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Some YA Books You May Have Missed So Far in 2019

Your mod is here! I meant to do this monthly, then bimonthly, and now we’re a quarter of the way through 2019. I wanted to take a moment and highlight some books that have come out between January and March that deserve more hype.

Please note that this IS a curated list, exclusively featuring books I’ve read or want to read. February and March releases are below the cut.

Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer Release: January 15

Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf—the same creature who attacked her as a child. The wolf presents Echo with an ultimatum: If she lives with him for one year, he will ensure her father makes it home safely. But there is more to the wolf than Echo realizes. 96 Words for Love by Rachel Roy and Ava Dash Release: January 15

A modern retelling of a classic Indian legend, 96 Words for Love is a coming-of-age story. Ever since her acceptance to UCLA, 17-year-old Raya Liston has been quietly freaking out. She feels simultaneously lost and trapped by a future already mapped out for her. Then her beloved grandmother dies, and Raya jumps at the chance to spend her last free summer at the ashram in India where her grandmother met and fell in love with her grandfather. Raya hopes to find her center and her true path. But she didn't expect to fall in love... with a country of beautiful contradictions, her fiercely loyal cousin, a local girl with a passion for reading, and a boy who teaches her that in Sanskrit, there are 96 different ways to say the word "love."

Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon Release: January 15

Sophie Orenstein would do anything for Peter Rosenthal-Porter, who’s been on the kidney transplant list as long as she’s known him. Peter is everything to Sophie: best friend, musical collaborator, secret crush. When she learns she’s a match, donating a kidney is an easy, obvious choice. She can’t help wondering if after the transplant, he’ll love her back the way she’s always wanted. But Peter’s life post-transplant isn’t what either of them expected. Though he once had feelings for Sophie too, he’s now drawn to Chase, the guitarist in a band that happens to be looking for a keyboardist. And while neglected parts of Sophie’s world are calling to her—dance opportunities, new friends, a sister and niece she barely knows—she longs for a now-distant Peter more than ever, growing increasingly bitter he doesn’t seem to feel the same connection. Peter fears he’ll forever be indebted to her. Sophie isn’t sure who she is without him. Then one blurry, heartbreaking night twists their relationship into something neither of them recognizes, leading them to question their past, their future, and whether their friendship is even worth fighting for.

All is Fair by Dee Garretson Release: January 22

It's 1918, and war is raging across Europe. Lady Mina Tretheway knows she's destined for greater things than her fancy boarding school, where she's stuck sorting out which fork should be used with which dinner course. When Mina receives a telegram that's written in code, she finally has her chance to do something big. She returns to her childhood home of Hallington Manor, joined by a family friend, Lord Andrew Graham, and a mysterious young American, Lucas. The three of them must band together to work on a dangerous project that could turn the tide of the war. Thrilled that she gets to contribute to the war effort at least, Mina jumps headfirst into the world of cryptic messages, spycraft, and international intrigue. She, Lucas, and Andrew have to work quickly, because if they don't succeed, more soldiers will disappear into the darkness of war.

The Cold is in Her Bones by Peternelle van Arsdale Release: January 22

Milla knows two things to be true: Demons are real, and fear will keep her safe. Milla's whole world is her family's farm. She is never allowed to travel to the village and her only friend is her beloved older brother, Niklas. When a bright-eyed girl named Iris comes to stay, Milla hopes her loneliness might finally be coming to an end. But Iris has a secret she's forbidden to share: The village is cursed by a demon who possesses girls at random, and the townspeople live in terror of who it will come for next. Now, it seems, the demon has come for Iris. When Iris is captured and imprisoned with other possessed girls, Milla leaves home to rescue her and break the curse forever. Her only company on the journey is a terrible new secret of her own: Milla is changing, too, and may soon be a demon herself. The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin Release: January 29

What do a future ambassador, an overly ambitious Francophile, a hospital-volunteering Girl Scout, the new girl from Cleveland, the junior cheer captain, and the vice president of the debate club have in common? It sounds like the ridiculously long lead-up to an astoundingly absurd punchline, right? Except it’s not. Well, unless my life is the joke, which is kind of starting to look like a possibility given how beyond soap opera it’s been since I moved to Lancaster. But anyway, here’s your answer: we’ve all had the questionable privilege of going out with Lancaster High School’s de facto king. Otherwise known as my best friend. Otherwise known as the reason I’ve already helped steal a car, a jet ski, and one hundred spray-painted water bottles when it’s not even Christmas break yet. Otherwise known as Henry. Jersey number 8.

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan Release: January 29

Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that harder and harder to do. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life in Seattle and her new life at Caltech, where she can pursue her dream of becoming an engineer. But when her parents catch her kissing her girlfriend Ariana, all of Rukhsana’s plans fall apart. Her parents are devastated; being gay may as well be a death sentence in the Bengali community. They immediately whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh, where she is thrown headfirst into a world of arranged marriages and tradition. Only through reading her grandmother’s old diary is Rukhsana able to gain some much needed perspective. Rukhsana realizes she must find the courage to fight for her love, but can she do so without losing everyone and everything in her life?

The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf Release: February 5

Melati Ahmad looks like your typical moviegoing, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother’s death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied. But there are things that Melati can't protect her mother from. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother become separated by a city in flames. With a 24-hour curfew in place and all lines of communication down, it will take the help of a Chinese boy named Vincent and all of the courage and grit in Melati’s arsenal to overcome the violence on the streets, her own prejudices, and her djinn’s surging power to make it back to the one person she can’t risk losing.

Dark of the West by Joanna Hathaway Release: February 5

Aurelia Isendare is a princess of a small kingdom in the North, raised in privilege but shielded from politics as her brother prepares to step up to the throne. Halfway around the world, Athan Dakar, the youngest son of a ruthless general, is a fighter pilot longing for a life away from the front lines. When Athan’s mother is shot and killed, his father is convinced it’s the work of his old rival, the Queen of Etania—Aurelia’s mother. Determined to avenge his wife’s murder, he devises a plot to overthrow the Queen, a plot which sends Athan undercover to Etania to gain intel from her children. Athan’s mission becomes complicated when he finds himself falling for the girl he’s been tasked with spying upon. Aurelia feels the same attraction, all the while desperately seeking to stop the war threatening to break between the Southern territory and the old Northern kingdoms that control it—a war in which Athan’s father is determined to play a role. As diplomatic ties manage to just barely hold, the two teens struggle to remain loyal to their families and each other as they learn that war is not as black and white as they’ve been raised to believe.

The Antidote by Shelley Sackier Release: February 5

Magic is not allowed, under any circumstances — even if it could save someone’s life. Instead, there are herbal remedies and traditional techniques. Fee knows this, so she keeps her magic a secret. Except her best friend, Xavi, is deathly ill. He’s also the crown prince. Saving him is important, not only for her, but for the entire kingdom. Fee’s desperation to save her friend means she can barely contain the magic inside her. And after the tiniest of slips, Fee is thrust into a dark and secretive world that is as alluring as it is dangerous. If she gives in, it could mean she can save Xavi. But it also means that those who wish to snuff out magic might just snuff her out in the process.

The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons Release: February 5

When Brynn Hilder is recruited to Vale Hall, it seems like the elite academy is her chance to start over, away from her mom's loser boyfriend and her rundown neighborhood. But she soon learns that Vale chooses students not so much for their scholastic talent as for their extracurricular activities, such as her time spent conning rich North Shore kids out of their extravagant allowances. At first, Brynn jumps at the chance to help the school in its mission to rid the city of corrupt officials--because what could be better than giving entitled jerks what they deserve? But that's before she meets her mark--a senator's son--and before she discovers the school's headmaster has secrets he'll stop at nothing to protect. As the lines between right and wrong blur, Brynn begins to realize she's in way over head.

Enchantee by Gita Trelease Release: February 5

When smallpox kills her parents, Camille Durbonne must find a way to provide for her frail, naive sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on petty magic—la magie ordinaire—Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy the food and medicine they need. But when the coins won’t hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family’s savings, Camille must pursue a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. With dark magic forbidden by her mother, Camille transforms herself into the ‘Baroness de la Fontaine’ and is swept up into life at the Palace of Versailles, where aristocrats both fear and hunger for la magie. There, she gambles at cards, desperate to have enough to keep herself and her sister safe. Yet the longer she stays at court, the more difficult it becomes to reconcile her resentment of the nobles with the enchantments of Versailles. And when she returns to Paris, Camille meets a handsome young balloonist—who dares her to hope that love and liberty may both be possible. But when Camille loses control of her secrets, the game she's playing turns deadly. Then revolution erupts, and she must choose—love or loyalty, democracy or aristocracy, freedom or magic—before Paris burns…

Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto Release: February 12

In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire was built upon the backs of Phoenix Riders—legendary heroes who soared through the sky on wings of fire—until a war between two sisters ripped it all apart. Sixteen years later, Veronyka is a war orphan who dreams of becoming a Phoenix Rider from the stories of old. After a shocking betrayal from her controlling sister, Veronyka strikes out alone to find the Riders—even if that means disguising herself as a boy to join their ranks. Just as Veronyka finally feels like she belongs, her sister turns up and reveals a tangled web of lies between them that will change everything. And meanwhile, the new empire has learned of the Riders’ return and intends to destroy them once and for all.

The Blood Spell by C.J. Redwine Release: February 12

Blue de la Cour has her life planned: hide the magic in her blood and continue trying to turn metal into gold so she can help her city’s homeless. But when her father is murdered and a cruel but powerful woman claims custody of Blue and her property, one wrong move could expose her—and doom her once and for all. The only one who can help? The boy she’s loathed since childhood: Prince Kellan. Kellan Renard, crown prince of Balavata, is walking a thin line between political success and devastating violence. Newly returned from boarding school, he must find a bride among the kingdom’s head families and announce his betrothal—but escalating tension among the families makes the search nearly impossible. He’s surprised to discover that the one person who makes him feel like he can breathe is Blue, the girl who once ruined all his best adventures. When mysterious forces lead to disappearances throughout Balavata, Blue and Kellan must work together to find the truth. What they discover will lead them to the darkest reaches of the kingdom, and to the most painful moments of their pasts. When romance is forbidden and evil is rising, can Blue save those she loves, even if it costs her everything?

Spectacle by Jodie Lynn Zdrok Release: February 12

Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day's new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered--from the perspective of the murderer himself. When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last. Nathalie's search for answers sends her down a long, twisty road involving her mentally ill aunt, a brilliant but deluded scientist, and eventually into the Parisian Catacombs. As the killer continues to haunt the streets of Paris, it becomes clear that Nathalie's strange new ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer's identity--and she'll have to do it before she becomes a target herself.

Immoral Code by Lillian Clark Release: February 19

For Nari, aka Narioka Diane, aka hacker digital alter ego “d0l0s," it’s college and then a career at “one of the big ones," like Google or Apple. Keagan, her sweet, sensitive boyfriend, is happy to follow her wherever she may lead. Reese is an ace/aro visual artist with plans to travel the world. Santiago is off to Stanford on a diving scholarship, with very real Olympic hopes. And Bellamy? Physics genius Bellamy is admitted to MIT—but the student loan she’d been counting on is denied when it turns out her estranged father—one Robert Foster—is loaded. Nari isn’t about to let her friend’s dreams be squashed by a deadbeat billionaire, so she hatches a plan to steal just enough from Foster to allow Bellamy to achieve her goals.

The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason Release: February 19

On one terrible night, 17-year-old Harley Langston’s life changes forever. At a party she discovers her younger sister, Audrey, hooking up with her boyfriend, Mike—and she abandons them both in a rage. When Mike drunkenly attempts to drive Audrey home, he crashes and Audrey ends up in a coma. Now Harley is left with guilt, grief, pain and the undeniable truth that her ex-boyfriend (who is relatively unscathed) has a drinking problem. So it’s a surprise that she finds herself reconnecting with Raf, a neighbor and childhood friend who’s recently out of rehab and still wrestling with his own demons. At first Harley doesn’t want to get too close to him. But as Audrey awakens and slowly recovers, Raf starts to show Harley a path forward that she never would have believed possible.

The Great Unknowable End by Kathryn Ormsbee Release: February 19

Stella dreams of being a space engineer. After Stella's mom dies by suicide and her brother runs off to Red Sun, the local hippie commune, Stella is forced to bring her dreams down to Earth to care for her sister Jill. Galliard has only ever known life inside Red Sun. There, people accept his tics, his Tourette's. But when he’s denied Red Sun's resident artist role he believed he was destined for, he starts to imagine a life beyond the gates of the compound...The day Stella and Galliard meet, there is something in the air in their small town. Literally. So begins weeks of pink lightning, blood red rain, unexplained storms... And a countdown clock appears mysteriously above the town hall. With time ticking down to some great, unknowable end they’ll each have to make a choice.

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia Release: February 26

At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her bright future depends upon no one discovering her darkest secret—that her pedigree is a lie. Her parents sacrificed everything to obtain forged identification papers so Dani could rise above her station. Now that her marriage to an important politico’s son is fast approaching, she must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society, where famine and poverty rule supreme. On her graduation night, Dani seems to be in the clear, despite the surprises that unfold. But nothing prepares her for all the difficult choices she must make, especially when she is asked to spy for a resistance group desperately fighting to bring equality to Medio. Will Dani cling to the privilege her parents fought to win for her, or to give up everything she’s strived for in pursuit of a free Medio—and a chance at a forbidden love?

An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley Release: February 26

After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother’s Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they’re not heroes of the people, as they’ve always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to purge. Royal bastard Josse de Bourbon is more kitchen boy than fils de France. But when the Shadow Society assassinates the Sun King and half of the royal court, he must become the prince he was never meant to be in order to save his injured sisters and the petulant dauphin. Forced to hide in the sewers beneath the city, Josse’s hope of reclaiming Paris seems impossible―until his path collides with Mirabelle’s. She’s a deadly poisoner. He’s a bastard prince. They are sworn enemies, yet they form a tenuous pact to unite the commoners and former nobility against the Shadow Society. But can a rebellion built on mistrust ever hope to succeed?

The Fever King by Victoria Lee Release: March 1

In the former United States, sixteen-year-old Noam Álvaro wakes up in a hospital bed, the sole survivor of the viral magic that killed his family and made him a technopath. His ability to control technology attracts the attention of the minister of defense and thrusts him into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia. The son of undocumented immigrants, Noam has spent his life fighting for the rights of refugees fleeing magical outbreaks—refugees Carolinia routinely deports with vicious efficiency. Sensing a way to make change, Noam accepts the minister��s offer to teach him the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government. But then he meets the minister’s son—cruel, dangerous, and achingly beautiful—and the way forward becomes less clear. Caught between his purpose and his heart, Noam must decide who he can trust and how far he’s willing to go in pursuit of the greater good.

The Last 8 by Laura Pohl Release: March 5

Clover Martinez has always been a survivor, which is the only reason she isn't among the dead when aliens invade and destroy Earth as she knows it. When Clover hears an inexplicable radio message, she's shocked to learn there are other survivors—and that they're all at the former Area 51. When she arrives, she's greeted by a band of misfits who call themselves The Last Teenagers on Earth. Only they aren't the ragtag group of heroes Clover was expecting. The group seems more interested in hiding than fighting back, and Clover starts to wonder if she was better off alone. But then she finds a hidden spaceship, and she doesn't know what to believe…or who to trust.

You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman Release: March 5

Senior Ariel Stone is the perfect college applicant: first chair violin, dedicated community volunteer, and expected valedictorian. He works hard - really hard - to make his life look effortless. A failed Calculus quiz is not part of that plan. Not when he’s number one. Not when his peers can smell weakness like a freshman’s body spray. Figuring a few all-nighters will preserve his class rank, Ariel throws himself into studying. His friends will understand if he skips a few plans, and he can sleep when he graduates. Except Ariel’s grade continues to slide. Reluctantly, he gets a tutor. Amir and Ariel have never gotten along, but Amir excels in Calculus, and Ariel is out of options. Ariel may not like Calc, but he might like Amir. Except adding a new relationship to his long list of commitments may just push him past his limit.

Beware the Night by Jessica Fleck Release: March 12

On the island of Bellona, life is peaceful--as long as the citizens dutifully worship the Sun, which protects them from all harm. Seventeen-year-old Veda knows that keeping the Sun happy will protect her and her grandfather from the Night, the dangerous people who snatch innocent citizens from their beds under the cover of darkness, never to be seen again. As long as Veda follows the rules, she will be safe. But when Veda's grandfather is offered up as the next sacrificial offering to keep the Sun's favor, she starts to see that the safety she's been promised comes at a dangerous price. Maybe there is more to fear above than there is below. With a mysterious young man, Dorian, at her side, Veda has to figure out if the scary bedtime stories she grew up hearing are real--or dangerous lies.

Bloodleaf by Crystal Smith Release: March 12

Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. To escape her fate, Aurelia disguises herself as a commoner in a new land and discovers a happiness her crown has never allowed. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, she begins to fall for a man who is forbidden to rule beside her. But the ghosts that haunt Aurelia refuse to abandon her, and she finds herself succumbing to their call as they expose a nefarious plot that only she can defeat. Will she be forced to choose between the weight of the crown and the freedom of her new life?

The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees Release: March 12

The waking forest has secrets. To Rhea, it appears like a mirage, dark and dense, at the very edge of her backyard. But when she reaches out to touch it, the forest vanishes. She’s desperate to know more—until she finds a peculiar boy who offers to reveal its secrets. If she plays a game. To the Witch, the forest is her home, where she sits on her throne of carved bone, waiting for dreaming children to beg her to grant their wishes. One night, a mysterious visitor arrives and asks her what she wishes for, but the Witch sends him away. And then the uninvited guest returns. The strangers are just the beginning. Something is stirring in the forest, and when Rhea’s and the Witch’s paths collide, a truth more treacherous and deadly than either could ever imagine surfaces. But how much are they willing to risk to survive?

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum Release: March 19

Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for acting out and skipping school to hang out with her delinquent friends.  One day she meets Alexandria: a furious loner who spurns Ryann’s offer of friendship. After a horrific accident leaves Alexandria with a broken arm, the two misfits are brought together despite themselves—and Ryann learns her secret: Alexandria’s mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one-way trip to the edge of the solar system. Every night without fail, Alexandria waits to catch radio signals from her mother. And its up to Ryann to lift her onto the roof day after day until the silence between them grows into friendship, and eventually something more . . .

Fear of Missing Out by Kate McGovern Release: March 19

When Astrid learns that her cancer has returned, she hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have her body frozen until a future time when--and if--a cure is available. With her boyfriend, Mohit, and her best friend, Chloe, Astrid goes on a road trip in search of that possibility. To see if it's real. To see if it's worth it. For fear of missing out on everything.

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We follow the course of the Glorious Revolution - the overthrow of James II - in both England and New England, where an aftershock rebellion overthrows the Dominion as well.

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Hello, and welcome to Early and Often: The History of Elections in America. Episode 22: The Glorious Revolution.

Last time we discussed the growing problems in the relationship between Massachusetts and England. Massachusetts refused to obey English laws and was posing a threat to English trade. After Massachusetts spent several decades refusing to make any real concessions to English demands, King Charles, acting through the Lords of Trade, finally made an attack on Massachusetts’s charter, which was the legal basis for all their defiance. The charter was successfully annulled, but shortly thereafter Charles died. His brother, James II, became king, and he took Charles’s colonial policies even further. Not only did Massachusetts lose its charter, so did the other New England colonies. In fact, all of the colonies disappeared altogether, absorbed into the Dominion of New England, which eventually grew to encompass New York and New Jersey as well.

The Dominion was much less democratic than the previous New England colonies had been. There was no elected legislature and the independence of the towns was severely curtailed. There was an advisory council, but in practice the Dominion was ruled by one man: Governor Edmund Andros. He was proving to be very unpopular, but there didn’t seem to be any way to directly challenge him.

Today, we’re going to look at how the Dominion of New England fell completely apart after only a few years of existence. The collapse of the Dominion was sparked by the so-called Glorious Revolution in England. Actually, the rebellion against the Dominion was just one of several rebellions which occurred in the colonies thanks to the Glorious Revolution.

So in order to understand the following events in American history, we once again need to jump back to England.

Let me start by very briefly recapping English history during the period of colonization. Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, and because she was childless, she was succeeded by her relative James I, who was also King of Scotland, thus unifying England, Scotland, and Ireland under the Stuart dynasty. James lived until 1625, and he was followed by his son Charles I. Charles was an inept ruler and his bumbling and his hostility towards the English Parliament provoked civil war in the 1640s. This war, which divided the country on political and religious lines, ended in a victory for Parliament and the Puritans, and with the execution of Charles in 1649.

For the next decade, Britain was ruled as a republic, under the de facto dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. But Cromwell was never able to hammer out a stable political order, and after his death everything promptly fell apart. Charles II, the son of Charles I, who had been living in exile, returned to England and easily took back control, putting the Stuart dynasty back on the throne, and Parliament back in its place.

Well, actually Parliament was still far more powerful than it had been before the Civil War. They now firmly controlled the finances of the realm. It would have been inconceivable for Charles II to try to rule without Parliament the way his father had.

Parliament was still developing as an institution, of course, and it hadn’t reached anything like its modern form. There were no prime ministers, for instance. Nor was there a party system, although politics was divided into factions.

Charles did what he could to get around Parliament. You’ll recall that he didn’t call for new elections for almost two decades, because his current Parliament was pretty subservient. He even took bribes from the French king, Louis XIV, to try to get some financial independence, but it wasn’t enough. Even surrounded by loyalists he was hamstrung.

Charles didn’t prove to be an especially interested or capable or steady-handed ruler, but things still held together. We’ve already heard about the mostly unsuccessful wars against the Dutch. But despite those failures, the economy was booming. By 1685 the English had the largest merchant fleet in the world and a burgeoning middle class was buying exotic goods previously reserved for the elite.

Stability had returned to the realm, but already there were new problems looming. You see, the Stuarts had long been supporters of the Anglican church, in all its formal and hierarchical glory. That is, they supported the parts of the church which seemed most Catholic. They were often suspected of having Catholic sympathies, and not without reason. Charles II was taken into the Catholic church on his deathbed, and his brother James had openly converted to Catholicism.

The conversion of James in particular posed major problems for England. You see, Charles II had no legitimate children, and so James was next in line for the throne. It seemed like England would have a Catholic king, a frightening prospect. Many prominent leaders, including the Earl of Shaftesbury, one of the founders of Carolina, agitated and schemed to make one of Charles’s illegitimate sons heir to the throne, but to no avail. The king had no interest in changing the rules of succession.

Charles died in 1685 and his brother did in fact succeed him. James, now King James II, did what he could to promote the Catholic faith, reintroducing monastic orders and appointing Catholic officials, although he was quite limited by Parliament and by the hostility of the nation as a whole. But for a little while, at least, tensions remained manageable.

However, the birth of a child changed all that. You see, when he became king, James had two daughters, Mary and Anne. Both Mary and Anne had been raised as Protestants, on the order of Charles II. Therefore, even if James himself was a Catholic, his successors would be Protestants. Thus, although the English were wary about having a Catholic king, they could at least rest assured that the throne would return to Protestants.

But that was all upended when in 1688 James’s second wife gave birth to a son, also named James. For Protestants, this was a disaster. Being male, the young James now jumped ahead of his half-sisters in the order of succession. And he would certainly be raised as a Catholic. His godfathers were literally Louis XIV and the Pope. All of a sudden England and Scotland faced the frightening prospect of being ruled by Catholics for the foreseeable future.

Would English Protestantism be saved? Would anyone come to their rescue? In fact, yes.

Now Mary, the eldest of James’s daughters, had been married to her cousin William of Orange since 1677. Who was William of Orange? William was the leader of the Dutch Republic. He held a basically hereditary position known as stadtholder [STAT-holder]. He was also captain-general for life of the Dutch army, and that meant that William was constantly struggling against the French, who were the biggest foes of the Dutch Republic. In fact, William was pretty monomaniacally focused on keeping the French out. It was his one big political aim in life.

As we talked about during the episodes on New York, the Netherlands were also rivals of England, and they had fought three wars over the last few decades. And the English kings had been trying to align themselves with France, much to the unhappiness of their Protestant subjects.

So the dissatisfaction in England presented a big opportunity for William, who actually had some claim on the English throne, as a grandson of Charles I. So he’d been watching and waiting, seeing if events might play out to his advantage. If he could take over England, then he could reverse England’s pro-French, anti-Dutch foreign policy. He didn’t really want to control England for its own sake. All he was interested in was in getting England on the Dutch Republic’s side. Everything else was incidental to that goal.

By the time James’s son was born, he was preparing an invasion force. All of a sudden his intentions became clear to everyone.

James tried to rally support to fight William, but to his growing horror he found that he had basically no allies in Britain at all. Hardly anyone was even willing to condemn the forthcoming invasion verbally. Realizing his precarious position, James frantically tried to undo all his pro-Catholic policies and reach out to his opponents, but it was too little too late.

William landed in the southwest of England that November with over 20,000 men. It might have been possible for James to stop him, but the King was panicking, losing control of both himself and his men. He was literally having a mental breakdown. His daughter Mary was waging a war against him and his other daughter Anne soon defected as well. Facing desertions and rebellions, James fled back to London. He now had no supporters. The war was lost and he had never even faced the enemy.

William marched towards London and James soon fled to France, where he would spend the rest of his life. Then, basically, a new Parliament was elected, which declared that James fleeing the country meant that he had effectively abdicated as king. They then offered the throne to William and Mary, who became co-monarchs. That was by no means the legal thing to do, but sometimes armies and the national will trump legalities.

Parliament also drafted a Bill of Rights, This wasn’t exactly like a modern Bill of Rights. It wasn’t primarily concerned with the rights of the individual. It was more about limiting the rights of the monarchy while strengthening Parliament. For example, it was declared to be illegal for the king to suspend laws without the consent of Parliament, raise money without the consent of Parliament, maintain a standing army in times of peace without the consent of Parliament, interfere with trials and with elections, or inflict “illegal and cruel punishments”. There were a few individual rights discussed -- the right to petition the king and the freedom from excessive bail -- but those were also more about limiting the powers of the king than about individualism.

Eventually, the Bill of Rights would be seen as a cornerstone of the British constitution, but at the time it was mostly just a justification for the overthrow of James.

This whole sequence of events became known as the Glorious Revolution -- “Glorious” because it had been accomplished with such little fuss and violence, at least in England. (Though it did lead to a major rebellion in Ireland.)

So what was the Glorious Revolution? Was it a blow against tyranny? Well, maybe if you squint. I mean, James was the one pushing for religious tolerance for both Catholics and Dissenting Protestants. But he was also trying to bypass Parliament and rig elections. And it’s not like William himself invaded in order to protect English liberties. He just wanted to flip England from pro-French to anti-French. English domestic politics were unimportant to him, just a hassle that he had to deal with.

It arguably wasn’t even a revolution. In the words of James Truslow Adams, “There had been no change in the governing class. There had been no increase in democratic influences. The essentials of free government had not been mentioned in the Bill of Rights. There had been no increase in religious liberty, in public education, in the freedom of trade or of the press, nor in the publicity of debates in Parliament. Power had indeed been transferred from the king to Parliament but not to the people.”

The real revolution was not the Glorious Revolution itself, but the increasing powers of Parliament over time. I mean, the independence of the monarchy had been declining for decades, but the Glorious Revolution definitely moved things forward. Charles II and James II had both tried to at least keep Parliament under their thumb, even if they couldn’t do without it entirely, but even that was no longer an option. Parliament was finally meeting regularly and really taking charge of policy. Parliament now had a say in the appointment of all high officials. The monarchy will still have some power in the decades to come, but its independence is now ever-diminishing. Certainly a big contrast with the growing absolutism of Louis XIV in France.

These changes would of course have a big impact on American political thought as well, as we’ll see over the next God knows how many episodes.

Arguably though, from here on out English and American styles of government diverge more and more, as England creates the first real parliamentary government and America moves towards a presidential system. In England the rise of Parliament meant that the nominal head of state, the monarch, was marginalized, and the real authority came from men selected by Parliament itself. On the other hand, in America the governors, who were the local equivalents of the monarch, never totally lost their independence. The executive branch retained authority separate from the authority of the legislature, and that’s true in America, even today. You don’t need to look at abstract political theories to explain it, you can just look at the different ways these institutions developed. 

But that’s all in the future. Let’s get back to the Glorious Revolution, and its impact on New England.

Before William had actually launched his invasion, the Puritans had sent a delegation to England, led by Increase Mather. Mather was a very important figure in New England at this time. He was the son of an influential minister, and a minister himself, as well as the father of Cotton Mather, yet another minister, as well as a writer. The Mather family were generally hardline Puritans who wanted to avoid any softening of the faith. They’ll pop up again, but for now we’ll focus on Increase Mather’s delegation to England.

The goal of the delegation was to get as many concessions from James as possible. Most of all they wanted the Dominion of New England to be granted an assembly. In exchange, they would guarantee enough money to fund the Dominion’s government. However, the Lords of Trade refused to give in on all but a few minor demands. The bigger demands never even reached the king’s desk. Really, the case was hopeless with James on the throne.  

But then, revolution! In just a few short months everything changed. The Catholic James was gone and the defenders of Protestantism William and Mary took his place. The New England delegation realized that they should be more ambitious in their aims. So they sent their new monarchs a petition not just asking for the creation of an assembly but for the end of the Dominion altogether, and the restoration of the original colonies. Their petition was put before the Lords of Trade. Now, the Lords of Trade were more open to reform than they had been, but this was still going too far for them. After all, there were sound reasons for the creation of the Dominion. It wasn’t just about punishing the Puritans, it was also about making New England militarily defensible and about cutting costs.

So the Lords agreed to recall Governor Andros and look into further changes, but not to scrap the Dominion. And William personally was no great reformer or anything. He was just a pragmatist bent on fighting France. So he wasn’t going to go out of his way to secure the rights of New Englanders. It looked like the Dominion might be here to stay after all, even if the colonists could talk the king into making it less autocratic.

Back in New England, word of William’s invasion had been gradually trickling in throughout early 1689. Governor Andros had spent the winter leading troops against some Indians up in Maine, but when word reached him that April, he hurried back to Boston. He tried to suppress news of the invasion from spreading, but to no avail. Excitement and unease rippled throughout New England. No one knew what was happening, just that it was big.

Even Andros had no idea what he was supposed to do. The new government in England had been sending instructions to the various colonial governors, but not to Andros. They still weren’t sure what they were going to do with the Dominion, so the Lords of Trade held off on sending instructions, which just had the effect of further increasing uncertainty in New England.

On the other hand, Increase Mather was sending word back to New England, but not to Andros. No, he was sending word back to his fellow Puritans, so they were aware of the situation, and aware that the Dominion’s position had been weakened.

However, the Dominion was not brought down by King William, by Increase Mather, or by the Puritan elite in Boston. Actually, it was thanks to common soldiers. When Andros had left Maine, he kept some soldiers stationed on the frontier. Well, some of those troops mutinied and marched on Boston. It soon became clear to everyone that some sort of trouble was brewing.

While the mutineers were still on their way, some of the leading men of Boston met to decide what to do. Many of them favored waiting for further word from England before taking any big steps, but they were aware that things could get out of hand regardless of what they favored. The people had a will of their own, after all. So it was better to be prepared to take charge if a rebellion did in fact break out, rather than letting the mob control everything. To that end, they drafted a declaration justifying rebellion, should such a rebellion actually happen.

It did. The mutineers arrived in Boston on April 17th, and the next day they assembled a force of a thousand men from the local militias. They began arresting Dominion officials, including Governor Andros and Edward Randolph, that constant irritant who kept poking his nose in New England’s affairs. Meanwhile, seeing which way the wind was blowing, the “leaders” of the colony issued their statement justifying this revolt as a righteous attack on tyranny in the name of the king.

Within two days all of the forts around Boston had been taken and the leaders of the Dominion were imprisoned. It was all technically bloodless, although the rebels did hold a gun to Randolph’s head at one point, to get him to cooperate. Pretty much all of the colonists supported the rebellion, so there was little dissent or unrest, at least in the early days.

However, although there was agreement about getting rid of the Dominion, there was less agreement about what should come next. Colonists published political pamphlets at a fast pace. Mostly they were calling for a return to the way things had been before, but there were a few notable changes. For one thing, people were arguing for a broadening of the franchise to include at least some landowners, and not just Puritans. For another thing, the arguments weren’t just being phrased in terms of obedience to God, they were also being framed in terms of popular welfare. Clearly appeals to Puritanism were no longer sufficient to win debates.  

But the big question was what to do about the government. Most people wanted to declare the old charter of Massachusetts restored and act like the last few years had just never happened. On the other hand, the leadership was more cautious. They didn’t want to undermine their negotiating position with England by jumping the gun. In this case, the leadership won out.

In fact, these self-declared leaders were doing what they could to stay in charge. They formed a temporary government, called the “Council for the Safety of the People and Conservation of the Peace”. But there was considerable unhappiness with this usurpation of power, so this council soon called for an election, for a convention which would then decide how to proceed.

The towns duly held elections, with an expanded franchise, and the convention then duly met. The first meeting was inconclusive, but a second convention was held a few weeks later, and there it was agreed that the “Method of Settlement of the… Government in this present Juncture lieth wholly in the Voice of the People”, at least until such time as further instructions came from England. For now, the will of the people was that the old pre-Dominion system be put back in place. Even the old officials who had been in office a few years ago would be restored to their posts. This didn’t mean that the old charter was officially back in effect, just that it was in practice back in effect. The legal status of everything was purposefully left open.

Town governments were restored as well, and the towns mostly just continued on as normal, with the same officials from before.

As for the other colonies, Plymouth and Rhode Island resumed their old governments with little fuss. Connecticut, which had a similar division between moderates and hardliners as in Massachusetts, took a little longer, but it too restored the old charter government. New Hampshire, on the other hand, tried to form a temporary government, but internal disagreements and the external threat of Indian invasion pushed them to request annexation by Massachusetts, to which the larger colony agreed. But for the most part everything had de facto gone back to the way it was before.

We’ll talk more about what happened in New York and New Jersey later. For now, all you need to know is that there was a rebellion against the Dominion there as well. New York could have sent a force up to Boston to try to free Governor Andros, with a high chance of success, but the leaders there dithered and made excuses, and so the New England insurgents remained in power.

The new government of Massachusetts sent word of their rebellion to King William in May, as did the other colonies, hoping that he would confirm their actions after the fact.

However it took a while for England to send word back to America. The king was annoyed by the whole thing, but New England wasn’t especially important to him. But finally in December the colonies received instructions from England: the restored governments were to remain in power for now, pending a final decision from the king. This was only a temporary authorization, but it still meant that the old colonies had been effectively restored, since it was unlikely that the king would go to the trouble of recreating the Dominion after all this upset. What Increase Mather and the other diplomats had failed to do through negotiation, the colonists had achieved through force.

And finally, Andros, Randolph and the other prisoners were shipped back to England. Andros faced trial for his actions, but he was able to rebut all the charges the colonists made against him, by pointing out that those actions had all been explicitly authorized by his instructions from the King. And despite his failure in New England, he’d be back in America just a few years later, serving as governor of Maryland and Virginia.

Even with the Dominion gone, politics in Massachusetts remained divided into two main factions, the moderates, who were centered in port cities like Boston and who had more dealings with England, and the hardliners, who tended to live further out in the country. The hardliners were still the majority, and they were again increasing their power. Nevertheless, the terms of debate had shifted: now most everyone agreed with the need to come to some sort of terms with England. Even the people who wanted things to go back the way they were before acknowledged that things wouldn’t exactly go back to the way they were before.

There was another important change to note: events were being driven more by the people as a whole than by the colony’s leadership.

Back during the founding of Massachusetts, the government had been pretty top down, with the governor and magistrates taking the lead on most important issues. There was still pushback from the colonists, but it was less common. Now, however, it’s the people who are taking the lead and the magistrates and other leaders who are being forced to follow. The leadership is in a difficult position. Without the charter, they really don’t have anything in the way of legitimate authority outside of popular support. Their power had been upended and all they could do was try to balance between the demands of the people for a restoration of the charter, and the need to appease England.

Both Massachusetts and Connecticut extended the right to vote to all those men who paid a certain amount in taxes and were certified to be “not vicious in life”. In Massachusetts, members of Puritan churches could still become freemen even without paying enough in taxes. But still, this was a notable shift. The franchise was being extended to non-Puritans by the government willingly, rather than being forced to do so by English demands. In Massachusetts some 700 people became freemen under the new law, a considerable increase in a colony with only 50,000 people in it.

All of these changes were taking place while the colonists anxiously awaited further word from England, but nothing was forthcoming. Because of delays and setbacks in Parliament, they still hadn’t decided what to do with New England.

Meanwhile, the provisional government of Massachusetts was having a hard time of it. They had trouble getting people to pay taxes, and so suffered from a shortage of funds. They went back on a promise to extend the franchise to more citizens. They also had military problems.

You see, the Glorious Revolution hadn’t brought peace to Britain. Quite the opposite. When King William took the throne, he took England into an anti-French coalition with the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire. So almost immediately England became embroiled in what would become known as the Nine Years’ War, or as King William’s War in America.

Therefore the colonies were now at war with the French in Quebec, yet another way in which New England was being drawn into the wider world against its will. This was the first of a series of wars between the British and the French over control of North America, which would last until the French were forced off the continent altogether in 1763.

But it must be said, this first encounter went pretty badly for the English. After the revolution, most of the troops in Maine had retreated back to Massachusetts, leaving the frontier unguarded. The Indians, encouraged by Jesuit missionaries took this as a sign of weakness and stepped up their attacks. In fall 1689, the French and Indians successfully took Pemaquid, one of the most important forts in Maine.

To respond to the threat, the colonies tried to recreate the New England Confederation, that military alliance which had formed in the wake of the Pequot War, but the attempt fell apart almost immediately. In general all the military efforts were being poorly coordinated. As I’ll talk about next episode, a joint invasion of Quebec with New York turned into a disaster.

These failures made it more likely that the Dominion would be restored, since that would bring unity to the military strategy of the region, and serious thought was given to the idea, even after everything that had happened.

However, in the end it was not to be. In 1691, two years after the overthrow of the Dominion, King William finally agreed to restore the charters of the various colonies and give them back their independence. Well, something like that anyway. William wasn’t just going to let things go back the way they were. There were going to be major changes in Massachusetts.

Instead of restoring the old charter, Massachusetts would be given a new one which fixed many of the issues with the first one. The governor would be appointed by the king. The council would also no longer be elected. Instead, the elected lower house of the General Court would nominate members to the council, subject to the governor’s veto.

Freedom of religion was granted to non-Catholics and the religious restrictions on voting were eliminated, opening the government to non-Puritans, or at least those non-Puritans with a bit of wealth. Basically, a bunch of changes that would bring the colony into line with how things were done outside of New England.

Massachusetts protested all this, but to no avail. They were in no real position to bargain. And so, willing or not, Massachusetts was now a royal colony, directly under the king’s authority. This was basically a compromise between how the New England Puritans wanted it, and how the king wanted it. England now had more control over New England, but the control was hardly as total as it had been under the Dominion. Everyone was disappointed, but everyone could live with it.

After the Glorious Revolution, both sides were willing to moderate their demands. King William, unlike James, had no personal interest in the Dominion of New England. And the New Englanders, having been effectively subjugated through legal means, now had a much weaker bargaining position. And so a compromise could be reached.

However, the Lords of Trade made one omission that would become of crucial importance later: they failed to provide funds for a salary for the governor. That meant that the governor would only get paid if the General Court agreed to pay him. Obviously this gave the assembly considerable leverage over the governors. They could basically force them to resign.

The end of the Dominion also meant an end to the strict enforcement of the Navigation Acts. Although future governors in Massachusetts would be royally appointed, they also had to contend with an uppity assembly, and so trade wound up less regulated than under the Dominion.

As far as the other colonies go, Connecticut and Rhode Island, since they were smaller and less disruptive, were allowed to continue under their old charters, with elected governors and all. New Hampshire was kept as an independent province, but Plymouth Colony was annexed to Massachusetts. The first of the New England colonies was no more. The home of the Pilgrims had been finally, totally absorbed by the Puritans. Rest in peace, Plymouth.

Next episode, we’ll continue the story of the fall of the Dominion, with a look at how things went down in New York. So join me next time on Early and Often: The History of Elections in America.

If you like the podcast, please rate it on iTunes. You can also keep track of Early and Often on Twitter, at earlyoftenpod, or read transcripts of every episode at the blog, at earlyandoftenpodcast.wordpress.com. Thanks for listening.

Sources:

Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution by Peter Ackroyd

Revolutionary New England 1691-1776 by James Truslow Adams

The Dominion of New England: A Study in British Colonial Policy by Viola Florence Barnes

Randolph, Dudley, and the Massachusetts Moderates in 1683 by Michael G. Hall

A Land of Liberty?: England 1689–1727 by Julian Hoppit

Colonial Pennsylvania: A History by Joseph E. Illick

Adjustment to Empire: The New England Colonies 1675-1715 by Richard R. Johnson

The Glorious Revolution in America by David S. Lovejoy

American Nations by Colin Woodard

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Connor McDavid’s play is the least of Edmonton’s worries. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

I felt like I must have hit my head or something.

Surely only a person whose cognitive functions are not operating at 100 percent could see “The Oilers lost 6-3 to Dallas” and then also imagine they saw a bunch of Edmonton media types saying Connor McDavid — the best player in the world, reigning MVP, etc. etc. etc. — had to do better.

Especially because I checked the box score multiple times, just to put myself through a sort of de facto concussion protocol, and it turns out he scored a goal and had two more assists. By my math, and granted I might be a head trauma patient, that means he was in on all three of Edmonton’s goals while almost everyone else on the team was in on zero goals.

The argument, from what I can tell, is that while, sure, McDavid had three points including a power play and short-handed primary assist, he also turned the puck over a few times and that led directly to some Dallas goals. In fact, McDavid was on the ice for Dallas’s second, third, fourth and fifth goals. It’s not ideal, to be sure, but what people don’t understand — and probably don’t want to because it would in some way challenge how they’ve perceived the sport for decades — is that sometimes bad stuff happens to good players because they’re trying to do things most guys couldn’t even imagine themselves doing.

McDavid was in an especially precarious position when it came to feeling like he needed to do everything himself because this was the first game pretty much all season in which Todd McLellan shuffled Leon Draisaitl onto his own line as a means of theoretically spreading out the offense. After all, the Oilers, for all the expectation that they could be an elite offensive team, are 29th in the league in scoring. And that’s despite the fact that McDavid is on pace for another 100-plus point season. If McLellan felt like he’d put too many eggs in one basket on the top line, it’s tough to blame him.

McDavid has 25 points in 20 games. The next-closest guy on the oilers in total points is Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, another guy the Edmonton media has lately been trying to run out of town, with 15 in 20. Draisaitl has 14 in 16. No one else has more than 12.

So when the lines got juggled, McDavid played most of the game with Drake Caggiula (who by the way was the forward who got torched for a couple of those goals against) and Patrick Maroon. If this starts to sound a lot like a few years ago, when Sidney Crosby was being criticized for not being able to get a couple of lower-end middle-six guys to score 70-plus a year, there’s probably a good reason for that. Because when McDavid doesn’t feel like he has a ton of help, yeah he’s gonna freelance a bit.

And yes, it resulted in three points, but also four goals against. That’ll happen sometimes and it’s not pretty. But it’s also so rare that devoting any of your time or energy wondering how Connor McDavid can “fix” something in his game while the rest of the roster crumbles around him and Draisaitl is well and truly idiotic.

Can McDavid improve defensively? Sure, but he’s also 20 years old, and it’s the same crap you’ve heard for years about Erik Karlsson and P.K. Subban, isn’t it? If he’s “focused more on defense” in a way that is apparent to the rank and file, that probably comes at the expense of his production, and at that point, we get a lot of takes along the lines of, “Aren’t they paying McDavid to score 100-plus every year?”

Maybe a lot of people would trade 100 points from McDavid while the team sucks, for 80 if the team were good. But that’s not how it works. If McDavid isn’t on pace for 100-plus again, this Oilers team is dead last in the league.

I’ve said it a million times, but creative, high-skill players need the puck on their tape to make their teams go. And when they have the puck on their tape, they will try to do things that no one else can do. And most of the time, it’s going to work. And when it doesn’t, they’re going to look bad not only because it results in a goal or even a high-danger chance, but because we expect them to never screw up.

Put it this way: If McDavid tries the move that led to the second Stars goal 100 times, how many of those end up as a turnover that results in a goal against? And how many result in getting the puck in deep, as intended?

Now let’s say Milan Lucic tries that same carry-in 100 times. How many of those result in a turnover and goal against? How many lead to Oilers zone time?

You and I and everyone else understand fundamentally that any given McDavid carry-in is far more likely to lead to positives than not only with Lucic (who by the way almost never gets criticized in the Edmonton media despite being an expensive, slow, low-scoring bust of an investment), but literally any other player in the world. This isn’t a “defense” problem with McDavid, it’s an “every play is a gamble and sometimes even the best gamblers lose” problem.

Plus, this criticism is also a major dodge of the Oilers’ real issue, which is obviously the fact that their fourth-highest scorers are tied for 156th in points per game.

The Oilers have 29 goals in the 439:28 McDavid has been on the ice this season, across all situations. That means they have 21 in 501:18 when he’s not on the ice. Let’s run the numbers on that real quick: That’s 3.96 goals for per 60 when McDavid is on (very good), and 1.62 when he’s off (inconceivably pathetic).

So honestly, it doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense that anyone looks at what’s going on with the Oilers either holistically or in the case of this one individual game and says, “Seems to me that the problem with the team is … the guy who could end up being a top-5 forward of all time.”

And this isn’t a difficult illness to diagnose. If it looks like a thinned-out forward group, that’s only because it is, and all the blame for that lies squarely at Peter Chiarelli’s feet. Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle are now plying their trades elsewhere, having been dealt for guys who are currently playing like garbage. Adam Larsson has just three points and middling underlying numbers among any regular defenseman on the team, while Ryan Strome has eight points and sits 10th among regular Oiler forwards in possession.

Moreover, that Lucic contract looks like a disaster already. Moreover, Kris Russell has been terrible. These are the guys the Edmonton media, and many old-school hockey guys stanned for, and any smart person could have told you was going to end in tears. The fact that it’s already starting with both these guys is a bit of a surprise, but not so much of one that anyone should be in any way appalled.

So much of what Edmonton does runs through Connor McDavid — who by the way has a 60.7 CF% right now despite only playing top competition, while the Oilers are just 51 percent without him — that it’s easy to sit in judgment when he does something wrong, and in this particular game, he definitely did some things wrong. But the fact that the knives were out from people eager to criticize him for what, his second or third bad game of the year, while half the guys on the roster have had the majority of their games come in way worse than “three goals for and four against” without any real criticism of either those players themselves or the, ahem, savior GM who acquired them.

The Oilers’ problems are very apparent, but anyone who ever tries to even vaguely imply they start anywhere — especially anywhere related to McDavid — besides the front office has an agenda. Or, I guess, a brain injury.

What We Learned

Anaheim Ducks: Cam Fowler has been out for a few weeks, but he’s almost back now and that’s good for the Ducks. Man, they need the help.

Arizona Coyotes: Oh yeah, Anthony Duclair was supposed to be good this year. Huh.

Boston Bruins: Say it with me, gang: Goalie controversy.

Buffalo Sabres: I dunno about you, but it seems like the Sabres might be very bad.

Calgary Flames: Feels like Sean Monahan should have had a few hat tricks before this one, but that’s life I guess.

Carolina Hurricanes: Let’s not all look at once but the Hurricanes have points in six of their last seven games, and won four of them in regulation. Could mean good news for December.

Chicago Blackhawks: Two teams that have a very real chance of missing the playoffs this year in another stupid outdoor game. Cool. Great.

Colorado Avalanche: All future Avs/Preds games will be henceforth known as “The Girard Bowl.”

Columbus Blue Jackets: Really not sure how I feel about this Cam Atkinson extension. The money isn’t out of control, but do you really want to sign Cam Atkinson until he’s 35?

Dallas Stars: This should result in like a 10-game suspension. Really dirty play.

Detroit Red Wings: You don’t say.

Edmonton Oilers: It’s almost like, I don’t know, Chiarelli screwed up the freest lunch in the history of hockey.

Florida Panthers: Thank god Dale Tallon is back to fix this team after it made so many mistakes in his absence.

Los Angeles Kings: Playing the Panthers is a great way to not worry about a losing streak any more.

Minnesota Wild: Hey, it happens.

Montreal Canadiens: This is really and truly incredible. The Habs might soon choose to rebuild, but a 30-plus expensive defenseman like Shea Weber is untouchable? But he also hasn’t wanted to trade roster players for futures? What a world.

Nashville Predators: Pekka Rinne is, inexplicably, having himself a season.

New Jersey Devils: There’s a really good Curb episode about this.

New York Islanders: This is a very good little win for the Islanders.

New York Rangers: What year do you suppose this column was written in?

Ottawa Senators: The Senators can’t win at home. That’s where you’re supposed to win. They give you last change and everything.

Philadelphia Flyers: How many times are we gonna let Radko Gudas try to murder someone? Twelve strikes and you’re out, buddy!

Pittsburgh Penguins: This Crosby guy sucks!

San Jose Sharks: The Sharks can’t catch a break on goal reviews but hey, that’s why they have goal reviews and get them right almost all the time. My suggestion? Try scoring or preventing goals legally.

St. Louis Blues: I wonder how the Flyers feel like that Brayden Schenn trade is working out for them.

Tampa Bay Lightning: Yeah, this has to be the best team in the league. Even when they lose, they’re scary as hell.

Toronto Maple Leafs: Not sure why you wouldn’t keep Matthews and Marner together. Their skills seem perfectly suited to each others’ games.

Vancouver Canucks: Remember when people thought the Canucks were good or something? That was a weird couple of weeks.

Vegas Golden Knights: Ah, finally, the Golden Knights have an AHL goalie again.

Washington Capitals: Alex Ovechkin took a puck in the face but he was fine but it was scary but don’t worry about it.

Winnipeg Jets: My big rowdy boy is at it again.

Play of the weekend

This USHL goalie is living his absolute best life.

When you're the goalie and you score a goal, you get all the celebrations out of the way.#GoalieGoal pic.twitter.com/riZFAAhcd1

— Sioux Falls Stampede (@sfstampede) November 19, 2017

Gold Star Award

Connor McDavid, I support you when no one else will.

Minus of the Weekend

Marc Bergevin is not having a good 18 months!

Perfect HFBoards Trade Proposal of the Year

User “Myers888” has it all figured out.

Kane (50%) & signed
 Chad Johnson
, Jake McCabe, 
2nd 

for 

Sam Bennett, 
Brodie, 
Eddie Lack

Signoff

Well Seymour, I made it, despite your directions.

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Ryan Lambert is a Puck Daddy columnist. His email is here and his Twitter is here.

(All stats via Corsica unless otherwise noted.)

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