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REMINDER: Megan Keller comes from Michigan, a hockey-crazy state that shamefully doesn't have a single Division I women's hockey program.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

This really is a great picture:

ALYSA MF'N LIU GOLD MF'N MEDALIST

5 women, one women's team, and one mixed team have won Olympic gold medals for Team USA at these Olympics. Meanwhile, just one individual male athlete and no men's teams have won gold medals for Team USA

Makes you wonder: when will America start investing in men's sports

normies: more Olympic hockey overtime!!!! so exciting

hockey fans: once again we are subjected to The Great Travesty

Switzerland's Alina Muller scores to win the bronze for the Swiss in OT with less than a minute to go

To watch on either YouTube (for sdhl) or RED sport (for Switzerland) regardless of where you live, and have replays and highlight packages available

Most of the Swiss and Swedish national teams in women’s hockey either play in the Sdhl or pfwl/swhl (whichever name you want to use for Swiss domestic league) which have both 1) seen a lot of teams commit to increased investments over the last Olympic cycle and improved pay / conditions 2) are free

TL:DR on that thread - if the nhl has parity because of the salary cap why are the Lightning still fucking good END THIS ALREADY!!

Ngl as a former "college trans athlete" its so fucking tiring to hear other queer people saying shit like "who even cares about sports anyway" MOTHERFUCKER THAT WAS PAYING FOR MY COLLEGE

Also translated to on ice success, as well as ones willing to invest in off ice resources that aren’t restrained by caps.

I think the change from the coyotes to the mammoth best illustrates this. Now credit to some of the front office in Arizona who did do some good drafting and developing and those players are now flourishing, but I think having a much better ownership with a permanent home and stability

Taxes, that it’s hard to get players to sign in smaller cities like Ottawa or Columbus or Winnipeg, and so forth. So no, making sure mcdavid gets paid less or whatever has not necessarily made things more fair

Avalanche) and teams that are poorly run or don’t want to spend money (coyotes when they were still around, Sabres until this year, Vancouver) will still continue to suck. And there’s still controversies around free agent signings - people are now whining that Florida has an advantage because of

Some teams truly manage to successfully retool, like the capitals have, or lightning, or the bruins in 2015/2016 (with a bit of luck at getting pastrnak late in the draft), but often it means that teams that want to be competitive will be forced to suck total ass at some point (sharks, red wings,

Artificial “get competitive and trade prospects / draft picks at the deadline” -> “players on main roster age out and no prospects are there to replace them and you can’t get impactful players in free agency” -> “you have to tank for top picks to be competitive again”

Spending that money to compete. The flattening of salary has prevented really any major free agents from hitting the market since, idk, John Tavares in 2019? Pretty much everyone extends with their team, though that has to do with allotted years you can sign also. This forces team into an

At the top end but the bottom end as well. A lot of teams have stayed bad for a long time. To meet the cap floor, teams are well known for just taking on bad contracts of forever injured players from competing teams to meet the floor, maybe getting a depth draft pick in return, and not actually

NFL is weird because of the fact that the draft is hugely and instantly impactful and the way contracts work and such. But let’s take a look at the nhl - since 2010, the kings won twice, Chicago won three times, penguins won twice, Lightning won twice, panthers won twice. But let’s not just look

People use the nfl understandably but I think the nhl is a better comparison and proves bassits point even more tbh

Babe? I know you're using that camcorder to help document our first anniversary, but I can't help but notice almost all your footage of me laughing has me surrounded by white sheets. The other day I started dancing in the kitchen and when you hit record the sunlight suddenly streamed in. I'm worried

when you skip work to watch the Olympics

#noticing that team Canada can board someone and there’s no grand conspiracies that the team all schemed to take out the opponents top players and didn’t even care about winning

Screenshot of the news section of Ryan Sloan's FanGraphs player page, which says "Injury: Eye, Out"

can they pop it back in, or?

When I get just a little too warm under the covers:

you: don’t come in here with that bullshit

me: what you mean?

you: you know exactly what i mean

me:

*commentating the winter olympic ice skating final* it’s so cold in there that the ground has literally frozen. I don’t think a human can survive these conditions

iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium

That's weird, she just told me that she didn't even race today.