#granatos live 2017

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Ellie live @ Granatos Live, Rumšiškės (LT) - 05.08.2017

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Hockey Cards for Sale!

I have a variety of hockey cards for sale if anyone is interested! Some are older players from the 90s, some are more recent ones. Since they can fit into letter-sized envelopes, I’m selling them for a small amount (mainly just to cover postage and envelopes, especially for those out of Canada). This can be paid through my Ko-Fi (via Paypal), and I’ll give the link for those interested.

Cost depends on where you live (i.e. in Canada or elsewhere), how many cards you want (any more than 5 will be sent in more than one envelope to avoid issues in mailing), and whether you want them sleeved or unsleeved.

Within Canada:

1-5 cards: $2 unsleeved, $3 sleeved

6-10 cards: $3 unsleeved, $4 sleeved

11+ cards: $5 unsleeved, $6 sleeved

Within the US:

1-5 cards: $3 unsleeved, $4 sleeved

6-10 cards: $4 unsleeved, $5 sleeved

11+ cards in the US: $5 unsleeved, $7 sleeved

Any other country:

1-5 cards: $4.50 unsleeved, $5.50 sleeved

6-10 cards: $5.50 unsleeved, $6.50 sleeved

11+ cards: $6.50 unsleeved, 7.50 sleeved

I can and will send pictures of the cards people ask about/want. I will also send photo proof of the envelope being mailed once payment has gone through. Lists are found under the cut:

Colorado Avalance:

Greg de Vreis (2003)

Milan Hejduk (2008)

Marek Svatos (2008)

Scott Young (1995)

Chicago Blackhawks:

Artem Anisimov (2018) (x2, one is Upper Deck, one is O-Pee-Chee)

Dustin Byfuglien (2009)

Adam Creighton (1990)

Paul Gillis (1991)

Phillip Kurashev (2022)

Bryan Marchment (1991)

Andy Moog (1991) (Card is in French)

Mike Peluso (1991)

St. Lous Blues:

Justin Faulk (2021)

Steve Duchesne (1994)

Brett Hull (1991) (Card is in French)

Mark Rycroft (2005)

Vladimir Sobotka (2018)

Boston Bruins:

Sandy Moger (1995)

Barry Pederson (1991)

Jim Weimer (1991)

Montreal Canadiens

Donald Dufresney (1991)

Washington Capitals:

Sylvain Cote (1991)

John Druce (1991)

Lars Eller (2017)

Lars Eller (2018)

Tomas Fleischmann (2009)

Bob Joyce (1990)

Olaf Kolzig (1990)

Steve Konowalchuk (2001)

Michal Pivonka (1991)

Mike Ridley (1990)

Ken Sabourin (1991)

Chris Simon (2002)

Mikhail Tatarinov (1991)

Dave Tippett (1991)

Arizona Coyotes:

Jakoc Chychrun (2021)

Conor Garland (2021)

New Jersey Devils:

Jason Arnott (2001)

Jason Miller (1991) (Top prospect)

Anaheim Ducks:

Rickard Rakell (2021)

Philadelphia Flyers:

Keith Acton (1991)

Kimbi Daniels (1991)

Steve Duchesne (1991)

Pelle Eklund (1991) (Card is in French)

Corey Foster (1991)

Brad Jones (1991)

Steve Kasper (1991)

Mike Ricci (1991)

Doug Sulliman (1991)

Dimitri Yushkevich (1993)

Vegas Golden Knights:

Alex Pietrangelo (2021)

New York Islanders:

Gerald Diduck (1990)

Mark Fitzpatrick (1991)

Olli Jokinen (1999)

Derek King (1995)

Gary Nylund (1990)

Richard Pilon (1991)

Taylor Pyatt (2001)

Joe Sakic (1991)

Dave Volek (1989)

Randy Wood (1991)

LA Kings:

Jaret Anderson-Dolan (2021)

Randy Gilhen (1991)

Tony Granato (1991) (Card is in French)

Kelly Hrudey (199)

John McIntyre (1991)

Larry Robinson (1991)

Daryl Sydor (1990)

Gabe Vilardi (2021)

Tampa Bay Lightning:

Brantt Myhres (1995)

Danis Savard (1994)

Rob Zamuner (1993)

Florida Panthers:

Evgenii Dadonov (2018)

Roberto Luongo (2005)

Frank Vatrano (2021)

New York Rangers:

Tony Amonte (1991)

Filip Chytil (2021)

Michael Grabner (2017)

Kaapo Kakko (2021)

Chris Kreider (2018)

Mark Messier (1991)

Randy Moller (1991) (Card is in French)

Mike Richter (1991)

Kevin Rooney (2021)

Detroit Red Wings:

Tyler Bertuzzi (2021)

Valtteri Filppula (2021)

Kory Kocur (1990)

Yves Racine (1991) (Card is in French)

Jakub Vrana (2021)

Buffalo Sabres:

Doug Bodger (1991)

Kevin Haller (1991)

Victor Olofsson (2021)

Evan Rodrigues (2018)

Randy Wood (1991)

San Jose Sharks:

Rudolfs Balcers (2021)

Mikkel Boedker (2018)

Mikkel Boedker (2017)

Pat Falloon (1991)

Tomas Hertl (2020)

Timo Meier (2020 x2, one is Upper Deck series 1, one is Upper Deck series 2)

Brian Mullen (1992)

Owen Nolan (2002)

Marco Sturm (2000)

Dallas Stars:

Andrew Cogliano (2021)

Blake Comeau (2021)

Trent Klatt (1993)

John Klingberg (2021)

Alexander Radulov (2020)

Minnesota Wild:

Jordan Greenway (2021)

Carson Soucy (2021)

Other:

Roman Meluzin (Czech Republic World Junior Hockey) (1996)

Pat Peake (USA World Junior Hockey) (1992) (Card is in French)

Jens Schwabe (Sweden World Junior Hockey) (1992)

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The End of the Eichel Era

Back in the lonely summer of 2020 I started a Youtube channel built around reacting to the Buffalo Sabres. My first series of videos in that regard was a recap of the prior 2019-2020 season: a season so crazy leading into the COVID pause that I thought it couldn’t be topped. My vlog reactions to the upcoming season would be the start of something new. I didn’t think it could possibly get worse than the season of the Duane Rant. Oh, Andrew: you doe-faced believer. Oh, how wrong I was.

After a season that saw a 17-game losing streak, a rightful coaching change, an injury carousel out of a cartoon including injuries untold to Captain Jack Eichel, the bar for a bad season has reached a new low even us rugged Sabres fans. There were rays of hope toward the end of this past season. A bevy of young players making their impact playing for pride on a feisty Don Granato led squad made another lost season, the tenth in a row without a playoff berth, somewhat enjoyable. Due to roster flexibility that bordered on frightening there was also reason to hope a roster that could finally make a postseason was within reach for a rookie GM that has no choice but to prove himself. There was hope. Was is the operative word there.

On May 10th, 2021, the organization’s most notable players gave their exit interviews to the team followed by brief pressers with the media. Before the Captain even appeared on the Zoom link the mood was dreary. Rasmus Ristolainen once again made it clear he would rather not be here. Sam Reinhart, a UFA this offseason, was non-committal at best about his future with the team. Then it was time for the Captain to speak… then Jake McCabe went first. Evidently his exit interview went long. When Eichel did get on the call what followed was nothing short of the siren marking the beginning of the end of the Eichel Era in Buffalo.

The root of the issues seemed to be disagreement about how to handle Eichel’s injuries. There was a broken rib prior to the season as well as something else still somewhat unclear. Team doctors evidently wanted him to not go forward with a surgery. He got a second opinion. The schism only grew. With five seasons left on his massive 80-million-dollar contract and a full NMC is affect all the power lays with the Buffalo Sabres organization. As Jack Eichel detailed his intent to look out for himself in no uncertain terms he was leveraging the only power he has in the situation which has gotten worse and worse: speaking publicly. If you didn’t hear any of these comments live or read any shortly thereafter you might lose the severity. To sum it up in one tidbit: Eichel literally referenced a hypothetical wife and kids he’ll have one day and how he’ll be a father. What this team has made him endure is on par with a major life event.

The insanity of the NHL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement rules on medical second opinions aside: the relationship between ownership, the front office and Jack Eichel’s camp is broken beyond repair now. When an employer makes you endure a health situation you don’t want to be in then you better believe there will be discord. There is no mending this fisher. There is no denying any longer that Eichel will move on one way or another. To put in bluntly: it is over with Jack Eichel in Buffalo. It is a matter of time now before a trade salvages anything for the all-star top line center in what will almost certainly be a losing trade for the Sabres.

Jack Eichel has been the face of the Buffalo Sabres franchise since he was drafted in 2015. He was the fruit of a contentious tank. A torturous rebuild followed that had to be rest in 2017 and again in 2018 and… is still continuing today I suppose. Jack Eichel has done everything he could. I think I speak for every reasonable hockey fan in Buffalo when I say the end of this relationship is the result of Front Office mismanagement of Eichel himself and the roster beyond him on top of so many other things. From the beginning of their ownership in 2011 Terry and Kim Pegula have hurt the name of the once proud Buffalo Sabres. It began with Pat Lafontaine’s ouster and now it is visited upon us with the impending departure of Jack Eichel. Four General Managers and seven coaches have tried to lead the Sabres under Pegula ownership and the only one who managed a playoff berth was gone the year after. The coming end of the Eichel Era is a symptom of the Pegula Era. And I didn’t even bring up the knockoff alumni jerseys or the myriad public relations catastrophes they have wrought on the blue and gold.

The final Chapter in Jack Eichel’s time as a Sabre is being written as you read this. Certainly, the Pegulas will have some kind of strategic response to Eichel’s comments through their good soldier GM Kevyn Adams shortly. This will get ugly or put in a better way: this is just what is already ugly becoming public. We could talk about how their reputation in Buffalo maybe saved by the recent success of the Buffalo Bills of the NFL and fantasize about them selling the Sabres organization as some virtuous self-realization of the harm they’ve done. That is fantasy. What is not fantasy is what this organization has become.

I’m turning 27 this month. Most people my age have only known this team as synonymous with sorrow, save for a few glorious years in the late 2000s. This was not the Buffalo Sabres of old. The first forty years of this franchise was something to behold even though it lacked a Stanley Cup banner. The terrible drafting is the one consistent throughout, but I digress: what are the Buffalo Sabres? What is this franchise? We keep reaching out in the dark for rock bottom praying to ourselves it exists at all. Every season since 2016 we have only seen regression. Every move has ultimately amounted to shifting deck chairs on the Titanic. The good moves and happy stretches like the ten-game winning steak in 2018 are clearly the exceptions not the rule in retrospect.

An impossibly long list of items from the Ryan O’Reilly trade that saw spare parts come back for a center who went onto a Conn Smythe and the Stanley Cup to acquiring Taylor Hall in a signing the owner contended would signal the team was going to win a Cup, not just make the playoffs. Taylor Hall is in Boston now where the last team that truly tested a good Sabres squad in an infamous instance of running-the-goalie in 2011 has been good for a decade. The Sabres goalie Milan Lucic ran, Ryan Miller, a legend in his own right, retired this season. It has been so long since a team worthy of gracing the ravenous hockey market that is Western New York has played that you’d be hard pressed to find a former Sabre who has made the playoff with them still in the league. If there was ever glory associated with the crossed swords it has faded from the public consciousness to the point a generation is unfamiliar with it.

When Jack Eichel is traded there is an outside chance a fair return will be achieved from one of about two teams in this league who could swing it. As Eichel acknowledged in his own comments, it’s the team that has all the cards in this: they can wait until the right offer comes along because clearly there is no intention for things to get better in Buffalo very shortly. Yet another rebuild, perhaps even another tank, awaits on the near horizon. With the Eichel Era coming to end in Buffalo its hard to imagine what’s next. In 2014-2015 we dreamed a young contender helmed by one of Connor McDavid or Jack Eichel might lead us to better days. Now those better days are just a song we remember from a hype video 15 years ago.

A team signs and unwritten contract when they acquire a franchise player as I wrote last year about this exact situation. It is now unquestionable that the Buffalo Sabres, or at least the owners of the franchise, have broken that unwritten contract beyond repair. Their continued mismanagement has cratered the franchise they bought with such zeal for the roundel crest. Now we venture forward into unknown depths few franchises have ventured into in this league and lived to tell the tale. The franchise probably survives for various external reasons but now it will be a living relic of how no number of frenzied fans, no amount of hope, can get you a sustainable team if you can’t build something worthy of the great athletes handed to you.

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GRANATOS LIVE 2017

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My alternative 89th Academy Awards

And so here, as I do every year, is my alternative Oscars ceremony. This is what would happen tonight if I - and I alone - stuffed the ballots and decided on all of the nomination and all of the winners. Non-English language films are accompanied by their nation of origin (in FIFA three-letter code).

89th Academy Awards – February 26, 2017 Dolby Theatre – Hollywood, Los Angeles, California Host: Jimmy Kimmel Broadcaster: ABC

Best Picture: LA LA LAND

Arrival, Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, and David Linde (Paramount)

Fences, Todd Black, Scott Rudin, and Denzel Washington (Paramount)

Hell or High Water, Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn (CBS Films/Lionsgate)

La La Land, Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt (Summit)

Moonlight, Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner (A24)

O.J.: Made in America, Ezra Edelman (ESPN)

Our Little Sister (JPN), Kaoru Matsuzaki and Hijiri Taguchi (Toho Company)

The Red Turtle (FRA/BEL/JPN), Toshio Suzuki, Vincent Maraval, Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat, and Léon Perahia (Wild Bunch/Toho Company/ Lumière/Sony Pictures Classics)

The Salesman (IRN), Alexandre Mallet-Guy and Asghar Farhadi (Filmiran/Cohen Media Group)

Toni Erdmann (GER), Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, and Michael Merkt (Komplizen Film/Sony Pictures Classics)

It’s a little disconcerting that only two major studio films are here. The mid-budget drama used to be the major studios’ bread-and-butter, and now that is gravitating ever more to the mini-majors and smaller studios. La La Land, Moonlight, O.J.: Made in America, and The Red Turtle all received 9/10 ratings from me. We essentially have a four-way tie for first, and I have to elevate one above the rest.

Some of my followers are gonna fume at my decision, but it’s La La Land for me. I approached that decision from a well-documented bias for musicals - fully aware of the film’s artistic, technical, and societal problems - the fact of the film’s cultural impact (I sometimes have a populist streak in how I see film history, and that’s a part of my personality), and personal taste (it came down to Moonlight and La La Land for me... I love both, but which movie would I not mind to waste 30 minutes on if nothing was on?).

If you ask me this question again in ten years’ time, my answer might very well change. I don’t have the luxury of hindsight right now.

Best Director

Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Michael Dudok de Wit, The Red Turtle

Ezra Edelman, O.J.: Made in America

Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Hirokazu Koreeda, Our Little Sister

In my alternative Oscar universe, Koreeda nabs the latest of several nominations for Director, but he just can’t manage to break through in this category. It’s Jenkins for me, for crafting a story that I could not imagine having been filmed even five years ago.

Best Actor

Joel Edgerton, Loving

Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge

Ryan Gosling, La La Land

Sunny Pawar, Lion

Denzel Washington, Fences                                 

Sunny Pawar has to hold up that first half of Lion, and he does so spectacularly. I also introduce Edgerton here as well. Garfield had a career performance in Hacksaw Ridge, and Gosling is a bit underrated. But it’s the one fellow nominated here who I would call a genuine movie star - a term that is thrown about too often these days, but I think he embodies it - in Denzel Washington. It’s a difficult performance, that, and he has perfected it to a tee.

Best Actress

Taraji P. Henson, Hidden Figures

Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Lâm Thanh Mỹ, Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass (VIE)

Ruth Negga, Loving

Emma Stone, La La Land

You’re scratching your heads on that nomination for Lâm Thanh Mỹ, I know. She gave the child performance of the year for me in a dizzying display of a range of emotions. But in the end, it’s Huppert. I sneak in Henson and Negga as well.

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali, Moonlight

Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water

John Goodman, 10 Cloverfield Lane

Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea

Issey Ogata, Silence

Did you expect anything else?

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis, Fences

Naomie Harris, Moonlight

Suzu Hirose, Our Little Sister

Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures

Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

See above. Yet another child actress in Suzu Hirose, gets nominated... that’s three kids getting nominations in my alternative ceremony!

Best Adapted Screenplay

Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden (KOR)

Eric Heisserer, Arrival

Barry Jenkins and Tarell McCraney, Moonlight

Hirokazu Koreeda, Our Little Sister

August Wilson, Fences (posthumous nomination)

Really, really tempted to give this to Wilson. So I hope, wherever he is, he didn’t mind this.

Best Original Screenplay

Stephen Chow, et al., The Mermaid (CHN)

Asghar Farhadi, The Salesman

Efthimis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster

Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water

Makoto Shinkai, Your Name (JPN)

Best Animated Feature

Kubo and the Two Strings (Laika/Focus)

Long Way North, France/Denmark (Maybe Movies/Sacrebleu Productions)

My Life as a Zucchini, Switzerland (Gébéka Films/GKIDS)

The Red Turtle, France/Belgium/Japan (Wild Bunch/Toho Company/ Lumière/Sony Pictures Classics)

Your Name, Japan (Funimation/Toho Company)

Zootopia was the second-best Disney film of the year, and it wasn’t even among the top five animated features of the year. Little-seen Long Way North and widely-seen Your Name (everywhere except North America, apparently) are in there instead. But The Red Turtle - a true transnational effort - is the best animated feature of the year.

Best Documentary Feature

I Am Not Your Negro (Velvet Film/Magnolia Pictures)

Life, Animated (A&E/The Orchard)

O.J.: Made in America (ESPN)

13th (Netflix)

Weiner (Motto Pictures/Sundance Selects)

I have to award ESPN’s ambitious 30 for 30 entry here. And it’s easily the best of the 30 for 30 films as well.

Best Foreign Language Film

Fire at Sea, Italy

The Handmaiden, South Korea

Our Little Sister, Japan

The Salesman, Iran

Toni Erdmann, Germany

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins, Hail, Caesar!

James Laxton, Moonlight

Rodrigo Prieto, Silence

Linus Sandgren, La La Land

Bradford Young, Arrival

Best Film Editing

Tom Cross, La La Land

John Gilbert, Hacksaw Ridge

Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, and Ben Sozanski, O.J.: Made in America

Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders, Moonlight

Blu Murray, Sully

Best Original Musical

Gary Clark, Sing Street

Justin Hurwitz, La La Land

Mark Mancina, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Opetaia Foa’I, Moana

Best Original Musical is a category that must be activated by the Academy’s Music Branch, given that there are enough movie musical submitted for consideration. As I felt like there were enough movie musicals to warrant the activation of this category, I put these three films here (also, I wanted La La Land out of Original Score to preserve the category’s intent - to honor a film’s score, rather than its soundtrack). It has not been given under its current name; the last recipient of this award was Prince for Purple Rain (1984).

Best Original Score

John Debney, The Jungle Book

James Newton Howard, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Dario Marianelli, Kubo and the Two Strings

Laurent Perez Del Mar, The Red Turtle

John Williams, The BFG

Best Original Song

“Another Day of Sun”, music by Justin Hurwitz, lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, La La Land

“Audition (The Fools Who Dream)”, music by Justin Hurwitz, lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, La La Land

“Drive It Like You Stole It”, composed by Gary Clark Sing Street

“How Far I’ll Go”, composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Moana

“No Wrong Way Home”, music by Alexis Harte and JJ Wiesler, lyrics by Alexis Harte, Pearl

Yes, I have the audacity to nominate a song from a short film in here - “No Wrong Way Home” from Pearl. And “City of Stars” shouldn’t have been nominated, despite it being the earworm.

Best Costume Design

Colleen Atwood, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Madeline Fontaine, Jackie

Mary Zophres, La La Land

Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh, Love & Friendship

Dante Ferretti, Silence

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Daniel Phillips, Florence Foster Jenkins

Jean Ann Black and Cydney Cornell, Hail, Caesar!

Eva von Bahr and Love Larson, A Man Called Ove (SWE)

Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo, Star Trek Beyond

Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Nelson, Suicide Squad

Best Production Design

Patrice Vermette and Paul Hotte, Arrival

Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh, Hail, Caesar!

Ryu Seong-hie, The Handmaiden

David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, La La Land

Guy Hendrix Dyas and Gene Serdena, Passengers

Best Sound Editing

Sylvain Bellemare, Arrival

Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli, Deepwater Horizon

Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright, Hacksaw Ridge

Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood, Rogue One

Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman, Sully

Best Sound Mixing

Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye, Arrival

John Midgley, Tom Johnson, and Juan Peralta, Doctor Strange

Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie, and Peter Grace, Hacksaw Ridge

Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee, and Steve A. Morrow, La La Land

David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio, and Stuart Wilson, Rogue One

Best Visual Effects

Craig Hammeck, Jason Snell, Jason Billington, and Burt Dalton, Deepwater Horizon

Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli, and Paul Corbould, Doctor Strange

Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Dan Lemmon, The Jungle Book

Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean, and Brad Schiff, Kubo and the Two Strings

John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel, and Neil Corbould, Rogue One

Best Documentary Short

Extremis (Netflix)

4.1 Miles, Greece (University of California, Berkeley/The New York Times)

Joe’s Violin (Lucky Two Productions)

Watani: My Homeland (ITN Productions)

The White Helmets (Netflix)

You can read my omnibus write-up for the nominees in Best Documentary Short Film here.

Best Live Action Short

Ennemis intérieurs, France (Qualia Films)

La Femme et le TGV, Switzerland (Arbel/ Jacques à Bâle Pictures)

Silent Nights, Denmark (M&M Productions)

Sing, Hungary (Meteor-Film)

Timecode, Spain (Juanjo Giménez Peña)

You can read my omnibus write-up for the nominees in Best Live Action Short Film here.

Best Animated Short

Blind Vaysha (National Film Board of Canada)

Borrowed Time (Quorum Films)

Pear Cider and Cigarettes (Massive Swerve Studios/Passion Pictures)

Pearl (Evil Eye Pictures/Google/Passion Pictures)

Piper (Pixar/Walt Disney)

You can read my omnibus write-up for the nominees in Best Animated Short Film here.

Academy Honorary Awards: Jackie Chan, Anne V. Coates, Lynn Stalmaster, and Frederick Wiseman

MULTIPLE NOMINEES (28) Twelve: La La Land Seven: Moonlight Six: Arrival Five: Our Little Sister Four: Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, O.J.: Made in America, The Red Turtle Three: Hail, Caesar!, The Handmaiden, Hell or High Water, Kubo and the Two Strings, Rogue One, The Salesman, Silence Two: Deepwater Horizon, Doctor Strange, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Hidden Figures, The Jungle Book, Loving, Manchester by the Sea, Moana, Pearl, Sing Street, Sully, Toni Erdmann, Your Name

WINNERS 5 wins: La La Land 3 wins: Moonlight 2 wins: Fences, O.J.: Made in America 1 win: Elle, Ennemis intérieurs, 4.1 Miles, Hacksaw Ridge, The Handmaiden, Hell or High Water, Jackie, The Jungle Book, Kubo and the Two Strings, Our Little Sister, Piper The Red Turtle, Star Trek Beyond

17 winners from 25 categories. 47 feature-length films and 15 short films were represented.

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Women Get a Spotlight, but No Prize Money, in New N.H.L. All-Star Event

The N.H.L. will introduce two new events at its All-Star skills competition on Friday in St. Louis. One involves its players attempting trick shots from an elevated platform in the stands. The other is a three-on-three exhibition featuring top women’s players, which, the league hopes, will be received as less of a novelty.

At a time when hockey participation among male Canadians is in decline, the N.H.L. hopes to capitalize on the rapid growth the game is experiencing among girls and women. According to U.S.A. Hockey data, participation in girls’ and women’s hockey in the United States has grown by 34 percent in the past decade, swelling in 2018-19 to more than 83,000 players. In Canada, that number was almost 87,000 in 2017-18, according to the International Ice Hockey Federation.

Last year, Kendall Coyne Schofield, who won an Olympic gold medal in 2018 with the United States women’s national team, was a last-minute replacement for an N.H.L. player in the fastest skater competition: She finished seventh out of eight entrants. Her 14.346-second lap time was less than a second behind the winner, Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid.

Last year, Brianna Decker, Coyne Schofield’s Olympic teammate, completed a demonstration of the premier passer event at the skills competition in an unofficial time that wound up being three seconds faster than the winning time, 1 minute 9 seconds, logged by Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl. Fans used the #PayDecker hashtag on social media to express their furor over Decker’s not being eligible for the $25,000 prize. The hockey equipment manufacturer CCM eventually paid Decker an equivalent sum.

Bill Daly, deputy commissioner of the N.H.L., said that after last year, the league sought to create an “even bigger platform for women during All-Star weekend.”

“Sometimes All-Star Games are challenged in creating something new, something special, something different, something that will generate interest,” Daly said. “The announcement of this event seems to have created a little buzz that is a real positive.”

Friday’s three-on-three event will not pay prize money to participants. Instead, the players will receive appearance fees, Daly said. The N.H.L. has also announced it will donate $100,000 to girls’ hockey organizations.

Daly said the donation would exceed the $30,000 an N.H.L. player could earn by winning a skills event. In Saturday’s All-Star Game, N.H.L. players will compete for a $1 million pot.

Nancy Lough, a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who studies gender equity in sports, said the inclusion of women showed awareness. But, she added, having no prize money in addition to making them play an accelerated game was “clearly most in line with a corporate social responsibility goal of making fans feel good about the N.H.L. as opposed to actually advancing women’s hockey.”

The addition of women’s hockey at All-Star weekend comes in the wake of some male N.H.L. coaches and broadcasters having been fired or suspended in the past year for racist and sexist comments.

The three-on-three event will feature a running clock that covers two 10-minute periods and pits 20 total players — each team is composed of nine skaters and a goaltender — in a United States vs. Canada battle.

Daly said that selecting 20 players was “going to be tricky from the start” and that the N.H.L. leaned on recommendations from the Olympians Angela Ruggiero, Hayley Wickenheiser, Cammi Granato and Cassie Campbell-Pascall, supporters of the Professional Women’s Hockey Players Association, a nonprofit advocacy group created last spring. Almost all of the participants in the event are members.

The addition of the women’s three-on-three event comes during the continuing player-led revolt against the National Women’s Hockey League, the only women’s pro league in North America. Members of the players’ association decided not to sign with the N.W.H.L. this season over concerns about operations and low wages. The N.W.H.L.’s highest announced salary is $15,000.

Currently, the N.H.L. selectively doles out cash to women’s hockey entities. It supplied $100,000 in financing to the N.W.H.L. this season, increasing the amount after its Canadian counterpart folded.

For years, the N.H.L. said it would not create a women’s league as long as other women’s leagues existed. Daly reiterated that there was no intention to create a women’s league under the N.H.L. umbrella with the N.W.H.L. still in operation.

With Friday’s showcase being played over an irregular time frame and sandwiched between competitions like hardest shot and target practice, the format has drawn criticism for being nothing more than a novelty act.

“There’s effort, but at the same time it’s so limited,” said Courtney Szto, a professor at the school of kinesiology and health studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. “They have such a great opportunity to generate a connective relationship even if they don’t want to fund a league, something that’s expected and normal, but it’s always these one-offs, random isolated events.”

Szto, who writes for the website Hockey in Society, referenced a women’s exhibition game held four years ago at the N.H.L.’s annual Winter Classic that had no live television coverage and was played with a running clock. The N.H.L. has not sponsored a similar event since.

“My take on the N.H.L. involvement is, these women deserve everything the N.H.L. has available to them resource-wise,” Szto said. “I don’t think the N.H.L. deserves one lick of their attention, though.”

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Future Hall of Famer, Olympic hero and all-time great Caroline Ouellette announces retirement

Caroline Ouellette, one of the most decorated women’s players of all-time and a surefire Hall of Famer, has ended her playing career to focus on family and a move behind the bench.

If Caroline Ouellette were a man, news of her retirement would be leading every sportscast in Canada. There would have been a live news conference carried by all the networks, along with non-stop reflections and analysis of her career. It’s a shame that this might be the first you’re reading about one of the all-time greatest players in the history of the game announcing that she is hanging up her skates.

Instead, Ouellette announced her retirement by penning an open letter to her daughter, Liv, whom she shares with her spouse, former American hockey great Julie Chu. Hockey Canada also made the announcement, which received scant attention in the mainstream hockey media. Of course, it doesn’t help that women’s hockey is generally negligent in promoting their own players. There was not a single mention of Ouellette’s retirement on the Canadian Women’s Hockey League’s website and, shockingly, only a regurgitation of tweets from Radio-Canada Sports, the Montreal Canadiens’ Foundation and Hockey Canada on the website of the Canadiennes de Montreal, the CWHL franchise for which Ouellette had played the past seven seasons.

But make no mistake. This is a huge deal. Think Mark Messier when it comes to leadership, Scott Niedermayer when it comes to winning championships. Ouellette is one of the game’s all-time great players, not just one of the all-time great women players, and is an absolute no-brainer to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2021, one year after Hayley Wickenheiser makes her way into the shrine. (Chu is also eligible for induction herself in 2020 and when she eventually gets in, that would make Ouellette and Chu the only spouses inducted in the players’ category.)

The team accomplishments alone are absolutely staggering for Ouellette. In fact, Ouellette is the only Canadian in any sport to enter four Olympic events and win gold in all four of them, the last one of which she captained Canada to the gold medal. Add to that six World Women’s championship gold medals, five titles in the National/Canadian Women’s Hockey League, one NCAA title and five World Championship silver medals. She might also be the first player in history to win a title in the midst of a pregnancy, something she did when she and Chu won the Clarkson Cup with the Canadiennes in 2017.

And the individual accomplishments are just as impressive. She was twice named the most valuable player in the CWHL and won one scoring title. Three times in the World Championships she was named one of Canada’s top three players and scored at least a point-per-game at every level of competition over the course of her career. In her combined N/CWHL career, she scored 482 points in just 260 games and in three years with the University of Minnesota-Duluth, she averaged 2.36 points per game.

Hall of Famer Cammi Granato recalled first seeing Ouellette play as a teenager when her Concordia University team played against Ouellette’s team in the mid-1990s. And then as a regular opponent in international competition, she watched Ouellette develop into and offensive star and a leader for the Canadian program. “She was shy and she was a good player, but over the years when she grew into her confidence, she was a real threat,” Granato said. “I liked the way she played. She played with a lot of class. She definitely used her size to her advantage, but as far as offensively, at one point she just came into her own and just stayed there.”

Former Team Canada teammate Jennifer Botterill said the key to much of Ouellette’s success was the product of two things – her love for the game and her ability to adapt. “Initially, when she first came onto the scene, everybody thought of her as this power forward,” Botterill said. “But she continued to evolve and develop her game. I think she always respected the evolution of the game and was always finding new ways to get better and find ways to be dominant every time she played. Playing against her in the CWHL and playing with her on Team Canada, I thought she always elevated the people around her. I think (Canadian star) Marie-Philip (Poulin) learned a lot from her.”

Along with motherhood, Ouellette will continue to run the hockey schools with Chu and plans to get more involved in coaching. She has served at different times as an assistant coach at Minnesota-Duluth, the Canadian under-18 team and Concordia University. Her former teammate has no doubt Ouellette has the tools to be as successful as a coach as she was a player. “I think she has the potential for a very long and successful career on the coaching side,” Botterill said. “She will be excellent.”

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Winter Olympics 2018 - US men's hockey team remember when Jim Johannson gave them the news

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — In front of an empty stall inside the United States men’s locker room at the Gangneung Hockey Center sits a chair with a blue jersey draped over it. Ironed in bright white lettering is the No. 18 and the name JOHANNSON. For the 25 players brought together from all across the world to represent Team USA, it’s a constant reminder that their architect isn’t here.

Jim Johannson, the executive director of USA Hockey, died in his sleep at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Jan. 21. He was 53. It was Johannson, along with head coach Tony Granato, who built this squad, the first U.S. team since 1994 without current NHL players.

For all but the biggest of hockey fans, it’s a roster of unknowns, a twisted mix of aging veterans searching for one last moment of hockey glory and promising youngsters barely old enough to drink. But they all share one thing in common: They were brought together by that one man, through one phone call. When the moment came, some of them cried, some fell over, most were speechless. It never would have been like this with NHL players, which is what made the moment so special.

Here are a few stories about when these players’ lives were forever changed, when they received that call from the same man — Jim Johannson.

The 2018 men’s Olympic hockey tournament gets underway Wednesday, but you might not recognize too many names on the Pyeongchang ice. Chris Peters looks at players to watch, including some intriguing prospects.

Do Jordan Greenway and the NHL-less U.S. men have enough firepower to fend off Canada, Finland and OAR? And will the American women gain revenge on their archrival and strike gold for the first time since 1988? Here’s who will take home the hardware.

Greenway is big, really big. The Americans hope to use his size to create havoc around the net in these Olympics. After the Olympics? His hockey future is bright.

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Chad Kolarik, 32, forward

Current club: Adler Mannheim of the DEL (Germany) Hometown: Abbington, Pennsylvania NHL experience: Six games Last NHL game: 2011

“I was in my apartment in Mannheim. I had missed the call, but JJ texted me and asked me to call him back when I had a second. As soon as you see that message, you drop everything. First thing he tells me is that this has been one of the greatest days in his career at USA Hockey. At that point, you don’t know what he’s going to say. He tells me, ‘You’ve been selected to play for the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team.’ I immediately dropped to my knees. I literally fell down, and just started tearing up. My wife was in the kitchen. As soon as I dropped to my knees and started crying, she knew. It was just amazing. First thing I did was called my mom. Dad was at work. But I talked to him later and it was cool to hear his voice. He’s not an emotional guy, but you could tell — he was proud.”

Noah Welch, 35, defenseman

Current club: Vaxjo Lakers, Swedish League (Sweden) Hometown: Brighton, Massachusetts NHL experience: 75 games Last NHL game: 2011

“I was suspended for that night, so I was outside building a snowman with my family in Sweden. We were told we’d find out in late December, but this call came earlier. It was a number I didn’t know. I honestly thought it was the IRS actually after me for taxes or something. I don’t know why, but I’ve gotten audited three years in a row. I didn’t want to answer it, but for some reason, I did. And it was Jim Johannson. He says to me, ‘How is your day going?’ As soon as he said that, I started smiling, because I don’t think you would follow that up with, ‘You didn’t make the team.’ … But in my head I’m thinking, ‘Get on with it.’ And then he just said, ‘I wanted to call and tell you that you made the team.’

“I couldn’t talk. I was shocked. I just didn’t know what to say. I think I said, ‘Thank you.’ I hope I said thank you. My wife picked up on it. She knew it was JJ. She saw the look on my face. I just didn’t know what to say, and then I hung up and my wife ran over and tackled me on the snow. I remember she said, ‘Dad just made the Olympics!’ and then my son jumped on me and there was this big pile, right there in the snow in Sweden. I’ll never ever forget it.”

Jim Slater, 35, forward

Current club: HC Fribourg-Gotteron of the National League (Switzerland) Hometown: Lapeer, Michigan NHL experience: 584 games Last NHL game: 2015

“I was back home in Michigan. I play in Switzerland and we had five days off, so I came home because my wife and daughter still live in Michigan. I had my Swiss phone and I couldn’t get any phone calls, but I could receive text messages. And there was a message from Jimmy Johannson saying to give him a call. It said it was going to be a good call. So, I grabbed my wife’s phone right away, made the call and he just said, ‘Slates, you’re on the Olympic team.’ We talked for about five minutes. I told him how thankful and grateful I was. Then I got off the phone and told my wife. We started jumping up and down, my 3-year-old daughter got into it. Right away, we called my parents, and I let my daughter break the news to my them. To hear her tell my parents, ‘My daddy is going to be an Olympian,’ was really the most special thing. It’s something she probably won’t remember, but something I’ll always take with me. That’s right up there with my first NHL game, being drafted, my first NHL goal. It’s just so special.”

Bobby Butler, 30, forward

Bobby Butler’s surprise announcement to his father went viral before the Winter Olympics. Andrew Nelles-USA TODAY Sports

Current club: Milwaukee Admirals, AHL Hometown: Marlborough, Massachusetts NHL experience: 130 games Last NHL game: 2014

“I was in Milwaukee. On Dec. 27, I had a game. Coach Granato came to watch me play. He said afterward he’d let me know in the next few days. So, the next day, I’m in the locker room; I’m there for early training, just hanging out. I’ve got my Apple Watch on, and it starts buzzing. I look down and it’s Jim Johannson, so I book it to my cell phone probably 50 feet away. … He says, ‘I want you to know that when we announce the team on Jan. 1, you’re going to be one of the Olympians who is announced.’

“Immediately, I got the chills. I mean, I still get them every time I tell the story or even think about that moment. Then I FaceTime’d my wife. I told her I was an Olympian. She’s like, ‘What did you say?’ I told her, ‘You heard me.’ And she goes, ‘I want to hear you say it again.’ So I did, and she was so proud of me. I just thanked her for letting me be a big kid and play hockey for a living.

“From there, I called my dad and told him to come to practice. He had flown in the previous afternoon. … He wanted to be there either way, whether I made the team or I didn’t. So, then he came to practice and I surprised him. You probably saw the video. From there, the moment my wife hung up the phone, she called and got us a babysitter. That night, we went out to dinner — me, my wife, my dad and her parents. It was pretty special.”

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Bobby Butler of the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals shares the news with his father that he was named to the U.S. Olympic hockey team.

David Leggio, 33, goaltender

Current club: EHC Red Bull Munchen, DEL (Germany) Hometown: Williamsville, New York NHL experience: None.

“I was in the park across the street from my apartment [in Munich]. I was there with my dog and my son. I was hoping that was the day they were going to call. [U.S. assistant coach] Keith Allain [called first]. He called and was making some small talk, how’s the weather, this and that. And I’m like, please tell me what’s going to happen! So he told me and the emotion just goes through you.

“My son is 1½ and I just picked him up and ran home. My wife was just coming home from the store. I tried to beat her upstairs, but we got in the elevator at the same time, so we went upstairs and then I told her. Then, Jim called later — he was so happy for me. It’s hard to think about it now. He was just such an awesome guy. One of the best you’ll ever meet in hockey. And you think about how much he loved telling everybody and making those calls. You don’t need any additional motivation in the Olympics, but he’s the reason we’re all here. We want to do this for him and his family. We will honor his legacy.”

Ryan Donato, 21, center

Current club: Harvard University Hometown: Scituate, Massachusetts NHL experience: None.

“I was at school, in the library with one of my teammates studying for an exam. I got the call from Jim, so I answer it and I sort of whispered, ‘Can you just wait a second? I’m in the library.’ He starts to laugh. So, I go outside and he just said, ‘We selected you for the team.’ All my emotions just sort of came into one. My breath was taken away. Literally taken away. I told him thank you. I went back into the library and my buddy goes, ‘Was that the call I think it was?’ I told him it was, but that he couldn’t tell anyone anything. Then I called my mom and dad and told them. I thanked them for everything.”

Brian Gionta won a Stanley Cup with the New Jersey Devils in 2003. David E. Klutho-USA TODAY Sports

Hometown: Rochester, New York NHL Experience: 1,006 games Last NHL game: 2017

“I was at home, with my wife. We were in the kitchen. JJ calls and told me he not only wanted me to be part of the team, but he also wanted me to be the captain. It was a pretty special moment. My wife knew. She knew from caller ID who was calling. And she could tell by my reaction that I was on the team. But then I had the added bonus of being able to tell her I was captain. It was pretty special for both of us.”

James Wisniewski, 33, defenseman

Current club: Kassel Huskies DEL2 (Germany) Hometown: Canton, Michigan NHL experience: 552 games Last NHL game: 2015

“I was at home in Castle, Germany. It was three days after Christmas. My family was in town visiting, they were still fighting jet lag. It was probably 9:30 in the morning. I’m lying in bed with my two daughters and my wife next to me. At some point, I look at my phone and I see I have a missed call and a text message from Jim Johannson. The message said, ‘Call me. It’s going to be a fun one.’ So I’m like, ‘Whoa.’

“I immediately start getting all sorts of anxiety. The shakes. The sweats. I got a little emotional. I wake my wife up and show her the text and she goes, ‘Are you s—-ing me?’ Then I woke my dad up. He jumps out of bed, ‘Are you serious?’ We got up, poured some coffee. I was nervous to call JJ back. I don’t know why. Eventually, I called him, we make small talk. He tells me he’s having the time of his life making these phone calls. And then, he says, ‘I’d like you to know you made the cut and you’ll be representing our country in 2018.’ Total silence. And he’s like, ‘Are you there?’ I told him it meant so much coming from him. From there, well, it was time to celebrate. We didn’t have a game the next day, or the day after, so let’s just say I had a good time, a really good time.”

Matt Gilroy, 33, defenseman

Current club: Jokerit, KHL (Finland) Hometown: Bellmore, New York NHL experience: 225 games Last NHL game: Last NHL game: 2014

“I was in Northern Finland. We had a few days off, and my wife was in town, so we went to the North Pole, basically. No service, the phone wasn’t really working. We were sitting at a restaurant and I looked down at my phone and it was JJ calling. At that time, I knew if I got that call, I knew what it was going to be about. I stepped away and picked it up, talked to him and the first thing he brought up was, ‘Matty, this has been the best day in USA Hockey for me, calling you guys. Congratulations. you’re an Olympian.’ And you talk about excitement? Just all the emotions racing through you. How am I going to get there? When does it start? I want to go now! I was with my wife, which was special. I walked back to my wife and she kept looking back at me like, ‘What’s going on?’ I gave her the blank face and then I told her, ‘I’m going to the Olympics.'”

Bobby Sanguinetti, 29, defenseman

Current club: HC Lugano, National League (Switzerland) Hometown: Trenton, New Jersey NHL experience: NHL experience: 45 games Last NHL game: Last NHL game: 2013

“I was home. I had just gotten up from a pregame nap, so I missed the original call. Jim texted me, asking me to give him a call back when I can. I didn’t know exactly what it was, but I quickly called him right back. I didn’t waste any time. Just to hear him say I made the team was an incredible feeling. You can’t describe it. I don’t even know what I said after that. You try not to get too emotional or too excited on the phone. You want to hold it together. And then you hang up and everything comes out of you. My wife was out with my son, so I immediately called her and told her the news. Then I called my parents. Two special phone calls I’ll never forget.”

Ryan Zapolski, 31, goaltender

Ryan Zapolski leads the goaltending efforts for Team USA in Pyeongchang. Ronald Martinez/Getty Images

Current club: Jokerit (KHL), Finland Hometown: Erie, Pennsylvania NHL experience: None

“I was in my apartment in Helsinki. My wife and I were getting ready for dinner when he called. I saw it was him and took the call in the bedroom. He just congratulated me and said how honored he was to be making these calls. It was really special. I probably said thank you 10 or 15 times. It was emotional. I felt like I was going to cry. I wanted to cry, but I didn’t. There were just all these emotions.; you don’t know how to process it. Then I came out of the bedroom and told my wife. I gave her a nice hug. Something I’ll never forget.”

Brian O’Neill, 29, center

Current club: Jokerit (KHL), Finland Hometown: Yardley, Pennsylvania NHL experience: 22 games Last NHL game: 2016

“I was actually at a team event at a casino in Helsinki. It’s about 2 p.m. and I have a missed call. I knew it was his number. My heart just sank. I assumed it was good, but you don’t know. I was sitting next to Zapolski. He already got a call. Jim says, ‘Brian, you’re on the Olympic team.’ When you hear those words, you just go into shock. You never imagine that call and so you don’t know what to do. First thing I did was call my dad. He was taken aback. And then I got back to the poker tournament. We did pretty well. I had quite the day.”

Will Borgen, 21, defenseman

Current club: St. Cloud State University Hometown: Moorhead, Minnesota

“I was at home in Moorhead. It was Christmas break, so I was home for a bit. Bob Motzko, who coached world juniors with Jimmy, they both called me on my way home from skating with the local high school kids. I pick up the phone and Bob is basically laughing to himself. They told me right away. ‘You made it.’ I freaked out. I called my dad. I told my mom and my brothers and sisters who were out of town. That night I went out with my friends. I couldn’t tell them. I knew they couldn’t keep the secret, but I was celebrating in my head.”

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The Hockey Hall of Fame officially makes room for the 2017 class with the induction ceremony Monday night in Toronto. Paul Kariya, Teemu Selanne, and Mark Recchi are among the seven legends being honored in the special event, which begins at 7:30 p.m. ET and will be broadcast live by NHL Network in the United States.

The complete class includes Kariya, Selanne, Recchi, Dave Andreychuk, Danielle Goyette, Clare Drake, and Jeremy Jacobs. There are roughly 400 members of the Hockey Hall of Fame with the addition of this year’s group. It’s a special club that recognizes the best that the sport has to offer.

Selanne enters the Hall in his first year of eligibility. One of the NHL’s elite goal scorers in the 1990s, he’s No. 11 in goals and No. 15 in points on the all-time leaderboard. He also won a Stanley Cup with the Ducks in 2007, and four Olympic medals (one silver, three bronze) as a key player for the Finnish national team.

Kariya, one of Selanne’s key linemates in Anaheim, joins his former teammate in entering the Hall. A seven-time All-Star and two-time Lady Byng Trophy winner, his career was cut short by concussion issues, but he was one of the NHL’s elite players in his prime.

Recchi didn’t quite have the peak of Selanne or Kariya, but he brought longevity with a very good 22-year career. He’s got exceptional career numbers as a result — No. 20 in goals, No. 15 in assists, and No. 12 in points. Just as impressive is the fact that he won Stanley Cups with three different teams (1991 with Pittsburgh, 2006 with Carolina, and 2011 with Boston) as a player, plus another two as a Penguins coach the past two years.

Andreychuk is another player whose longevity is what stands out most. He posted 19 seasons with 20-plus goals, which is how he managed to enter the top 15 in all-time goals despite just four 40-goal seasons and two All-Star appearances. The former Lightning captain recently discussed his career with Raw Charge, so that’s definitely worth checking out.

Goyette becomes the fifth woman to enter the Hall of Fame as a player, joining Cammi Granato, Angela James, Geraldine Heaney, and Angela Ruggiero. As a member of the Canadian national team, she won eight national championships and three Olympic medals, including gold medals in 2002 and 2006.

Drake and Jacobs enter the Hall as builders. Drake coached at the University of Alberta for 28 years and is the most successful coach in the history of Canadian college hockey with six national championships. Jacobs has been owner of the Boston Bruins since 1975.

How to watch the 2017 Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony

Inductees: Teemu Selanne, Paul Kariya, Mark Recchi, Dave Andreychuk, Danielle Goyette, Clare Drake, and Jeremy Jacobs

Time: 8 p.m. ET

TV: NHL Network (U.S.) and TSN2 (Canada)

Live Stream: TSN Live (Canada)

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Ready to de-stress? Hot tub in the dark!

October 24, 2017 – Diets are like opinions; everybody has their favorites. But when it comes to angst ridden news, the media seems to force-feed all of us the same heaping helping twenty-four hours a day. Since you are what you eat, the results are often a gut-ache that sends your stress level off the charts!

Want to rend those heavy-hearted thoughts? Dr. Jerome E. Granato, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, National Cardiovascular Service Line at Catholic Health Initiatives, and author of “Living with Heart Coronary Heart Disease” has a simple, but brilliant suggestion:

• Bathe in the dark! He was thinking bath tub, but hey, what’s good for the bathtub, has to be great for the hot tub, right? • Here’s Dr. Granato’s simple equation …hot water, plus silence, minus visual stimulation, equals relaxation. • A few enhancements include deep breathing, and letting your mind drift to pleasant thoughts.

For the most part, hot tubbing is done at night. And being in the dark surrounded by nature, offers a deeper relaxation than soaking in an ordinary bath tub.

If you happen to own a Hot Spring Spa you’ll be able to enjoy complete silence, even while the tub is heating and filtering the water.

• To start, let the exclusive Hot Spring jets, like Moto Massage® DX have their way with all your achy parts. • Then turn off the jets and close your eyes. • Let the sublime silence and hot water cradle you. • Enjoy the feelings of bliss and contentment as your tension floats away. You deserve this!

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Ready to de-stress? Hot tub in the dark!

October 24, 2017 – Diets are like opinions; everybody has their favorites. But when it comes to angst ridden news, the media seems to force-feed all of us the same heaping helping twenty-four hours a day. Since you are what you eat, the results are often a gut-ache that sends your stress level off the charts!

Want to rend those heavy-hearted thoughts? Dr. Jerome E. Granato, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, National Cardiovascular Service Line at Catholic Health Initiatives, and author of “Living with Heart Coronary Heart Disease” has a simple, but brilliant suggestion:

• Bathe in the dark! He was thinking bath tub, but hey, what’s good for the bathtub, has to be great for the hot tub, right? • Here’s Dr. Granato’s simple equation …hot water, plus silence, minus visual stimulation, equals relaxation. • A few enhancements include deep breathing, and letting your mind drift to pleasant thoughts.

For the most part, hot tubbing is done at night. And being in the dark surrounded by nature, offers a deeper relaxation than soaking in an ordinary bath tub.

If you happen to own a Hot Spring Spa you’ll be able to enjoy complete silence, even while the tub is heating and filtering the water.

• To start, let the exclusive Hot Spring jets, like Moto Massage® DX have their way with all your achy parts. • Then turn off the jets and close your eyes. • Let the sublime silence and hot water cradle you. • Enjoy the feelings of bliss and contentment as your tension floats away. You deserve this!

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Ready to de-stress? Hot tub in the dark!

October 24, 2017 – Diets are like opinions; everybody has their favorites. But when it comes to angst ridden news, the media seems to force-feed all of us the same heaping helping twenty-four hours a day. Since you are what you eat, the results are often a gut-ache that sends your stress level off the charts!

Want to rend those heavy-hearted thoughts? Dr. Jerome E. Granato, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, National Cardiovascular Service Line at Catholic Health Initiatives, and author of “Living with Heart Coronary Heart Disease” has a simple, but brilliant suggestion:

• Bathe in the dark! He was thinking bath tub, but hey, what’s good for the bathtub, has to be great for the hot tub, right? • Here’s Dr. Granato’s simple equation …hot water, plus silence, minus visual stimulation, equals relaxation. • A few enhancements include deep breathing, and letting your mind drift to pleasant thoughts.

For the most part, hot tubbing is done at night. And being in the dark surrounded by nature, offers a deeper relaxation than soaking in an ordinary bath tub.

If you happen to own a Hot Spring Spa you’ll be able to enjoy complete silence, even while the tub is heating and filtering the water.

• To start, let the exclusive Hot Spring jets, like Moto Massage® DX have their way with all your achy parts. • Then turn off the jets and close your eyes. • Let the sublime silence and hot water cradle you. • Enjoy the feelings of bliss and contentment as your tension floats away. You deserve this!

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8/13/17 by Cindy Luis It is said that one truly has learned a second language when one dreams in that language. After six days of intense practices, of skill drills ad nauseam, the Rainbow Wahine players have begun to dream in another language: volleyball. The focus has been on the little things that will become the foundation for the big things. There’s been little separation by positions because the team needs to become a team. Do all skills well enough so as not to have to think about it but just “do.” It becomes innate. “We know as a team we need better ball control, so I don’t mind that we haven’t gotten into the 6-on-6 stuff,” sophomore setter Norene Iosia said as No. 20 Hawaii concluded its first week of two-a-day practices on Saturday. “This is something we need so that when we do more 6-on-6 it will flow better. “I definitely think the whole team has grown this week, not just one person. Everyone is getting out of their comfort zone and it’s been a good change.” The major change has been buying into what first-year head coach Robyn Ah Mow-Santos and her staff wants and demands. There is an intensity that often mimics that of the national team training center where Ah Mow-Santos lived for over a decade and where several of the Wahine players spent time with various USA Volleyball teams. Iosia was with the U.S. Junior National Team that finished seventh at the FIVB World Championship. Junior hitter McKenna Granato was with the U.S. Collegiate National Team. “I think everyone is starting to realize what the team culture is, ” Granato said. “Everyone is adapting to what our team culture is becoming. “The intensity level is higher. It’s what Tama (Miyashiro, former Olympian and current national team assistant) said when she was here. That the intensity is similar to that of the national team.” Having to make the biggest adjustment to the coaching change, perhaps, are the six Wahine seniors. It is particularly true with Kendra Koelsch, who has been the backup setter for three years but also has been a blocking sub and outside hitter. She continues to take reps at the two positions, and that plays into the team mind-set of being well-rounded. “We’re working on the little things we haven’t focused on previously,” she said. “I think it’s making everyone a better all-around player. You can’t only do just one thing. You have to be good at everything. “Right now it’s more about the team. We have to use everybody, not just rely on one person. “I am so grateful to have one year under Robyn. This is one of the best coaches in the nation. Our whole staff is incredible and I’m trying to take every single second of every day of practice to relish it.” It is a process, as Ah Mow-Santos said. “We’re not as far along as I wanted, but it is better than I expected,” the former two-time All-America setter for the Wahine said. “We still have a lot of things to do, but it’s coming along.” As for a potential starting lineup, “At some positions we kind of know, but things could change,” Ah Mow-Santos said. The Wahine return three solid starters in senior middle Emily Maglio, senior libero Savanah Kahakai and Iosia. All three were first-team All-Big West and Maglio an honorable mention AVCA All-American. Hawaii has today off and returns to practice on Monday.