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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Mike Sullivan can praises the winky drinkers all he wants, it was the milk drinkers who won him an Olympic Gold Medal substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Someone should look into that safe sport investigation of Bill Guerin, why it was never closed and no report was written
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Avry Lewis-McDougall (Avry's Sports Show) @avry.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Whenever @nickzararis.bsky.social gets on the keyboard I stop and read what he has to say. Brillant piece.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I want to continue stressing that voters are dumb and have always and will always be dumb and that being good at politics and winning means appealing to dumb voters
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jules @acasatua.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Nick nailed a lot of my thoughts and why i ended up leaving hockey altogether. if you have the time, please read and follow @nickzararis.bsky.social’s work. he deserves it.
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christy @giggo77.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🎯🎯🎯 An excellent read, @nickzararis.bsky.social.
“Hockey is supposed to be my free space… but to have hockey actively invite in the outside world that is actively causing geopolitical unrest in both hemispheres, widening the income inequality gap, lowering the standard of living all the while daring to say it cares about the common man is a step too far.”
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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
My internet friend @nickzararis.bsky.social with something I've been saying for quite some time. You don't win or make changes by walking out; you do so by digging in, even if it's messy, disheartening, and demoralizing. Give this one some time: weresobacksports.substack.com/p/the-sports...
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The Sports Exile: When You don't feel at home anymore
I thought I was waiting my entire life for a Gold Medal in Men's Hockey. I was wrong
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eileen @eileen4est.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
yep, perfectly put @nickzararis.bsky.social
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It sucks being reminded how little hockey loves you back, that doesn’t mean you despair or roll over
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Kevin @kpower90.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Another banger of a post from @nickzararis.bsky.social weresobacksports.substack.com/p/the-sports...
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The Sports Exile: When You don't feel at home anymore
I thought I was waiting my entire life for a Gold Medal in Men's Hockey. I was wrong
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Mo Seider leads all defensemen in the NHL in WAR this year. Seider’s made the leap from good to star and it’s driving Detroit’s success weresobacksports.substack.com/p/moritz-sei... Moritz Seider Deserves to Be in the Norris Trophy Conversation
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Moritz Seider Deserves to Be in the Norris Trophy Conversation
How Detroit’s blue line finally unlocked its rebuild by leaning fully into Seider’s strengths
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Shane Wright is stuck on the Seattle depth chart behind Chandler Stephenson and Matty Beniers. The former 4th overall pick is reportedly available You should be interested open.substack.com/pub/weresoba...
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Why Your Team Should Be Calling Seattle About Shane Wright
A former top-five pick, a stalled development path, and a rare opportunity created by organizational indecision
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The Flyers are so early on in their cycle, it feels crazy for them to push for the playoffs this year
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Broad Street Hockey @broadstreethockey.com · 23/01/2026
Taking a look at everything from size and roster construction, to team-wide WAR - just how far off are the Flyers from recent Stanley Cup champions? A very big deep dive from @nickzararis.bsky.social:
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How do the Flyers compare to recent Stanley Cup champions?
We went through several metrics to determine just how the current Philadelphia Flyers stack up against recent Stanley Cup champions. Are the Flyers on the right path?
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
2038 is so far in the future, it doesn't sound like a real year. But with Olympic bidding done so far in advance, the ball needs to get rolling now. After interview New York State Assemblyman Robert Carroll, the cards are lined up weresobacksports.substack.com/p/new-yorks-...
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New York’s 2038 Winter Olympic Bid: A Sustainable Blueprint?
How Assemblyman Robert Carroll wants to leverage Lake Placid’s existing upgrades and NYC arenas to avoid the billion-dollar Olympic pitfalls
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I'm in the Locked on Everydayer club Discord and you should be too. During Oiler games Monday-Friday, I'll be there to answer questions and talk about the game as it happens in real time lockedonoilers.supercast.com
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Locked On Oilers
Take your fandom to the next level by joining the Everydayer Club, an exclusive community of fans who want to be as close to the action as possible.
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Adam Gretz @adamgretz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I hope Cole Caufield pointed up at Bill Guerin after that shot.
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Rangers drafted in the first round nine times from 2017-2021. New York has stunningly little to show for it and it’s why they’re “re-tooling” open.substack.com/pub/weresoba...
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How the Rangers Sabotaged Their Own Rebuild
Nine first-round picks. Almost nothing to show for them. Here’s why New York doesn't develop talent
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Flyers aren't creating off the rush as much in Matvei Michkov's minutes and its pulling the sophomore winger's production down www.broadstreethockey.com/post/matvei-...
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Matvei Michkov has been a victim of the Flyers’ style changes
The Philadelphia Flyers star youngster has not shone bright this season, but it’s not totally his fault and here’s why.
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Kevin @kpower90.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
@nickzararis.bsky.social with an absolute goddamn banger tonight open.substack.com/pub/weresoba...
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It's time: The New York Rangers need to fire Chris Drury, Today
How poor development, misplaced priorities, and a shrinking window exposed New York’s organizational flaws
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
No more equivocating or half measures. Fire Drury, TONIGHT open.substack.com/pub/weresoba...
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It's time: The New York Rangers need to fire Chris Drury, Today
How poor development, misplaced priorities, and a shrinking window exposed New York’s organizational flaws
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
In the most wide open NFL playoffs of recent memory, everyone’s got a chance at exercising some demons open.substack.com/pub/weresoba...
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For the NFL's long tortured, a wide open playoffs means hope
In the most wide open NFL playoff field in recent memory those with tortured history have their shot
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Yeah we're writing about EVERYTHING
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Broad Street Hockey @broadstreethockey.com · 09/01/2026
Travis Sanheim deserves his spot on Team Canada, despite people criticizing the decision. Looking at just how effective he has been and can be at the Olympics. -@nickzararis.bsky.social
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Why Travis Sanheim is worthy inclusion for Team Canada no matter what anyone says
A whole lot of people are complaining that Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Travis Sanheim made Team Canada’s Olympic roster. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Luke Hughes and the New Jersey Devils were both supposed to take leaps this year. It hasn't manifested for either and it's lead to an early career sliding doors moment. weresobacksports.substack.com/p/the-luke-h...
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The Luke Hughes Dilemma: Trying to contend and develop at the same time
The Devils are asking the former 4th overall pick and younger brother of its star player to carry the load on the blue line. He's not ready for the task
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I don’t know how many signs we need to make it obvious that the time has come for all of us to start doing things that we can justify to our children and grandchildren
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Note that the Mayor of Minneapolis made his statement surrounded by police chiefs. As we said in New York, regardless of their politics no serving police officer wants any part of this. It makes everything they do more difficult and ends up putting them in danger.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
When a cop murdered my big brother at a road block 21 years ago, their post-facto justification was that he tried to run over a cop. His foot released the brake after the officer shot him in the chest, and the car bumped an officer.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations.

Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.”

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Adam Fox has been one of the 3 best defensemen in the NHL this decade, for Bill Guerin and USA hockey, that wasn’t enough. Fox can’t get any respect weresobacksports.substack.com/p/usa-hockey...
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USA Hockey’s Blind Spot: How Adam Fox Exposed a Flawed Olympic Selection Process
A data-driven look at why one of America’s best defensemen can't get any respect — and what it says about the federation’s outdated worldview.
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Adam Fox has been the best American defenseman relative to how his team performs when he isn't off the ice for all of their respective careers
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It won't take a miracle for the US to win the gold medal at the 2026 winter Olympics. It's time USA hockey start acting like it weresobacksports.substack.com/p/usa-hockey...
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USA Hockey Can’t Think Like an Underdog Anymore. And Jason Robertson Is the test case
If the Americans want to win gold, they can’t keep building rosters like they’re hoping for a miracle.
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Trevor Zegras is finally healthy and playing some of the best hockey of his career, on the latest for my Substack, what's driving his better than point per game pace and how sustainable it is open.substack.com/pub/weresoba...
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Trevor Zegras Was Written Off. The Flyers Didn’t Care
Against tougher competition and in heavier minutes, Zegras is proving his revival is real
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The NBA's return to NBC felt like a triumphant completion of a cycle. The NHL's return to ESPN has felt anything but On the latest for my Substack weresobacksports.substack.com/p/nostalgia-...
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Nostalgia Only Works When You Mean It: What NBC Got Right and ESPN Keeps Getting Wrong
NBC’s return to NBA coverage shows how to honor the past without being trapped by it — a lesson ESPN’s hollow NHL revival still hasn’t learned.
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The Rangers aren't even playing bad hockey, but man does it feel like the GM is more concerned with saving his own ass than building a good team weresobacksports.substack.com/p/hard-work-...
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Hard Work Won’t Fix a Talent Problem: The New York Rangers’ Slow Fade from Contention
New York’s front office has built a team in its own image — stubborn, structured, and short on skill
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The Rangers are truly a hilarious hockey team
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2025
Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Mika Zibanejad your legacy is on the line for the duration of Trocheck’s injury
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2025
a russ vought special
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2025
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/10/2025
practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
JT Miller cannot move
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Nick Zararis @nickzararis.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Zibanejad’s one timer is a pop gun, it’s 2020 Drew Brees
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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 09/10/2025
Imagining a beautiful future where every coach knew who their best six defenders were.
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