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Last month, the Philadelphia Flyers signed forward Garnet Hathaway to a two-year, $4.8 million contract extension. The Kennebunkport, Maine native had just completed his first season with the Flyers, but GM Danny Briere worked quickly to lock him up before his contract year. Hathaway, 32, has given the Flyers precisely what they hoped for when they signed him during the 2023 NHL Offseason. The 6-foot-3 winger provided some offense in a bottom-six role in 2023-24, recording seven goals and 17 points in 82 games. However, he made his most significant impact with his physicality and tenacious style of play, setting new career highs with 132 penalty minutes and 326 hits (second in NHL). Yet, besides giving the Flyers plenty of toughness and grit, Hathaway has also been a good leader for the Metropolitan Division club's youngsters. With the Flyers rebuilding, they need veterans in these roles as mentors. Thus, prioritizing a Hathaway extension was an intelligent move on Briere's end. Hathaway should continue to be a crucial part of the Flyers' bottom six and leadership from here on out. He is the kind of hard-nosed energy player that every club would love to have on their roster, and the Flyers are quite fortunate to have him locked up for the next three years at a reasonable cap hit because of that.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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