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PUT THE MASK ON NOW (or in roughly 90 minutes when it airs)

No doubt in my mind it was accidental. It is troubling how much is going to be made of this tragedy because of racism.

We are a Gamera completist household over here, so Gamera Vs. Jiger was a must. Great riff of a very, very bad movie. The Mask was a flick I had never even heard of and it was a revelation. Words can't do it real justice. I think those two and Munchie were my favourites from the last season. They're doing a watchalong of Million Eyes of Sumuru tomorrow night. I tapped out of an earlier attempted watch, so I may use this as my second chance to try getting into that one.

I didn't put up for S13 and ended up really enjoying the ones I saw, so this time I decided to kick in. Hopefully they can get it over the line, but so far it's about 30% of the way to the first goal. Deathsport is the second movie announced!

It's very cowardly. Basically the whole league has to run cover for the handful of players who didn't want to wear Pride jerseys but also didn't want the smoke from being publicly id'ed as a homophobe. Now all community outreach suffers. Backwards league that can't get out of its own way.

Camps are open and preseason has begun, felt like time for a new thread. How's your team looking? Expectations/surprises so far? Any hot tips for fantasy drafts?

I don't know who thought this was a good idea. I didn't expect he would be turfed before ever actually stepping foot onto the bench, but Babcock's presence was obviously going to create a very scrutinized and negative atmosphere around the team. They have so many skilled young prospects, I can't fathom why the disgraced psychological terrorist was their top pick for a new coach.

Good to start early.

I've never been to Columbus but I have been to Calgary, and yeah, it would have to be an improvement.

You would hope Toronto hasn't overlooked the fact that ~45 goals disappeared from this last season's forward group without any detectable replacement so far. I think a trade has to be on the way. Defence is unchanged and their goaltending will likely be worse so they will have to keep the scoring pace up. Gaudreau to Columbus is a head scratcher. They're not a contender and offered less money than he could have had elsewhere. I really thought NJ was going to be the place based on some of the moves they had made. Tampa locked up some of their core with 8 year extensions a full year early, so it will be interesting to follow them this seasons and into next summer. Who stays, who goes, how do they try to keep this thing rolling without a tear-down? Always interested in the big spender teams that end up with all kinds of cap room to blow on bad deals. I think Detroit did alright for themselves in that spot and didn't sign anything too egregious. Definitely made some improvements to their team so they won't be consciously a bottom-dweller next year.

Though the Blues came back and won the game, it doesn't get much better than this in terms of single-handed dominance. I could watch this a hundred times and still marvel.

It's a rare gift (or rarely a gift?) to play your best and worst hockey inside the same 60 minutes. This Leafs group does it all the time and in no specific order.

The video and the ovation at Bell Centre tonight were something else.

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Season two of Righteous Gemstones already off to a sprint with some origin story stuff and great new guest stars being introduced. This cast is so deep and the performances are just awesome.

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Wordle 201 6/6 ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I already have my students playing NYT's Spelling Bee, this is definitely going into the rotation as well.

Don't ask them, they don't know.

Clearly no eagerness to take on a lot of term or money with their picks. Francis had said cap flexibility was going to be their strength and you can already see that playing out in how they've picked. Locking down Larsson and Oleksiak as free agents gives them some solid defensive stability and will help to shelter guys like Lauzon, Dunn, and the Fleurys.

Wild were set up to get burned by the expansion draft, they had to do something. The buyouts might be the least painful way to get out of that jam and hold on to their younger players. It's a long time to carry dead money but the cap probably will go up and soften the blow a bit. Erik Johnson and Jeff Skinner both waived no move clauses for the draft, sparing their teams the pain of having to make similar hard choices. Pekka Rinne's retirement also snuck in under the radar with all the other stuff going on. Not a Hall of Famer but certainly in a class with other great goalies. A Vezina win, good career stats, and some very memorable performances.

$5k fine from player safety, no further discipline...

I've just got my head around the mod suite stuff and it's breathed some new life back into the game for me. Made it super easy to delete a lot of edits I wasn't using and reorganize my rosters. I simmed a true Royal Rumble with about 75 wrestlers in it and had a blast watching it pan out. At one point I had a stretch with Big Bossman and about 4 other hosses just clubbing each other on one side of the ring while Nakamura and Misawa battled it out 1-on-1 on the other. The finish was Kobashi drawing the final number, immediately going after Samoa Joe who had been ruling the ring and then dispatching everyone left over to win it.

Can’t remember an instance like this where two back-to-back picks from the same draft (2 & 3 in 2016) get swapped later on down the line. You wait to play the games obviously, but this feels like a trade where maybe everybody wins? CBJ get a serious shot in the arm offensively and WPG is pretty frightening now down the middle.

I can't unsee that the gradient on the Canucks one makes it look like a can of Sprite.

Minnesota's is really nice, almost feel like they should be wearing those full-time. That and the Avs/Nordiques mash-up are easily my favourites.