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The greatest underdog story in the history of sports has come to fruition. How embarrassing.

If two expansion teams meet in the playoffs and nobody watches, did the series actually happen?

Oh my god, the punchline of the joke is coming and it’s remarkably unfunny. Looks like I’ll be buying a renegades championship tee. me.

Ad reps in Chicago are already drawing up marketing for Bedard, but he's too young to shill for Binny's, so in a noble attempt to mend fences, they've signed Kyle Beach to be their 2023/24 Binny's Blackhawks ambassador for the 2023 holiday promotion run. Insiders say Beach will be himself while Jay Zawaski comically portrays a caricature of Brad Aldrich named "Heywood Jablowme." A Santa Claus-hat wearing Beach will pantomime giving fellatio to "Heywood" and turn to look at the camera, saying "this holiday season, it's better to give than to receive, right Heywood?" Zawaski, feigning tears of shame, replies "the 2023 Binny's Beverage Lineup is *unf* assaulting store shelves all throughout *oh god, oh* Chicagoland!" Beach then pulls a Binny's gift card out of his mouth and places it on "Heywood's" sweating, bare chest, telling him and the camera, "shhhh, don't tell!" as cheerful Christmas bells and reindeer frame the graphic with all the local Binny's addresses.

I guess so, but as a jaded Hawks fan I feel I don't fall into the buckets of envious outsider, so from that perspective I can potentially see your point. Blah.

I'd be a lot less irritated by this if Blackhawks fans weren't spiking the football after months of diminishing the Beach scandal. The fallout was a big deal to me, and obviously hockey is the banner sport for scumbags across the world so perhaps I'm just a naive wimpy snowflake, but between the fans "so much salt LOL" "get blown, homo" crap and Rocky launching a two-inch putt from Mark Lazerus into the Grand Canyon, it just...sucks. It's apparently too much to ask for some to take a thoughtful approach. Chicago media this morning has been, as you'd expect, celebratory and fans are excited. There's lots of "we can finally stop talking about the negative" angles, which is understandable. I dunno. Maybe I should just get over my empathy.

The r/Hawks posters are, ah, something.

Cool

Ok

Alrighty

I'm perplexed. Are you a "You Beach scandal pansies are overreacting, off, all those players are gone now, blah blah blah" person?" If so, that's a shame, but whatever, do you.

Yep. This is the hockey equivalent of Trump using a sharpie to draw a magical hurricane map. The Blackhawks deserved a death-sentence-esque period of disgrace. It appears them losing Toews and Kane was too much for the shareholders to handle, so the NHL did what they felt they had to do, and, as per tradition, looks disgusting and corrupt in the process without a snippet of shame.

Definitely enjoying the Kraken's run thus far. There's nothing terribly special happening here, simply 4 solid lines playing sound hockey with a goalie who's gotten hot at the right time. Some of the passes have been stellar, and they're sweeping up Dallas's mess on the regular. Fun. I was talking to @IceCap about this earlier, that the Leafs are playing like a team who is waiting on a hockey grown up to save them, except they're one of the oldest rosters in the league, stymied by a Panthers team who isn't doing anything unique beyond giving a damn. Super odd. Also Woll is kind of bad, but he's a backup getting no help from his defense, so, big shrug.

They want elements of the 90s while keeping their dated early 2000s identity. Compromise like this almost always results in garbage.

Regarding the interlocking SA logo, you can probably get away with removing the crossbar of the A, and use the loop of the S to serve in that stead and somewhat de-clutter that fine logo.

Seconded. Extremely welcome addition.

Is refusing to pay for things in spite of great wealth and being a repulsive piece of correlation or causation?

So Cincinnati is Pawnee and Columbus is Eagleton?

They did? https://people.com/food/pepsi-perfect-back-to-the-future/

Is UT a Bruins fan? I thought he was all Pittsburgh all around.

Delighted that the Kraken, playing entirely with house money, are getting some playoff excitement to revel in. They're a very solid team with a good mix on the roster who definitely outkick their coverage by sheer competitive spirit and a hearty dollop of luck.

Also this XFL title game is trash. Defenders should win in a route.

Renegades saw that one person online (me) was stupid enough to buy one piece of their merchandise should they win the title game, and now they're going for it all.

that logo bad lol try again git gud