This might be the biggest Canada-Russia game since ‘72!
Mark Spector🇨🇦🇺🇦
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Mark Spector🇨🇦🇺🇦
@SportsnetSpec
Sr. columnist, Sportsnet.ca. Past President, Professional Hockey Writers' Association. Author of Battle of Alberta and Road to Gold. Skier of bumps.
- Proud to see my country on the right side of history.The fourth visit of Canadian Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. I am grateful to Canada for its leadership in supporting Ukrainians throughout these difficult three years and to Justin for organizing and hosting a productive
00:00 - This kid shouldn’t be doing this every day. Someone in the Rangers org needs to take better care of this young man. He does not always have to say yes. It’ll be a short career if he does.Mathieu Olivier lands some bombs on Matt Rempe 😱
00:00 - It’s not crazy when you think of all the people who work the concessions, parking, security, and clean the building. The folks NOT making a million or more per season. They deserve a work free holiday, IMO.Still crazy there isn’t even 2-3 games on either Christmas or Christmas Eve, wasted marketing opportunity.
- Trump blinks, like all bullies do when someone stands up to them. Bravo Trudeau and the premiers who stood up to him, which would exclude my premier here in Alberta. Proud, as always, to be Canadian.
- The replies carving Carney for supporting a local festival, like he’s supposed to be negotiating trade deals until midnite, 365 days a year. I’ll take a PM that spends a night at a blues festival God forbid he maybe had a cold beer or two - like a real person.
- Mattias Ekholm's wife is from northern Sweden. She skis, loves the snow, and according to her husband, can't wait to get to Edmonton with their kids to raise them in a proper winter climate. Finding a hockey wife that loves EDM weather. Perhaps Ken Holland's finest hour.
- To recap: The NHL strips the Sens of a 1st, because they did not disclose all the details in a transaction. But when the NHL brokered the sale of the team to Andlauer, they did not … disclose all the details in that transaction.
- Bowman on the $12.5 million: "That wasn't our pitch. It's what Connor wanted."
- This is what leadership sounds like. No jokes, no sarcasm, no insults. Just an intelligent, forthright game plan, to be executed at Canada’s pace, to Canada’s benefit, “from a position of strength.”PM @MarkJCarney says when asked about his government's approach to trade talks with the Trump administration. "The big issues around trade are going to need to be taken more comprehensively and they will be taken, from a Canadian perspective, from a position of strength," 💯
00:00 - John Klingberg, who is scheduled to play tonight for EDM, just told me that he had double hip surgery at age 18, and again at age 21. He has never played pain free in the NHL — until now, after his latest surgery. "I feel like a kid again."
- This is very well delivered."We are in a crisis, the global trading system has been upended, supply chains have been destroyed, McDavid is unsigned." Prime Minister Mark Carney started his caucus in Edmonton by talking about ... the McDavid contract.
00:00 - This was a 3-game suspension earlier this season.
- Women rugby players are way tougher than male soccer players. Don’t @ me.
