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the lonely letters. dr ashon crawley. 2020.

credits - nathan danette / unknown / kevin shea / nathan danette / zac bondurant / mapleleafs on x / mark blinch / graig abel / keith srakocic / bruce bennett / bruce bennett / john dunn / bill streicher / mark blinch / TSN / sportskeeda / sportsnetwork / lance mcmillan / frank gunn / kevin sousa / NHLI / frank gunn / klaus andersen / john e. sokolowski / wikipedia / google search results / Gotta See It: Tavares scores in OT to win Maple Leafs first playoff series since 2004

a little playoff hype hope for our boys! i have so much faith in this team and i believe in us all the way :)

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the thing about players like Matt Rempe is that there are so many people who would rather argue that there's a place for him and other guys like him in the league instead of agree that it will always be better and more interesting when gifted players are able to play. and they can argue that other guys are just as bad--but so what if they are? let's be worried about preventing all of it instead of making excuses for why your guy should also be able to take guys out.

I will always be more interested in guys like Quinn Hughes or Cale Makar or Jake Guentzel or Cole Caufield being able to play without having to worry some dude with a propensity for head hits is going to take them out.

Personally, I'd like Sid to have the 108 games he missed between 2011-2012. I'd like him to have the playoff series instead of the concussion he got from a Jacob Trouba hit to the head. I'd like Paul Kariya to have finished his career on his terms and without huge gaps where games should be. I'd like Paul Kariya to have gone to the Olympics in Japan instead of taking a cross-check to the face from Gary Suter. I'd like Hörny to have made that magical playoff run with the Cats instead of having to retire because of a bad Daniel Sprong hit. guys get accidentally taken out by friendly fire all the time. they shouldn't also have to worry about a hit ending their career.

it's not even about "clean" vs. "dirty." if you've played 96 minutes, your injury count should not be that high. who cares if it's legal if it's giving dudes TBIs? genuinely. because that's what concussions are.

some day, every single one of these guys will retire. long or short careers. by choice or by force. with bodies at various levels of health. the fans and the league should care a lot more about those guys than they do.

the only thing Mark Lazerus got wrong in that article was that Jacob Trouba and Tom Wilson had learned their lesson about dangerous hits. I'll believe that when it hasn't happened in the last four months.

here's one study on the quality of life of 76 Swedish hockey players who retired due to concussion. that's the shit we should be caring about.

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you all wish your arena had a dragon

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— on athletes leaving home

1. Hanif Abdurraqib, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension | 2. Cleveland Cavaliers fans burn Lebron's jersey | 3. Charles Bukowski, “Something for the touts, the nuns, the grocery clerks and you…” | 4. Chelsea fan shows homemade shirt directed towards Mason Mount after his departure to Manchester Utd | 5. Hanif Abdurraqib, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension | 6. Cleveland fan runs onto the court to convince Lebron James to return to Ohio | 7. "Prove them wrong" | 8. Lionel Messi announces his departure from Barcelona | 9. excerpt from Messi's press conference | 10. tweet by Sarah Hagi | 11. James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room | 12. Harry Kane leaves Tottenham | 13. Spurs fans react to Harry Kane's departure | 14. Liverpool fans burn Fernando Torres's shirt when he leaves the club for Chelsea, 2011 | 15. Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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[240424 VGK @ DAL] intense empty netter cellies

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blue, white, white, blue

brian phillips "parallel lives: tom brady, peyton manning, and the nature of great sports rivalries" / abc news florida / goalie mask collector / act of god / goalie mask collector / christopher logue "cold calls (war music, continued)" / pablo picasso, "guernica" / sportsnet / jane creighton "writing war, writing memory" / bruce bennett / steve russell / florence and the machine, "daffodil" / toronto maple leafs / nhl / red rider, "lunatic fringe" / mike carlson

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article where jordan talks about his family and judaism 🥲

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i usually stay off hockeyblr entirely as soon as playoffs hit because it just makes people mean and aggressive in a way that i do not enjoy but Come On Now.

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"mark stone, who loves hockey more than life itself and could not be kept out of it if he were capable of so much as walking up a flight of stairs short of handcuffing him to a radiator, is complicit in a years-running conspiracy to... use the cap rules as written in a completely legal way that multiple other teams have done constantly year after year, including being willing to simply miss months of games in the regular season despite his team sometimes being in a highly competitive playoff race that might see them miss the playoffs entirely. this is what i believe, because vegas is evil and everyone on it is a moustache twirling disney villain who is constantly scheming against the rest of the poor innocent league who never times things in a convenient way with the cap and playoffs and is being pushed around by the big bad evil gold team." please be so fr lmao

anyways, fuck yeah vegas w, i love you forever mark stone.

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cinci series photo round up! 🧹

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good day!

SEA: 9 CIN: 3

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my dash when the 2024 seattle mariners are winning a baseball game

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it is so nerve wracking to watch this slow-mo replay for several minutes- AND THEN THEY FUCKIN. garbage. just garbage.

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mark halliday

on april 11th, 2024, sidney crosby got his 1000th assist, with 138 of them being to evgeni malkin

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On 11th April 2024, Sidney Crosby nets his 1,000th career assist and moves ahead to take sole possession of the 10th most points in NHL history.