For this 2016-17 NHL season my brother Phillip and I made a list of predictions of potential outcomes that we feel strongly about. We plan to assign points for each correct guess and the winner will get… something. We were initially going to say that the loser will buy the winner a brand new Leafs jersey, but then we realized
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This is the second installment of my NBA season preview. These four teams aren’t necessarily worse than some of the teams ahead of them. It’s just that they all fit into a same tier quite nicely. All four teams have recently have been very bad, but have enough young talent that they could rocket up the standings as soon as this season.
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30. Brooklyn Nets 2015-16 Recap Record: 21-61 (14th in the East, 28th Overall) OFF Rtg: 103.2 (27th of 30) DEF Rtg: 110.9 (29th of 30) 2016-17 Outlook MVP: Brook Lopez Projected Starting Lineup (According to RealGM): PG Jeremy Lin, SG R. Hollis-Jefferson, SF B. Bogdanovic, PF Luis Scola, C Brook Lopez Key Additions: A. Bennett, T. Booker, R. Foye, J. Lin, L. Scola, G. Vasquez
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The World Cup of Hockey is right around the corner and… to be honest I don’t know how I feel about it. On one hand I will probably tune in because I love hockey. But on the other hand, I really just don’t care about the result. The NHL is branding this as a replacement for the Olympics, but the
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Excerpt from PHPA Article On December 11, 2015, the Pittsburgh Penguins lost 3-2 in overtime at home against the Los Angeles Kings. While in a vacuum this may not seem that consequential of a loss, at the end of the day it had much larger implications. This loss would drop the Penguins to a pedestrian 15-10-3 record, their fifth loss
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Superlatives MVP: Josh Donaldson No surprise here. Donaldson has been the team’s MVP since he first stepped on the Rogers Center’s tire-rubber turf at the beginning of last season. He was the American League MVP in 2015 and has not missed a single beat this season. Josh has been the second-most valuable batter in the MLB based on Fangraphs’ Wins Above
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This is my second professional interview and article written for the Professional Hockey Players’ Association. Like Ben Harpur, Tom McCollum is a former Guelph Storm because… well to be honest when I submitted a list of potential interview candidates I just fired off former junior players that I was familiar with. Coincidentally Ben and Tom know each other despite never
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I am very excited to announce that the Professional Hockey Players’ Association (US National Labor Relations Board collective bargaining representative for all professional hockey players within the AHL and ECHL) has given me the opportunity to interview players from the AHL and ECHL for the purposes of writing featured articles for their website. To say that this new opportunity excites me
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Born: 11/11/1976 (39 years old) Royal Oak, Michigan, United States Drafted: 1st round (4th overall) in 1997 by San Fransisco Giants High School: Baker HS (Baldwinsville, NY) College: Seton Hall University Pirates (South Orange, NJ) Teams: Florida Marlins (2000-2001), Chicago White Sox (2004), Detroit Tigers (2005-2008), Colorado Rockies (2008-2009), Texas Rangers (2009), Pittsburgh Pirates (2011-2014), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2014), Atlanta Braves
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Schedule Game 1: Tuesday May 17; 8:30 @ Cleveland on Sportsnet Game 2: Thursday May 19; 8:30 @ Cleveland on TSN Game 3: Saturday May 21; 8:30 @ Toronto on Sportsnet Game 4: Monday May 23; 8:30 @ Toronto on TSN Game 5: Wednesday May 25; 8:30 @ Cleveland on TBD Game 6: Friday May 27; 8:30 @Toronto on TBD
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