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Josh Portis had #6 all last year, and I think he wore it when he was gameday rostered.

I haven't seen any mention of Babcock being the GM also. Would a coach / GM have the discipline to build for 3-5 years out, which is what the Leafs say they are doing? If Babcock isn't the GM, the Leafs approach seems really weird. The team has committed to a slash n' burn rebuild to address their massive talent deficit ... but they aren't building from front office / player personnel dept. out. Instead they've blown megabucks on a coach who's had the luxury of a very consistent talent pipeline for the last few years. Plus, let's say Babcock coaxes some overachievement out of the rebuilding years' roster -- he just sets the rebuild back in terms of draft picks and in terms of discipline to stick to it, because if there's hope flickering for the Leafs, there'll be huge pressure from Leaf Nation towards the same old short-term thinking that's burned them so badly. And if the rebuild works and the Leafs become a contender in 2019 or 2020, Babcock's welcome in Toronto will almost certainly be worn out by then. So I don't get how this works for them. Is this just a PR move, one to placate Leaf Nation with a big signing? Whoever the Leafs' GM turns out to be, I hope they like Babcock.

Re: Leggett at SAM .. I've seen Leggett have trouble tackling receivers, is he a good enough tackler to play up closer to the LOS?

If they think they can get a cool half a billion for an expansion team, then you can see why they're working so hard to keep the Coyotes in Arizona. Franchise movement cuts down on expansion opportunities...

The Tacoma Dome is a terrible venue for just about anything. The T-Birds draw between 2-6K a game. They play in Showare Center in suburban Kent, about 15 miles south of downtown, which is a great little junior hockey arena, we have a great time every time we go down there. Even the hot dogs are tasty. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have an NHL team here, as long as someone else was paying for it, and as long as they were called the Metropolitans, and as long as they wore these classic sweaters: http://www.ebbets.com/product/seattle-metropolitans-1917-authentic-hockey-sweater/HockeySweaters . There's this guy that wears one to T-Birds games and they're even more epic-looking in real life.

Seattle does not look like a likely destination for any NHL team in the near term. We have a plan for an arena south of downtown, but that plan requires an NBA team and there's no NBA team to put in it. If an NHL team ever did come to Seattle, it would exist to merely complement the financials of an NBA team. On top of that, there is no huge enthusiasm for the NHL in the moneyed or political classes here. Hell, I don't even know if there's a fanbase for NHL hockey here. I've heard that there are plans for hockey-first arenas out in the suburbs of Bellevue or Tukwilla but those are in the very very early stages at this point.

Wow. The Coyotes have entered their Horn Chen phase.

It's amazing how shitty Rogers is being about this.

Casey Creehan. ouch. Good vibes towards Burke. Hope everything's okay.

If you keep a 4th-string Canadian QB around a team for a couple years, are they going to get enough reps to really develop?

I wonder if he could (eventually) be that big X receiver that Walters was talking about a couple of months ago? Interesting to read his NFL scouting report (http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/profiles/addison-richards?id=2552481) that said one of his strengths was being a "hand catcher." You'd figure any receiver with an NFL drafting report would be a hand catcher, right? The tiny little bit of football coaching I had when I was in Grade 9, the coach yelled at me over and over "catch with your hands! catch with your hands!"

Yeah, it's like I said earlier: we are going to have material to keep this thread going for a long, long time.

Can't stop thinking about his best game in blue, against the Argos -- he passed for almost 400 yards and was ragdolled every second play. Yeah, painkillers.

I looked into this and from what I could read, this whole mantra that the government was "muzzling scientists" was a bunch of alarmist BS, much like the alarmist BS being spread about Bill C-51. Is the government really "muzzling" scientists? No. Not really. It's amazing how a soundbite these days gets into the public mainstream and then is repeated as gospel over and over again. Today all I see are idiots posting "#Harperisabigot" everywhere. Just ridiculous. These people truly are their own worst enemy. "At least one media relations expert" ... now that is some unimpeachable sourcing, man. Rock solid. Why didn't you copy in the first half of the article, that talks about a study that shows that Canadian federal scientists are, in fact, less free to talk about their work than American scientists are?

I'll add:- Parliamentary privilege was reached 3 times by his Gov. This is the 1st time for any democracy. - wilfully violated the election spending limit in 2006 - Changed a $16 Billion dollar surplus into a record $56 Billion dollar deficit - one of the Cons promises was more accountability - but Harper has shut down Parliament twice, once to stall on a vote, and then again to avoid a vote of non-confidence. - the latest Budget was fudged by cuts to Health care, Coast Guard, dumping GM stock at a steep loss, raiding the the federal emergency fund and spending the UI surplus I could go on, because there is way more to Harper's bizarre politics, but I tire of these "politics" and so I'll stop. I just wanted to point out that the man who represents Canada isn't all he's made out to be. Or maybe he is. I'll add "the muzzling of government scientists" to Harper's rap sheet. Scientific work shouldn't flow through the PMO. Science is not politics or public relations.

It should also be noted that according to the Maryland prosecutor, Gray was falsely arrested -- the cops picked him up for illegal possession of a knife, but the knife he was carrying was legal. The cops did not have a justification to put him in the van. He was basically kidnapped and killed.

Here is a story on Baltimore drug war policing, which is a major component of the context of Freddy Grey's death. Spoiler: it's brutal and anti-consitutional but no one gives a ****. http://www.vice.com/read/david-simon-talks-about-where-the-baltimore-police-went-wrong-429 Also today, the six cops involved were hit with a variety of charges from the state attorney, the gnarliest being second-degree murder. You all realize we're going to have enough material to keep this thread going for a very very long time.

I think MB lasts the season unless we have a Tim Burke / Peter Horachek scenario where the entire franchise comes apart at the seams. How many teams have replaced their OC mid-season and actually improved as a result? Plus, O'Shea seems like a patient sort.

Jesus, a rib dislocation ... I've had less severe rib injuries before and could barely breathe without bad pain.

Seriously? You think that it's more appropriate for a cop to immediately escalate to deadly force if they're less certain about how much danger they're in? Shoot first, ask questions later?

He also had Count Dooku. its a silly concept really. The idea that evil guys never trust each other so there is only ever two...well Palpatine seemed to have a lot of control over his apprentices. And why would Vader go along with turning Luke to replace him? Is he that dense? Just stupid. Vader hopes that Luke will turn to the dark side so they can team up and destroy the Emperor. Then they will become a new father-son Sith duo. Vader makes this offer explicitly in Empire. The Emperor hopes to replace Vader with a younger, fresher apprentice. Like wants to turn his father back to the Light Side while staying frosty himself. The Emperor messes with this by unleashing the new death star on the rebel fleet and hoping this will provoke Luke into dark side fury. It makes sense to me. Jesus Christ am I arguing about Star Wars on the internet?

5th game - we win in regulation 6th game - we are so far ahead in the second period that we invoke some kind of little-known NHL mercy rule and win without playing the third. 7th game - our 6th game was so dominant that the NHL awards us the Game 7 victory before we even fly to Anaheim.

To those people who say "just obey the cops and everything will be fine" -- what if the police are constantly harassing you? You don't have to run or fight or be impolite to be treated like a criminal. You just have to have the right/wrong skin color. Check out this story from Toronto: http://www.torontolife.com/informer/features/2015/04/21/skin-im-ive-interrogated-police-50-times-im-black/ This isn't policing. At best, this is hall monitoring. At worst, this is "papers, please."

I figure if white Jesus is acceptable then black Johnny Storm is totally fine as well.