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Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 2, 2020 at 1:10 p.m.
Thread: trade with NJ
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>royle9</b></div><div>I mean I suppose that's fair.
But now consider that NJ has been "rebuilding" for years now and its not working. How many more times do you want to draft in the top 5, top 10 before you consider it time to move on?

Also have to take into consideration Johnny is from Jersey, lives on the shore in the off-season and his fiance lives hours away.
He's made it clear he'd love to play for his hometown, if any Jersey fan thinks he wouldn't re-sign in NJ they are insane.

With that being said any time you're acquiring a 90+ pt winger you're going to have to give up something to get him.
The 7OA pick's chance to come even remotely close to the player Johnny is is staggeringly slim. Not saying it cant happen but very few players in the NHL consistently put up those point totals.</div></div>

Have you looked at where JG is from in Jersey? South Jersey. He's a Flyers fan who grew up watching his favorite team lose to Marty Brodeur et al for his entire childhood. He's not taking a home-town discount to play with NJ when his dream is (probably) to play with PHI.

Agreed on giving up to get something back - but personally, I draw the line at the 7OA. We should be selecting a future top-6 winger (please not a Zacha repeat). I also think if they are going to move their mid/late 1sts, they should be looking to go after defensemen. Frankly, I think JG is a bad fit given the current landscape of the team.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 2, 2020 at 9:49 a.m.
Forum: NHLAug. 31, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.
Thread: BLM Holdouts - NBA Playoffs
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bflo_Soldier</b></div><div>Choice A for both, by a mile. If you don't know they have a weapon or are an imminent threat, you're not justified in using deadly force. This should be really simple to figure out.</div></div>

You're literally talking about fractions of seconds from seeing the knife to the person stabbing you with it. Real life isn't the movies. If Blake grabbed the knife in the car with intentions of using it (I'd assume he wasn't gonna cut up a turkey dinner for them with it) it would've taken exactly 1-2 seconds for him to stick it into that police officer. He wouldn't stand there and do little tricks with it for 5 seconds like its an Indiana Jones movie, he would've ****ing stabbed him. Then that officer would be dead and never see his family again and no one would care. Were they supposed to shoot him in that 1 second interval from them seeing the knife to the knife being lodged in the officers throat? Were they supposed to shoot him after he was stabbed? And even if there wasn't a knife the officer is supposed to put his life on the line to see what this goof is gonna pull out of his car after they'd just tazed him for resisting arrest?
Forum: NHLAug. 28, 2020 at 7:37 p.m.
Thread: BLM Holdouts - NBA Playoffs
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mondo</b></div><div><a href="https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-americans-commit-crime" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-americans-commit-crime</a>

There's a lot more to crime statistics then what you read on the surface level, and the socioeconomics play a larger part in it than race.</div></div>

Oh I know I'm not one of those eugenics people I think it has much more to do with poverty and family structure than it does with race. Thats why I think it would be more helpful for black people to combat poverty and end mass incarceration (more black males in jail = less black fathers) than just marching whenever one of them gets shot by the police