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Tocchet out as coach of the Canucks.

And a reach pick doesn’t even necessarily mean you think you’re the smartest person in the room. May be that you think your team has spotted something suggesting some unlocked value in a player compared to the consensus, but that you assume there are a few other teams thorough or sharp enough to figure that out too. So you better pick the guy before one of those other smart team does.

Tork slowing down some?

Yep. Imagine calling a high school senior, telling them you were the admissions officer of school X, and that while an email or portal update will follow shortly you personally wanted to call to congratulate and welcome them to the Class of '29. And then 10 seconds later say, just kidding. One guy on ESPN Radio this morning was saying that a good counter-prank would be for the dad to come home today and inform the son that the organization is taking this very seriously and feels this phone number leak damages their relationships with players and agents going forward, and that therefore the dad has been from his job as defensive coordinator. Let the son stew on those consequences to the family until the next morning.

That was a helluva overtime. Oilers win it on a powerplay goal 19 minutes in.

Oilers on the brink ... and then tie it with around 30 seconds to go. What an interception by Bouchard on an attempted clear by Byfield.

Dan Bejar of Destroyer too. In better news, Jack & Meg inducted into the R&R HOF. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/04/27/detroits-white-stripes-make-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/83319080007/

More and more that they’re stupid and condescending.

This is like the land acknowledgments that are recited before events in Canada these days. It’s stolen, we are choked up about it, we are not going to do anything about it, but we just wanted you to know that we know.

Because he is known as Japan’s biggest Pistons fan and someone told him the final score before he could watch the PVR once back home this evening.

31-13 to finish last year’s regular season and 18-10 to start this one is a 72-game stretch of .680 ball, 110-win pace.

8-2 homestand against three 2024 playoff teams.

Boston socking it to the Guardians, 8-0.

11Ks for Skubal through 6.

Michigan’s incoming QB recruit Bryce Underwood threw out the first pitch. I wonder if he is related to former Tiger pitcher, Pat Underwood 🙂

I’ve been wrapping up my taxes this weekend in advance of Canada’s April 30 filing deadline. Writing a fat check to the CRA sure doesn’t give me nice thoughts about Ottawa, that’s for sure.

I’d prefer a throw out. Position players throw off the mound with the goal of getting the ball past the opposing catcher. Ball can be no farther off the plate than the far sides of the batter boxes and can’t be over the catcher’s head. Bounces are allowed.

Rarer than a perfect game. He's the 19th player to hit 4 home runs in a game. There have been 24 official (ahem) perfect games pitched.

Leafs fail to score on 4 minute powerplay in OT. Sens go on to win. Could be a series turning point? Or at least make Leafs fans sweat for a few days

Pretty good video quality for 1914.

I was interested to see how the 2006 Tigers were at this point. They were 18-9 and then 20-13 and then we really turned it on after that.

I jogged “with” Pope John Paul II for around 7km down University Ave on his visit to Toronto in 1984. As in, I followed alongside his Popemobile on foot. Then attended a big Polish Mass at Exhibition Stadium that evening. Rumor had it he was going to make an impromptu visit by helicopter to my dad’s hometown of Wilno in the Ottawa Valley, Canada’s first Polish settlement, but the locals were left hanging like with the Great Pumpkin so made their way to the Wilno Tavern instead for bigos and Zywiec.