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Lol https://variety.com/2024/music/news/janes-addiction-concert-ends-fight-perry-ferrell-dave-navarro-punch-1236143977/

I didn't actually go myself, I just saw a bunch of texts from friends that we there. I saw them a few times in the early 2000's in Camden and they were always a fantastic show. On Saturday while PJ was playing Philly, I was actually at the Jane's Addiction show in Atlantic City. Great show but Perry Ferrell is completely off his rocker at this point. He's just having conversations with himself between songs.

Pearl Jam had a nice tribute to the Gaudreau brothers last night in Philly. You need to skip about a minute in on the link

I imagine the Columbus owners learned their lesson about insuring contracts after the Nathan Horton debacle that led to them trading for Clarkson.

Thanks for posting this. I had something similar half written up earlier and then never got around to finishing it. After seeing him quoted as saying "...so I'm here until Thursday?" I was taken back that someone could say something like that after killing two innocent human beings with his Grand Cherokee. It got me to go back and watch the full video of that pre-sentencing, or whatever it was, to see the comment and get the full context. To be honest, he did not strike me as someone who was in any way unremorseful as that quote would suggest in print. I thought Higgins looked like a guy who knew he fvcked up a lot of peoples lives, including those of his wife and daughters as you mentioned. How could he not after witnessing the aftermath of his actions? I doubt he has any illusions as to the long term implications of this. I took his reaction to not getting out "until Thursday" as the realization that he wouldn't be able to get back to his family to even start their healing process for a week. He probably thought he was getting out relatively quickly and his days in the courtroom, and subsequently jail, wouldn't start for a few weeks. I get it, the Gaudreau's will never get that opportunity with their families, so a week isn't a big deal, but his wife and daughters didn't do anything to bring this on themselves either. One other point that has been bothering me. The general narrative seems to be that the Gaudreau's were killed by a drunk driver but the more I read about this it seems like it was more of a lethal combination of super aggressive driving and buzzed driving. Maybe not so much in combination but it's sh!t we unfortunately see on the roads way too much every day. It's too convenient to just write off as getting hit by someone who was black out drunk. Most people can say "well I don't drive after getting completely sh!t faced." As this event shows, buzzed driving and weaving through traffic have their consequences too. I feel like the dangers of those actions are getting missed with some of the general narrative of it being the Gaudreau's were "hit by a drunk driver". Obviously this Higgins guy deserves a lot of well earned time behind bars but I don't see him as some sort of monster that needs to be locked away forever I hope there is an opportunity for him to come out the other side to try and redeem himself.

😂😂 at hiding pucks in his jock to weigh in a little heavier

https://sports.yahoo.com/johnny-gaudreaus-wife-meredith-posts-tribute-to-husband-on-social-media-after-his-death-173212090.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEF81HOYkfX5u3D_ePqgoXw65oMbbOgAqOY3rC6I4B2To-m7QO8pK2FApblb-ca50ILEyoJwyddGX_Wv1rXVA5xvVo37yNLLBuMCDOG5CqspiyDYxmqqI4_PtqKK9jCWMue0DQHY__3h4-eMTPA0A711kfXhb_srI7puDIWhTkJR 💔

Got down to the beach late last night all ready for the holiday weekend and woke up to this news. Kind of been in a bit of a fog since hearing about it. Some of my friends who have older kids who play hockey in the area were saying how awesome Johnny was, coming out to the Pennsauken rink all the time in the summer to work with the kids. It’s a sad day for sure.

Updated ESPN article says they were in town to be groomsmen at their sisters wedding tonight. What an absolutely awful story.

True. I tried to bury that memory right next to the image of him in a Blues jersey.

Will Smith at Boston College too. He had a great freshman season after the Sharks took him 4th overall last summer

One of the things I always liked about Brodeur’s mask was that it looked cool from the stands. A lot of these guys have great masks but there is so much small detail, you can really only appreciate it on close ups on TV or the Jumbotron. Like MB30s, I think this will look similarly good from a distance.

I love it. GMs have long needed to be more savage in taking advantage of other teams cap issues without worrying about upsetting the apple cart. The Carolina and Montreal offer sheets of each others players a few years ago was also great, although im still not sure Marc Bergevin totally understood how to execute an offer sheet and not just sign a sweetheart deal for a conference foe.

My shin still hurts from jumping to hug my buddy and nailing it on the armrest that was separating us in the upper deck. That was also the exact moment I never thought I would give a **** about “Matteau, Matteau, Matteau” ever again…and then Lou f’ed up the whole Kovy draft pick penalty and drafted his son like 3 weeks later 😂

My wife woke me up late that night/early morning saying “something’s wrong”. After initially blowing her off as just having a bad dream, she turned on the news because she couldn’t sleep and we started hearing vague reports about what had happened. We have a good friend from college who moved home to Connecticut after graduating in ‘98. While many of us in our group turned to grunge and other stuff in the 90s, he held firm to his 80s hair bands buying their later albums long after the mainstream moved on from them. Based on my wife’s weird feeling, we were absolutely terrified that he had made the short drive to RI to see Great White, until it finally got to a reasonable hour and we could call and he answered. It’s such a terrible story. I just watched the 13 minute video you referenced. It’s insane how quickly making a completely innocent split second decision like “fvck it, I remember that Once Bitten song. That sounds fun” can turn into something so horrific so fast for so many.

Team USA mens basketball in trouble here. Edit: Tie game with only a few minutes left. Edit #2: Curry scored 36 and US wins

He'll be like the player with the extra long stick in the old arcade bubble hockey games out there

Neanderthals!

Living in Philadelphia in a house of particularly angry Flyers fans incensed by the Stevens hit on Lindros about 2 hours earlier, the Elias winner late in Game 7 of the 2000 ECF is an all timer for me.

I didn’t go into the ‘95 finals with a ton of confidence in our chances. The end to end goal by Niedermayer was the one where the switch flipped for me and I finally believed the Devils were going to win the cup.

I read that differently. I took it as they could put the Coyotes back in the original arena with all its flaws for at least a reasonable period of time because one person would own all the franchises. They sort of referenced it but I believe a huge reason why they left America West in the first place was because they were the secondary franchise in an arena the Suns controlled which meant that the Suns were collecting a good portion of the concession and suite revenue generated from Coyotes games. If the $$$ worked, I doubt they bolt for the cotton fields of Glendale just because of some obstructed seating.

I always thought Dale Tallon did the actual heavy lifting in constructing that Blackhawks powerhouse.

The outside is kinda cool for a team named the Flames but the inside didn’t take a lot of imagination. Cookie cutter bowl

I'm sure each team has scouted the other guy plenty since they're both on Michigan. I would do it.