LIVE from The Scorchstack Nework (TSN) it’s…… the third annual Scorchie Awards!
After taking the world by storm in 2020, The Scorchie Awards are now a well-established and ornate pillar, doing its part to hold Fortress Scorchstack up high enough in the air, forcing the entire planet to gaze upon its opulence.
As a fun treat, it turns out that the awards community, which is definitely real and has an office, has decided to add the Scorchies to the EGOT fame. We are still working out the branding kinks with them if they will now be called SEGOT or EGOTS or if we are really going to spruce things up with GOTSE, which surely must have fantastic SEO.
Here is a Venn Diagram of all the former EGOT winners and Scorchie winners to show off how rare this SEGOT/EGOTS/GOTSE company is.
Who will join this elusive cast of characters this year? Find out now as the Scorchie Awards begin now!!!
Scorchies Buzz
We’ve already seen the tape of tonight’s game and rest assured what happens tonight is reflected accordingly in the Scorchies.
There is an open bar this year thanks to our gracious sponsors at Coca-Cola! Let’s take a look at the bar to see what’s going on.
Mmmmmmmm Coca-Cola.
Darryl Sutter will, unfortunately, be missing the awards show as he seems to be making the valet do a bag skate in the parking lot for not showing the proper respect to the Kubota he drove here.
To help drive up some buzz, Scorchstack did a little local news this week.
See the stars and styles and also Krayden from the red carpet
Mark Jankowski Memorial Award
Named after deceased alumnus Mark Jankowski, this trophy is awarded to the Calgary Flame who will perpetually be thought to break out one season from now
The Nominees:
Connor Mackey
Matthew Phillips :(
Ramz, who does not pay attention to these things on account of being pretty
And the winner is:
Connor Mackey!
It’s always tough to tell a young player that they aren’t going to make it far in the NHL, but unfortunately, it’s that time for Spencer Foo. The cream of the undrafted NCAA free agent class, there was much hype for the player after a stellar college career. The expectations weren’t crazy, maybe a regular job in the bottom half of the rotation, but there wasn’t really a chance for poor Spencer Foo. The deck is stacked against these late bloomer NCAA players: they’re 24 years old - basically senior citizens - competing against fresh faced 20 year olds for the same role. Alas, they’ll all be lumped in the same boat because a hockey player only starts existing the second a fan learns who they are.
Anyways, we’ll smell ya later, Spencer Foo. Unfortunately, you stink, you didn’t have a realistic chance of cracking the roster, and it was really only undue hype and excitement that kept the Spencer Foo dream alive.
[stagehand whispers something in my ear]
What do you mean I mixed the cards up? -tibs
ScorchStack Invention of the Year
The Nominees:
Erik ‘Good’branson meter
Draft Jade Iginla campaign
Post Malone flipping off the Oilers graphic
Kadri goal counter
And the winner is:
Post Malone flipping off the Oilers graphic!
An amazing ScorchStack original! Check this out:
For those with smaller brains who may not understand what this means, Post Malone was flipping someone off at one of his shows, and we decided to edit a Flames jersey on him and make it look like he’s flipping off the Oilers! It’s very funny!
For some reason, FlamesNation got really mad at us for this? Nobody knows why, maybe they got mad because they didn’t invent something as good as us. Maybe they can go ahead and fire another woman of colour over it! - ramz
Flames Media Personality of the Year
Scorchstack writers are ineligible to win this award to prevent cries of impropriety. Francis Ericsson still counts, for some reason
The Calgary media landscape is filled with memorable and colorful people. Such as all those guys we all know, let’s not say it all at once. Anyways, here’s the best of the best.
The Nominees:
Scorchstack
Kelly Hrudey
Francis Ericsson
And the winner is:
Kelly Hrudey!
Hey! How about it, huh! Who’s between the pipes tonight?
Well let me check my roster, Hrudey’s on duty tonight! (Well alright!)
[sick, steezy guitar riff]
We got one less worry, one less threat, we got one less reason to fidget or sweat. We got peace in the crease, and we’re feeling alright, Kelly Hrudey’s on duty tonight! (Well alright!)
(Hooh!)
If a six-game sniper get a breakaway, we got a stick so quick he’s gonna to make that save. He’s a whopper of a stopper, keeps the net air tight, Kelly Hrudey’s on duty tonight!
Hrudey! Hrudey! We’ll be screaming as he twists and turns and whirls and bends. Is this real? We must be dreaming! Have you checked our goals against?
[weird, halloween-y synth solo]
Hey!
[Ref’s whistle]
He ain’t my messiah, but his name’s being praised, the sticker on my car says “Hrudey saves!” He’s as holy as a goalie’s gonna be, alright, Kelly Hrudey’s on duty tonight.
It’s 7:30, I’m okay, so drop the puck and fire away! But you’re gonna need luck to light our red light because Hrudey’s on duty tonight.
So hey, coach! One more time! Who’s gonna mind that net tonight?
[Coach voice] Well, I done told you once boy, Hrudey’s on duty tonight. [Normal voice] Well alright!
Hrudey’s on duty tonight!
We got peace in the crease, and we’re feeling alright!
Hrudey’s on duty tonight!
He’s a whopper of a stopper, keeps the net air tight!
Hrudey’s on duty tonight!
He’s as holy as a goalie’s gonna be, alright!
Hrudey’s on duty tonight!
Woo! - tibs
The Derek Smith Award
The Dude We Forgot Played For The Flames Award
The Nominees:
Ryan Carpenter
Glenn Gawdin
Calle Järnkrok
Nicolas Meloche
Mr. Jessica Szohr
And the winner is:
Ryan Carpenter!
How many players would you guessed played a NHL game (not preseason cause who cares) for the Calgary Flames this calendar year? Would you guess 40? Bit psychotic if you knew that, but congrats you would be correct. This does not include the one game that Dustin Wolf sat on the bench (awooo).
Clearly, all 40 cannot be memorable. The problem with some of our nominees is that they didn’t even play for the Flames in this calendar year, making them a fever dream. Nicolas Meloche ethered Canucks player Ilya Mikheyev and caused him to miss actual time, but that hit occurred in preseason. He has yet to don the Flaming C for real this year. Glenn Gawdin didn’t play this year for the Flames. He hasn’t been seen picking his nose since 2021. Hell, even last year’s winner Juuso Välimäki got one game this year, playing in the nothing game at the end of last season.
Mr. Jessica Szohr is notable for still somehow being Mr. Jessica Szohr. And for scoring the first ever goal in UBS arena, henceforth known as UletBradrichardsonScore Arena. Scorchstack hopes the Szohrs and well and looking forward to their upcoming wedding to which we assume our invitation is in the mail.
That just leaves Calle Järnkrok and Ryan Carpenter. Unfortunately, Järnkrok was memorable for all the wrong reasons. Carpenter though….certainly played in eight (!?) games getting one really cool assist and presumably doing other things. - Nathan
Delete Your Account Award
In a sea of bad tweets, we give a trophy to the worst one
The Nominees:
Upon further reflection, most of these are all from FlamesNation.
And the winner is:
Players don’t want to play in the Saddledome!
We have a few rules around the ScorchStack: Drink refreshing Coca-Cola products. Never stop at red lights for some reason. Don’t highlight Dillon Dubé plays while there’s a potentially massive Hockey Canada scandal hanging over his head. We also make it a priority not to slam others within Scorch’s kill radius on these hallowed pages for their stupid takeas. We do so in private of course, but generally, we don’t acknowledge them elsewhere.
Unless the take comes from FlamesNation and it says that players don’t want to come to Calgary because of the Saddledome. Not only do you get a dose of simping for billionaires and a plea to the city to succumb to their whims, but also you get to see the take immediately proven wrong, as it came out the same day the Flames traded Matthew Tkachuk for Jonathan Huberdeau and MacKenzie Weegar, both who would go on to sign 8-year contracts, followed by the re-signings of Andrew Mangiapane and Oliver Kylington, followed by another long term signing of Nazem Kadri. I guess Nikita Zadorov as well, but I don’t think that helps our case.
Very funny to make a claim so bold with nothing to back it up and then to have it immediately blow up in your face. This should win next year’s award as well. - floob
The Dustin Wolf Award
Awarded to the greatest goalie of all time
The Nominees:
posts
Dustin Wolf
Miikka Kiprusoff still somehow
And the winner is:
Dustin Wolf!
It takes a gargantuan effort to make the McDonald’s uniforms the Calgary Wranglers inexplicably chose to wear in their inaugural AHL season, and to date, no one has been able to do it. But if anyone came close, it was Dustin Wolf. Now a three-time winner of this award, Wolf (or Wolfy, like his friends call him. Which is us. He’s our friend) followed up a 2021-22 rookie season where he just decided to be the best goalie in the entire minor leagues, by casually posting a .926 sv% through a third of his sophomore year. He might be even better this time around. Get those Jacob Markström trade proposals in now! - floob
Best Shape Of His Life Award
Awarded to the most disappointing Calgary Flame of the year
The Nominees:
Calle Järnkrok
Nikita Zadorov
Darryl Sutter
Jonathan Huberdeau
And the winner is:
Calle Jarnkrok!
Hey everybody, remember Calle Järnkrok? Me neither!
Yes, the trade deadline acquisition the Flames made last season who for all intents and purposes looked like he would be an ideal fit — with him being a centre which the team desperately needed, and was related to Elias Lindholm as well as being a childhood friend of Jacob Markström too — just never really meshed with the team, not really having chemistry with anyone on his line.
Which really sucked, since he was a trade target that the Flames had been linked to for quite a while and gave up a 2nd, 3rd, and a 7th, which is a decent amount, and really got nothing. As soon as the start of free agency, Järnkrok left Calgary without any fanfare and went to sign with Toronto. At least he was really hot. -Konnie
Podcast Replacement Award
Awarded to the best Substack page in 2022
The Nominees:
ScorchStack
This one doesn’t seem that fair, does it?
and yet, it is
And the winner is:
ScorchStack!
I don’t know why everyone is calling The ScorchStack a podcast replacement. Everyone knows we’ve been releasing weekly episodes, which you can find on your favourite podcast apps, such as Podsmack, CastMoney, and the Criterion Channel’s podcast division, which is also called Podsmack for some reason. - floob
The Connor McDavid Award
Awarded annually to the most fragile person, group, or collection of living organisms that are truly fragile
The Nominees:
Combo of Gaudreau Fragility
FieryBreadman
Oilers Twitter
And the winner is:
Combo of Gaudreau Fragility
The entire Johnny Gaudreau leaving Calgary saga represents the Flames Twitter’s emergence from under-the-radar existence of can-be-annoying-at-times and then tosses it into the upper echelons of piss-baby antics. There is a litany of levels of disdain occurring this summer with Gaudreau’s exit: he left during the Stampede, which any sensible adult would; he left to be closer to family, but not too close which makes sense because who wants to be that close to their family; (Editor, please embed a laugh track here) (ed. note: you got it boss)
and they left when he exercised his rights as a free agent to do whatever he wants.
Instead of just moving on, a large contingent of folks continue to tweet about him and the Columbus Blue Jackets like they have unresolved abandonment issues that could be remedied with a psychologist. Instead, they take to Twitter and probably sends threats to anyone who dumps them or god forbid marries then divorces them. - Mike
Album Of The Year
2022 say a wave of amazing music come out that has left a lasting impact on us all as we navigated through unprecedented times. Here we name the album which best showcases that feeling.
The Nominees:
Bartees Strange - Farm to Table
Theo Fleury - I Am Who I Am
PUP - THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen
The Sadies - Colder Streams
And the winner is:
Theo Fleury - I Am Who I Am!
Yes, the beloved country album from 2015 by popular hockey-player-turned-InfoWars-contributor Theo Fluery has once again stolen our hearts. This album really showcases his amazing talent for musical lyricism, and it pulls out emotions that you would think have long been dead deep inside, giving him a new look at how life and its intricate beauty.
Highlights from the album are “Santa Fe Kind of Day” which really showcases how life is like in the New Mexico state capital, “My Life’s Been a Country Song” which is a beautiful memoir of the life of Theo Fluery, and of course the classic “First Rodeo” where Fluery truly shows us that this is in fact not his first rodeo. Truly a masterpiece. 10/10. - Konnie
The Ultimate Krayden Maneuver
Awarded to the person or group who best cheated a populace out of money, dignity in 2022
Krayden, the Scorchstack Summer Student/Intern/Director of Social Media and Engagement/son of one of the Scorchstack executives, is well known among Scorchstack fans for Office gifs and dogshit tweets. He sucks and we don’t like him. Here’s his “best” moment of the year.
The Nominees:
Krayden creates the Scorchstack OnlyFans page
Krayden’s trip to Montreal
And the winner is:
Krayden creates the Scorchstack OnlyFans page!
Hi everyone!
It’s Kray-Dizzle!
A while ago, I caused a storm by tweeting out the Scorchstack’s newest platform for all our Scorch-ays. Later, I was asked by Scorchstack HR to explain myself, and now I’m doing it here too.
Remember when Elon Musk bought Twitter? Let that sink in! In the early days, things were rough, and the world’s smartest man was busy trying to figure things out. It looked like the world famous bird site was about to go down, and many were looking for alternatives.
In my role as Director of Social Media, it was my job to find out which new social media site was poppin’ on. What could bring the Scorchstack community closer and drive engagement? Where could I find a place to gather only fans of our website and drive engagement? So I googled it and this website popped up!
I received a lot of criticism for this, and no one signed up, but what are you gonna do?
Even though I took an L, tonight I bounce back! I’m looking to create a YouTube platform for Calgary Flames fans, but it looks like some one has already beat me to the idea!
Oh fiddlesticks! Oh well, a Social Media Director’s job is never done. Krayden, out!
Most Missed Corporate Sponsor Award
Hey man, just tell ‘em Lanny sent you
The Nominees:
Safeway
Budweiser
Kubota
Lagostina
Coffee Crisp
Pennzoil
And the winner is:
Cortex!
Incredible effort from Cortex to win in back-to-back years, despite not even being a nominee this year. The thing that really stood out to the panel was that all six other nominees are still functioning businesses, whereas there just is no more Cortex. What did Cortex even do? Who can say? For all we know, this could have just been a shell company designed to announce transactions for the Calgary Flames. They’ll live on forever in our hearts and also the Panama Papers.
In other news, the Glamorgan Safeway remains on the Scorchstack Shit List and Coffee Crisp can sponsor us any day now. - Nathan
The Peter Chiarelli Award
Awarded to the year’s best Edmonton Oilers transaction
The Nominees:
Jack Campbell
Evander Kane (ed. note: completely did not even realize during voting that this was this year, it honetly feels like he’s been an Oiler since the bubble)
Not trading for Jacob Chychrun
And the winner is:
Jack Campbell
You knew this goalie would be a dud and a costly one when even Toronto said no thanks to the price tag he was demanding. All those stories about lowball offers from Rivers Cuomo the Leafs’ GM were valid and accurately portrayed what a goalie of Campbell’s ilk probably deserves. Then Ken Holland, who has a penchant for doing the exact opposite thing everyone is telling him to do signs Campbell to a 5x5 contract.
The thing about Jack Campbell is he came clearly advertised as a volatile dud years in advance. He sucks, he likely was always going to suck as an Oiler, and now the Oilers have a backup goalie taking up $5M of their salary cap until 2027. He’ll be bought out in two years and everyone will say Scorchstack had it first. I love Ken Holland almost as much as Peter Chiarelli and I wish him a prosperous 2023 so we can celebrate more stupid moves that ruin the Oilers’ chances of competitive play. - Mike
The 1 Year, $700k Contract Award
Winner receives the Flames’ special
The Nominees:
Michael Stone
Dennis Gilbert
Nick DeSimone
And the winner is:
Michael Stone
Picture this: it’s 2040 and Michael Stone has signed another one-year contract worth $700K. Yes by then the NHL has a minimum salary twice that, but the league keeps letting the Flames sign Michael Stone to that vintage-at-this-point Flames’ special deal. Tij Iginla has just cemented his legacy with the team, overcoming every single one of his dad’s records; Oliver Backlund is poised to win his first Selke trophy; and a gaggle of Andrew Mangiapane’s triplets Pasta Sauce, Ravioli, and Luigi were all drafted by the Flames while Michael Stone is still playing as a 6/7 defenseman for the Flames.
We’re witnessing history here folks. We’re witnessing a chronicle of hockey history we are living, breathing, and constantly being exacerbated by. What does Dennis Gilbert offer other than fighting people and being concussed? Nick DeSimone? I’ve never heard of you in my life and I watch this team. Michael Stone will never stop getting these contracts and we’ll never stop giving him these awards. - Mike
Worst Calgary Flame Moment
Awarded to the biggest Flames-related shit sandwich of the year
The Nominees:
The Bad Week
Oliver Kylington announced out indefinitely
The release of Win the Cup by w i l d
The team not being on pace for 82-0-0 this season
And the winner is:
The Bad Week!
Yes, the infamous week which started July 12th and ran all the way to July 25th (ed note: yes we know that technically it was the Bad Two Weeks but that doesn’t sound as nice) was probably the toughest time in recent memory to be a fan of the Calgary Flames. On the 12th, a day before free agency, Johnny Gaudreau had announced that he was not returning to the Flames, and almost like clockwork, the collective Flames fandom had collapsed into depression and denial that the all-star forward would decide to leave. Over the course of the next few days, Johnny would set his sights to Columbus, furthering the irrational anger online for Flames fans. The Flames didn’t really have an answer for seeing their all-star go elsewhere, with the most notable signing being Kevin “the Roons” Rooney to a 2-year deal, mockingly labeled as the Gaudreau replacement by everyone (it was just me who said it).
Then only a few days later on the 20th of July, the Flames announced that they opted for Salary Arbitration with Matthew Tkachuk, which led to it coming out that he wanted out. This led to absolute peak Flames takes and paranoia that no NHL player wanted to play in Calgary, how it will never be able to attract NHL talent ever again, and even some takes that you might see elsewhere on in these awards. Nevertheless, it was a pretty bleak time for this franchise and it seemed there was no hope left in the franchise. Only after 5 days had passed, and the penultimate Matthew Tkachuk trade had given some sort of light at the end of the tunnel, best described in this picture.
Once the trade happened, the bad week ended quite quickly. - Konnie
Worst Calgary Flame
We’d award a three-way tie if we could!
The Nominees:
Milan Lucic
Nikita Zadorov
The Roons (lovingly)
Terry Cahill
And the winner is:
Milan Lucic!
Look, when you have the opportunity to trade for a player who’s definitely past his prime and you need to pay him $5+ million a year for the next four years with a no movement clause, you do it.
Sure, Milan Lucic may not be the worst player out there, I mean some players have no goals this season! He at least has two! That’s $2.625 million per goal!
Look I know I’m harsh on him. Yes, he may not score many goals, he may not be very fast, he may not backcheck well, he may not be good on the penalty kill or powerplay, and he may not actually check all that well. Oh, did you think there was going to be a “but” in this? Because there isn’t.
The only butt I see is Milan Lucic!!!! - ramz
Most Handsome Calgary Flame Award
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight (get it because most of these are Swedes and this is a song by ABBA) (no this isn’t an exact repeat of last year, fuck u)
The Nominees:
Elias Lindholm
Oliver Kylington
Nazem Kadri
And the winner is:
Elias Lindholm!
Congratulations to Elias Lindholm, now twothree-time handsomest Flame award winner! As I said about him last year, Elias Lindholm is [redacted] and he can [redacted] my [redacted] if he wants, and I would like to [redacted][redacted][redacted] his [redacted][redacted]. My thoughts have not changed about him, please consult me next year on this matter. -ramz
Goal Of The Year Award
Awarded to the goal that we remember most, thereby making it the best goal. Why did we need to describe this?
The Nominees:
And the winner is:
Oliver Kylington vs. The Dallas Stars!
Let’s look at it again:
This was maybe the most Calgary Flames in 2022 defining goal, and it’s why we've chosen it as the top for the year. High-octane play with an army of offense first players getting in on the action to score a highlight reel goal. We talked about the top line of Tkachuk, Lindholm, and Gaudreau ad nauseum around here, but we don’t highlight the season guys like Oliver Kylington, Andrew Mangiapane, Noah Hanifin, and Rasmus Andersson also had, and Kylington reminded us of that on this comeback completing goal.
Great work team! - floob
Best Calgary Flames Moment
Remember when we did the worst Flames moment? This is the opposite of that
The Nominees:
The Win The Cup song (will not be linking to it)
And the winner is:
Johnny Gaudreau’s Game 7 Overtime Goal!
Of course we’re going to watch it again:
Not to rehash 2004 all over again, but we as Flames fans haven’t had a lot of big moments to cheer for since those days. I was personally in the building when the Flames finally won a playoff series after that year, against the Canucks, in 2015 (!!!), but we knew in our hearts that team was garbage, and the Canucks just somehow happened to be worse. And no offense to friend of the stack Matty Franchise, but sometimes the big moments on your team need to come from its top players.
The 2021-22 Flames were an outstanding team, and should have had their way with the Dallas Stars, but the heroics of Jake Oettinger forced the series to go Game 7, and because of him, there was actual doubt that they were not going to win. But Johnny Gaudreau was the best Flame in that series, and it absolutely had to be him that ended it, and he had to do it in dramatic fashion. What a goal.
I forget what happened after that. Probably nothing. Won’t think about it. - floob
ScorchStack Best Friend Award
People let me tell you about my best friend
The Nominees:
Kelly Hrudey
Pat Maroon
Julian McKenzie
Baba Shlah, the official chef of Scorchcon
The First Lady of Scorchstack
Jarome Iginla, probably
Devon from Shaw Help
And the winner is:
All of them!
Dozens of passionate Scorchie Awards fans wrote in to the show last year, not necessarily to complain but remark about how there were so many deserving nominees fort Scorchstack Best Friend Award and yet Scorchstack came away as the winner for having so many friends. “I’m not calling it a cop-out because I would never associate Scorchstack with the cops” wrote one fan. “This is like when the World Cup final goes to kicks, in that there is a clear ending and a definite winner but I need to voice my opinion,” said another in a precognizant statement about this year’s World Cup. “Just happy to be recognized for having friends, AND on my birthday no less!” wrote one of last year’s nominees.
Fine, since we can’t name ourselves the winners again, then the winner is everyone up for the award, because even to be considered in the same breath as the idea of Best Friend of Scorchstack makes them an incredible winner. We love all our friends equally and they love us right back. -Nathan
Calgary Flames Most Valuable Player
This is it, this is The Big One
The Nominees:
Mikael Backlund
Matthew Tkachuk
Oliver Kylington
Rasmus Andersson
And the winner is:
Mikael Backlund!
Mike: We’re living at a point in Mikael Backlund’s career where replacing him in the near future should be a priority for the team. There’s going to be a point where he’s either retired, his impacts are diminished to negligible or negative, and/or he’s on another team. It’s a real fear and concern that I live with daily — a world without Mikael Backlund. What’s the point of this rambling, about a future we aren’t in yet? Well it’s Mikael fucking Backlund, the team’s most-valuable-player per Scorchstack.
Especially this season, with big names struggling to make consistent and regular high-end impacts on-ice; Backlund has done it with consistency and regularity, in a “third-line” role. He’s one-of, if not the unofficial captain of this team. He’s still a regular community ambassador, and he continues to do it all at the advanced-age of 33. In hockey years that means he’s like 60. He rules.
Floob: Until we burned the entire thing down, the venue we held these very awards in was named after Mikael Backlund, which is just about the very highest honour one can receive, and the coolest and most negligible way to destroy it.
But Mikael Backlund cannot be destroyed. Many have tried. He keeps coming back like T1000, but if everyone wanted T1000 to come back. You can just tell Connor McDavid fucking hates him (and vice versa). That's how you know you're the best a Calgary Flame can possibly be. He's the greatest player in the entire world.
Nathan: Hail to the king. This man does literally everything asked of him, gets zero accolades or proper recognition, and then comes back and does it better and better every night. He is one of the best ever Flames’ draft picks (not saying much considering how they have historically drafted) and even at the beginning of it all, there was shade thrown his way. “How do Darryl Sutter and Mike Keenan draft a Swedish player with their first-round selection?” WITH EASE you fools. Get this man a Cup already.
Tibs: (ed. note: Tibs, much like 2022, is dying. Unlike 2022, he will back stronger. Or he feels better in time to change this, one or the other. Rest assured, he also loves Backlund and voted for him here.)
Konnie: Lets just say, this is Mikael Backlund’s crown until he wants to give it up (please never give it up king). The man has been a de facto leader in the Flames room for over a decade and is a Captain in the eyes of many, even if his jersey does not have the C yet. Even at the age of 33, and been doing it for a decade, he still is the go to guy to help players get comfortable and improve. Just this year, the world famous Backlund Bump has been applied to Adam Ruzicka and Johnathan Huberdeau, both of whom are now thriving from his influence.
There has never been a player more deserving of a Stanley Cup than him.
Ramz: If anybody here said anybody except for Mikael Backlund, they are getting kicked out of the #Virgins4Backlund groupchat. If he goes his entire career without winning a cup, I will scream.
The Afterparty
We sincerely apologize for running the show three years in a row without a host. Miikka Kiprusoff finally actually gave us his number and we thought about calling him to host, but realized he would hate that and didn’t. He was so grateful we didn’t call him this year that he mailed each of us a fish he caught.
Stop shilling for billionaires in 2023. No public money for arenas!!