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Forum: Armchair-GM11 hours ago
Thread: WHY MATTHEWS WILL LEAVE
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Birtle34</b></div><div>Maybe wrong, but Arizona owner has 7x20-percent of salary cap contract sitting in his desk, along with a guarantee that he will be always the highest paid player in the league guarantee if it’s legal. Owner owns casinos, he’s going to do everything he can to fill a new building in arizona. Draft picks and complimentary players til the time comes, gear the entire build with adding elcs and complimentary player extensions for a soft landing for Mathews. Just an opinion, bedard hunt also coming this season.</div></div>

actually he's a cheap, penny pitching **** who decided he'd rather rent a 5000 seat arena instead of pay rent in glendale

if matthews is leaving, it's not to arizona. it's to a place where he'll actually get media attention, like new york, los angeles, etc.
Forum: NHLYesterday at 11:05 p.m.
Thread: Team Canada Scandal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LloydminsterLarry</b></div><div>So it sure sounds like she talked to the police afterwards.</div></div>

You're making conjecture on something you absolutely do not know about. You can co-operate with the investigation without naming the players which is what the police were definitely looking at. We don't know what exactly the police invested in 2018-2019, why they initially closed the case, and what has transpired since to have them re-open it.

Not going to deny that public pressure is the major reason why this is under the microscope now, but this is largely in part because Hockey Canada needs to regain favour with the public, the government and their sponsors. Hockey Canada has let incidents like this be kept under the rug for nearly 30-40 years now and has been treating sexual assault allegations as some misstep instead of a glaring deficiency in our country's youth hockey culture. The reason this case and Hockey Canada's handling of it is in the spotlight is because the public wants them to do better, in both having our youth players learn how these things are absolutely not okay and the organization in fully investigating and levying proper consequence on those who should be punished.

As someone whose played youth hockey in this country you should be furious about how Hockey Canada has been handling this instead of blaming reporters and the government.
Forum: NHLYesterday at 9:40 p.m.
Thread: Team Canada Scandal
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>LloydminsterLarry</b></div><div>We have the most far left media in the English speaking world. This is all motivated by social and political activism from the left. This entire thing was dragged back up after the money was paid. Now we have an open case that was closed before. These people saw a chance to drag this back into the spotlight for their own reasons. Why do you think we have all these “investigative” sports journalists? They’ve only been around very recently. For decades we had sports basically separated from politics. Now they are one in the same.</div></div>

1) thinking canadian media is "far left" is comical. we're a milquetoast liberal country.
2) this is motivated by seeing actual change in an organization in charge of a sport heavily tied to our culture.
3) the case was reopened because it there almost certainly wasn't enough evidence to go forward with the initial investigation - mainly because the victim in the case didn't talk to the police. this is common theme in cases of sexual assault in situations where the accused is of public notary - where the victim fears for their safety and well being on speaking out, which makes a very difficult situation to investigate much harder.
4) the fact that hockey canada has been settling cases like this nearly once a year since 1989 is....very worrying.
5) investigative journalism into sports is a great thing
6) sports and politics are intrinsically linked. your profile picture is from an international tournament and was one of the few times players from canada and players from the ussr ever competed. believing there were no political stakes in this tournaments is laughable. you also have support for a conservative pm in your flair. wouldn't recommend complaining about sports and politics being "one in the same" where you're being openly political on a sports website.
Forum: NHLThu. at 1:08 p.m.
Thread: 2021-2022 NHL Offseason Discussion Thread #11 - Will Lamoriello ever announce Kadri's signing?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Alfie11</b></div><div>I mean Anaheim sucks (although at least they’ve got exciting youth) and San Jose probably will be mediocre too. But Seattle, Vancouver, and LA all improved, while the Alberta teams stayed strong. I’d say the Metro is more min-maxed. You’ve got the 4 playoff teams who are solid, but I think Columbus, New Jersey, and especially Philadelphia are all bottom 10 teams. And NYI seems determined to implode with all these Kadri rumours and incessantly keeping around/overplaying old dudes that sucked 3 years ago. And even in the Central, Arizona and Chicago are free wins this year, I would be shocked if any fewer than 28 teams finished ahead of both.</div></div>

Eh, personally I think the Devils and Blue Jackets look better than they did last season, and none of the four playoff teams really regressed. Only Philadelphia looks like a complete mess. NJD and CBJ may not be playoff teams but I doubt they're obvious bottom feeders.

We'll see when the season actually starts since usually predictions get tossed out the window very quickly, but right now I'd still say the least competitive division is the Pacific.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 12:51 p.m.
Thread: What would Patty Kane and Bertuzzi cost
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Lenny7</b></div><div>Yeah, I'm also Canadian, but have to travel for work on a semi-regular basis. As I had mentioned to someone above, the American narrative when it comes to MLB (Jays fan here), continues to be that it's Canadian issue, which is in fact untrue. The percentage of unvaccinated baseball players is a lot higher than the NHL, which has caused a number of them to be unable to play in or against Toronto. You can be non-vaxed and travel through the land borders (With testing and isolation protocols that vary-some teams in both sports have been bussing across the border to hop on a charter in the States to avoid the brew-haha that happens), but yeah, no flying.</div></div>

Jays and Raptors home games have been great to determine which players are antivaxxers.
Forum: NHLThu. at 12:49 p.m.
Thread: 2021-2022 NHL Offseason Discussion Thread #11 - Will Lamoriello ever announce Kadri's signing?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Alfie11</b></div><div>Is it that weak though? Calgary is still fairly strong (Tkachuk for Weegar just means we become a more low event team, but we shouldn’t allow many goals), Edmonton still has 2 of the best players in the world, and the Kings made the playoffs last year then added Fiala. Vegas keeps losing depth as well as starpower, and now they don’t have a goalie. The Central took the two wild card spots last year, and neither Dallas nor Nashville look like they’re primed to regress much. It’s not unreasonable to think that Vegas could miss again. Especially if Eichel or Stone go down, and both guys have fought a myriad of injuries recently (it sucks cuz Stone is still one of my favourite players, but his back issues are horrendous).</div></div>

It's definitely the weakest. Before Lehner's injury I would've put Vegas as #3 behind the Alberta teams, but now I think they're in a fight with LA and Vancouver for that last spot.
Forum: NHLThu. at 12:17 p.m.
Thread: 2021-2022 NHL Offseason Discussion Thread #11 - Will Lamoriello ever announce Kadri's signing?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SevenLeg</b></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NEWS: Robin Lehner is expected to miss the entire 2022-23 NHL season after it was determined that he will require hip surgery. An exact timeline of his recovery is to be determined. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VegasBorn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#VegasBorn</a></p>— Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) <a href="https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/1557758656384339968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">August 11, 2022</a></blockquote>



I swear if they get Bedard...</div></div>

sucks for lehner but lmao at vegas
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