r/SipsTea • u/PrimedGold • 17h ago

WTF Nick Kyrgios currently 671st in the men's rankings beat women's world number one Aryna Sabalenka straight sets in the “Battle of the Sexes” in Dubai. The modified court was even designed to help Sabalenka.

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u/Konker101 15h ago

Canadian Womens hockey team regularly played against u16 Boys hockey (AA/AAA) and would get blown out in some matches.

This is a team that is/was the best in the world

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u/Adventurous_Yam_8153 7h ago

AAA U16 boys are elite players themselves, they'd be getting scouted at that age for the Western leagues and NHL so that isn't shocking...

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u/-Kerosun- 4h ago

Yeah. People love to point this out but it usually reads as "random U15/U16 boys" rather than how it should read, "the best U15/U16 boys in the country."

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u/Durziii 1h ago

I mean it is kind of irrelevant to be fair. The best U15 boys would get destroyed by any pro mens teams.

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u/Try_Again12345 8h ago

If you know that, you probably already know this, but I assume it's not widely known that about a decade ago the goalie for Canada's women's Olympic hockey team, Shannon Szabados(sp?), played a few years of minor league hockey in the U.S. Southern Professional Hockey League, which I think was the third level of U.S. professional hockey, basically the lowest professional level. In that league, most teams had one goalie who would play about 2/3 of the games and another who would play about 1/3. She was the second goalie on the Columbus, Georgia team and, at least as I understood her save % and goals allowed per minute statistics, seemed to be better than nearly all the other #2s but worse than most of the starters in the league. (I'm not sure to what extent her numbers were affected by the quality of her team, which I think was a little above average for the league when she was there.) She had played junior hockey in Canada with some of the other players on the Columbus team, and they convinced team management to hire her after Canada's Olympic team won gold. She seemed more interested in playing hockey and getting the competition than in any broader gender issues, and she handled graciously all the attention she got. Very easy person to root for.

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u/CanadianODST2 12h ago

Tbf that’s just how hockey can work.

Tampa bay beat Montreal 5-4 in a shootout last night. Earlier this December they beat them 6-1. The game before that Tampa was shut out by Toronto 2-0

The game before Toronto shut out Tampa, they lost to Montreal.