Simon Holmstrom injured for Islanders with season slipping away
TORONTO — The Islanders lost Simon Holmstrom in their final game of 2024 on Tuesday afternoon, but the Swedish forward suffered an upper-body injury two days earlier in Pittsburgh. Holmstrom missed the final 8 minutes and 46 seconds of the 3-2 loss to the Penguins, and coach Patrick Roy said he was day-to-day with an […]
Forget Risk, play Fantasy Football for Fascists: grudge matches, foul play and violent conduct guaranteed | Simon Tisdall
IIt's been a dark year, and it's reflected well in this space. So it might be time to get into the festive spirit with an exciting new Swiftian parlor game: Fantasy Football for Fascists (FFF). Ideal for dictators, autocrats, strongmen, neo-Stalinists, far-right nationalist populists, or students of geopolitics, it's a game of enthusiastic fun for […]
What’s occurrin’? Gavin & Stacey has breathed new life into my hometown | Simon Price
YYou know a town has a PR problem when they need to set it on fire to get attention. In 1984, it was on the evening news in my hometown of Barrie. The port office was hit by a fire.. Even without television coverage, I could see flames from my bedroom window. I don't remember […]
British cop PC Simon Barker accused of filming sex act inside of a police station
A British police officer who was filmed masturbating while in uniform has been banned for life. PC Simon Barker filmed himself having sex alone at a police station before sending the video to his partner. Ms Barker, a member of North Yorkshire Police's local crime team, quit her job the day before she was due […]
Simon & Schuster staffers slam ‘Scrooge’-like owner KKR for canceling Christmas party
Simon & Schuster staffers are furious that their Christmas party has been canceled yet again by the company they call the Scrooge-like investment giant that owns the famous book publisher, the Post reports. Reported. The much-anticipated annual shindig was canceled as a “tense exercise” by Wall Street financial giant KKR, which acquired the company for […]
Simon Holmstrom ‘ripping it’ in second stint on Islanders’ top line
Simon Holmstrom's first stint on the Islanders' top line was a failure. However, in the tri-two, Holmstrom scored two goals in not one game, but two games in a row. The feat was something he had never accomplished in his NHL career before Friday. The Islanders were forced into this situation after Jean-Gabriel Pageau left […]
Ireland’s voters unhappy with taoiseach Simon Harris, election exit poll shows | Ireland
Exit polls show Irish voters are expressing dissatisfaction with Taoist Simon Harris, even though the return of the current government is the most likely outcome of the election. Of the 5,000 voters surveyed after the vote, 35% named Fianna Fail leader Michael Martin as their preferred new leader for the 34th Dail. However, cementing Sinn […]
Simon Homstrom’s growing confidence is paying off for Islanders
EDMONTON, Alberta — Two and a half weeks in the middle of an 82-game season can often feel like a lifetime, and in less than 10 games the story has already shifted in one direction and then another. There is. A great example of that is if you rewind there, Simon Holmstrom was going up […]
Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel reunion lunch left one singer in tears: ‘I was a fool’
Simon and Garfunkel's notoriously contentious relationship may be slightly mended, opening the door for a reunion. In a new interview with Sunday Times, Art Garfunkel revealed that he recently had lunch with Paul Simon and they got honest about their bad blood. “I actually had lunch with Paul a few weeks ago, and it was […]
Simon Holmstrom gets another Islanders chance after Anthony Duclair injury
It was almost a year ago that Lane Lambert pulled the plug on an early-season experiment that had Simon Holmstrom skating on the top line with Bo Horvat and Matt Barzal. Lambert returned to that composition a month later, but again it didn't last, and it didn't last much last season either. That's why the […]