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New Jersey Devils38-39-5, 81 Pts. 7th Metro, 23rd Overall3.22 GF/GP (12th), 3.43 GA/GP (26th), 22.5 PP% (13th), 80.7 PK% (10th)Top scorer: Jesper Bratt. 82 GP. 27-56-83, 27 PPP, 248 Shots, 19:18 TOI/GP2024-25 BetMGM Stanley Cup Odds:Opening: +1300Current: +1100 (as of August 22, 2024)Ticket: 3.4%. Handle: 3.5% (as of August 22, 2024)2023-24 Fantasy RecapRelative to the prior season, yeah, it wasn’t good. The Devils have a ton of promise, and a disappointing 2023-24 season still hasn’t diminished that thought, but it was tough to watch. Jack Hughes missed time due to injury, which has become an annual thing; Timo Meier didn’t really…

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Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesMore analysts are recommending “defensive” shares over AI plays as macro conditions change.Utilities, a classic defensive sector, are going toe-to-toe with tech.With some questioning the AI rally, investors could benefit from non-tech growth companies, an analyst said.Defensive recommendations have taken center stage on Wall Street as the artificial intelligence trade shows signs of being overextended and as economic conditions change.Utility stocks — a common buy when times look tough — have gone toe-to-toe with the technology sector’s blowout performance this year. Year-to-date, the utilities and tech sectors have gained 22.08% and 25.69%, respectively.Defensive sectors of the stock market,…

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Grilled recently about the costs of childcare at the New York Economic Club, Donald Trump turned to tariffs, which he said would generate trillions of dollars for the government.”As much as childcare is talked about as being expensive, it is relatively speaking not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in,” he said in an off-topic answer to the question.But tariffs − which, along with tax cuts and deporting undocumented immigrants, are among Trump’s top priorities − are at odds with Trump’s promise to eradicate inflation.In poll after poll, American voters report inflation as one of…

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©CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH/EPA-EFE / ShutterstockFormer President Donald Trump has been inconsistent with his messaging around Social Security and his ideas for the plan’s future. During a March interview with CNBC, Trump said that “cutting” could keep the Social Security program for retirement-age folks solvent.“So first of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting,” Trump told CNBC. “And in terms of, also, the theft and the bad management of entitlements — tremendous bad management of entitlements — there’s tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do.”Shortly after the CNBC interview,…

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The ‘Gilmore Girls’ actress looks back on her bond with her late costar in her new memoir ‘The Third Gilmore Girl’Danny Feld/Warner Bros./Everett Collection Edward Herrmann and Kelly Bishop on ‘Gilmore Girls’In her new memoir The Third Gilmore Girl, out this month from Gallery Books, acclaimed actress Kelly Bishop is taking a look back on her career.She started her career as a Broadway dancer, originating the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line, before she transitioned to acting. In the years to come, she’d play a number of memorable women, including Jennifer Grey’s mother in 1987’s Dirty Dancing and Benedetta…

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Russian accusations that six British diplomats engaged in “spying and sabotage” in Moscow are “completely baseless”, the Foreign Office has said.The Russian FSB security service said on Friday it had expelled the group after it obtained documents showing that a Foreign Office department was overseeing the “escalation of the political and military situation”, including plans for the strategic defeat of Moscow’s forces in Ukraine.Responding to the Kremlin move, the Foreign Office said: “The accusations made today by the FSB against our staff are completely baseless.“The Russian authorities revoked the diplomatic accreditation of six UK diplomats in Russia last month, following…

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Ashton Thomas Private Wealth LLC acquired a new stake in SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (NYSEARCA:XOP – Free Report) in the 2nd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund acquired 637 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $93,000. Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Toronto Dominion Bank increased its position in SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF by 41.8% in the 1st quarter. Toronto Dominion Bank now owns 308,072 shares of the company’s stock valued at $47,730,000 after acquiring an additional 90,832…

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When it comes to the fund’s investments, Council Member Chad West says they must “do better.” DALLAS — The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System has been facing problems for years, with a current $4 billion shortfall. The Dallas City Council just voted 14–1 to adopt its plan to fix the system by investing more than $11 billion over the next 30 years. There’s one big catch, however. The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System just adopted its own plan and is suing the city to determine which plan is ultimately adopted. The Texas Pension Review Board will have the…

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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers running back Cordarrelle Patterson paid tribute to rapper Rich Homie Quan with his cleats in the team’s Week 1 contest against the Atlanta Falcons. Patterson’s left cleat read “R.I.P” and his right “Rich Homie Quan” in honor of the artist, who passed away on September 5 at 34-years-old. An Atlanta native, Rich Homie Quan had seven songs chart on The Billboard Hot 100 throughout his illustrious career. They include “Lifestyle” w/ Rich Gang and Young Thug (No. 16), “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh”) (No. 26), Type of Way (No. 50), $ave Dat Money w/ Lil Dicky and…

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Dax Shepard isn’t one to hold in his emotions. As a guest on The Drew Barrymore Show on Tuesday, Sept. 10, the actor, 49, admitted that his wife Kristen Bell and their older daughter Lincoln, 11, can make him cry with one simple task: singing. While playing a game of “Fast Five,” where he answered five rapid-fire questions, Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison asked the dad of two: “What is something that will always get you to cry?” Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to…

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