Full Texas handcuffs from the rare winter invasion of the state are a terrifying situation, and thousands of people who have no electricity or heat at freezing temperatures are a real problem. You know. I know. But apparently, the Dallas Stars don’t know it and required the mayor of the Dallas office to illustrate the matter.
Remember the Stars of episodes like trying to defend America and defending / fucking the flag when no one asked last week. This time, up to an hour or two until their scheduled game with the Nashville Predators, they were scheduled to play at the American Airlines Center with all hell frozen in the Metroplex. Residents with power were asked to keep what they could for fear of overwhelming the network.
Meanwhile, here were the stars trying to shoot an entire arena for a hockey game. This tweet from Stars beatwriter for The Athletic Saad Yousuf was less than two hours before he assumed the puck-drop was:
Then, this statement was published by the NHL less than an hour into game time:
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Apparently, the mayor of Dallas had to request that the stars do their best and not use the power needed to keep a track running for this game. The AAC is on the same network as the hospitals in the area, so you’ll think common sense with electricity is scarce that you might not want to risk. But this is not the realm where the stars live. After all, there is a hymn to play. This will show the snow!
While you have to admit it, there’s something really symbolic about the Stars competing to defend the honor of a flag and an inert tradition that doesn’t really serve anyone, but that needs to be dragged and Push over the line when helping people out. in their time of need. Maybe the stars are as American as we’ve been told.
Meanwhile, in places where teams could get on the ice without endangering their community, the Maple Leafs endangered the mental well-being of their always solid and reasonable fan base, giving them a four-goal lead, 5-1. to senators and losing to OT, 6-5. The Leafs had won eight of ten before that to move up to first place in the NHL’s RoughRider division. But his departure before that saw them blow up a third-period advantage over the Canadians, and now that loss will no doubt make the TSN boys wonder if they will have to turn on Freddie Andersen to calm the gods of the hockey or something.