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How much is the NHL’s increase in scoring due to goalie pads or increased skill?The NHL is always chasing goals. Sometimes to its detriment, as the league often confuses goals with action. What the league really wants is to assign the Dead Puck Era to the land of wind and ghosts forever, which it pretty much has. It wants a fast game showing off the skills of players and not th...

Lotta goals in the desert — World Cup Daily Diary Day 1We’ll be running a daily roundup of everything that happens in Qatar, starting with the opening day today. Take the journey with us....

Before the playoffs start, we should take a sec to marvel at what the Blackhawks accomplishedNo, that’s not being such a shitfuck organization that they’ve basically gotten themselves erased from NHL history or PR. Watch any of these ads for the Stanley Cup playoffs, and you won’t see one highlight or shot of a Hawk. Even though they won the Cup three times, or were the most popular team fo...

Unai Simón must love baseball, because this is a whiff

Spain benefitted in their last group game from Slovakia’s Martin Dubravka throwing the ball into his own net, so clearly frustrated at Spain’s inability to find the area between the posts that he felt there was no choice but to show them how easy it could be. People in sports love to say these thing...

SEE IT: Haitian goalkeeper lives out every netminder’s worst nightmare

Have you ever messed up an easy task — like decorating your dining table for guests but then realizing the pieces on the table aren’t symmetrical? Then, in a desperate attempt to fix your mistake, you accidentally knock over all the plates, breaking your fine china and leaving you a slobbering mess?...

SEE IT: Patrik Schick scores from midfield

Euro 2021 (technically Euro 2020, but whatever) just started and I think we’ve already seen the goal of the tournament. Maybe the year?...

Man U. falls to Villareal in Europa Final after keeper beats keeper finish

Anytime we get keepers taking penalties, we should cherish it. The Europa League Final yesterday was mostly dogshit, as Manchester United couldn’t turn control of the ball for pretty much the entire second half result into a second, winning goal. By the time extra-time rolled around, they had punche...

Alisson goal saves Liverpool’s season - yes, he’s the goalkeeper

Whether barely scraping into a Champions League place while leaking buckets of oil after the heights of their last two seasons is really “saving” Liverpool’s season is an open question. And there’s a more than fair argument that after their owners were one of the main drivers of the diabolical, Mr. ...