Special Offer for Free Subscribers: 15% off an Annual Subscription
(That works out to less than $6 a month, on account of Math)
Finally, the NHL’s Opening Week is upon us. And what better way to celebrate Opening Week than by helping me pay my health insurance signing up to get every last bit of Stars coverage I’ll be providing this season?
That is why, for the next seven days, I’m offering—only for you special and lovely free subscribers—a limited-time offer of 15% off a yearly subscription. You can go to https://www.starsthoughts.com/openingweek2025 to redeem this offer right now.
(Or, like, in a few hours or tomorrow over coffee or whatever. Don’t do this while you’re driving or at the dentist or whatever, man. Be reasonable.)
The offer gives you 12 months of access to stories, chat, and the comments section, which I have jealously reserved for paid subscribers in order to minimize spam and trolls. I flatter myself that it has worked thus far.
I hate ads and algorithms that get deployed in order to supplant actual human creativity and connection. This isn’t just about “sportswriting” or “hot takes”; it’s about telling the story of this team, including the people who play for, coach, own, and manage it.
Anyway, you don’t need me to market myself to you any more. You’re already a free subscriber! Shut up and get back to the cool offer, Robert, come on!
As you know, monthly subscribers pay $8/month. Annual subscribers get 12 months for $84, or $7 a month. But this offer gets you an additional 15% off that annual price, which works out to something like $5.95 per month. It’s a really good deal (in my very accurate and objective opinion) that ensures you’ll be able to access everything throughout the regular season, trade deadline, playoffs, free agency, and even next year’s training camp and preseason.
In addition, you can also go back and read cool paid stories like these, for instance:
The offer expires in a week. Until then, you can go to https://www.starsthoughts.com/openingweek2025 to redeem this coupon.
I’ve been really grateful for the unflagging consistency of my paid supporters, even through the summer months when other Substack writers told me to expect massive drop-off. I like to think that’s because what we’re doing here is actually giving folks what they’re looking for: Full-time Stars coverage by someone who’s been writing about this team since 2014 (with a brief hiatus in 2021), with no ads, sponsors, or auto-play videos within a mile of this thing.
My goal is to create the sort of Stars coverage that I would have wanted to read. As always, if I’m not doing that, please let me know. This place is for all of us.
But no matter what you end up choosing to do, thank you for reading and/or supporting1 my work—even if that support comes by ignoring this e-mail entirely. Sometimes, politely ignoring someone is the kindest thing of all. Or so my family tells me.
Unless you’re one of my many, many enemies who is only reading this as part of your long-term goal to undermine me, in which case, no thank you, you stink actually!!
If I have a paid monthly subscription, can I can get the 15% off an annual one? I'm not seeing that option. It feels like we loyal monthly subs should get as much chance to claim this as the free-sub barnacles (aka good, kind, but otherwise more frugal people).