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Brennin has a dog, an MFA in directing, and an encyclopedic knowledge of hockey hugs.

Finnish floorball team makes offer sheet for Avalanche’s Mikko Rantanen

The Colorado Avalanche have yet to re-sign Mikko Rantanen who is currently a restricted free agent. Things are heating up on that front now that Finnish floorball team Nousiaisten Ryhti has offer-sheeted the right wing forward, offering some very compelling–and ridiculous–compensation in return.

The players Colorado would receive in compensation are Joel, who’s very skilled at collecting “balls/pucks from the rink/ice after practice,” although he is “without any brain activity,” and Tommi, their oldest player who has a “quite cute daddy-belly.”

Nousiaisten Ryhti play in Rantanen’s hometown of Nousiai. The team is also throwing in a bag of floorballs for general manager Joe Sakic. How can Sakic and the Avs refuse all of that?

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By Brennin Weiswerda 1 month ago

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Alex Ovechkin plays in charity basketball game to help raise money for the Kirilenko Fund

Alex Ovechkin continued his busy summer on Thursday with a charity basketball game. He and other professional Russian athletes participated to raise money for the Kirilenko Fund, which supports children in need, including funding for orphanages, hospitals, and sports facilities. The fund is named after Ovechkin’s friend Andrei Kirilenko, a retired basketball player and the current commissioner of the Russian Basketball Federation.

Ovechkin has played in charity basketball games before. In 2016, it was for a team coached by his mother Tatyana. Ovechkin wears number 8 because of her. She won two Olympic golds with the Russian women’s basketball team, one world championship, and six European championships.

Although her son mostly displays his athletic skills on the ice, he’s not so bad on the court.

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Nicklas Backstrom shows off sword-sheathing celly during Brynas’s annual ‘Black And White’ game

Nicklas Backstrom took part in the ‘Black and White’ annual game on Thursday with his former club Brynas IF. He and Capitals teammate Christian Djoos put up a valiant effort for Team Black, who lost by a score of 7-5. Backstrom certainly did his part, scoring on a penalty shot which tied up the game at 4-4.

After scoring, he celebrated like we’ve never seen him celebrate before.

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Tom Wilson and Alex Ovechkin dominate NHL’s regular-season hit highlight reel

The NHL shared its best regular-season hits highlight reel in super slow-mo, so you can enjoy the bone-crunching hits with exquisite precision. Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin and top-line Tom Wilson each had more highlight-reel hits than any other player.

The video starts with a cinematically-intense soundtrack and seemingly-innocuous shots of Ryan Reaves exiting a bus, Tom Wilson adjusting his wrist pads, and Brent Burns sporting a lovely french braid. Then the music drops the beat, Jake Muzzin drops the Ducks’ Kiefer Sherwood, and the action gets underway.

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Alex Ovechkin responds to Artemi Panarin’s criticism of Vladimir Putin

On Thursday, Alex Ovechkin held a press conference ahead of his annual youth hockey tournament in Moscow. Ovechkin was asked by a reporter about fellow Russian NHL player Artemi Panarin, who recently made comments critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The press conference was reported by Sport24, as translated by Igor Kleyner.

The reporter asked if Ovechkin agreed with Panarin’s comment that nothing has changed in Russia since the 1990s.

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The best of Gritty’s offseason adventures

The Philadelphia Flyers lost their last hockey game of the season in April, but less than a month later, their mascot Gritty started winning the entire summer. He’s receiving awards, posing for magazine covers, and rescuing hermit crabs. In other words: he’s living his best life.

He started off with a remake of Lil Nas X’s viral “Old Town Road” music video.

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Alex Semin captains preseason game for HC Vityaz

Former Capital Alex Semin wore the captain’s “K” on his jersey for a friendly preseason game in the KHL. Semin led HC Vityaz in their first exhibition game of the summer against Metallurg Magnitogorsk, which they lost by a score of 3-2. The game was played in Germany where the teams’ training camps are located.

Semin signed a one-year contract extension with Vityaz in May for the 2018-19 season after serving as one of the team’s alternate captain. The head coach of Vityaz referred to Semin as one of the team’s leaders.

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Merriam-Webster’s word of the day was ‘gritty’. Gritty, the Flyers mascot, was very excited.

Merriam-Webster’s word of the day on June 25, 2019 was the adjective “gritty,” which it defined as “showing courage and determination.”

The Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot–the proper noun Gritty–was on hand to make its presence felt.

Gritty and the Dictionary isn’t the celebrity couple we expected to fall in love with, but nevertheless, that’s where we are and where we’re happy to stay.

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Connor McDavid wore a shoelace-belt to the NHL Awards. Here’s why you shouldn’t chirp him about it.

No, seriously. Stop chirping Connor McDavid about his fashion choices. Yes, he wore a suit to the NHL Awards and looked like he used a skate lace as a belt and tied it with a big floppy bow. And yes, his skinny tie looks like it may, in fact, be a belt. It quickly went viral on Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit.

Maybe McDavid is trolling all of us with his tied-belt and belt-tie. Maybe he’s just having fun with his fashion. Either way: that’s okay.

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Five things you didn’t know about Alex Ovechkin’s selection at the 2004 NHL Draft

The 2019 NHL entry draft is Friday night in Vancouver. Before we look ahead to the Capitals’ 25th overall pick and the future of the franchise, let’s look back the 2004 draft and their first-overall pick: Alex Ovechkin.

We’ve covered this draft before, but here are some new (old) pieces of information that deserve another look. The year was 2004, the TV footage was grainy, and Raleigh, NC was about to echo with the sounds of “Let’s go Caps.”

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