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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Six Past NHL Trade Deadline Deals That Land On The Regret-O-Meter
Over the past 15 years, NHL teams that ponied up some high-priced packages to land sought-after players at the trade deadline were left with buyer's remorse. Here are six of those trades on the Regret-O-Meter. By Jared Clinton, Features Writer St. Louis Blues: Ryan Miller, 2013-14 (with Steve Ott from Buffalo for 2015 first-round pick, 2016 third-round pick, Jaroslav Halak, Chris Stewart and William Carrier) A big splash, Miller floundered in St. Louis. In post-deadline action, Miller put up mediocre numbers, and his post-season performance was downright woeful. He allowed 19 goals on 185 shots as the Blues sputtered out of the first round in six games. Tampa Bay Lightning: Tanner Jeannot, 2022-23 (from Nashville for 2023 third, fourth, fifth-round picks, 2024 second-round pick, 2025 first-round pick and Cal Foote) Beyond his 24-goal rookie year, Jeannot held appeal with his physicality and toughness, and the Bolts went above and beyond to land him. But in 75 games with Tampa, he had only 18 points – and just one in the playoffs – as the Lightning made consecutive first-round exits. Vegas Golden Knights: Tomas Tatar, 2017-18 (from Detroit for 2018 first-round pick, 2019 second-round pick, 2021 third-round pick) On a per-game basis, Tatar's regular-season output dipped only slightly after his acquisition. But in the playoffs? Tatar was scratched for 12 of 20 games during the Knights' run to the final. If he performs, perhaps Vegas has two Cups. New York Rangers: Eric Staal, 2015-16 (from Carolina for 2016 second-round pick, 2017 second-round pick and Aleksi Saarela) Staal was a headline-making pickup, but he flopped. He managed just three goals and six points in 20 games to finish the campaign, then failed to hit the scoresheet in the post-season as the Blueshirts flamed out in five games. Columbus Blue Jackets: Marian Gaborik, 2012-13 (with Blake Parlett and Steven Delisle from New York Rangers for 2014 sixth-round pick, Derick Brassard, Derek Dorsett and John Moore) It was a statement trade by the Jackets, who were in the hunt, but it was all for naught. Gaborik excelled, but Columbus narrowly missed the post-season. Injuries then hampered him, and he was dealt to L.A. in March 2014. Chicago Blackhawks: Dale Weise, 2016-17 (with Tomas Fleischmann from Montreal for 2018 second-round pick and Phillip Danault) Weise ended up a healthy scratch in Chicago and managed one goal and two points across 19 regular-season and playoff outings. Meanwhile, Danault evolved into one of the NHL's premier two-way pivots. This article appeared in our 2025 Top 100 NHLers issue. This issue focuses on the 100 best players currently in the NHL, with the Avalanche's Nathan MacKinnon sitting atop the list. We also include features on Alex Ovechkin finally beating Wayne Gretzky's goal-scoring record, and former CFL running back Andrew Harris' switch to semi-professional hockey. In addition, we provide a PWHL playoff preview as the regular season nears its end. You can get it in print for free when you subscribe to The Hockey News at today. All subscriptions include complete access to more than 76 years of articles at The Hockey News Archive.
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Yahoo
Man who petrol bombed home jailed for four years
A man who put the lives of a young mother and her two children at risk when he threw a petrol bomb at their home while they were asleep has been jailed for more than four years. Ryan Miller, 37, admitted starting a fire in Deeping St James, near Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, after being "rebuffed" by the woman three days earlier. The judge who sentenced Miller on Friday said "it was luck this was not a far greater tragedy". Miller will have to serve an extended licence period of three years on his release from prison. Lincoln Crown Court heard the mother was woken by a "bang" at 01:00 BST and saw flames when she looked out of the rear bedroom in Thackers Way, where she was sleeping with her children, aged three and six. Denney Lau, prosecuting, said: "She immediately gathered her children and took them out the front door. "When she returned to the property she saw a smashed bottle with a sock inside." A neighbour called the fire brigade after he saw flames rising above 6ft-high wall. He spoke to Miller at the scene and described his speech as "slurred". Miller denied arson during his police interview but forensic tests on the bottle matched his DNA and showed petrol had been used as an accelerant. He later pleaded guilty to a charge of arson while reckless as to whether life was endangered on 16 October 2023. Barnaby Shaw, in mitigation, said Miller suffered from a brain injury as a result of a road accident in 2021, and prison would make his psychiatric state worse. Mr Shaw told the court: "[The arson] occurred some 18 months ago. While I can't say there have been no problems [since then], there has been no escalation. "When he is not drinking he is a man full of ideas, aspirations, hope and humour. He wants to work and set up his own landscape gardening business." Judge James House KC told Miller that he manufactured a Molotov cocktail and, while drunk, threw it at the rear of his neighbour's home. "It is fortunate she woke up," Judge House said. "She raised her children, got her dog and left." Miller was given a restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim and her family. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Ryan Miller Commits To Denver
Portland Winterhawks forward Ryan Miller has committed to Denver, it was announced earlier this week. A native of Medicine Hat, AB, Miller has 24 points (12 goals, 12 assists) in 39 regular season games for the Winterhawks this season. In two-plus WHL seasons with Portland, Miller has played 89 regular season games, tallying 39 points (18 goals, 21 assists). A 2007-born skater, Miller was ranked as the 118th best North American skater by NHL Central Scouting in its 2025 Draft Prospects Midterm Rankings. Miller is expected to make the jump to the NCAA level and join the Pioneers for the 2026-27 season. Make sure you bookmark The Hockey News' NCAA Page for the latest news, exclusive interviews, breakdowns and so much more.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Opinion: Feel free to hate me, but I'm rooting for Team Canada in 4 Nations
O Canada, my (summer) home and (not) native land. Tonight, I root for thee. Yes, that makes me an American rooting against Americans, which is un-American. But, hey, I have my reasons. We're talking about the so-called 4 Nations Face-Off, the round-robin hockey tournament that is down to two nations. Tonight's championship game is Team USA versus Team Canada. It will be played at Boston's TD Garden, an arena named for a Toronto-based bank — and owned by a Buffalo-based company. (As it happens, Delaware North's global headquarters offers expansive views of Buffalo's gateway to Canada, Fort Erie.) It's fine if you think my rooting interest makes me unpatriotic. Go ahead, call me a snowflake. (Canada gets a lot of those in winter.) Look, I rooted hard for Team USA to beat Team Canada in the finals of the 2010 Winter Olympics, in Vancouver. Ryan Miller, then goaltender of the Buffalo Sabres, was voted the tournament's Most Valuable Player. Alas, Team Canada won in overtime on Sidney Crosby's golden goal. And I rooted for the Czech Republic to beat Canada in the semifinals of the 1998 Winter Olympics, in Nagano, Japan. Dominik Hasek, then the Sabres goalie, stoned a murderers' row in a classic shootout: Theo Fleury, Ray Bourque, Joe Nieuwendyk, Eric Lindros, Brendan Shanahan. (All red-blooded Canadians know a national lament: How on earth did Wayne Gretzky not get to take a shot?) But all of that was then. This is now. And I'm all in for Canada. As you've no doubt heard, the American president says he wants to make Canada the 51st state. The very notion is deeply disrespectful. Canadians sometimes can't quite define their national identity, but this much they know for sure: They are not us. "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant," Pierre Trudeau famously told the National Press Club in Washington in 1969, when he was prime minister. "No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." Another view: Vance's speech shows VP's star is on the rise. I'm proud of America again. | Opinion These days, the beast is not so friendly. The American president says he has plans to place steep tariffs on Canada, our biggest trading partner. If it happens, the Peace Bridge connecting Buffalo and Fort Erie might as well be the Trade War Bridge. Our countries have not been actual enemies since the War of 1812, when the Americans burned Newark, now known as Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. And then the Brits burned Buffalo. (The White House came next.) We've been at peace with Canada ever since. (Well, except for a skirmish in 1866 when Irish-American Civil War vets known as Fenians rowed across from Buffalo and shot up Ridgeway, Ontario.) I've spent happy parts of every summer of my life, except the COVID one, in a cousin-shared cottage on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie. When we're there, we are only a stone's throw from Buffalo — and yet also a world away. This is a rare gift that only border towns can know. In Canada's honor, allow me to express the feeling bilingually: Vive la différence! And now here comes Team USA, whose general manager told Fox News the other day that the American players are using the American president's regrettable remarks as "inspiration." "I think there was a political flair to it," Bill Guerin told Fox of last week's fight-filled first game with Canada. "It's just the time that we're in." It's a terrible time. Last week, Canadian fans in Montreal booed during the American anthem. Please understand, they were not booing the American players, and they were not booing America. They were booing the sword of Damocles that hangs unfairly over their heads. I hope that the American crowd in Boston will not boo the Canadian anthem tonight. Team USA and Team Canada are bitter rivals on the ice. That's hockey. But our countries are not enemies. We are best friends. And we pray it stays that way. That's why tonight I will root for the True North, strong and free. Go, Canada. You hosers. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Canada vs USA in 4 Nations Face-Off: I'm picking Canadians
USA Today
20-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Opinion: Feel free to hate me, but I'm rooting for Team Canada in 4 Nations
Erik Brady Special for USA TODAY O Canada, my (summer) home and (not) native land. Tonight, I root for thee. Yes, that makes me an American rooting against Americans, which is un-American. But, hey, I have my reasons. We're talking about the so-called 4 Nations Face-Off, the round-robin hockey tournament that is down to two nations. Tonight's championship game is Team USA versus Team Canada. It will be played at Boston's TD Garden, an arena named for a Toronto-based bank — and owned by a Buffalo-based company. (As it happens, Delaware North's global headquarters offers expansive views of Buffalo's gateway to Canada, Fort Erie.) It's fine if you think my rooting interest makes me unpatriotic. Go ahead, call me a snowflake. (Canada gets a lot of those in winter.) Look, I rooted hard for Team USA to beat Team Canada in the finals of the 2010 Winter Olympics, in Vancouver. Ryan Miller, then goaltender of the Buffalo Sabres, was voted the tournament's Most Valuable Player. Alas, Team Canada won in overtime on Sidney Crosby's golden goal. And I rooted for the Czech Republic to beat Canada in the semifinals of the 1998 Winter Olympics, in Nagano, Japan. Dominik Hasek, then the Sabres goalie, stoned a murderers' row in a classic shootout: Theo Fleury, Ray Bourque, Joe Nieuwendyk, Eric Lindros, Brendan Shanahan. (All red-blooded Canadians know a national lament: How on earth did Wayne Gretzky not get to take a shot?) But all of that was then. This is now. And I'm all in for Canada. As you've no doubt heard, the American president says he wants to make Canada the 51st state. The very notion is deeply disrespectful. Canadians sometimes can't quite define their national identity, but this much they know for sure: They are not us. "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant," Pierre Trudeau famously told the National Press Club in Washington in 1969, when he was prime minister. "No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." Another view:Vance's speech shows VP's star is on the rise. I'm proud of America again. | Opinion These days, the beast is not so friendly. The American president says he has plans to place steep tariffs on Canada, our biggest trading partner. If it happens, the Peace Bridge connecting Buffalo and Fort Erie might as well be the Trade War Bridge. Our countries have not been actual enemies since the War of 1812, when the Americans burned Newark, now known as Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. And then the Brits burned Buffalo. (The White House came next.) We've been at peace with Canada ever since. (Well, except for a skirmish in 1866 when Irish-American Civil War vets known as Fenians rowed across from Buffalo and shot up Ridgeway, Ontario.) I've spent happy parts of every summer of my life, except the COVID one, in a cousin-shared cottage on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie. When we're there, we are only a stone's throw from Buffalo — and yet also a world away. This is a rare gift that only border towns can know. In Canada's honor, allow me to express the feeling bilingually: Vive la différence! And now here comes Team USA, whose general manager told Fox News the other day that the American players are using the American president's regrettable remarks as "inspiration." "I think there was a political flair to it," Bill Guerin told Fox of last week's fight-filled first game with Canada. "It's just the time that we're in." It's a terrible time. Last week, Canadian fans in Montreal booed during the American anthem. Please understand, they were not booing the American players, and they were not booing America. They were booing the sword of Damocles that hangs unfairly over their heads. I hope that the American crowd in Boston will not boo the Canadian anthem tonight. Team USA and Team Canada are bitter rivals on the ice. That's hockey. But our countries are not enemies. We are best friends. And we pray it stays that way. That's why tonight I will root for the True North, strong and free. Go, Canada. You hosers.
