Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards made waves during the NBA’s All-Star Weekend by criticizing basketball stars’ tendency to sit games voluntarily.  The former number 1 draft pick said that for the most well-conditioned human beings on the planet, missing games arbitrarily was not fair to the league’s paying customers.  “These people might have enough money to come to one game,” …

Through 35 games, this Flyers season which was once full of promise has fallen flat for the second year in a row. After an 8-4-2 start, we’ve seen a 10-game losing streak, the firing of Alain Vigneault, and half the Flyers’ team being wiped out by COVID protocol. With the retooling done by Chuck Fletcher over the offseason, it looked …

Soon after the shortened 2021 NHL season plans were released, I wrote that no team could afford to fall into a slump if they have any intention of making the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Twenty-six fewer games is a massive discrepancy when compared to the standard 82-game schedule.  As a result, I sit here today with a very negative outlook for …