The Usual Suspect

@RinkRoyalty No problem. Kuemper is available to anyone who wants to pay his salary. Forsberg is there until Portillo is ready. If Portillo is never ready, reset.

The Kings may soon face one of their toughest long-term roster decisions in goal. With Darcy Kuemper, Erik Portillo, and Anton Forsberg all factoring into the organization’s future, the crease situation in LA is becoming increasingly complicated. rinkroyalty.com/future-of-the-…

@StuForReal Well, yeah. You need three guitars to balance out the cowbell.

Not to poke a hornets' nest but did Blue Öyster Cult really need three guitarists

@BillSchulz @Mets @Yankees Years ago perhaps, but no longer. Sox' fans seethe with hatred for the Cubs and particularly Cubs' fans. Cubs' fans couldn't give a crap. But I do feel for Sox fans - and no smirking here, really. They love their team, but they don't know if it will be there in five years. Alas.

This is so much fun. Said it before/say it again: The @mets/@yankees so-called "rivalry" is adorable. But there is 126 years worth of hatred when it comes to the north & south side re: Chicago's teams. Ain't nothing like it.

@EdMorrissey @HollywoodInToto Defensible list - also runners-up. That said, one film I'd add that will never make any best-of list but EVERYONE loves - even decades later: To Sir, With Love

Well, I have finally done it. I finished my homework. And @HollywoodInToto gets his chance to poke holes in it on Tuesday! The Top 25 Greatest Films of All (My) Time hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2…

@TheHockeyWriter It means they're applying cardiac paddles to a corpse.

What Berube’s Firing Says About the Maple Leafs’ Urgency ift.tt/CKmgp20 #NHL #THW

@Phantom2Phlyer Tom Stoppard in "Jumpers" (1972): "It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."

It is sad to see people actually thinking that Steve Hilton can win the governorship, or Spencer Pratt can win the mayoral election in Los Angeles. They don't understand California politics. Let me tell you two sad facts: neither thing can happen. Joseph Stalin once said words to the effect that the people who vote don't determine elections. The people that count the votes determine elections. But there's more than that in California, and Stalin would have been amazed if he had seen how this state has rigged elections. If everyone in the state voted for Hilton, and everyone in LA voted for Pratt, both would still lose. You think I'm exaggerating? Here's how Democrats have rigged the system. In California, every registered voter, alive or dead, legal or illegal, still in district or not, gets a ballot mailed to them. Every single one. In CA, ballot harvesting is legal. Which means the massive Democrat machine sends operatives out to collect those ballots that were sent to people who aren't there, or senile citizens in old folk's homes, or anywhere else they can, and votes them for Democrats. Then, they dump those ballots into the conveniently placed collection boxes that are all around the state, so the scammers don't have to go very far to drop them off. No need to actually pay for postage. Nope. Just drop them off. Then there's the fact that any ballot received within seven days after an election gets counted. If the Democrats need a little push, they just put those pre-postmarked ballots into the post office box, and they get sent to arrive in time to change the election results. The real problem is that there is no low-level Republican effort to rebuild Republican presence from the bottom up. The CA Republican party is a bunch of elite do-nothings who ask for money and then use that money for 'election events' like dinners, flights around everywhere, and pontifications. They're as big a bunch of grifters as Democrats are. They just have less power. So before you all go "Rah Rah!!! We're going to win!!!" Realize that not only is the deck stacked against Republicans, but the order of the cards in the deck are already determined. The winner of the California gubernatorial race will be whichever Democrat gets on the general election ballot. And the winner of the LA Mayor's race will be Karen Bass. Not because the people voted for them. But because it's the Democrat machine that "counts the votes."

@kurri_jari Why 1975? They've only won the one since they started play in 1967. To be fair, Ray Bourque and Tom Barrasso won the award, and they were selected with Kings draft picks - alas the Kings had traded those picks for marginal goalie Ron Grahame and four games with Rick Martin.

True. BUT Anze Kopitar was robbed in 2006/07. Look who Paul Stastny got to play with in Colorado in comparison to Kopitar in LA.

@calstanvard Life has taken them in different directions. One up, one down.

Pat Verbeek and Luc Robitaille were teammates in NYR. They even played on the same line.

@ASaunders_PGH Unlike the Steelers. Funny. Thanks. How's Denver?

The Pittsburgh Zoo is clearly in win-now mode.

@MichaelBarone @baseballcrank And after presidents born in every decade since the 1810s, none born in either the 1930s or 1950s.

@baseballcrank We've had no presidents born between 1924 and 1942. That's after seven presidents born between 1908 and 1924 and before five presidents born between 1942 and 1961.

Of course, I wrote in 2016 when Scalia died that the Silent Generation would never produce a president. Four years later, it did.

@calstanvard Let's narrow it down to Not Doughty, who is extremely self-absorbed and supplies constant evidence that a big mouth is not a leadership skill.

Who should be named Captain for the LA Kings in 2026/27? I don't care who you name but I want to know your #1 reason. YOUR reason. Not who you think they'll pick.

@calstanvard Let's try someone without prostate issues this time.

How do you feel about any of these retread head coaching candidates for LA? Peter Laviolette Bruce Boudreau Gerard Gallant Dan Bylsma Patrick Roy Rank the Top 3 you'd be ok with?

@MarcelAndRogie More than Byfield and Turcotte combined.

And with that, 20-year-old rookie Beckett Sennecke passes Quinton Byfield in career playoff goals with 5.

@DailyLak We'll be seeing more of these. The cap is increasing so much the next 2-3 years that teams don't have to be quite so careful any more.

Wanted the Kings to take a look had he hit free agency but I am more than okay with them avoiding a 6x6 for a 34 year old. #GoKingsGo

@LAKings874 I'm afraid it's not either/or. These guys aren't capable of overhauling the team, and even if they were, at this point they're trying to save their job so they'll sacrifice youth - not that there's much there - just to get 1-2 more years of respectability.

Vegas saying no to Edmonton makes me think the Kings won’t be able to interview Cassidy either. If so, I’m fine with that because I think the problems run deeper than just coaching. I’d rather overhaul the roster and bring back DJ than bring in Cassidy with a similar team.

@N_A_Waller @LAKings874 You're right. Another illustration of the rule: never try to remember something you can look up.

@usualsuspectpnc @LAKings874 Rogie was the GM in 1990-91. Beverley didn’t come onboard until 92-93.

I’ve heard some people (although not many) say that they believe the 1991 Kings were the best team in franchise history. I believe it is the 2014 Kings. For the people who think it was 1991, do y’all think the GM at the time was better than Dean Lombardi?

@iranidaturan I don't. But that's why the midterms matter.

@iranidaturan Because the Democrats have already promised to repeatedly investigate and impeach Trump and anyone else that can think of. That's their complete agenda.

Honest question for MAGA Americans (I’m not American so I genuinely don’t know the vibe): Why do some of you talk and act like the midterms are already won, and that Trump is now screwing it up because of his handling of the Iran´s conflict? I know the historical pattern is very strong, the party that wins the White House almost always loses seats in the midterms (with a few exceptions). I completely understand that it would be great if Republicans break that pattern this time. But I’m confused why some people are behaving as if losing the midterms would be a total disaster or the end of the world. Can someone explain the thinking behind this?

@meghan_daum x.com/i/status/20535…

This is some solid podcast content.