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Hi Amber, $0.00 of your taxes are involved in student debt forgiveness. That's not how any of this works.
Cheers.
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I have absolutely no interest in another 82 game NHL regular season. Ever. 56 was a great number, 60 would be acceptable.
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the Oilers when they sign carter hart this summer:
"we did our due diligence"
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Elliotte Friedman: "The Bruins turned over every stone in researching this Mitchell Miller signing."
Bruins President Cam Neely: "We did practically nothing in researching this signing."
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Every Leafs game right now is like that Angels tweet.
"Matthews scores again and is on pace for 80 goals. Nylander added 3 points and might break 120. Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist to become the youngest Leaf to 500 points.
Leafs lose 7-5."
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If Brendan Shanahan doesn't go on like a media tour of Canada and just absolutely rip NHL officiating from coast to coast then why does he have his job
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Can't tell you all how excited I am to watch Matthew Tkachuk run Joe Woll late in a tight game only to have the camera pan to Ryan Reaves, stapled to the bench, looking real mad and stuff.
The Maple Leafs will look to add some size & toughness via free agency. One player high on their list: Ryan Reaves
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just amazed that someone thought "sheet metal warehouse look" with asymmetrical frontage and *squints* what appears to be an office trailer were worthy of $1.2b, including $500m in public funding.
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Pierre McGuire has a picture of himself on his bookcase. There is no one else in the photo.
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I will go ahead and write your blog post for you:
"Should the [insert NHL team] take a chance on Evander Kane?"
Absolutely not.
There you go, I accept venmo or paypal.
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Bruins are 4-9 on the PP this series and the Leafs are 1-11 and that's the difference.
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Chris Johnston: "Brendan Shanahan phoned each of the Leafs top players to share the news about Kyle Dubas.
Those players came away from those conversations under the belief that Shanahan's intentions are to bring the entire core 4 back."
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Connor McDavid is absolutely furious that he does not play for the Toronto Maple Leafs
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So Friedman confirms what many have suspected: the MLSE board gets involved in hockey-related decisions.
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If Brendan Shanahan doesn't rack up a massive fine for ripping into the officials and the league after tonight, then fire him. Time to make point.
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Ok, HNIC cutting to McDavid's face immediately after every Leaf goal is a magnificent troll job and whoever came up with that idea deserves a promotion.
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I honestly do feel for Mike Babcock. He wanted to help bring Toronto a cup. And I still don't think he's a bad coach, but perhaps he just wasn't the right coach for this club.
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there's a post in the Raleigh subreddit about the city's NYE event, where people were shoulder to shoulder and not masking the day the state broke it's case record by about 7,000.
And this comment hits hard, man.
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Section 6, 46.15, 2021-22 NHL rulebook:
"A match penalty shall be assessed to a player who punches an unsuspecting or unwilling opponent (i.e. “sucker punch”) and causes an injury."
Match penalty = a 5 minute major, ejection from the game, and an automatic 1 gm suspension.
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"You could say the Bolts are on...thin ice."
YYEEEEOOOOOOOWWWW [won't get fooled again starts up]
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basically Stan Bowman came out to announce the Blackhawks selection last night by standing in front of this wall of female employees in an obvious PR stunt.
Hiring women in sports is terrific, but using them as your personal PR shield is shameful.
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Thought this was an interesting take:
Ray Ferraro on why the Leafs haven't had postseason success: "The Leafs play to the puck, not through the puck. To the line, not through the line. You have to change how the message is delivered, or change the players."
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Friedman on the rumored Knies/Hagel deal that Shanahan allegedly shot down: "The Leafs were not happy [that those trade talks leaked]. The Leafs were like, 'We were never going to do that deal. It was presented to us.'"
Adds that neither Shanny nor KD wanted to make that trade.
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Kapanen, Johnsson, and Kerfoot have combined for just 10 goals since Keefe took over as head coach in November. 3 goals in 18 games for Johnsson; 4 goals in 32 games for Kapanen; 3 goals in 31 games for Kerfoot.
10 goals in nearly 3 months from your 3rd line seems really poor.
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Duncan Keith could have participated in the Blackhawks investigation even if it turned out he had nothing of value to add. That he chose not to was a giant middle finger; that, given a second opportunity to potentially help John Doe, he decided it wasn't his problem.
Following up on this detail from yesterday. Keith was asked by the law firm (via the PA) to be interviewed, but given the option he declined. His reasoning, because he did not know anything about the allegation previously, he didn’t believe he had anything to contribute.
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the Ottawa Senators' jersey ad is going to be a QR code that links to Eugene Melnyk's permanent gofundme page
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Toronto has played Montreal three times this season. Each time, the Leafs are on the 2nd game of a back to back. Montreal has been a rested team each game.
This is bullshit scheduling.
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Leafs coming out of the trade deadline with league best center depth only to have all three of them go down in the first post-deadline game is extremely Leafy, I'm sorry.
Might be nothing, might be something, but: John Tavares is wearing a grey jersey, normally worn by scratches, at Leafs practice today in New Jersey.
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4x against teams in your own division (7 X 4 = 28)
2x against teams in the other division in your conference (8 x 2 = 16)
1x [home only] against one division in opposite conference, 1x [road only] against the other division in opposite conference (1 x 16 = 16)
60 games total.
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Friedman also says that the player end of season interviews went very poorly. Some players were very blunt in their assessment of the team, and I've heard from other sources that the players are extremely unhappy with Dubas being fired.
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[Toronto sports media guy who spent the last 5 years calling for Nylander to be traded]: "You absolutely CANNOT trade Willy Nylander"
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when it's kale time for the 8th straight morning
Matthew Knies is rooming with … John Tavares
Grateful that he doesn’t have to stay in a hotel
20-year-old says he got lots of offers from new Leafs teammates
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I love that the Toronto Maple Leafs can play a home game in Newfoundland and the Ottawa Senators can't even play a home game in Ottawa.
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Bobby Hull was a drunk that physically and emotionally abused his family for years. He was also a racist and once promoted Nazi-style eugenics to control the "Black population" in the US.
But he shoot puck good.
The NHL Alumni Association is deeply saddened to learn that Bobby Hull has passed away at the age of 84.
Bobby began his NHL career with the
@NHLBlackhawks
in 1957. He would go on to play 15 seasons with the team, one season with Winnipeg, and another with Hartford, amounting..
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Want to feel old? Eric Wellwood is Kyle Wellwood's SON
News | We've named Michael Dyck and Eric Wellwood as assistant coaches.
Details >>
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Toronto is just going to keep playing a worse goalie every game until the Oilers finally beat one.
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Put a Tim Horton's at center ice and I bet Ryan O'Reilly could hit it.
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@chrisjoondeph
@amber_athey
The US Dept of Ed owns ~90% of all existing public student loan debt (not guarantees, owns). It collects ~$70B per year (recent figures) in revenue from loan repayments. This decision shrinks that revenue somewhat. Congress is not raising taxes over a few billion dollars a year.
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@Johnson_Ryan81
yes, you can see their much nicer looking old ballpark through the windows of the new one
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Basically every Leafs fan's worst fear, maybe besides Auston Matthews walking next summer, is meddling from Rogers & Bell.
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"An absolute masterclass from the Ottawa Senators. The greatest game they've ever played."
"They lose 5-4 in the shootout and are 9 points out of the playoff race."
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If FSG tampered with Dubas, making him aware of what would potentially await him in Pittsburgh (autonomy as president, significantly higher salary) then as Mirtle writes here it completely puts that last minute counter proposal from Dubas in a different light.
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Back in the summer, I reported that bag head account for repeated harassment of Jeff Veillette (and tweeted about doing so).
I heard back from twitter *today*, who found the account guilty of violating twitter rules for hateful conduct. Yet he's still somehow tweeting.
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I'll reiterate that a deal around Mitch Marner for Matthew Barzal makes a ton of sense for each club.
Marner gives the Islanders a truly elite offensive playmaker alongside Horvat. The Leafs should covet Barzal's speed down the middle, where he doesn't have to be the
#1
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The replies here are amazing. Yglesias is rightfully getting taken to school on this (waka waka) because he didn't bother to read the article and has no expertise on the subject.
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Dubas' ask was to streamline that process. We don't know exactly what it means, but it likely involved some form of greater autonomy for hockey ops. And this was the dealbreaker for the board that sent him packing.
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So some players are unhappy with the status quo and others are now unhappy with changes looming.
Buckle up.
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Playoffs are 1-8 by conference, with division winners getting seeded 1 & 2. Remaining 6 positions are wild cards.
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@domluszczyszyn
The only thing I can come up with is that Lohrei was very clearly holding Holmberg's stick and the ref decided to not call either.
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I don't think anyone expected Matthew Knies to have this type of impact right away. Yes, he's not scoring and he has to figure out the defensive zone turnovers but he's doing so many little things in the neutral and offensive zones that bring team success.
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Time to dissolve hockey canada and ban the Canadian men's team from the WJC for the foreseeable future
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Sometimes I wonder why there aren't more NHLers into science and stuff, and then I remember Dougie Hamilton got run out of Calgary for going to the museum.
So now they're all just into call of duty and flat earth.
The Athletic profile on TJ Brodie is a trip.
“He’s a great guy, a family man, a quiet guy, a man of very few words,” and then...
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Also acceptable would be playoffs get seeded 1-16, with the four division winners getting seeds 1 through 4, and the remaining 12 slots all wild cards.
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That was fast. Usually it takes a year for the Flames to break a goalie.
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Mitch Marner has been caught floating in no man's land on both goals against so far.
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Toronto should tear up Nylander's current contract and give him more money.
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Bill Peters' apology was so awful I'm convinced he had Zach Boychuk write it.
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Because it's based on in-conference play, not the entire season. Fantilli had 4 more pts than Knies in conference play, but Knies led the conference in goals and shots and had an incredible 6 GWGs. He also played in all situations for a team that set a new best conference record.
Knies winning player of the year in Big-10 over Adam Fantilli would be like NHL Hart voters being like
"Nah, Connor McDavid isn't the best player in the NHL, Brock Nelson is"
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Petr Mrazek rips off his mask to reveal he's actually Vesa Toskala.
"And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!"
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🧵re: sun belt hockey
We moved to the US in the early 90s when I still a kid. At the time, North Carolina had about 4 or 5 hockey rinks. There were no competitive travel programs, nobody ever came out of NC.
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Ken Rosenthal: "Why the Dodgers being able to circumvent luxury tax rules is GREAT for baseball."
Exclusive
@TheAthletic
: Shohei Ohtani will defer $68 million per year of his $70 million annual salary over the course of his 10-year, $700 million deal with the Dodgers, allowing the team to keep spending, according to a person briefed on the terms.
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Someone in my toddler's room at daycare tested positive today. They have to close his room for 14 (!!) days, which means my wife and I have to watch him at home while we work. And, of course, he might have contracted it.
PLEASE GET VACCINATED, YOUR ACTIONS EFFECT OTHER PEOPLE!!!
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Shanahan assumed the responsibility for firing Dubas, but it should be clear to everyone at this point that the board was heavily involved and this is as much on them, if not more, then on Shanahan. Just as it was on them for not extending Dubas last summer.
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Very sad news that Pension Plan Puppets will no longer be financially supported by Vox Media as of March, and the future of the site is in question. If this is the end, it was quite the fun ride.
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During the incredibly long and unnecessary wait for resolution, Jeff felt forced to take an extended break from twitter due to continued harassment.
I mean, what's the point of reporting someone if there's no penalty for violating the *hateful conduct* policy?
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Tired: Tampa won because of Blake Coleman and Barclay Goodrow
Wired: Tampa won because Point and Kucherov scored at a 120 point pace in the *playoffs*
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If you had told me a month ago that the Leafs would fire Babcock and the entire Toronto & national media would be completely in support of it, I would have looked into having you committed.
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Something Chris Johnston said this morning about the Leafs has stuck with me all day: they haven't even come close
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@bethanyshondark
Millions of American families don't have the time or money to put their kids in dance school or The Little Gym. Or have a neighborhood playground or pool to take them to. Millions of American families can't take their kids on vacations.
Those kids still have childhoods.
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@petbugs13
most of these guys basically quit high school by 16. nobody should be shocked that many of them are taken with this stuff.
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This may be the most ridiculous and sobering "How I paid off my student loan debt" story.
I'm not sure that "I mangled my hands permanently and used the insurance settlement to pay off my loans" is a model worth following.
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@PierreVLeBrun
Not a broken play, Pierre. A crosscheck that continues to go uncalled in the NHL. it's bullshit. Call the god damn rulebook.
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@chrisjoondeph
@amber_athey
They'll either cover the difference with cuts in spending elsewhere (likely, no net tax difference) or through additional debt borrowing.
They certainly aren't taking taxpayer dollars to *pay themselves* as people like Amber are suggesting.
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Detroit has 12 scoring chances. 12. They have 7 goals.
Toronto has 31 scoring chances.
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There will be changes.
The team will take a step back.
You can't defend this anymore and you absolutely can't run it back.
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I dunno, man. The Panthers were really good the last 25 games of the regular season and played the Bruins pretty damn close to even. Everyone should take a lap before talking about an easier path here.
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The dissections of the Shanahan era will be endless this summer. But I think you can probably sum it with this: they tried something different. It failed. It wasn't all their fault. They ignored the evidence it wasn't working and were too slow/resistant to change.
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"That's not written in stone and the new GM could have a different perspective on that, but those players believe they're going to be back together at this time."
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Signing Reaves over, say, Acciari, is certainly a choice.
Elliotte Friedman on the 32 thoughts podcast:
Broberg not being traded by EDM. Leafs/Oilers favourites for Connor Brown, Detroit no longer favourite for Debrincat, Nylander/Leafs not even close. Toronto very much in on Reaves if he gets to market. Nashville interested in C's.
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Dubas seems like exactly the type of hire FSG would interested in for the Pens. The Leafs are insane to let him go another week without a new contract.
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the Schenn cross check call was terrible. The Kampf slashing call was embarrassing. Etc, etc.
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The most damning thing about the Officer Karen McMuffin video?
Her first instinct when her breakfast is a few minutes late is to treat the employees involved as suspicious.
This cannot be how modern policing operates, or we will never see any progress.
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every mistake or fluke ends up in the Leafs net and never the other team's net
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I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye
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Kyle Dubas is a smart guy. He'll probably wind up somewhere else in a year or two and find lots of success.
The GM job in Toronto is brutal and the MLSE board makes things so much worse.
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