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For years, scoring in the NHL has been steadily increasing. Teams are now averaging over 3 goals per game, something that hadn’t been done since the early 1990s. The low point was in 2003-2004 when the average was 2.57/game. The question is “why are teams scoring more?” There have been quite a few theories posited as to why goal scoring has been on the rise: RULE CHANGES & ENFORCEMENT - With the introduction of the salary cap post 2004 lockout, you would expect that teams would be more even and struggle to create against equally as talented rosters.

Over the last few months, I’ve considered buying a new printer. I used to love making zines in my early 20’s, but my hand-me-down inkjet printer rescued from a trash heap at an old unpaid internship isn’t the most efficient tool for that job. While the image quality is up to snuff, replacing the ink cartridges easily costs over $100. Having learned the hard way that much of a printer’s expense lies not in the initial investment but in the cost of ink, getting a new printer is not a task I’m willing to entrust to Amazon’s first suggestion.

Chosen in: Unclear (became official in 1992) Chosen by: University administration St. Bonaventure’s College was founded in 1858 and began playing football in 1895. The school’s first teams were known as the Alleganies, which looks like a misspelling of “Allegheny”, the river that flows along the southern limit of the campus, but is actually based on Allegany, the town immediately west of the school. Within a few years, this nickname was discarded in favor of “Brownies”, based on brown being the primary color in the school’s branding.

Like any young writer, I am well aware that an invitation to speak at TED can be a career-changing opportunity. So you can imagine how thrilled I was when I was invited to appear at this year’s annual conference. What I could not have imagined from an organization whose tagline is “ideas worth spreading” is that it would attempt to suppress my own.  As an independent podcaster and author, I count myself among the lucky few who can make a living doing what they truly love to do.

EARLIER THIS MONTH, the administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wrote to 12 state universities, ordering them to provide a list of how many students, of what ages, had sought or received gender-reassignment treatment through their schools' medical services. The request was strikingly detailed, specifically asking, item by item, about puberty blockers, hormone treatments, mastectomies, breast augmentations, orchiectomies,  penectomies, vaginoplasties, hysterectomies, metoidioplasties, vaginectomies, salpingo-oophorectomies, phalloplasties, scrotoplasties, or "any other medical procedure.

Hey all! This week’s post is from a friend I’ve made through social media. Ben Cremer is a United Methodist pastor in Boise, Idaho, and maintains an extremely pastoral and insightful presence on social media, calling us all to a Christianity that looks more like Jesus. If you don’t follow him on Instagram or Twitter, you’re missing out! But more importantly, sign up for his newsletter, so you can read more posts like the one below.

Welcome to The #Content Report, a newsletter by Vince Mancini. I’ve been writing about movies, culture, and food since the aughts. Now I’m delivering it straight to you, with none of the autoplay videos, takeover ads, or chumboxes of the ad-ruined internet. Support my work and help me bring back the cool internet by subscribing, sharing, commenting, and keeping it real. — UPDATE, 12:49 PDT: After initially saying David “opted out,” Tom has now walked that back and said he “misspoke,” and that David “got a second chance at the end of the challenge.

My relationship has been spiraling for a couple years now. Mostly emotional abuse, with some sexual coercion. Then we had a baby. He got really aggressive, and started saying things like, “I’ll kill you!” but of course then told me he was just mad and didn’t really mean it. Well, earlier this week, he slapped me while I was holding our baby. I had been yelling at him about how little he has done to help me, and trying to talk to him about the role that plays in my postpartum depression.

I was mindlessly scrolling through my Instagram feed yesterday. It had been a tough week (working and kids at home for half term), and I was aching all over. I have been trying to stop vaping, and it has left me on edge (not that I was doing it often but it was turning into an every day thing rather than a once a week thing). I find scrolling relaxing but it can also be very triggering.