Weekend listening 🎧

In this edition of The Undercurrent, Tara Slone talks to award-winning sports activist and Senior Contributor with CBC Sports, Shireen Ahmed.

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The 2024 #NHLDraft Lottery set for May 7. media.nhl.com/public/news/17…

We don't care for either of these teams, but Randy Hahn + Bret Hedican calling the game? That's a playoff broadcast crew to cheer for 😎

Reminder Alphabet Sports Collective is hiring an Executive Director.

Deadline to apply is tomorrow!

I can’t tell you how much I adored this man. A legend with the biggest heart and the greatest voice. 💔

I can’t say enough about how much I have enjoyed working with David Quinn. He was unbelievably generous and patient with the media through two very difficult seasons. I know hockey is a business, but this one is tough. #SJSharks

Congratulations to #SJSharks forward Luke Kunin, who has been selected to represent the USA at the IIHF World Championship in May.

This is Kunin's fourth time playing for Team USA at an international tournament, his second crack at the World Championship (2018-19).

sigh. are we really doing this?

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Monday, May 6th will be a date to remember as San Jose Sharks
legend Patrick Marleau is inducted into the BASHOF
Other inductees include Brian Sabean, John Taylor, Jenny Thompson, and Chris Wondolowski! Get tickets here: bashof.org

Granlund says he’s playing at the worlds

The PWHL has set another new all-time attendance record for women's hockey with 21,105 fans at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

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Food for thought as Canadian swimming phenom Summer McIntosh and her teammates gear up for the Paris Olympics.
New reporting documents that 23 of China's best swimmers - half its national team - tested positive for a banned substance in early 2021.
It was an unusual…

Game 82/82. Thanks for sticking with us, Sharks fans! Love you!!! Brighter days ahead! 🩵🩵🩵 #sjsharks

Making history tonight 👏

Tonight’s season-ending #SJSharks - Flames tilt will be the first game in NHL history to feature two California goalies, whether as teammates or opponents. Devin Cooley (Los Gatos) vs Dustin Wolf (Gilroy). #NHLStats #HockeyTwitter

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The numbers for game 82/82 📊

Big NCAA news: Duante' Abercrombie has been hired as the first head coach for the new men's hockey team at Tennessee State University. 

TSU will become the first HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to introduce collegiate hockey.

There are WNBA journalists working hard AND spending their own dollars while holding down part-time jobs to cover the league the way it deserves. The call to action needs to be..HIRE THEM. Stop sending unknowledable, sexist, racist, clickbait “media” to cover WBB b/c it’s trendy.

Oh Trav. Lemme guess, all the women are always blowing this shit out of proportion, huh?

Tara Slone Better yet, hire more women.