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akwardlyuncool · 3 years

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White Chocolate (2018) - Review

TW/CW: This movie is filled with racism and white supremacist comments, some about keeping bloodlines pure. I speak to those things in this review, so I’m just stating that now.

I have a rule about spoilers, I don’t like them and I do my best to avoid them in my reviews, however because this movie is absolute trash and not worth any consideration, I’m airing the whole thing out.

I was once again looking for a romance movie to watch, to get some cheep feels in and came across this one. Now I know I should have scrolled passed it after doing a big eye roll cause I hate food references when it comes to Black People, especially Black Women/Femmes and I dislike it even more in reference to interracial couples. The thing is though, I ignored the part of me that is turned off by weird and cheesy “Swirl” ish and thought maybe it would just be an obviously bad, but potentially cute “Swirl” movie. Not saying my thought was that much better, I just knew what to expect if it went that route. So let me tell you want I got instead...

A young girl comes down the stairs one morning (I think it was morning) and asks her dad how he and her mother met, thus starting the flashback to 2005 when her father Rick (Anthony Napoli) was in his senior year of college. Back then he was a big stoner and seemed to only have 2 friends, Chase and Tony (Chris Leone and Scott Brandon) who were also potheads. The three of them are sitting outside on the collage campus that first day of senior year and Rick sees Anara Tomai (Kali Hawk) this beautiful Black Woman. His ex had just broken up with him, so he was free to look around. He acknowledges her beauty and points it out to his friends. Now the 30 seconds that took place after that acknowledgement is where I should have turned off the movie and said a complete “hell nah!”

His friends proceed to make racist stereotypical jokes about her and fried chicken among other gross remarks and how Rick should date someone of his “own color.” Rick gives a glorified “I don’t see color” speech and goes on to ask her out anyway. After that scene comes more racist food jokes, mostly made by Tony and he even pulls out a n*gga.

I don’t want to give a full play by play, so let’s just get into the spoiled meat and potatoes of why this movie is trash, even though I’ve already given you enough reason to believe me already.

One of my biggest gripes with the movie and mainly Rick’s character is that he clearly likes Anara and the fact that she’s a Black Woman, however he continued throughout the entire film to stay friends with Tony in particular, who consistently made racist comments, not just “jokes” about her and even turned out to be a whole white supremacist. (He showed up one day with a white pride tattoo, so I made no assumptions there.) I’m sorry, but your friend can’t just make a racist “joke” about your girlfriend and after you weakly call him out on it, y’all go back to smoking a bowl. That happened so frequently with Rick, where people in his life would make horrible comments about Black people and Anara in general and he would barely even call it out, but continue to hang out with those people. He did though kind of agree to move out after graduation in a argument he had with his Father who also held hella racist opinions. He didn’t step away from Tony though until Tony called Anara the n-word with a hard r and he went and punch him in the face for it. Basically Rick is the worst and I don’t see why Anara kept him around, let alone fell for him, because I would have thought the company he kept was proof enough to stay several miles away from him at all times.

Don’t want to waste much time on Tony, so I will just continue with what we already know and that is, that he’s complete trash. I don’t know how he had any friends and everything that came out of his mouth seemed intentionally gross and harmful. (I think someone who had a part in making his character was acting out a sick fantasy, one where “I can’t say it in real life, so I’ll say it in a movie.”)

Now let’s talk Chase real quick. Although he wasn’t as blatantly foul as Tony he was still chillin on that fence. He did faintly called some things out, but at the same time he said the N-Word a few times and got in on some of those chicken and collard greens jokes himself, so he’s not to be trusted either. We don’t trust any of the white people in this movie. Not even Rick’s sister who was probably the least worst out of them all.

The ending didn’t really make sense or I just didn’t agree. Rick seemingly let’s his dad and Tony back into his life after a year away from them, simply because they’ve now had “changes of hearts.” Absolutely ridiculous. The final scene is Rick and his daughter talking about how romantic or whatever that story was and then the daughter asking why her mother left them. Rick says that’s a whole other story and makes a suggestive face at the camera, leading us to believe they may have had intentions to make a horrible follow up film. The ending (but really whole movie) aslo gave clearly expressed misogynoir being passed down to a child, more grossness. Now I hope they don’t ever try to a sequal cause it amazes me that this one even got greenlit in the first place.

To touch on a point I made earlier, this movie felt like a small portion of it was aiming to make a statement about pushing through other people’s prejudices in the name of love and the rest was to air out some things you’re not really allowed to say in general public spaces. I’d say 40/60. There was just too many racial stereotypes, too much racism in general and white supremacist talking points that didn’t get correctly checked, for me not to believe my “theory” to be true.

White Chocolate had no narrator/narration, looked like it was actually shot in 2005 (in a bad way) and not in 2018 and thought it could prop itself up on this interracial romance, perseverance bit, but had too many wonky hard “r’s” and bloodline comments to ever be on a tolerable, let alone decent, level. It could have been satirical, it could have been joking commentary or it could have just been 100% serious, none of which worked for them. Anything it attempted to be other than racist, gross and terrible, failed.

Bonus Quick Thoughts:

Anara was unsurprisingly sexualized a lot in this movie, to the point where it seemed like it was oddly coming from all sides. Like first she wants to wait till marriage and then two seconds after they get engaged, she turns into a fiend and becomes the dominate one.

Rick, although he ends up changing his mind, was scary and wrong for even thinking about bringing Anara into a violent space such as a gathering with his racist family. (Just another example of him not really being a stand up guy.)

Rick deserved to get punched, just not always for the exact reasons he actually got beat up for.

Who buys an album where the song is just the rapper saying the n-word over and over again? They also played a lot of GTA for some reason, so the whole thing was weird and not exactly chill.

I’m slightly bummed that Chris Leone who had a small part as a minion in The Girl Next door, wound up here. Just an unfortunate character arch for him as an actor.

I just want to inappropriately ask Kali Hawk how big that check was cause I don’t know if you could pay me enough to sit through this level of bs for the lawls!

The cast and crew all seemed to be mostly made up of two families, from what I could gather and the majority of them only seem to have this movie on their resume, which I’m almost positive will not score them any future call-backs, unless they’re once again putting a movie together themselves.

#Movie Blurbs #Movie Reviews #White Chocolate #White Chocolate Movie #Tony Napoli #Kali Hawk #Chris Leone #Scott Brandon #Bianca Chamberlin #Adrian Adams #Derek Armelin #Andy Sandoval #Kellee Smith #Movies #TW: white supremacy

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cleoselene · 4 years

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y’all the dumbass image of 2020, if you didn’t know, is this chick Avery from 90 Day Fiance who “really believes in cannabis” so she puts a whole ass raw pot leaf on her salads

yes, that is dry ass unseasoned chicken, which is a completely different conversation, as is the lack of any dressing whatsoever, but Y’ALL. THAT IS A WHOLE ASS POT LEAF. YOU DON’T EVEN SMOKE THAT PART. THERE ARE ZERO TRICHOMES. YOU THROW THAT SHIT OUT. BUT THIS BITCH DON’T EVEN CHOP IT UP. SHE JUST PUTS A WHOLE FUCKIN LEAF ON HER SALAD. SHE’S LIKE SOME KIND OF STONER KOALA BEAR MUNCHIN ON LEAVES.

I am seriously like every time they show her visiting her man with Rick Scott Eyes in Australia they show like an establishing shot and sometimes it’s a koala and I’m like CLIMB UP THERE AND MUNCH ON A LEAF WITH IT, AVERY. THIS IS WHAT YOU DO, RIGHT? S;OFJAS;F;FJSKAAFKS

this post dedicated to @girilla-warfare because I’ve loved her so mach, so mach sexy

#90 day fiance #weed #herb

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goparks · 5 years

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The diversity of birds found across the National Park System is absolutely incredible. Have you ever considered planning a bird-watching trip to a national park? >> https://prks.org/2F3vphk

#birds #wildlife #birding #birdwatching #NationalParks #FindYourPark #EncuentraTuParque

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deadcactuswalking · 3 years

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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 24/04/2021 (AJ Tracey, Young Thug/Gunna/Drake)

On this week on the UK Singles Chart, we get a well-deserved break after last week’s chaos but we still have seven or so new arrivals – half of last week’s amount. Lil Nas X’s “MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name)” is unfazed by any of it as it spends a fourth week at #1, and welcome back to REVIEWING THE CHARTS.

Rundown

So last week was busy but a lot of what debuted and returned didn’t actually sustain so we have a plentiful amount of drop-outs and returning entries this week as well. For notable drop-outs – as in songs that had peaked in the top 40 or spent at least five weeks in the chart (specifically the UK Top 75, which I cover) – we have “Anyone” by Justin Bieber, Drake’s “What’s Next” after only six weeks, “What Other People Say” by Sam Fischer and Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift’s re-recorded version of “Love Story” and “Headshot” by Lil Tjay featuring Fivio Foreign and Polo G as well as the late DMX’s “X Gon’ Give it to Ya” off of the return last week.

We do have an oddly large amount of returning entries as a result of this because I guess there’s not enough new stuff to fill in the cracks, as “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles is back at #75, “Heat” by Paul Woodford and Amber Mark at #69, “Anxious” by AJ Tracey at #68 off of the album boost, “Another Love” by Tom Odell at #67 and “Cover Me in Sunshine” by P!nk and Willow Sage Heart at #62.

Then we have songs actually on the chart that are moving about – first off, let’s start with our notable losses, falling about five spots or more on the chart. We don’t have an excess of these, but we do have “Calling My Phone” by Lil Tjay and 6LACK getting ACR’d at #23, “Latest Trends” by AI x JI and remixed by Aitch at #33, “Mercury” by Dave and Kamal. off of the debut to #47 (good!), “Black Hole” by Griff at #48, “All You Ever Wanted” by Rag’n’ Bone Man at #49, “Mr. Perfectly Fine” by Taylor Swift at #50 off of the debut, as well as “Anywhere Away from Here” by Rag’n’Bone Man and P!nk also off of the debut at #51. Oh, and again, falling after last week’s debut, we have “Way Too Long” by Nathan Dawe, Anne-Marie and MoStack at #52. Other fallers that actually lasted at least one more week on the chart include “6 for 6” by Central Cee at #57, “Paradise” by MEDUZA and Dermot Kennedy at #63 and that’s about it. Also, somehow “Lemon Pepper Freestyle” by Drake featuring Rick Ross is sticking to the charts at #71 despite all of the more pop cuts off of that EP – and by that I mean the songs that aren’t six long minutes of pure rapping – dropping out. How that is I have no idea but it does bring us to our gains.

Our gains are always more interesting and we do have a fair few of them this week, like “Starstruck” by Years & Years at #56 off of the debut, “Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing)” by Fred again.. and the Blessed Madonna somehow surging up to #55 off of the debut, “Beautiful Mistakes” by Maroon 5 featuring Megan Thee Stallion at #54, “Summer 91 (Looking Back)” by Noizu at #53, “Last Time” by Becky Hill at #46, “Don’t You Worry About Me” by Bad Boy Chiller Crew at #45, “Medicine” by James Arthur at #44, “Head & Heart” by Joel Corry and MNEK at #41, “Blinding Lights” by the Weeknd rebounding at #40, “Runaway” by AURORA making the top 40 at #34 (six years late), “Levitating” by Dua Lipa bizarrely rebounding at #32, “Didn’t Know” by Tom Zanetti at #31 and that’s pretty much it other than big gains for Olivia Rodrigo’s “deja vu” up big to #12 and “Let’s Go Home Together” by Ella Henderson and Tom Grennan breaking into the top 10 at #10. A lot of these new entries are concentrated towards the bottom of the chart, so let’s start with something that’s actually pretty great.

NEW ARRIVALS

#74 – “How Does it Feel” – London Grammar

Produced by London Grammar and Steve Mac

London Grammar are an indie pop band from Nottingham that just scored their second #1 album with Californian Soil, one I found genuinely promising but absolutely meandering. For all of the great, swelling and powerful tracks there were – many already on the pre-album EPs and singles – there were pointless, time-consuming ballads that feel if anything underwritten and dull. My personal favourite track, “Baby it’s You”, was the lead single and it actually charted, though this cut is the highest-peaking track from the record and also, thankfully, one of my favourites. Hannah Reid has a smoky, unique voice and it always swells over these atmospheric, reverb-drenched instrumentals, full of subtle bass and those infectious guitar links before it drops into the borderline vocaloid drop in that distorted synth-pop chorus that... okay, is pretty anti-climactic and there for no reason other than to give an excuse for the band to incorporate that 80s production into the rest of the song. Regardless, it’s still a damn good production and that chorus is unreasonably catchy, even if she’s hitting falsetto notes I’d never be able to sing along to. It’s not a song that ends too early so it can stream well either; this is a pop song constructed like one of old, and is just as intricate, especially with those twinkling keys in the final chorus. This isn’t the best on the album by far but it’s understandably the one that’s the most accessible and upbeat so it makes sense it’s here. I don’t expect it to stick around but I wouldn’t mind if it did.

#73 – “Sunshine (The Light)” – Fat Joe, DJ Khaled and Amorphous

Produced by Cool N Dre and Amorphous

So, Fat Joe might be back? I’d be hard-pressed to find out way until I look at this... comeback single of sorts and realise that the chorus is just straight-up taken from a Rihanna song, that being the verse of “Kiss it Better” from 2016 layered over this almost disco-sounding sample of Luther Vandross and that’s pretty much the song as far as the beat is concerned. In that way, I guess it’s kind of fun and harmless but Rihanna’s vocals are mixed pretty horrifically on this instrumental without any attempt to cover it up with some backing vocals, which would have been a really good touch. DJ Khaled is only here because he finishes Fat Joe’s punchline and he contributes literally nothing else. In fact, Fat Joe is a waste of time here as well, especially in that really odd bridge and second verse. Admittedly, I guess his first verse has one clever line but it’s all clearly so unfocused even when the sample gives you a lot to work with in terms of content. By the time the Luther Vandross vocal sample is oddly dribbling over the beat, I’m out of this.

#72 – “Ski” – Young Stoner Life, Young Thug and Gunna

Produced by BabyWave, Outtatown and Wheezy

Slime Language 2 was a project I thought was actually fairly enjoyable given its runtime and content. I mean, it’s 23 tracks running at about an hour and a half of just mindless flexing, sex and gunplay from Young Thug and YSL affiliates but it has an energy and camaraderie that I rarely find is all that noticeable during these label or collective albums, and whilst not any particular rapper shines on more than one track, we still hear a lot of voices on the record that are far from unpleasant and can hold their own against Thug, one of them of course being Gunna. I’m surprised the songs with Travis Scott or Lil Uzi Vert didn’t debut but this Thug-Gunna cut did, but I guess that video pushed it over the top and I’m glad because this is by far one of my favourites on the album on pure, stupid and mindless energy. That camaraderie that I mentioned is in full force here as Thug and Gunna trade bars over this basic watery beat with some catchy strings and, of course, awkward bass mixing. The first intelligible words are “Spider sex” and then Thug just goes into yelling “Yeah!” because, sure, that’s a chorus. Thugger delivers his typical flow-switching charisma with a lot of loud, fun energy and whilst not anything of lyrical standard is said here, I love how he and Gunna trade each other’s names on their versions of the post-chorus. It’s a clever, little touch that makes songs like this feel just that bit more fun, if the manic ad-libs didn’t already show that. Gunna’s verse might be the best of the two here as he actually comes with some unexpected energy over that beeping synth loop that sounds great finally coming from Gunna, and, yeah, what can I say? It’s a mindless trap banger that will be out as soon as it was in – both for the charts and your ears – but it’s so much fun and with Thug’s poppier projects, that’s all that matters.

#66 – “You” – Regard, Troye Sivan and Tate McRae

Produced by Regard

The Kosovan DJ that brought us that great remix of Jay Sean’s “Ride It” as well as original song “Secrets” with RAYE is back and bringing... Troye Sivan and Tate McRae with him. Okay, I mean, sure, maybe Regard can pump up the production to get either of these singers to sound enthused. The content is pretty basic, with the “coming back to an ex” story we’ve heard before and not much interplay between Tate and Troye – not that there can feasibly be but that’s beside the point. This isn’t all that important to a song like this, though, but it can be done so it always feels anti-climactic when these EDM songs don’t have good lyrical content anchoring its groove and catchy hooks. That said, this song is actually pretty good, trading much of the more fast-paced house grooves and minimal deep house drops for a pretty slick, almost synth-funk production with some hard-hitting 909 bass and Troye’s laid-back mumbling falsetto actually sounding pretty great over electro percussion and this blend of really cool, retro synths that aren’t afraid to sound jerky and out-of-tune in that post-chorus. They almost remind me of Plastic Beach if this isn’t that ludicrous of a comparison. Tate McRae barely exists here but that’s fine – sadly she has the only verse and her voice just doesn’t mesh that well with Troye’s outside of some of the chorus harmonising, and on its own just sounds kind of unwarrantedly raspy on pretty clean, smooth production. Regard’s addition of those distorted backing vocals and the lenient vocal manipulating in that bridge make sure you know this is intricately produced to every detail and I just love that ramping of intensity even if the final chorus doesn’t really act as that impactful climax so the song ends on kind of a low note where I can tell Regard didn’t know where to go from there. Otherwise, this is a pretty great synth-pop track and I really hope it sticks around. I knew Regard had an ear for more unique EDM production since he came onto the charts for the first time with “Ride It” so I hope to hear what’s next from him as well. For now, oh, God, please make this a hit.

#61 – “Kukoc” – AJ Tracey featuring NAV

Produced by Yung Swisher and Pxcoyo

This is our first of two songs that debuted this week from AJ Tracey’s album Flu Game, which I decided not to listen to on the basis that it was nearly an hour’s runtime with a NAV feature. It’s just my luck then that for whatever reason, the British public decided the NAV song was the second most important track to listen to when the album dropped. Well, I guess this beat isn’t bad, especially with that synth flashing over the acoustic guitar inflections and the Pop Smoke-esque rattling drill percussion creating an oddly-mixed and cluttered beat but one that I guess still hits pretty hard. NAV sounds more enthused than ever over a drill beat – maybe he should stick to that – but I still feel like this is just a pointless song. The content is primarily just flexing and AJ Tracey’s energy is there but not in a particularly likeable, charming way or in an intimidating, menacing way so he just ends up out-shined by NAV’s cheaply Auto-Tuned and simple, basic flow in his verse where he emphasises how he’s a grown man at 30 years old – yet still not showing any sign of maturity, seemingly. This is listenable for sure but at best it’s a mildly amusing drill track and at worst it’s sensory overload. The build-up is only in the intro here and it’s just full force for the next two minutes making it kind of aggravating to even listen to and keep up with. Oh, and “Kukoc” is some Croatian basketball player mentioned once in the chorus. That’s about as interesting as this content gets.

#36 – “Solid” – Young Stoner Life, Young Thug and Gunna featuring Drake

Produced by Foreign Teck, Elvas, Wheezy and OZ

It’s an unwritten rule that if you release an album, the song with Drake on it will always debut on the charts, and often particularly high. Okay, I guess it didn’t work for Drakeo the Ruler – sadly – but it did work for Slime Language 2. “Solid” which absolutely did not need the four producers it has is pretty much just the trio being as uninteresting as possible as they slide over a synth-based trap beat with, say it with me, odd bass mixing. I guess Drake’s hook is mildly catchy and the steel pans in the verses are kind of fun even if they’re there for pretty much no reason. Gunna probably delivers the best verse, if not the purest as he brags about having solid friendships, and boasts wealth over the beat which gets a lot more eerie and downbeat with Gunna over it for whatever reason, even when he’s spitting ridiculous sex bars. The best part of this as with most of the YSL label projects is the interplay between Young Thug and Gunna, as over an increasingly badly mixed beat and some slick organ licks, Thugger ends off the track with an effortless verse and... well, it sure is a trap-rap song by Young Thug, Gunna and Drake. That’s for sure. It’s not bad at all and this beat could be a lot better if there were more steel pans and better mixing, it’s just that none of these guys deliver as well as they can and like most things he’s on nowadays, Drake is the worst part of it.

#29 – “Little More Love” – AJ Tracey

Produced by Venna, Mark Raggio, RyFy and Yoz Beats

I’m surprised there’s little fanfare about this song and the album in general, especially given how big songs like “West Ten” and “Bringing it Back”. Sadly, I think this might be a case of waiting too long to get the record out or just AJ’s star fading away and towards – unfortunately – Digga D. This cut got the music video treatment and hence debuted the highest of any entries this week but it was set for a top 10 debut from the album and video boost, but just seems to have stalled. I actually think that’s pretty unfortunate as this is a great song, with that tropical guitar lick that sounds cheap when drenched in the reverb and especially when the beat comes in and it’s mixed too loudly, but that doesn’t really obscure the trap knock and groove, particularly in that chorus with AJ’s expected dead-beat delivery. That delivery really works for this song, though, as it’s about the paranoia that comes with unexpected fame and success for someone from a background of poverty. I wish the beat gave AJ more room to breathe but he still flips the typical UK flows on his verses so they’re a lot more catchy and smooth, particularly over those soulful vocal loops that come in at the same time. That second verse is pretty excellent too, as whilst it’s short, it runs through some pretty excellent flows and some interesting lines, like about how he sees himself as Che Guerava, represents his Trinidadian identity and how he’s “got God” so he and his crew don’t need to wear a bullet-proof vest, which is actually kind of profound for Tracey. The horns at the end of this beat deserve some credit for making this song great too, and with all the sounds packed into this song, I think I understand why this one has four producers, even if this cluttered mix could use halving that total.

Conclusion

This is a pretty solid week all things considered, with a lot of good to great songs, so much so that it’s difficult to give out titles. I guess Best of the Week is going to “Ski” by Young Stoner Life, Young Thug and Gunna but I’m convinced to give a three-way tie for Honourable Mention. I think I’ll just stick with giving it to Regard, Troye Sivan and Tate McRae for “You” but it was close. Worst of the Week ends up going to “Sunshine (The Light)” by Fat Joe, Amorphous and DJ Khaled almost by default, with a Dishonourable Mention to AJ Tracey’s “Kukoc” featuring NAV, even if I still kind of like the song. Here’s our top 10 for this week:

Hopefully next week will keep this quality going, but in terms of new arrivals I can’t really make any concrete predictions other than a boost for “Save Your Tears” and hopefully an impact from Jorja Smith and Little Simz. I guess time will tell however, so thanks for reading and I’ll see you next week!

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habsfans98 · 7 years

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Habsfan98 NHL Season 2017-2018 Team Opinions

Man, the off-season was painfully slow this year. But! Thankfully the pre-season was fun, and now the regular season will start in just a couple of hours. So, to kick of the season, I decided to make some opinions for the NHL teams this years. Just some predictions, and expectations that I hope come true.

Remember these are just predictions and opinions. And I have no intention of offending anyone, or the cities that these teams represent. I would love to have counter-opinions and discussions about your teams.

Anaheim Duck

The Ducks are still considered a cup-contender. Even after the loses of young defenseman Clayton Stoner, and Shea Theodore. Ryan Getzlaf is still the driving force of this team’s offense, along with rising star Rickard Rackell, and their bruising still of play. The real question, is if the John Gibson can elevate his game, and push the Ducks to the Stanley cup final.

Arizona Coyotes

The Yotes have a chance this year to take a big step up, from being a rebuilding (Mediocre) team. To a potential playoff contender in the Pacific Divison. Max Domi looks to take another step into stardom, with Oliver Ekman-Larsson. Antti Raanta, was brought in from the Rangers to bring capable goaltending, and Derek Stepan joined him to give a veteran presence for the young squad. Who I’m watching for this season, is Anthony Duclair. He had awful season last year, after an incredible rookie season. Will he be able to get back to that form under new head coach Rick Tocchet?

Boston Bruins

For Bruins it’s going to be an interesting year. You’re going to have to hope the Brad Marchand’s “break-out” season wasn’t a total one-off, and that Tukka Rask can have a stable, or Vezina caliber season. I think the Bruins could be a playoff team, but that all depends on whether the younger talent we saw in the playoff last year, develop and mature.

Buffalo Sabres

Jack Eichel is now the future of the Buffalo Sabres franchise. He is the piece that this team will build around for the next eight years. Meanwhile the rest of the team still has holes. I still question the Sabres defense, which has been the biggest weakness for this team since they started rebuilding. Hopefully the goaltending can hold the fort, until the new GM in Buffalo can find a solution.

Calgary Flames

Aside from the off-ice drama. The Flames look like a playoff team once again. Only this time with a much deeper defense. Mike Smith will have to be leagues better the Brian Elliot was if the Flames look to challenge the Oilers, Ducks, and Sharks for top bills in the Pacific. Sam Bennet also needs to take the next step, otherwise; I predict that he’ll be trade bait by Christmas.

Carolina Hurricanes

The Hurricanes might finally get people to go to their games again with the improvements they made this year. Bring in the younger players from the cup winning Blackhawks teams was a gutsy move by the Hurricanes. Scott Darling has the chance to be a number one goaltender, and the young defense has a chance to really shine this year. Oh! And people might finally notice Jeff Skinner for a change!

Chicago Blackhawks

Stan Bowman went full nuclear and purged the 2016-2017 team, and did his best to bring back the 2014-2015 Stanley cup winning team. Bring back the well-rounded Saad, and fan favorite Patrick Sharp. However, this team will have to bring up some younger players from the system if they want a chance to stay afloat with the rest of the Central Division.

Colorado Avalanche

I have nothing to say about this team. Last year was terrible. This year will also be terrible. Your only notable off-season acquisition, was Nail Yakupov. Av’s fan’s your only hope is that Nathan MacKinnon takes another step, and turns into a true super star, Semyon Varlamov doesn’t get hurt again long term (and plays like its 2011-2012), and Joe Sakic gets fired.

Columbus Blue Jackets

The Blue Jackets live and breath with Bobrovsky. If he’s healthy and stays healthy expect the playoffs. If he’s injured and stays injured, you’re out of the playoffs. You traded of Brandon Saad to Chicago for Artemi Panarin, Alexander Wennberg and Zach Werenski will most lickely regress this season, and you better hope that Nick Foligno doesn’t vanish again.

Dallas Stars

The Dallas Stars learned their lesson about trying the 1-A/1-B goaltending system. They went out a signed Ben Bishop to a six-year contract. He along with Marc Methot will finally get this team back into the post season. What I’m curious about is the offensive lines of this team. Sighing Radulov to a five-year deal, adds another piece of fire power to this team. There is one important question. Will anyone on this follow Ken Hitchcock rather stubborn defensive system.

Detroit Red Wings

Yeah… I don’t expect this team to make the playoffs. There old, slow, inconsistent, and poorly coached. If the Red Wings have any chance of being a good this year (or any year), they will need to get rid of a few contracts, and aging players. Hopefully, the first season at the new arena won’t be too painful to watch. Side Note: Fix the goal horn in that new arena.

Edmonton Oilers

The Oilers are going to be the second-best team in the Pacific Division. McDavid and Draisaitl are going this team back to the post season. Well, so long as Cam Talbot plays like he did last year. A lot of people have faith that this team will end Canada’s cup drought. What I’m looking forward to is seeing if Kailer Yamamoto stays with the team for the rest of the year.

Florida Panthers

This team will be better than last year’s hot-mess. Dale Tallon has done everything he could to return the team to his vision of what a cup-contender in Florida would look like. The important question is whether the key players on this team, stay healthy. The Panthers could be a playoff team, so long has those players aren’t hit with requiring long-term injuries.

Los Angeles Kings

A healthy Jonathan Quick means a chance at the playoffs. Jeff Carter hopefully won’t have to be anchor of the offense this season. Anze Kopitar had a dreaful season last year, and looks to rebound, meanwhile players from the farm system look to make an impact this year. I only have one question. What the fuck is going to happen to Dustin Brown?

Minnesota Wild

After a lack luster end to the playoff last year. It’s clear that Wild are trying to build from being a just a “get-in-the-playoffs” team. They want to play, to get deep into the playoffs. At this point I’m done doubting Devan Dubnyk, he’s proven himself to be an elite goaltender. The only worry I have for this team, is Zach Parise, he needs to be a better player than he was last year.

Montreal Canadiens

Oh boy. I hate to say this. But even with Carey Price on the team. I have the habs being a bubble team. The trade for Jonathan Drouin, was a much-needed addition for the habs, then they lose Radulov to Dallas in free agency. However, training camp has had some surprises Hudon, and De La Rose, made the opening night roasters, along with rookie defensemen Victor Mete. The habs can make the playoffs, if they can play a better offensive game. If not. It’s going to be an uphill climb.

Nashville Predators

The Preds shocked the hockey world making the Stanley cup final last year as a the technically 16 seed team. They lost to a much healthier and deeper Penguins team. The Predators added Nick Bonino to sure up the center position. However, the season is going to be a rough start. The mobile and offensively gifted defense will be without Ryan Ellis for 4-g months, while you’ve also lost James Neal to the expansion draft, and Mike Fisher retired. The Preds can be a playoff team, but that all depends on the young players that stepping up again from the playoffs, and Pekka Rinne standing on his head once more.

New Jersey Devils

The Devils aren’t going to have much of a season this year. At worst it’s a tank year, at best it’s a year that see’s the team take the steps with it younger players into being a team worth watching in the future. Nico Hischier was a pretty good in the pre-season, and will have to better in the regular season.

New York Islanders

The whole season is going to be about John Tavares not being signed. Other than that, new coach Doug Weight looks to keep up the momentum from last season’s ending. Josh Ho-sang looks like he’s ready to grow up, and maybe Jordan Eberle will elevate his game to a new level. It’s going to be interesting to see whether Halak can keep Thomas Greiss from the net this season.

New York Rangers

The Rangers made a few interesting changes this year. Getting rid of some aging players and giving some room for younger players to take a step up this season. However, I worry about trading away Antti Raanta, will Henrick Lundqvist stand on his head once again, or will he be up and down again? You also add Kevin Shattenkirk in free-agency to help with defense. Overall, expect another solid season for this squad.

Ottawa Senators

The Ottawa Senators once again had lost more than they gained in the offseason. After a surprising run to the conference final. The Sens lost Marc Methot to the expansion draft, and then Eric Karlsson will miss the first few games of the season. Meanwhile highly regarded prospect Tomas Chabot was sent back down to the minors. Craig Anderson is the reason this team is even remotely a playoff team.

Philadelphia Flyers

The Flyers has an underachieving season last year. That’s a fact, yet that landed this team the second pick in this summer draft. They picked Nolan Patrick, who made the opening night roaster for the Flyers. The real question is if captain Claude Giroux can have a bounce back season, after just scoring 14 goals last year. The goal-tending will also be a big question, Michal Neuvirth was good last year; but not good enough to get the team to the playoffs. The addition of Brian Elliot, could be what the Flyers need.

Pittsburgh Penguins

The Pens are the repeat Stanley cup champions. So, the obvious question is if the Pens and make it a third in a row? What really stops them? Crosby and Malkin are still in their primes, the defense is still solid with a hopefully health Letang, and the younger players like Guentzel, and Rust growing into star players of their own. Even with the loss of Bonino, Chris Kunitz, and Trevor Daley. These are still Stanley cup Champions. So. Expect the playoffs, and expect another deep playoff run. Simple as that.

St. Louis Blues

Jake Allen can be a number 1 goalie. Now it’s the rest of this team that I worry about. Other than Vladimir Tarasenko looks to once again be the scoring machine of this team, while the rest take to Mike Yeo system. This is a strange team, they lost Kevin Shattenkirk; yet, they don’t look to weak on defense. This is a playoff team, but only just.

San Jose Sharks

The Sharks can be a playoff team. Even with the lose Patrick Marleau, won’t hurt the team this year. The Sharks will absolutely need the younger players to keep developing with the aging veterans. Meanwhile Martin Jones will have to be rock for the team again. If this team makes the playoffs, he’ll have to play better than he did against the Oilers.

Tampa Bay Lighting

Everyone needs to be healthy. They also need to STAY healthy. Last year, Tampa lost a lot of key players to various injuries. If this team, wants to get back to being cup-contenders health is the most important thing. The other important factor is Andrei Vasilevskiy. Can he continue is growth into being a number 1 goaltender, or will he regress and for the Lightning to work harder to cover for him.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Matthews, Marner, Nylader. Those are the names that everyone is going to watch this year. If those three can develop to another level of stardom. Then this team will go far if Babcock and keep making this teams young guns growing. Meanwhile, Fredrick Anderson will have to be even better than last season. This team is going to be special, very special.

Vegas Golden Knights

The newest team in the NHL might be the best assemble expansion team, the NHL has ever seen. Ok, they only get that title because, unlike the last time the NHL expanded. They managed to get a quality NHL goalie. Marc-Andre Fleury is going to be the star of this team. I don’t expect much from the G-knights for this year. They’ll be competitive, but they won’t win much. They need to build from the draft. Still it’s going to be a fun seeing if the residents stick with this team.

Vancouver Canucks

The Canucks are doing a sort of rebuild. There not going to be that goo this year, but they’re going to try and be a competitive squad. It would be a shame for Canucks fans, but this could be the last year of the Sedin’s being in Vancouver together. It’s a shame that they couldn’t win a cup in Vancouver, but getting rid of them in a trade package could help the future. Other than that, I want to see what Bo Horvat and Jacob Markstrom can grow into elite or star players.

Washington Capitals

I don’t see the Capitals missing the playoffs. But, I done with calling them cup-contenders. They proved that this year against the penguins. The Capitals are a team, built for the regular season and the regular season only. It’s hard to say what the Capitals need to do to get to the third round or the cup final. In my opinion, they need numb luck, and not to run into the Pittsburg Penguins to get to the Stanley cup finally.

Winnipeg Jets

Steve Mason is not the solution to you goaltending problems Winnipeg. You have some solid goal scoring threats in: Laine, Scheiflele, and Wheeler. A great defensive core in: Byfuglien, Trouba, and Myers. However, none these players can fix bad goaltending. You better hope that Mason plays like he did for the Flyers back in 2013-2014. Otherwise… It’s going to be one cold season in Winnipeg.

Side Note: I wanted to finish this yesturady before the season started tonight. But, I fucked up and forgot about it. I hope that my opinions are even remotely accurate. If you feel differently about your team’s odds this season. Please don’t hesitate to tell me!

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Every Jaime Sifers College/Professional Teammate

University Of Vermont Catamounts

Jeff Miles (2002-04)

Brady Leisenring (2002-06)

Bryson Busniuk (2002--03)

Thomas Hajek (2002-03)

John Longo (2002-03)

Scott Mifsud (2002-04)

Jeff Corey (2002-06)

Ryan Miller (2002-03)

Tim Plant (2002-04)

Baron Becker (2002-06)

Phil Youngclaus (2002-06)

Oriel McHugh (2002-04)

Gerard Miller (2002-04)

Joey Gasparini (2002-06)

Ben Driver (2002-06)

Shawn Conschafter (2002-03)

Derek Wagar (2002-04)

Billy Kelly (12 games 2003)

Greg Zemple (2002-03)

Spencer Morton (11 games 2003-04)

Jason Fortin (20 games 2003)

Chris Smart (2002-04)

Chris Mounsey (15 games 2003-04)

Matt Hanson (7 games 2002-04)

Dustin Corbett (4 games 2003)

Tom Child (2002-04)

Travis Russell (2002-06)

Ryan Gunderson (2003-06)

Evan Stoflet (2003-06)

Chris Myers (2003-06)

Dan Owens (2003-04)

Art Femenella (2003-06)

Tom Collingham (2003-06)

Scott Sortal (8 games 2004)

Torrey Mitchell (2005-06)

Dean Strong (2005-06)

Peter Lenes (2005-06)

Kenny Macaulay (2005-06)

Corey Carlson (2005-06)

Mark Lutz (2005-06)

Matt Syroczynski (2005-06)

Slavomir Tomko (17 games 2006)

Kyle Kuk (2005-06)

Mike Arcieri (20 games 2006)

Andy Corran (2005-06)

Reese Wisnowski (2005-06)

Dan Owens (7 games 2006)

Joe Fallon (2005-06)

Toronto Marlies

Johnny Pohl (2 games 2006)

Bates Battaglia (2 games 2006, 2007-09)

Kris Newbury (2006-09)

Brad Leeb (2006-07)

Jeremy Williams (2006-09)

Brett Engelhardt (2006-07)

Brendan Bell (2 games 2006)

Ian White (2 games 2006)

Colin Murphy (2006-08)

Tyler Beechey (2 games 2006)

Ben Ondrus (2006-09)

Jay Harrison (2 games 2006, 2007-08)

Martin Sagat (2006-07)

John Mitchell (2006-08)

Andy Wozniewski (2006-08)

Carlo Colaiacovo (9 games 2006-08)

Staffan Kronwall (2006-09)

Aleksander Suglobov (2006-07)

Steve Chabbert (2 games 2006)

Roman Kukumberg (2 games 2006)

Marc Moro (2006-07)

Mike Hoffman (2 games 2006)

David Turon (2 games 2006)

Dominic D’Amour (2006-07)

Luke Fulghum (8 games 2006-07)

Brad Brown (2006-07)

Chris St. Jacques (18 games 2006-07)

Jeff Corey (2006-07)

Ian MacNeil (2 games 2006)

Jean-Francois Racine (2006-07)

Alex Foster (2 games 2006, 2007-09)

Todd Ford (9 games 2006-08)

Steven Later (2 games 2006)

Robbie Earl (2006-09)

Derek Landmesser (2 games 2006)

Shaun Landolt (2 games 2006)

Tyson Marsh (3 games 2006-07)

Justin Sawyer (4 games 2006-07)

Jean-Sebastien Aubin (2 games 2006)

J.J. Hunter (9 games 2006)

Kip Brennan (1 game 2006)

Mike Jarmuth (1 game 2006)

Erik Westrum (2006-07)

Chris Harrington (2006-08)

Tyson Nash (2006-07)

Boyd Devereaux (2006-07, 2008-09)

David Cloutier (2006-07)

Karel Pilar (10 games 2007)

Kevin Baker (7 games 2007)

Michael Schutte (10 games 2007)

Owen Fussey (14 games 2007)

David Pszenyczny (4 games 2007)

Justin Pogge (2006-09)

Mac Faulker (3 games 2007)

Mikael Tellqvist (3 games 2007)

Brett Aubin (2007-09)

Jiri Tlusty (2007-09)

Michel Leveille (2007-08)

Phil Oreskovic (2007-09)

David Ling (2007-08)

Derrick Walser (2007-08)

Reid Cashman (17 games 2007-08)

Nathan Perrott (8 games 2007-08)

Darryl Boyce (2007-09)

Bryan Muir (2007-08)

Anton Stralman (2007-09)

Tyler Doig (2007-09)

Peter Tsimikalis (2007-08)

Simon Gamache (19 games 2008)

Patrick Wellar (2007-08)

Tony Salmelainen (2 games 2008)

Scott Clemmensen (2007-08)

Dale Mitchell (2 games 2008)

Jeff Miles (1 game 2008)

Matt Grennier (7 games 2008)

Stefano Giliati (2008-09)

Kyle Rogers (2008-09)

Max Taylor (2008-09)

Todd Perry (2008-09)

Tim Stapleton (2008-09)

Mark Bell (2008-09)

Andre Deveaux (2008-09)

Richard Petiot (2008-09)

Ryan Hamilton (2008-09)

Joey Ryan (2008-09)

Juha Uotila (2008-09)

Josef Boumedienne (19 games 2009)

Andrew Martens (19 games 2009)

Josh Engel (2008-09)

Andy Schneider (2008-09)

James Reimer (3 games 2009)

Ashton Rome (7 games 2009)

Jonas Frogren (3 games 2009)

Viktor Stalberg (2 games 2009)

Andy Rogers (3 games 2009)

Jeremy Swanson (3 games 2009)

Nikolay Kulemin (5 games 2009)

Alex Berry (8 games 2009)

Rob LaLonde (9 games 2009)

Adam Munro (2008-09)

Toronto Maple Leafs

Jason Blake (2008-09)

Andre Deveaux (2008-09)

Boyd Devereaux (2008-09)

Jeff Finger (2008-09)

Jonas Frogren (2008-09)

Martin Gerber (2008-09)

Michail Hrabouski (2008-09)

Niklas Hagman (2008-09)

Jeff Hamilton (15 games 2009)

Christian Hanson (5 games 2009)

Jay Harrison (2008-09)

Curtis Joseph (2008-09)

Tomas Kaberle (2008-09)

Pavel Kubina (2008-09)

Nikolay Kulemin (2008-09)

Brad May (2008-09)

Jamal Mayers (2008-09)

John Mitchell (2008-09)

Phil Oreskovic (10 games 2009)

Justin Pogge (2008-09)

Oleksiy Ponikarovsky (2008-09)

Luke Schenn (2008-09)

Matt Stajan (2008-09)

Lee Stempniak (2008-09)

Vesa Toskala (2008-09)

Mike Van Ryn (2008-09)

Ian White (2008-09)

Minnesota Wild

Cody Almond (14 games 2009)

Niklas Backstrom (14 games 2009)

Cam Barker (14 games 2009)

Derek Boogaard (14 games 2009)

Kyle Brodziak (14 games 2009)

Andrew Brunette (14 games 2009)

Brent Burns (14 games 2009)

Cal Clutterbuck (14 games 2009)

Wade Dubielewicz (14 games 2009)

Robbie Earl (14 games 2009)

Andrew Ebbett (14 games 2009)

Josh Harding (14 games 2009)

Martin Havlat (14 games 2009)

Shane Hnidy (14 games 2009)

Petr Kalus (14 games 2009)

Chuck Kobasew (14 games 2009)

Mikko Koivu (14 games 2009)

Guillaume Latendresse (14 games 2009)

Antti Miettinen (14 games 2009)

Owen Nolan (14 games 2009)

Nate Prosser (14 games 2009)

Nick Schultz (14 games 2009)

John Scott (14 games 2009)

James Sheppard (14 games 2009)

Clayton Stoner (14 games 2009)

Casey Wellman (14 games 2009)

Greg Zanon (14 games 2009)

Marek Zidlicky (14 games 2009)

Houston Aeros

Jean-Michel Daoust (2009-10)

Jon DiSalvatore (2009-10)

Maxim Noreau (2009-10)

Chad Rau (2009-10)

Nathan Smith (2009-10)

Duncan Milroy (2009-10)

Danny Irmen (2009-10)

Andy Hilbert (2009-10)

Ryan Gunderson (2009-10)

Petr Kalus (2009-10)

Jamie Fraser (2009-10)

Colton Gillies (2009-10)

Robbie Earl (2009-10)

Cody Almond (2009-10)

Peter Zingoni (2009-10)

Clayton Stoner (2009-10)

Justin Falk (2009-10)

Carson McMillan (2009-10)

Brandon Rogers (2009-10)

J.P. Testwuide (2009-10)

Matt Kassian (2009-10)

Tony Hrkac (2009-10)

Brandon Buck (2009-10)

Ryan Lannon (2009-10)

Trent Campbell (3 games 2010)

Craig Weller (5 games 2009)

Marco Scandella (7 games 2010)

Barry Brust (2009-10)

Anton Khudobin (2009-10)

Ryan Nie (1 game 2010)

Matt Pierce (1 game 2010)

Ross Rouleau (1 game 2010)

Dylan Hunter (1 game 2009)

Matt Fornataro (1 game 2009)

Brock Sheahan (1 game 2010)

Brandon Straub (2 games 2010)

Darcy Kuemper (3 games 2010)

Wade Dubielewicz (2009-10)

Chicago Wolves

Jason Krog (2010-11)

Darren Haydar (2010-11)

Jared Ross (2010-11)

Spencer Machacek (2010-11)

Andre Deveaux (2010-11)

Paul Postma (2010-11)

Nigel Dawes (2010-11)

Ryan Garbutt (2010-11)

Mark Matheson (2010-11)

Fredrik Pettersson (2010-11)

Riley Holzapfel (2010-11)

Tim Miller (2010-11)

Michael Davies (2010-11)

Arturs Kulda (2010-11)

Mike Siklenka (2010-11)

Andrey Zubarev (2010-11)

Angelo Esposito (2010-11)

Noah Welch (2010-11)

Andrew Kozek (2010-11)

Akim Aliu (2010-11)

Boris Valabik (2010-11)

Jamie Hunt (2010-11)

Patrice Cormier (11 games 2010)

Tim Stapleton (4 games 2011)

Peter Mannino (2010-11)

Sergio Somma (5 games 2011)

Michael Forney (9 games 2011)

Eddie Pasquale (2010-11)

Patrick Rissmiller (6 games 2010)

Carl Klingberg (8 games 2011)

Kip Brennan (12 games 2011)

Ben Maxwell (2 games 2011)

Josh Godfrey (4 games 2011)

Patrick Galivan (5 games 2011)

Adam Huxley (18 games 2011)

Drew MacIntyre (20 games 2010)

Matt Krug (1 game 2011)

Chris Carrozzi (1 game 2011)

Dave Phillips (1 game 2010)

Ondrej Pavelec (1 game 2011)

Alan Dorich (1 game 2011)

Will Colbert (2 games 2011)

Ian McKenzie (2 games 2011)

Jack Combs (3 games 2011)

Zach Redmond (3 games 2011)

Brett Festerling (5 games 2011)

Adler Mannheim

Adam Mitchell (2011-13)

Chris Lee (2011-12)

Yanick Lehoux (2011-14)

Mike Glumac (2011-13)

Ken Magowan (2011-14)

Christoph Ullmann (2011-14)

Ronny Arendt (2011-14)

Frank Mauer (2011-14)

Yannic Seidenberg (2011-13)

Marcus Kink (2011-14)

Craig MacDonald (2011-13)

Steve Wagner (2011-14)

Nikolai Goc (2011-14)

Niko Dimitrakos (2011-12)

Shawn Belle (2011-13)

Matthias Plachta (2011-14)

Denis Reul (2011-14)

Marc El-Sayed (2011-14)

Florian Kettemer (2011-14)

Felix Brueckmann (2011-14)

Fred Brathwaite (2011-12)

Steven Bar (12 games 2012)

Richard Gelke (13 games 2012)

Dennis Seidenberg (2012-13)

Marcel Goc (2012-13)

Jochen Hecht (2012-14)

Jason Pominville (7 games 2012-13)

Doug Janik (2012-13)

Mirko Hofflin (2012-14)

Alex Foster (10 games 2012)

Dominik Bittner (2012-14)

Dennis Endras (2012-14)

Simon Gamache (2013-14)

Jon Rheault (2013-14)

Martin Buchweiser (2013-14)

Mike Vernace (2013-14)

Kai Hospelt (2013-14)

Eric Schneider (8 games 2014)

Christopher Fischer (2013-14)

Dorian Saeftel (1 game 2014)

Tobias Kircher (1 game 2014)

Alexander Ackermann (7 games 2014)

Springfield Falcons

T.J. Tynan (2014-15)

Ryan Craig (2014-15)

Sean Collins (2014-15)

Austin Madaisky (2014-15)

Kerby Rychel (2014-15)

Dana Tyrell (2014-15)

Luke Adam (2014-15)

Michael Chaput (2014-15)

Frederic St. Denis (2014-15)

Marko Dano (2014-15)

Mike Hoeffel (2014-15)

Josh Anderson (2014-15)

Thomas Larkin (2014-15)

Trent Vogelhuber (2014-15)

Lukas Sedlak (2014-15)

Domenic Monardo (2014-15)

Brian Gibbons (2014-15)

Denny Urban (2014-15)

Corey Cowick (2014-15)

Hubert Labrie (2014-15)

Adam Cracknell (18 games 2015)

Jerry D’Amigo (2014-15)

Frank Milano (10 games 2015)

Nathan Oystrick (12 games 2015)

Brett Ponich (2014-15)

Andrew Chirniwchan (12 games 2015)

Alexander Wennberg (6 games 2015)

Mike Little (3 games 2015)

Mike Cornell (11 games 2014)

Yann Sauve (17 games 2015)

Derek Docken (6 games 2015)

Mathieu Gagnon (20 games 2015)

Dillon Heatherington (3 games 2015)

Steve Weinstein (3 games 2015)

Rick Pinkston (6 games 2015)

Will Weber (2014-15)

Steven Shamanski (1 game 2015)

Riley Wetmore (1 game 2015)

Tyler Sikura (2 games 2015)

Joonas Korpisalo (3 games 2015)

Steve McCarthy (3 games 2014)

Matthew Zay (3 games 2014)

Patrick Cullity (3 games 2015)

Cody Goloubef (3 games 2015)

Seth Ambroz (4 games 2015)

James Livingston (6 games 2015)

William Karlsson (15 games 2015)

Oscar Dansk (2014-15)

Scott Munroe (2014-15)

Anton Forsberg (2014-15)

Lake Erie/Cleveland Monsters

T.J. Tynan (2015-17)

Michael Chaput (2015-16)

Daniel Zaar (2015-17)

Josh Anderson (2015-16)

Alex Broadhurst (2015-17)

Frank Milano (2015-17)

Oliver Bjorkstrand (2015-17)

Trent Vogelhuber (2015-16)

John Ramage (2015-17)

Kerby Rychel (2015-16)

Michael Paliotta (2015-16)

Ryan Craig (2015-17)

Markus Hannikainen (2015-17)

Dillon Heatherington (2015-17)

Lukas Sedlak (2015-16)

Steve Eminger (2015-16)

Dean Kukan (2015-17)

Nick Moutrey (2015-17)

Justin Falk (2015-16)

Andrew Bodnarchuk (14 games 2016)

Manny Malhotra (2015-16)

Mark Cundari (7 games 2016)

Derek Deblois (2015-16)

Eric Roy (10 games 2016)

Aleh Yevenka (2015-17)

Zach Werenski (2015-16)

Steve Weinstein (4 games 2016)

Steve McCarthy (17 games 2016)

Anton Forsberg (2015-17)

Brett Gallant (2015-17)

Austin Madaisky (1 game 2016)

Peter Quenneville (1 game 2016)

Vinny Saponari (1 game 2016)

Austin Farley (2 games 2016)

Seth Ambroz (3 games 2016)

Blake Tatchell (5 games 2016)

Jan Hejda (11 games 2016)

Joonas Korpisalo (2015-17)

Paul Bittner (2016-17)

Joe Devlin (2016-17)

Brad Thiessen (2015-17)

Justin Scott (2016-17)

Jordan Maletta (2016-17)

Joe Pendenza (2016-17)

Zac Dalpe (20 games 2017)

Marc-Andre Bergeron (2016-17)

Aaron Palushaj (2016-17)

Ryan Stanton (2016-17)

Cody Goloubef (16 games 2016)

Blake Siebenaler (2016-17)

Alex Petan (14 games 2017)

Akim Aliu (13 games 2017)

Sam Vigneault (16 games 2017)

Vitalii Abramov (4 games 2017)

Kyle Thomas (12 games 2017)

Jacob Graves (19 games 2017)

Dalton Prout (7 games 2017)

Dante Salituro (5 games 2017)

Shawn Szydlowski (7 games 2017)

Miles Koules (7 games 2017)

Gabriel Carlsson (3 games 2017)

Frank Hora (3 games 2017)

Ryan Collins (5 games 2017)

Sheldon Brookbank (6 games 2017)

Michael Houser (1 game 2017)

Kole Sherwood (2 games 2017)

Scott Harrington (2 games 2017)

Keith Aulie (3 games 2016)

Scott Savage (3 games 2017)

Mike Brown (11 games 2017)

Utica Comets

Reid Boucher (2017-19)

Michael Chaput (2017-18)

Patrick Wiercioch (2017-18)

Zack MacEwen (2017-19)

Nikolay Goldobin (2017-18)

Philip Holm (2017-18)

Michael Carcone (2017-19)

Cole Cassels (2017-18)

Cameron Darcy (2017-19)

Wacey Hamilton (2017-19)

Alex D’Aoust (2017-18)

Guillaume Brisebois (2017-18)

Adam Comrie (2017-18)

Carter Bancks (2017-19)

Darren Archibald (2017-18)

Dylan Blujus (2017-19)

Jayson Megna (2017-18)

Ashton Sautner (2017-18)

Joe Labate (2017-18)

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Blade Runner: The Empire Review

By Andrew Collins

★★★★★

The plot: Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for assumed humanoids known as 'replicants'. Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. Man's obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired.

"I think some — a lot— of people enjoy it, and that's their prerogative," a grumpy Harrison Ford told the Boston Globe in 1991. "I played a detective who did no detecting. There was nothing for me to do but stand around and give some focus to Ridley's sets." Ah well, he didn't much enjoy being in Star Wars either, and some — a lot — of people enjoyed that, too. The truth is, few actors come off well in sci-fi movies if they feel that it's them versus the sets or them versus the director's imagination. As it is, Harrison Ford's apparent bemusement works perfectly within Ridley Scott's framework; his former blade runner Rick Deckard, though expert at "retiring" the almost-human androids known as replicants, spends most of the film bemused.

As he tracks down four escaped replicants (a detective doing "no detecting"?) in a darkly malevolent, incongrously rainy 2019 Los Angeles, he falls in love with femme fatale Rachel (Young), who is a replicant. And it's this tentative, enigmatic relationship that drives the film.

Blade Runner is possibly the most talked-about sci-fi movie ever made. It achieved this honour by being a failure on its original release, thus attaining the valuable sheen of a true cult (something that could never be said about Star Wars, despite the rapacity of its followers). When re-released theatrically in the form of a Director's Cut in 1992, it was reappraised by formerly sniffy critics, and more people paid to see it. The irony of this belated legitimisation is that the Director's Cut is more cryptic and ambiguous than the original, and — crucially to the sort of fan who roams the Internet — supported the popular theory that Deckard himself is a replicant.

There are actually only minor differences between the original and the Director's Cut (indeed, the tag is misleading, as it's actually a compromise between director and studio). Scott removed the explanatory voice-over and happy ending, both of which had been added after disastrous sneak previews. He also introduced a 12-second dream sequence involving a unicorn, which helps explain the significance of an origami unicorn that appears in the final sequence. Oddly, some of the extra frames of violence in the video version are now excised. While obsessive aficionados hotly debate the merits of each version (and whether Deckard is a replicant or not), the casual fan will glean enough pleasure just watching the film — any bloody version — and admiring its astonishing production values.

Scott's advertising background has, however, given him a unique sixth sense for overdoing it, hence the dusty light shafting through Venetian blinds; the pounding, backlit rain; and the kaleidoscopic colours, now the basic grammar of any filmmaker. The look of Blade Runner can be credited to production designer Lawrence G. Paull, "visual futurist" Syd Mead, art director David L. Snyder, cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth and ubiquitous FX man Douglas Trumbull. But the overall vision was Scott's: "a film set 40 years hence, made in the style of 40 years ago." (Note, by the way, how much warmer its pre-CGI effects are than those which dominate today.)

In H.G. Wells The Time Machine, Earth was divided into a clean, Aryan paradise above ground and a hellish, primitive netherworld beneath, a division that recurs constantly in movie sci-fi. In Blade Runner, the sleek and the ugly, the ancient and the modern, co-exist, just as they do in any big city today (the Ancient Egyptian grandeur of the Tyrell Corporation versus the dilapidated, leaky hulk of J.E Sebastian's building). Perhaps this is why Blade Runner's future is so compelling, and why it's still duplicated ad nauseum in rock videos and bank adverts.

But Blade Runner is more than a collection of stunning pictures. It oozes the type of allegory that will keep stoners up all night for years to come. Try this one for size: Batty (Hauer) is Jesus — after all, he sticks a nail through his hand and dies, releasing a dove as he does so — and Tyrell (Joe Turkel), referred to by Batty as his "maker", is God. This theory makes the replicants us. Well, humans are programmed, like replicants, to die from birth, a paradox encapsulated in the last line of the film: "It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?" Stick that in your bong and smoke it.

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After French Montana used its Twitter account to double up and claim it was more successful than Kendrick Lamar on Tuesday April 21, fans are using social media to debate the issue. Although they can and will express their opinion, the real question is, what do the graphics say?While Kendrick is known to move many more album units than French, no one here talks about LP. And make no mistake, the French have definitely dropped a few bangers over the years, and some of them have positioned it near the top of the Billboard Hot 100 rankings. In 2017, the single from Bronx rapper Swae Lee , entitled "Unforgettable", reached third place in the ranking. He finally managed to stay on the Hot 100 for 43 weeks. For its part, K. Dot's single in 2017, "Humble.", Peaked at No. 1. The two have many more Hot 100 singles where they come from.So far, the discussion on who has the most success between French and K. Dot has been held by the fans and the French himself. Kendrick hasn't commented yet. The young thug did. Last night, Thugger used his Instagram story to call French saying he was more successful than Kendrick. Thugger's comments, of course, have led many fans to talk about his hitmaking credentials. Like K. Dot and French, Thugger also frequently visited the Hot 100.Although the Billboard Hot 100 doesn't mean everything, it does offer a snapshot of commercial success. With that in mind, today XXL take a look at the performance of the three rappers on the map.See the breakdown below.Billboard Hot 100 piecesKendrick Lamar: 48"Love.""Humble."“Pools (drunk)”A $ AP Rocky’s "Fuckin Problems" with Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar"Don't Wanna Know" from Maroon 5 with Kendrick Lamar"Loyalty." with Rihanna"Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift with Kendrick Lamar"Poetic Justice" with Drake"The Greatest" by Sia with Kendrick Lamar"Bitch, don't kill my vibration"Kendrick Lamar and "All the Stars" by SZAJay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future and James Blake's "King's Dead""Pray for me" for The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar"DNA."Rich The Kid's “new freezer” with Kendrick Lamar"Good"“Give It 2 U” by Robin Thicke with Kendrick Lamar"I""Element.""King Kunta"“Collard Greens” from Schoolboy Q with Kendrick Lamar"Mona Lisa" by Lil Wayne with Kendrick LamarWeeknd “sidewalks” with Kendrick Lamar"Yah""XXX." with U2"M.A.A.d City" with MC Eiht"Memories Back Then" by Hustle Gang with T.I., B.o.B, Kendrick Lamar and Kris Stephens"God.""Lust.""Fear.""Feel.""Pride.""The heart part 4"Beyonce's "freedom" with Kendrick Lamar“Dedication” by Nipsey Hussle with Kendrick Lamar"Big Shot" by Kendrick Lamar and Travis Scott"Black Panther""Duckworth."2 "Momma I Hit a Lick" by Chainz with Kendrick LamarDJ Khaled's “Holy Key” with Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar and Betty Wright"Some blood."The "Yolo" of Lonely Island with Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar"The darkest of Berry"“These walls” with Bilal, Anna Wise and Thundercat"Institutionalized" with Bilal, Anna Wise and Snoop Dogg"Wesley’s Theory" with George Clinton Thundercat“Untitled 07 | Levitate ”«Untitled 02 | 06.23.2014. ”French Montana: 17"Unforgettable" with Swae Lee"Loyal" by Chris Brown with Lil Wayne and French Montana or Too $ hort or Tyga"Pop That" with Rick Ross, Drake and Lil WayneFat Joe and Remy Ma "All the Way Up" with French Montana"No Stylist" with Drake"Lockjaw" with Kodak Black"Don't worry about Nothin""No Shopping" with Drake"Freaks" with Nicki MinajDiplo, French Montana and Lil Pump "Welcome to the Party" with Zhavia Ward“Write on the wall” with Post Malone, Cardi B and Rvssian"Stay Schemin" by Rick Ross with Drake and French Montana"Feelin 'Myself" by Will.i.am with Miley Cyrus, French Montana, Wiz Khalifa and DJ Mustard"I Luh Ya Papi" by Jennifer Lopez with French Montana"Bad Bitch" with Jeremih"A lie" with The Weeknd and Max B"Slide" with Blueface and Lil TjayYoung thug: 48"Havana" by Camila Cabello with Young Thug"Hot" with GunnaRich Gang's "Lifestyle" with Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan"Goodbye" by Post Malone with Young Thug"About the Money" by T.I. with Young Thug"The London" with J. Cole and Travis Scott"Pick up the phone" with Travis Scott Quavo"Throw Sum Mo" by Rae Sremmurd with Nicki Minaj and QuavoUsher's “No Limit” with Young Thug"Best friend""Stoner""Relation" with FutureJackboy's "Out West" with Young ThugTyga's Hookah with Young Thug"Bad Bad Bad" with Lil BabyFuture and young thug "Patek Water" with Offset"Chanel (Go Get It)" with Gunna and Lil BabyDrake's “Sacrifices” with 2 Chainz and Young ThugDrake's Ice Melts with Young ThugChris Brown's “High End” with Future and Young ThugMeek Mill's “We Ball” with Young ThugCalvin Harris' Heatstroke with Young Thug, Pharell Williams and Ariana Grande"Figures""With them""Check""Wyclef Jean"Meek Mill's “Offended” with Young Thug and 21 Savage"Trap Trap Trap" by Rick Ross with Young Thug and WaleMetro Boomin's “Up to Something” with Travis Scott and Young ThugMeek Mill's Splash Warning with Future, Roddy and Young ThugGunna "3 Headed Snake" with Young ThugFuture All All Smoke with Young Thug"No Cap" by Young Thug and FutureYoung Thug and Future's "Three"6ix9ine's Rondo with Tory Lanez and Young Thug"Anyone" with Nicki Minaj"What’s the Move" with Lil Uzi Vert"Just how it is""Surf""Sup Mate" with Future"Light up this""Lil Baby""Ecstasy"Migos GNF (Give No Fuk) with Young Thug and Travis ScottA Boogie Wit Da Hoodie "Might No Give Up" with Young ThugYoung Lil Baby thug "We should""Got The Guap" by Lil Uzi Vert with Young ThugLil Uzi Vert "Strawberry Peel" with Young ThugBillboard Hot 100 songs as a guestKendrick Lamar: 15A $ AP Rocky's "F ** kin Problems" with Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar"Don't Wanna Know" from Maroon 5 with Kendrick Lamar"Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift with Kendrick Lamar"The Greatest" by Sia with Kendrick LamarRich The Kid's “new freezer” with Kendrick Lamar“Give It 2 U” by Robin Thicke with Kendrick Lamar“Collard Greens” from Schoolboy Q with Kendrick Lamar"Mona Lisa" by Lil Wayne with Kendrick LamarWeeknd “sidewalks” with Kendrick Lamar"Memories Back Then" by Hustle Gang with T.I., B.o.B, Kendrick Lamar and Kris StephensBeyonce's "freedom" with Kendrick Lamar“Dedication” by Nipsey Hussle with Kendrick Lamar2 "Momma I Hit a Lick" by Chainz with Kendrick LamarDJ Khaled's “Holy Key” with Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar and Betty WrightThe "Yolo" of Lonely Island with Adam Levine and Kendrick LamarFrench Montana: 5"Loyal" by Chris Brown with Lil Wayne and French Montana or Too $ hort or TygaFat Joe and Remy Ma "All the Way Up" with French Montana"Stay Schemin" by Rick Ross with Drake and French Montana"Feelin 'Myself" by Will.i.am with Miley Cyrus, French Montana, Wiz Khalifa and DJ Mustard"I Luh Ya Papi" by Jennifer Lopez with French MontanaYoung thug: 30"Havana" by Camila Cabello with Young Thug"Hot" with GunnaRich Gang's "Lifestyle" with Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan"Goodbye" by Post Malone with Young Thug"About the Money" by T.I. with Young Thug"Pick up the phone" with Travis Scott Quavo"Throw Sum Mo" by Rae Sremmurd with Nicki Minaj and QuavoUsher's “No Limit” with Young Thug"Relation" with FutureJackboy's "Out West" with Young ThugTyga's Hookah with Young ThugFuture and young thug "Patek Water" with OffsetDrake's “Sacrifices” with 2 Chainz and Young ThugDrake's Ice Melts with Young ThugChris Brown's “High End” with Future and Young ThugMeek Mill's “We Ball” with Young ThugCalvin Harris 'Heatstroke' with Young Thug, Pharelle Williams and Ariana GrandeMeek Mill's “Offended” with Young Thug and 21 Savage"Trap Trap Trap" by Rick Ross with Young Thug and WaleMetro Boomin's “Up to Something” with Travis Scott and Young ThugMeek Mill's Splash Warning with Future, Roddy and Young ThugGunna "3 Headed Snake" with Young ThugFuture All All Smoke with Young Thug"No Cap" by Young Thug and FutureYoung Thug and Future's "Three"6ix9ine's Rondo with Tory Lanez and Young ThugMigos GNF (Give No Fuk) with Young Thug and Travis ScottA Boogie Wit Da Hoodie "Might No Give Up" with Young ThugYoung Lil Baby thug "We should""Got The Guap" by Lil Uzi Vert with Young 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2/9/2020 Open Public Letter To The United Nations , UN Human Rights , UN Women , UNPOL , President Trump , CIA , FBI , Federal Drug Enforcement Administration , Florida Highway Patrol , New York State Police , Senator Rick Scott , Governor Ron DeSantis , Ashley Moody , officiallivepd , copstv & Everybody .

Who : Fareed Kazaria & Bill Maher interview .

When : Today (2/9/20) @ approx. 10;00 am

Where : On CNN

Please read this Letter with the understanding of the Shakespearean Translation .

What : When Bill Mayer leans forward , a gold spot appears on the wall behind him . Does forward mean Federal & does the gold spot mean a Gold Shield of a Federal Agent as in FBI or Federal Drug Enforcement Administration Agent ? Did John Maher say words that sound like the Shield of the Father ? There was a Rumor that my Father was a Federal Agent , is that true ? Are they communicating that Julia Drummond , Clemmond Drummond , Gene Stoner planted my Father’s Shield in his Living Room by having a SEARS Service Man Impersonator put a hole in my Father’s wall & planted something ? Did Gene Stoner drive a Van with paint that covered the word Sears for many years .

Did Gene Stoner & Tracy from Mazda Auto Body Repair plant another US Law Enforcement Badge in a Doughnut (Spare Tire) inside my Father’s Chevy Malibu when getting the Malibu repaired ? Did Tracy switch the Doughnut tire inside the trunk ? What’s inside the Doughnut . I now remember seeing a Picture of Putin & Chuck Schumer together like their Buddy Buddy with each other holding a Doughnut , are they communicating about my Father’s spare tire , are they involved in stealing US Government Badges & the Pay that comes with it ?

When somebody like Adam’s LAWN CARE trespasses on my Property , is he attempting to mug me by communicating in the Shakespearean Translation to pass the tire that is on my Property ?

There are people who live close to my house who trespass , are they attempting to mug me for the spare tire ?

Thank You ,

George

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Jonah Hill joins the Five-Timers Club on a uniformly funny Saturday Night Live

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“I guess the worst part of the play was their confidence in it.”

“I’m not an actor, I’m a [movie, Netflix, directing] star!

It’s be nice to think that Jonah Hill has fully stepped out of his pigeonhole at this point. A couple of Oscar nominations, co-lead in an hit Netflix series, writer-director of a promising new coming-of-age movie, Hill has emerged from the Apatow star factory still straddling the line between serious artist and broad comedy movie star. (Sort of like James Franco, except that people actually seem to like Hill’s directorial debut and no one—as of this writing—has accused Hill of being a sex creep.)

That dichotomy showed up in Hill’s monologue, as SNL legend Tina Fey ushered new Five-Timers Club member Hill into the selective lounge set, where fellow FTC members Candice Bergen and Drew Barrymore celebrated his entry by showing an old sketch where Hill’s character admits to doing some serious damage to a toilet. Protesting that he does more than toilet humor now (“But that’s where you shined!,” enthuses Bergen), the disappointed Hill can only endure an all-ladies Five-Timers welcome, since, according to Fey, Bergen, and Barrymore, all the male members have turned out to be, well, sex creeps. (Steve Martin will just play his banjo “without consent.”)

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Fitted with the coveted FTC smoking jacket, Hill is disappointed to find that the new female leadership has refashioned it into something like a kicky boldero number. It’s a neat little way to incorporate Hill’s evolving comic persona while still trading on the downtrodden victim vibe he carries with him, especially once Kenan pops in to remind everyone that his record-breaking seniority carries its own privileges. “This is my show. I let you in here sometimes,” he responds to Hill questioning his presence in the Five-Timers lounge.

Over at Vulture, AV Clubber Jesse Hassenger recently did a ranking of the relatively rare phenomenon of SNL hosts’ recurring characters, and placed Hill’s Borscht Belt six-year-old Adam Grossman near the top. I get it. For one, the field isn’t exactly littered with gold (glad I’m not the only one sick of the Omletteville guy), with most of the bits weathering even faster than those done by the actual cast. But Grossman keeps working as well as he does because of a character throughline, as the garrulous little guy keeps tossing out his inexplicable Catskills schtick to his unlikely Benihana co-diners alongside a series of guardians indicating the unstable family life that’s somehow spawned such a weird creature. Here it’s forbearing nanny Leslie Jones, sighing deeply as she weathers Adam’s insult comic “I’m just kidding” one-liners as Grossman attempts to puncture any tension his borderline racist material generates by proclaiming his age (complete with specific and funny awkward hand gestures). It’s never been my favorite sketch, but Hill (who created the bit alongside Bill Hader and Seth Meyers, based on a bafflingly tracksuited child diner Hader once sat with) is into it, and he suggests the merest hints of the defensive mechanisms that are powering Adam’s transformation into a hacky joke machine, which always lends just enough shadings to the idea. Leslie kept breaking, but, then again, so did I.

Weekend Update update

There was a certain elegance to the way SNL kept weaving themes through its political material tonight, with jokes about Trump’s “caravan of scary brown people” terror tactics, and the importance of voting on Tuesday reinforcing each other throughout. Jost and Che were on, each landing their material confidently. On the caravan (of desperate asylum seekers that are a thousand miles away), Jost noted how Trump’s sweatily named “Operation Faithful Patriot” (where American troops are needlessly stringing barbed wire for a piece of election eve fear-mongering theater) sounds like a company that makes “reverse mortgages and catheters.” (Fox News commercial viewers get that.) Che followed up on the race-baiting scare tactics by urging that the old white people being hyped about the looming but nonexistent threat should be more worried about the less-easily-scapegoated specter of their grandkids stealing their pain pills.

On the election front, Che continued his role as Update’s resident “slow your roll” skeptic, confessing that, while he does intend to vote (on Tuesday, November 6, kids), he’s not going to buy into any “final notice for democracy” panic. Joking that, if final notices were actually final, his college debts would actually be paid, Che, as ever, positions himself for the long view, an edgy place to be in a time of national crisis (see, there’s that panic), but one consistent with his stance as a (black) guy who’s been living in a dangerous situation his entire life. For Jost (white guy), the jokes were less pointed, but not bad, as he noted that things are pretty dire when ice cream is taking a side, and that it has to be a complicated feeling when Oprah knocks on your door, only to present you with a pamphlet about Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams instead of a new car.

Pete Davidson has become such a strange star on SNL, his very public statements about his battles with mental health and substance abuse and the recent ongoing saga of his tabloid-fodder relationship with now-ex Ariana Grande have made Davidson more of a personality star than anyone I can think of in SNL history. Pete’s never been the most polished sketch guy (although he’s improved), and his Update pieces as himself have always been his best showcase, especially since he’s sharpened up his material beyond the adorable stoner little brother schtick he started out with. Here, with newly-dyed hair and the elephant of his recent, much-publicized breakup hanging over his head, Davidson delivered a solid series of political takedowns in advance of the Tuesday midterm elections. Sure, they were all cheeky appearance smack (NY Republican Peter King looks like “a cigar came to life,” Florida candidate Rick Scott looks like “if someone tried to whittle Bruce Willis out of a penis”), but, for a young comic staking out political material for the first time in his life, it’s funny stuff. And since SNL has made hay all season long about Davidson’s rising media profile, his genuinely sweet and decent-sounding appraisal of ex Grande was both de rigeur and unexpectedly touching.

Melissa Villaseñor made the leap to the main cast this year, but hasn’t had much opportunity to show off her mimicry skills or her comic chops much on the young season. So, taking a page out of Heidi Gardner’s playbook, she debuted a specifically targeted character piece on Update, with her “Every Teen Girl Murder Suspect on Law & Order.” Honestly, it’s such a specific Gardner niche at this point that I was surprised to see Villaseñor in the chair, but Melissa did fine, as her Brittany—ostensibly there to talk about young adult literature—squirmed and equivocated about what happened to her friend Logan at that “big alcohol party.” Not to harp on the comparison, but Brittany wasn’t as immediately memorable as any of Gardner’s similar turns, even if Villaseñor delivered on the premise with a uniformly strong performance.

Just when I think I’m tired of Kenan Thompson’s Big Papi, he pulls me back in. It helps that there’s a reason for his appearance tonight, as, you know, the Red Sox won the World Series again. (That’s, like, what, four in 15 years, right? Huh. Cool.) Petty sports partisanship aside, Kenan’s performance as retired and beloved Boston slugger David Ortiz has never been the problem. Kenan’s Ortiz, with his nonsensical endorsements, gap-toothed ebullience, and food obsession, is an all-time belly laugh, his infectious enthusiasm for baseball, food, his spokesman deal for the concept of spokes, and simply being Big Papi is impossible to hate. (Presumably even for Yankees fans, whose team got clobbered in the ALDS 3-1, including a humiliating 61-1 loss on their home diamond.) But the jokes don’t change much (as in, at all). Thankfully, it’s been a while, the Sox won the series, and it was nice to see the big lug again. Mofongo all around.

Best/worst sketch of the night

Look, some of you are going to clamor for a “worst” tag on Kate McKinnon’s teacher sketch. You’ll point to both its unexplained weirdness and its languorous pace, and how it never quite announces its authority as something that should appear as early in the show as it did. Well, shush. This was great stuff, not as much for the sketch itself (it really could have used more writing punch to match McKinnon’s performance), as for how it represents the sort of oddball conceptual idea Saturday Night Live desperately needs to encourage. The premise of someone acting weird while other people comment on it is hardly new SNL territory, but, as McKinnon’s overly dramatic drivers ed teacher sprawls on the classroom floor and rambles on about her predicament and its meaning, it was like a cool drink to realize that the sketch wasn’t going to go out of its way to hammer the premise home with explanations for the slowest possible viewer. It was just weird for weird’s sake, and McKinnon, accusing her charges at laughing at her “like this was some episode of Friend,” worked within the framework of the sketch to craft an enigmatically loopy character whose comic integrity isn’t over-explained. There is room on SNL for a lot more shades of humor than its current template generally allows.

This week’s branded content sketch, on the other hand, was pretty unnecessary, even if some of the performances livened it up a little, as another NBC property got some free advertising. Not watching interminably long-running televised talent shows as a rule, I’m not particularly invested in how the celebrity judges were impersonated here (although Kyle Mooney’s perpetually amazed Howie Mandel got a laugh). But at least the joke that there are only a very few possible narratives to every contestant’s journey on such shows took the piss a bit, and Cecily Strong, Kenan and Leslie, and Jonah Hill all sang their hearts out as the contestants who are probably terrible—but then are shockingly not terrible!

Also not terrible but not that surprising was the newscast sketch, where Cecily Strong’s weatherperson is nonplussed by boyfriend Hill’s decidedly unwelcome on-air proposal. Hill manages to create a nicely realized character is his unimpressive suitor, unwisely wearing a green shirt in front of Strong’s green screen and even more unwisely busting out a proposal rap. And the bit even has a decent turn, when Strong reveals that her refusal was only because she’d planned an elaborate on-air proposal of her own. I kept waiting for the reveal that Strong’s too-perfect twist was only in the downtrodden Hill’s head, but the sketch decided to let the improbable duo have their happy ending, so that’s nice.

“What do you call that act?” “The Californians!”—Recurring sketch report

Adam Grossman, Big Papi.

“It was my understanding there would be no math”—Political comedy report

With SNL’s resident guest Trump Alec Baldwin otherwise occupied (and pointedly joked about), the show opened with the always more-profitable tack of doing Trump without Trump. With Kate McKinnon adding Fox News talking head and smirking white supremacist Laura Ingraham’s glint-eyed provocation to her long list of current right-wing a-holes (“No, you’re an a-hole,” McKinnon’s Ingraham responds to her viewer mail), the sketch ran through the usual roster of weekly outrages. Finding ways to satirize the news at this point is a thankless task since reality is so far beyond satire that our pals at The Onion can essentially just transcribe stuff. Here, the jokes leant on hyperbole to make comedy out of Fox and friends’ (and Fox And Friends’) daily klaxon blare of racist bullshit designed to make white parents vote against their self-interest. Like Trump’s ginned-up, racist, Hail Mary, pre-midterms caravan, which Cecily Strong’s appropriately wild-eyed Jeanine Pirro’s claims contains such terrifying, non-white figures as “Guatemalans, Mexicans, the Menendez brothers, the 1990 Detroit Pistons, Thanos, and several Babadooks.” Similarly, Kenan Thompson’s cowboy-hat-wearing disgraced former Sheriff David Clarke showed footage of the caravan in the form of a swarm of migrating crabs. “And those are humans?,” gently presses McKinnon’s Ingraham, to which Clarke replies, “Basically, yeah.”

Unlike Baldwin’s uninspired Trump, which serves as a crutch for some very one-dimensional writing as a rule, the satire here is more layered. There are the performances, which are uniformly great. (McKinnon and Strong don’t need more praise at this point, but they are both outstanding, nuanced comic actresses). And the sketch casts a wider net, encompassing Ingraham’s fleeing sponsors (and the reason why), leaving her thanking warm ice cream, nurse’s sneakers, and White Castle. (“A castle for whites? Yes please.”) And, divorced for now by Baldwin/Trump’s absence, the cold open works to lay the groundwork for some recurring satirical themes for the rest of the show. There’s GOP voter suppression, here prodded along by Ingraham giving non-white voters the wrong advice. There’s Fox’s feverish efforts to mock the very idea that Donald Trump is a bigot. (“Except for his words and actions throughout his life how is he racist?”) And there’s the transparent propaganda of Trump’s latest “brown people are coming at you from below” propaganda, with McKinnon claiming that Trump’s try-hard gung-ho operation is actually named “Operation Eagle With A Huge Dong” and bragging that there will be “five armed soldiers for every shoeless immigrant child.”

Hey, there’s a midterm election coming up on Tuesday, so vote in that. Pete Davidson ended his amiably goofy Update stint by urging everyone to vote, as did musical guest Maggie Rogers (via T-shirt), and, in the Vote Blue campaign ad, so did a roster of very fucking nervous Democrats. While polling shows that maybe, perhaps, enough Americans are motivated, pissed, and goddamned terrified enough to actually go out and vote on Tuesday (yes, this coming Tuesday, you) to put some checks in place against Donald Trump and his GOP accomplices in dismantling democratic norms, environmental regulations, and civil rights of any kind, well, we’ve seen sweaty Democratic overconfidence explode in our faces before. That’s the message here, as the person-on-the-street interviews parroting optimistic election messages all veer into a series of forced grins, shaking hands, binge-drinking, eyes-averted mumbling, and, in the case of Heidi Gardner’s tremble-voiced suburban mom, hair-trigger panic. “Get inside until Tuesday!,” she snaps at her frolicking children, while Hill’s anxious doctor tries to take comfort in the fact that Nancy Pelosi predicted a big victory on Colbert, and Leslie Jones grits her teeth in her stated faith that “white women are going to the right thing this time.” Pitch perfect stuff, right down to Aidy Bryant hauling off to slap teenaged son Pete Davidson when he jokes about forgetting when Election Day is. (It’s Tuesday. November 6. Check here for all the necessary info you need to vote. On Tuesday.)

“HuckaPM” continued SNL’s baffling comedy position that literally every woman involved in the Trump administration is secretly ashamed of her role in, well, every shitty thing Trump and the Republican Party does. You know, despite the fact that there is no evidence to that in the public or private actions of any of them, including (or especially) the sketch’s target, White House Press Secretary and sneering daily mouthpiece for whatever bigoted nonsense dribbles out of Trump’s Twitter account in the middle of the night, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Still, this sketch works because of Aidy. Good god, is Aidy Bryant great at physical comedy. Even if one can’t follow the show’s premise that there is some glimmer of humanity in Sanders’ soul somewhere, Aidy sells the hell out of the idea that only a sleeping pill loaded with quaaludes and “what Michael Jackson’s doctor called ‘one-and-dones’” can knock Sanders out after a day of claiming that “CNN spelled backward is ISIS” and that Trump’s caravan boogeymen includes ravenous chupacabras with a trio of outstandingly timed and committed falls. Sometimes performance overcomes everything else.

The off-Broadway show short film trafficked in a sort of joke that never doesn’t work on me, so I’m going to allow myself to be pandered to. The main joke—that an actor-written topical revue is not very well written—is fine. (I loved how at least two of the numbers shamelessly aped Hamilton). But I’m just a sucker for jokes where scathing review blurbs are read out as if they’re raves by an enthusiastic voice-over guy, and these had me laughing. “This is helping no one,” and “Whose parents paid for this?” were good, but the New York Times critic’s economical “Jesus Christ!” got me out loud.

I am hip to the musics of today

Maggie Rogers came out flat in her SNL debut. Like, vocally, very flat for her first song of lilting, pretty pop. It was the sort of wobbly beginning that could knock a fledgeling performer right off her pins, but, to her credit, Rogers came back stronger in the second number. It helped that that song was more uptempo and didn’t highlight a delicate introductory vocal, but, still, props to Rogers for pulling it together. As Adam Grossman might bellow, “Redemption song!”

Most/Least Valuable (Not Ready For Prime Time) Player

Ego Nwodim got a line. Keep plugging, new kid.

Otherwise, in an exceptionally strong night for the female cast, Kate wins it by a whisker, edging out Cecily and Aidy.

“What the hell is that thing?”—The Ten-To-Oneland Report

While it’s no “Whiskers R We,” “Wigs For Pugs” ably carried on the ten-to-one tradition of doing adorably weird stuff with animals, as Hill and Cecily Strong played a couple of clearly mobbed-up entrepreneurs whose pug toupee business is in no way “a front for something.” Mainly, it’s just pugs in wigs, with a succession of very chill pugs getting carried out in their hairy finery, but sometimes that’s enough. And Hill, Strong, Aidy, Mooney, and Kenan (as a guy making pug beards) are thoroughly committed to their characters in a broad yet deadpan way that adds another level to the premise. Pugs in wigs. What more do you need, people?

Stray observations

Kenan’s Clarke cites his caravan sources as “the crows from Dumbo,” echoing Clarke’s description of his current state as “unpopular with my own people.”

McKinnon’s Ingraham refers to Baldwin as “disgraced former actor Alec Baldwin” and shows a clip from “Canteen Boy” to explain.

Che claims that the country would be doing better if red state parents would stop “sending all their liberal kids to coastal cities to do improv.”

Pete Davidson, addressing his new blue hair, claims he looks like “a guy who makes vape juice in a bathtub,” and “a Dr. Seuss character who went to prison.”

Melissa Villaseñor’s teen suspect finally breaks down, telling Jost that she only stabbed her dead friend as a joke, “but Logan took it the wrong way and started bleeding.”

Big Papi for Apple Watch: “You gotta watch your apples or a monkey’s gonna steal them, man!”

Vote on Tuesday.

The Red Sox won the World Series.

Source: https://tv.avclub.com/jonah-hill-joins-the-five-timers-club-on-a-uniformly-fu-1830206395

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Judas Priest y Alice In Chains vuelven a la Argentina

En el marco de la segunda edición del Solid Rock Festival, las bandas lideradas por Rob Halford y Jerry Cantrell se presentarán en Tecnópolis el próximo 4 de noviembre. Enterate todo lo que tenés que saber de cara a otro de los grandes eventos internacionales de un año inolvidable.

Tal cual el año pasado en su primera edición, el Solid Rock Festival tendrá lugar en la Argentina, Brasil y Chile. Para esta segunda avanzada, el heavy metal y la potencia inundarán Tecnópolis, ya que Judas Priest, Alice In Chains y Black Star Riders serán las tres bandas internacionales de un muy atractivo cartel que se completa con los representantes nacionales Helker y Humo Del Cairo.

El público argentino tendrá la posibilidad de volver a encontrarse con una banda de estatus más que legendario como Judas Priest. Desde su irrupción hace más de 30 años, a lo largo y ancho del mundo han definido tanto la estética del heavy metal como el mucho más específico sub-género llamado speed metal. Sabiendo como codearse con otros géneros como el trash y el death metal, los británicos nunca dejaron de llevar el pulso dentro de una escena musical siempre en expansión.

Si bien sus comienzos fueron más bien complicados, sin tanto éxito a la hora de conseguir un contrato discográfico y con varios cambios en su formación, fueron los ingresos de Rob Halford y John Hinch los que lograron darle forma definitiva a su sonido. Los años ‘80 los recibieron con un sinfín de reseñas positivas y ventas millonarias a nivel global, habiendo grabado hasta el día de hoy la envidiable cifra de 18 álbumes de estudio.

Su más reciente trabajo titulado Firepower fue lanzado en marzo del corriente año, logrando un sonido verdaderamente notable y manteniendo una esencia que siempre ha sido tan poderosa como constante. La velocidad de las guitarras sigue siendo capaz de derretir cerebros, mientras que la potencia desde el bajo y la bateria complementa a la perfección los alaridos de un Halford desatado. Para esta gira, el guitarrista Glenn Tipton no podrá estar sobre los escenarios debido al diagnóstico de parkinson que recibió, siendo reemplazado -a pedido personal- por Andy Sneap.

El caso de Alice In Chains será aún más especial, ya que hablamos de la segunda visita por parte de los norteamericanos a nuestro país luego de su show debut en el Luna Park hace ya cinco años. Grunge y heavy metal confluyen con total naturalidad en una banda que salió de las entrañas de Seattle a fines de la década de 1980.

Sin escaparle a la tragedia, Alice In Chains logró resurgir de las tinieblas tras la muerte de su cantante y líder, Layne Staley, encontrando en William DuVall la pieza necesaria para recuperar la energía y el espíritu perdidos en el camino. Hace dos años volvieron a la carga con su single “Tears” y hace dos meses presentaron “The One You Know”, canción adelanto de lo que será su sexto disco de estudio en el mes de agosto.

De las tres bandas principales, tal vez sea Black Star Riders la que tenga la mayor dosis de rock clásico. Escisión de Thin Lizzy formada por Scott Gorham entre los años 2010 y 2012. La completan en las guitarras Rick Warwick y Damon Johnson, en el bajo Robbie Crane (en lugar de Marco Mendoza) y en la batería Chad Szeliga, quien reemplazó al miembro fundador y ex baterista de Megadeth y Alice Cooper, Jimmy DeGrasso.

Su opera prima salió al mercado bajo el nombre All Hell Breaks Loose en 2013 y obtuvo muchos halagos por parte de la crítica especializada. Le siguieron The Killer Instinct dos años más tarde y el novedoso Heavy Fire en 2017. Esta será su primera visita a la Argentina, con promesa de avasallar a todo lo que se les ponga en el camino.

La propuesta la completan Helker y Humo Del Cairo, firmes representantes del heavy metal más puro y el stoner metal respectivamente, quienes tendrán la muy merecida posibilidad de compartir cartel con tres verdaderos monstruos del rock y el metal.

Por Rodrigo López Vázquez

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