The Coyotes got some bad news as camp got under way this week, and I don't just mean that their official twitter accountant has become way too comfortable using the phrase "Howl Yeah":
#Coyotes GM John Chayka says Derek Stepan and Michael Grabner are deemed "unfit to play" and did not practice today.
Teams cannot comment any further on the injury/health status of players.
Now, remember, even though the NHL shut down over Covid, no one is allowed to know if anyone has it.
The games second biggest star contracting a disease that shut down the league? Apparently that's not allowed to be news.
So, like your dad might have when you were a kid, Grabner and Stepan probably just "went out for cigarettes" and should be "right back."
Now on to the good part:
Coyotes Top 50 Players of All-Time
On Sunday, causing one user to have an absolute breakdown, and obviously because I've never actually seen a game of hockey, I named Legend Keith Yandle as the Coyotes 6th best player.
Today we enter the top five, which means things are starting to get good. I think, I don't know, I just picked these names out of a hat. We are talking about baseball, right?
For your consideration, at #5: Oliver Ekman Larsson.
The Swedish Werewolf Hunter aka OEL aka "Larsy" is the best draft pick in team history, and its fifth best player.
Only a recent decline in his game kept him from a higher ranking, but at his peak he was Norris Trophy worthy king who deserved much more league-wide praise than he got.
He hasn't been great since he signed his new contract, but he's still just 28.
Hard to believe, but OEL is second in Coyotes games played and third in scoring all-time.
Welcome to the top 5!
Top 50 Films of All-Time
50: Limitless
49: Oh Brother Where Art Though?
48: Role Models
47: the Rock
46: Mission Impossible Franchise
45: Nicholas Cage Man Tetrology
44:Heat
43: The Art of Self Defense
42:Walk Hard
41: The Winter Soldier
40:Taken
39: The 6th Day
38: Groundhog Day
37. The Batman Trilogy - Christopher Nolan
36: Jackie Brown
35: Gremlins
34: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
33: Speed
32: Adventure Land
31: Eyes Wide Shut
30: Semi Pro
29. Endgame/Ragnorak Trilogy
28. Baby Driver
27: Next
26: Keanu
25:Annie Hall
24: Catch Me If You Can
23: Serpico
22: Pop Star: Never Stop Stopping
21: Passenger 57
20: The John Hughes Trilogy
19: MacGruber
18: Source Code
17 Live. Die. Repeat
16. The Lethal Weapon Franchise
15: Paycheck
14: The Fugitive
13: The Prestige
12: Enemy of the State
11: Con Air
10: High Fidelity
09: Zodiac
08: the Terminator
07: the Royal Tannenbaums
06: Face/Off
Today, kicking off the top-five is the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Total Recall.
The highlight of one of the best careers in Hollywood history, Recall casts Arnold in a movie so mindbending it considers Inception to be its bitch.
Proving that you don't have to understand a script to star in it, Arnold was amazing as Quaid, and as usual, Paul Verhoeven directs a movie so schlocky you almost miss its depth and meaning.
The combo of peak Arnie with Verhoeven and a Phillip K Dick short story is one of the best in movie history. I realize that my list of action favorites is not filled with the kinds of movies that "film critics" usually like, but Total Recall legitimately deserves to be considered alongside the Godfather and Citizen Kane.
As an added bonus, this movie features Arnie's best ever one-liner when he shoots his so-called-wife in the head (while she is trying to kill him) and says:
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