We’re halfway through the season and haven’t done a Grab Bag yet. Let’s fix that today, with your favorite Friday complete waste of time…
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Welcome back to the Grab Bag, a feature that runs weekly monthly whenever I get around to it during the season. If you’ve been around over the years, you know the drill. If you’re new, you can expect NHL personalities trying to be funny, obscure players, weird rants, unworkable ideas, and breakdowns of old YouTube clips that go into way too much detail. Will you learn anything important? You will not. Look, it’s Friday and we all deserve some occasional empty calories. Let’s get to it.
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In the Friday Grab Bag:
- My spies have dug up key details from the new CBA
- A debate about how to broadcast games in empty arenas
- An obscure player with great initials
- Comedy stars
- And a YouTube trip back to the 80s, where we learn about the power of friendship
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In this week's episode of the Puck Soup podcast:
- Gritty gets arrested
- We reveal our ballots for the PHWA's midseason awards
- Alexander Ovechkin chases 700
- We open up the mailbag for a round of Ask Us Anything
- A weird segue into the sitcom world of Perfect Stangers
- And more...
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In the Friday Grab Bag:
- Breaking down the answers in that ESPN player survey
- The standings were kind of broken all season and nobody noticed until a few days ago
- An obscure player with a brutal nickname
- The week's three comedy stars are swept by two teams
- And a YouTube look back at the pre-replay days, when coaches just ran across the ice to fight the timekeeper
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In the Friday Grab Bag:
- We need more rivalries like Doughty/Tkachuk and I have an idea on how we can get them
- Please tell me I'm not the only one developing trust issues when shots hit the post
- An obscure player who knew how to put on a show
- The week's three comedy stars
- And happier time for the San Jose Sharks (their goalie taking a slapshot to the pills)
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In the Friday Grab Bag:
- Coming up with reasons that various teams could beat the Lightning
- Are his fellow mascots right about Gritty being overexposed?
- An obscure journeyman who had one monster night
- The week's three comedy stars
- And a YouTube breakdown of the impact of NHL crowd noise, starring a wonderful sports psychologist who doesn't watch hockey
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In the Friday Grab Bag:
- The Three Stars of Comedy hall of fame class of 2019 is here, and it needs your vote
- A power ranking of the ten most entertaining choices for Seattle's new GM
- The NHL really needs to stop putting one player from every team in the all-star game
- An obscure player who's basically just there so I could make a bad Christmas pun
- And a YouTube look back at the modern NHL's original outdoor classic
In the Friday Grab Bag:
- How should you feel about Gritty? Take the mascot quiz and find out.
- The NHL web site gets a new section
- An obscure player who had one of the strangers -- and shortest -- careers ever
- The week's three comedy stars
- And more Guy Lafleur 70s smoothness, including a possible race car driver homicide
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