lordstanley

Growing up and until recently in Canada hockey league divisions went up from novice-atom-pee wee - bantam - midget. Some of those names - especially midget - were considered derogatory so a few years ago switched to age classifiers like U9, U18. One small step for regular-sized man, one giant leap for short-limbed people. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/youth-hockey-name-categories-1.4924229 Midget a derogatory slur? Athletics Canada recently said it would pursue dropping the term "midget" as an age category descriptor, a move that came a few days after the Ontario Basketball Association stated its plans to do the same. The term has been used for decades in a variety of sports but many consider it to be a derogatory slur. Allan Redford, the director of the Dwarf Athletic Association of Canada, applauded the recent developments and hopes others may follow suit. "I'm actually wonderfully encouraged that they're taking this approach and that it's getting this much traction," Redford said Wednesday. "I'm very, very pleased."

Probably, but I know that Olson is DEFINITELY better than Charlie Morton. So a great what if is what if the Tigers had acquired JV not Morton at least year’s deadline. I get why they didn’t, JV looked done at the All Star break, but the division race and the playoff series were close enough to imagine JV possibly having made a difference.

Darn, just realized there was a watch party at Vancouver’s Italian Cultural Centre not too far from me, put on by the family of Petan. Could have been fun.

Now EP rings one off the post but it stays out.

EP just stopped on a shorthanded breakaway.

Damn, Sweden scored while I was hooked on ice dancing (yes, really).

Yeah, save JT for if and when they play Sweden so he can bark at Elias Petersson and make him crumble.

Sweden is now outshooting Italy 28-4 one minute into the 2nd period but the score is 2-2!

18-3 shots on goal for Sweden 12 minutes in. But still only 1-1.

Dalibor Dvorsky has scored the go-ahead goal and now Slovakia has a 3-1 lead over Finland. Davorsky was picked 10th overall in the 2023 draft, just behind Danielson. He is 9G 6A 15Pts in 47 games for St. Louis this season. Slafkosky of the Habs, who was picked #1 overall in 2022, had the 3rd goal. He has 45 points in 57 games this season for Montreal. Scored 50 and 51 points the two seasons before this.

Paying him 13 million to drive more subscriptions and/or advertisers to their new broadcast outlet.

Me too. This got me going.