Next two out of three
A crazy game and unfortunate loss, Sabres 3 to Canadiens 2:

At Sportsnet, Eric Engels writes:

In a game the Montreal Canadiens lost by one goal, it would be easy to suggest the puck bouncing off the stanchion by the Bell Centre’s Zamboni door before caroming off Jakub Dobes’ pad was the difference.
But there was more to why the Canadiens finished Tuesday night down 3-2 in the game and tied 2-2 in their series with the Buffalo Sabres, and they’ll have to properly evaluate that before the action resumes at KeyBank Center on Thursday.
For a team that prides itself on honest self-assessment, a reality check awaits in the video room.
The Canadiens had seven power plays but scored on only one. And even if Cole Caufield, who scored that goal and said afterward that he and his teammates broke down the Sabres “a bunch” and were only thwarted by great saves Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, they mismanaged the puck enough to squander those other six opportunities….

Some game analysis from knowledgeable fans:

The Canadien’s flag is flying high

“LUV HABS” was spotted on a Ontario license plate 👀🏒

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) May 10, 2026 at 4:27 PM

And I think Carney is seriously hoping the boys can go all the way – because he’s already looking forward to that phone call!

Moving on, Today, this happened as Trump was getting ready to leave for China — after a night where he posted 55 times on his Truth Social account:

I was certain that Trump wouldn’t actually be healthy enough to go to China, but I guess he pulled himself together to get on the plane. Its not going to go well.
On Tuesday night’s Rest of the World Report, Rudy Martinez reviews the history of US relations with China since Nixon. He concludes:

… Outside the United States, the BRICS dimension of this week is receiving coverage proportional to its actual significance. Indian, Gulf, Iranian, and Russian media are all tracking the New Delhi meeting as a parallel channel to Beijing. The CBC’s analysis, published this morning, captured the international read precisely: Xi arrives at this summit more confident than at any previous Trump-China meeting, holding leverage on multiple fronts, with no illusion that lasting deals will be struck and every intention of projecting Beijing as the stable, predictable alternative to American volatility. That framing, China as the responsible actor and the US as the unpredictable one, is not Chinese propaganda. It is how much of the world, including US allies, is reading American foreign policy in 2026. The summit will not resolve it. It will define it.
…The meeting that starts tomorrow in Beijing is the product of 54 years of choices: Nixon’s opening, Carter’s normalization, Clinton’s WTO bet, Obama’s pivot, Trump’s tariff war, and the Iran war that handed Xi the leverage he carries into the Great Hall of the People this week. The Taiwan question is not a new complication. It is the original unresolved question, planted in the Shanghai Communiqué in 1972, managed but never answered by every administration since. Trump will discuss it with Xi tomorrow. What he agrees to, and what he trades to get something on Iran, will not be in any public communiqué. The results will show up in Taiwan’s security, in the South China Sea, and in the terms of any Iran deal that emerges. While that meeting proceeds, the other half of the world’s diplomatic architecture will be in New Delhi. American readers deserve to know it exists….

Finally I saw this on TikTok — The Strait of Hormuz Blues. It shows just how angry Americans are getting now about Trump’s stupid war with Iran.

@macleodmimic The Strait Of Hormuz Kim Fuller & Lewis Macleod #parody #funny #fyp #trump #iran ♬ original sound – Macleod Mimic