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Nice pick play by Stevenson on that goal. By nice, I mean “illegal interference”.

Worried Scheifele has separated his shoulder. Someone in Vegas was clearly sticking pins in his Jets voodoo doll since the Minnesota game. Dropping like flies.

And Lou Dobbs. And Glenn Beck. And Rush Limbaugh.

Thoughts and prayers, Tucker.

Bowness talked about playing 7 D tonight with the long minutes put in by Pionk et al on Saturday, so it well could be both Stanley and Capo going tonight.

Watching the playoffs has raised this question in my mind: If the Olympics started today, who would be Canada’s 3 goalies, and would they have the worst goaltending options of the main contenders (US, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czechia, Germany?, Swiss?, Denmark?)?

Bold prediction: Jack Black’s “Peaches” will get an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. It has already cracked the Billboard Top 100.

Depressing stat of the day - Jets 2.0 are 3-1 in playoff series that they have led at any point. They are 1-3 in series that have been tied at some point beyond game 1. But they are 0-5 in series where they have trailed at any point during the series. Further to that stat, going back to Jets 1.0 days, that version of the Jets was 0-11 in series where they trailed at any point. Coming back to win this series down 2-1 would truly be historic in Jets’ NHL history.

Tough break on the winner, but Vegas was winning the board battles tonight (today) and the Jets were outplayed looking at the overall game. Injuries catching up with them now.

I give you credit. You are here every game, win or lose, and wear your heart on your sleeve. The bad ones disappear when the team is rolling, but any slump and back they come chirping about “blow it up”, “(insert player or coach here) needs to go”, “always knew they were lousy”. They’d almost prefer we lose to trash the team and throw in a few “told you so”’s. You’re either with us or you are against us. At the game. Frustrating as hell the first 2 periods. But the crowd is back in it now. More free hockey!

3rd time in 2.0 history the Jets have erased a 3 goal deficit at home. Game 3 vs Nashville in 2018 (down 3-0 after 1, scored 4 straight in the 2nd and won 7-4) and 2021 vs. Edmonton (down 4-1 in the 3rd, won 5-4 in OT). Let’s hope the outcome tonight is similar. Free hockey on tap!

Captaincanuck12 will not return to tonight’s game due to a lower body injury. Sprained ankle due to jumping off and on the bandwagon so much.

The return of Ehlers would be huge in that regard. Hopefully we see him soon. I suspect he’s dealing with whiplash.

This feels like a rope-a-dope game. Jets were flying in the first but exhausted themselves while the Knights hung around. Now it looks like they have no jump as they double shift an ineffective top line.

Actually, it’s Miss Chenandler Bong

It’s hard to believe Scheifele was ever considered a possible forward for the Olympic team.

Vegas lucky to be down only one after the first, Winnipeg lucky to be tied after 2. Jets need to control the run-and-gun transition rushes of the Knighrs in the 3rd to pull this off.

Stats compiled by Brian Fantana.

This is kind hilarious, in a pathetic way. Lindell offered $5 million to anyone at his cyber-symposium who could disprove his election fraud claims and someone took him up on it. Proved that Lindell’s data was total nonsense, and then demanded payment. The courts just upheld this as a valid contract and ordered Lindell to pay. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/politics/mike-lindell-2020-election/index.html I will never understand what compelled Lindell to go down this road. Was his business model failing to such an extent that he figured the publicity, however negative, would boost his sales? Or is he a true believer?

Adin Hill, who won all 3 regular season games, might be the back-up. I think he is healthy again. Maybe we’ll see all 5 Vegas goalies by the end of the series.

Stuff like this always reminds me of Carlin. A couple of NSFW words in here (or as it used to be called, “swears”):

The word “weaponization” to me is tricky, because the label is applied by the opponent of that religion. So when someone says “Many of us don’t weaponize our spirituality” they may be speaking truthfully, but it is a subjective viewpoint. A Jewish person will say they don’t weaponize their religion, but were persecuted for their beliefs and almost exterminated in the Holocaust for it. But a Muslim will say “and you weaponized that into getting a nation state of Israel and kick us out of our land”. A Catholic will say all life is sacred so we must protect those rights of all humans, but others will say that stance has been weaponized to make abortion illegal and subjugate women’s rights. An Indigenous person could say their culture was stolen from them by the residential school system whose weaponization of the Christian beliefs tried to indoctrinate us to their ways. And those Christians may say that the Indogenous groups are now weaponizing their beliefs to create white guilt, forcing modern Canadians to make reparations for the sins of their fathers, and getting the laws of Canada in the Criminal Code altered to account for Indigenous status and give them a different standard of Justice. So it is weaponization or is it appropriate measures taken to right a wrong. Depends on which side of the fence you sit on. Why these labels can be inflammatory and subjective.

I won’t dive too deeply into someone’s spirituality, and I myself differentiate faith from religion, with faith as a useful moral guidepost as how to live one’s life as opposed to a strict dogma that must be rule-bound and followed as the one absolute truth. However, this quote from noted atheist Ricky Gervais regarding religion vs science stands out to me:

And welcome back to all the fans who were “so done with this team” 3 weeks ago.

His tears sustain me.