Month: May 2022

If it seems like the Washington football team – now, the Commanders – is always in  hot water, it’s because they are. There’s always something with this club. Whether it’s a long overdue name change, lawsuits and investigations into workplace misconduct, a trade that makes you go hmmm (and oddsmakers go LOL), or teammates fighting each other in the guts of a game —Boston Red Sox Jerseys it always feels like something is happening in our nation’s capital with that football team. And when reports of the team engaging in “potentially unlawful financial conduct” began to surface in April, the Washington football club found itself in the NFL’s crosshairs again. But the result of this instance could be a landscape-changer, with USA Today’s Jarrett Bell reporting that one NFL owner said the...

The New England Patriots kept things simple in the 2021 draft. From finessing the league by taking Mac Jones at No. 15 overall, to drafting a surefire stud in Christian Barmore in the second round to pouncing on punishing running back Rhamondre Stevenson in Round 4, it’s no surprise the class was a huge success. The 2022 draft was much different for the Patriots. By reaching on their first two picks — Chattanooga offensive lineman Cole Strange and Baylor wideout Tyquan Thornton — Bill Belichick and Co. really went against the grain this year. Perhaps the most surprising of New England’s moves came Houston Texans Jerseys  when they drafted Western Kentucky quarterback Bailey Zappe in the fourth round to learn behind Jones and projected backup/mentor Brian Hoyer. Patriots fans are still...

It's time for a public service announcement, the likes of which I feel obligated to issue every year around this time: Beware of reports about how great any football player looks in May, especially those who have yet to fulfill their promise to this point. We are about to enter peak OTA periods. And with no real football going on, far too much will be made in many instances about faux football. Legions of players, we will come to find, are in the best shape of their life. They have put the past behind them. They look primed for a big step forward. The buzz is almost palpable. Of course, this is difficult enough to discern in July and August, San Francisco 49ers Jerseys when full-padded practices and exhibition games can often end up looking like fool's gold when it comes to breakthro...

All season long, we have been talking about how offensive dominance in the National Hockey League is starting to take centre stage. The great offensive teams are winning. The weak offensive teams are not. There was some curiosity as to whether this offensive explosion would hold up over the course of the playoffs. Well, it has so far. Going into Sunday’s games, postseason scoring is up 18 per cent year over year and is eight per cent higher than the previous high (2009-10) in the NHL’s modern era (2007 to present). Here is where the changing NHL landscape gets interesting. Historically, when offence is surging, goaltending is struggling. In fact, that’s precisely what we saw during periods of this past regular season, where scheduling compression and flurries of backup goaltenders su...

Earlier in the “Battle of Alberta,” the Oilers would surge back from poor starts, winning once and losing once against the Flames. In Game 3, the Oilers skipped the “slow start” part. Granted, the Oilers didn’t receive an immediate reward for their strong start against the Flames in Game 3. The score was 0-0 despite Edmonton impressively beginning with a 21-7 shots on goal advantage. Maybe that first period was a dress rehearsal of sorts? Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, and Evander Kane took over the middle frame, scoring four goals. Many of the goals were the sort of high-speed, high-skill, low-defense specials you only see so much during the postseason. Fifty-two seconds in, Zach Hyman scored a 1-0 goal. Then, in six minutes of game time, Evander Kane recorded a natural hat tric...

New Jersey Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald said during his season-ending press conference that he was willing to trade away his first-round pick in the NHL Draft. Then, that pick became second overall. It became a much different conversation. On paper, the difference between a second-overall pick and a fifth-overall pick (the Devils’ original position) should be menial at best. In reality, its value is impossible to really show. This year, this is especially true. There are five superstar prospects in the NHL Draft. It’s Shane Wright, Juraj Slafkovsky, Simon Nemec, Logan Cooley, and David Jiricek.Las Vegas Raiders Jerseys  There are others that analysts will fall in love with, but those seem to be the consensus top five. Now that the Devils have the second-overall pick, they have...