Follow @james_tanner123 The day a new Radiohead album comes out should be a day of celebration, but since we live in an electronic world of garbage, it is not. If you want to steal the record or pay for something that doesn't really exist, you can get it. If you want to buy it on a record and have something to look at while you listen to it, you have to wait forever.
I am not sure when or why bands started catering to the streaming media, since it's a garbage format that sucks very badly. Just seems to me the least they could do is hook up the people who actually care about their music with an actual real album that they can by in a store.
On to hockey.
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The Arizona Coyotes need defenseman. (Or five).
One is available for free. He is underrated, not too old and probably cheap enough to afford.
He would provide the team with a partner / opposite line anchor for OEL and he plays the kind of game that today's NHL demands. Sure, he's a little worse than he used to be, but he's still kind of amazing.
This year, playing on one of the worst possession/defensive teams in the NHL, the Rangers (6th last), my old friend and confidante Keith Yandle put up an excellent 23 even strength points and a 50.85 CF%.
He also would have probably had more than 23 ES points if he had a personal shooting percentage of 2.86. Basically, he was so unlucky this year, it's rumored that at one point he tried to buy a rabbit's foot of of Nazem Kadri.
Yandle was just outside the top-twenty for dmen in points at 5v5, and his 47 points total where good for 16th overall. All this despite only adding two goals on the PP for five total.
Keith Yandle is basically an older, higher scoring version of Jake Gardiner, in that, for whatever reason, he got a reputation about being "horrible" defensively early on that he has never been able to shake which makes him incredibly under-appreciated.
Trading Yandle was a necessary evil. It netted Anthony Duclair, a player who will help for years, in exchange for 82 games this year, two rounds of playoffs and however many games were left after the trade deadline last year. The Coyotes weren't winning anything during that time, no matter what, so it was a good trade.
Yandle would instantly solidify a very weak defense and would presumably be open to coming back to Arizona. The team seems to be pursuing a more analytical based approach to the game, and Yandle is a the kind of player who the team should be targeting: a puck moving defenseman who carries the play and puts pressure on the other team to defend.
Come July 1st, here's hoping the Coyote's first call is to Yandle.