Thank you Betty.
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Thank you Betty.
Sorry. I respect your opinion but I disagree.
Yup.
That's your take. They also had only two real playoff runs on Price's watch. The other was Halak's and he was more central to that than Price in 2014 or 2021. But this is hardly the first time he's been overrated.
I think you're right - no one has attempted anything like this and it's working brilliantly.
Once agsin, my column on the impending break with Carey Price - and how the Price era is likely to be seennin hockey history.
Thank you, Denis.
Thanks David.
Thanks Patrick.
Could be accurate. But I would differ with Dryden on his self-assessment.
Thanks Bob.
Had some friendly libations with him at Au Cepage in Old Montreal when he was in a play at the Centaur. He was pissed one day because a car dealer wouldn't let him buy a car on payments - do the next day he went back and bought it, cash. Good guy. Funny.
World News: Three Scottish Brothers set a world record Saturday for the fastest unsupported row across the Pacific Ocean. Peru to Australia nonstop, raising money for a clean water project. Jamie, Ewan, and Lachlan Maclean. [as reported in ‘sidelines’ bottom corner of the last page of Sports]
The United States has seen 291 mass shootings in 2025. That’s more than one mass shooting every day. This isn’t normal. Weapons of war don’t belong on the streets. We need real action to save lives.
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The Canadiens secret weapon, in my opinion, is France Margaret Belanger. She's the one who set the wheels in motion for this to become the best organization in hockey - aided and abetted by Chantal Machabee.
Ha! You should do commercials.
Thank you very much.
Exactly.
#bluesky #news
Thank you so much! I hate those bloody summaries. Not least because they are so often WRONG!
Ditto.
PM Carney is polling at 68% federally which is unheard of four months in. What’s more unheard of is he’s polling at 59 percent approval in Blue Alberta! Dean Blundell lays out the facts and explains why here! A great article! #MarkCarneyOurPM #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Happy Labor Day to everyone who wasn't best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein! #Govpressoffice #istrumpdead #labordayparody #pinks
Hush. Don't encourage 'em.
Ha! Great line about Kevin O'Leary.
True that.
You know they may never get within sniffing distance of a Cup. It's harder than it used to be. But you couldn't have a better run organization.
Ha! I'm just wrapping up the final few days of teenage boy number 3. Familiar with that of which you speak.
I would hardly call it social media scrutiny when he voluntarily makes a promo for the gun-nut lobby and circulates it around the world himself.
Thank you. Also helped me to resolve the issue of where to put him.
Thank you.
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an end to the “pandemic of arms, large and small,” as he prayed publicly for the victims of a shooting during a Catholic school Mass in the United States.
Same. I know many, perhaps most, will forgive that MAGA stuff. I will not
I mentioned the American MAGA wife in a note to a friend today. What a shame he didn't hook up with a Quebecois woman with a wider perspective on the world.
Thanks Bruce.
Thanks Scott. At some point I have to write something about the organization itself. Not many in all of sports that function at this level. It's seamless.
Thanks Mike
I had forgotten the forgetting.
Yes, it is. They gave it all they had it 2021, for sure.
Thanks Todd.
I don't think it will be. But we'll see.
Thank you, Dan.
Auger-Aliassime! Spell my name!
Thanks Moe.
Thanks Scott. I stayed away from trade speculation. There's so much BS. When you see them quoting "sources," you know they're lying. Very few people are in the loop so unless you're in a position where those people are confiding in you, it's BS. And leaking news of a deal would cost them their jobs
Thanks David.
Thank you, Jacques
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It's freakish. How any society couod convince itself that's normal or rational is beyond understanding. In many ways, the US is clinically insane and has been for at least the past 25 years.
True dat!
German Chancellor: Ukrainian capitulation means "tomorrow we're next" Friedrich Merz cautioned that Ukrainian surrender would create a cascade of Russian attacks on neighboring countries, ultimately reaching Germany euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/31/g...
The moral of this fable is, if you're Danielle Smith and you would lose a debate with a turnip, don't pick a fight with Margaret Atwood.
Exactly. I think of my sisters in Colorado a few years ago, out every Sunday morning at a BLM demo, facing a gun nut with an AR-15 who would come out WITH HIS WIFE AND YOUNG KID and stand facing them from across the street. That takes some guts.
Soon, I hope!
Possibly. I understand that people are desperate and by connecting even with strangers online they at least FEEL like they're not alone in the struggle against fascism. It's when building these connections seems like an end in itself that I find it rather narrow and fanciful.
No, oddly. Although it did seem to think that Price is a prospect along with William Bourget, who is a hockey writer – while declaring that the Habs need to settle Price's contract and find his replacement from within the system. AI is so fucking dumb it would have voted for Trump and probably did
Auger-Aliassime taking out that creepy Zverev at the U.S. Open is up there with AOC body-slamming RFk Jr. Way up there on the entertainment/justice scale.
Don't lecture me, you patronizing fool. I've been covering this stuff since several decades beyond forever. Now go piss up a rope.
Exactly. My grey-haired sisters in the U.S. stuff envelopes, make phone calls and ring door bells. (I don't because I'm Canadian.) Helluva lot more effective than these daisy chains, if you ask me.
Search for a piece by William Bourget of the Hockey News and AI weighs in: "There are no direct news connections between prospects like William Bourget and Carey Price. Instead, the recent news focuses on Carey Price's ongoing contract situation, as well as the search for his successor..."
So joining the "Resistance" now means gathering up starter packs of other "Resisters," and thanking the people who added you to the list, and using lots of colourful emojis, and making up more lists... At what point this intersects with the real and urgent goal of firing Trump, I have no idea.
Oh for god's sake.
That's the judicial system, agree with it or not. It's not the disrespect shown by a mega-corporation like Disney eager to profit on a murder case.
📍 At the border between Poland and Belarus. Poland is facing hybrid attacks from across the border. We stand in solidarity with our Member State. In our new EU budget, we have proposed to triple border management funding. We are all responsible for Europe’s external borders.
Tellement heureuse de faire partie de ce groupe de femmes extraordinaires!! Merci Magazine Véro, Véronique Cloutier et toute son équipe pour cette expérience unique! 🥰❤️ Photos : Andréanne Gauthier Équipe: Laurie Dupont, VanGiroux Amélie Thomas, Marcus, Théo Dupuis-Carbonneau Sophie St-Laurent.
At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.
Yes. I think he's cooked now, however. He's already unbearable. Imagine if he knocked off Sinner at the U.S. Open?
Well yes let's just stop giving people jobs and have robots and AI do everything, since that's where we're headed anyway. Good luck with that and have a nice day.
In theory. It could also go rogue and strangle sn entire family.
That whole thing was ridiculous. It was pretty clear what happened. WADA turns a blind eye to state-sponsored doping in China but persecutes a tennis player who basically has no reason to dope.
Not here.
💯’Real-time’ betting - and TV promotional ads are part of every CFL and NFL broadcast, every sports network show, it seems. Also tennis, which comes to mind now during the U.S. Open. Not to mention curling. Curling! Bet365 is aptly named. Just terrible.
TSN abandoning Rybakina vs Raducanu to bring us THREE men's tennis matches at a time. Ignoring two previous Grand Slam winners. Could you be more misogynist?
And this is supposed to be a good thing? FFS.
Some guy sent me his AI "creation." I sorted him out.
This almost seems to be a joke from the gods on Canadian tennis. Number 1 Sabalenka vs Leylah Fernandez. Number 1 Sinner vs Shapovalov. I normally can't bear to watch Shapo but I might tune in to watch Sinner whup his cocky butt.
One of the sweeter pairings I've ever seen on a tennis court: Towering, 45-year-old Venus Williams (who definitely still has it) with smallish, 22-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez. Fernandez is gushing like 10-year-old kid to be playing with her hero and it warms the heart in difficult times.
Oh come on. We don't deep state conspiracy bullshit. They're doing it right out in the open.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street...has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day & minute by minute. History has stopped." -Orwell 1984 🦋 archive.md/UbWvS
Amen.
Nah he wouldn't lie. But he did know in advance it was in the bag and he thanked Elon for that.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Off the scale, repugnant greed at its worst 👇
Since forever.
Snoop Dogg, you tiresome, gutless, self-promoting shithead. www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
Experienced journalists like Elliotte Friedman ought to know better. There is every reason for Connor McDavid to take his time putting together his next deal with the Oilers. The salary landscape is changing with the cap. You want everything right. That does NOT mean he's about to leap to Toronto!
Chief Justice Roberts says the rule of law is eroding like we've rarely seen. Maybe he should've thought of that before ruling the president is above the law. You don't get to burn the house down and act shocked it's on fire.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Dem activists. One of my sisters was a delegate to the convention, moved to Washington state after decades as prof of environmental science at the U of Alaska and helped the state Dems update their computer system. Was 100 percent sure Harris would win. Was and still is devastated.
In a way it's "but Hillary's emails" sll over again. Progressives seem to look for reasons NOT to vote for a candidate, even one a million times more qualified. MAGAs vote as they're told. They're stupid, they have zero empathy, they're a waste of DNA. But they vote as they're told.
Let's hope. I still have family down there.
Rublev still looks like a failed shoe salesman.
"Soft secession" is the best idea I've heard yet, a way to exert blue state power and hamstring the Trump regime without provoking Civil War. Short of some magic serum that cures MAGAs of their mindless devotion to the cult leader, this could me an achievable step.
Gavin Newsom on Trump’s gerrymandering “I’m sick and tired of democrats being on the losing end in this country and our democracy being on the losing end! We have got to fight fire with fire-“
Amazing photo of Jasmine Paolini by Australian Italian tennis photographer Ray Giubilo #USOpen #photography
Jesus that is unacceptable. Aiming to destroy the world and the environment for the sake of ideological purity? I've been in this fight since the 1960s and I'm way to the left of most - but I would vote for Newsom or Pritzker or anyone who can bring down this monster.
If their policy was to kill off the stupid, they would have comitted suicide by now.