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A complete list of forwards who have been on the ice for more 5v5 goals than Fraser Minten (8):
Connor McDavid (13)
Leon Draisaitl (11)
Nathan MacKinnon (11)
Martin Necas (10)
Three 5v5 goals against Minten, btw. Oilers duo has surrendered 2; Avs pair, 4 (Mac) and 5 (Marty).
Four New England programs selected for USA Hockey Development League bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/s… via @BostonGlobe
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‘You wanted to root for him’: Owen Coyne’s parents, Marblehead community share memories of one of town’s best trib.al/9JHgaCW
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Mass. high schools aren’t required to have a full-time athletic trainer. What will it take to change that? trib.al/dbcGXY0
From the archives:
[new] on David Pastrnak, somewhat reluctant superstar:
“I don’t play hockey for fame. I play because I love it.”
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"It's pretty heavy, man."
(from when he wore the 'C' at the 2020 All-Star Game)
(a time that now feels like 57 years ago)
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This is the head of Rivals/On3 defending the practice of charging high school players for ranking consideration.
Or it's Claude or ChatGPT defending that practice. Not sure
1.04M kids played HS football last season. About 6,600 held a Rivals star rating… roughly 0.6%.
That's not a talent gap. It's a capacity gap. Our scouts have always focused on FBS prospects, and FCS, D-II, NAIA and D-III kids rarely get their film watched.
Rivals Recruits puts the same scouts, held to the same standards, on more of that film.
You can pay for an evaluation. You can't pay for the result.
Great resource and link for all college coaches and scouts. More opportunities for athletes.
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Throwing up the 'U' one time for an absolute legend of the game.
🚨✍️My final column for the Miami Herald...Thanks to all who have followed my work.
Kaufman: Thirty years and 12,000 bylines at the Herald; it’s been quite a ride | Opinion
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@MiamiHerald @HeraldSports #MichelleKaufman #SportsJournalism
For parents willing to pay, Masters Academy International promises a top-flight athletic and academic experience.
But as kids drop out of sport at alarming rates and costs climb ever higher, could MAI be part of the problem?
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What I saw on my Week 1 road trip through the best of Eastern Mass. high school football trib.al/FnQZ8Xc
Hurting for all the brilliant, diligent journalists I knew and learned from in South Florida (including Barry, whose notes columns are by themselves worth the price of a subscription).
I am grateful to have gotten out of there just as Gannett was taking over the Palm Beach Post.
For those wondering why this is happening - why the Herald, Sentinel and Palm Beach Post have dropped from a collective 35 plus sportswriters at the turn of the century to 12 total at this moment - it's because the owners (Chatham Asset Management, Alden Global Capital, Gannett, respectively) have seen revenues plummet in this new media/AI world where it's easier than ever to get information for free. All 3 companies have determined, at least to this point, that they can't make it work without paywalls. But, sadly, it's not producing the revenue these companies want with paywalls either. It's a dying industry, folks, with no clear path to recovery. In the meantime, enjoy the games today.
In 2020, I was all-in on the Bruins trading for Chris Kreider:
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Now, when he's a half-decade older, at a lower cost? Still love it.
Has game left, no fear of the paint, captain material. Rebuilding org with a bunch of young Fs - he raises the standard.
