(the laughing guy is, of course, a certain young comedian who turned into a president later in his life )

Or, the same in the written format:

For NHL finance nerds: An interesting article about new payment scheme NHL will have to pay for Euro players. "Executive summary": - starting 2026, NHL will pay $315K for every Euro-trained player signed by the NHL (until 2026 it will be $285K). The money will be distributed to clubs where each part...

Dominik Simon to Sparta Prague. https://www-sport-cz.translate.goog/clanek/hokej-extraliga-sbohem-nhl-po-sedmi-letech-reprezentant-simon-se-ma-vratit-do-sparty-3610494?_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Confirmed today. Simon signed a 2-year contract. https://www.hcsparta.cz/clanek....

Zelensky is pretty awesome. If Ukraine indeed wins this war, he will deserve big credit:

https://www-idnes-cz.translate.goog/zpr ... r_pto=wapp

The worst part is Tennessee also covered lol

TIL that football betting is not based on the result at the end of regulation.
(I don't bet on football, so I never bothered to learn the rules, but scoring the game as a "betting tie" would make more sense to me).

Dominik Simon to Sparta Prague. https://www-sport-cz.translate.goog/clanek/hokej-extraliga-sbohem-nhl-po-sedmi-letech-reprezentant-simon-se-ma-vratit-do-sparty-3610494?_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Confirmed today. Simon signed a 2-year contract. https://www.hcsparta.cz/clanek....

Dominik Simon to Sparta Prague.

https://www-sport-cz.translate.goog/cla ... r_pto=wapp

Gaucho : out of curiosity - do Germans "germanize" the names of foreign monarchs? I am asking because I found it funny that there has been significant debate in the Czech media over the name of the new king in the last 24 hours, and it was pretty much decided that the person known as "Princ Charles...

Anyone have any experience with electric bikes? I have a sub 5 mile commute to work. Lots of hills though... like pretty steep ones. I'm starting to think about getting an e-bike for nice weather commutes. Looking for pros, cons, etc. I could get my bike tuned up and actually ride, but I'd rather n...

Russian players sentenced:

https://www-idnes-cz.translate.goog/hok ... r_pto=wapp

The "Without Cliches" website finally started their English version with translation of stories of athletes interesting for international audience (not surprisingly, many NHLers are there). I posted several stories translated by DeepL.com throughout the last year in this thread, but I bet the transl...

In Czech: https://www.idnes.cz/hokej/extraliga/martin-straka-padesatiny-hc-skoda-plzen.A220903_004058_hokej_pls Translated by DeepL.com : Straka celebrates his 50th birthday: Hockey is a hobby above all. It's rejuvenated by the locker room September 3, 2022 12:30 PM When Jaromir Jagr celebrated the ...

Round 5 of 2022/23 Bundesliga season - the first (and I am pretty sure the last) time the small team I root for sits on top of the standings. Go Freiburg!

The goal saved Germany from getting relegated...

Soccer in a nutshell -

Preston North End in English 2nd league: 7 games, 11 points. Total score 2:0...

A friend of mine is a huuuuge tennis and Serena fan and she’ll be there for the round of 16. Hope she can make it that far so she can see her one last time. Williams' 1st round opponent is ranked 80-something and had a bad hand(?) injury that kept her out of action for quite some time. Kontaveit (t...

Filip Zadina gets a new contract with Detroit: 3 years @ $1.825M per year.

ECL has some decent teams, so the last 4-8 clubs will be respectable, but some of the group-stage names have "CBI/CIT feel" for me...

So Ovechkin now has an Instagram profile photo featuring him and Putin... https://www.instagram.com/aleksandrovechkinofficial/ At least Backstrom is somewhat normal... https://www-idnes-cz.translate.goog/hokej/nhl/georgijev-rusko-oveckin-hraci-navrat-valka-ukrajina-armada.A220826_091646_nhl_huda?_x_...

More on the Russian players facing prison time (Google translated):

https://www-idnes-cz.translate.goog/hok ... r_pto=wapp

Sam Bennett is brutal to watch

Right before I checked into 5AF, I read about Sam Bennett winning!

https://www.velonews.com/events/vuelta- ... ins-again/

Are we still discussing the 50th iteration of the 5 boring American politics topics? :) https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1560015797367488517 Just to interrupt the important monkeypox discussion - here is part 2: https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1560566152622907392 (The gentleman in the vi...

54th Annual Golden Stick Award (i.e., Czech Hockey Player of the Year): 1. Ondřej Palát (Tampa Bay Lightning) 628 bodů 2. David Pastrňák (Boston Bruins) 624 3. Roman Červenka (SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers) 525 4. David Krejčí (HC Olomouc) 395 5. Tomáš Hertl (San Jose Sharks) 384 6. Jakub Voráček (Colum...

so Vancouver, go to Richmond for dim sum. other than that, eat anywhere and everywhere especially if you like Asian food and seafood. the last time I was there, 2014? I was able to get otoro for $8 CANADIAN. Oh the foreign food prices! Last month, the average restaurant bill for lunch/dinner (inclu...