Tony DeAngelo on waivers as teammate (allegedly) hits him in the face

NHL transactions are always difficult to read. You never know if something is just a salary cap manipulation, related to that or an actual move. The New York Rangers, for example, had to haul guys like K’Andre Miller and Kaapo Kakko on and off their taxi team to save thousands of dollars a day to stay under the cap. Or maybe there’s an obscure rule, or it’s just a matter of wanting to bring a guy into the AHL for more time on the ice.

However, it looks like the Rangers waived Tony DeAngelo yesterday for the exact reasons you would like which is that he’s such an outcast among his teammates that one of them would’ve timed him. in the locker room.

Rumors like this were flying around Twitter yesterday when the announcement was made. We’ll probably never know for sure, but we can certainly hope so. And it seems odd that a player, despite his personality and hateful opinions, that the Rangers stuck with last season and kind of suddenly decided they had had enough. While DeAngelo has had GIF-worthy ethers on defense and has only one assist so far this season, metrics indicate he’s actually been everything he ever was, which means he’s pushing the game in the right direction. And yet the Rangers told him again to get lost yesterday.

But simply going through production on ice would completely miss the point of problems with DeAngelo, who has been a raging penis from the time it came out of the womb if not in its embryonic stage. DeAngelo is at the forefront of Neanderthal hockey players following the MAGA-chud lifestyle, and he looks bad for the whole league. Stories of his abuse of K’Andre Miller, who is black, were rumored, and given DeAngelo’s public opinions, it wouldn’t be hard to see why he was treating Miller this way. The one to keep Miller’s first goal puck is particularly mean and crappy, and probably should have had DeAngelo beaten to the head with a skate sharpener. Obviously, DeAngelo deserved to eat a fist or two for a while.

That’s not to say the Rangers are doing it honest. They kept DeAngelo when it was clear he was going to be a problem, and put it front and center of various marketing campaigns even when it was clear what it was. If anything, it only made his spokesperson for racism even more valued. He is their creature, or at least was.

Still, the Rangers are better off without him. The league is better off without him, but some teams will take the plunge because nothing ever goes away in the NHL. Still, let’s take this temporary W on a real bastard while we can.

Bradley Beal happened one night. And not in the mode of having a very good game. At least not entirely. Beal and Russell Westbrook combined for a dramatic ending to the Wizards’ 149-146 victory over the Nets – and former Westbrook teammates Kevin Durant and James Harden – combining for two three-pointers in six seconds that won the game.

But Beal also had this first half.

The first half looked like Beal trying to see and pick up Act of Costanza de Harden to get out of Houston, but this time to get him out of DC. It’s understandable that Beal wants to get out of an organization that simply hasn’t put together a relevant team since the Carter administration. They are 4-12 years old this year and are still in the wrong direction.

But Beal clearly didn’t have the courage to go all the way, ending the game with 37 points. Most of us stand up to the brim and stare at the chasm of true latent insubordination, and don’t like the feeling that it is watching us. Then again, Harden got exactly what he wanted by jumping overboard, right? Who is the real one to follow?