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The 2026-27 NHL Season is Here, and it’s OK that it didn’t Magically Cure my Depression this time (opens the original)
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Happy opening night, hockey fans. Can I be honest with you, faithful constituents of my captive audience? This year, the annual season kick-off column feels harder to write than usual. Typically in tougher life moments, I’m able to either avoid vulnerable writing and go for the memes and analysis, or lean in to the hard feelings and hope that the writing resonates with at least one person. Or maybe two kids in a trench coat.Right now, I feel like a petulant toddler with no perspective on any of
Shall We Start Easing Into The Hockey Season? (opens the original)
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Happy Tuesday, hockey fans. It’s September 1, and I can already hear the summer gluttons in my ear telling me to shut up and put the pumpkin spice down.No can do.I’m done being sweaty. I’m done getting sunblock in my eyes. Most of all, I’m ready to watch some dang hockey. Well, I’m eager-as-can-be, but I’m not exactly ready to be tossed into the upcoming season quite yet. I thought it would be a good idea to ease back into hockey mode with a vibe check on everything we need to know headed into t
Raise Your Hand If You're Going Crazy (opens the original)
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A TikTok post I saw a few weeks ago has stuck with me for at least these few weeks, which is more like a few generations in the modern attention economy. Once I bookmarked the post as if I was ever going to revisit it again, I’d realized that I saw the same exact words lay over a generic background from three different users in a singular scrolling sess… Read more
Surviving the Summer of the Rising Cap (opens the original)
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The NHL is notorious for perhaps too many things, among them the copycat approach its front offices take with each other, and a general lack of urgency when it comes to getting with the times.Nothing happens in a vacuum in this life, and that’s especially true for a league where half the teams look at the Cup winner du jour and think: “How can we copy this, just slightly worse, and with 41-year-old Corey Perry for some reason?”So, folks, as we find ourselves pucks deep in the Summer of the Risin
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