#hockey malarkey

[saintmalosunsets]

Scott Grimes — Mystery, Alaska (1/6)

[crow-talks-hockey]

little sketch of easy company's second favorite ginger i did today 💞

[traiteursroe]

Get to know me, I guess 👩🏻‍🦰

Hi, my names Chloe, I’m 18, and I like history! Like I think about the Roman Empire everyday unironically.

My pronouns are she/they and I’m bisexual

Irish-American (call me malarkey) 🇮🇪🇺🇸

I would die for Eugene Roe and I’m being deadass

INFP, 4w5

Other interests: Tennis, Formula One (CL16) , Hockey (NYR), Football (Bills), Basketball (Mavs), poetry, MCU, DC, ATLA

[coloradohq]

WELCOME TO DENVER, davinna! you’ve been accepted as melissa “mei lien” malarkey (LI BING BING)! please have your account sent in within 24 hours; don’t forget your CHECKLIST!

davinna, 30+, CST; She/Her. | if you’re hearing  BRICK BY BORING BRICK by PARAMORE playing, you have to know Melissa “Mei Lien” Malarkey (SHE/HER; CISWOMAN) is near by! the FIFTY ONE year old MEDICAL EXAMINER has been in denver for, like, 30 years . they’re known to be quite OBSTINATE, but being PERCEPTIVE seems to balance that out. or maybe it’s the fact that they resemble Li Bing Bing personally, i’d love to know more about them seeing as how they’ve got those COLD METAL TABLES AND SCAPELS, OLD WEDDING RINGS AND MEMORIES OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN, and ICE SKATES AND HOCKEY STICKS  vibes. and maybe i’ll get my chance if i hang out around the WASHINGTON PARK long enough! *for Kai Best Friend WC

[auroralightsthesky]

Random Modern AU Headcannons about Easy and the 1st

Most of them all live on the same block, literally within a five minute walk of each other. The neighborhood has alot of older houses that aren’t in the best shape so the running joke with the guys is that it’s the neighborhood from Shameless

Dick and Nix are roommates living in the townhouse across the street, their girlfriends live next door but the only problem is that they can hear EVERYTHING on the other side of the wall

Jay, Sledge, Burgie and Snafu have the house next door. Half the time the four of them are out on the trampoline doing something stupid. One time they had Jay’s two year old niece over and were all jumping at the same time to bounce her in the air and make her laugh. Needless to say it didn’t go over well with Jay’s older brother when he found out. 

John and Lena’s house is nicknamed “Disaster Hut” because of how much trouble the occupants get into

JP and Manny have a bad habit of stealing other people’s lunches. John got pissed when he found out JP stole the avocado salad off the top shelf and chased him all the way across the block to Dick and Nix’s yard

Tatum and Evanson are THE MASTERS of Ding Dong Ditch. Steve will literally hand out his bedroom window, gripping Tatum by the ankles while he reaches the doorbell with a hockey stick. The only time they regretted it was when John was asleep in the hammock on the porch and Tatum slipped out of Steve’s grip. They became firsthand witnesses to how fast John could actually run

Leckie, Runner, Chuckler and Hoosier hold game night in their basement. Cards Against Humanity is always something the guys look forward to

Andy and Eddie can often be found sun tanning on the roof. One time, Cobb tried to take a photo of their girlfriends laying out in the sun. It DID NOT end well

Liebgott and Webster are also roommates. They argue but once they see the look on the face of Lieb’s fiancé, they know to shut up because her glare could kill

Nix (for some weird reason) always keeps his Vat 69 stash in the bathroom behind the shower. 

Vera has a garden out back. Almost every week the others come by to get vegetables. Lena frequents the garden at least once a week

Muck, Luz, Penkala and Malarkey live next door to Leckie. They can be heard singing along to whatever playlist they’ve created on Spotify. It’s mostly 70s and 80s songs but it has led to one seriously memorable moment for all of them

It was a Friday night

Holed up in Leckie’s basement with nothing but a twelve pack between all of them (Nix smuggled his stash out of the house)

The entire block showed up, everyone from Tipper to Winters gathered in Leckie’s basement

Luz put on the 70s playlist and the minute “Get Down Tonight” comes on all of them are dancing and singing off key

None of them care

Because their group of friends is all they need

[stonerbughead]

Maria watches friday night lights (#19)

hey hey it’s 4x08~ as someone who went to college in Boston for four years, I had a lot of fun with this one.

lol the entire Taylor family yelling and running around before this flight is so endearing and relatable af

“The toilet bowl,” damn. Sounds like any time my field hockey team played a team we could actually win against. 🤣

Tim Riggins in a suit trying to buy property is quite a sight to behold!

Landry is so annoying. I hate to be a broken record but it feels like Jess could do better than his pestering ass.

Y E S, pull out the inspiring speech, Eric Taylor! The Lions are hype! And...they put an actual toilet bowl on the field? Lemme guess, JD McCoy’s behind this?

Omg Tami and Julie are in Boston! Wow I def attended a protest at BU where they are in one of these shots. Also, Boston *IS* the south of the north so this tracks.

Ok Tami, I see you dazzling the professor 😂

Poor injured Luke, my heart 😭

“You ain’t got need for a toilet, do you?” “I’ve never heard such malarkey in my life.” Wow the dialogue on this show is truly chefs kiss.

Ah yes figured it was only a matter of time before Buddy offered to be a “booster” of sorts for the East Dillon Lions

Jess’s brothers continue to be adorable. And the way Jess has better chemistry with Vince!!

Omg poor Mindy! Pregnant, on bed rest, the toilet’s backed up, and neither of the Riggins brothers are available?! She deserves better!

Okay I finally feel sympathy for Becky now, as she’s being forced to drive stick so she can get drunk!Tim over to help Mindy.

Aw poor baby Mindy, he’s not cheating on you! just trying to get money in an illegal way bc our healthcare system is trash!!!

“You wanna know where that money went, tim? It went to two trips to the pharmacy and one meeting with a specialist. That money’s gone.” YEPPPPPP. we love this country 🙃

This is so good bc Billy is actually the one who understands the dire situation he’s in and Tim is an idealistic teen and oh this is so sad. I hate capitalism.

Oh god this school was Tami’s first choice?! that explains Julie’s lack of enthusiasm.

Devin is still the best character, look at her lil ponytail! ew Landry is forcing them to stop band practice to talk about Jess rescheduling his date. Can you not !!!

Vince’s mom is doing so much! She goes hard for the Vince and Jess ship huh?

I honestly feel Julie on her feelings about everything about the college admissions process feeling fake bc it really does and I hated every second of it.

Tim practicing for a job interview is so cuteeeeee lol

Why does every girl always have to say “Tim Riggins” jk I know why it’s H O T

Omg Luke noooo babe is he gonna get addicted to painkillers bc of this injury???

Lol Tami and Julie are in Harvard square where i worked for 2.5 years, Wild

I’m glad Tami yelled at Julie to pull it together and that she’d regret wasting her shot over a breakup bc Julie really did manage to pull it together for the interview!

“Could we just...go home?” You’re not the first one to have that reaction to Boston, Julie LOL

They lit this scene at the property Tim wants to buy so gorgeously.

...I still don’t like Tim and Becky. Why can’t they just be friends blech

Of course the Toilet Bowl had to happen in the rain for maximum visual effect!

Awww Vince’s friends cheering for him, so cute!

Lol Buddy really convinced the Spanish-speaking radio station to let them cover this game, hilarious.

Omg the soundtrack during the end of this game is amazingggg.

“The East Dillon lions win! We win! We won a game!” —so relatable as someone who played for a team that would win one or two games a season lol

ah, fuck, Tim’s in on the full family business now; he has learned about reality under capitalism very quickly. this will probably not end well.

[miss-butter]

Things I Thought That Were Not COVID (March - August)

~The episode of Law and Order: SVU where Jesse McCartney plays a guy named Max Mattarazo.

~When does a jamboree become a hootenanny?

~That scene in Band of Brothers where they're dissing the food and Muck goes "I won't eat Malarkey" and Malarkey is sitting right next to him

~Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip

~Sometimes I DO instead of FEEL

~"Fry 'em, Womack"

~How I actually do want to get "I carried a watermelon" tattooed on myself

~The idea that I know I'm gaining weight but I feel very small and very brittle, and when I lay down to sleep it feels like my whole body throbs with the beat of my heart and I practically levitate off the bed with the force of it

~Nightgowns

~When Paul visited and we watched Romeo + Juliet and he thought the instrumental theme was Radiohead

~Filling myself up with little red things to paint my insides pretty

~Pussy smelling like taco meat

~How nice it must be to have a yard, or a balcony. If I had a balcony I'd smoke on it, and have people over to sit 6 ft away from me or I'd sit there alone and eat pie straight out of the pan.

~The moment at the end of “The Last Patrol” where Liebgott helps Webster into the transport and Webster looks like he can hang up his try hard coat then and there.

~Bast's birthday in 2018 where we had the blizzard and I spilled wine all over their couch. The same day the Vikings won that game and me and Emma went and met my parents. How I felt so free.

~When it feels like my brain is living in my eye sockets some days and I feel spacey and my limbs go swishy.

~Led Zeppelin

~In the dream I had last night one of my bottom front teeth got replaced by a button that said "I Love The M"

~Writing writing writing writing writing writing

~Being a fat little dumpling of a woman with stars in my eyes

~The beauty of the word "Bodice"

~The desert

~The way Roddy McDowell delivered: "Shake with terror when such words pass your lips. For fear they be untrue, and Antony cut out your tongue for the lie, and if true for your lifetime boast that you were honored to speak his name even in death! The dying of such a man must be shouted. Screamed. It must echo back from the corners of the universe! Antony is dead!"

~Lana del Rey's cover of Season of the Witch

~What if huffing was just putting the thing that inflates air mattresses in your mouth and turning it on?

~The episode of Boy Meets World where Shawn joins a cult

~How the smell when the Twin Cities burned down reminded me of Paris. Burning rubber, summer, tension. How it was the coolest day of the week, and all my windows let it in until 1am.

~Am I going to feel at all different when I'm 36 or will I feel like the same person in some vampiric warp? Have I changed at all or does change just not happen to me in ways I'm aware of?

~ maybe don't stay the night again?

~The ship in WWII Grandpa Tom served on (Montpelier).

~When I get drunk and OCCASSIONALLY get the spins I feel like the puck on an air hockey table.

~ Filth / Turpentine / Loaded / Wade / Crucible / Bodice / Antichrist/ Cream

~ Who is Ken who is John?

~ I had a dream I had a different nose. Everything the same, but a different nose.

~ Uncle Dan went to the Free Health Clinic in San Francisco. He lived in different places. Uncle Dan might be in the CIA?

~ Remembering sitting in a hair salon in Highland Park and looking through a magazine that had Lindsay Lohan recreating Marilyn Monroe's nude photo shoot and feeling so overwhelmed by how beautiful and how sad they were. When I became aware of women's bodies.

~How I treat my spirit like a spoiled little child, how I yearn to give myself everything and anything she wants. Am I afraid her love is conditional? That unless she gets what she wants she'll run away in the night on the wings of a violent, fiery impulse? I spoil myself; I want the entire universe to be a chocolate truffle with a little crunchy Earth center to crack between my teeth.

~Natalie's Tarot Reading: 3SwordsInv, the breakdown of a relationship - 6ChalicesInv, a period of melancholy - KnightP, the arrival of an individual heralding financial gain and success // Overdraw: The Chariot.

~ deviled eggs and strawberry pie are the best recipes to make for the end of the world.

[thetrashpitals]

WHO is ready for some PERSONAL past relationship (kind of) NONSENSE and total MALARKEY where MOST NAMES will be censored

great!!

spent time this evening with my darling Kristi, one of my favorite humans, with whom I lived for not quite a year* in college

(*mental health got real bad, had to go back to my parents)

the thing about spending time with Kristi though, especially while drunk, is it means rehashing some stuff I may have otherwise been over, more or less, because she lives in Australia and visits once a year, so she needs updates

so tonight I talked about **** and *****. the latter I am pretty chill with. we message sometimes. earlier this month he asked for tattoo advice.

the former I have gotten really good at not thinking about.

the former I never actually dated. (the latter, I did. 3 years.) the former fucks me up like no one else. I'm mostly over it. I'm so grateful I am; I had a real bad time for awhile. but, I just.

I have no idea if he's okay. I have no idea if he's still even in the country. there are a lot of people I could ask, but I'm not close with them, so I won't.

anyway, I just. most of the time it's fine, none of it even crosses my mind anymore, most of the time, except for, "jeez I'm glad I don't think about **** all the time anymore."

but sometimes I do, and I am right now, and I'm sort of wrecked, and I hate feeling this way about someone I haven't seen in nearly 9 months, haven't talked to in nearly 9 months, I hate it. I hate missing someone I was never even in a relationship with so much.*

(*there was some shit though, make no mistake. between ****, *****, and me. all you need to know is there was a poly relationship that never went anywhere, a breakup, a long time of not seeing anyone, and then. whatever. it doesn't matter.)

I've been crying off and on for the past twenty minutes.

I miss him. I'm a certified disaster. [fun fact! **** is Russian. he played hockey as a teenager, until he fucked up his shoulder doing something else. his eyes look exactly like Ovi’s, enough so that any time Ovi does an interview facing the camera dead on I get a full body shock. I. Hate it.]

[on-the-arctic-glass]

What the fuck is wrong with tumblr first it keeps suggesting posts of people horny for nascar drivers, then posts of people horny for hockey players, now posts of people horny for slasher villains. How many of these jabronis do I have to block before tumblr realizes I don’t want to see this malarkey

[throughoutthestars]

Books I’ve read this year:

A lot of manga:

Inuyashiki (dark science fiction with a non-traditional main character)

My Monster Secret (tame humor/romance monster theme, kind of harem?)

Kase-san and the Morning Glories (girls romance, i dont read this usually but its REALLY GOOD and REALLY CUTE AF lmao)

The Royal Tutor (tutor looks like a kid and has to teach a bunch of complicated princes, fantasy and humor)

Land of the Lustrous (animes a ton better in my opinion, but manga is pretty good if not a bit strange and the characters look a bit too similar sometimes in black and white, theyre rocks and the main character goes through a lot of development from incompetent/happy to cold/sad/knowing)

School-Live! (messed up zombie apocalypse where girls are trapped in a school, friendship is highly important)

Girl from the Other Side (fantasy, different drawing style, young girl lives with sort of monster-father-figure, sweet with dark undertones)

Barakamon (family, humor, highly recommend for a good time)

Kamisama Kiss (romance between average girl and shrine dude, very funny)

Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (some students have super-powers, this guy just happens to have one where he can switch bodies with people he kisses, so he ends up kissing a lotta folks [both guys and girls])

I Hear the Sunspot (not gonna lie, I’ve forgotten what this one was but i remember it was pretty decent)

Laid-back Camp (girls go camping)

Delicious in Dungeon (a bit like a game set up, a fantasy crew fights monsters and ends up cooking them for meals as they go through shenanigans)

My neighbor Seki (girl sits next to guy who cant stop doing weird things that are totally normal to him, and no one else sees him do it except the girl, very funny and strange) 

Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun (funny as hell, guy writes popular girls romance without knowing a thing about it, girl befriends him and ends up liking him and hes oblivious, shenanigans between friends)

Flying Witch (great humor, friendship between witches)

Erased (really great mysterious books with friendship, dark themes and time re-dos)

Girl’s Last Tour (humanity has diminished, two friends set out wandering the earth and discovering things)

Merman in My tub (guy discovers a merman in his tub)

The Promised Neverland (kids raised to be food so they try and escape, dark themes obviously)

Novels:

Less (middle aged white gay man who travels the world once his life falls apart, romance)

Witchmark (gay witchcraft fantasy)

Esio Trot (by Roald Dahl, cute kids book)

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (old romance book between a ghost and a lady)

The Road Home (gay romance, ghosts and stuff, its alright, mystery)

The Little Prince

The Beasts of Clawstone Castle

Other sorts of books:

Sharky Malarkey (Internet humor and sharks, highly recommend, could not stop snickering to myself)

Check Please (followed this comic for a long time and didnt realize it became a book, so i reread the entire thing! really good romance between hockey players)

Egghead, or You Cant Survive on Ideas Alone (poetry by Bo Burnham)

Johnny Appleseed (biography graphic novel about the man)

Tom’s Midnight Garden (graphic novel about a boy who happens to time travel of sorts)

[andrewuttaro]

New Look Sabres: 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs according to the Sabres

We know how to cheer for other teams. Don’t pretend you don’t. It’s been eight years since the Buffalo Sabres last had a postseason berth and if you’re telling me you haven’t found other teams to cheer for in those postseasons since then you’re lying. Doing this with some teams feels more wrong than others and its all really just different drugs to stave off the sorrow of the Sabres not making it again. That said, the Stanley Cup Playoffs are just too compelling not to dive headlong into. If you’re a hockey fan its must-watch programming. If you’re not, it’s probably the best entryway into the sport. I’ll be really honest and say watching the playoffs is how I got into NHL Hockey. It’s the best hockey on earth and players, past and present, are on record saying its war. It is a two-month gauntlet for the players, and it hurts like hell by all accounts. Luckily, we don’t need to actually play the game. If you’re a former player I’d be honored to hear what you have to say about it but either way it’s just too good to ignore. Even as other teams duke it out for Lord Stanley’s Cup there is still that feeling of missing the Sabres. So today we’re going to look at the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs according to the Buffalo Sabres… or Buffalo Sabres fans at least. It’s going to break down into three parts: general rooting interests, former Sabres, and predictions. We’ll start with a general guide of which teams to cheer for and which teams you shouldn’t cheer for from a Sabres perspective. Former Sabres is a pretty self-explanatory section but its not always easy to cheer for those who used to wear the Blue and Gold. Last season one of my favorite former Sabres, Brian Gionta, found himself on the Boston Bruins roster in the playoffs. That was a confusing feeling! Making some predictions at the end is the fun part you read through all this for. If you want to be a jerk then go ahead and read ahead but I think we’ll have fun before we get to that point! With no further ado, let’s do that Hockey.

Sabres fans rooting for good playoff hockey have some pitfalls to avoid. This postseason we will, for the second postseason in a row, get the single solitary scenario that justifies rooting for the Boston Bruins if you don’t have a personal connection: a playoff series with the Toronto Maple Leafs. A lot of our friends up in Toronto are feeling this series is a foregone conclusion. A smart and happy Sabres fan will hope those losers are right. I think its pretty safe to feel confident the Lightning will polish off whoever survives this series, but you got to root against the Maple Leafs. That’s one of the most fundamental rules. Speaking of Tampa, the President’s Trophy winners generally don’t win the Cup but if you’re rooting for such a goliath of a division rival you better hop on that bandwagon from square one. If they’re the feel-good story by the time we get to the Conference Finals its going to feel kinda dirty honking their horn. 100 percent you need to root against the Carolina Hurricanes no matter what. Fuck those guys for a million reasons from a Sabres perspective. If you’re pulling for the Washington Capitals to repeat like the Pens did you probably should do that from the start as well but either way Caps versus Canes will be a fun series. Columbus stands out as the something-special team in the East this year so I might hop on that wagon from the start, but I know that’s a risky bet for a lot of reasons, not least of which that they’re taking on Tampa in the first round. You may be shocked that I labeled the Blue Jackets the special team in the East and not the New York Islanders. I wish nothing but good things on Robin Lehner and we’ll get to him later, but I can’t imagine a fan base more up their own asses right now. They just don’t deserve it the way Columbus sports fans need anything from the Jackets right now in the postseason. I don’t know how you root for the Penguins as a Sabres fan. Like seriously, if you are then comment on this and tell me why, you madman. That’s gross. The Pens-Isles series might put out levels of fan toxicity that will break all prior bad-take records. On the Western Side of the bracket St. Louis stands out as the fuck them team. We’ll talk about former Sabre Ryan O’Reilly’s sway on this in a bit but its my feeling that if you do the inverse of what the Sabres did this season in having a great second half than you can go fuck yourselves. I trust the Winnipeg Jets to take care of that business. There is still enough hatred for Dallas to root for Nashville in that series and the two other Western Conference matchups are toss-ups in terms of Sabres fan interests. Personally, I’ll be rooting for the Sharks over the Golden Knights because the Knights have had their fun and my father-in-law is from the Bay Area. Calgary versus Colorado is probably the series I am most likely to forget happened in this year’s postseason.

Now: former players. There is an art to rooting for former Sabres in the playoffs. You got to tread lightly in certain circumstances. Ryan O’Reilly and Robin Lehner are the big tickets this postseason and I am not going to pretend to speak the fan consensus on what we want to happen to them. With those guys this is my opinion. Ryan O’Reilly had annoying quirks and didn’t do as good as he could have here in Buffalo. That said, he was scape-goated for the disaster that was the 2017-2018 season in many ways. I for one am pulling for him. I’m rooting against his team, so I suppose I want him to score a lot in a losing series. Robin Lehner on the other hand is a less confounding conundrum. There is reason to wish the best for him. He’s a recovering addict and he’s getting his life back together on a team that is doing a fantastic job after their superstar left. For that reason alone, we should probably just cheer for the guy. If you’re one of those all-or-nothing defend-my-city types who takes issue with his comments about a toxic media and atmosphere in Buffalo then I suppose that’s you’re prerogative. He also went out of his way to give Jason Botterill props so maybe cool down. The rest of the former Sabres in this year’s playoffs reads like a list of punchlines from a past era. Jaroslav Halak is a Bruin for these playoffs and he maybe platooning it with Tuuka Rask given the organization’s distrust of Rask for no good reason. Halak was briefly a member of the 2014 tank Buffalo Sabres. Nobody remembers that and whatever, right? Tyler Ennis is a Toronto Maple Leaf. He’s being used as a fourth liner up there and its been ok for him this year. Unfortunately, he’ll get the same treatment O’Reilly gets from me this postseason: do well in a losing series. San Jose has Evander Kane and unless you’re a real patronizing hockey dad I can’t imagine Sabres fans will have trouble cheering for the player or the team in that case. I want the Sharks to win the Cup to be perfectly clear. Chad Ruhwedel will play another postseason with the Pittsburgh Penguins. No offense to Chad but I just feel nothing for him as a former Sabre. Taylor Fedun made the playoffs with the Dallas Stars but again, nothing on the feels spectrum about him. William Carrier is still on the Vegas Golden Knights. I was interested in his play as a Sabre for about ten seconds in 2017. Finally, there is the Winnipeg Jets who have everyone who we were hot and bothered about in 2013 in terms of prospects. That’s all a long time ago and when it comes to cheering interest I think those feelings are probably pretty moot at this point. That said, I still see Tyler Myers jerseys around Buffalo so maybe that’s not a good take. Grill me in the comments if you’re a Sabres fan really pulling for the Jets.

Predictions. I have a better record predicting March Madness than the Stanley Cup Playoffs; but I’m not into basketball and Lord Stanley’s Cup is the closest thing to an Old Testament-style idol in my life. When it comes to who wins the 30-pound silver beauty I struggle between logic and feels. My heart tells me San Jose wins the whole thing, but my head tells me Tampa Bay. NHL.com had a grossly high number of commentators’ pick Boston to win there way to the Cup Final and my repulsion to that prospect is the perfect example of my bias. Buffalo rivals disgust me so much that it clouds my ability to do this logically. On the other hand, I’m too logical to pick upsets like Columbus over Tampa or St. Louis over Winnipeg so perhaps I’m the worst possible guy to go to for playoff predictions. It’s time to stop beating around the bush: here are my predictions. In the east the first-round winners are Tampa in 7, Boston in 7, Washington in 5, New York Islanders in 6. The second round goes Tampa over Boston and Washington over New York in my book. The East Final will go to seven games again but in this rematch of last year Tampa wins. Out West its Calgary in 6, San Jose in 7, Nashville in 5 and Winnipeg in 6 in the first round. The West Semifinals will see San Jose prosper over Calgary and Winnipeg knock out Nashville again. The West Final will be an absolute War that goes to seven games between San Jose and Winnipeg before the Sharks limp across the finish line into the Stanley Cup Final. And then the drama really happens: an older Sharks team battered from three hard rounds edges out Tampa in the first seven game Stanley Cup Final we’ve seen since 2011. I can’t help but envision a tired, old Joe Thornton hanging his body over the Stanley Cup having finally done it. I’ve never rooted for a California team in anything, but I’d like to continue the trend of first-time Cup winning teams, please! As we said: when the Buffalo Sabres aren’t in it we’re just cheering for a bunch of malarkey come the postseason, aren’t we? It’s just too fun to watch, eh? Well those are my picks and I am prepared to be grilled for them. I know they’re not going to be perfect and I’m at peace with that.

This is technically the first post of the new, New Look Sabres Season. With the Sabres failing to clinch a postseason berth in spectacular fashion there is nothing I’ll be writing about on this blog until… June? Yeah June probably. This is my offseason I guess: just sitting back and watching the real season. If the Sabres announce a new coach before someone raises the silver chalice I may write about it but don’t hold your breath. I think we are all on the same page that whoever is hired as the next coach will need to see an offseason that builds a newer, better version of the Sabres before we’re excited again. I know I feel that way and I’m the optimist. Like, comment and share this blog. If you want a more intensive exploration of the past season than the Season Retrospective went up before this post on the blog and it’s a real long piece of work by New Look Sabres standards. I’ll be reading some of the postgame posts myself, I am going to miss the Sabres and now I have something additional for reflection beyond highlight videos. Nice. Until the Sabres bring us together again: Let’s Go Buffalo! 

Thanks for reading.

P.S. Sign Jeff Skinner. Sign Jeff Skinner. Sign Jeff Skinner. Sign Jeff Skinner. Sign Jeff Skinner.

[jlkdesign-blog1]

BIRTHDAY SURPRISE! It’s sayings that you say, written on signs, on your lawn. SURPRISE!

[restoreamericanglory]

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University Plans to Use Hockey Pucks to Fend Off Mass Shooters

The idea of arming teachers or other school personnel is apparently a non-starter in many public school districts around the country; liberal academic officials and politicians are determined to find a way to make schools safer without sacrificing those ever-so-important “no weapons on campus” policies that have done so much to protect us in the past.

Well, according to NPR, at least one school believes they’ve found the perfect compromise. If a mass shooter descends on their classrooms with an AR-15 in his hands, they’ll be ready with…hockey pucks!

From NPR:

Hockey pucks: They’re small, heavy and — one Michigan college thinks — might be the perfect weapon against an active shooter on campus.

Oakland University, a public school located in Rochester Hills, near Detroit, is distributing thousands of 94-cent hockey pucks for just that reason.

The distribution, which began earlier this month, stemmed from a March faculty active-shooter training session following February’s shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school that left 17 dead.

A participant at the training asked the Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon what items people could use to defend themselves on the campus, which has a no-weapons policy, the Detroit Free Press reports.

A hockey puck was a “spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it and it kind of caught on,” Gordon said.

The faculty union followed up on the idea, purchasing 2,500 hockey pucks: 800 for union members and 1,700 for students, the Free Press reports.

The university’s police chief acknowledged that it wasn’t necessarily a weapon of first resort. He told the Free Press that the hockey puck, or any other means of fighting back, should only be “an absolute last strategy.”

We have strong sympathies for any student whose life comes down to their ability to knock out a mass shooter with a hockey puck, but we suppose it’s better than nothing. Unfortunately, this idea is a sign of just how un-seriously school officials are taking this problem and how much faith they still have in gun-free zones and other malarkey that only attracts the very tragedies they’re trying to prevent.

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Poker Tournaments Detroit

Get All the Poker Tournament Action You’re Craving for at These Three Awesome Detroit Venues

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Best Detroit MI Poker Tourneys

You don’t have to go far to find a poker tournament to join in Detroit. There are a lot of great casinos and bars that host daily live games and tournaments in the area. Below are three great options to start with:

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Ciccarelli’s 22 Sports Bar

Voted the best spot of its kind in the Metro Detroit area, Ciccarelli’s has everything one could ever want (and so much more) in a sports bar. The venue not only broadcasts the most exciting sporting events, it also serves topnotch food and drinks, invites the hottest live music acts to perform and hosts the best dance parties around.

Ciccarelli’s also has a great function room (called the Hall of Fame Banquet Room) that you could rent for all sorts of parties and events. It features a private bar, a 12-foot HD projection screen, a host of HD TVs all around the room and a VIP gaming lounge that houses a multitude of exciting gaming options like foosball, darts, air hockey and even a shooting gallery.

Now, as for poker, Ciccarelli’s hosts all its live games and tournaments at its Charity Poker Room. The venue offers ½ cash games throughout the day every day – except Thursdays which are reserved for Omaha. The buy-ins for live games typically fall anywhere between $50 and $200. Tournaments, on the other hand, are held twice daily: one at 2 pm and another one at 8:30 pm. The buy-in for these events is $40.

To learn more about Ciccarelli’s 22 Sports Bar, visit the venue’s official website here.

Caesar’s Windsor

If you’ve been a poker fan for a while now, you’ve probably already heard of Caesar’s. After all, regularly hosts high-profile events like the world-famous World Series of Poker. Well, it has a branch in Detroit and it has everything you could ever need to have a truly great time. First-class dining options? Check. Exciting nightlife? Check. Near limitless gaming options? Check.

Of course, there’s poker too. You’ll find Caesar’s 14-table poker room on the casino’s second floor. It hosts live games like Texas Holdem, Seven-card Stud and Omaha and is open daily from 10 am to 6 am from Tuesdays to Thursdays. Twenty four-hour operations start every Friday at 10 am and end every Tuesday at 6 am. Poker tournaments are held at 8:15 pm from Mondays through Thursdays and at 6:15 pm on Fridays.

If you wish to know more about Caesar’s Windsor’s poker room, click here.

Malarkey’s Irish Sports Pub Westland

Just like the first venue on our list, Malarkey’s is also known for serving up great food and drinks and broadcasting the hottest sporting events, on top of hosting live poker games and tournaments.

Player satisfaction is the name of the game at Malarkey’s poker room. You’ll surely have a mighty fine time while playing, regardless of your skill level, thanks to the venue’s highly capable and extremely helpful dealers and floor managers and state-of-the-art auto-shufflers, chips and chairs. There are also great daily deals on food and drinks for all poker players in case you need a little more convincing.

Check out Malarkey’s complete live poker game and tournament schedule here.

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While not physically based in Detroit (and not really a casino with a poker room), SafeClub’s real money poker games are accessible by people from practically any state, provided they have access to a computer or smart mobile device.

Yes, SafeClub is a poker website – but it doesn’t really work like a traditional one.

We’re more like Escrow

SafeClub does not charge its players any split pots or percentages. This means that you get to take home every single cent you win.

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Because we don’t really work like a traditional poker website or house, we don’t need to cheat. In fact, we even implement several security measures to keep you safe while you play:

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Firewall to keep other people (including our team) from taking a peek at your cards, so you can strategize without fear of being discovered before you make your move

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Aside from free poker tips, we also have several un-lockable poker tools that can help you take your game to a whole new level. Simply put, the more games you play, the more tools you can get access to.

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Poker Tournaments Detroit

Get All the Poker Tournament Action You’re Craving for at These Three Awesome Detroit Venues

Best Detroit MI Poker Tourneys

You don’t have to go far to find a poker tournament to join in Detroit. There are a lot of great casinos and bars that host daily live games and tournaments in the area. Below are three great options to start with:

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With a Safeclub Membership

Join Now - FREE!*

*limited time only

Ciccarelli’s 22 Sports Bar

Voted the best spot of its kind in the Metro Detroit area, Ciccarelli’s has everything one could ever want (and so much more) in a sports bar. The venue not only broadcasts the most exciting sporting events, it also serves topnotch food and drinks, invites the hottest live music acts to perform and hosts the best dance parties around.

Ciccarelli’s also has a great function room (called the Hall of Fame Banquet Room) that you could rent for all sorts of parties and events. It features a private bar, a 12-foot HD projection screen, a host of HD TVs all around the room and a VIP gaming lounge that houses a multitude of exciting gaming options like foosball, darts, air hockey and even a shooting gallery.

Now, as for poker, Ciccarelli’s hosts all its live games and tournaments at its Charity Poker Room. The venue offers ½ cash games throughout the day every day – except Thursdays which are reserved for Omaha. The buy-ins for live games typically fall anywhere between $50 and $200. Tournaments, on the other hand, are held twice daily: one at 2 pm and another one at 8:30 pm. The buy-in for these events is $40.

To learn more about Ciccarelli’s 22 Sports Bar, visit the venue’s official website here.

Caesar’s Windsor

If you’ve been a poker fan for a while now, you’ve probably already heard of Caesar’s. After all, regularly hosts high-profile events like the world-famous World Series of Poker. Well, it has a branch in Detroit and it has everything you could ever need to have a truly great time. First-class dining options? Check. Exciting nightlife? Check. Near limitless gaming options? Check.

Of course, there’s poker too. You’ll find Caesar’s 14-table poker room on the casino’s second floor. It hosts live games like Texas Holdem, Seven-card Stud and Omaha and is open daily from 10 am to 6 am from Tuesdays to Thursdays. Twenty four-hour operations start every Friday at 10 am and end every Tuesday at 6 am. Poker tournaments are held at 8:15 pm from Mondays through Thursdays and at 6:15 pm on Fridays.

If you wish to know more about Caesar’s Windsor’s poker room, click here.

Malarkey’s Irish Sports Pub Westland

Just like the first venue on our list, Malarkey’s is also known for serving up great food and drinks and broadcasting the hottest sporting events, on top of hosting live poker games and tournaments.

Player satisfaction is the name of the game at Malarkey’s poker room. You’ll surely have a mighty fine time while playing, regardless of your skill level, thanks to the venue’s highly capable and extremely helpful dealers and floor managers and state-of-the-art auto-shufflers, chips and chairs. There are also great daily deals on food and drinks for all poker players in case you need a little more convincing.

Check out Malarkey’s complete live poker game and tournament schedule here.

Bonus: SafeClub

While not physically based in Detroit (and not really a casino with a poker room), SafeClub’s real money poker games are accessible by people from practically any state, provided they have access to a computer or smart mobile device.

Yes, SafeClub is a poker website – but it doesn’t really work like a traditional one.

We’re more like Escrow

SafeClub does not charge its players any split pots or percentages. This means that you get to take home every single cent you win.

We’ll never cheat

Because we don’t really work like a traditional poker website or house, we don’t need to cheat. In fact, we even implement several security measures to keep you safe while you play:

Proprietary SafeSight Firewall to keep other people (including our team) from taking a peek at your cards, so you can strategize without fear of being discovered before you make your move

Banning of all SafeClub employees from participating in any game

Human-like card-dealing algorithm to ensure that you get truly random cards every single time

We’ll even help YOU win

Aside from free poker tips, we also have several un-lockable poker tools that can help you take your game to a whole new level. Simply put, the more games you play, the more tools you can get access to.

Interested? Sign up for an account today and experience SafeClub for yourself!

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Inside the Vegas Golden Knights’ first victory: social media

LAS VEGAS – At some point in the last several years, it apparently became mandatory that every NHL team social media feed had to range from somewhat cheeky to outright snarky.

We can probably trace this back to the Los Angeles Kings in 2012, when Dewayne Hankins and Pat Donahue not only created a sarcastic online presence for a team that still uses Eric Cartman to hype the crowd, but also had hilarious parries with opposing fans on Twitter. “They chirp us. We tweet back. And then they tell us how much they love us,” Hankins said at the time. “They think it’s the Kings talking to them.”

The Columbus Blue Jackets followed in that tradition, and now every team seems to have its moments of self-aware comedy that were previously reserved for fan blogs and message boards. Now, they’re used to bring more fans to the teams, creating a different voice than they one they might hear in other marketing.

For the Vegas Golden Knights, their voice on social media is one of the first being heard by fans, not only in Las Vegas but around the League.

If their expansion draft tweeting is any indication … well, they’re certainly having fun out here.

Give us your tired, your poor….and a top 4 defenseman????

Expansion lists will be released in 45 minutes! pic.twitter.com/iQnMFFN3w6

— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) June 18, 2017

What the Knights decided to do in the last week: Create buzz for the expansion draft by tweeting the unprotected player lists from all 30 teams, and then asking followers which player they should select from each team.

????Here come the 'Hawks, the mighty @NHLBlackhawks, take the…????you tell us? #VegasDraft pic.twitter.com/pzjl7uepvo

— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) June 18, 2017

.@EdmontonOilers fans haven't been shy about tweeting us for 10 months with who we should take, so we ask again(ducks for cover) #VegasDraft pic.twitter.com/kDcV1bALJA

— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) June 18, 2017

In the process, the Knights opened up the conversation to their fans, the fans of the “exposed” team’s players and every other interested observer in the NHL. The bit went viral, and was so successful that the NHL decided to rip it … er, borrow the concept for itself.

Of course, it helps when others play along. Like when Roberto Luongo responded to the Florida Panthers’ list:

Hmmmmmmm such a tough choice man………. pic.twitter.com/52cB2g2jAa

— Strombone (@strombone1) June 19, 2017

And then Eddie Lack responded to that:

I would pick youuuuuuuuuuuu❤️????

— Eddie Lack???????? (@eddielack) June 19, 2017

We're glad our tweets could reignite The Bromance???? https://t.co/kTbnhWgPWm

— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) June 19, 2017

The Golden Knights reached out to social influencers like Steve Dangle of Sportsnet:

We think @Steve_Dangle will probably make a video after we pick a @MapleLeafs player. Who will he yell into the camera about? #VegasDraft pic.twitter.com/9wT1aOwOXY

— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) June 20, 2017

They helped write punchlines:

"lots of pizza" is an unlisted option fyi

— ColumbusBlueJackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) June 18, 2017

And made corny jokes that got called out by other teams:

we waited all this time for that chirp? pic.twitter.com/mGA80NOdpr

— Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) June 20, 2017

So who’s behind this malarkey?

Eric Tosi, the team’s vice president for communications and content, oversees their digital stategy but it’s Dan Marrazza “doing the work on the front lines” on Twitter and Alyssa Girardi creating the graphics, according to Tosi.

Marrazza previously worked for the NHL and NBC on the digital side, along with freelance work with several NHL teams. Girardi was previously on the communications staff of USA Hockey. Tosi was director of communications and content for the Boston Bruins for 10 years before heading to Vegas. (Yes, one of the minds behind all that “Bruins Bear” content is now helping the Golden Knights get attention.)

“I oversee it and lead the overall planning across our channels,” said Tosi. “Dan monitors the chatter and comes up with the majority of the ideas, we talk through them to make sure we are comfortable and he’ll send. He has been outstanding.”

Tosi said the team was assembled in May. That includes Gary Lawless, former columnist for the Winnipeg Free-Press and TSN, who was brought on to do in-house media for the Golden Knights. The team also brought on a videographer who was working with the New York Rangers, and they’ve been sending out reports and updates during the week:

Today was another busy day for us. Reminder that #VGKFirstJersey will be unveiled at an open event at the Las Vegas sign tomorrow at 5:30. pic.twitter.com/JOxpiqTgG3

— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) June 20, 2017

(My favorite thing so far in Vegas, regarding the Golden Knights, was Lawless yelling at me in a commercial on taxi cab TV, telling me to buy tickets for the NHL Awards with the subtly of a Paul Heyman promo.)

Tosi said the team expects to make a splash in Instagram this week, particularly during the expansion draft and jersey reveals around the NHL Awards.

Despite the work other NHL teams have done on digital media, this is still uncharted territory for the Vegas Golden Knights.

“We’re the first expansion team in the social media era,” said Tosi.

There’s a considerable hill to climb, to that end. The Knights have 119,000 followers on Twitter. Consider that the Arizona Coyotes have 293,000. On Facebook, the Knights just crossed 90,000 followers; the Coyotes, again for comparison’s sake, have over 300,000.

But for a team that doesn’t even have a full roster of players yet, the early results are impressive.

“It’s a team effort over here, and have planned a bunch of content ideas for a while. Excited to now be able to execute on them,” said Tosi.

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Greg Wyshynski is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or find him on Twitter. His book, TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE PUCK, is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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