The NHL has a new highest-paid player this morning after the Edmonton Oilers Leon Draisaitl agreed to an 8-year $112 million contract extension. Draisaitl is set to make 14 million per year to stay in Edmonton after helping them reach the Stanley Cup Final last season. Last season, Draisaitl reached the 100+ point mark for… read more

Sports fans and media members are weird. You can’t please them if you do, and you can’t please them if you don’t. As it pertains to NHL superstar Connor McDavid, his inaction left a lot of folks displeased after the Edmonton Oilers lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final to the Florida Panthers at… read more

I recently wrote in this very space that both the NBA Finals and NHL Stanley Cup Final were duds. I said this because the Boston Celtics had almost effortlessly taken a 3-0 lead over the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals, while the Florida Panthers had done the same to the Edmonton Oilers in the… read more

I’m not going to lie, I thought both the NBA Finals and the NHL Stanley Cup Final had promise. On the basketball side, you had the top-seeded Boston Celtics, NBA royalty, going for their 18th title. Opposing them from the Western Conference were the Dallas Mavericks, a team that won 50 regular-season games and its… read more

Remember the scene from the 2006 film, Rocky Balboa, when world champion Mason “The Line” Dixon is arguing with his promotor about fighting Rocky, and his promotor says (and I’m paraphrasing), “Don’t tell me you’re worried about your legacy. You know what’s better than having a legacy? Getting paid.” But legacies do matter to professional… read more

The Florida Panthers advanced to the Stanley Cup Final after defeating the New York Rangers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals last Saturday night at Amerant Bank Arena. One night later, Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers also clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup Final with a 2-1 victory over the Dallas… read more