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Michigan State vs. North Dakota. The most first-round draft picks ever to play in a college hockey game. On Halloween. In Austin, Texas.

@SchlossmanGF It's all great and I'll be there but what's with $300+ tickets on @Stubhub for a college hockey game?

@seanshapiro Any word on which cities are the lead candidates to host U18 next year?

World Junior Summer Showcase will be held in Windsor this year from July 26 to August 1. USA Hockey had hoped to maybe have construction done in time at USA Hockey arena in Plymouth, but this had been backup plan for a little bit.

@barstoolsports Bring @NHL to Austin, TX already!

What's the largest city without a big four sports team?

@seanshapiro With so many injuries to the key players I don't think the Stars were objectively a top-3 team in the Western Conference going into the playoffs. This was a second stage exit team at best, even if they got matched against someone other than Wild or Avs in the first round.

The series is over, the Hughes gamble paid off for Guerin, and this might have been the final game for Benn with the Stars. The 20/20 from Game 6 shapshotshockey.com/p/2020-hughes-…

Not really. When you talk about the Stars of the last 3 years, the depth of the squad is the first thing that comes to mind: 3 equally good lines. This time around it was anything but: starting center is out, Seguin hole was not filled, Rantanen is playing visibly injured, Lundkvist injured... Every line has a yesterday's AHLer on it, and no matter how amazing the Stars are at developing talent, that's just too many AHLers for the playoff squad. Myers and Benn have been atrocious. Harley couldn't get going. A perfect storm.

@seanshapiro I thought it was the coach, but its the players. Soft, purposeless, and zero heart. It's the playoffs, they haven't touched Hughes once, over half the forwards refuse to hit or touch anyone. They turtle in and play defense the entire game. It's embarrassing to watch as a fan.

Stars are nothing but consistent when it comes to sticking with horrific starts in games that really matter

@seanshapiro @stoopidsportfan You said it all in this article. He was arguably the worst Stars player this series, and that "one more year" was so unnecessary.

@stoopidsportfan I wrote this column last May, and a lot of it still rings true now a year later, frustratingly so shapshotshockey.com/p/jamie-benns-…

The current (arguably) best 15-year old hockey player in the world is born and raised in Round Rock, TX was not on my bingo card. thehockeynews.com/news/latest-ne…

Fun fact: a hockey player designed this beauty. statesman.com/business/artic…

"After starting to play hockey in Austin, playing up against 10U competition as an 8-year-old, he started playing for the Dallas Stars Elite, making the seven-hour, round-trip drive four days a week from Central Texas to Dallas." A proof that if you are born in Texas and serious about playing hockey for living in the future you only have 2 alternatives: 1. Move to Dallas 2. Join a travel team... But probably only the first option makes sense. A second team wouldn't hurt.

I've known Kade O'Rourke since he was a 4-year-old on the glass at Texas Stars games. Now he's making a strong bid for exceptional status to the OHL. So how do you tell that story? Let me introduce you to Kade O'Rourke, the No. 24, and the journey here eliteprospects.com/news/2026-ohl-…

@christogrozev Based on the number of Russian tourists on my last trip to Japan, Russian economy is doing just fine. At least the Moscow part of it.

More and more often, Putin gets directly and publicly blamed for Russia's collapsing economy. Something that was both unthinkable and very predictable only a year ago. facebook.com/share/v/1Ak2fK…

“Let’s take a @tesla robotaxi!” - I suggested to a friend from out of town who had never been in a self-driving car before. Shortly after we were stuck at a broken stoplight in East Austin, a left turn light would never turn green. After about five minutes of sitting there with zero movement, and a few cars angrily passing us from behind, it was pretty clear we could be sitting there all night as the car was just patiently waiting for the turn signal to turn. The funny part was the lady in the front seat wasn’t allowed to do anything to help us. So we had to call tech support and wait until they logged in and moved the car for us by hand. A 7-minute ride turned into a 25-minute ordeal. Needless to say, my friend wasn’t really sold on the whole thing. Not saying this issue is unique to @robotaxi, I’m curious how a @waymo car would handle the same situation. Growing pains.

A typical night in Dotonbori, streets crawling with tourists, bars filled with students and young professionals, grabbing dinner and drinks after work… And then there was this man, quietly sitting in a dimly lit alley. And it’s him I remember the most from my trip to Osaka.

If only the box office had been as appreciative of original stories as it has been of sequels and remakes... It's been one of the major topics at South by for the past couple of years now. Success stories like Sinners and KPop Demon Hunters remain major outliers. And then there's a whole topic of distribution/discovery...

original stories (vs. sequels and remakes) become the fresh inputs that truly advance imagination and wonder. now we just need more great talent taking more creative risk, and new forms of story discovery for audiences...

@seanshapiro I'd be surprised if it isn't so already. I've always felt that the whole point of playing at DIII school for anyone with professional hockey career aspirations was to bide your time, playing against decent competition, and make a jump to DI once the opening becomes available.

At what point in college hockey does the recruiting pitch for smaller conference schools become a blatant “come here for a year since we move players to the NCHC and Big 10 than others”

@Buccigross Why don't you go watch Mr. Nobody documentary before writing such stupid things? I heard it won an Oscar the other day or what not. Fun fact, this movie doesn't exist in the Russian media, like at all.

The 2028 World Cup is an NHL/NHLPA for profit initiative. Zero politics-just pure hockey Patriotism. Would you ban Russian players from playing in the NHL?--Maybe you would--But they are not. Then why and how would you ban union members from an NHL/NHLPA event? The event is selling the game, not making statements. A huge majority of fans want Russia in. The players want Russia to play. And the NHL should want it. They make a major contribution to the business of the NHL. I'm a little surprised the PA would agree to a tournament without all of its members. And if other countries are threatening not to allow their NHL players to play in a fun and awesome hockey tournament, then I'd say, "OK. You can tell your players that."

@seanshapiro Jim should at least inquire about trading for Nikishin.

The Olympic break is over, the deadline is looming. What should Jim Nill do? We chatted with NHL scouts to get their take on all of that. dmagazine.com/sports/2026/02…

@samnestler Could certainly use another RD instead of Center. This spot has been an issue for the past couple years now come playoffs.

A good reminder not to take too much stock in any of these rumors and comments. Dallas has approximately 30 centers.

CPU performance plays a decisive role in accelerator-based #AI platforms. The faster the CPU retires host-side workload components, the higher its overall impact on throughput, performance per watt, and overall TCO. @Signal_65 found that @AMD #EPYC delivers notable performance improvements relative to competition. signal65.com/research/ai/im…