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Coached ringette when my daughter went from 8 thru 18 and hockey when my son went from 4 thru 16 so have a couple theories... Ringette is a non- collision sport, much like basketball. There is a ton of contact, and getting more aggressive as coached by the more aggressive AA coaches ( remember this is a personal theory based on observation) who are coaching based on what is and isn't being called as penalties Ringette only has two on ice officials and most of the time they need to watch the ring , to see who has control,to watch the markings on the ice - those lines at the top of the circle and the crease lines are more important in the rules than in hockey, - so their vision is almost always down - contact above the waist is rarely called unless truly aggressive, and then often miss called based on the outcome that they see when they transfer their line of sight If ever a sport needed a 3rd ref., ringette is it - it's essentially playing hockey with two linesmen and no ref Also from a young age the coaches are taught to teach the boys how to take a hit and how to skate safe - shoulders up, eyes up, protect the head And never skate straight on into the boards to retrieve the puck, skate in at an angle- sadly I realized this too late to really help my daughter and those teams - but if you watch a ringette game you'll cringe how often a girl will skate full bore straight at the ring along the boards- Ever notice the lack of the Stop sign on the upper back of ringette jerseys ? So long way of me saying it's because of the lack of coaching safety from the youngest ages and the lack of the 3rd ref based on the misbelief it is a non contact sport

Let's face it, put 12 women together in a room and a donnybrook is bound to break out.

They flipped it a couple months ago..... Unfortunately, it was the self destruct switch.

Thank-you, Frosty! Well done, as always. I appreciate the hard work you put into these over 80 times per year.

You're still missing the point. You lied about the report. That might work for your boy among the racists but it wont work here. If you dont care to engage in real discussion, if you prefer to lie and shill and troll and bait, do everyone a favour and go somewhere else.

So you're all too willing to accept the conclusion from the Trump-appointed AG, but will deny anything coming straight from the Mueller team, the very people who conducted the investigation. We just want some transparency about the situation, even if none of it leads to criminal charges against Trump himself. You're blind if you can't see that the Republicans are hiding something. If the report wasn't damning in any way, it would have been released by now.

This has to be a parody account.

It would be a daft party.

There were major warning signs back in December that Maurice was over-playing his top line and that the D was not tight... everyone kept their fingers crossed - now its evident that Maurice's judgement seems to be off. Without Helle, this team is probably not even in the playoffs...

Interesting look at the Bomber’s history in drafting from, of course, the entertaining Ed Tait...

I think the alt right like the idea of the rich getting richer because they believe in a dream scenario whereby they get to be one of those rich guys.

There is a simple way to solve all this: release the report to the public and let them decide. You'd think that anyone who was exonerated would have no problems with the people seeing it... unless the AG was lying to protect a Republican president... not like the guy has a history of partisan protection.... on no wait, he does. He let everyone off in the Iran contra deal to prevent people from digging to find out how deep the rot went in the Republican party. The more things change the more they stay the same.

My prediction a long night

Can’t fire a coach with one month left in the season... morrissey and buff injuries are big factor too but this really seems to correlate with the all star break...

Meh. I believe the NFL has a roster exemption for development of a European player. Often a rugby star that wants to try and make the transition. No harm if it doesn't mess with the roster.

Oh really? Sparks is shocked!

In rural areas you will often have pockets of small classes - 8 to 12 students. A 19.8 average means there are high numbers in the core areas - 30 to 45 students. Highschool teachers most often bear the brunt of that.

Maybe in the second round...

Trump is the swamp and his people feed off the sludge.

Those Valour kits are incredible.

People have to first realize that a true socialist nor a true capitalist state has ever existed, so attacking either with a broad brush is useless. There have been successes and failures on variations (and combinations) of both. "So here’s the big difference: In Norway, capitalism serves the people. The government, elected by the people, sees to that. All eight of the parties that won parliamentary seats in the last national election—including the conservative Høyre party now leading the government—are committed to maintaining the welfare state. In the United States, however, neoliberal politics puts the foxes in charge of the henhouse, and capitalists have used the wealth generated by their enterprises (as well as financial and political manipulations) to capture the state and pluck the chickens. They’ve done a masterful job of chewing up organized labor. Today, only 11 percent of American workers belong to a union. In Norway, that number is 52 percent; in Denmark, 67 percent; in Sweden, 70 percent. Thus, in the United States, oligarchs maximize their wealth and keep it, using the “democratically elected” government to shape policies and laws favorable to the interests of their foxy class." "Which brings us to the heart of Scandinavian democracy: the equality of women and men. In the 1970s, Norwegian feminists marched into politics and picked up the pace of democratic change. Norway needed a larger labor force, and women were the answer. Housewives moved into paid work on equal footing with men, nearly doubling the tax base. That has, in fact, meant more to Norwegian prosperity than the coincidental discovery of North Atlantic oil reserves. The Ministry of Finance recently calculated that those additional working mothers add to Norway’s net national wealth a value equivalent to its “total petroleum wealth”—currently held in the world’s largest sovereign-wealth fund, worth over $873 billion. By 1981, women were sitting in parliament, in the prime minister’s chair, and in her cabinet." "American feminists also marched for such goals in the 1970s, but the big boys, busy with their own White House intrigues, initiated a war on women that set the country back and still rages today in brutal attacks on women’s basic civil rights, healthcare, and reproductive freedom. In 1971, thanks to the hard work of organized feminists, Congress passed the bipartisan Comprehensive Child Development Bill to establish a multibillion-dollar national daycare system for the children of working parents. In 1972, President Richard Nixon vetoed it, and that was that. In 1972, Congress also passed a bill (first proposed in 1923) to amend the Constitution to grant equal rights of citizenship to women. Ratified by only 35 states—three short of the required 38—that Equal Rights Amendment was declared dead in 1982, leaving American women in legal limbo." https://www.thenation.com/article/after-i-lived-in-norway-america-felt-backward-heres-why/

You'd think that after firing the FBI director, the FBI Deputy Director, attempting to fire the Special Prosecutor and the Attorney General (who wouldn't recuse himself) and installing an acting AG (bypassing Senate confirmation) who was on record suggesting the investigation be de-funded and then installing an AG who believes presidents have king-like powers, people would recognize that Trump will do whatever he can to hide all of his and his family's misdeeds. Not to mention published and documented examples of conspiracy and attempted conspiracy..... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/08/manafort-polling-data-russia/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-adviser-roger-stone-admits-contact-with-guccifer-2-0-during-campaign/

He could easily deflect and say that player safety is of the utmost concern of the CFL and CFLPA blah, blah, blah... But, bringing dodgy stats about ringette into the fray just opens him up to more criticism.

Always room for another draft... (sic)

There are many issues here. One - some programs take concussions very seriously and record everything. That's not true with football and hockey (in Manitoba). It's ongoing problem and parents are part of it. Second - we don't measure micro-concussions but the science is evolving. Helmet technology in football is recording the impacts that linemen take on each play. It's not enough force to cause visible concussion symptoms but researchers are connecting these micro-concussions to long-term health issues. Unfortunately, you can't study someones brain until their dead and, unfortunately, they're getting lots of samples. Third - We only record when we see something and pull them off the field or ice. They can't even get this right at the professional level, so what makes you think they're getting this right at amateur level. ** Studied concussions as part of health policy and have met with doctors, sports orgs, and manufacturers of impact measurement devices. Also read emerging health research on the issue.

Not as much as it needs 2. Hes gonna be rusty so i guess he will fit in just fine

Bet Goalie hasn't been fired 3 times either?

The problem with every system is corruption.

Helle is expected to start tomorrow, Morrissey should be ready for game 1

You come in here and you lie. Thats trolling and baiting behavior. Its not a difference of opinion (though I do disagree with your love of a racist, criminal President). If you really believed you had a point, you wouldnt have to lie.

The endless battle cry of the socialist. "But its never been tried." "So ignore all the economic collapes, the shortages, the breadlines, suppression of personal liberties, the labour camps, one party systems....this time we're gonna get it right."

What a revelation.

You're flat out lying. What is it about a racist, moronic, cheating pig that you love so much? A true conservative would be disgusted at Trump. Racist white nationalists...not so much.

Mueller finished the investigation . Its over. There was no collusion and no forthcoming charges on same. #RESISTANCE banked everything on this and lost and now they're clinging to a a new narrative to keep their fantasy alive.

He seems to be ready to leave at the most opportune times and is then convinced to stay by a new big money offer. Strange how that keeps happening...:-)

Maurice is a NHL coach. You're not. I'm going with Pomo's choices all day, every day and twice on Saturday.

That is exactly the problem, play 60 minutes and there is no problem. The only way to sustain that level of play for 60 minutes is by rolling 4 lines, not gassing your top line.

Completely agree, and Maurice is to blame for this. All players want to play as much as possible, it's the coaches job to balance that ice time, Maurice is a failure.

If I'm a coach, I'm going to my best players and my leaders. That's them.

Uh oh... excuses already showing up... The average age thing is ridiculous - so what if one team is average age of 26 and the next is 27...

They weren't even able to maintain it through the entire 1st period. Yes, it was a great looking period.... Until about 3 minutes left, when it became a shooting gallery in our end. I heard this guy, Travis Yost, on the radio a couple days ago... Here's the article he wrote on the Jets: https://www.tsn.ca/the-jets-appear-fundamentally-broken-1.1285071

It's not a myth, just look at that first period last night, that is how the Jets have to play to have any success. They went back to their old bad habits in the 2nd and 3rd and it cost them.

This is such a myth tho.. They are a skilled team being forced to play a grinding dump n chase cycle game. Jets might be tall i guess.. But not really... I don't know where this myth started... Jets were a grinder team when Ladd was here but not since then.. 100 percent skill team playing a grinding game that dont work with skilled players.. Its not just the O that is sputtering since the start of the new year.. These guys cant make 2 passes in a row.

Im almost old enough to remember this story.. I think i remember it even tho i was so damn young because it happened a couple days maybe b4 the Winnipeg in your house.. Hbk forfeited the IC belt to Dean Douglas who promptly lost it to Razor. Ill say this... I wouldn't believe anything Marty Jannety says as he's almost as bitter as Wayne Coleman is.

Thought Per Lindholm was okay. Kinda stood out couple times.

There were red flags early in the season and we kind of hoped they’d go away... defensive system is much looser than last year Team was winning games in November because of the power play - and everyone had high shooting percentages hopefully this is the greatest rope a dope ever

Until Grubhub buys out STD in the future. (That's added by me, not part of the deal)

So true. Ahead of his time. If he came along now, he'd be in WWE. But just too small for early-mid 2000's WWE. We brought him in because of what he was doing on the indies and feeling he'd be good experience for Kenny. I posted the Kenny match in an edit to my original post if you missed it. Long time ago but you can see the crispness of Red and you can tell Kenny had "it" (the announcers, however, did not..bad night haha)

"Maybe its because females are more soft-headed?" he said, as he hunkered down waiting for the storm of fecal matter.