumours are untrue. 🙏

Twitter awash with rumours of the worst outcome imaginable.

Best of luck to Jessica Pegula in her opening match at Wimbledon today. I wasn't aware that she's become a top-10 ranked player in the world (for now) -- full marks to her. There's no doubting her work ethic in light of that. Insofar as her mother is concerned, I'd like to take it as a good sign that Jessica is in England competing rather than keeping a vigil back in the U.S. But who knows.

Mmm. There are several ways to skin a cat. The Drury/MacKinnon model isn’t the only way to lead, to demand and get people’s best. Pominville was never a leader, was never going to be a leader. He did well being led. No shame in that. Okposo is definitely a leader of men right now. He may not always have been. I think his health scare may have helped bring it out of him more. But I do get the kinder/gentler view of Okposo. Still: He’s transitional leadership. I’ll stay tuned to see who emerges as the next captain(s).

Sounds like MacKinnon led his team to a Cup with a style of leadership that harkens to Drury's days as a Sabre in 05-07. (Spoiler alert: By being an a*sshole -- but an a*shole with a purpose -- a singular purpose.) https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/34143958/how-nathan-mackinnon-molded-colorado-avalanche-stanley-cup-champions

Housekeeping question: Do we usually establish an "offseason" thread?

i look forward to this kind of energy being part of the Sabres. (i think that's quinn and peterka.)