Rich

Not my call. Haven't been to camp to see them. Don't have access to the meetings, film, etc. Coaches make those decisions. Coaches make the decisions and you criticize those decisions even though you don't have access to practices, meetings, film, etc. The old 'the coaches know more than anyone else' argument. Bomber coaches have crafted 1 winning season since 2008, or 1 in the last 7 seasons, so I don't feel bad about not blindly accepting their decisions. If they can eek out some better records, then I'd put more trust in their decisions. So what do you go by, then? You don't trust the coaches and argue they're bringing the wrong type of players to the exhibition game, but you say that the decision on who to bring is up to the coaches and you have no input on who that should be. If you think they're the wrong players, that's a totally fair opinion to have, but then suggest who those right players are -- otherwise, it's an opinion based on nothing but spite for the coaches we've had in town the last 7 years. Which isn't a great way to analyze a roster. I already told everyone that I'd bring more of the starters, less of the fringe players. I'd bring the new players that are pencilled in as starters like Westerman and those who look like they are pushing for starting spots in TC. I'd leave those players who are 3 and 4 down the depth charts in Winnipeg and use them next week if they still have a chance to make the team by that time. We need to decide on who our starting Receivers and RB's will be. The O line on our roster will make it hard to analyse them. We need to decide who our starting LB's will be. The D line on the roster will make that analysis harder too. In short bring a more competitive roster that gives us the best shot at making the right decisions and give our new starters a chance to play with some of the guys they will need to be in sync with in the real season. Sometimes the coaches do have a method to their madness. June 14th - after the 1st preseason game and before the 2nd preseason game - is the first cutdown day. Rosters need to be down to 65 players. So that first preseason game is really the only shot some of those fringe players will have at making a case at staying. These fringe players and backups are going to be injury replacements during the year, so it is important to get an in game evaluation of them even if they aren't likely to be playing. I would also rather give more of the pencilled in starters more time in the 2nd preseason game to ramp up and get into a rhythm for when the games actually matter.

Here is the schedule http://cfl.ca/schedule/year/2015/time_zone/0 All non-preseason games will be televised on TSN. Pre-season there are only a handful of games being televised.

what's so great about lumberjack competitions anyway?

I'm working on it.

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Russell MB, isn't it?

Thats not clearing even a million a month. Life ain't fair.

The NHLPA actually does publish salaries, it just isn't at all as useful as what CapGeek did. It only gives current year, not length, and not salary vs cap hit. http://www.nhlpa.com/the-players/team-compensation

I don't really play the sports video games anymore, but I know some people on here do. Thought it was cool that they will be putting the whiteout into the game. http://www2.tsn.ca/bardown/Story.aspx?EA%2bSports%2bNHL%2b16%2bto%2bfeature%2bthe%2bWinnipeg%2bWhiteout&id=540975

They aren't, and apparently the NHL wasn't even sure where CapGeek was getting its info, but he obviously had inside contacts. Often times the total salary value / cap hit is made known (released to media) during a signings, but bonuses and year to year salary structure is not always released. There are other sites out there that have NHL salary information, like www.nhlnumbers.com , but I've heard it said that they sourced their data from CapGeek. It will be a very interesting UFA period to see if these other sites can get accurate info. If the NHL was smart, they would replace CapGeek on their own website (though I think they would need the NHLPA to agree). I know of many long term "dynasty" hockey pools that use player salaries and make people adhere to a league cap. A lot of those may have to change how they do things if salaries aren't readily available. CapGeek had done a lot for interest in the league and for media. That exposure only helps the interest and ratings in the NHL.

The Pens were almost moved once when Lemieux helped bail them out and became a part owner. Maybe Lemieux wants to sell high. Crosby and Malkin aren't getting younger. They haven't been drafting well. Maybe he is worried about support for the team if they start to do poorly in the standings again.

For old times sake...

I remember Doug Brown saying something like the defence just called cover 0 on every play because no one knew what to do, and they had no coach. I don't care what anyone says .. that Daley coached team was the biggest train wreck we've had in Winnipeg in recent memory .. Jeff Reinebold, Jim Daley, and Tim Burke ... the holy trinity.

2005 ... Jim Daley ... Enough said.

It is going to be a really interesting free agency year this year. The salary cap isn't going up a whole lot. A number of the upper echelon teams are already up against the cap. Haven't seen a list of UFAs for this year yet, so don't know what the marketplace will be like in terms of supply and demand. Be really curious to see what someone like Frolik gets on the open market. I love Frolik's game. Great two way player. But I don't love him at $5M.

In a truly Canadian fashion I actually wrote them an email when they put the login wall up. Telling them that an online news organization that relies on ads to supplement their income is foolish to put up a block like that and that I wouldn't signup and login so they can track what I read, I would simply not read their content. I was surprised I actually got a reply from them, but I of course didn't change their mind. I feel for the news organizations in this day and age. They are in a tough place economically as their subscribers transition more and more from a print model to an electronic model, but there have been very few online news sites that have successfully put their content behind a pay wall and succeeded long term. On the other hand, I'm sure the online advertising revenue they are getting isn't covering the bills either.... But I still won't signup.

Please don't post full articles on the site.That sucks. I can't read it now. Can someone PM it to me? You can signup to the Free Press and read it for free or buy a newspaper. (Personally I won't sign up to read it either, but you don't have to pay)

Please don't post full articles on the site.

http://jets.nhl.com/v2/ext/files/mtscentre/MTSC-Building-Enhancements.pdf

You say you like to work with facts and not conjecture yet you have already shown in the past that you will only believe what the coach says if it fits what you currently believe to be the truth. So even if he fully disclosed injuries, there is a good chance that you would choose to believe he is lying. As for timeframes, injuries aren't always an exact science. Players have setbacks while training or rehabbing. The truth is that there is a very small percentage of fans that follow these things as closely as the people on this site do, and satisfying their curiosity does not out weigh the cons of fully disclosing injuries. The way I see it is that there are two main reasons why they don't disclose injuries: 1) First, medical conditions are a personal matter and a player would have to agree to have their injury disclosed for a coach to get up in public and do so. This is a matter of a right to privacy between a player and a doctor. I've heard Maurice say this a number of times in his interviews for Jets players. That due to privacy of medical information, he does not have the right to disclose ailments of other people without their permission. Is he making that up to not answer the question? Possibly, I'm not a privacy lawyer, but that explanation certainly makes sense to me. 2) Injuries rarely fully heal during the season and they won't other teams targeting those injuries to take a player out during a game. This is just common sense and the reason why most teams in any sport don't fully disclose injury information. As for how O'Shea treats the media. I can understand why he has the disdain he does for the questions they ask, but I agree he needs to work on how he handles them better.

Has more to do with the work it creates for Rich. I rarely do anything around here. The site isn't a whole lot of work to run. I don't do a whole lot more then you. The place mostly runs itself, which is a tribute to the posters and community we have here.

where do you find the ratings? I wonder how 1290 morning from 6 to 11 does. This isn't broken down by time slots, but it doesn't do as well as you'd think. Although if you were to poll people on this site, I'm sure it would be much higher. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/News-talk-radio-still-at-the-top-of-Winnipeg-radio-ratings-284097731.html

I'd agree with this. On the post game show, after the coach's interview, I will move to TSN1290. And don't get me started on the number of commercials they play. There's a reason they're able to play so many commercials.......massive listenership. Yeah I don't understand how they get the ratings to do.

I'd agree with this. On the post game show, after the coach's interview, I will move to TSN1290. And don't get me started on the number of commercials they play.

Especially when you were put in a can by a man in a factory downtown...