05-23-2020, 08:39 PM
COMING SOON TO A URALICA NEAR YOU... THE STANLEY CUP!
With the Vancouver Canucks having won the 2020 Stanley Cup Championship last night after beating the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 at Rogers Place in Vancouver to take the series four games to one, the Stanley Cup will be coming to Uralica for the second time, having first seen time on our soil in 2018 when Alexander Ovechkin brought it home with the Washington Capitals - he brought the Cup to the Saransk area.
When asked where they're taking the Cup, Uralicans Matvey Kolpakov and Kurtis Schaeffer both agreed that the Cup was "for sure going to Syktyvkar," which is near Schaeffer's adopted hometown of Pazhga, and there's a strong likelihood that they'll be in Yoshkar-Ola, which is where Conn Smythe Trophy (that is, playoff MVP) winner Kolpakov was born and raised.
The win caps off an incredible season for the relatively young Canucks, whose recent draft choices and signings have hit pay dirt, and have NHL fans kind of excited after Kolpakov broke Yevgeni Malkin's record for most points by a non-Canadian in the NHL postseason, posting 13 goals and 26 assists for 39 points in 19 games, the fifth-best playoff season of all time. Only Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux have gotten more points in a playoff run. In the process, Dakotan forward Brock Boeser had one of the best goal-scoring seasons in NHL playoff history, bagging 17 goals and putting him in a seven-way tie for the fourth-best playoff goal-scoring total ever, with Kevin Stevens, Mike Bossy (three times), Steve Payne, and Wayne Gretzky. He sits only behind Reggie Leach, Jari Kurri, and Joe Sakic.
Now the question is, who will go to the World Ice Hockey Championships? A number of Montreal Canadiens players are expected to go, but some Canucks are up in the air at the moment. With that said, Kolpakov and Schaeffer have committed themselves to the Worlds already, saying that they will have their day with the Cup in June, with them both going to the Olympics in July to play inline hockey. Brock Boeser has said he's too exhausted to represent Dakota - which was somewhat expected - but New US centre/right wing JT Miller has suggested he might join his team. Goalie Raimo Vasama, a strong contender for this year's Vezina Trophy as the league's best goalie, is hesitant to commit to Finland before the playoff round, and with the second round having just started today, it may be a few days yet before the Espoo native flies out to Stockholm to join the team.
LESNAR'S AGENT SHUTS DOWN OLYMPICS TALK, RESPONSE MIXED
An agent for pro wrestler and former mixed martial artist Brock Lesnar has stated that his client is "done with MMA" and may even be retiring from wrestling some time this year. The news comes after Lesnar himself ended an interview abruptly and walked out on it after it was mentioned that the Dakotan Olympic Committee had approached him about participating in spite of fan concern about his history of steroid usage.
The news has upset some mixed martial arts fans, who suggest that this basically guarantees an all-Uralican final in the superheavyweight division between Jarkko Salomäki and defending gold medallist Boris Svechnikov while robbing the Olympics of a real draw, but the mixed martial artists themselves have been much more positive, saying that the lack of Lesnar's presence guarantees the integrity of the New Olympics Movement, which has cracked down quite hard on violators.
The IOC still flat-out refuses to readmit Gaza after its response to this crackdown, which was to assassinate Israeli-Palestinian WADA member Alon Hefetz, who was scapegoated in many Gazawi and otherwise anti-Semitic conspiracy theories after four Gazawi men were sent home for doping - a weightlifter, two mixed martial artists, and a track cyclist; this incident almost led to actual war between the Afrikaner Republic/Israel-Palestine and Gaza. But the number of doping cases, relative to pre-Robertian times, was tiny at Cape Town 2016 overall, and only a single athlete was sent home from Sochi in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Jarkko Salomäki had mixed feelings about the Lesnar announcement.
"I have to wonder if it's because he's doped again, which would make him a complete idiot if he did enter because of the detection technology we have today, because he thinks he's too old, or because he's too chicken to take on me and mah boi Bo[ris Svechnikov]," the 6'7", 306 lb. Uralican President mused in an interview recently. "Yes, it's lost the Olympics a drawing force. Lesnar has, or at least had, the skill to challenge in the heavyweight or superheavyweight divisions. But if it is because he doped, he made the right call, and I can at least respect him for that even if I generally think that dopers are dirtbags. If it's because he thinks he's too old, I've seen older guys take gold in combat sport before. If he merely chickened out, that's just lame. (Honestly, I think that's far from the reason, but I can never completely rule it out.) If it's something else, who am I to speculate? It's common knowledge that Brock isn't a people person, but beyond that, only God and Brock know Brock's mind completely. He did challenge me to a WWE match once, though. I might have to take him up on that! I got moves too, y'know!"
With the Vancouver Canucks having won the 2020 Stanley Cup Championship last night after beating the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 at Rogers Place in Vancouver to take the series four games to one, the Stanley Cup will be coming to Uralica for the second time, having first seen time on our soil in 2018 when Alexander Ovechkin brought it home with the Washington Capitals - he brought the Cup to the Saransk area.
When asked where they're taking the Cup, Uralicans Matvey Kolpakov and Kurtis Schaeffer both agreed that the Cup was "for sure going to Syktyvkar," which is near Schaeffer's adopted hometown of Pazhga, and there's a strong likelihood that they'll be in Yoshkar-Ola, which is where Conn Smythe Trophy (that is, playoff MVP) winner Kolpakov was born and raised.
The win caps off an incredible season for the relatively young Canucks, whose recent draft choices and signings have hit pay dirt, and have NHL fans kind of excited after Kolpakov broke Yevgeni Malkin's record for most points by a non-Canadian in the NHL postseason, posting 13 goals and 26 assists for 39 points in 19 games, the fifth-best playoff season of all time. Only Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux have gotten more points in a playoff run. In the process, Dakotan forward Brock Boeser had one of the best goal-scoring seasons in NHL playoff history, bagging 17 goals and putting him in a seven-way tie for the fourth-best playoff goal-scoring total ever, with Kevin Stevens, Mike Bossy (three times), Steve Payne, and Wayne Gretzky. He sits only behind Reggie Leach, Jari Kurri, and Joe Sakic.
Now the question is, who will go to the World Ice Hockey Championships? A number of Montreal Canadiens players are expected to go, but some Canucks are up in the air at the moment. With that said, Kolpakov and Schaeffer have committed themselves to the Worlds already, saying that they will have their day with the Cup in June, with them both going to the Olympics in July to play inline hockey. Brock Boeser has said he's too exhausted to represent Dakota - which was somewhat expected - but New US centre/right wing JT Miller has suggested he might join his team. Goalie Raimo Vasama, a strong contender for this year's Vezina Trophy as the league's best goalie, is hesitant to commit to Finland before the playoff round, and with the second round having just started today, it may be a few days yet before the Espoo native flies out to Stockholm to join the team.
LESNAR'S AGENT SHUTS DOWN OLYMPICS TALK, RESPONSE MIXED
An agent for pro wrestler and former mixed martial artist Brock Lesnar has stated that his client is "done with MMA" and may even be retiring from wrestling some time this year. The news comes after Lesnar himself ended an interview abruptly and walked out on it after it was mentioned that the Dakotan Olympic Committee had approached him about participating in spite of fan concern about his history of steroid usage.
The news has upset some mixed martial arts fans, who suggest that this basically guarantees an all-Uralican final in the superheavyweight division between Jarkko Salomäki and defending gold medallist Boris Svechnikov while robbing the Olympics of a real draw, but the mixed martial artists themselves have been much more positive, saying that the lack of Lesnar's presence guarantees the integrity of the New Olympics Movement, which has cracked down quite hard on violators.
The IOC still flat-out refuses to readmit Gaza after its response to this crackdown, which was to assassinate Israeli-Palestinian WADA member Alon Hefetz, who was scapegoated in many Gazawi and otherwise anti-Semitic conspiracy theories after four Gazawi men were sent home for doping - a weightlifter, two mixed martial artists, and a track cyclist; this incident almost led to actual war between the Afrikaner Republic/Israel-Palestine and Gaza. But the number of doping cases, relative to pre-Robertian times, was tiny at Cape Town 2016 overall, and only a single athlete was sent home from Sochi in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Jarkko Salomäki had mixed feelings about the Lesnar announcement.
"I have to wonder if it's because he's doped again, which would make him a complete idiot if he did enter because of the detection technology we have today, because he thinks he's too old, or because he's too chicken to take on me and mah boi Bo[ris Svechnikov]," the 6'7", 306 lb. Uralican President mused in an interview recently. "Yes, it's lost the Olympics a drawing force. Lesnar has, or at least had, the skill to challenge in the heavyweight or superheavyweight divisions. But if it is because he doped, he made the right call, and I can at least respect him for that even if I generally think that dopers are dirtbags. If it's because he thinks he's too old, I've seen older guys take gold in combat sport before. If he merely chickened out, that's just lame. (Honestly, I think that's far from the reason, but I can never completely rule it out.) If it's something else, who am I to speculate? It's common knowledge that Brock isn't a people person, but beyond that, only God and Brock know Brock's mind completely. He did challenge me to a WWE match once, though. I might have to take him up on that! I got moves too, y'know!"
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