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December 09, 2010
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Ron Artest to donate all or part of next year's salary to charity.
posted by yerfatma at 09:00 AM on December 09, 2010
Sidney Crosby has 20 goals and 15 assists in the last 17 games. The Penguins have gone 14-2-1 in those 17 games
Jaw dropping. I still want to kidney punch him for scoring that OT goal against the USA in the Olympics. Not that he'd actually feel it from a blob like me.
posted by NoMich at 09:04 AM on December 09, 2010
Ron Artest to donate all or part of next year's salary to charity.
With all the negativity that surrounded Artest throughout his career, this is a great gesture from him. I'm amazed to say this but I truly wish that more professional athletes were as charitable as Ron Artest.
posted by BornIcon at 10:59 AM on December 09, 2010
Bob Feller, 92, has been moved to hospice care.
posted by rcade at 11:36 AM on December 09, 2010
Watching Sid play this year has been great and he is on a roll. In the last 20 games he has over a 2 point per game average. Gretzky retired with 1.91 for the career. Mario was over 2.0 when he first retired. Sid currently has a 1.35 for his career. Scary to think that Mario and Gretzky basically played a career at the level Sid is playing right now.
It is scary to think how good the team can play when Malkin and Staal get back in the lineup
posted by Debo270 at 11:44 AM on December 09, 2010
According to Hockey Reference, based on adjusted points, Crosby is on pace to have the 12th greatest season in NHL history.
When you look at that list, you'll ask yourself the same question that I did, and pretty much everyone will...
Who the hell is Cooney Weiland?
posted by grum@work at 12:20 PM on December 09, 2010
Ron Artest to donate all or part of next year's salary to charity.
I'm glad he is involved in charity, but what on earth does all or part of his salary to charity mean. Bperk to donate all or part of next year's salary to charity.
posted by bperk at 01:23 PM on December 09, 2010
Read the article. It sounds like all of it, but he kind of hedges, so I didn't want to sensationalize it.
posted by yerfatma at 01:32 PM on December 09, 2010
In (Cooney Weiland's) second season during 192930, he scored 43 goals and 73 points in 44 games aided by a rule change that season only. It shattered the NHL's single-season points record of 51 which had been set two years earlier by Montreal Canadiens legend Howie Morenz.
What the hell was this one-season rule change? He never cracked 38 pts in any subsequent season.
posted by fabulon7 at 06:14 PM on December 09, 2010
A-ha: Players were now allowed forward passing in the offensive zone, instead of only in the defensive and neutral zones. This led to abuse: players sat in front of the opposing net waiting for a pass. The rule was changed again mid-season in December 1929, and players were no longer allowed to enter the offensive zone before the puck.
So he spent half a season parked in front of the opposite goal, waiting for a pass. He lived Brett Hull's dream!
posted by fabulon7 at 06:18 PM on December 09, 2010
Esposito's too.
posted by beaverboard at 09:21 PM on December 09, 2010
Sidney Crosby has 20 goals and 15 assists in the last 17 games.
The Penguins have gone 14-2-1 in those 17 games, and are currently tops in the league.
He now has a league-leading 26 goals (and 50 points) in 30 games.
I had no problem with anointing him the best player in the NHL before the season started, but what he is currently doing is starting to make me think he's taken his game to a whole other level.