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Honestly I think El Sayed might be a 97.1 The Ticket listener with that answer

Lol but also I was eleven and that was the last time I cried over a sporting event

Ah yes, "coveted destination," the team that hasn't had a serious marquee free agent signing in years and whose recently-demoted captain is desperately trying to get out

The Detroit Red Wingers are my favorite squadron.

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That’s very true.

And because Defector rules, @laurentheisen.bsky.social did exactly that.

Pay Simon Chris!

I get it, not everyone follows hockey closely, but everyone I have ever met from Michigan views hockey like the all- consuming religion it is. If you grew up north of Indiana and don't follow hockey, that's a red flag, like dogs having a preternatural anger towards you.

OG After Dark had him on the mic after a Stanley Cup Final game. Coop knew his stuff, and was engaging/entertaining. Kind of wish they kept him on panel through the remainder of the show, he was legitimately informed/good.

That’s cause he’s from Florida.

That’s because Abdul is a sports fan. Mike isn’t.

Comment is a high kick-point flex.

Ah, that beauty of a face wash, and then Vernon getting involved, eventually squaring up with Patty Roy...classic line brawl!

Of course you're going to see these levels of flexion from a man who takes questions in front of a rack that has both a cambered bar and a safety squat bar

tbf "I was at the game where Darren McCarty took on Claude Lemieux" is the Michigan version of Indiana's "I was at the 1990 State Finals where Damon Bailey beat Jamar Johnson" where approximately 725,000 people claim to have been there.

That is such a flex. I only was at a Wings/Habs preseason game in 1994. The only other time I was at JLA was for the 1995 CCHA Semifinals. AES was there for one of Hockeytown's most epic nights, the lucky bastard.

Most fun I ever had at a sports bar was for the 2002 finals, cheering on the Hurricanes from AJ Gators in VA Beach. We wound up next to a table of red wings fans for game 1 and had such a good time giving each other shit we met up for the next 4 games and all watched together. Golden era of hockey.

When I was going to school at Bowling Green (1992-95), I listened to or watched the Wings every night I could.

the last several years have been hard but I would still run through a brick wall for Steve Yzerman

I said an audible "god damn" here at work. Trying to figure out how to move to Michigan and vote now.

It was also my first live hockey game. I remember my grandpa telling me to remember it since is was once in a lifetime to see that kind of game. After my last time at LCA though, I kinda wish I just kept the memories. Bad game and worse fans all around me; we got up and left after the first period.

That lead to my friends going around saying "We spit on you Lemieux, spit-tew." God, everybody in the state hated that guy.

And calling out the current dysfunction and #LGRW topic #1, the Edv contract mess.

aw man, that's so cool. i always played as him in the EA Sports NHL game back when people still did things like "lock to one player"

I've got the turtle photo framed in my basement.

As someone who was also at that game, Abdul is the first guy I know who was also there.

everybody always says damn this guy is good but damn this guy is good

El-Sayed is absolutely enjoying the Chip Kelly offense at Northwestern, while calling for Tommy Carr to start over Bryce Underwood at Michigan.

No joke, he was a guest on MGoPodcast back in the day.

This is how you do it.

Mike Rogers:

Except for the misspelling of prestige, Rodgers' answer could absolutely have been AI-generated.

Lazlo Holmes-ass statement

Puck is just Canadian for Ball

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“Ah did ma research!”

The proper form of this is "they don't know a pucking thing"

Hockey is the sportsball where the ball is flat.

The GQP loves season ending lockouts.

Yes but AES didn't even talk about the Red Wings' "rpestige!"

One away from asking you if you saw that ludicrous display last night.

Yeah, man, top destination for top players, that's why we haven't made the playoffs in a fucking decade and our 2nd-line-center-at-best fuckboy captain tried to bail out over the offseason.

El-Sayed seems to know exactly what is going on with the Red Wings. If anyone has watched a game recently they can see the empty stands. Gone straight downhill since Sr. Ilitch passed away. Mike Rogers doesn't know squat since they probably don't show those games in Florida.

10 YEARS! We have basically no scouting core (notice how all our best players are from the Swedish Junior League)? We have no farm league system. And haven't had the same goalie for more than 3 years since 2016. It's fucking EMBARRASSING!

AND HE’S RIGHT TOO

rpestige

Isn't it a puck here.

Now that’s an answer El-Sayed!

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(For the unaware, Pennsylvania sports fandoms are roughly divided between Philly to the east and Pittsburgh to the west and Erie is in the northwestern-most corner of the state.)

I wonder what the votes-per-dollar ROI is on running ads that are just "Dammit you asshole, pay the guy what he deserves. I'm Abdul El-Sayed and I approve this message."

That's what we say in Ohio, too. And I never had a problem asking for a "Labatt's" or a "Molson's" in Windsor or TO.

There were several fights and this one isn't the one AES would post, but it's the one I'm posting :) Good luck to Abdul El Sayed and go win the election ✊ youtu.be/LFt5wvKr3FM?...

Tbf theyre no longer interested in boys when they turn 18.

I was at the game, too, where McCarthy beat the snot out of Lemieux. I bought my one and only ever sports memorabilia that night. A McCarthy game sweater. Go Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social I voted for you - thanks for the memories!

Staffers writing me an AI hockey blurb for $200, Ken

To be clear, my feelings about Mississauga itself are neutral at best, but I do like Mississauga Guys.

There's no way for that to be complimentary lol

He’s not a Leafs fan thank goodness.

El-Sayed sounds like every Red Wings fan on earth right now.

I'm liking AES more every day.

Rogers has a commercial out about drinking labatts and watching the wings lol

Being a Republican means not participating in society is a bragging point.

Well at least the Rogers campaign knows how to use AI.

we let you play with us

So....Rogers knows puck all?

El-Sayed just won over more middle-aged white guys from Detroit than he has with any other policy issue.

The first statement 100% has the vibe of an AI generated product description on eBay

I swear republicans have a chatgpt chip installed in their brains. You couldn't get a more "opening paragraph of the wiki entry" if you tried.

Missouri Senator and Virginia resident Josh Hawley once showed his cred by mentioning his favorite KC barbeque...a place on the Kansas side.

Republicans don’t actually like…well, anything, so this isn’t a surprise

I need AES’ thoughts on what the package for Larkin should be

Only a true fan is able to get into the minutia like this. El-Sayed is the real deal

🤣🤣🤣

Don't forget Lidstrom.

100% lol

the edvinsson thing is extra stupid because they fired their GM during the offseason and didn't hire another one (the team is run by an interim GM) and this guy, without a contract, showed up to training camp and paid his own insurance to be there. now that they lowballed him he asked for a trade

Wow. A disgruntled fan. Passes the test.

It looks like the stuff AI trains on to produce slop.

Rogers:

Rogers with the same opinions as ChatGPT

I’ve never seen something more clearly AI written than Rogers answer

Got to respect the call out of those peak Avs/Red Wings games. As an Avs fan, I really disliked the Red Wings back then. Now I would give a toe to experience that rivalry again.

Dragging Chris Ilitch during a political campaign is fucking amazing. Two billionaire sports owners basically control downtown. One’s building businesses and residences. The other owns parking lots and empty promises. One owns the Wings and Tigers. The other the Cavs. Guess which one is building

Wow

I need AES to focus some energy on Jim Crane now

Dude. Fuck the red wings, but that is such a god damn own. Rodgers should just drop out in shame right now.

Guy who asked ChatGPT so he could pretend he watches hockey vs Guy who watches hockey.

Weak, weak sauce from Rogers.

Yeah, it's up there. He's a three-sport captain in high school, lacrosse at both Michigan and Oxford. As his opponent, you're gonna have to cede sportsball to him. Oh, and maybe steer clear of health care issues too. Having the Ohio VP call the wolverine a weasel is basically campaign seppuku.

Mike Rogers’ statement reads like it was written by ai and run by a consultant

echoes of the Mamdani Knicks roll-call at the championship parade. Kyle O'Quinn hive stand up!!!!

I hope he wins, but i do think the general racism of my fellow Michiganers will ultimatly usher in the carpet bagger. Here's hoping tho!

Rogers' comment 100% likely AI, according to several detectors. Adding the typo is the most human touch!

We are truly finding out this election season how many Rs are not, in fact, ball knowers

goddamn, it's a drubbing

New haircut same great president!

lol at Rogers' slop here. "A coveted destination" meanwhile the two biggest Wings stories are the former captain and Edvinsson (h/t to El-Sayed) demanding out of town. If you're going to lie about not being a Florida man, at least pick up a damned paper.