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Full marks for this one.

JMO's first game back and OT hero!

Attendance 14,294 3 Stars: 🥇55 🥈Karlsson 🥉19

and the point streak continues

tie game after 2

Go high on Helle was my mantra for the gold medal game. 1-0 for I dislike Evander Kane.

there's no doubt that we overpaid for Collaros for this year based on his performance over the past two years The problem was that there isn't a lot of alternatives. Walters needed to show some backbone knowing that no one else would pay more than 500k. However if it had dragged on, it certainly would have made it harder to attract free agents without a legitimate qb under contract. Unfortunately, this was a year where there was no other starting qbs available. The other factor is that we were able to resign our own free agents to have one more crack with this core at the cup

What kind of twisted logic is that? You make no sense. With your argument, every player is overpaid. And there's no market for any player to ask for money. You realize that Rourke will be making $700,000 in 2027 & $800,000 in 2029? Is he worth it? Has he got the Lions to the Grey Cup? What's he won??

And currently isn’t Maier the highest paid CFL QB? Good gracious.

Missing the point as always. We didn't have to pay Collaros what we did unless there was another bidder willing to pay more. If you think there was, show your work. Maier was terrible, but the comparison isn't Maier vs Collaros at the same price. It's Maier + $300k or more to spend on other players vs Collaros and his salary. $300K would go a long way to fix our O and D lines for example. No one is talking about gambling the future on any QB.

Sure, Let’s go with that. AND Nyquist double his goal output? :)

Sure. Scouting guarantees us the next HOF qb. Lol. If only it was that easy. Try again.

And arriving late from Chicago I heard...8-0 right? With a hat trick from Rosen and Bryson?

The hockey layman that I am and looking at the Canucks lineup it doesn’t read that bad at least on paper. So we beat the Bolts so what do we do with this crew coming off a game yesterday?

Scouting? Combing the earth to uncover prospects? Enticing the NFL fringe QB’s to play here with creative compensation structures?

Where are these upgrades going to come from? No one answers because they have none yet the bitching never stops. We just have a bunch of spoiled whiners here complaining about his salary whether Collaros takes a paycut or not. Like they're paying him themselves.

With all respect to ZC and others, could also argue current CFL starting qb’s need a significant upgrade. We get nine elite QB’s across the league we help enhance our league.

Let’s tag this coming season as ‘All in’.

https://www.nhl.com/news/penguins-evgeni-malkin-suspended-five-games

🕕 1800 📺 SN Last Ten: 2-6-2 @ 5-2-3 Season Series: WPG leads 2-0 Stats: 19-36-7 @ 25-26-10 Streaks: W1 @ W2 Canucks projected lineup Jake DeBrusk -- Elias Pettersson -- Nils Hoglander Liam Ohgren -- Marco Rossi -- Brock Boeser Evander Kane -- Aatu Raty -- Drew O’Connor Max Sasson -- Teddy Blueger -- Linus Karlsson Elias Pettersson -- Filip Hronek Marcus Pettersson -- Tom Willander Zeev Buium -- Victor Mancini Kevin Lankinen Nikita Tolopilo Scratched: Curtis Douglas Injured: P.O Joseph (upper body), Filip Chytil (facial fracture), Thatcher Demko (hip surgery), Derek Forbort (undisclosed) Jets projected lineup Kyle Connor -- Mark Scheifele -- Alex Iafallo Cole Perfetti -- Adam Lowry -- Gabriel Vilardi Gustav Nyquist -- Jonathan Toews -- Isak Rosen Cole Koepke -- Morgan Barron -- Brad Lambert Dylan Samberg -- Elias Salomonsson Josh Morrissey -- Dylan DeMelo Haydn Fleury -- Jacob Bryson Connor Hellebuyck Eric Comrie Scratched: Ville Heinola Injured: Nino Niederreiter (knee), Neal Pionk (undisclosed), Colin Miller (knee), Vladislav Namestnikov (lower body) Status report The Canucks did not hold a morning skate following a 6-3 win at the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday. … Lankinen could start after Tolopilo made 20 saves at Chicago. ... Douglas, a forward, is not expected to play after being claimed off waivers from the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday. ... Bryson and Rosen each is expected to make his Jets debut after being acquired in a trade with the Buffalo Sabres on Friday. ... Morrissey, who missed five games, was activated off injured reserve Friday; he sustained an upper-body injury playing for Team Canada at the Olympics. ... The Jets loaned defenseman Isaak Phillips and forward Walker Duehr to Manitoba on Friday.

And probably not win. Maier was dreadful as a starter in Calgary. He hasn't shown he'd do any better as a starter. Powell hasn't played much. No one knows what he can do. Powell has sat for 4 seasons. You want to gamble the future on those 2 to save some money? I don't.

https://www.nhl.com/news/chicago-blackhawks-troy-murray-dies-at-63 One time Jets captain.

First off, what other QB's were available is a red herring. What other QB's are available only matters if another team was willing to pay Collaros more than we did. We could have offered less and still signed him, IMO. For yucks though... Let's say we decided to go younger with Maier or Powell. Then we'd have $300K extra to upgrade other parts of the team. You can debate if $300K with a lesser QB is better or worse for our playoff chances if you want.

There are no starting qbs on the horizon anywhere. The backup qb situation sucks.