Weekly Links - Shake Hands With Danger

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SLGT LINKS:

• ESPN busted out their TV schedule for the Extravagant NHL Money Grab Thing the World Cup of Hockey to be played (mostly) in September. [SLGT]
• Brad got a peek at NHL 17, which has some guy you may have heard of on the cover. [SLGT]
• Five things CT would do if he were in charge. [SLGT FanPosts]

WHAT DID WE MISS?:

• Not much. Not like anything is happening, really. [SLGT]

OTHER BLUES NEWS:

• Danny Kristo signed a one-year, two-way deal to return to the Blues organization. The forward will likely be with the Wolves next season. [FSMW]

HOCKEY NEWS:

• Twitter will stream one NHL game per week starting this upcoming season. MLB is joining them, and they both join the NFL, who announced a similar deal in their offseason. [SB Nation]
• The Jets are gonna have nice Heritage Classic sweaters and all, but they realize they're ganking the history and heritage of the Coyotes and not their own, right? [Puck Daddy]
• The top fifteen impact additions of the NHL offseason, according to a person who ranks such things. [CBS Sports]
• One of those additions was defenseman P.K. Subban, who wrote a heartfelt letter to the patients at Montreal Children's Hospital. [USA Today / For The Win!]
• A Wayne Gretzky rookie card recently went for over $450,000 at an auction recently. And oh fuck get Darren Rovell off my fucking timeline. [The Sporting News]
• The Coyotes bought out forward Antoine Vermette in a deal that should probably shock very few people . . . except for the whole no movement clause being waived and whatnot. [Sportsnet]
• Those playing the NHL's Farcical Aquatic Ceremony the World Cup of Hockey as RFA's will be insured during the event through a deal between the NHL and NHLPA. Probably wise. [TSN]
• Check out this INSANE trick shot from a KHL player. There is nothing legal about this play, but there is a shitload of awesome about it. [Deadspin]

OTHER SHIT:

• For David Ortiz's last visit to Seattle, the Mariners gave him (among other things) a fresh salmon. That's so fucking Seattle, man! [SB Nation / #Lookit]
• Lucille Ball's hometown now has a more flattering statue of one of television's original stars. (S/T to BluesMay) [NPR / The Two-Way]
• Motorized suitcases, eh? Okay. [Huffington Post]
• Also, see-through suitcases. Um, sure. [Travel + Leisure]
• Sleep in France and Switzerland on the same night! [Huffington Post]
• That's a bad place to get caught with nearly six-figures worth of blow. [Travel Pulse]
• I'm not afraid of heights, particularly, but . . . FUCK THIS NOISE. [Huffington Post]
• Some cool fucked-up baby names from 100 years ago. [Mental Floss]
• The Olympic flag-bearer from Tonga is a fucking beast horse. Let's learn more about him. [USA Today]
• Meanwhile, this French gymnast had . . . a . . . thing . . . happen. (WARNING--NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH) [Deadspin]
• I wasn't even a Rams fan, but . . . seriously, fuck the NFL. [SB Nation]

BEER OF THE WEEK:

• Abita Brewing Company of Abita Springs, Louisiana (across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans) does good beers and stuff. One of them? Turbodog, a really tasty brown ale. [Untappd]

VIDEOS:

First . . . ever wanted to know what an oversized NERF gun would do? (S/T to CrossCheckRaise):

Things like that.

And . . . if you attended the MST3K Reunion version of RiffTrax Live, they riffed on a train wreck of a safety video called "Shake Hands With Danger". Here's the original:

Holy fuck this is awful. And 23 minutes long.

THE CLOSER:

The SLGT Links Department will be on vacation next week, so unless someone jumps in and does them, we won't have links next week.

However, BluesMay has your links fix the NEXT Monday (the 22nd), or somewhere around that time. You know how this works by now, I hope:

• @BluesMay
• slgtlinks AT gmail DOT com
• Or post your links in the comments below, and we'll link to those comments next week.

And if someone steps up to do links next Monday and I'm made aware of who it is before the fact, I'll figure out a way to tell people and stuff.