Olé Olé Olé! Habs win it in overtime. Plus, more about the Alberta voter ID app scandal

What an outstanding win

Carrier’s side switch grants Newhook a cushion on entry, and the forward makes no mistake to send the Habs to the ECF. The second replay gives us a closer look at the game-winning knuckler:

- Vinh Cao

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Alex Newhook is from St. John's, NFLD, by the way, and he scored the game-winner against Tampa in Game 7 of that series too.
Great interview here with Dobeš - the interviewer notes they have already played 14 tough games and Dobeš says "I could play 14 more!"

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The fans in Montreal:

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The Sabres are a great team - I was touched to find out they play the Canadian national anthem at all their games just because so many Canadians come over to watch. And here's another example of respect:

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This old tweet is still true:

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— Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 8:18 PM

Now, on to the Hurricanes. 

In other news, while we've been watching hockey, that Alberta voter-data scandal has been widening by the day.
First, we got a major story on Monday in Press Progress by editor Luke LeBrun:

Alberta Separatist Group’s Controversial Voter ID App Has Links to US Ambassador, MAGA Influencers and Wealthy Michigan Republicans
Donald Trump’s top envoy to Canada says he was unaware a voter identification app that he previously endorsed and promoted was used by an Alberta separatist group at the centre of a major Canadian political scandal.
US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, who is also personally acquainted with both the app’s founder and the founder’s wealthy step-father, denies any knowledge of the app’s use by Alberta separatists to identify the names and addresses of supporters of a potential referendum on the province separating from Canada.
“I was not aware of the relationship,” Ambassador Hoekstra told PressProgress about the apparent collaboration between an Alberta separatist group called the Centurion Project and a Michigan-based right-wing political group called 10xVotes.
David Parker, a far-right separatist organizer, cites 10xVotes as his inspiration for launching the Centurion Project and claims the American group has been quietly working with him behind-the-scenes for over a year.
The issue of foreign support of Alberta separatist groups has been an open question since the US State Department confirmed earlier this year that Trump administration officials have held multiple meetings with Alberta separatist leaders.
The Centurion Project is currently under investigation by Elections Alberta, Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner and the RCMP into how the group obtained private data about nearly three million Albertans allegedly sourced from the province’s official list of electors. The massive data breach is being described as potentially one of the “most significant privacy incidents” in Canadian history.
... In his statement to PressProgress, the US ambassador acknowledged having promoted the 10xVotes app in his earlier role but flatly denied any personal involvement or financial stake in the voter identification tool.
...The app has been publicly endorsed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of the website Infowars. The app was also showcased on an episode of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s podcast....

The story has lots of denials on the record, but LeBrun also traces a complex web of relationships from Alberta to Michigan.
And on a side not, apparently David Parker has now left Canada for Texas.
Second, we also got the news on Monday about the Pentagon kiboshing a Canada-US defense panel: