#National Lacrosse League

[elliotdawsonnn]

To all my AFTG stans out there that wish Exy was a real sport, I am BEGGING you to check out Box Lacrosse and the National Lacrosse League ✨🙌it’s literally Exy on a smaller court I swear :”0 its fast paced, violent, fun, and played on a converted ice hockey rink. Its got it all I swear y’all will love it ✨🙌the finals are happening right now and trust me you don’t want to miss the games.

Also the goalies just look so silly I love them 🫶

[thingsmk1120sayz]

[mahgnib]

The Buffalo Bandits wore Guardians of the Galaxy jerseys to celebrate Marvel Superheroes Night, with an overtime win against the Saskatchewan Rush. The jerseys must have played a part in the victory 😉

[worldnews7]

[NLL] Colorado Mammoth Unveils 2024-25 Regular Season Roster

Ryan Lee Returns, Blending Rookie Talent with Veteran Experience   Colorado Mammoth / photo credit to GooddaySports DENVER – The Colorado Mammoth has announced its official roster for the upcoming 2024-25 National Lacrosse League (NLL) season, marking the beginning of a new campaign filled with anticipation. The Mammoth, along with the other 14 NLL teams, will enter the season with 21 players on…

[anthonybialy]

Another Title Anything But Routine for Buffalo Bandits

I had to buy another championship shirt.  Thanks a lot, favorite team.  Incessant shopping is such a hassle.  The Buffalo Bandits have to sew relevant information onto another banner, which seems like a tricky project.  And they had to update the sign with the championship year.  Eh: there may be worse things than getting another number.  

Buffalo is New York’s lacrosse capital.  Albany can have their narcissistic twits taking your money to tell you how to live, and we’ll have Tehoka.  The Erie Canal Bowl resulted in shipping the Cup in one definite direction.  The league’s flagship franchise is winning like it, which is sweet news for those seeking precedent for things working out like they should for once.

Commemorate the first time since the first time.  Fans revel in a rather rare event, namely the second consecutive title accumulation since the first and second seasons.  The Bandits are back to back-to-back.

All you pessimists didn’t think the most awesome outcome imaginable was possible just a couple months ago. Someone as inherently cheerfully positive as me certainly wasn’t grumpy about any midseason losses.  I also think this universe is a blessing that’s all planned for happiness ever since late Saturday.

Cool professors weigh end of semester results more heavily than confusing early classes.  Better grades toward the end show accelerated learning upon familiarity with the subject.  The Bandits learned and adapted.  They’re the same team that started the season with occasionally shaky performances yet different.  Answer a zen riddle with wooing about winning.

It turns out the finish is the most important part.  The NLL is just another sports outfit that focuses on results.  It’s so predictable.  They only honor the top competitor.  There’s exactly one important time for comparing scores.  It happens at the very end.

The Bandits are an apology.  One other neighborhood team is competitive while the other is dreadful while both share the common characteristic of never winning the league’s final game.  They alternate every couple years.  Variety doesn’t always improve circumstances.

The Bills and Sabres oscillate between crushing dreams by getting close and being so inept that toxic waste spills ask to not be compared to them.  Meanwhile, Buffalo’s RC Cola wins it all again.

A year that ended with a title started off feeling like an eclipse season.  Clouds at the most inopportune time led to naturally thinking an event rarer than a Buffalo championship would be a letdown.  But our planet’s star and satellite burst through overcast skies at the moment of totality.  The lesson was not that things failed to work out but rather that we just had to persevere through trepidation.  The Bandits shined like plasma.

Nobody could’ve been too disappointed if this season ended like it began.  A lack of cohesion early in the campaign seemed to be leading toward making us cherish 2023.  Memories of a dreamlike run through the postseason might’ve been what sustained us through the offseason.  They do, but they’re blessedly from a couple days ago instead of nearly a year.

The only misstep was not waiting a few days to officially rejoice.  Partying before midnight until after noon would make Andrew W.K. proud.  But hosting a bash before sweeping up confetti from the night before was, in the words of Gilbert Gottfried’s epitaph, too soon.  Holding a congregation the afternoon after the win means the faithful didn’t even have a chance to finish expiring celebratory liquor before it turned sour.

The assembly held one short sleep after the season ended came at a time for those who thought last year’s weekday 5 p.m. bacchanalia wasn’t positioned oddly enough.  Hangovers still hadn’t set in.  Festive attendees of the season finale could’ve stayed out all night, gotten breakfast late into their personal days, then mulled around the plaza until the players showed up like a matinee following a night game.

What was the rush?  Social media comments about the gala include some from rueful backers who are rightfully bummed out that they missed posts about a shindig that one might think would be scheduled after a slight subsiding of the immediate hullabaloo.  I’m attempting to refrain from kvetching about ownership right now, but a Pegula-style screwup hindering the jubilation around their one ultimately successful franchise is on brand.

I felt lucky to have noticed they were convening.  As a reminder, always check social media constantly in case a team you admire wins it all and invited all their fans to live it up with them soon after.

My personal rally policy is to appear at any gathering in commemoration of a Buffalo club prevailing in an athletic tournament.  You may have noticed it’s rarely applicable.  Going annually is a relatively frequent pace, so your daughter will understand if you skip her wedding.  Move the ceremony to the front of the French Connection statue.

It’s better to show up on the back of a fire truck than in the back of a cop car.  Players demonstrated their skill at disembarking from engines serving as chariots for victors, which might be even tricker than scoring in a clinching game.  Everyone thankfully reached the ground safely before traveling through a most appreciative crowd then converging on stage to gleefully cuss in between lager swigs and cigar puffs.  This roster knows carousing like they do conquering.

I could get used to this.  The habit of filling a case with shiny metal sculpted into triumphant shapes is a delight that should never be taken for granted.  We spent 15 years waiting for last year’s glorious result, so this interregnum was a blink.

Overindulging in elation is fine for the moments after your beloved wins it all.  I’m trying to avoid feeling too depressed, which is why I’m not going to tally how many seasons of teams I like began with dreams of supremacy before ending  like a mob torching.

Nobody in Buffalo needs to be told those other two squads are still on the list like they’re trying to get a Trabant in East Germany.  The Bandits have Ian MacKay, while the others sit in the waiting room as described by Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye.  As part of my newfangled commitment to positivity while I’m still buzzing from the commissioner leaving hardware in town, I’m avoiding wallowing in obvious comparisons to the city’s other teams.  I will just say the Bandits offer a good example.

Winning a ring for the other hand inspires almost as much pride as no Bandit ever winning the league’s sportsmanship award.  The thrill remains intense even when there’s a recent example of pure bliss.  Nothing’s lighter to lift than a heavy trophy.

[laresearchette]

Saturday, June 03, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)



WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: TLC FOREVER (A&E Canada) 8:00pm WEDDING SEASON (W Network) 8:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? SEX & MURDER (TBD - Investigation Discovery)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA KNOCK AT THE CABIN THE ONION MOVIE

NETFLIX CANADA THE CAMPAIGN

MLB BASEBALL (SN1) 1:00pm: Rays vs. Red Sox (SN) 4:00pm: Jays vs. Mets (SN Now) 6:00pm: Rays vs. Red Sox (SN360) 7:00pm: Yankees vs. Dodgers

MAJOR LEAGUE RUGBY (TSN2) 7:00pm: Sabrecats vs. Arrows

NLL LACROSSE (TSN/TSN3) 7:30pm: Mammoth vs. Bandits - Game #3

THE CURIOUS CASE OF DOLPHIN BAY (Crave) 7:30pm: A group of friends are spending the summer working as interns at a research center, which is researching unnatural changes in the local reef. After strange events begin to occur, the friends suspect a local legend may be tied to the reef's problems.

NHL HOCKEY (CBC/SN) 8:00pm: Panthers vs. Knights - Game #1

THE LOVE CLUB: SYDNEY (Global) 8:00pm: Former track athlete Sydney hasn't closed the chapter on the college ex-boyfriend who broke her heart years ago, but her new running buddy may help her discover that it's time to let go of an old flame.

NATION UNTAMED (APTN) 8:00pm: Sam and Chuck go on an unexpected adventure at a Manitoba bison ranch, where they harvest, skin and butcher the animals by hand.

JUST JAKE (Super Channel House & Home) 8:00pm: An emerging country star returns to his hometown to overcome his serious writer's block and reunites with his high school sweetheart.

MLS SOCCER (TSN4/TSN5) 8:30pm: Minnesota vs. Toronto FC

BACK TO ROOTS (APTN) 8:30pm: Matricia explains the benefits of strawberries; she makes lemonade and bakes a cake in an outdoor kitchen.

MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE (Crave) 9:00pm: Hoping for one last hurrah, Mike Lane heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can't refuse. With everything on the line, he soon finds himself trying to whip a hot new roster of talented dancers into shape.

MINDCAGE (Starz Canada) 9:00pm: When a copycat murderer strikes, Detectives Jake Doyle and Mary Kelly seek help from an incarcerated serial killer named the Artist. As Mary delves deep into the Artist's twisted psyche, she and Jake get lured into a diabolical game of cat and mouse.

BUTTER (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm: Struggling with self-esteem and family issues, a high school student befriends the prettiest girl at school via social media. Facing constant bullying, his popularity soon grows when he devises a crazy plan that gains the attention of the in-crowd.

[lilislegacy]

re: percy’s favourite sports

probably nobody knows this but there is a professional-national-north-american-major-league-type-thing for box (indoor) lacrosse (the NLL), and one of the teams is literally called the new york riptide. their logo is orange and dark blue and light greenish blue. they’ll only exist for 5 years (their first season was 2019, their last will be 2024, after that they’re being moved and getting a rebrand, and i will either love or hate the new team for this but i don’t know which yet) but percy randomly caring about lacrosse is so funny. also their first 2 draft selections were both named tyson, so, i feel like that somehow adds to my point. a cyclops playing lacrosse is a permanent fixture in my brain now

thanks for the ask!

ha! thats hilarious! i didn’t even know this was a thing. there are definitely a lot of percy-related aspects there. i could see him being interested! i can just hear it

percy: hey wise girl. you. me. tonight. we’re going to this game

annabeth: since when do you care about lacrosse?

percy: i always have

annabeth: name one position

percy:

percy: player

annabeth:

percy: come on! they’re called riptide! their colors are orange, blue, and sea-green! it’s literally meant for me.

[foxufortunes]

So like, I was gonna add this onto my post about the Raven's win percentage and how that compared to lacrosse with NCAA Exy and NCAA Lacrosse being about the same age, but I figured I'd put it here so everyone can see, because this is what I mean about the exy timeline being complicated and why zero losses makes sense over 30 years.

And yes, I know AFTG is not aiming for hyper realism grounded in reality, but I like figuring out a cohesive timeline for things like fics it's TRC all over again. Also I just like to think way too deep about this things, and if I'm descending into madness over these things you're coming with me.

That said, the timeline of exy and Evermore as much as I can make sense of it:

So, the exy/Evermore timeline in kind of a mess and a great example of how adding more makes something make less sense. What we're going to do is take the books at their most concrete fact and say that Tetsuji and Kayleigh invented exy 30 years pre-canon, and for ease of timeline we'll call it exactly 30years. So, here we go:

So our base line in 1976 (for the record NCAA Lacrosse was formed 1971, this is what I mean when I say they're roughly the same age). Tetsuji and Kayleigh were in university and in Japan, but it's not clear at what point in their studies they were and how long they had left to go at university.

Nora's EC says that Tetsuji was reaching out to the NCAA before he graduated. During his last semester he was reaching out promising funding and himself as a coach. So this is, at most a few years after exy was created unless Tetsuji had the slowest university career ever.

The next fall semester NCAA Exy officially starts with Ravens vs Trojans at Castle Evermore. So, as I've said before, the Big 3 were in on the ground floor. This is why they're so dominant, but that they started with the Ravens means they should be more competitive. The Raven's won the first match 13-12 and if it's that close at the start, the idea that the Raven's undefeated 20year+ streak is because they've been around longer loses all ground.

Evermore was the first stadium completed, followed by the Golden Court for the Trojans and Pride Court for Penn State Lions (which is such a cute name, I want a book on them please Nora). Pride Court was delayed but Penn State kept up training, while USC and EAU had their courts built at impossible speed. For reference, building a sports stadium, from first plans to completion is at speed roughly an 18month endeavour, if everything goes right, but depending on how you read the point above this could be just a few months. Either way, it's very fast. Other universities had pop up stadiums or played at the bigger stadiums of the Big 3 or local stadiums until theirs were complete. Ironically, given his apparent treatment of his female players, a lot of Tetsuji's funding came from getting women on board, promoting how co-ed the sport was.

The first pro teams were formed around the first graduates from the NCAA league. So 5 years after Evermore and we get a professional league.

And the US Court 2 years after. So 7 years from the start of the NCAA competition and we get a national team.

Then exy is in the Olympics the next year. So 8 years from the first NCAA game for exy to be Olympic recognised (a generous estimate makes that 1988, 1992 at a push, 14-18 years pre-canon and roughly a decade pre-foundation of the Foxes).

The problem with all this, of course, being that the book in only chapter 2 of TFC says that Kevin (born in 1986) and Riko were around with Tetsuji when Evemore was still in the blueprint stage.

Now, there's a couple of way I can think to maybe square this all. Firstly, obviously the 30years is a rough but that should mean closer to 30 than anything else, but to be generous either way, we're looking at between '71 (35years pre-canon) and '81 (25years pre-canon) and the later timeline can square a little better. It's also possible our Castle Evermore is a new stadium and the first Castle Evermore is an old one they've knocked down and replaced at the new one is the one Kevin and Riko were around for. It's also possible to be more generous with Tetsuji's university career: say he was in his first year in 1976, did a longer/postgrad course and stayed for say 7 years giving us 1983 for his graduation, then be generous and say "next fall semester" actually means '84 (which is still fast for a stadium) for Evermore's completion and the NCAA starting, which gives us the '92 Olympics.

So, let's work backwards instead. For Evermore to be being built while Kevin and Riko "already had custom racquets" we'll be generous and lowball age 2? So, we'll work with Evermore opening around '88. Even working with the most generous estimate of when exy was invented (1981, 25years rather than 30) that means, assuming Tetsuji spent his freshman year in Japan, he was in university for 6 or 7 years (depending on how you read next fall). Putting us at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and making NCAA exy 20ish years old.

[whirlpool-blogs]

Jack Hughes is the 'generational' talent who could help save Hockeytown

March 3, 2019

There’s a picture in Jack Hughes’ bed room of Pavel Datsyuk, captioned, “To Jack, see you in NHL!”

Datsyuk, the former Detroit Red Wings star, knew what he was writing.

Jack Hughes has been the favorite to go first overall in the 2019 NHL entry draft for more than a year, the 17-year-old middle child in a family of hockey phenoms. He’s a "generational-type" forward who draws comparisons to Patrick Kane and a self-assured teenager who's grounded by his family even though some project him to impact the league by 2020. 

The Wings, who are headed for a third straight draft lottery, would be fortunate to win the right to select him, as he’d accelerate their rebuild and be a potential franchise cornerstone. Team personnel have scouted Hughes heavily, an easy task with him playing for the Plymouth-based USA Hockey National Team Development Program in suburban Detroit.

“I’ve watched him play four or five college teams this year, play against guys who are three or four years older than him and just physically bigger and more mature,” said Kris Draper, Red Wings assistant to the general manager. “They come after him but I’ve yet to see Jack Hughes back down. He’s a real competitive kid. He wants the puck.

“To me, one of the most impressive things is he is an undersized forward, but he is dynamic on his edges. His quickness, his stops and starts, his change of direction off the rush — he has the ability to create time and space for himself. And then he just knows how to slide the puck. He has that knack of where to put the puck to get it back.”

Hughes put up 116 points last season, starting out with the NTDP's Under-17 team before being promoted to the Under-18 team. 

“There are a lot of players who have high skill, a lot of players who have speed,” NTDP U18 coach John Wroblewski said. “With Jack, it’s his consistency and desire to be the best that separate him from other players that are really good or even great players. He’s at the top of the pyramid.

"There’s a genuine passion to play the game with this young man and a genuine drive to be the best at his trade. But he does have god-given physical attributes. His ability to train and push himself to the limits is in the upper echelon of any athlete I’ve ever seen. He is blessed with a God-given ability to process oxygen or play at a high level with depleted oxygen.”

Jack Hughes was born May 14, 2001, in Orlando, Florida. His older brother, Quinn, is a sophomore defenseman at Michigan who was drafted seventh overall last June, by the Vancouver Canucks. His younger brother, Luke, is a defenseman with the 15U Little Caesars AAA Hockey Club and is expected to continue his development next season with the NTDP.

All three were taught to skate by their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, who played hockey, lacrosse and soccer at the University of New Hampshire. Their father, Jim, was an assistant coach with the Boston Bruins from 2001-2003. It was while Jim was head coach of the AHL's Manchester Monarchs in 2005-2006 that Jack learned to skate on outdoor rinks. The family then spent 11 years in the Toronto area while Jim was director of player development for the Toronto Maple Leafs, before moving to Michigan in 2017. Jim played at Providence from 1985-1989.

Their house in Toronto had an unfinished basement by design. It was a hockey laboratory for the Hughes brothers.

“Two-by-fours were doubled up against one of the walls, and they would rifle pucks,” Ellen said. “We broke a lot of glass. There was one window in particular that was constantly broken, no matter what I put up there. We had nets that were all dinged up. One wall we did Plexiglas up to your waist, but then above that it was all holes. It was crazy."

“When we moved and we had a realtor in there, we said, 'Should we get somebody to come in here and fix it?' And they said, 'No, don’t bother. Somebody is going to have to come in and gut this.' We had a lot of fun though.” 

Jack smiles as he recalls those days. 

“Our dad put us through the wringer in that basement,” he said. “There were a lot of holes in the walls. It was a great basement for us. It was awesome what they did for us.”

All three boys have what Jim refers to as “internal fuel," meaning they play "for the love of the game. That's what makes them who they are."

Jim and Ellen wanted to raise well-rounded boys, and athletics was a major part of that. 

They played baseball, lacrosse and soccer.

They golfed, fished and water-skied, too. 

“We always pushed them to be the best you could in anything they did,” Ellen said. “We made them all run cross country and track in Toronto through junior high. They hated it and we made them do it. We thought it was a real gut check. They all did great.”

But hockey was their love from infancy. Ellen recalls Luke trying on his brother’s skates and wobbling around when he was a toddler. 

“They watched what their dad did,” Ellen said. “They were in the locker rooms. They wanted to do what they knew.”

Jack put it this way: “Walking and skating was the same thing for me.”

Seated in a conference room at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth in early February, Jack Hughes was just nearing a return from an undisclosed injury. He'd recently graduated from Plymouth Canton Educational Park.

“I don’t have to wake up at six in the morning any more," he said, "so that’s nice.”

Hughes has been lauded as the prize of the 2019 entry draft for more than a year. That carries significant weight.

In 2016, Auston Matthews became the seventh U.S.-born player drafted first overall in the NHL, and while Hughes appears destined to be the eighth, he is firmly grounded amid such lofty expectation. This is where having been around pro hockey all his life helps. Hughes understands, better than most, how being a highly touted prospect works, including watching Quinn go through it last year.

“They have followed kids that were supposed to have long careers and a lot of them do and a lot of them don’t,” Ellen said. “We’ve always been under the philosophy that nothing has happened yet. You have to work every day and the day you’re not working, someone else passes you by. Be passionate about what it is you choose to do.”

Hughes likes what many teenagers like: playing video games, preferably "NHL 19," often with teammate Alex Turcotte, the fifth-ranked North American prospect in 2019 according to the NHL's Central Scouting Bureau. "All American" and "Riverdale" are favorite TV shows. Kobe Bryant’s "The Mamba Mentality" is on Hughes' reading list. Ellen describes her middle child as very organized.

“He knows where everything goes in his room," she said. "He’s always been very mature, he’s always hung out with older kids. Partly it’s his relationship with his (older) brother, and part of that is how he was born. Jack has always had his head wrapped around being the best. That’s who he is. You can’t make a kid be determined like that. He’s always been so driven. He’s always had a huge engine.” 

His 18th birthday is coming up on May 14. Six weeks later, on June 21-22, he’ll be in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the draft. He’ll know where he’s going by then, as the draft lottery, usually held the last Saturday of April, will reveal who picks first. 

(The Wings entered Saturday with the third-fewest points in the NHL, which means they have an 11.5 percent chance of acquiring the No. 1 pick.)

“It’s what you dream of, right? Being in this position,” Hughes said. “I’ve worked really hard to get here. It’s really cool and a lot of fun. I don’t really see it as expectations or pressure, I just see it as fun. It’s really cool.”

Hughes grew up watching Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby, but “as I got older, it’s been Patrick Kane. He’s a guy I idolize and love to watch play.” 

The comparisons between Hughes and Kane come partly because both are undersized forwards (Kane is 5-foot-10, 177 pounds; Jack is listed at 5-10, 168). Kane, 30, has won three Stanley Cups with Chicago since the Blackhawks drafted him first overall in 2007. In 2015-16, he became the first U.S.-born player to win the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL’s scoring leader (106 points). 

“It’s an interesting comparison because there are some tendencies that are the same,” Wroblewski said. “But Jack is moving at top speed almost the entire game, whereas Kane is so good at slowing the game down and drawing in defenders. Jack is going to carve around them and carve through them. They both have acute vision and think the game  a step ahead of everybody else, but the way they dissect the opponent is different.

“Are they going to score at the same clip? I think eventually Jack will challenge some of Kane’s scoring prowess. Jack is a unique generational-type talent, and there are going to be kids today talking about wanting to be Patrick Kane and I think there’s going to be kids in 10 to 15 years talking about wanting to be Jack Hughes.”

Hughes returned from injury Feb. 15 and recorded five points over his first three games back. His overall numbers — 16 goals, 45 assists in 30 games — give him a 1.97 points-per-game average, surpassing last season’s 1.93 average (116 points in 60 games). At 177 points and with seven weeks left in the season, Hughes should surpass Clayton Keller’s NTDP record for career points (189), set from 2014-16, ahead of such NHL notables as Phil Kessel (180 points) and Kane (172). 

“I think Jack’s puck skills have always been tremendous, but when a player is moving as fast as he is on the ice, sometimes the hands and the brain can’t catch up to the feet,” Wroblewski said. “He’s gotten incrementally more fluid with his hand-eye coordination and his ability to corral passes and take a shot. He is moving so fast and for him to continuously catch up with his hands and his brain is something we marvel at on a daily basis.

“His edge work is impeccable and if you look at some of the great players of our game — you don’t have to look much further than Pavel Datsyuk. He wasn’t a guy with tremendous stature out on the ice, but the lower body, his ability to grip the ice with his skate blades, was one of the many marks of Pavel Datsyuk. Jack has that same hockey strength and it’s something he acquires through hours of training and God-given talent.”

Playing against older boys growing up helped Jack realize his identity as a player.

“I’m not going to be able to run anyone into the boards, I’ll tell you that,” he said “I think everyone has their own things that help them become who they are really. I understand my strengths and know the player I can be and the player I am right now. I’m not going to do anything outside my capabilities.”

Some of Jack’s best performances — the ones where his oxygen reserves kick in — have come against NCAA opponents, where he has 17 points in 11 games. 

“Those experiences are huge,” Hughes said. “We’re playing against really tough competition and you get a feel for what it’s like to play older, stronger kids on a nightly basis. It’s really good exposure for us.”

Jack has a competitiveness about him that’s evident in the way he wants to do something every shift. Given his speed and skill set, he should be in the NHL next season. 

“I’m really confident in my abilities,” Jack said. “I know it’s a hard jump, but I feel like I could do it after a big summer. 

“Everywhere I’ve gone I’ve succeeded. Even growing up, I was always playing older kids, playing up a year. I always succeeded. I always found my way.”

It’s that inner drive — that internal fuel — that is at Jack’s core.

“I can’t wait to see him around the world’s best on a daily basis,” Wroblewski said. “I think he will continue to elevate his game just like has from the time he was a boy. Will he run into some rookie slumps next year in an 82-game NHL schedule? Yes. But he’ll impact the NHL right away and he’ll participate and be a key part of any team that he joins next year.”

Tampa Bay Lightning assistant general manager Pat Verbeek, himself a former undersized NHL forward, has scouted Jack numerous times.

“He’s not real big, but with his speed, that gives him room to be able to make plays,” Verbeek said. “He has the puck a lot, and he’s a tough guy to check. I think he’s got a chance to be a special player, but the hardest thing to overcome when you’re 18 years old is, a lot of the guys are stronger. If he can maintain his skating, which he does really well, then he’ll be able to stay ahead of some of the physical play that he could get caught up in. But that’s always the thing you worry about, the physical part. Is he mature and ready for that? If he is, he’ll do well.”

It’s Hughes' self-awareness that has helped propel him to the first-overall favorite.

“What I like about him is, he knows he can’t go to the net and hang around and think he is going to score a goal there by out-battling a defenseman,” Draper said. “He uses his smarts. He’s a dart-y player. He gets in, he does what he has to do, and then he gets out and makes his play. He realizes what he is and he knows how to score.

“There are nights where you walk away from having watched him play and he’s done some things that are real special and puts a smile on your face.”

[delawareriver]

I will forever say that the national lacrosse league games I've been to are some of the best live sports. a surprising amount of diehard fans and the wings have all the resources of the flyers and sixers so its a really exiting atmosphere but it's also not that big of a deal so the announcer can be insanely biased and it doesn't matter if they lose. they blast music the entire time and I am slightly concerned it have me some hearing loss

[elliotdawsonnn]

Shoutout to all my mutuals love you guys so much🫶

Thanks for playing in my sandbox with me 🙌🙌

[thingsmk1120sayz]

Back to the Finals

[drownmeinbeauty]

HOMELANDS

A long-running semi-permanent exhibit at the national Museum of the American Indian, Native New York, gives a straightforward, text-heavy account of native communities in New York State. Backlit maps and diagrams show who lived where and how. Communities in present-day Manhattan clammed at its northern tip, carved canoes along the Hudson, settled among the ponds at its center, and hunted beavers in its streams. Then in 1626 Peter Menuit gave the Lenape 60 guilders and claimed the entire island for the Dutch West India Company. The fiction of harmonious coexistence ended, and the struggle for sovereignty began.

Of all the artifacts on display (clay bowls, beaded mocassins, hand-hewn arrowheads, feathered spears, gourd-rattles, canoes dug from tree trunks, cartoons on newsprint, wool blankets), the most poignant is a Haudenosaunee passport, issued by a league of six Iriqouis nations (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora) and carried by enrolled members when they travel abroad. But it offers little security outside their homeland. It is recognized by the Irish government, only irregularly by the United States government, and not at all by the governments of Canada, Bolivia, Peru, and the European Union. One Canadian official, in denying the Haudenosaunee national lacrosse team entrance, called it a "fantasy document."

This little book mimics the pocket size, midnight blue color, and gold stamping of a US passport. In the low and low-lit museum vitrine it gives off a plasticky shine and won't lie flat. Why does it seem inert? Why doesn't it posses the same unquestioned, mythological, authority of a United States passport? The United States was created by proclamation, conjured with words and documents, not so long ago. Why don't we grant others the power to do the same?

[worldnews7]

[NLL photo] Flying 'Zed'

Colorado Mammoth, Zed Williams / photo credit to GooddaySports   (Denver = Won Jeong) On the 23rd, a regular-season game of the NLL took place at Ball Arena in Colorado between the Colorado Mammoth and the New York Riptide.   In the game on that day, Colorado secured a victory against New York with a score of 18-10.

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I don't entirely know what outsiders chadwhisk means (the book? not accepted?) but I am intrigued

IT IS NEITHER, ACTUALLY!!! In a turn of "wow yea this challenge works exactly the way it was meant to", outsiders chadwhisk is actually an outsider POV fic of chad and whiskey's relationship after they've graduated from college! so chad is in the PLL and NLL (premiere lacrosse league and national lacrosse league, they play two different seasons so players can be in both) and whiskey is in the NHL and one of his teammates sees him watching lacrosse and it's chad's game (but his teammate doesn't know that), and so Whiskey just kind of narrates the game and doesn't say much else. Teammate (named Deller) knows that whiskey texts someone during the games, but they never text back (the chadwhisk is Complicated).

Ofc, Deller knows what team whiskey cheers for, but he has no fucking clue why, nor why he likes lacrosse in the first place, but he buys whiskey tickets to a game, as a present, and they go! (and ofc it's a Chad Game)

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Remember Jim Brown.

James Nathaniel Brown (February 17, 1936 – May 18, 2023) was an American football player, sports analyst, social activist and actor. He played as a fullback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 through 1965. Considered to be one of the greatest running backs of all time, as well as one of the greatest players in NFL history, Brown was a Pro Bowl invitee every season he was in the league, was recognized as the AP NFL Most Valuable Player three times, and won an NFL championship with the Browns in 1964. He led the league in rushing yards in eight out of his nine seasons, and by the time he retired, he held most major rushing records. In 2002, he was named by The Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever.

Brown earned unanimous All-America honors playing college football at Syracuse University, where he was an all-around player for the Syracuse Orangemen football team. The team later retired his number 44 jersey, and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1995. He is also widely considered one of the greatest lacrosse players of all time, and the Premier Lacrosse League MVP Award is named in his honor. Brown also excelled in basketball and track and field.

In his professional career, Brown carried the ball 2,359 times for 12,312 rushing yards and 106 touchdowns, which were all records when he retired. He averaged 104.3 rushing yards per game, and is the only player in NFL history to average over 100 rushing yards per game for his career. His 5.2 yards per rush is third-best among running backs, behind Marion Motley and Jamaal Charles. Brown was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. He was named to the NFL's 50th, 75th, and 100th Anniversary All-Time Teams, comprising the best players in NFL history. Brown was honored at the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship as the greatest college football player of all time. His number "32" jersey is retired by the Browns.

Shortly before the end of his football career, Brown became an actor, obtaining 53 acting credits and several leading roles throughout the 1970s. He has been described as Hollywood's first black action hero, first achieving recognition in the action film genre with his 1969 film 100 Rifles.

Brown died at his Los Angeles home on May 18, 2023.