#mark macewen

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Broad-snouted caiman baby in mother mouth being carried from the nest, Sante Fe, Argentina, 2013 - by Mark MacEwen, English

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Broad-snouted caiman in Argentina

MARK MACEWEN / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY

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Broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) baby in mothers mouth being carried from nest, Sante Fe, Argentina, February

photo: Mark MacEwen

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No rush on this, but i love your blog and the sweet terms you use to address askers! Humbly requesting a few crocodilians for my Lyle, Lyle Crocodile-loving heart 💜

Aw, thank you my little lemondrop. Today, I have some of my favorite crocodilians for you... the caimans!

Yacare Caiman aka Southern Spectacled Caiman (Caiman yacare), family Alligatoridae, Brazil

photograph by thejack

Black Caiman (Melanosuchus niger), family Alligatoridae, Rupununi River, SW Guyana

photograph by David Stanley

Broad-snouted Caiman (Caiman latirostris), mother carrying baby from nest to nearby water, family Alligatoridae, Santa Fe, Argentina

photograph by Mark Macewen

Broad-snouted Caimans (Caiman latirostris), family Alligatoridae, found in eastern and central South America

photographs by Dennis Jarvis and Tim Sagorski

Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus), family Alligatoridae, Brazil

photograph by MikeLane45

Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus), family Alligatoridae, found in much of northern and central South America

photograph by Wrangel

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Books read and movies watched in 2023 (July to December):

Bolded verdicts (Yes!/Yes/Eh/No/NO) are links to more in-depth reviews! Should you watch/read them?

Books (fiction):

The Starless Sea (Erin Morgenstern): No

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina (Zoraida Córdova): Yes

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley): No

The Association of Small Bombs (Karan Mahajan): No

Pond (Claire-Louise Bennett): NO

Heaven (Mieko Kawakami): No

The Verifiers (Jane Pek): No

The Old Capital (Yasunari Kawabata): No

Falling Man (Don DeLillo): No

A Free Life (Ha Jin): Yes

People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks): No

The Spectacular (Fiona Davis): No

Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro): Yes

Children of the Jacaranda Tree (Sahar Delijani): No

This Place: 150 Years Retold (anthology): Yes

Books (nonfiction):

The Forgetting River (Doreen Carvajal): Eh

Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II (Lena S. Andrews): Yes

Mozart's Starling (Lyanda Lynn Haupt): Yes

Poetic Form & Poetic Meter (Paul Fussell): No

Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (David Mason & John Frederick Nims): No

A Poetry Handbook (Mary Oliver): Yes

We Should Not Be Friends (Will Schwalbe): No

Seen from All Sides (Sydney Lea): No

Books (poetry):

Afterworlds (Gwendolyn MacEwen): Eh

Sailing Alone Around the Room (Billy Collins): Yes

Be With (Forrest Gander): No

Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (William Carlos Williams): Yes

Horoscopes For the Dead (Billy Collins): No

The Wild Iris (Louise Gluck): Eh

Moon Crossing Bridge (Tess Gallagher): Yes

Who Shall Know Them? (Faye Kicknosway): Yes

Great Blue (Brendan Galvin): No

Collected Poems (Basil Bunting): Eh

Paterson (William Carlos Williams): No

Selected Poems (Donald Justice): No

Dear Ghosts, (Tess Gallagher): No

The Death of Sitting Bear (N. Scott Momaday): No

Evidence (Mary Oliver): No

What Have I Ever Lost by Dying? (Robert Bly): Yes

Blessing the Boats (Lucille Clifton): Yes

Source (Mark Doty): No

Tell Me (Kim Addonizio): Eh

Zoo (Ogden Nash): No

Alive Together: New and Selected Poems (Lisel Mueller): No

“A” (Louis Zukovsky): NO

Flying at Night (Ted Kooser): Yes

The Man in the Black Coat Turns (Robert Bly): Yes

This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years (Robert Bly): No

Nine Horses (Billy Collins): Yes

Arabian Love Poems (Nizar Kabbani): Yes

Delights & Shadows (Ted Kooser): Yes

This Great Unknowing (Denise Levertov): Yes

Young of the Year (Sydney Lea): No

Pursuit of a Wound (Sydney Lea): No

The Life Around Us (Denise Levertov): No

Red List Blue (Lizzy Fox): No

It Seems Like A Mighty Long Time (Angela Jackson): No

Some Ether (Nick Flynn): Yes

Divide These (Saskia Hamilton): No

The Simple Truth (Philip Levine): No

Saving Daylight (Jim Harrison): Eh

Midnight Salvage (Adrienne Rich): No

The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems (Billy Collins): Eh

My Brother Running (Wesley McNair): Eh

Whale Day (Billy Collins): Eh

Talking Dirty to the Gods (Yusek Komunyakaa): No

A New Selected Poems (Galway Kinnell): No

The Dolphin (Robert Lowell): No

Star Route (George Longenecker): No

Brute (Emily Skaja): Eh

No Witnesses (Paul Monette): Yes!

Blood, Tin, Straw (Sharon Olds): No

Town Life (Jay Parini): No

Dead Men's Praise (Jacqueline Osherow): No

Stag's Leap (Sharon Olds): No

Sleeping with the Dictionary (Harryette Mullen): No

Looking for the Parade (Joan Murray): No

Sparrow (Carol Muske-Dukes): Yes

You can't Get There from Here (Ogden Nash): No

Carver: a Life in Poems (Marilyn Nelson): Yes

The House of Blue Light (David Kirby): No

Ariel (Sylvia Plath): No

Caribou (Charles Wright): No

The Collected Verse of Theodore Roethke: No

Letters from Maine (Mary Sarton): No

Diasporic (Patty Seyburn): Eh

The Five Stages of Grief (Linda Pastan): Yes!

Not One Man’s Work (Leland Kinsey): Yes

Wise Poison (David Rivard): Yes

The Continuous Life (Mark Strand): Eh

On the Bus with Rosa Parks (Rita Dove): Yes

Fuel (Naomi Shihab Nye): Yes

Ludie’s Life (Cyntha Rylant): Yes

Wise Poison (David Rivard): Yes

My Name on His Tongue (Laila Halaby): Yes

Messenger (Ellen Bryant Voigt): Yes!

Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems (Mahmoud Darwish): Eh

The Collected Poetry of James Wright: No

The Unlovely Child (Norman Williams): No

The New Young American Poets (anthology, 2000): Yes

The Black Maria (Aracelis Girmay): Yes!

Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Ocean Vuong): Yes!

Thoughts of Her. (Casey Conte): NO

Standing Female Nude (Carol Ann Duffy): Yes!

The Tradition (Jericho Brown): Yes

Girls That Never Die (Safia Elhillo): No

Repair (C. K. Williams): No

The Big Smoke (Adrian Matejka): Yes

American Wake (Kerrin McCadden): Eh

Collected Poems (Jane Kenyon): No

E-mails from Scheherazad (Mohja Kahf): Yes!

I Had a Brother Once (Adam Mansbach): No

Holding Company (Major Jackson): No

Hunting Down the Monk (Adrie Kusserow): No

Happy Life (David Budbill): No

Prelude to Bruise (Saeed Jones): No

Wade in the Water (Tracy K. Smith): Eh

Penury (Myung Me Kim): Yes!

Commons (Myung Mi Kim): Yes!

The Final Voicemails (Max Ritvo): No

Pieces of Air in the Epic (Brenda Hillman): No

Gone (Fanny Howe): No

A Vermonter's Heritage: Listening to the Trees (Rick Bessette): No!

Roget's Illusion (Linda Bierds): No

First Hand (Linda Bierds): No

The Other Side (Julia Alvarez): No

Pig Dreams: Scenes from the life of Sylvia (Denise Levertov): Yes

Movies:

Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov): Yes

My Tender and Affectionate Beast (A Hunting Accident) [1978, Emil Loteanu]: No

Fate of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk): Eh

Ordinary Fascism (aka Triumph Over Violence) (1965, Mikhail Romm): Yes

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985, Gerald Bezhanov): Yes

Gals/The Girls (1961, Boris Bednyj): Yes

Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa): Yes

Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa): No

Viy (1967, Konstantin Yershov/Georgi Kropachyov): No

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein): Yes

Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini): Yes!

Charade (1963, Stanley Donen): No

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa): Yes!

Barton Fink (1991, Coen Brothers): No

Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967, Leonid Gaidai): No

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974, Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi): Yes

By the White Sea (2022, Aleksandr Zachinyayev): Yes

Ivan’s Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky): Yes!

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed): Yes!

The Kitchen in Paris (2014, Dmitriy Dyachenko): No

Optimistic Tragedy (1963, Samson Samsonov): Eh

White Moss (2014, Vladimir Tumayev): Yes

Oppenheimer (2023, Christopher Nolan): Yes!

Scarlet Sails (1961, Alexandr Ptushko): Yes

We'll Live Till Monday (1968, Stanislav Rostotsky): Yes

Vladivostok (2021, Anton Bormatov): No

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray): Yes

The Theme (1979, Gleb Panfilov): Yes

A Haunting in Venice (2023, Kenneth Branagh): Yes

Barbie (2023, Greta Gerwig): Yes

Is It Easy To Be Young? (1986, Juris Podnieks): Yes

Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick: Yes

Satyricon (1969, Federico Fellini): No

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog): Yes

Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog): No

The Illusionist (2006, Neil Burger): Yes

The Duchess (2008, Saul Dibb): Yes

Pride & Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright): Yes!

Emma (1996, Douglas McGrath): No

And here’s Part 1 of my 2023 list!

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Holy shit haha.

[Picture is of two tweets. The first is from T(w)itter Daily News, which reads:

News: Twitter has sued Watchell, the law firm that represented the company in the Delaware case that sought to force Elon to his complete his purchase. "Watchell exploited a corporate client left unprotected by lame duck fiduciaries," Twitter said in a statement.

The second tweet is a reply from Elon Musk, which reads:

Watchell brags about how many former Delaware judges work at their firm. They specialize in institutionalized corruption.]

Text of a paywalled Wall Street Journal article with the details under the cut.

Twitter Sues Wachtell Over $90 Million Payout for Musk’s Buyout Deal

Company alleges it was left unprotected by ‘lame duck’ fiduciaries pending sale to Musk

By Alexa Corse

Updated July 7, 2023 7:28 pm ET

Twitter sued Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the law firm it hired under previous management to enforce Elon Musk’s agreement to acquire the company, accusing it of improperly obtaining a $90 million payout as the deal-closing loomed.

Twitter alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday in California Superior Court in San Francisco that Wachtell and its litigation department, led by William Savitt, were at the center of a spending spree by Twitter’s departing executives. Twitter is asking for full restitution of the $90 million paid to Wachtell. Twitter says in the complaint that the amount includes an unspecified “success fee” that it describes as extraordinary and unconscionable.

Savitt, an attorney for Wachtell in the Twitter case, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Musk completed his takeover in October in a deal valued at $44 billion. Twitter is accusing Wachtell of an 11th-hour adjustment to its fee structure the day of the closing, despite directions from the new ownership to suspend payment to third parties ahead of the imminent merger.

“Fully aware that nobody with an economic interest in Twitter’s financial well-being was minding the store, Wachtell arranged to effectively line its pockets with funds from the company cash register while the keys were being handed over to the Musk parties,” Twitter says in the complaint.

Twitter’s board signed off on the payment with Wachtell the day the deal closed, according to the complaint. Bret Taylor, chairman of Twitter’s board of directors at the time, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Wachtell spent months defending Twitter’s interests after Musk said he was walking away from the deal. Ultimately, Musk decided to complete his takeover, shortly before a trial scheduled in Delaware, in which a judge would have determined whether he could abandon the acquisition.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads launched to compete with Elon Musk’s Twitter. And as WSJ’s Dan Gallagher explains how successful Threads is may come down to timing and scale. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Bruce MacEwen, a legal consultant, said a $90 million payment didn’t seem like a lot given that the acquisition deal was valued at $44 billion. “This does not strike me as out of line,” said MacEwen, president of consulting firm Adam Smith, Esq.

If Wachtell was instrumental in getting Twitter the $44 billion price after Musk tried to get out of the deal, he said, that provided value. “Did old Twitter get its money’s worth or what?” he said.

A $90 million payment isn’t unusual for such a consequential case, said law-firm consultant Kent Zimmermann from Zeughauser Group. “I’d be surprised if Wachtell was faulted for the amount they charged, considering the stakes and the outcome,” he said.

Wachtell is known to be a leading law firm for cases like the Twitter one, he added. “There’s a limited supply of firms like Wachtell and a lot of demand for them, which drives the price up,” he said.

The suit also names Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s chief legal officer at the time. “Immediately following the Twitter board’s rubber-stamp approval, Gadde signed Wachtell’s letter agreement,” the complaint says. Gadde didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Twitter headquarters in downtown San Francisco. Elon Musk completed his takeover of Twitter last October in a deal valued at $44 billion.

Twitter filed the complaint under the corporate name X Corp., which the company adopted after Musk took over. Twitter is being represented by Reid Collins & Tsai in the suit filed this week, the complaint shows.

The complaint includes attachments of emails and memos regarding Wachtell’s representation of Twitter. In one memo by Wachtell that Twitter included as part of the filing, the firm said its fees in other comparable litigation had ranged from approximately $33 million to $134 million.

Musk first agreed to buy Twitter in April 2022 for $44 billion, then threatened to walk away from the deal, before reversing course several months later and committing to see through the acquisition.

Musk’s decision to go through with the deal averted a high-stakes trial in Delaware Chancery Court. Twitter initially sued Musk in Delaware, seeking to enforce the terms of the merger agreement, and Musk later countersued, accusing Twitter of misrepresenting its business.

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2023-24 Players Currently on Rosters

Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown: Ross Johnston (Anaheim) & Zack MacEwen (Ottawa)

Newfoundland

Carbonear: Dawson Mercer (New Jersey)

St. John's: Alex Newhook (Montreal)

Nova Scotia

Halifax: Morgan Barron (Winnipeg), Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh), Alex Killorn (Anaheim), Nathan MacKinnon (Colorado) & Liam O'Brien (Arizona)

Halifax Municipality: Brad Marchand (Boston)

Yarmouth: Ryan Graves (Pittsburgh)

New Brunswick

Fredericton: Jake Allen (New Jersey)

Moncton: Calvin Pickard (Edmonton)

Saint-François: Bradly Nadeau (Carolina)

Quebec

Amos: Nicolas Roy (Vegas)

Beaconsfield: Marshall Rifai (Toronto)

Bécancour: Sam Montembeault (Montreal)

Bromont: Fréddy Gaudreau (Minnesota)

Chambly: Mathieu Joseph (Ottawa) & Raphaël Lavoie (Edmonton)

Châteauguay: Sam Laberge (New Jersey)

Kirkland: Joe Veleno (Detroit)

Laval: Simon Benoit (Toronto), Samuel Bolduc (New York Islanders), Vincent Desharnais (Edmonton) & Pierre-Olivier Joseph (Pittsburgh)

L'Islet: Xavier Bourgault (Edmonton)

Longueuil: Max Comtois (Carolina) & Anthony Mantha-Pronovost (Vegas)

Montmagny: Sammy Blais (St. Louis)

Mont-Saint-Hilaire: Louis Boileau-Domingue (New York Rangers)

Montreal: William Carrier (Vegas), Nicolas Deslauriers (Philadelphia), Julien Gauthier (New York Islanders), Kris Letang (Pittsburgh), Marco Scandella (St. Louis) & Marc-Édouard Vlasic (San José)

Notre-Dame-Des-Prairies: Anthony-John Greer (Calgary)

Pointe-Claire: Anthony Duclair (Tampa Bay) & Mike Matheson (Montreal)

Quebec: Alexandre Carrier (Nashville), Max Lajoie (Toronto), Kurtis MacDermid (New Jersey) & Jonathan Marchessault (Vegas)

Roberval: Sam Girard (Colorado)

Saguenay: Rafaël Harvey-Pinard (Montreal) & Olivier Rodrigue (Edmonton)

Saint-Eustache: Alex Lafrenière (New York Rangers)

Saint-Hyacinthe: David Savard (Montreal)

Saint-Jérôme: Jonathan Huberdeau (Calgary)

Saint-Narcisse-De-Beaurivage: Yanni Gourde (Seattle)

Sainte-Agathe-Des-Monts: Jonathan Drouin (Colorado) & Pierre-Luc Dubois (Los Angeles)

Sainte-Marie: Thomas Chabot (Ottawa)

Sherbrooke: David Perron (Detroit)

Sorel-Tracy: Anthony Beauvillier (Nashville) & Marc-André Fleury (Minnesota)

Val-d'Or: Jérémy Lauzon (Nashville)

Victoriaville: Phillip Danault (Los Angeles) & Tristan Luneau (Anaheim)

Ontario

Ajax: Michael Carcone (Arizona), Connor McMichael (Washington) & Matt Poitras (Boston)

Aurora: Morgan Frost (Philadelphia) & Robert Thomas (St. Louis)

Barrie: Brent Burns (Carolina)

Belleville: Brian Cousins (Florida)

Bowmanville: Declan Chisholm (Minnesota) & Evan Cormier (Florida)

Brampton: Sean Monahan (Winnipeg), Tyler Seguin (Dallas) & Scott Wedgewood (Dallas)

Brantford: Adam Henrique (Edmonton)

Burlington: Josh Anderson (Montreal)

Caledon: Andrew Mangiapane (Calgary), Darren Raddysh (Tampa Bay) & Taylor Raddysh (Chicago)

Center Wellington Township: Brock McGinn (Anaheim)

Central Huron: Ryan O'Reilly (Nashville)

Chatham-Kent: T.J. Brodie (Tampa Bay)

Dorchester: Boone Jenner (Columbus)

Dysart Et Al: Matt Duchene (Dallas)

East Gwillimbury: Sam Bennett (Florida)

Georgina: Joel Hanley (Calgary), Chris Tierney (New Jersey) & Sean Walker (Colorado)

Guelph: Logan Couture (San José)

Haldimand County: Cam Talbot (Los Angeles)

Halton Hills: Jason Dickinson (Chicago) & MacKenzie Entwistle (Chicago)

Hamilton: Quinton Byfield (Los Angeles), Ben Chiarot (Detroit), Mark Jankowski (Nashville), Johnathan Kovacevic (Montreal), Darnell Nurse (Edmonton), Arber Xhekaj; Jr. (Montreal) & Carter Verhaeghe (Florida)

Hearst: Claude Giroux (Ottawa)

Kingston: Tye Kartye (Seattle) & Gabe Vilardi (Winnipeg)

King Township: Adam Fantilli (Columbus) & Alex Pietrangelo (Vegas)

Kitchener: Nathan Bastian (New Jersey), Nic Hague (Vegas), Mike Hoffman (San José), Steven Lorentz (Florida), Tanner Pearson (Montreal), Mark Scheifele (Winnipeg) & Logan Stanley (Winnipeg)

London: Josh Brown (Arizona), Jacob Bryson (Buffalo), Dylan DeMelo (Winnipeg), Drew Doughty (Los Angeles), Sam Gagner (Edmonton), Bo Horvat (New York Islanders), Nazem Kadri (Calgary), Travis Konecny (Philadelphia), Nick Suzuki (Montreal) & Ryan Suzuki (Carolina)

Markham: Warren Foegele (Edmonton), Mitch Marner (Toronto), Jeff Skinner (Buffalo) & Steven Stamkos (Tampa Bay)

Milton: Michael Sgarbossa (Washington)

Mississauga: Vince Dunn (Seattle), Sean Durzi (Arizona), Robby Fabbri (Detroit), Ryan McLeod (Edmonton), Nick Paul (Tampa Bay), Owen Power (Buffalo), Dylan Strome (Washington), Ryan Strome (Anaheim) & John Tavares (Toronto)

Newmarket: Travis Dermott (Arizona)

New Tecumseh: Tyson Foerster (Philadelphia)

North Bay: Ken Appleby (New York Islanders)

North Dumfries Township: Kyle Clifford (Toronto)

Oakville: Evan Bouchard (Edmonton), Scott Laughton (Philadelphia), Spencer Martin (Carolina) & Michael Vukojevic (New Jersey)

Oshawa: Justin Danforth (Columbus)

Ottawa: Cody Ceci (Edmonton), Calvin De Haan (Tampa Bay), Erik Gudbranson (Columbus), Jean-Gabriel Pageau (New York Islanders) & MacKenzie Weegar (Calgary)

Peterborough: Barrett Hayton (Arizona) & Owen Tippett (Philadelphia)

Prescott: Ben Hutton (Vegas)

Richmond Hill: Jordan Binnington (St. Louis), Ryan Lomberg (Florida) & Connor McDavid (Edmonton)

Sault Ste. Marie: Michael Amadio (Vegas) & Colin Miller (Winnipeg)

Scugog: Ty Dellandrea (Dallas)

St. Catherines: Conor Timmins (Toronto)

Six Nations Of The Grand River: Brandon Montour (Florida)

Stratford: Jared McCann (Seattle)

Strathroy-Caradoc: Lawson Crouse (Arizona)

Sudbury: Tyler Bertuzzi (Toronto) & Brendan Gaunce (Columbus)

Tecumseh: Jack Studnicka (San José)

Temiskaming Shores: Justin Brazeau (Boston) & Corey Perry (Edmonton)

Thunder Bay: Mackenzie Blackwood (San José), Robert Bortuzzo (New York Islanders), Matt Murray (Toronto), Jordan Staal (Carolina), Marc Staal (Philadelphia) & Tyler Tucker (St. Louis)

Toronto: Connor Brown (Edmonton), Michael Bunting (Pittsburgh), Casey Cizikas (New York Islanders), Andrew Cogliano (Colorado), Will Cuylle (New York Rangers), Jamie Drysdale (Philadelphia), Luke Evangelista (Nashville), Jake Evans (Montreal), Mario Ferraro (San José) Jean-Luc Foudy (Colorado), Mark Friedman (Vancouver), Mark Giordano (Toronto), Barclay Goodrow (New York Rangers), Dougie Hamilton (New Jersey), Zach Hyman (Edmonton), Wyatt Johnston (Dallas), Jordan Kyrou (St. Louis), Jack McBain (Arizona), Jamie Oleksiak (Seattle), Adam Pelech (New York Islanders), Michael Pezzetta (Montreal), Evan Rodrigues (Florida), Brendan Smith (New Jersey), Givani Smith (San José), Reilly Smith (Pittsburgh), Brandon Tanev (Seattle), Chris Tanev (Dallas), Tyler Toffoli (Winnipeg), Jake Walman (Detroit) & Tom Wilson (Washington)

Uxbridge Township: Mason Marchment (Dallas)

Vaughan: Andrew Agozzino (Anaheim), Andreas Athanasiou (Chicago), Anthony Cirelli (Tampa Bay) & Phil Di Giuseppe (Vancouver)

Welland: Cal Clutterbuck (New York Islanders)

Whitby: Jonah Gadjovich (Florida) & Cole Perfetti (Winnipeg)

Whitchurch-Stoufville: Sam Carrick (Edmonton) & Trevor Carrick (Anaheim)

Whitewater Region Township: Jack Quinn (Buffalo)

Windsor: Michael DiPietro (Boston), Aaron Ekblad (Florida) Cam Fowler (Anaheim) & Matt Martin (New York Islanders)

Manitoba

Arborg: James Reimer (Detroit)

Brandon: Calen Addison (San José), Joel Edmundson (Toronto), Keegan Kolesar (Vegas), Jordan Martinook (Carolina), Damon Severson (Columbus) & Zach Whitecloud (Vegas)

Dauphin: Ryan Pulock (New York Islanders)

De Salaberry Municipality: Travis Hamonic (Ottawa)

Springfield Municipality: Brett Howden (Vegas)

The Pas: Connor Dewar (Toronto)

Wallace-Woodworth Municipality: Travis Sanheim (Philadelphia)

Winnipeg: Nick Cicek (Vancouver), Max Domi (Toronto), Cody Glass (Nashville), Joel Hofer (St. Louis), Seth Jarvis (Carolina), Ryan Reaves (Toronto) & Mark Stone (Vegas)

Yellowhead Municipality: Morgan Geekie (Boston)

Saskatchewan

Carlyle: Haydn Fleury (Tampa Bay)

Davidson: Brayden McNabb (Vegas)

Estevan: Brayden Pachal (Calgary) & Derrick Pouliot (Dallas)

Melfort: Jaden Schwartz (Seattle)

Oxbox: Tanner Jeannot (Tampa Bay)

Prince Albert: Braden Schneider (New York Rangers)

Regina: Ethan Bear (Washington), Kale Clague (Buffalo), Mat Dumba (Tampa Bay), Jordan Eberle (Seattle) & Reese Johnson (Chicago)

Saskatoon: Brandon Hagel (Tampa Bay), Connor Ingram (Arizona), Kevin Korchinski (Chicago), Darcy Kuemper (Washington), Lane Pederson (Edmonton), Brayden Schenn (St. Louis), Luke Schenn (Nashville), Chandler Stephenson (Vegas) & Connor Zary (Calgary)

Yukon

Whitehorse: Dylan Cozens (Buffalo)

Alberta

Airdrie: Jake Neighbours (St. Louis)

Beaumont: Noah Gregor (Toronto)

Calgary: Jaret Anderson-Dolan (Nashville), Jake Bean (Columbus), Taylor Hall (Chicago), Dylan Holloway (Edmonton), Brett Leason (Anaheim), Cale Makar (Colorado), Josh Morrissey (Winnipeg), Brayden Point (Tampa Bay), Matt Rempe (New York Rangers), Logan Thompson (Vegas) & Olen Zellweger (Anaheim)

Camrose: Parker Kelly (Ottawa)

Canmore: Jacob Bernard-Docker (Ottawa)

Edmonton: Eric Comrie (Buffalo), Jake DeBrusk (Boston), Brendan Gallagher (Montreal), Dylan Guenther (Arizona), Keaton Middleton (Colorado), Stuart Skinner (Edmonton) & Jared Spurgeon (Minnesota)

Ft. Saskatchewan: Kirby Dach (Montreal)

Lethbridge: Ridly Greig (Ottawa)

Lloydminster: Mason Shaw (Minnesota)

Okotoks: Peyton Krebs (Buffalo)

Slave Lake: Nicolas Aubé-Kubel (Washington)

St. Albert: Matt Benning (San José) Mike Benning (Florida), Tyson Jost (Buffalo), Josh Mahura (Florida), Matt Murray (Dallas) & Colton Parayko (St. Louis)

Stony Plain: Brett Kulak (Edmonton)

Strathcona County: Kaiden Guhle (Montreal), Carter Hart (Philadelphia) & Sam Steel (Dallas)

Viking: Carson Soucy (Vancouver)

Wainwright: Bobby McMann (Toronto) & Jake Middleton (Minnesota)

British Columbia

Abbotsford: Noah Juulsen (Vancouver) & Devon Toews (Colorado)

Burnaby: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (Edmonton)

Chilliwack: Zach Benson (Buffalo)

Comox: Adin Hill (Vegas)

Coquitlam: Mathew Barzal (New York Islanders) & Dante Fabbro (Nashville)

Cranbrook: Bowen Byram (Buffalo) & Dryden Hunt (Calgary)

Delta: Beck Malenstyn (Washington)

Duncan: Dylan Coghlan (Carolina)

Golden: Dillon Dubé (Calgary)

Kamloops: Logan Stankoven (Dallas)

Kelowna: Justin Schultz (Seattle)

Langley: Dennis Cholowski (New York Islanders), Danton Heinen (Boston) & Shea Theodore (Vegas)

Maple Ridge: Brad Hunt (Colorado)

New Westminster: Kevin Bahl (New Jersey) & Brenden Dillon (Winnipeg)

North Vancouver: Connor Bedard (Chicago), Martin Jones (Toronto), Sam Reinhart (Florida) & Colton Sissons (Nashville)

Port Alberni: Laurent Brossoit (Winnipeg)

Port Moody: Kent Johnson (Columbus)

Richmond: Glenn Gawdin (Anaheim), Justin Sourdif (Florida) & Troy Stecher (Edmonton)

Salmon Arm: Curtis Lazar (New Jersey)

Surrey: Arshdeep Bains (Vancouver), Brenden Dillon (Winnipeg), Tristan Jarry (Pittsburgh), Parker Wotherspoon (Boston) & Tyler Wotherspoon (New Jersey)

Trail: Jake Lucchini (Minnesota)

Vancouver: Kyle Burroughs (San José) Ryan Johansen (Philadelphia), Evander Kane (Edmonton), Boris Katchouk (Ottawa), Alexander Kerfoot (Arizona), Milan Lučić (Boston), Michael Rasmussen (Detroit) & Morgan Rielly (Toronto)

Victoria: Tyson Barrie (Nashville), Jamie Benn (Dallas), Dylan Garand (New York Rangers) & Matt Irwin (Vancouver)

Maine

Biddeford: Brian Dumoulin (Seattle)

Yarmouth: Oliver Wahlstrom (New York Islanders)

New Hampshire

Manchester: Luke Hughes (New Jersey) & Michael Kesselring (Arizona)

Rochester: Casey DeSmith (Vancouver)

Massachusetts

Barnstable: Max Willman (New Jersey)

Boston: Matt Grzelcyk (Boston), Noah Hanifin (Vegas), Kevin Hayes (St. Louis), Connor Murphy (Chicago) & Jimmy Vesey (New York Rangers)

Boxford: Chris Kreider (New York Rangers)

Canton: Kevin Rooney (Calgary)

Chelmsford: Jack Eichel (Vegas)

East Longmeadow: Frank Vatrano (Anaheim)

Easton: John Marino (New Jersey)

Hanover: Colin White (Montreal)

Haverhill: Jordan Harris (Montreal)

Hingham: Matty Beniers (Seattle)

Lawrence: Colin Blackwell (Chicago)

Lincoln: Collin Graf (San José)

Millville: Matt Boldy (Minnesota)

Natick: John Carlson (Washington)

Needham: Chris Wagner (Colorado)

North Andover: Joel Daccord (Seattle) & Brian Pinho (New York Islanders)

Scituate: Ryan Donato (Chicago) & Conor Garland (Vancouver)

Southborough: Henry Thrun (San José)

Stoneham: Sam Colangelo (Anaheim)

Weymouth: Charlie Coyle (Boston)

Winchester: Conor Sheary (Tampa Bay)

Rhode Island

Johnston: Noel Acciari (Pittsburgh)

Connecticut

Darien: Spencer Knight (Florida)

Greenwich: Cam Atkinson (Philadelphia) & Phil Kemp (Edmonton)

Milford: Jonathan Quick (New York Rangers)

New Canaan: Max Pacioretty (Washington)

New Haven: Adam Erne (Edmonton)

Newtown: Matthew Samoskevich (Florida)

Stamford: Scott Morrow (Carolina)

New York

Amherst: Nick DeSimone (New Jersey)

Bedford: Trevor Zegras (Anaheim)

Brookhaven: Keith Kinkaid (New Jersey)

Buffalo: Justin Bailey (San José) Marcus Foligno (Minnesota), Nick Foligno (Chicago), Dennis Gilbert; Jr. (Calgary), Patrick Kane; Jr. (Detroit) & Miles Wood (Colorado)

Canton: Jordan Greenway (Buffalo)

Cicero: Joel Farabee (Philadelphia)

Eden: Alex Iafallo (Winnipeg)

Elmira: Johnny Beecher (Boston)

Greenburgh: Brett Pesce (Carolina)

Hempstead: Shane Pinto (Ottawa)

Long Beach: Charlie McAvoy; Jr. (Boston)

Massena: Zach Bogosian (Minnesota)

New Rochelle: Kevin Shattenkirk (Boston)

New York: Jack Drury (Carolina)

Oyster Bay: Adam Fox (New York Rangers), Frank Milano (Washington) & Tyce Thompson (New York Islanders)

Smithtown: Kyle Palmieri (New York Islanders)

Staten Island: Kevin Labanc (San José)

Syracuse: Thomas Harley (Dallas) & Alex Tuch (Buffalo)

Waywayanda: Nick Abruzzese (Toronto)

New Jersey

Bellmawr: Eric Robinson (Buffalo)

Chatham: Alex Laferriere (Los Angeles) & Drew O'Connor (Pittsburgh)

Edison Township: Anthony Stolarz (Florida)

Livingston Township: Kyle MacLean (New York Islanders)

Long Branch: Connor Clifton (Buffalo)

Mantua Township: Tony DeAngelo (Carolina)

Middletown Township: James Van Riemsdyk (Boston) & Trevor Van Riemsdyk (Washington)

Robbinsville Township: Ross Colton (Colorado)

Salem: Johnny Gaudreau (Columbus)

Southampton Township: Kyle Criscuolo (New Jersey)

Toms River Township: Cam Dineen (Edmonton)

Vorhees Township: Mattias Samuelsson (Buffalo)

Pennsylvania

Hollidaysburg: Sam Lafferty (Vancouver)

Pittsburgh: Logan Cooley (Arizona), John Gibson (Anaheim), Brandon Saad (St. Louis) & Vincent Trocheck (New York Rangers)

Maryland

Chevy Chase: Patrick Giles (Florida)

Virginia

Henrico County: Zac Jones (New York Rangers)

North Carolina

Raleigh: Logan Brown (Tampa Bay) & Nikolai Kovalenko (Colorado)

South Carolina

Hilton Head Island: Ryan Hartman (Minnesota)

Florida

Boca Raton: Jakob Chychrun (Ottawa)

Coral Springs: Brandon Duhaime (Colorado)

Lee County: Gavin Brindley (Columbus)

Naples: John Hathaway; Jr. (Philadelphia)

Orlando: Jack Hughes (New Jersey) & Quin Hughes (Vancouver)

Oviedo: Ryan Carpenter (San José)

Parkland: Andrew Peeke (Boston)

Pembroke Pines: Shayne Gostisbehere (Detroit)

Plantation: Jaycob Megna (Chicago)

Michigan

Ann Arbor: Ian Cole (Vancouver), Andrew Copp (Detroit), Jeff Petry (Detroit) & Austin Watson (Tampa Bay)

Bloomfield Hills: Will Lockwood (Florida)

Brandon Township: Ben Gleason (Edmonton)

Canton Charter Township: Paul Cotter (Vegas) & Matt Roy (Los Angeles)

Clinton Charter Township: Kyle Connor (Winnipeg)

Commerce Charter Township: Connor Hellebuyck (Winnipeg)

Dearborn: Dakota Joshua (Vancouver)

East Grand Rapids: Luke Glendening (Tampa Bay)

Farmington Hills: Alex DeBrincat (Detroit) & Cayden Primeau (Montreal)

Grosse Pointe: Michael McCarron (Nashville) & Zach Werenski (Columbus)

Holland: Lane Hutson (Montreal)

Mt. Clemens: Frank Nazar III (Chicago)

Oxford Township: Josh Norris (Ottawa)

Pontiac: Bryan Rust (Pittsburgh)

Port Huron: Jack Campbell (Edmonton)

Rochester: Max Jones (Anaheim) & Jacob Trouba (New York Rangers)

Rochester Hills: Alec Martinez (Vegas)

Rockford: Mitchell Chaffee (Tampa Bay)

Royal Oak: Torey Krug (St. Louis)

St. Clair: Tyler Motte (Tampa Bay)

Waterford Charter Township: Dylan Larkin (Detroit)

Ypsilanti: Jalen Chatfield (Carolina)

Ohio

Cleveland: Jansen Harkins (Pittsburgh)

Columbus: Jack Roslovic (New York Rangers), Kiefer Sherwood (Nashville) & Cole Sillinger (Columbus)

Dublin: Sean Kuraly (Columbus)

Parma: Alex Nedeljkovic (Pittsburgh)

Powell: Carson Meyer (Columbus)

Unity Township: J.T. Miller (Vancouver)

Indiana

Ft. Wayne: Drake Batherson (Ottawa)

Indianapolis: Jack Johnson III (Colorado)

South Bend: Landon Slaggert (Chicago)

Alabama

Huntsville: Nic Dowd (Washington)

Mississippi

Biloxi: Mathieu Olivier (Columbus)

Wisconsin

Eau Claire: Ty Emberson (San José) & Jake McCabe (Toronto)

Green Bay: Mason Appleton (Winnipeg)

Linwood Township: Joe Pavelski (Dallas)

Madison: Nick Schmaltz (Arizona), Craig Smith (Dallas) & Ryan Suter (Dallas)

Milwaukee: Hudson Fasching (New York Islanders)

Mosinee: Cole Caufield (Montreal)

Illinois

Alton: Dakota Mermis (Minnesota)

Chicago: Christian Fischer (Detroit) & Mike Reilly; Jr. (New York Islanders)

Downers Grove Township: Josh Manson (Colorado)

New Trier Township: Alex Vlasic (Chicago)

Northfield Township: J.T. Compher (Detroit)

Palos Township: Christian Dvorak (Montreal)

Minnesota

Baudette: Alex Lyon (Detroit)

Blaine: Nick Bjugstad (Arizona), Jonny Brodzinski (New York Rangers)

Bloomington: Erik Johnson (Philadelphia)

Brainerd: Cole Smith (Nashville)

Burnsville: Brock Boeser (Vancouver) & Jarred Tinordi (Chicago)

Coon Rapids: Riley Tufte (Colorado)

Delano: Ben Meyers (Anaheim)

Duluth: Derek Forbort (Boston)

Eden Prairie: Jackson LaCombe (Anaheim), Nick Leddy (St. Louis) & Nick Seeler (Philadelphia)

Edina: Anders Lee (New York Islanders) & Casey Mittelstadt (Colorado)

Elk River: Matt Kierstad (Florida) & Nick Perbix (Tampa Bay)

Excelsior: Vinni Lettieri (Minnesota)

Fridley: Mikey Anderson (Los Angeles)

Grand Rapids: Alex Goligoski (Minnesota)

Hermantown: Dylan Samberg (Winnipeg)

Hibbing: Scott Perunovich (St. Louis)

Hopkins: Travis Boyd (Arizona)

Lakeville: Charlie Lindgren (Washington), Sam Malinski (Colorado), Jake Oettinger (Dallas), Ryan Poehling (Philadelphia) & Brady Skjei (Carolina)

Lindstrom: Blake Lizotte (Los Angeles)

Maple Grove: Brock Faber (Minnesota)

Minneapolis: Brian Halonen (New Jersey), Ryan Lindgren (New York Rangers), Brock Nelson (New York Islanders) & Zach Parisé (Colorado)

Moorhead: Will Borgen (Seattle)

Plymouth: Blake Wheeler (New York Rangers)

Roseville: Joey Anderson (Chicago)

Savage: Jack Ahcan (Colorado)

South St. Paul: Justin Faulk (St. Louis)

St. Cloud: Nate Schmidt (Winnipeg)

St. Paul: Nick Jensen (Washington), K'Andre Miller (New York Rangers), Tommy Novak (Nashville), Kyle Okposo (Florida) & Alex Steeves (Toronto)

Stillwater: Noah Cates (Philadelphia)

Thomson Township: Karson Kuhlman (New York Islanders)

Tonka Bay: Justin Holl (Detroit)

Waconia: Graeme Clarke (New Jersey)

Iowa

Dubuque: Tucker Poolman (Vancouver)

Missouri

Chesterfield: Clayton Keller (Arizona) & Luke Kunin (San José)

Dardenne Prairie: Joseph Woll (Toronto)

St. Louis: Trent Frederic (Boston), Adam Lowry (Winnipeg), Patrick Maroon (Boston) & Scott Mayfield (New York Islanders)

Louisiana

Baton Rouge: Mason Lohrei (Boston)

North Dakota

Fargo: Jackson Blake (Carolina)

Grand Forks: Paul LaDue (New York Islanders)

South Dakota

Sioux Falls: Walker Duehr (Calgary)

Nebraska

Omaha: Jake Guentzel (Carolina) & Neal Pionk (Winnipeg)

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City: Jon Merrill (Minnesota)

Texas

Arlington: Caleb Jones (Colorado) & Jared Jones (Chicago)

Houston: Thomas Bordeleau (San José) & Tyler Myers (Vancouver)

Missouri City: Logan O'Connor (Colorado)

Plano: Blake Coleman (Calgary) & Stefan Noesen (Carolina)

Montana

Whitefish: Jake Sanderson (Ottawa)

Colorado

Colorado Springs: Brandon Carlo (Boston)

Denver: Brendan Lemieux (Carolina) & Troy Terry (Anaheim)

Englewood: Cal Foote (New Jersey) & Nolan Foote (New Jersey)

Erie: Jaccob Slavin (Carolina)

Littleton: Mikey Eyssimont (Tampa Bay)

Utah

Salt Lake City: Trevor Lewis (Los Angeles)

Arizona

Phoenix: Sean Couturier (Philadelphia), Mark Kastelic (Ottawa), Matthew Knies (Toronto) & Tage Thompson (Buffalo)

Scottsdale: Braeden Tkachuk (Ottawa) & Matthew Tkachuk (Florida)

Alaska

Anchorage: Jeremy Swayman (Boston)

North Pole: Phoenix Copley (Los Angeles)

Washington

Bonney Lake: Dylan Gambrell (Toronto)

Liberty Lake: Tyler Johnson (Chicago)

Mt. Vernon: T.L. Oshie (Washington)

Spokane: Derek Ryan (Edmonton) & Kailer Yamamoto (Seattle)

Oregon

Portland: Jacob MacDonald (San José)

California

Anaheim: Cam York (Philadelphia)

Arcadia: Jason Robertson (Dallas) & Nicholas Robertson (Toronto)

La Mirada: Chase De Leo (Anaheim)

Long Beach: Matt Nieto (Pittsburgh)

Los Gatos: Devin Cooley (San José)

Manhattan Beach: Brendan Brisson (Vegas)

Newport Beach: Jason Zucker (Nashville)

Rancho Cucamonga: Collin Delia (Winnipeg)

San Diego: Thatcher Demko (Vancouver) & Chad Ruhwedel (New York Rangers)

San Ramon: Auston Matthews (Toronto)

Thousand Oaks: Trevor Moore (Los Angeles)

Every North American NHL Player’s Birth City

[raymondhelkio]

Shadow Maker, The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen 

A meticulously researched biography penned by Rosemary Sullivan, an accomplished author and scholar. MacEwen, a prolific Canadian poet born in 1941, led a complex life, marked by the duality of her public persona and intensely private struggles. Hailing from a working-class Toronto family, MacEwen’s early life was marred by familial challenges. Her mother, Elsie, grappling with mental…

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[churchofrileytanev]

introducing braden holtby and the doppelgängers!!

a hockey team made up braden holtby and players that look like each other at different stages of life/timelines!!

[henk-heijmans]

Hanuman langurs grooming dog Mandore garden, Jodhpur, India, 2019 - by Mark MacEwen, English

[flashyfucker]

Okay but I’m intrigued about dirtbag Zack MacEwen and I think I speak for everyone when I say we need more of him pls🤍

okay but like blowing him in the bathroom, someone’s birthday dinner: a place fancy enough, just nice enough you’re willing to get on your knees for him. 

and the hard, sleek marble floors are definitely gonna mark up your knees, but you feel kinda hot like this, looking up at him: one hand running over his own hair, the other an uncharacteristically gentle guide at the base of your skull, and his shirt’s unbuttoned all the way down like he’s making a show of the way his abs tighten. his usually calculated, mean words are now just ramblings of “so good,” at every frothy gag as he works you on his cock, presses deeper into your throat (throwing out a little “fuckin’ slut,”, here and there, for good measure.).

and you’re a little shyer when his phone comes out, but “good girl. show me those eyes. just like that.” is enough to have you lost in it again, momentarily: your disappointed whimper when he twines a hand in your hair and yanks you back is a little embarrassing, but he’s chuckling softly at you, stroking your hair and holding you off when you try to lean forward again, gasping for more. 

and you’re nodding, desperate when he’s pulling up the camera app, showing you the screen: asking without asking, then he’s turning it on you, big hand thumbing the tears along your waterline, dipping his fingers between your lips, a little, catching his breath before he makes sure the flash is on. this stupid nice  bathroom’s chandeliers don’t hit you quite the way he’s looking for.

he only takes a couple photos, and they’re all only your face, a little of the top of your chest: head cradled against his hand, but there’s something lewd about them, still: the ruddiness of your swollen, wet lips in an innocent little smile, the way the camera flash glitters the wet tracks across your cheeks where tears are mixed with spit and precum and your favourite lipgloss, now ruined. you quietly like the way it’s smeared across your face, the subtle pinkish glitter all over the base of his cock, too. 

zack likes everything about the photos: how fucked out you look without having even been touched, how obvious it is you’d spent ten minutes gagging on his cock in a restaurant bathroom stall. mostly, though, he’s preoccupied by how disappointed you look as he puts his phone down, scoffing little, and tucks his still-hard cock away with the lucrative promise of “you can take it down your throat on the drive home. but you aren’t making me cum in a bathroom this fuckin’ nice. that’s not what we do.”. and god is he right about that.

and you've done your best to clean yourself up, zack standing across the room by the door, barely glancing up from his phone to promise “you look fine, nobody’s gonna know.”, but by the time you’ve both sat back down at the table, the group chat’s already lit up with chirps that can’t be said aloud in a place like this, and you know you’ll never live it down, but still, you’re hot all over and blushing obviously trying not to shift in your seat, and zack’s gotta keep his eyes on his phone so that fact doesn’t kill him. nothing gets him like your desperation, and shit, now he’s kinda wishing he’d bent you over in that nice ass bathroom, given you what you clearly need. 

it doesn’t last, though, the feigned ignorance: zack, stone-faced and careless as ever, grabs your flustered attention by airdropping you the photos he’d taken, his phone tucked half under the table when he finally texts “fuck these guys. see how fuckin pretty you look like that? let’s go”. and he more than makes good on his promise in the car. 

[mutant-distraction]

When is a mouth full of bloody, unevenly protruding dagger-teeth very comforting? When you're the baby caiman nestled inside, and that maw is your mother's "multifaceted parenting tool," doing everything from carrying you to shredding thick vegetation and unwitting prey. From bioGraphic and writer Sarah Gilman, a look at South America's broad-snouted caiman: bit.ly/3xD0TVG. // 📷 Mark MacEwen

[meryt-sobek]

Broad Snouted Caiman Baby in Mother's Mouth, photo by Mark Macewen

[krakenbait]

kraken bait 3.5: this is why we can’t have nice things

me on july 11: yes! the expansion draft is in 10 days, my last kraken bait list is finished, everything is good!

me on july 15: gravy to the devils? ok, ok i dig it! messes up my kraken bait list, but oh well.

me on july 17: why are the gms are having a panic sale and fucking everything up

me on july 18: *looks at the protection lists* well fuck.

welcome back for the actual last kraken bait list! the last several days involved a lot of chaos and now a good chunk of my previous list is defunct. lovely. 

you guys know the drill by now. it’s a mock expansion draft with some actual predictions and a few funny theories, i had help from my buddy corwin (@chaos-hockey) and a few other folks. i’ll try to keep this short today, so there will be minimal commentary for anything that hasn’t changed from the last list.

*sigh* let’s get on with it. list under the cut.

Anaheim Ducks: Haydn Fleury

going by casey’s reaction, anaheim fucked up their protection list and leaving fleury exposed was a surprise and a mistake. guess it makes sense that the next expansion team also has a fleury (even if marc-andre and haydn aren’t related)

Arizona Coyotes: Christian Fischer

same as last time. next!

Boston Bruins: Jeremy Lauzon

see above. next!

Buffalo Sabres: William Borgen

i went with rasmus asplund last time around, but he got protected by the sabres. guess they want to keep all three rasmi (rasmusses?). so let’s go with... this dude, who is a defenseman one of the writers from The Athletic picked.

Calgary Flames: Mark Giordano

the flames picked tanev over giordano, but i had a feeling that might be the case. giordano will be a good veteran presence in seattle, etc. next!

Carolina Hurricanes: Nino Niederreiter

brady skjei, my pick last time around, got protected. kinga is probably happy, but i had to take a different route. i had a few other ideas (jake bean, petr mrazek), but corwin liked nino to seattle, so here we are! here’s hoping i spelled his name right.

Chicago: Nikita Zadorov

i had adam gaudette here last time around, and while he’s still available, i just think zadorov is a more interesting option to take from chicago. i might have said dylan strome if he wasn’t protected (sabs’ dreams are crushed)

Colorado Avalanche: JT Compher

as i mentioned in my intro, ryan graves, my previous pick, got traded to the devils (woohoo!)- savy joe sakic didn’t want to give him up for nothing. it was between compher and joonas donskoi to take gravy’s place, but i went with JT since he’s a little younger and his contract is a little less. donskoi is the better performer though, so honestly it could go either way.

Columbus Blue Jackets: Dean Kukan

boone jenner was protected, so there goes corwin’s idea. sticking with the same pick from last time. next!

Dallas Stars: Jamie Oleksiak

jason dickinson got traded to the canucks instead of being kraken bait, so that pick was toast. i didn’t really know who else could go here, but corwin liked the idea of oleksiak, so that settled it.

Detroit Red Wings: Vladislav Namestnikov

i’m sticking with it. next!

Edmonton Oilers: Tyson Barrie

this pick is maybe a little more likely now than it was last time since barrie wasn’t protected, but the odds aren’t necessarily great. i still enjoy my wishful thinking. next!

Florida Panthers: Chris Driedger

i think this is my slam dunk pick now, considering it seems like driedger’s already been talking to seattle. next!

Los Angeles Kings: Olli Maata

viktor arvidsson got protected (corwin was wrong), so it was back to the drawing board for the kings. i wanted to pick andreas athanasiou here, but i needed another player who wasn’t a 2021 free agent and i wanted the same forwards/defensemen ratio as last round, so i went with maata instead.

Minnesota Wild: Kaapo Kakhonen

matt dumba got protected, so my wild pick was toast. i also had to make up for a lost goalie spot (more on that soon), so i went with the young goalie out of minnesota.

Montreal Canadiens: Philip Danault

the habs protected jake allen after carey price waived his no move clause, so i was tempted to pick price to fill that goalie spot, but i don’t think it’s gonna happen on account of price’s hefty contract. instead, i went with ufa but good performer danault. i heard his name a lot watching the cup finals, so it works, right?

Nashville Predators: Calle Jarnkrok

calle jarn-kraken. it’s happenin’

New Jersey Devils: Andreas Johnsson

i will talk about my resentment and anxiety that nate bastian was exposed another time. in the meantime, i am trying to hypnotize ron francis from across the country into taking mango.

New York Islanders: Jordan Eberle

keeping it the same. next!

New York Rangers: Colin Blackwell

i honestly can’t believe the rangers protected kevin rooney. so i’ll go with my second choice for the pick from the rags, which is definitely seeming likely right now.

Ottawa Senators: Chris Tierney

didn’t change. next!

Philadelphia Flyers: James van Riemsdyk

corwin got their wish and nolan patrick got traded. this pick stayed the same regardless. next!

Pittsburgh Penguins: Zach Aston-Reese

i briefly considered changing it up here, probably for brandon “sees ghosts” tanev, but why complicate things? next!

San Jose Sharks: Ryan Donato

keeping it simple. next!

St Louis Blues: Vince Dunn

i’m running out of snappy ways to say “i didn’t change the pick.” next!

Tampa Bay Lightning: Blake Coleman

no more likely than it was last time, still enjoying my wishful thinking. next!

Toronto Maple Leafs: Travis Dermott

another static pick. next!

Vancouver Canuck: Zack MacEwen

i didn’t have to change this pick, i just felt like it. he has a cute dog, so i think macewen makes decent kraken bait.

Washington Capitals: Vitek Vanecek

second verse, same as the first. next!

Winnipeg Jets: Mason Appleton

kept the apple pie in a mason jar on skates around. won’t say “next!” because that’s it.

and there we go, a somewhat coherent response to all the recent chaos. in summary, it’s 3 goalies, 16 forwards, and 11 defensemen, which is the same ratio as the previous list, and a cap hit of 72.3M, which is actually less than before (it was 76.4M last time).

this is decidedly the last kraken bait list, but i may have some more commentary on the expansion draft on wednesday and an analysis of who, if anyone, i got right. in the meantime, hope you enjoyed!

credits, or thank you to everyone who helped me on the last list and therefore this one: @dantonheinens @summerteukka @doubleminor @jakejuentzel @bigmouthnatebastian @18minutemajor @powerblais @heddy

[itsjuliak5]

Cancer Hockey Players♋

Cancer: June 21st - July 22nd

~~~

Lawson Crouse - June 23rd

Michael Del Zotto and Pierre-Luc Dubois - June 24th

Doug Gilmour, Jaden Schwartz, and Mikhail Sergachev - June 25th

Ethan Bear - June 26th

Joel Edmundson - June 28th

Jerome Iginla and Justin Bailey - July 1st

JT Brown, Robert Thomas, and Joe Thornton - July 2nd

Anders Lee - July 3rd

Jason Dickinson and Jake Gardiner - July 4th

Cam Talbot and Alexander Radulov - July 5th

Jesperi Kotkaniemi - July 6th

Zayde Wisdom - July 7th

Zack MacEwen, Haydn Fleury, Rich Peverley, and Andrew Copp - July 8th

Vincent Trocheck, Joe Pavelski, and Ryan Strome - July 11th

Mark Borowiecki - July 12th

John Gibson - July 14th

Anthony Cirelli, Zach Bogosian, and Anthony Bitetto - July 15th

Nate Schmidt - July 16th

Ryan Miller, Loui Eriksson, and Oliver Ekman-Larson - July 17th

Miro Heiskanen and Jamie Benn - July 18th

Dillon Dube, Morgan Geekie, Peter Forsberg, and Oskar Klefbom - July 20th

Kevin Fiala - July 22nd

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These are some hockey players that are Cancers. Once again I definitely forgot a few, but these are a few of the main ones along with some surprises!

Other lists: Aquarius players, Pisces players, Aries players, Taurus players, Gemini players, Libra players, Sagittarius players.

Tagging: @2-fast-2-curious  @quintnsbyfield and @disney-prince-quinn-hughes 🤍

If you wanna be tagged in or have a request for the next list, just let me know!