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It looks like a broad swath of Ontario towns elected new mayors and Toronto became more progressive, and in that context, with massively unpopular conservative provincial government, Ottawa re-elected its conservative mayor by 11 points over the only credible challenger :/

There are many provinces in Canada that make a person say, “I wonder what the fuck those people are doing,” and BC is one of them.

There’s no better commercial to follow the TSN radio broadcast of a Sens win than “Looking to patent your invention idea?” I would give anything to see a list of the inventions submitted by drunk Sens fans after a win.

I gotta admit, Leiper is making a race of this thing in Ottawa, on a platform of raising taxes I thought was unelectable. I’ll happily eat crow if I was wrong. Polling in municipal races isn’t terribly high quality, but I could see motivated turnout from urban districts creating an upset.

Congratulations to Connor Hellebuyck on being traded from obvious loser team Winnipeg Jets (11 points without him in the lineup) to clear contender New Jersey (12 points and just traded a top six center to get him)

I wasn’t able to watch the game but I see Sens outshot the Sharks 43-28 and lost 6-2, so I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Ersson Ersson’d

You would do that to my beautiful Jake Sanderson’s +/-?

Re: Brady, I honestly think what he did - informing his team with plenty of notice that he wasn’t going to re-sign - is totally different from what Larkin or Hellebuyck did, demanding a trade soon after signing a big extension, wanting the benefits of a contract without the obligations.

I obviously want the Sens to beat the hell out of a division rival at every opportunity, but this isn’t a Heatley situation, and I don’t feel betrayed by the guy. And teams will learn, just like they did with drafting players who have KHL offers, to risk adjust for brothers in the NHL.

The list of UFA defensemen includes 🎶 Travis Hamonic 🎶🥰

Brief pause from Sens coverage to acknowledge: bars

Man, the Sens are great on the cycle, but we could use a finisher or two. It’s a lot of running laps around the perimeter, dominating possession, and no shots on net to show for it. We really are Carolina from 2-3 years ago.

Small detail, but Zub makes a 135ft pass banked off the boards to Foegele, not exactly a playmaker, who passes it on his backhand to Greig, not a scorer, who goes top shelf, and the three of them don’t make a big deal out of it at all. Taps on the helmet, back to the bench, let’s go get another.

This is really good. I’ve been a big whiner about how most hockey journalism is just endlessly recapping things we already know and competing for who can have the strongest opinions. I don’t see many articles that take that next step of investigating. Good stuff.