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Crossing my fingers (which makes it hard to type) that all well be well in blogland today. Wasn't thrilled to have yesterday morning's posts mysteriously vanish leaving only a sentence or a picture in some cases.
In bringing the case, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman overruled her predecessor, who declined to charge Cosby in 2005 when Temple University employee Andrea Constand first told police that the comic drugged her and violated her by putting his hands down her pants at his mansion in suburban Philadelphia. More here.
OLYMPIA – Washington should raise its minimum wage, spend more on schools and highways, raise teacher salaries and do something about climate change, Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday. “We have done hard things. And we can do more,” the Democratic governor told a joint legislative…
However, with the support of her aunt and uncle, with whom she’s lived since seventh grade, Karpinksi began taking steps to branch out during her years at Kootenai Junior/Senior High School.
She joined several clubs and tried different activities, including track and field during her junior year. She proved to have a talent for the pole vault and qualified for state. She placed fifth in her district.
“I ended up doing pretty well,” she said. “This year I’ve just been doing better. I’m working on getting higher heights.” Her personal record is 9 feet.
Her success in track helped Karpinksi overcome her shyness. She also credits her supportive family and her volleyball coach for helping break her out of her shell. Of her coach, Karpinski says, “She really believed in her players and that really helped.”
These new social skills and self-confidence will be handy when Karpinksi moves to Spokane next fall to study cosmetology at Paul Mitchell the School. Several family members are cosmetologists and Karpinski’s aunt, who knew about her passion for cosmetology, encouraged her to pursue it.
“If you like it, continue to do it, that way you’ll make friends,” she said. “If you love it, they love it, too, and you have something in common.”
Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby, right, makes a stick save on shot by Vegas Golden Knights right wing Alex Tuch during the third period in Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday, May 30, 2018, in Las Vegas. (John Locher / Associated Press)
ARLINGTON, Va. – Alex Ovechkin covered his eyes with his gloved hands in disbelief. Barry Trotz hid his disbelief inside.
Chandler Stephenson had the perfect view and didn’t like the odds. The net was wide open and Braden Holtby reached his stick across and stopped Alex Tuch’s shot in the final minutes to save the game.
“I thought, ‘Oh, no, no, no,’” Stephenson said. “And then his paddle was there and he made the save and I just couldn’t believe it.”
Holtby’s unbelievable move might go down as one of the most important moments in Stanley Cup history. It allowed the Washington Capitals to even the final against the Vegas Golden Knights and served as further evidence of Holtby’s dominant playoff run.
Most of the buzz going into the Cup Final surrounded Vegas goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, a deserved Conn Smythe favorite who already has two championship rings. But Holtby stole the show in making 37 saves in Game 2 and returned to his career-long playoff dominance after allowing five goals on 33 shots in a Game 1 that was far from goalie-friendly. It’s the kind of play his Capitals teammates have come to expect this time of year.
“The guy’s just a machine,” defenseman Matt Niskanen said. “Boy, has he been good. Making the saves that he’s supposed to make look really routine and he’s made some game changers – none better than the one with a couple minutes left in Game 2.”
Trotz has watched “the save” a handful of times, and Holtby has analyzed it but believes “there’s a lot more saves that I’ve made even these two games that I like a lot more than that one.” The laser-focused 2016 Vezina Trophy winner is far more worried about how to not need to make that desperate of a stop in Game 3 Saturday night and beyond.
“You hope that next time you get more of your body behind it and give it less chance of going in,” Holtby said Friday. “You try and find little areas where you can limit the chance of the puck going in instead of just hoping it doesn’t.”
The 28-year-old doesn’t make saves on hope. Since he made his NHL playoff debut as a rookie in 2012, Holtby has a 2.04 goals-against average and .929 save percentage – fourth- and second-best all-time among goalies with at least 50 games of experience.
In other words, Holtby is no one-save pony. In these playoffs, he’s 13-7 with a 2.19 GAA and .921 save percentage since replacing Philipp Grubauer in Game 2 of the first round.
Holtby wasn’t where he needed to be in February, when he had a stretch of 11 games in which he allowed 41 goals and took some time off to “reset.” He worked with goaltending coach Scott Murray on some technical adjustments, got his mind right and has felt a noticeable change since.
“It was more a mental thing,” Holtby said. “Every year’s different, every situation, and I was just getting to a point where I was seeing the play one step ahead of it instead of waiting for it to come, and just being a little bit more patient and expecting the unexpected.”
It doesn’t get more unexpected than the weird bounce late in Game 2 that preceded his save on Tuch. Maybe that puck goes in 99 times out of 100, but Holtby has shown the ability to make the unpredictable save that stuns friends and foes alike.
“Saves like the one in the third period definitely make him a tough goaltender to beat,” former Capitals and current Golden Knights defenseman Nate Schmidt said. “He’s never out of a save. He’s a guy that can recover well, he’s got quick feet and he’s just very athletic.”
From the other end of the rink, Fleury – who has allowed seven goals in the series and not been nearly as unbeatable as he was in the first three rounds – can admire Holtby’s play even if he doesn’t like it.
“I think it’s an awesome save,” Fleury said. “I don’t appreciate it, though. I’d rather it be a goal.”
Holtby has done a spectacular job of not only limiting goals but making almost every save on shots he has been able to see. Even if teammates are watching through their fingers on the bench, they appreciate that and are uplifted by it.
“He steps up in the big moments,” defenseman Christian Djoos said. “The saves he makes, in playoffs you need it.”
NOTES: Capitals C Evgeny Kuznetsov took part in an optional practice after leaving Game 2 Wednesday clutching his left arm and not returning. Trotz said Kuznetsov had not been cleared, considers him day to day, and expects Washington’s leading scorer to be a game-time decision. … Capitals D Brooks Orpik, who took a slash from Erik Haula late in Game 2, had his left pinkie wrapped but expects to be able to continue playing. Orpik did not skate Friday. … Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said F William Carrier is getting close and should “be available in the near future.”
This Sept. 21, 2017, photo provided by Harding University in Search, Ark., shows Botham Jean leading worship at a university presidential reception in Dallas. Authorities said Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, that a Dallas police officer returning home from work shot and killed Jean, a neighbor, after she said she mistook his apartment for her own. The officer called dispatch to report that she had shot the man Thursday night, police said. (Jeff Montgomery / Jeff Montgomery/Harding University via AP)
DALLAS – The lawyer for the family of a man who was gunned down at his home by a Dallas police officer is calling for her to be arrested and charged, saying the fact that she remains free days after the shooting shows she’s receiving favorable treatment.
Police on referred questions to the Rangers. A spokesman for the agency, Lonny Haschel, said in an email that no additional information was available.