COLUMBUS, Ohio — Stephen Johns is allowed to make mistakes. He can play his game and take risks. He can learn from certain situations, and he has the confidence that when he makes a mistake he’ll have a chance to be better for it. “When you allow mistakes to happen, less mistakes happen,” Johns said. […]
The Upset
September’s Beltre and January’s Daniels discuss Adrian’s future with the Rangers
Last September, we were told about an upcoming conversation between Jon Daniels and Adrian Beltre in which the latter—just two years the junior of his employer—would seek assurance from the former that the Rangers would, in fact, not be going into “rebuild mode”. Such a conversation probably isn’t out of the norm. But for him […]
Thanks to healthy scratch Jason Spezza was back to “normal,” but what does that even mean?
DETROIT — For Ken Hitchcock making Jason Spezza a healthy scratch worked. He was able to reset the veteran forward, forcing him to watch a game from the press box for the first time in more than a decade, and on Tuesday Spezza had a pair of power play goals — his first multi-goal game […]
Jason Spezza Bounces Back From Healthy Scratch, Scores Twice as Stars Beat Red Wings 4-2
On the second game of a back-to-back, the Dallas Stars beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-2. Jason Spezza served up as strong as a bounce-back game as the Stars coaching staff could’ve hoped with two goals on the power play. John Klingberg and Alexander Radulov both finished with two assists, and Ben Bishop had a […]
Weezer and Muse and oh no what have I done
CHAPTER ONE: WEEZER I still remember the first time I heard Weezer. I was 14 years old and my friend Brian put on the Blue Album while we played Nintendo at his house. To set the scene: we lived in an extremely rural area of Texas in this pre-internet era, and neither of our households […]
Did You—Yes, You—Break Austin Bibens-Dirkx?
Two things seem to happen every year: the first is that—once there is no reason to hide an injury report—a gaggle of injuries come to light. Mike Napoli’s leg, Rougned Odor’s ankle, and so on and so forth. This happens to every team in baseball, and probably every team in sports. The second seems to […]