Sean McIndoe
@downgoesbrown.bsky.social
Sean McIndoe of The Athletic. Co-host of Puck Soup and The Athletic Hockey Show podcasts. "The Down Goes Brown History of the NHL": http://goo.gl/Z197VX. Elbows up.
Stop sending me video. Video can be edited!
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Stop sending me video. Video can be edited!
Habs fans, what exactly is happening here?
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Habs fans, what exactly is happening here?
The reviews are in: My work proving that the hockey gods hate the loser point is being called "quite possibly the single most important discovery in sports history".
By me. I called it that. But the readers are also on board.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
By me. I called it that. But the readers are also on board.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The reviews are in: My work proving that the hockey gods hate the loser point is being called "quite possibly the single most important discovery in sports history".
By me. I called it that. But the readers are also on board.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
By me. I called it that. But the readers are also on board.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
From yesterday: Are you a hockey fan who got distracted by the Blue Jays run, and now you're wondering how the Leafs season has been going?
You're in luck, I've prepared a handy Q+A to get you back up to speed.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
You're in luck, I've prepared a handy Q+A to get you back up to speed.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
From yesterday: Are you a hockey fan who got distracted by the Blue Jays run, and now you're wondering how the Leafs season has been going?
You're in luck, I've prepared a handy Q+A to get you back up to speed.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
You're in luck, I've prepared a handy Q+A to get you back up to speed.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
New post: So you're a Toronto sports fan who was paying attention to the Blue Jays for the last few months, and now it's time to turn your attention to the Maple Leafs.
No problem. I'm here to get you caught up on how it's going.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
No problem. I'm here to get you caught up on how it's going.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New post: So you're a Toronto sports fan who was paying attention to the Blue Jays for the last few months, and now it's time to turn your attention to the Maple Leafs.
No problem. I'm here to get you caught up on how it's going.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
No problem. I'm here to get you caught up on how it's going.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...
This is weird, right?
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is weird, right?
All you need to know about how rough a year it's been for the Calgary Flames is that this goal just happened, and these three players have combined for 29 games this year.
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
All you need to know about how rough a year it's been for the Calgary Flames is that this goal just happened, and these three players have combined for 29 games this year.
From earlier: How well do you know these NHL player nicknames? Probably not very well because they all sound fake, but hockey-reference insists that they're real.
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t.co/rAYgy5ymlx
October 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
From earlier: How well do you know these NHL player nicknames? Probably not very well because they all sound fake, but hockey-reference insists that they're real.
t.co/rAYgy5ymlx
t.co/rAYgy5ymlx
Going through some old reader emails and found this one from months ago. This is just how it ends, so you can imagine how the rest of it went, but that last sentence is going to be my new mic drop in any argument.
July 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Going through some old reader emails and found this one from months ago. This is just how it ends, so you can imagine how the rest of it went, but that last sentence is going to be my new mic drop in any argument.
Chat are we going to get an oddly specific prediction right?
June 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Chat are we going to get an oddly specific prediction right?
New post: Happy draft day. Which team can put together the best starting lineup of cap-era busts?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...
June 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New post: Happy draft day. Which team can put together the best starting lineup of cap-era busts?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...
NHL really working hard to switch up the narrative.
June 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
NHL really working hard to switch up the narrative.
Have to admit I'm mildly surprised at the results of the "What if?" fan survey. Not as much love for Lou as I'd have expected, and way more support for the unsexy (but correct) take that the flat crap screwed them.
May 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Have to admit I'm mildly surprised at the results of the "What if?" fan survey. Not as much love for Lou as I'd have expected, and way more support for the unsexy (but correct) take that the flat crap screwed them.
For some reason I decided it would be fun to ask chatgpt to FJM one of my old columns and it owned me so badly I may now have to retire.
May 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For some reason I decided it would be fun to ask chatgpt to FJM one of my old columns and it owned me so badly I may now have to retire.
When you’re a Leafs fan and it’s spring and you check your emails.
May 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
When you’re a Leafs fan and it’s spring and you check your emails.
From earlier: The Maple Leafs are collapsing in the playoffs, again, and it all feels like a movie we've seen a dozen times.
So I came up with eight ideas for the hockey gods on ways they could at least tweak the script this time around.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/632...
So I came up with eight ideas for the hockey gods on ways they could at least tweak the script this time around.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/632...
May 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
From earlier: The Maple Leafs are collapsing in the playoffs, again, and it all feels like a movie we've seen a dozen times.
So I came up with eight ideas for the hockey gods on ways they could at least tweak the script this time around.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/632...
So I came up with eight ideas for the hockey gods on ways they could at least tweak the script this time around.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/632...
Heading into tonight’s Game 4, I keep thinking about this passage from a post I wrote in 2021.
There’s been so much talk about this year’s Leafs and whether anything’s really changed. Hard to imagine any bigger evidence that something’s different than “actually doing it the easy way for once”.
There’s been so much talk about this year’s Leafs and whether anything’s really changed. Hard to imagine any bigger evidence that something’s different than “actually doing it the easy way for once”.
April 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Heading into tonight’s Game 4, I keep thinking about this passage from a post I wrote in 2021.
There’s been so much talk about this year’s Leafs and whether anything’s really changed. Hard to imagine any bigger evidence that something’s different than “actually doing it the easy way for once”.
There’s been so much talk about this year’s Leafs and whether anything’s really changed. Hard to imagine any bigger evidence that something’s different than “actually doing it the easy way for once”.
Somebody who knows X's and O's break this down for me, is this a good way to defend a 60-goal scorer?
April 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Somebody who knows X's and O's break this down for me, is this a good way to defend a 60-goal scorer?
I'm pretty sure this is just a simple database bug on hockey-reference, but can't rule out the frightening possibility that they're multiplying.
April 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm pretty sure this is just a simple database bug on hockey-reference, but can't rule out the frightening possibility that they're multiplying.
Things you don’t expect to see when you win Roll Up The Rim: your own dumb face staring back at you.
March 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Things you don’t expect to see when you win Roll Up The Rim: your own dumb face staring back at you.
Actually getting off your behind and doing something today instead of months from now is the NHL's new market inefficiency.
(Via www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...)
(Via www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...)
March 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Actually getting off your behind and doing something today instead of months from now is the NHL's new market inefficiency.
(Via www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...)
(Via www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...)