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10 hours ago, Chewbacca said:
On 12/9/2024 at 3:33 PM, Beau Vine said:
If I hadn't seen a lot of Georgiev this season, the phrase "upgrading with McKenzie Blackwood" would make me guffaw.

Don't look now, but Blackwood and the Avs are on a tear.

apparently all they needed was average goaltending and not abysmal

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Love this. BBC article. Won't embed video. Or I am dumb. Maybe both.

A world record 102,343 stuffed toys hit the ice rink in a moment of "sweet, cuddly mayhem", according to an American Hockey League team.

At the game in Hershey, Pennsylvania, footage shows stuffed toys flying over the glass after the Hershey Bears scored against the Providence Bruins.

The annual teddy bear toss has been held by the Hershey Bears hockey club since 2001, with this year's event beating the previous record of 74,599 collected in 2024.

The stuffed toys will be distributed across a total of 35 local charities, according to the club.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cr7vg45y0g7o

 

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Interesting strategy:

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PHILADELPHIA -- The driver charged with killing NHL hockey player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, as they cycled on a rural New Jersey road pleaded not guilty to the indictment Tuesday after turning down a prosecution offer of 35 years in prison.

Sean M. Higgins, 44, appeared briefly in court in Salem County, New Jersey, and entered a formal plea to the recent indictment in the Aug. 29 deaths. The case will now move toward trial.


Defense lawyers, in a statement, said they hope to prove that the deaths stemmed not from any "malfeasance" but from "a combination of uniquely unfortunate circumstances unlikely to ever occur again."

They described Higgins as a combat veteran who has faith in the legal system.

Prosecutors say the married father of two -- who worked for an addiction treatment company -- had a history of road rage and was impaired that day after drinking five or six beers. He said he had been driving around for two hours, sometimes talking by phone with a friend, after an upsetting conversation with his mother.

Johnny Gaudreau, 31, and Matthew Gaudreau, 29, were killed near their childhood home in South Jersey on the eve of their sister's wedding.

A driver in front of Higgins told police that he had been driving aggressively. When she and another driver slowed down and moved left to go around the cyclists, Higgins sped up and veered right, striking the Gaudreaus, she said.

Higgins had a blood-alcohol level of .087, which is above the state's .08 legal limit, and failed a field sobriety test, police said.

He is being held on charges that include two counts each of aggravated manslaughter and vehicular homicide, along with evidence tampering and leaving the scene of an accident.

Defense lawyer Matthew Portella has called Higgins a loving father and a good person who "made a horrible decision that night."

Both Portella and county prosecutors confirmed the terms of the proposed deal.

 

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