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TSN.ca is all Raptors at the moment. They're the NBA broadcaster, so can't fault them for that .. be interesting to see how much of Coach's Corner is about Lamoriello tonight...

Yup, if this is a for-real thing I'll give him credit for that. The peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union was even bigger, tho I'm not a historian and can't really talk about how much credit Reagan/Bush should get for that.

Hail Bucky! #wintersoldier

Man, on that Tanev goal -- Little was playing like Andrew Harris, he broke three tackles there. Unbelieveable.

Beating the Sharks in the conference semis is basically a rite of passage for an NHL team. Sharks have been in 11 conference semis and have lost eight of them. They are really not good at this playoff thing.

Nashville! I hate Nashville. They are the source of the world supply of crappy assembly-line country music. Also their uniforms are goddamn hideous. They look like an entire husky team peed on the ice and then all the players dared each other to roll around in it before it froze. And then for good measure they rolled around in a big ashtray. Go Jets!

Oh this is rich, this is Kadri talking, from last month. https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/ron-don-current-stanley-cup-playoffs-format-sucks/ The nerve of those rules-makers at the NHL head office, forcing the Leafs to play a quality opponent on the road during the playoffs!

My hate-read of the Toronto sports press tomorrow will not be as sweet as my hate-read back after they got eliminated in 2013, but it'll be plenty sweet. Thanks, Boston! Wonder if the Jets playoff coverage moves to CBC now? I ******* loathe the Leafs largely because of how the CBC forced them down our throats back in the bad old 2-channel days and so seeing the Jets play a non-Leafs team on the CBC will be extra sweet for me, I'm just petty that way.

Congratulations, Winnipeg!

there ya go

yeah, this year feels way different than the 90s Jets did. Back then at our very best we were a hard-luck bubble team who needed way more bounces than we ever got.

Morrissey probably needs to sit down for a game or two for that. League can't let a guy get away with cross-checking someone right in the ear.

No, if you watch that 3-parter all the way thru, Tabaracci is the game 7 goalie. Essensa only appeared in Game 5 that year.

GOOAALL! Listening on the radio while I'm finishing out the work day .... I love that Jacuzzi Hot Tubes of Manitoba and Vasectomy Manitoba are big radio sponsors.

Essensa could never get any respect in the playoffs. I've just been watching this series about the 1992 collapse vs. the Canucks. We lost the last three games 8-2, 8-3, and 5-0, and Rick Tabaracci started them all. That was the year that Goalie Bob was a Vezina finalist. Man, Jets 1.0 was a freakshow.

Nicely done

Getting pumped for Jets vs. Wild! Fly to live ... live to fly ... do or die! man, Aces High would be great intro music for the Jets.

Oh man after the heartbreaks of 1985, 1990, 1992, and 2015 even the prediction that anyone on the Jets will score a goal feels too bold. Following this team for so long, you get some scars...hopefully the 2018 Jets will be the plastic surgery I need...

Essensa ran hot and cold during the series -- he was horrible in Game 1 . He had his best game in Game 3, and Murdoch interrupted the rotation to go back to him in Game 4, but he got his bell rung and Beauregard was great in 2OT. Then, when Essensa got his chance again, he was bad again in Game 6. He barely even flinched on that Kurri GWG. I don't think either goalie played well enough to win the series, but it was a team effort, not just Beau sucking.

Oh man, the 1990 Jets. That Jari Kurri game-winner in Game 6 was just such a backbreaker. After being down 3-0, coming back to tie it, and then blowing it... Ranford got better and better as the series wore on, and the Jets goalies, not so much. Starting Beauregard in Game 7 was a big ? but the Jets were so flat I don't think that it mattered. I remember the official marketing name of the Whiteout that year was "The Charge of the White Brigade." Which was perfect for the 1990 Jets playoff run -- gallant, brutal, short, and resulting in the utter defeat of the white team.

Go Jets Go Bruins. That is all.

My wife was an attorney. We watched that interview a couple weeks ago where Cohen's buffoon attorney was getting grilled by Megyn Kelly. Her audience was laughing openly at his assertions that Cohen was just a good guy who just wanted to take care of the boss. When she asked him if Cohen ever threatened people, he said "I have heard that through the grapevine" which is a HILARIOUS thing for your attorney to say on national TV. After my wife was done laughing, she explained that we were looking at the attorney dumb enough to work for a guy who is dumb enough to work for Donald Trump, and that the stupid doesn't add up, it multiplies.

Ugh Jamie Macoun. I hate that guy like the Russians hated Bobby Clarke.

That fake trailer is freaking great. "Give me the karking keys, you karking nerf herder." <-- always great to hear callbacks to Benicio del Toro's greatest role.

This is probably a stealth attack on the US postal service. Republicans hate the post office.