05/23/25
May 21, 2025
SportsFilter: The Wednesday 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.
Question for the hockey experts: If a player commits a penalty and the opponent scores on the ensuing Power Play, does their personal +/- take a ding even though they weren't on the ice?
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:49 PM on May 21, 2025
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has passed away. The Irsay family will forever be hated in Baltimore, since Robert Irsay, father of Jim Irsay, moved the team and every bit of its equipment to Indianapolis in 1984. The move was done secretly in the dead of the night, and the Irsays left behind some amount of debt held by the city. My wife, a Baltimore girl since her graduation from Towson University, was once a rabid Colts fan. No longer; if a Colts game is on TV, she will either change the channel or loudly root for the opponent.
posted by Howard_T at 12:05 AM on May 22, 2025
Good piece on Irsay in the Athletic was posted a few hours after his death.
I wish Bob Irsay had never owned a NFL team and I wish Carroll Rosenbloom had never traded the Colts to Irsay for the Rams.
But there's no guarantee that Rosenbloom would have kept the Colts in Baltimore since his Rams eventually fled LA for St. Louis.
posted by beaverboard at 01:28 AM on May 22, 2025
Question for the hockey experts: If a player commits a penalty and the opponent scores on the ensuing Power Play, does their personal +/- take a ding even though they weren't on the ice?
If a team on the power play scores a goal, there is no + and - given to anyone. If, on the other hand, the shorthanded team scores a goal, then a + and - is given.
posted by NoMich at 06:13 AM on May 22, 2025
Oh wow, I don't think I ever knew that. Thanks, NoMich!
posted by Ufez Jones at 09:11 AM on May 22, 2025
I'm hoping that last night was a bit of Raleigh rust and not a portent of what is to come.
Can a goalie have more than 5 holes?