{"id":98071,"date":"2025-08-26T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98071\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:36:08","slug":"the-last-week-of-the-boring-no-news-off-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98071\/","title":{"rendered":"The last week of the boring no-news off-season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/photo-1728169162233-ab87f3d3109b.jpeg\" alt=\"FTB: The last week of the boring no-news off-season?\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@nikoloz_g?utm_source=ghost&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=api-credit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikoloz Gachechiladze<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=ghost&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=api-credit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the final week of August, and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, nothing has happened over the weekend. Literally nothing. So either this week will be a gong show of activity, or it&#8217;s another week of dead silence. I&#8217;ll let you decide, but the answer is nothing.<\/p>\n<p>However, we will continue with our Top 25 Under 25 this week and there will be six players in the rankings over the five days as there is a tie in this range. No spoilers on which day that tie will be, sorry, but it&#8217;s a Kitten Ranching and Hockey Rankings LLC policy not to tell you in advance.<\/p>\n<p>News Crumbs<\/p>\n<p>The headline is a bit sensational, but they do have more very highly skilled players now than in recent memory. I want Holzer to still make the team for the pun opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/mortiz-seider-wants-germany-to-challenge-at-2026-olympic-winter-games-milano-cortina?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Seider wants Germany to \u2018challenge all the big names\u2019 at Olympics | NHL.com<\/p>\n<p>Red Wings defenseman part of talented roster aiming to raise international profile, win medal<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756204568_437_l7zrkxsk594uew437syv.jpg\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Pakistan has a national women&#8217;s hockey team, and they&#8217;re getting better each year.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/color-of-hockey-mariya-rauf-role-model-for-pakistan-women?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Color of Hockey: Rauf making impact as Pakistan women\u2019s coach in LATAM Cup | NHL.com<\/p>\n<p>Yale junior forward finds work behind bench \u2018motivates me to keep going\u2019 as role model<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gdlcp51gir5azsvrj5r7.png\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what TLN thinks of the Leafs prospect opportunities right now.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/theleafsnation.com\/news\/timing-trade-benning-wildcard-and-best-shape-of-my-life-leaflets?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Timing a trade, Benning as a wildcard, and best shape of my life SZN: Leaflets<\/p>\n<p>There are actual events on the NHL calendar (albeit a promo tour in Eu\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pensionplanpuppets.com\/content\/images\/thumbnail\/image-67\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p>Just give us some news, hockey leagues! WHHHHRGRBRGLBGRLBGLRBGLRLBGBRL!<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Daniil Medvedev smashed his racket after his first-round loss at the US Open. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HJtQAYcfHA?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HJtQAYcfHA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1959843365605740725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=pensionplanpuppets.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Nikoloz Gachechiladze \/ Unsplash It&#8217;s the final week of August, and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, nothing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-98071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}