So, the majority of the NHL’s play-in series have concluded, and here’s what we know so far:
- Montreal did the Lord’s work & knocked out the Penguins;
- Arizona validated Gary Bettman’s (BOOOOO!) relocation strategy by knocking out Nashville;
- Calgary the same by beating the V.2 Jets;
- The Blackhawks gave the Oilers another chance at ruining a #1 overall draft pick; and
- Miracle of miracles, the Canucks avoided shitting the bed, and now get the reward of either Dallas or St. Louis in the opening round.
But Columbus did not do the rest of Canada a huge favour & beat the Leafs in their own arena, thereby preventing the CBC & Sportsnet from fellating the team the rest of the summer. We now have to sweat through Game Five Sunday night.
Once the full playoff matchups are decided, you will get my sound analysis of each series complete with accurate GAMBLOR predictions so you can turn good money into free money.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Philadelphia vs. Tampa Bay – 8:00PM | NBC / Sportsnet1
- NBA:
- Los Angeles Lakers vs. Indiana Pacers – 6:00PM | TNT / TSN3
- Milwaukee Bucks vs. Dallas Mavericks – 8:45PM | ESPN / TSN3
- MLB:
- Blue Jays at Red Sox – 7:30PM | Sportsnet
- Golf:
- 102nd PGA Championship – 4:00PM | CBS / TSN
- From TPC Harding Park in San Francisco
- 102nd PGA Championship – 4:00PM | CBS / TSN
- Fútbol:
- Liga MX:
- Cruz Azúl vs. León – 7:30PM | UNI
- Monterrey vs. Santos Laguna – 8:00PM | FS1
- Guadalajara vs. Puebla – 10:00PM | TELMUN
- Liga MX:
- Pugilism:
- FOX PBC Fight Night:
- Jamal James vs. Thomas Dulorme (welterweights) – 8:00PM | FOX
- FS1 PBC Fight Night:
- Mykal Fox vs. Lucas Santamaria – 10:00PM | FS1
- UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik
- Prelims – 7:00PM | TSN2
- Main card – 9:00PM | TSN2
- FOX PBC Fight Night:
- Southern Hemisphere tackle sports:
- Australian Rules Football:
- West Coast vs. Carlton – 1:30AM | ESPN2 / TSN
- Super Rugby Aotearoa
- Round 9: Crusaders vs. Highlanders – 11:30PM | ESPN2 / TSN3
- Australian Rules Football:
I have to admit – with a bounty like this, I sure as hell don’t miss NFL preseason games. I really like not paying for them!
Balls, this weird fitness lady ad is freaking me out
West Coast v Carlton will be on ESPN2 in a half hour!
And then?
Melbourne v North Melbourne at 1 AM Pacific on FS1!!
And then!?
Evening. I made a Manhattan that was like 1 part vermouth to 9 parts rye and a dash of bitters. I’m good with it.
Thinking some thoughts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9iwTFTsPA
Flyers get the number one seed as we all predicted at the start of the season
Hitting the post from your end should be worth a hat trick
This goes for sex too.
I feel like it’s time to revisit Demon Knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A6pN8KWYSg
The WCW tie-in character with KISS?
RIP Crush
Probably odds out subjective view, but I like crowdless TV hockey.
Evenin. How we all doing? Wife been sick 10 days, no Rona. Coughing like me after a week in Amsterdam in the 90s.
I can see this fall/ winter, every fucking sniffle will induce paranoia. Glad it is a “regular” virus.
Oh yeah. Attendance at work will be atrocious.
I think my place will be using a “work from home if possible” policy for quite some time.
I am home until 2021 for sure. In my line of work, social distancing is difficult in the processing plant and we have been operating on 58% attendance compared to last year. Winter is going to be worse.
I’m in engineering, so avoiding others comes naturally.
Wow what a concept: instead of participating in the bullshit “fight me” aspect of hockey, just go limp and dont drop your gloves, and you dont have to fight.
Also a good survival tactic as he would most likely have died right there
Though I do find myself missing Wayne Simmonds casually murdering people
Fuck, but he can throw a punch.
Trying to goad the skilled team into a fight to get them off their games. The flyers would never.
Folks,,, flyera are good
Haven’t thought about this band or this song in about 40 years. Still pretty badass though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrMAHZDwak
Hey there you are! I didn’t see the post until way later, but I wanted to tell you how sorry I was about Mildred. No matter how old we get, that never gets easier. She had a happy life, and you loved her for all of it.
Indeed.
It occurs to me that Michigan schools are starting to open. Most districts will be back on the 25th. The state of emergency is in place until September 6. Everything is very stupid right now.
Kevin Hayes has been unexpectedly amazing in the round robin
Really wished the Ice Bombers signed him after trading for him.
Grillec chicken, corn on the cob and some fries. Oh and an Irish Red beer. Simple but so good
Do research before you smoke pot.
Jesus. Ghost looked like he was going for a killshot
Lightning really looking to face Columbus again
Nah, I think after last night’s collapse, the Ice Buckeyes are losing to the Ice Argos
Those watching the Ice Iggles/Ice Bucs game, did they just say Hedmen went to the locker room with an injury?
Yes, sir. Right ankle.
I mean, lower body injury.
You mean he’s out with an unfit to play
His unfitness will remain in the locker room.
Unfit to put weight on his right foot
So he’s cosplaying as Phil Kessel?
Never forget
Jesus Christ, this was 11 years ago
9 years ago. Fuck it. I can’t read.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-partner=”tweetdeck”><p lang=”it” dir=”ltr”>Hahahhaahhaa http://yfrog.com/h5xhhdj</p>— Alex Ovechkin (@ovi8) <a href=”https://twitter.com/ovi8/status/43116182580105216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>March 3, 2011</a></blockquote>
Looked like he twisted his ankle or something, but sounds worse now
?? season has arrived at last
I’ve watched 5 minutes of the Ice Eagles/Ice Bucs game and I cannot help but think, when the hell did the Ice Iggles get this good?
When they took their entire top 6 out behind a shed and replaced them entirely with top prospects
should specify defense here. THey were so bad and old for so long. I think Pronger’s contract just ended like 2 years ago.
That makes more sense. I was going to say, G, Voracek and Couturier is still the top line.
Carter Hart probably helps, too
Can not emphasize enough how much I don’t trust any Flyers net minder, no matter his performance so far
Makes sense. Though from what I saw from Carter Hart during his Junior A days, he’s likely legit
Flyers-Lightning not fucking around. This pairing always delivers in the post-season.
Golf seems like the one sport that really still works without fans.
Big tree falling in the woods energy
Jim Nantz Jim-Nantzing
His head would fucking explode if he ever got to call a final round with Romo winning a Pro-am.
He needs to just look the other way.
Gretchen’s off visiting Biden in Delaware. If she becomes VP, Carlin Gilchrist will become our new governor. Not only will he be the only Black governor in the country, he’d be the youngest by 4 years, with DeSantis second at 41.
Power move going pantsless in a gunfight.
found a funny:
ordered from same chinese delivery place for years. when i would call i would hear the lady whisper “its hot boy” because i liked it spicy
Unprepared anal sex.
Watermelon, red onion, lime juice. fresh mozzarella, and Tajin is a freaking delicious summer salad
That sounds delicious.
Save me some!
Oh, sure! The Metropolitans et Les Canadiens get their names on the Stanley Cup despite not finishing the Finals, yet when I ask for a diploma saying I finished two semesters of community college, I get laughed at!
spicy tuna sushi bowl and bubble tea for dinner because I turn into an over-privileged 16 year old as soon as I don’t have any responsibilities.
Or an early-career software enginerr
This tracks as I’m a programmer according to my education. I was a retail clerk according to reality. Now I’m a lazy sysadmin using years of programming experience to make work more tolerable.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/mac-becomes-first-fbs-conference-to-cancel-2020-college-football-season-for-the-fall/
“No, now it ends.”
The cowch.
“Niiiiice.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
Had a gyro plate with hummus and falafel. Not sure there is better cuisine when done properly. The salt of the feta, the brinyness of the kalamata olives and the tang of tzatziki. God damn. The gyro meat was nice and savory. So many places wimp out and use mostly beef for their gyros but this was heavy with the lamb. Awesome stuff.
Now let’s drink things!
Yum, that sounds delicious! Throw in some pickled onion relish too, mm
yeah, I can do that.
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(watching The Longest Yard (2005))
Now that everyone is starting to “correct” past mistakes, are we ready as a Society to discuss how the latest version of “The Longest Yard” portrays all prison inmates as either violent or homosexual, portrays all homosexual inmates as extremely effeminate, and implies Adam Sandler has both the look and the acting skills to pull off being a former NFL Quarterback?
The furthest from the truth is any acting ability associated with Sandler.
At least we’re both in agreement. The first two are just a comedic exaggeration of a trope at the expense of two vulnerable subsets of people. The last is just plain wrong!
Ya never know.
Vlad P. looking pretty youthful there.
(some people may consider this gore)
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szjdoVR5EKs
BBQ is often messy.
Indeed.
“Miss, could you please replace my Caesar?”