by joshwahler | Sep 7, 2022 | Hockey
In the NFL the last overall pick in each draft is teasingly branded as “Mr. Irrelevant”. This jab is meant topoke fun at the dubious honour of being the last one picked and the very small expectations that thisplayer will ever be, well, relevant in the big...
by joshwahler | Aug 9, 2022 | Hockey
In sports we are drawn to the highs and the lows. We love a good success story, marvelling at thetransformation of a prodigal 14 year old Sidney Crosby shooting pucks at his mom’s dryer all the way toone of the greatest players in the history of hockey. Perhaps...
by joshwahler | Dec 24, 2021 | Hockey
When it comes to pro sports a constant topic of discussion is contract value. We love analyzing who’s over or underpaid and how that effects the makeup of teams as whole. Well, what if we created an NHL team only using the very best value contracts in the...
by joshwahler | Nov 12, 2021 | Hockey
Sports are full of iconic moments. Game sealing plays, incredible individual efforts, career defining moments, infamous blunders… These plays reach the status of legend for a variety of factors, not just because they are visually or contextually incredible, but...
by joshwahler | Sep 10, 2021 | Football
I’ve always loved making hypothetical rosters. I thought it would be a fun experiment to put onetogether with the parameter that once a player has been selected from a given country, that countrycannot be used again. I was curious to see what the balance of this...
by joshwahler | Aug 6, 2021 | Hockey
Reports of Alexander Ovechkin possibly leaving the NHL in the next few years to end his career in Russia are over. While he may still do that someday, hockey fans can breathe a sigh of relief that we will see the best of his remaining years played out at the highest...
by joshwahler | Jul 12, 2021 | Hockey
I recently wrote a piece compiling a roster of the greatest players to never receive a Hart trophy vote. This time let’s examine some of the strangest or most undeserved votes over the past three decades. We’ll choose three players per decade and keep it...
by joshwahler | Apr 25, 2021 | Baseball
Amongst the swirl of one of the busiest offseason/free agency periods in recentmemory, aging star Romeo English quietly walked away from the game of baseball. He’sno doubt been one of the game’s most controversial figures and now that it’s all...
by joshwahler | Apr 1, 2021 | Hockey
When it comes to sports we all love anomalies. A good what if story, a statistic or season that serves as a total outlier, underdogs that overachieved, legends that underachieved… We often talk about the greatest player to never win a ring or the greatest player to...
by joshwahler | Mar 5, 2021 | Hockey
The reverse retro jerseys aren’t the only throwbacks this year as a number of players who seemed to be on their way out or on a steep decline have decided to turn back the clock. Joe Thornton: 41 years old When the Leafs signed Jumbo Joe to a deal it looked like...
