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Dallas writer calls for on-ice vengeance against Dumba
“What Dumba did to Pavelski wasn’t old school, playoff hockey. It was dirty,” wrote Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Mac Engel “It needs to be handled. On the ice.”
DALLAS — Wild defenseman Matt Dumba enters Game 2 of the club’s opening-round playoff series against the Dallas Stars as hockey public enemy number one.
And a local sports columnist is calling for the Stars to give Dumba, as he sees it, what he deserves.
On Monday a borderline hit by Dumba knocked Stars center Joe Pavelski to the ice, and out of the game. Pavelski had just delivered the puck when the Wild defender lined him up and delivered a crushing shoulder-to-shoulder blow, causing Pavelski to fall to the ice and hit his head. He appeared dazed and unable to stand on his own while being led down the tunnel. At this point, it is uncertain if the NHL veteran will be ready to go in Wednesday’s Game 2.
The officiating crew working the game at first called a 5-minute major on Dumba so they could conduct a video review of the hit. After watching it, the penalty was reduced to a 2-minute minor.
While violent and close to a major infraction, Dumba’s hit on Pavelski was deemed within the framework of NHL rules and no disciplinary action was taken by the league.
That rankled veteran Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Mac Engel, who on Tuesday called for the Stars to take revenge on Dumba for the hit he put on their teammate. “There is hard, playoff hockey. There is dirty, playoff hockey,” Engel wrote, and framed the incident using a similar one that took place in April of 1988 involving the Stars and San Jose Sharks. In that instance the late Bryan Marchment drove Dallas forward Joe Nieuwendyk into the boards, blowing out his knee with a hit that eventually ended Nieuwendyk’s career.
In his column Engel called for the modern-day Stars to target Dumba and exact retribution for the hit. “It needs to be handled. On the ice. Bryan Marchment would know what to do.”
The headline of the piece read “Dallas Stars need ‘Marchment’ justice on Minnesota Wild’s Matt Dumba for Pavelski hit,” a thinly-veiled request for a violent hit that could possibly end Dumba’s playing days.
Engel’s piece blew up on social media, with fans and fellow writers blasting what they saw as a call to violence. The Athletic’s Michael Russo, beat writer for the Wild, called for Engel to face discipline for the words he wrote.
“A credentialed media member campaigning for this type of vengeance is disgraceful and beyond unprofessional,” Russo posted on Twitter after he read Engel’s column.
Russo wasn’t alone in his take on Engel’s column. “Mac Engel proving once again what a pile of sh** he is,” Tweeted a hockey fan from Texas. “Nobody in Dallas takes Mac Engel seriously either. I forget he exists except for every decade or so he makes some hot take referencing the 90s NHL for clout.”
The debate over Dumba’s hit will undoubtedly raise the temperature of what was already shaping up to be a high-octane game two, following the Wild’s 3-2 double overtime win over Dallas on Monday. After Pavelski was knocked out of Game 1, a sellout crowd loudly booed Dumba any time he touched the puck. That is sure to continue Wednesday night.
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Community leaders speak out after six kids were arrested
Jerry McAfee, founder of 21 Days of Peace, said many of these kids are committing crimes for recreation and don’t understand the consequences of their actions.
MINNEAPOLIS — Community leaders say they were disheartened to see the latest string of youth crime, but they’re not shocked.
“The youth that age and younger have been participating in criminal activity long before you guys just found out,” said KG Wilson, a retired peace activist.
Wilson said the perception of kids committing crimes is hard for people to imagine.
“Nobody wanted to believe that these children this young would be doing this type of criminal activity in the community,” he said. “Instead of them listening to the few of us that we’re trying to tell them about this before it gets worse, it got worse. And then you got the taps on the hands because a lot of these kids have been doing this for years.”
Jerry McAfee has seen the same things. He’s the founder of 21 Days of Peace and works with dozens of kids to keep them on the right path.
“This behavior is not new. What is new is we are yet to be alarmed to the point that the necessary synergy is created to get ahead of that stuff and to try and stop it,” McAfee said.
He believes it’s time for a new approach.
“What we were doing three or four years ago and have been doing the last few years isn’t working. It’s getting worse. So, if it’s getting worse just stop, admit it’s not working, and let’s put something together,” he said.
McAfee said many of these kids are committing crimes for recreation and don’t understand the consequences of their actions.
“That’s the message they got to get. This is not games. This is real-life,” he said. “I don’t think there is many repercussions, and what kids deem now as fun is dangerous.”
Wilson agrees the problem is getting worse each year, and kids and teenagers need to be held accountable.
“There’s going to have to be some consequences to their actions and they’re going to have know, these children are going have to know if you do this, this is what’s going to happen to you,” Wilson said. “If that doesn’t happen, they’re going to say and think in their mind, we can do anything we want and we’re just going to get a pat on the hand.”
He said it’s not all on the parents. He said some of them have tried to get their child help, but nothing seems to work.
“A lot of times these kids have gotten so out of control that some of the parents fear them. The parents fear them,” he said.
Wilson believes people need to become neighbors again and look out for kids on their block.
“We got to start getting back to community meetings,” he said. “It’s about tough love. It’s going to have to be about tough love. You’re going to have to get tough. It’s either you’re going to let them go, let the streets have them, or you’re going to take them back yourself.”
McAfee said it might be time to air public service announcements explaining the consequences of committing crimes.
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Minneapolis 4-year-old found safe, police say
The boy had been last seen on the 2500 block of 14th Ave S.
MINNEAPOLIS — Police in Minneapolis say a 4-year-old who was reported missing has been found safe.
According to the Minneapolis Police Department, Jacob Gonzalez Orbe had been last seen around 3:40 p.m. Wednesday on the 2500 block of 14th Ave S.
In an update Monday evening, police said he was found and is safe.
This story has been updated from a previous version.
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How global warming fueled Hurricane Milton
Record warming in the Gulf of Mexico led to rapid intensification that even alarmed experts.
MINNEAPOLIS — The size and scope of Hurricane Milton is now so obvious that it can be seen from space, but the speed that it grew is what has been truly breathtaking.
John Morales, a veteran hurricane specialist for NBC 6 South Florida, verbally gasped and grew emotional while watching the storm rapidly intensify.
“It has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours,” Morales said on the station’s live stream. “I apologize. This is just horrific.”
That video has now gone viral not just because of Morales’ emotional reaction, but also because of his frank explanation for it.
“The seas are just so incredibly, incredibly hot, record hot, as you might imagine,” Morales said. “You know what’s driving that. I don’t need to tell you. Global warming. Climate change.”
John Abraham, a professor of thermal sciences at the University of St Thomas, has been saying the same for years now.
“The warming that we’re seeing is entirely human driven,” said Abraham, who has worked with oceanographers to study and track the explosive warming of the ocean. “Think about the energy of a Hiroshima atomic bomb that ended World War II -six times that – every second for the entire year. That’s how much heat is going into the ocean.”
He says record heat in the Gulf of Mexico is exactly what’s fueling Milton.
“When we think about global warming, it’s really an energy balance problem,” Abraham said. “Ninety percent of the global warming heat ends up in the oceans, and as the ocean waters heat up, that’s what gives fuel to these storms. It increases their size, their wind speed, the rainfall and the storm surge. Parts of Florida are expected to get 18 inches of rain as Milton comes ashore.”
He sais there’s no sign of that trend slowing down. Amid all the warming in the gulf over the past 10 years, this year hit another new high. He said the implications are clear.
“We’re not going to get more storms, but the big storms are going to be bigger,” Abraham said. “We are seeing more of those big, really destructive storms because of climate change. That, along with that rapid intensification, is what scientists are really focused on.”
John Morales shared that exact concern in the wake of Hurricane Helene, he just didn’t expect his warning to be realized so soon.
“Climate change is here,” Abraham said. “We are well past the point of being able to stop climate change. But there is good news actually. We’re not past the point of being able to do something good about it. If we think about climate change, it’s going up like a rocket like this. We want to bring the curve down. We have the power to pick a more sustainable path, we just need the political will to do so.”
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