DiP’s Quick Hits: Marty St. Louis, Garth Snow, Mike Gillis’ Drinking Problem?

This is will be an occasional segment where I will give my short, first-reaction opinions on many interesting ordeals in the world of sports. And by that I mean I’m too lazy to make a full post on any of these topics so here’s the Sparknotes version of each. NHL trade deadline day. I yet…

GHS Podcast #1

Welcome to the very first edition of the Go-Hard Sports Podcast. There is definitely a lot to improve on material-wise and recording/sounds-wise, but we promise to keep improving the more we do this. In this edition of the podcast we talk Olympic hockey, NBA trade deadline, Canadian basketball, Raptors, Indiana vs Miami, and a little…

Forget Top Six-Bottom Six, Embrace “Top-12”

Often we hear the “top six” and “bottom six” in the lexicon of the NHL and its fan. This is the popular ideology that the top two lines of a team should be lines predicated on scoring goals, and the third and fourth lines should be lines filled with grind-it-out, aggressive fore-checking, defensively specialized, energy…

Poll: The Worst Call in NBA History?

So I’m watching the Raptors game last night, and the Raptors are just straight up getting dominated. Through the first 3 quarters they couldn’t make a shot for their lives. DeMarcus Cousins was being his beastly self and just owning them on the boards at both ends of the court. Also I couldn’t believe how…

Why Phil Kessel is Well Worth the Money

We, in Leaf nation, tend to undervalue our own players and overvalue players from other teams. We have this “grass is always greener” state of mind as Leaf fans. We can probably attribute this to continuous underachieving from our team the last 10 years, which included 9 years-2004 to 2013-without playoff hockey in our city.…