Mike Embach

An open letter from ECHL players to ECHL fans

Wondering where to send your kid to increase their chances of getting drafted for USHL? See attached breakdown of where kids got drafted from the most in the 2025 USHL PHASE I DRAFT of 09's

A shower worth 894 goals 😂🍾 (via @Capitals)

This weekend we honor Head Coach Bob Daniels as he coaches his last games on the Bulldog bench. To kick it off, words from past players on his legacy and his impact on them and the Ferris State Hockey Program. Thank you Coach Daniels 💛❤️

@SproatScott @SportsiCohn @JGfortwayne lol it’s just @HeDrewHammer and I catching up on @SportsiCohn at the Children’s Hospital!

@SportsiCohn @MEmbach @JGfortwayne Wasn’t that the day that the paper ran the “Sexiest Journalists of the Decade” with the centerfold titled “SportsiSexy” ??? Be honest, Emmer! (Appears to be the appropriate viewing angle 🤔)

I just found this photo on my computer. Don't know where they were exactly, but spotting Komets like @MEmbach reading @JGfortwayne on game day in 2016 made me say out loud: "Ah, so, I don't ever want to hear again you guys don't read the paper." I'm blanking who's on the right.

first NHL win 🤝 first win for a Swedish-born NHL Head Coach

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government Following the Supreme Court’s guidance, we’ll reverse a decades long executive power grab. By Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Wall Street Journal November 20, 2024 Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections. This is antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision. It imposes massive direct and indirect costs on taxpayers. Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem. On Nov. 5, voters decisively elected Donald Trump with a mandate for sweeping change, and they deserve to get it. President Trump has asked the two of us to lead a newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to cut the federal government down to size. The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long. That’s why we’re doing things differently. We are entrepreneurs, not politicians. We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs. We are assisting the Trump transition team to identify and hire a lean team of small-government crusaders, including some of the sharpest technical and legal minds in America. This team will work in the new administration closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget. The two of us will advise DOGE at every step to pursue three major kinds of reform: regulatory rescissions, administrative reductions and cost savings. We will focus particularly on driving change through executive action based on existing legislation rather than by passing new laws. Our North Star for reform will be the U.S. Constitution, with a focus on two critical Supreme Court rulings issued during President Biden’s tenure. In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022), the justices held that agencies can’t impose regulations dealing with major economic or policy questions unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so. In Loper Bright v. Raimondo (2024), the court overturned the Chevron doctrine and held that federal courts should no longer defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of the law or their own rulemaking authority. Together, these cases suggest that a plethora of current federal regulations exceed the authority Congress has granted under the law. DOGE will work with legal experts embedded in government agencies, aided by advanced technology, to apply these rulings to federal regulations enacted by such agencies. DOGE will present this list of regulations to President Trump, who can, by executive action, immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review and rescission. This would liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress and stimulate the U.S. economy. When the president nullifies thousands of such regulations, critics will allege executive overreach. In fact, it will be correcting the executive overreach of thousands of regulations promulgated by administrative fiat that were never authorized by Congress. The president owes lawmaking deference to Congress, not to bureaucrats deep within federal agencies. The use of executive orders to substitute for lawmaking by adding burdensome new rules is a constitutional affront, but the use of executive orders to roll back regulations that wrongly bypassed Congress is legitimate and necessary to comply with the Supreme Court’s recent mandates. And after those regulations are fully rescinded, a future president couldn’t simply flip the switch and revive them but would instead have to ask Congress to do so. A drastic reduction in federal regulations provides sound industrial logic for mass head-count reductions across the federal bureaucracy. DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions. The number of federal employees to cut should be at least proportionate to the number of federal regulations that are nullified: Not only are fewer employees required to enforce fewer regulations, but the agency would produce fewer regulations once its scope of authority is properly limited. Employees whose positions are eliminated deserve to be treated with respect, and DOGE’s goal is to help support their transition into the private sector. The president can use existing laws to give them incentives for early retirement and to make voluntary severance payments to facilitate a graceful exit. Conventional wisdom holds that statutory civil-service protections stop the president or even his political appointees from firing federal workers. The purpose of these protections is to protect employees from political retaliation. But the statute allows for “reductions in force” that don’t target specific employees. The statute further empowers the president to “prescribe rules governing the competitive service.” That power is broad. Previous presidents have used it to amend the civil service rules by executive order, and the Supreme Court has held—in Franklin v. Massachusetts (1992) and Collins v. Yellen (2021) that they weren’t constrained by the Administrative Procedures Act when they did so. With this authority, Mr. Trump can implement any number of “rules governing the competitive service” that would curtail administrative overgrowth, from large-scale firings to relocation of federal agencies out of the Washington area. Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home. Finally, we are focused on delivering cost savings for taxpayers. Skeptics question how much federal spending DOGE can tame through executive action alone. They point to the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which stops the president from ceasing expenditures authorized by Congress. Mr. Trump has previously suggested this statute is unconstitutional, and we believe the current Supreme Court would likely side with him on this question. But even without relying on that view, DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended, from $535 million a year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion for grants to international organizations to nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood. The federal government’s procurement process is also badly broken. Many federal contracts have gone unexamined for years. Large-scale audits conducted during a temporary suspension of payments would yield significant savings. The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit, suggesting that the agency’s leadership has little idea how its annual budget of more than $800 billion is spent. Critics claim that we can’t meaningfully close the federal deficit without taking aim at entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid, which require Congress to shrink. But this deflects attention from the sheer magnitude of waste, fraud and abuse that nearly all taxpayers wish to end—and that DOGE aims to address by identifying pinpoint executive actions that would result in immediate savings for taxpayers. With a decisive electoral mandate and a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, DOGE has a historic opportunity for structural reductions in the federal government. We are prepared for the onslaught from entrenched interests in Washington. We expect to prevail. Now is the moment for decisive action. Our top goal for DOGE is to eliminate the need for its existence by July 4, 2026—the expiration date we have set for our project. There is no better birthday gift to our nation on its 250th anniversary than to deliver a federal government that would make our Founders proud.

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Someone make this make sense please

@usahockey @200x85 @CCMHockey #CCM68Alum

First #WomensWorlds, first goal for Joy Dunne!

@CCMHockey is on site for the Dallas Invite @ Mansfield today with their stick-handling activation & new product demos for the girls! Players should be on the lookout for 3 Golden Tickets hidden in Mansfield to win prizes. Tomorrow they will be on site at Nytex with 4 more 🎟️

The CCM 68 Combine will once again feature some of the top prospects at the 14U age level, but this time, with a twist. For the first time in the event’s 10-year history... Continue reading at: 200x85.com/what-to-expect…

Did you know after each CCM 68 Futures ID Camp players may be selected to receive early invitations to the 2024 CCM 68 Combine (2010s)? Following the Massachusetts camp we have confirmed 5 players for the 2024 CCM 68 Combine! Apply for upcoming camps at: hubs.li/Q01SQQgQ0

Is it Christmas? The CCM CHICAGO Brick team rolls out it’s swag package for the 2013 birth-year team heading to the @brickhockey Invitational in Edmonton 3 weeks from now. Team is prepping this wknd at Mount Prospect, IL vs @teampennbrick @dtrwbrickhockey @2013MNBlades

Awesome to see- good luck fellas! Looking forward to having you back for the 2023 @200x85 @CCMHockey 68 combine! #CCM68

Great start for the @CCMHockey CHICAGO BRICK team as they take home the Cup at the @teampennbrick tourney! Chicago knocked off Boston, PA, @TBulldogsHockey @dtrwbrickhockey Looking so forward to Edmonton @brickhockey

Throughout the history of the Chi-Town Shuffle, the event has welcomed many international teams; South Korea will be represented for the first time at this year's Chi-Town Shuffle. Read more about the Killer Whales and Opening Night at: hubs.li/Q01MmkCb0

Arizona is completely sold out but there are still limited F/D/G spots available at the other 4 locations for the 2010 Boys. There are still open spots in MA and MI for 2010 Girls as well!

2010 players - Want to be scouted for the 2024 CCM 68 Boys combine? Register now for a @200x85 @CCMHockey 68 Futures ID Camp with five great locations for 2023. Registrations are open, but limited spots remain! To register, visit 200x85.com/development/cc….

2010 players - Want to be scouted for the 2024 CCM 68 Boys combine? Register now for a @200x85 @CCMHockey 68 Futures ID Camp with five great locations for 2023. Registrations are open, but limited spots remain! To register, visit 200x85.com/development/cc….