Opinion: Thanks to the patient focus on rebuilding Colorado Avalanche's general manager Joe Sakick, Avalanche's talented young core is ready to compete for the next few years. It looks like it's done
This Week's Bulls
The New York Yankees continue to summarize potential historic seasons in Major League Baseball, with 56-21 records and .727 win percentages on weekends. Arguably the toughest division in the Big League, with over 500 notable 35 games. Despite the long summer before them, the Bronx bomber is moving at a pace of 118 wins, two more than the 116 record set by the 2001 Seattle Mariners.
This week was another bull market for Canadian quarterback Nathan Rourke, who led British Columbia. Lions have won three consecutive victories in the young CFL season. On Thursday night, he won 31-28 against the Ottawa Redblacks. It wasn't the same caliber-dominant performance that Roke achieved in the first two home games of the year-above 103-18, the combined opposition of Edmonton and Toronto-but he's 24 years old calm. Had to show two interceptions in Ottawa and groping in the third quarter to keep the B.C. Lions undefeated.
Still, North American professional sports individuals or teams are better than Colorado Avalanche, 4-2 Stanley Cup Finals winner and two-defending champion Tampa. I had a big and good week. Bay Lightning. The decisive Game 6 victory on Sunday night at Tampa's Amalie Arena prevented Lightning from becoming the first NHL team since the 1983 New York Islanders, giving Colorado the Stanley Cup for the first time in 21 years. rice field. This is the third franchise in history. ..
Avs is one of six teams from the salary cap era (governing the roster structure from 1994 to 1995), winning at least three Stanley Cups and New Jersey Devils (1995, 2000). , 2003) Participate in Tampa Bay. (2004, 2020, 2021), Pittsburgh Penguin (2009, 2016, 2017), Chicago Blackhawks (2010, 2013, 2015), Detroit Red Wings. The only franchise to win four during that period (1997, 1998, 2002, 2008).
Thanks to the intensive reconstruction of patients by Colorado's general manager Joe Sakic, Avalanche's talented young core is ready to compete for years, much like that. Moved from Quebec City in 1995 (and won in 1996 and 2001).
This Week's Bear
Knowing that all seven have clues when former Quebec Nordix is closest to the Canadian-based Stanley Cup champion in 29 years Increasingly NHL sells north of the border. Fans await the era before four different Canadian franchises won the cup in 21 of the 31 seasons to 1993. This was the last Stanley Cup parade in Canada (Montreal).
It was also a bad week for PAC-12. This will not be the same after UCLA and USC depart for Big Ten.
Still, after some of the hockey Canadian marquee corporate sponsors have suspended their partnerships with the Sports Federation and the U21 World Junior National Hockey Team after being exposed to allegations. Hockey Canada has never had a tougher week. Sexual misconduct that has been obscured, at least up to this point, as part of a controversial legal reconciliation.
The departure of Scotiabank, Esso, Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons will take place a week after the federal government freezes Canada's funding for sports Canada for hockey.
Marketing Communications Executive and Sports Business Commentator Tom Mayenknecht is a Principal of Emblematica Brand Builders and a host of the sports market for BNN Bloomberg Radio 1410 and TSN Radio. Follow Mayenknecht:twitter.com/TheSportMarket
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