The New York Rangers were among the busiest teams in the NHL trade market during the regular season.
Jacob Trouba, Kaapo Kakko, Filip Chytil, Reilly Smith and Ryan Lindgren were among the notables the Rangers shipped out between December and the March NHL trade deadline.
GM Chris Drury was expected to continue retooling his roster during the off-season, hoping to get his club quickly back on track as a Stanley Cup contender.
The Hockey News’ Remy Mastey cited The Athletic's Arthur Staple, saying goaltender Igor Shesterkin, defenseman Adam Fox and left winger Artemi Panarin are the Rangers' only untouchables. Staple also indicated that the talk around the recent NHL draft combine in Buffalo had the Rangers, Sabres, Utah Mammoth and Seattle Kraken among the teams planning to shake up their rosters in the coming weeks.
Defenseman K'Andre Miller and left winger Alexis Lafreniere could become trade candidates. Rumors were swirling about the two young Rangers last month. Miller is an RFA with arbitration rights coming off a disappointing season, while Lafreniere signed a seven-year contract extension last fall.
Larry Brooks of the New York Post believes it seems inevitable that Miller will be traded. He cited several sources claiming the blueliner could become an offer-sheet target if he's not moved before July 1.
PuckPedia indicates the Rangers have $8.44 million of cap space with 19 active roster players under contract for 2025-26. Re-signing RFA left winger Will Cuylle is a priority, making Miller an enticing offer-sheet target if he and the Blueshirts reach an impasse in contract talks.
Trading Miller would leave the Rangers without a skilled left-shot defenseman to skate alongside Fox on their top defense pairing. Unless Drury gets a blueliner to address that need, Brooks thinks they might have to overpay for someone like Vladislav Gavrikov if the Los Angeles Kings rearguard becomes a UFA on July 1.
Brooks also claimed that Lafreniere was “surely available” this summer. He said the 23-year-old was the topic of several conversations during the draft combine but didn't know if those inquiries were “incoming or outgoing.”
The first pick in the 2020 draft, Lafreniere has teased a breakout performance but has yet to burst through as a star. His $7.45-million cap hit could become an obstacle for Drury's trade plans this summer.
Miller or Lafreniere could be part of a package offer for a young scorer. Mastey cited USA Today's Vince Mercogliano claiming the Rangers are among the teams interested in Dallas Stars left winger Jason Robertson. However, a recent report claimed the Stars aren't keen to move the 25-year-old Robertson and have had no trade talks with other teams.
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Philadelphia Flyers winger Matvei Michkov is set to take part in one of the summer’s most anticipated hockey events when Russian NHL stars face off against KHL stars in Moscow on July 13. The game, fittingly dubbed the “Match of the Year,” promises to be a celebration of the sport while raising money for a good cause.
Giving back is at the heart of the “Match of the Year.” All proceeds from the event are donated to charity, with last year’s game raising 10 million rubles—around $127,000.
This year’s edition boasts an all-star roster, and Michkov is joining some of the game’s brightest Russian talents, including Alex Ovechkin, Andrei Svechnikov, Kirill Kaprizov, and Sergei Bobrovsky. It’s an enviable lineup for any hockey fan, but for Michkov—a rising star in the NHL—sharing the ice with these legends is both an honor and an opportunity to showcase his game alongside some of his most storied NHL countrymen.
Michkov is coming off a strong rookie campaign in North America, where he finished the 2024-25 campaign with 63 points, including 26 goals, which led all NHL rookies this past season. He was also able to finish out the season feeling exponentially more comfortable with the demands of an NHL season, improving his English and adjusting to the mental and physical grind of an 82-game stretch.
Sam Bennett, who is a pending UFA, continues to increase his value on the open market with a playoff-leading 14 goals. But according to his coach, potential buyers should be aware that there is more than meets the eye before offering Bennett a $10-million salary.
“He’s got a horrible attitude,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice sarcastically told TNT reporter Jackie Redmond during a TV timeout in Monday's Game 3 between Florida and Edmonton. “I think he’s got the bubonic plague, Dengue fever, he’s got a whole bunch of things. I don’t think he can be cured.”
Given more time, Maurice might have added that Bennett also reclines his seat on commercial flights, doesn’t tip 15 percent on meals and spends his off days kicking kittens. None of it might be true. But whatever it takes to keep Bennett in a Florida Panthers jersey.
Good luck with that.
Following a two-goal performance in a 6-1 win in Game 3, Bennett moved the Panthers to within two wins of claiming a second straight Stanley Cup championship. He also put himself in the driver's seat of winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
If he achieves both, you can bet that Bennett will be rewarded in free agency.
The only question is whether he will re-sign with the Panthers, where he's spent the past five years, or take his talents to the open market.
On Monday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman stressed again in a pre-game interview with the TNT panel that Florida and other tax-free states do not have a competitive advantage. But try telling that to Canadian fans who have watched as teams from the state of Florida and Nevada have reached the final in each of the past six years.
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“It’s a ridiculous issue," said Bettman. "When the Florida teams weren’t good, which was for about 17 years, nobody said anything about it.”
Ridiculous as it might be, the Panthers don't have a single player earning more than $10 million this season. But they also have seven UFAs, including Bennett, Brad Marchand and Aaron Ekblad, who will need new contracts. And after making three straight final appearances, none of them will come cheap.
Bennett is likely to earn the most out of all of them. With every goal, with every hit and with every Panthers win, his value continues to grow. At the start of the playoffs, the thinking was that Bennett might be worth somewhere around $6 million. Now, it looks like Bennett could eclipse captain Aleksander Barkov, who is earning $10 million, as the highest-paid Panther.
After all, Benett is every thing that a championship-contending team is looking for.
He hits, he fights and he comes up with clutch goals. Sometimes, he does all three on a single shift, as he showed in Game 3 when he delivered back-to-back bodychecks to cause a turnover in the defensive zone, then went the length of the ice and scored on a breakaway to put the game out of reach.
— Panthers Historian (@FlaCatsHistory) June 10, 2025
“He’s so good all over the ice, but he doesn’t cheat the game for the two goals,” Maurice told Redmond. “He’s under pucks, he’s does all the hard, right things. That's just who he is."
Too bad he’s supposedly infected with every infectious disease known to man.
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One of the Knicks' unrestricted free agents this summer is veteran point guard Cam Payne, who joined the team last summer on a one-year, veteran’s minimum contract. Payne was coming off his ninth year and sixth team in the league, and earned himself the backup point guard position out of preseason despite Miles McBride coming off a career year and New York drafting another point guard in Tyler Kolek.
You know what you’re getting from Payne at this point: a steady handle, high-paced, immediate energy off the bench -- and when he’s hot, some big bucket-getting. He won’t be in the upper echelon of backup ones but can help round out a bench unit as a reliable floor general.
This is about what he provided. Payne averaged 6.9 points and 2.8 assists on 45.3 percent shooting from two and 36.3 percent shooting from three in 15 minutes a game.
His on/off splits were strong in large part due to cohesive bench lineups withKarl-Anthony Towns. He had a nice stretch in November with six double-figure scoring nights in seven games, and the Knicks went 4-1 when he had to fill in as a starter due to injuries or end-of-season rest.
The highlight of his season was a huge 14-point game in Game 1 against the Detroit Pistons, helping the Knicks go on a 21-0 run to come back and take opening control of the series. Unfortunately, these scant bright spots were mere flashes in an otherwise shaky campaign.
Payne was predictably a defensive sieve, and saw his minutes decrease as the regular season went on. He’d get benched in second halves if his jumper wasn’t falling, which happened often.
New York Knicks guard Cameron Payne (1) gestures after making a three point shot against the Detroit Pistons in Game One of the First Round of the NBA Playoffs at Madison Square Garden / Wendell Cruz - Imagn Images
Former head coach Tom Thibodeau never looked to move him out of his rotation spot, even with Kolek in tow and then Delon Wright joining at the trade deadline. That is until the playoffs, when the Knicks went down 0-2 to Indiana and Payne had accumulated a 23.8 percent clip from three and -30 plus-minus outside of that Game 1 outburst.
There were plenty of opportunities for this change earlier in the postseason or during the regular season. It wasn’t Payne’s fault he was relied upon so heavily despite his struggles, but a new coach could give him a more situational role, which would benefit him and the team -- should the Knicks choose to bring him back.
If he won’t be overplayed, there’s no harm in bringing him back as a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency reserve guard. The right coach will prioritize developing their prospect point guard and playing less harmful veterans consistent minutes -- so just having Payne there in case of injuries would be fine.
It’s hard to imagine a giant market out there for his services. Smaller, score-first point guards are plentiful and not super attractive right now, and he didn’t have any kind of breakout season to warrant more than another veteran’s minimum deal.
Perhaps a contender throws an apron mid-level his way, in which case the Knicks are fine to let him walk. They could focus on retaining Wright, who had better and more sustainable postseason minutes, or give Kolek more burn.
If Payne is willing to return on the veteran’s minimum, there are worse 11th and 12th guys out there, assuming a new coach treats him as such. His bench presence and chemistry with his teammates makes him a value add as a Ryan Arcidiacono type.
Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stantonis tantalizingly close to a return from injury, and if he does what he did Tuesday with Double-A Somerset, the team will take that offensive production.
Starting at DH and batting second for the Patriots, Stanton went 2-for-3 with three RBI and a walk.
His first at-bat saw the slugger swing at the first pitch and ground out to third base before he walked on four pitches in his second AB. But then Stanton's offensive production showed up in his final two at-bats.
In the fifth inning, Stanton came up with runners on second and third and no outs, Stanton went down and lined a sharp single to center field to drive in two. He came up in the seventh with a man on second and no outs and battled back from a 1-2 count to work the count full. On the sixth pitch of the at-bat, Stanton lined a single to center to drive in his third run of the night.
Stanton has missed the first two-plus months of the season due to epicondylitis (tennis elbow) in both elbows.
“I just got to get some real at-bats in a game and let me figure it out,” Stanton told reporters on Tuesday, via Brendan Kuty of The Athletic. “This isn’t where I want to be, trust me.”
“This will tell me how close I am,” he later added. “There’s no simulating a major-league game, but if you want to get as close as you can, you get to a minor-league game.”
The slugger is coming off a 2024 season where he hit .233/.298/.475 with 27 homers and 20 doubles in 114 games.
Stanton was a force during New York's run to the World Series, as he mashed seven homers in 14 games.
Once Stanton returns, the Yanks will have a playing time conundrum on their hands with Ben Rice, who has been serving regularly as the designated hitter.
The Boston Bruins were not a good defensive team in the 2024-25 NHL season. The goaltending was subpar, too, highlighted by Jeremy Swayman’s career-worst campaign with the B’s.
But perhaps the biggest weakness that sunk the Bruins this past season was an inability to consistently score goals, both at even strength and the power play.
Re-establishing a strong, fundamentally sound defensive structure that’s hard to play against and getting Swayman back on track will be critical in the Bruins’ road back to prominence. But ultimately, teams have to score goals to win games.
“I think in the Bruins DNA is playing well defensively, that’s not going to change, but we have to find a way to be more productive offensively,” Sturm said Tuesday during his introductory press conference. “That’s going to be our goal and what we’re going to address from Day 1, and obviously special teams will be a big part, too.”
The Bruins not being able to generate enough offense didn’t just begin last season. It was an issue during the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, too, especially in the second-round loss to the eventual champion Florida Panthers.
But the 2024-25 campaign was where it became a severe problem for an entire season.
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The phrase “evolving offensively” was used several times during Sturm’s press conference Tuesday. What exactly does that mean? How does Sturm plan to ignite this struggling offense? A good chunk of it starts in the defensive zone by forechecking hard, winning battles, getting the puck up ice quickly and playing with speed.
“When I talk about scoring more goals, scoring goals is not just (playing) in the offensive zone,” Sturm said. “Yes, that’s where the puck is going to end up, but for me it always starts with: How are we going to get there? That’s a big part, too, not just focusing on one area. There’s areas we can definitely get better.
“It’s coming out with the puck. We want to have the puck more. We have to have better zone entries and not turn pucks over. I think that part was a big issue. In the offensive zone, we’ll put that structure in place, but we also have to be more hungry and we got to have a better mindset. … I want them to have that offensive mindset and mentality when we have the puck. We want to play with pace with and without the puck, and not just think but play the game fast.”
The power play was a significant area of weakness last season for the Bruins offense.
The Bruins ranked 29th in both power-play percentage and power-play goals. The issue wasn’t drawing enough penalties. The B’s ranked 11th in power-play opportunities and sixth in power-play ice time. The problem was poor execution, specifically with zone entries and winning enough puck battles to maintain possession in the offensive zone with the man advantage.
“A lot of it was entries, a lot of it was some injuries, but those are not excuses,” Sweeney said of the power-play struggles. “We have to find a way to be more connected, more predictable (to each other) and understand what our strengths are as a group. We spent a lof of time on it.
“The personnel could change between now and Opening Night, but there are some guys who will have to go in and execute who are currently on our roster. We’re going to attack that.
“… There was a lot of time spent on addressing special teams overall because it had been a strength of our team for a lot of years and we took a significant step back last year.”
Sweeney also confirmed that Jay Leach, Chris Kelly and Bob Essensa are staying on the coaching staff, and that they are looking to hire one more assistant. Sturm wants that hire to be a person with “some power play experience.”
A key aspect in improving offensively will be player development. It’s an area Sturm excelled in with the Los Angeles Kings organization over the last seven years.
Plenty of young players will be in the mix for roster spots in training camp. Sturm did a great job helping the Kings’ top young players — Quinton Byfield and Brandt Clarke, for example — get ready for the NHL and thrive when they made the jump full time. Can he do the same with Fraser Minten, Fabian Lysell and Matt Poitras, among others?
The Bruins brought in Casey Mittelstadt at the trade deadline as part of the Charlie Coyle trade with the Colorado Avalanche. Maximizing Mittelstadt’s playmaking ability and finding ways for him to score more goals (his career high is 18) will be important. Elias Lindholm was disappointing offensively after signing a huge contract last summer. Can Sturm find a way to make Lindholm more effective on the power play?
And last but not least, the Bruins have to generate more scoring chances and goals from the blue line.
Zero Boston defensemen tallied 35-plus points last season. Getting Hampus Lindholm and Charlie McAvoy back healthy will help with that, but the defensemen have to be aggressive and join the rush more often. The development of 24-year-old defenseman Mason Lohrei, who tallied 33 points in his first full NHL season, will be an essential part of that process.
External upgrades to the roster will have to be made in the coming weeks and months as well, and that’s Sweeney’s job. The Bruins do not have much high-end offensive skill. They have one elite forward in David Pastrnak, who recorded 106 points (43 goals, 63 assists) last season.
Pastrnak led the B’s in scoring by 49 points — the largest gap between the No. 1 and No. 2 scorer on any team. Morgan Geekie scored 33 goals. Brad Marchand scored 21 before being traded in March. No one else on the roster scored more than 17 goals.
Sweeney has to be aggressive in the offseason to bring in top-six talent, whether that’s in free agency, the trade market or both. The Bruins have around $26.2 million in salary cap space, in addition to a better collection of prospects and draft picks to use in trades. Boston could have five first-round picks and four second-round picks over the next three drafts. That’s a lot of draft capital to potentially use in trades to acquire established players.
Depth wins championships, especially up front. It’s one of the primary reasons why the Panthers are two wins away from back-to-back titles. The Bruins need to bolster their scoring depth to have a chance at competing for a playoff spot in 2026.
“I love our team, even without any additions,” Sturm said. “I think we have good goaltending. I think when everyone stays healthy we have a really good defensive corps. I think we’re hopefully going to add a few pieces up front, but overall, I do like our core.
“But having said that, I think depth-wise we just probably need a little bit more.”
In a shocking turn of events, Mets superstar Juan Soto-- who posted a .421 OBP and .953 OPS during the first seven years of his big league career as he established himself as one of the best hitters on the planet -- again looks like the hitter he was from 2018 to 2024.
He seems pretty happy to be a Met, too.
As you take some time for these stunners to wear off, let's recap the first two-plus months of Soto's Mets tenure, which has included some hilarious screeching from a few areas of the New York media ecosystem about him longing for the Yankees.
But forgive us if we don't think Soto has been crying himself to sleep while staring at pictures of Monument Park.
Now, let's go back in time about 10 days.
On May 30, Mets president of baseball operationsDavid Stearns was understandably peppered with questions about Soto, who to that point was slashing .224/.352/.393 with a .745 OPS in 247 plate appearances over 55 games.
It was a large enough sample size to ask Stearns what he thought might be "wrong." Even at that point, Soto had been elite when it came to 12 of the 13 main advanced stats tracked by Baseball Savant. And his BABIP was at a career-low level. But not enough hits were falling.
And while Soto was continuing to execute well, he did appear to lack the confidence and command at the plate that is his trademark. He wasn't owning at-bats like usual. He wasn't elevating the ball enough.
He also wasn't using his signature Soto Shuffle much.
May 4, 2025; St. Louis, Missouri, USA; New York Mets outfielder Juan Soto (22) is greeted by teammates in the dugout after scoring in the third inning against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. / Tim Vizer - Imagn Images
Combine the above with the fact that Soto just happens to be playing his first season as a Met after bolting the Yankees to sign the biggest contract in the history of North American sports, and you have what many correctly thought was a dream narrative.
Here's what Stearns said at the time:
"I think he’s taking pretty good at-bats, he’s controlling the strike zone pretty well. He’s hitting the ball on the ground a little bit more than he has in the past. I think that’s something that he’s aware of. But telling yourself, 'Hey, I need to hit the ball in the air more,' doesn’t immediately translate to hitting the ball in the air more.
"Do I think he’s trying to do a little too much right now? Yeah, I think he’s probably trying to do a little bit too much right now. And that is natural for a player who cares about improving."
Stearns added:
"He’s still helping us win games. I’m aware that the OPS isn’t where he would want it, it’s not where we would want it, it’s not where our fans would want it. I get that. But I can say it’s not for lack of work behind the scenes. He’s working, he’s trying. He certainly wants results at a higher level than what we’ve seen so far. I’m pretty confident we’re going to get those."
Since those comments from Stearns, Soto has looked like vintage Soto in every way imaginable.
Over his last 10 games, Soto is hitting .364/.553/.697 with three homers, two doubles, 12 runs scored, six RBI, 13 walks, and four strikeouts.
He put an exclamation point on his recent performance by reaching base six times on Sunday in Colorado.
During this span, Soto has raised his OPS for the season from .745 to .820. His OPS+ is up to 138.
His swing is smooth and level. He's controlling at-bats and oozing confidence. He is shuffling again, and giving opposing pitchers his menacing nod during at-bats.
In other words, Soto is back.
Jun 1, 2025; New York City, New York, USA; New York Mets right fielder Juan Soto (22) hits a home run against the Colorado Rockies during the eighth inning at Citi Field. / Gregory Fisher - Imagn Images
Soto's BABIP is still quite low for him (.254 compared to his career average BABIP of .301), so it's fair to believe there's still a lot more natural climbing to the mean in store for him.
And again, it wasn't hard to see this coming when looking at his advanced stats from the first two months leading up to his breakout that started on May 30.
Many people don't like to have advanced stats cited to them when a player on their team is struggling, but guess what? They're often predictive, and they're a great resource to turn to when trying to figure out whether the numbers a player is putting up (whether they're positive or negative) are sustainable.
Soto's advanced stats told us he was due to break out. That he was basically still the same hitter he had always been.
Common sense also told us that this breakout was coming, as bad as some wanted to create a crazy narrative that he was sad because his pinstripes weren't navy anymore.
Take a look at those advanced stats now, and you'll see that Soto is in the 100th percentile when it comes to chase percentage and walk percentage. He's also near the top of the league in xwOBA (98th percentile), xBA (94th percentile), xSLG (97th percentile), hard hit percentage (96th percentile), average exit velocity (95th percentile), squared-up percentage (92nd percentile), barrel percentage (87th percentile), strikeout rate (82nd percentile), whiff percentage (75th percentile), and bat speed (74th percentile).
In addition to the shuffling and nodding, Soto is smiling, bottle-flipping mid-game, posing for pictures in the dugout with his teammates, and racing out to partake in postgame celebrations.
Soto is rolling, the team is rolling, and he looks pretty damn happy to be a Met.
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Australian captain Pat Cummins has backed Marnus Labuschagne to repay the faith of selectors in the World Test Championship final against South Africa beginning at Lord’s on Wednesday.
18-year-old adds 200m IM record to 400m freestyle mark
Olympic champion also recorded third-fastest 800m freestyle
Summer McIntosh set a world record for the second time in three days at the Canadian swimming trials on Monday with the 18-year-old eclipsing Hungarian great Katinka Hosszu’s 200m individual medley mark set 10 years ago.
Three-times Olympic champion McIntosh, who set a world record in the 400m freestyle on Saturday, touched the wall in two minutes, 05.70 seconds to knock 0.42 off Hosszu’s time from the 2015 world championships in Kazan.
It's Tuesday, June 10, and the Athletics (26-42) are in Anaheim to take on the Angels (31-34). Mitch Spence is slated to take the mound for the Athletics against José Soriano for Los Angeles.
Yusei Kikuchi picked up his second win of the season in a spectacular outing. He went 7.1 shutout innings, striking out five batters and only giving up one hit. Last night was easily his best outing since the beginning of May. It was the first time since the start of last month that he walked fewer than two batters.
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ST. LOUIS -- The 2005 NHL Draft was important for the St. Louis Blues.
It was the draft headlined by Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby, who is having himself a Hall Of Fame career. But he was long gone by the time the Blues selected Timothy Leif Oshie with the 24th pick.
That draft was important, but not for the immediate impact that class would go on to make on the franchise, but it was one that would have to be the starting foundation for what would bring the Blues back to from what would turn into come lean years.
Following the 2004-05 NHL lockout, the Blues would go on to have the worst record and fewest points in the NHL in 2005-06 with 57 points (21-46-15). It would start a string of missing the Stanley Cup playoffs three straight years and five of six seasons.
Oshie announced his retirement on Monday after 16 seasons in the NHL:
T.J. Oshie, who helped lead the @Capitals to a #StanleyCup in 2018, has announced his retirement from the NHL after 16 seasons and 1,010 regular season games.
He began his journey in 2008-09 with the Blues, which happened to be the one season of six starting in 05-06 that the baby Blues made the postseason.
They were swept by the Vancouver Canucks in four games in the Western Conference quarterfinal, but it was the benchmark for the franchise to move back into prominence. It included Oshie, David Backes, David Perron, Patrik Berglund, and Alex Pietrangelo. Then along came Vladimir Tarasenko, Jaden Schwartz and Colton Parayko, guys the Blues drafted high and used to become the faces of the franchise.
Oshie, who is now 38 and essentially ended his career with back issues, playing in his final game with the Washington Capitals on April 28, 2024 against the New York Rangers, spent the first seven seasons of his career with the Blues and was part of some of the best regular-seasons in Blues history in teams in 2011-12 (109 points), 2013-14 (111 points) and 2014-15 (109 points).
The Blues were prominent again, and the winger then-coach Ken Hitchcock always called the "engine of the team" was a big reason why.
And who could forget T.J. 'Sochi," as Oshie was nicknamed for putting the United States on his back in the shootout of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia against the home country? He would score four of six shootout attempts that went eight rounds in USA's 3-2 win:
It was another incredible regular season and international season for Oshie, but the Blues were only able to advance past the first round once and were eliminated in the first round again. And after being upset by the Minnesota Wild in the first round in 14-15, Blues general manager Doug Armstrong felt a shakeup of that young core was needed to move even higher.
Oshie was the one made expendable at the time and was traded to the Capitals for forward Troy Brouwer, goalie Phoenix Copley and a 2016 third-round pick, which would prove to be very important.
"I thought something would possibly happen at the draft," Oshie said then. "After a couple of days, I just figured that I'd be staying in St. Louis. I got a call from Armstrong today and my initial reaction was a little bit of shock, even though that I knew it was a possibility. Then after a couple of minutes, I started getting excited to go onto the next chapter of my career.
"... I did feel with the players in that locker room that we were falling short, but if we went back with the same team that we would have hopefully learned from some of our mistakes. But after I saw (Hitchcock) was coming back, I figured there would be at least one or two moves that 'Army' would want to make."
The Blues, with Brouwer, would move on and reach the Western Conference Final before falling in six games to the San Jose Sharks the following season in 2015-16, but at the draft in 2016, the Blues would ship that third-round pick back to the Capitals, along with the 28th pick in the first round to move up two slots to No. 26 and select ... Tage Thompson.
And Thompson was used as a piece of the blockbuster trade on July 1, 2018 with the Buffalo Sabres that brought Ryan O'Reilly to the Blues. And we all know what ensued moving forward, the first Stanley Cup in Blues history in 2019.
Perron, Schwartz, Tarasenko, Pietrangelo and Parayko were part of that championship side, and many still to this day feel Oshie belonged as well, but the trade to the Capitals in hindsight may have been best for his career. He won the Cup with the Capitals the previous year in 2018 and couldn't have been happier for the Blues to win it as well.
"I don't know if they remember, but I talked to quite a bit the night they won," Oshie said Oct. 2, 2019, the season-opener and banner-raising night for the Blues after winning the Cup. "It was morning where I was. I was on my way to the golf course actually, but there were basically all the guys that played here when I played. It was a really cool moment and glad they were able to take a couple moments to say hi to me and for me to congratulate them when they were probably at the peak of their celebration.
"I spent a large part of my life here. I was treated very, very well by the organization, by my teammates, trainers and especially the fans. When they were able to get the job done and knowing how that feels to finally do it and another place that had never won the Cup before, I was very, very happy for everyone that stuck it out. I know a lot of times they do the season-ticket holders thing where you stand up and you go all the way back to '67. Pretty cool for all those fans who have shown support and finally got the Cup, especially the players that have been grinding it out for a while who were always searching for a way to get the job done and they finally did."
T.J. Oshie may not have won a Cup here, but he will always be remembered as a Blues fan favorite; he finished his career with 695 points (302 goals, 393 assists) in 1,010 regular-season games and 69 points (34 goals, 35 assists) in 106 playoff games.
His first NHL goal came Oct. 22, 2008 against the Detroit Red Wings:
Major League Baseball and Jomboy Media announced a partnership Tuesday that includes MLB acquiring a minority stake in the digital sports media brand.
The size of the investment was not disclosed, though it is believed to be the league’s first direct investment in a creator-led content company. MLB’s investment comes from its Baseball Endowment L.P. (BELP) fund, valued at more than $1 billion according to the Atlanta Braves’ most recent SEC filings, which was recently used to acquire a stake in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League as well.
In addition to equity, the tie-up includes access to MLB events, IP and sponsorship connections for Jomboy, while the league looks to benefit from Jomboy Media’s ability to reach casual fans online.
“Having a strong content creator community is going to be good for baseball in the long run,” MLB EVP, media and business development Kenny Gersh said in an interview.
Jimmy “Jomboy” O’Brien and Jake Storiale started the company in 2017 with a Yankees-focused podcast before expanding to cover the entire league—and other sports too. Last year, the company tallied 93 million engagements across social media and achieved $10 million in revenue.
Jomboy Media raised $5 million in 2022 in a round led by Connect Ventures, an investment partnership between Creative Artists Agency and New Enterprise Associates. Connect cofounder Jack Davis, a Jomboy board member, helped put the latest deal together, working with recently promoted Jomboy Media CEO Courtney Hirsch.
“It’s kind of surreal,” Hirsch said. “It just shows how important creators are when it comes to sports. It recognizes the fact that meeting people on digital platforms is a way to grow the game. And it shows that our community-centric approach is just really valued and being recognized by the league itself. It just kind of gives us chills.”
Hirsch added that the new relationship won’t change Jomboy’s approach when it comes to the way the company’s talent covers the game and its players. Jomboy Media also runs its own lighthearted sports league and corresponding show, “The Warehouse Games.”
Gersh said MLB’s work with Jomboy came mainly through the league’s media department as baseball looks to foster more connections with online voices. A decade ago, executives took heat for being relatively restrictive with digital rights compared to peer sports. Recently MLB has been more encouraging—both to outsiders and to its own—by recognizing the value of virtual conversation.
In April, MLB announced an expanded partnership with Boardroom that included player-driven online storytelling.
“We are focused, as we have been, on helping to amplify content creators’ voices,” Gersh said, “We will look for ways with other potential content creators to make sure that they have a platform to continue to produce baseball-related content.”
Baseball is witnessing a surge of interest, including post-pandemic highs in attendance, Sunday Night Baseball viewership and MLB.TV streaming usage over the last year. The league’s own social handles have also swelled, including a roughly 70% year-over-year gain on X from late 2023 to late 2024.
It's Tuesday, June 10, and the Dodgers (40-27) are in San Diego to take on the Padres (37-28). The Dodgers' starting pitcher has yet to be announced, but he is slated to take the mound against Dylan Cease for San Diego.
The Dodgers emerged victorious over the San Diego Padres, winning 8-7 in extra innings last night at Petco Park.
The intense divisional battle saw both teams trade momentum throughout the night, with the Dodgers ultimately pulling ahead in the 10th inning thanks to a go-ahead RBI single from Tommy Edman.
Let's dive into the matchup and find a sweat or two.
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Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Time: 9:40PM EST
Site: Petco Park
City: San Diego, CA
Network/Streaming: Padres.TV, SportsNet LA
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Moneyline: Dodgers (-108), Padres (-108)
Spread: Padres 1.5
Total: 8.0 runs
Probable starting pitchers for Dodgers at Padres
Pitching matchup for June 10, 2025: TBD vs. Dylan Cease
Padres: Dylan Cease, (1-5, 4.72 ERA) Last outing (San Fransisco Giants, 6/5): 5.0 Innings Pitched, 3 Earned Runs Allowed, 5 Hits Allowed, 3 Walks, and 7 Strikeouts
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The Dodgers have won 5 of their last 7 divisional matchups
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The Padres have covered the Run Line in 5 straight games
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The Giants will be without one of their best players for the next week and a half.
San Francisco placed star third baseman Matt Chapman on the 10-day injured list with right hand inflammation, the team announced Tuesday.
Infielder Christian Koss was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento as the corresponding move.
Chapman sustained the injury in the bottom of the eighth inning of San Francisco’s win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday at Oracle Park, as he dove head-first back to first base on a pick-off attempt.
