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Brendan Shanahan and Kyle Dubas have to know there may not be another NHL season like this one.
There may not be a Canadian division in the future. There may not be a path to the Stanley Cup Final Four as clear as this one appears. This kind of opportunity for the Cup-starved Maple Leafs has never been more apparent.
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They’re well aware of the possibilities and of the quality of their first-place team after just 24 games. Which is why there has been so much talk around of the Leafs looking to upgrade up front for the eventual playoffs in May. The popular choice of improvements, now that TJ Brodie and Zach Bogosian have stabilized the formerly wonky Toronto defence, is the addition of a top six forward.
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February 24, 2021
Call it #PalouseUnity 2.0.
This time, it’s not just Joe Vandal and Butch T. Cougar working together to combat community spread of COVID-19.
It’s everybody from healthcare workers and first responders to business leaders in both Pullman and Moscow, as well as Washington State University and the University of Idaho.
“The primary message is we are the Palouse. We are one community. We happen to be separated by a border, but we are all working together to keep each other safe and healthy,” said Phil Weiler, vice president for marketing and communications at Washington State University. “It takes all of us. We’re all in this together.”
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A Black family who left the U.S. due to discrimination and settled in Alberta in 1911. (Wikimedia/Public domain)
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