The National Hockey League is back! Sort of… eventually… okay, it’s all still really complicated, but league commissioner Gary Bettman announced preliminary details for the NHL’s return-to-play format yesterday afternoon. The gist of it is more or less what we expected, for better or worse: The regular season is done, and the standings will be…
The Mailbag: May 25th
This was the week I envisioned bringing back the Mailbag, but not really the way I envisioned it. This will get published after sunrise, but it’s written about 2:00 AM. It’s very humid in Toronto, as we skirted the expected thunderstorms for yet another day, and my building hasn’t turned on the air conditioning yet….
The Final 50 – A Proposal to ‘Finish’ the NHL season and preserve the playoff format
The National Hockey League doesn’t exist anymore. Hockey is a social construct, and our only reason for our continued survival is to map out proposals for playoff formats when the doctors give us the thumbs up for sports to resume again. Or something like that. Look, it’s been a long few months, where the actual…
Leafs sign Adam Brooks to two-year contract extension
Prairie Jesus is here to stay, at least for now. The Toronto Maple Leafs announced this morning that they would be signing forward Adam Brooks to a two-year contract extension, carrying an AAV of $725,000. The exact terms of the contract were not disclosed, save for the fact that is a two-way deal, which implies…
Social Media House Keeping
Early last month, I brought The Faceoff Circle online after a couple of weeks of maintenance, which came with some reflection time with regards to where my life was at and where I wanted to go next. Society, obviously, has continued to be on pause since, and there hasn’t been a ton of news to…