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Time of India
15 hours ago
- Sport
- Time of India
How Nate Schmidt and Gustav Forsling have flourished in the Florida Panthers' system
Image Via Getty In South Florida, an unofficial haven is being created in the NHL for defensemen looking to regain confidence. For Schmidt, the opportunity to blend into the newly formed Florida Panthers lineup was, in some ways, a release. Schmidt is not alone herein this the seasoned Gustav Forsling, with Dmitry Kulikov and others, could equally attest that theirs is a defense-oriented culture of the Panthers. The underlying factor behind this phenomenon is the coaching intervention of Paul Maurice and Sylvain Lefebvre, an environment that values experience, is liberating in its structure, and encourages the player to retain his individuality. Paul Maurice-Sylvain Lefebvre's way of turning defensive veterans into gems Unlike many teams in the NHL that stick players in rigid roles, the Panthers have created a definition of defensive excellence that honors a player's right to simply be himself, with structure imposed, never suffocation. Confidence in assistant coach Sylvain Lefebvre is the cornerstone of Paul Maurice's philosophy. A Stanley Cup champion, Lefebvre brought to his coaching the player perspective from knowing the grind from both behind the bench and on the ice. Small matters of defense contributed by Lefebvre—stick positioning, aggression at the blue line, net-front coverage—have provided an adjustment for both rookies and the likes of Seth Jones. According to Jones himself, ever since the trade out of Chicago in March, he says that daily video sessions with Lefebvre and his patient approach helped him tweak certain things in his game that Jones himself neglected to work on for the longest of times. Nate Schmidt, previously guided by Maurice in Winnipeg, has found his groove once again in Florida. The tandem of coaches is given credit for letting Schmidt play his natural game without putting any unnecessary constraints on him. Gustav Forsling and Dmitry Kulikov, both of whom played very important roles in Florida's trip to the 2023 Stanley Cup, echoed such sentiments. It's not about regenerating players; it's about reminding them of their former selves at their best. Even Zito, the Panthers' GM, admits that defensemen almost always improve after arriving in Florida. There is an environment of togetherness, not competition, and Maurice does not micromanage the blue line because he trusts Lefebvre. Those same expectations have trickled down to the players. While Aaron Ekblad, the No. 1 pick of 2014, is considered local talent, the defensive unit otherwise does not consist of homegrown players, yet this unit operates as one. This system welcomes players on board with ease due to the fact that its foundation is egalitarian in terms of accommodating various styles of play; it favors speed and aggression. Also Read: Zach Werenski turns injury into inspiration with powerful Columbus comeback The Florida Panthers are not just building an NHL front team while running a career rejuvenation clinic for defensemen. With Paul Maurice and Sylvain Lefebvre paying close attention to every detail, players like Nate Schmidt, Gustav Forsling, and Dmitry Kulikov aren't just fitting in; they are thriving.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ludo Lefebvre Names His Top L.A. Mexican Haunts
Classically-trained French chef Lefebvre started a pop-up craze in L.A. in 2010, when he launched his fried chicken concept, 'LudoTruck' — which became his first brick-and-mortar location, LudoBird at the Staples Center. In 2013, he debuted the 24-seat tasting menu hot spot Trois Mec in Hollywood with Vinny Dotolo and John Shook; and in 2014, he opened popular French bistro, Petit Trois, next door. A Michelin star and James Beard Award nom followed — as did a second location of Petit Trois, in Sherman Oaks, in 2018. Last summer, the famed chef and TV personality partnered with the Delphine Day Club at Costa Palmas in Los Cabos ( where he serves his Nicoise cuisine to beachgoers over lively DJ beats. In honor of the club's second summer season, chef Ludo names his favorite Mexican dishes in Los Angeles. Table-Side Guacamole Casa Vega 'Casa Vega is a neighborhood icon in the Valley and it's right down the street from Petit Trois in Sherman Oaks. A true classic spot loved by all. It's always busy, the energy is amazing and it's just really fun. It's a MUST to start with the tableside guacamole, and they have one of the best margaritas in town.' $19, 13301 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, MoleGuelaguetza 'Guelaguetza is another classic. Bricia and her family have owned the restaurant, located in the middle of Koreatown, for over 30 years. They focus on Oaxacan food. I always get one of their moles. Sometimes I add chapulines [grasshoppers] to my tacos for a little extra protein. Don't forget to order one of the famous micheladas [cocktails]. Moles start at $22, 3014 W. Olympic Blvd., Harvard Heights, Prawns a la Parrilla Damian 'Damian is from Michelin-starred chef Enrique Olvera, who is really talented. The food here is a modern, refined take on Mexican. It combines ingredients and traditions from Mexico as well as California. Prawns a la Parrilla is one of my favorite dishes: [It's] fresh, light and full of flavor, with perfectly grilled prawns finished with flaky sea salt. $60, 2132 E. 7th St., DTLA,
CBC
21-03-2025
- Business
- CBC
Sudbury, Ont., mayor not phased over what tariffs could mean for nickel mining
The U.S. only has one nickel mine and it would take years to start new ones Sudbury's mayor says he's not worried that an ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States will hurt the city's nickel exports to the south. "I believe critical minerals, which obviously we are endowed with here in Greater Sudbury, play a role to maybe bridge that divide that we are currently living with the U.S. administration," said Sudbury Mayor Paul Lefebvre. "For them to realize the importance that they can't source this in the U.S." Lefebvre noted that the U.S. only has one active nickel mine, located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and it would take years, if not a decade, for that country to open more mines for the critical mineral. The ore from that American mine is also processed at a facility owned by mining giant Vale, in Sudbury. While Sudbury's two nickel miners – Vale and Glencore – could be shielded from tariff threats, they have been hit by low nickel prices, which are currently hovering around $7 US per pound. At a talk hosted by the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Gord Gilpin, Vale's director of Ontario operations for base metals, said the company had to recently lay off some workers to remain competitive, but did not say how many. "You know we're facing a real need to simplify our business and as a consequence of that, unfortunately we've had to make some tough, tough choices, but they are for the better of the business longer term," Gilpin told reporters after his keynote address. But Lefebvre said both Vale and Glencore continue to invest in mineral exploration in the region, with the former investing $250 million over the next three years to find new deposits. Lefebvre added that he sees potential for Sudbury to build a nickel sulfate processing plant, which is a key component of electric vehicle batteries. Vale is building such a plant in Bécancour, Que., which will be the first of its kind in Canada. The plant will use nickel pellets and rounds from its refineries in Sudbury and Long Harbour, N.L. and dissolve them in a mixture of sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide and water to make the nickel sulfate. Lefebvre said he's been in conversations with business leaders and the chiefs of nearby Wahnapitae First Nation and Atikameksheng Anishnawbek about moving ahead with such a facility in Sudbury. "I've been advocating for this as another level of keeping our ore, our nickel here for longer as we can do the advanced processing and create the jobs that we deserve here," he said.
CBC
19-03-2025
- Business
- CBC
Greater Sudbury to award contracts to firms with a 90 per cent Canadian workforce
Greater Sudbury will be updating its purchasing bylaws to ensure companies that provide goods and services to the city have an office or facility in Canada, and that at least 90 per cent of their workforce is Canadian. The motion was championed by mayor Paul Lefebvre and adopted unanimously by city council Tuesday night during a committee meeting. The change comes as two U.S.-based companies bid to become the operators for the city's new $200 million arena being planned for the downtown. "That's coming into play," said Lefebvre. "We have to make sure that whoever bids, anything that we do, is Canada first." He says this is part of Greater Sudbury's efforts to protect its local economy in the face of a Canada-U.S. tariff war. The two finalists hoping to manage Sudbury's future event centre will now be notified of the city's updated purchasing bylaws. If they can't meet the requirements, council will consider its options. "We all feel very emotional about this," said Lefebvre. "It starts with our procurement policies. We're going to explore this opportunity. If they fit, great. If not, come back to us." Lefebvre is not concerned the new requirements could cause delays in securing a company to manage the venue, as the downtown event centre is not set to open until 2028. "We have one chance to do this right, that's why we want the expertise up front… but if they don't fit, we will try to get that expertise in other ways." This latest motion out of Sudbury city council is part of a wider trend of municipalities changing their policies in the wake of the U.S.-Canada trade war.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Richard Williamson, outlaw bishop who denied the Holocaust and embarrassed the Vatican
Richard Williamson, who has died aged 84, was a renegade Catholic priest who caused embarrassment to the Vatican in January 2009 when it emerged that, shortly before Pope Benedict XVI lifted an excommunication on him imposed in 1988, he had made remarks denying the Holocaust. The British-born Williamson was a member of the ultra-traditionalist Society of St Pius X (SSPX), founded in 1970 by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in opposition to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), in particular the rendering into the vernacular of the Mass. When Lefebvre consecrated Williamson and three other SSPX priests as bishops in 1988 against the express orders of Pope John Paul II, the four, and Lefebvre, were automatically excommunicated. In 2007 Pope Benedict liberalised restrictions on the Tridentine Rite in what was seen as a step towards reconciliation with the Lefebvrists, and on January 21 2009 he lifted the 1988 excommunications. Although the society's bishops remained unable to serve legitimately within the Roman Catholic Church, the Pope hoped that lifting the excommunications might enable a 'more serene' discussion with society members about doctrinal differences. It emerged, however, that in November 2008 Williamson had claimed in a Swedish television interview (broadcast on the day the excommunications were rescinded) that the Nazis did not use gas chambers and killed no more than 300,000 Jews in concentration camps. The Vatican claimed that it had not known about Williamson's extreme anti-Semitic beliefs despite the fact that they could easily be found on the internet – and despite the fact that one of the Lefebvrists' original bones of contention was their opposition to the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate, which repudiated the charge of deicide levelled for centuries against the Jewish people. Nor, apparently, had Vatican officials noticed that as recently as March 2008 Williamson had described as 'authentic' the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion', a notorious forgery originating in Tsarist Russia which purports to reveal Jewish plots to achieve world domination. That same year the Catholic Herald had, in what Damian Thompson in the Telegraph described as 'a fruitless attempt to warn the Vatican what he was like', commissioned a front-page exposé of Williamson's anti-Semitism, including what Thompson described as 'his pathetic diatribe against The Sound of Music, of all films, for painting the German authorities in an unsympathetic light'. (Williamson had described the film as 'soul-rotting slush' and claimed that by putting 'friendliness and fun in the place of authority and rules', it invited 'disorder between parents and children'.) The affair turned into a major public-relations disaster for the Church, attracting criticism from Jewish groups, Catholic leaders and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel suspended contacts with the Vatican, and Williamson was later put on trial in Germany for publicly denying the Holocaust. He was found guilty and fined €12,000. To begin with, Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the SSPX, stated that Williamson's statements were his alone and that the affair did not concern the SSPX as a whole. A month after the interview, however, the SSPX partly disciplined Williamson by removing him from his position as the head of a seminary near Buenos Aires, while Argentina, which has one of the largest Jewish populations in the world outside Israel, gave him 10 days to leave the country. In a statement released by the Vatican's Ecclesia Dei commission (a body set up by Pope John Paul II to try to heal the rift with the SSPX), Williamson issued a mealy-mouthed 'apology', saying that his views on the Holocaust had been 'formed 20 years ago on the basis of evidence then available, and rarely expressed in public since'. He added: 'To all souls that took honest scandal from what I said, before God I apologise.' He did not, however, recant his view that the Holocaust was a fabrication, and the Vatican rejected his apology, saying it did not 'seem to respect the conditions' for his readmission to the church. But it was not until October 2012 that he was finally expelled from the SSPX, and then only for 'refusing to show respect and obedience deserved by his legitimate superiors'. The second of three sons, Richard Nelson Williamson was born into an Anglican family in Buckinghamshire on March 8 1940 to an English father and wealthy American mother. From Winchester College he read English at Clare College, Cambridge, and after graduation became a teacher. Williamson was received into the Catholic Church in 1971, but after a few months as a postulant at the Brompton Oratory, he left and became a member of the SSPX. He entered the society's International Seminary of Saint Pius X at Écône in Switzerland, and in 1976 was ordained a priest by Archbishop Lefebvre. Williamson subsequently moved to the US, where he served as rector of St Thomas Aquinas Seminary, first in Ridgefield, Connecticut then, after a move, in Winona, Minnesota, remaining rector after his 'consecration' as bishop. He used this occasion as the launch pad for a vitriolic diatribe against the 'poison' at the head of the church in Rome and against a pope guilty of 'the dreadful error of ecumenicalism'. In 2003 he was appointed rector of the Seminary of Our Lady Co-Redemptrix in La Reja, Argentina. By the time his excommunication was lifted, Williamson had been quoted as saying that Jews had made up the Holocaust, and it was alleged that he believed the September 11 terrorist attacks were part of a US government plot to ensure Jewish world domination. He also supported conspiracy theories regarding the assassination of President John F Kennedy and held extreme views on the role of women. 'A woman can do a good imitation of handling ideas, but then she will not be thinking properly as a woman,' he declared, while on another occasion he observed that 'women's trousers are an assault upon woman's womanhood'. After his expulsion from Argentina he was reported to have contacted the revisionist historian David Irving, asking how to present his views on the Holocaust without arousing controversy. Williamson was a vehement opponent of efforts by the SSPX to win reintegration into the Church, which he regarded as being under 'the power of Satan'. Tensions within the society rose following the lifting of the excommunications, and after a number of incidents, including calling for the resignation of Bernard Fellay as the Superior General of the SSPX, Williamson was expelled from the Society in 2012. Refusing to go quietly, he founded 'SSPX Resistance', with himself as leader, describing it as 'a group of traditional Catholics who wish to practise their Faith without compromise to Liberalism or Modernism'. He proceeded to ordain several more bishops and in 2015 was excommunicated by the Catholic Church for a second time. Richard Williamson, born March 8 1940, died January 29 2025 Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
