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Wasn't sure of the best place to mention this, and I don't know what people think of Nic Demski these days, but he was on H&L this morning. He acknowledges that he's under contract to the Rider's, and since the Bomber's are rivals he always hopes they lose, but he did seem to emphasize that he's under contract for now. He also seemed like he would be quite open to playing for the Bomber's. Maybe a convenient ill-timed fumble in the banjo bowl that results in a Bomber touchdown and a couple key drops - purely unintentional of course - might expedite his departure out of Regina? Probably reading too much into it, but here is the interview:
http://www.tsn.ca/radio/winnipeg-1290/demski-no-love-lost-for-hometown-bombers-1.562759
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20 minutes ago, Atomic said:
So... 1 last year and 4 the year before, in the entire league. Ya, that qualifies as rare, actually... never mind the fact that most of your 'rookies' are 22-26 years old... which Laine and Connor aren't.
I was only responding to the point of "when was the last time a rookie scored 25-30 goals". And there have been several in the last two years, and several others that came very close, missing by one or two goals. And if McDavid hadn't missed half a season he very likely would have done it. Whether any Jets rookie will, that I don't know. Now, if you're expecting 35 goals from a rookie, that's very rare in today's NHL.
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3 hours ago, Goalie said:
Expectations seem to be high for a team with a ton of youth on it.
I mean, If Connor has a similar year that Ehlers had last year, that's a good year, same for Laine, Yeah they both have natural goal scoring abilities but they are gonna be rookies, rookies have good games, they have bad games, they have good stretches, they have bad stretches, This idea that Laine and Connor can replace Ladd plus Staffords goal scoring is far fetched, They will be ROOKIES. Lower the expectations a wee bit here, who was the last Rookie to put up 25 30 goals? I honestly can't even remember, it just doesn't happen these days very often. Armia on the second line is definitely LOL... not a chance, he's a third or 4th liner for sure... the hype Armia has gotten is just... I don't get it actually, is he a good player? sure... has he shown the ability to put up points tho? Not really... not at all actually, Armia played twice as many games with the Jets than Dano did, they each had 4 goals a piece, Dano is more of a top 6 candidate than Armia is and it's not even close.
Surely tho, one of these line combos will be right, because pretty much every possible combo has been mentioned now... but it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see these line combo predictions all be dead dead wrong...
But since this is the thread... what the heck right?
Ehlers Scheif Wheeler
Laine Little Stafford
Connor Perreault Armia
Matthias Lowry Dano
No Burmi, No Thorburn, No Peluso.. No Lemieux. Thorburn in the Press Box since Lemieux is probably better served playing actual minutes with the Moose.
Wouldn't shock me tho if Connor starts with the Moose also, just because he can... and despite what maybe 1 or 2 people might think, The Jets aren't gonna be playoff contenders this year either, Do i hope they are? Sure, But reality is, with so much youth in the lineup, it looks to be one more year of developing and that's fine. I think next season is the year they will be ready to compete for a playoff spot. This year? Unless Pavelec isn't the starting goalie and unless all the young guys step up and have seasons to remember, i don't see it happening.
Actually, rookies scoring 25-30 goals are not that rare - there are a few every year. From a quick check on NHL.com stats, 2015-2016 rookies who scored 25-30 goals (or close to it)
Artemi Panarin 30 goals
Jack Eichel 24 goals
Connor McDavid 16 goals in 45 games (extrapolates to 29 goals in 82 games)
Dylan Larkin 23 goals
Sam Reinhart 23 goals
2014-2015 rookies:
Johnny Gaudreau 24 goals
Mark Stone 26 goals
Filip Forsberg 26 goals
Mike Hoffman 27 goals
Anders Lee 25 goals
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At least Rob Vanstone is a little more balanced in his reporting than Pedersen (although I don't know what he's usually like). Says the $5000 fine was petty, but acknowledges that other teams have been fined for the same thing. About the extra players on the practice squad he says:
"Members of the local media — and this reporter, especially — should be feeling rather sheepish. We all knew that the Roughriders were working out extra players after practice. It happened in front of us every day, while we were waiting for Jones to conduct his daily scrum. One day, I even counted the number of players (at least 20) who were working out after practice. Was anything written? Was anything assigned? Were any questions asked? No. I could have written about it. I could have assigned somebody to write about it. I was a glittering 0-for-2, and guilty of an assumption that business was being conducted as per usual in the CFL."
Wonder of RiderFans will ban him for trolling because of this?- Mr Dee, TBURGESS, The Classic and 2 others
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This game kind of reminded me of one in the 1984 season against Calgary. The Bombers scored touchdowns on their first five possessions and were up by 35 halfway through the 2nd quarter, and then did nothing offensively for the rest of the game. It didn't matter as I think Calgary only had one touchdown.
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What I remember of Keith Gretzky...
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1 hour ago, Brandon Blue&Gold said:
Here's a question related to this topic. Are there any examples of a hall of fame worthy player from any sports league whose off ice/field/court/etc actions have kept them out of their respective HOF? I don't count Pete Rose since his actions were done while he was active in MLB (as a manager).
Not a player, but Alan Eagleson was removed from the HHOF after his embezzlement, fraud, etc. charges.
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11 minutes ago, IC Khari said:
Old pants don't have "Adidas" on them though ...
True enough - I didn't notice that!
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13 minutes ago, iso_55 said:
Just wondering why the pants are so light in colour. Why not a deeper gold to match the helmets & stripes on the jersey.
I wondered that too - they look like the same colour of gold they used for the (thankfully) old uniforms. In the cfl.ca article about the new uniforms they have a photo of Willy and Dressler (I think?) wearing the new uniform and the gold for the pants looks darker (and nicer), matching the helmet. Maybe when they did the press conference they didn't have the new pants and just wore the old ones? Seems odd that they would have the press conference without the proper pants, but hopefully the pants will be a darker gold.
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I have a vague recollection that, at the time, they said the dye used for the royal blue jersey was no longer available, so they had to change. Three possibilities with this:
1. My memory could be completely wrong and this never happened (highly possible);
2. It's true that the dye was no longer available and they had to change;
3. The Bomber's said that, but it was just a made up excuse to change colour and blame it on someone else, i.e. "don't blame us - it's out of our control". -
I didn't like the blue shoulders on the white jersey at first, but it's grown on me since. I still think I would have preferred the classic all-white look, but this version looks good too. The main thing is that they finally went back to the right colour of blue.
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1 hour ago, Jacquie said:
Where you able to get on RiderFans? I've tried using 2 different browsers and have gotten warning messages about it being a deceptive site (Google) or a web forgery (Firefox). Weird.
I get the same thing when I click on 'Forum'.
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2 hours ago, iso_55 said:
Sorry to break it to ya Frosty but the Blue Bombers nickname is Blue & Gold. The W first appeared on Blue Bomber helmets in 1962. Here is a picture from the Grey Cup that season. Quarterback Hal Ledyard talking to Bomber Head Coach Bud Grant. Notice the gold pants as well as the blue & gold arm stripe?
Now that the royal blue's are back, next they need to bring back trench coats for the head coach. That is a classic look!!
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I remembered the situation with Makarov, but a big assist to Wikipedia for the details!
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1 hour ago, The Unknown Poster said:
That's interesting. Gretzky was disqualified from the Calder for playing one year with the WHA, wasn't he?
He was, but that probably had more to do with the NHL's hatred of the WHA. The AHL is a professional league, so by the same argument a player shouldn't be considered a rookie if they played there. There is an age restriction where the player has to be 26 or younger at the start of the season. That came as a result of Sergei Makarov, if anyone remembers him. He was part of the old Soviet Union's famous KLM line in the 1980's and played internationally against the best players in the world for years. Calgary was able to get him in 1990 when he was 31, and since he hadn't played in the NHL he was considered a rookie despite everything he did in the 1980's. He won the Calder and everyone thought it was ridiculous that he was considered a rookie, and after that the NHL instituted the age restriction.
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The one course of action the official's do have is to make Wideman's life miserable on the ice next season, even for the rest of his career. He'll likely get called for anything that can be remotely considered a penalty, which will affect the Flames or whatever team he plays for. It may even cost him some years at the end of his career if teams feel it's a liability to have him if he's getting penalties all the time. Hasn't it been speculated that E. Kane gets treated more harshly by the refs because of his habit of beaking at them all the time? Imagine what they'll do to Wideman.
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6 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:
Go to the 1:00 minute mark. Talk about talent. Hawerchuk had the softest hands I've ever seen.
Thanks for this - I was at that game!!! It's neat watching the style of goaltending in the 80's compared to now - it was still very much a stand-up style of goaltending.
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I always thought that a logical plot for a sequel to the first Star Trek, given how it ended, would have been as follows: a well-respected, decorated Star Fleet captain, who worked their up through the ranks becoming captain of several other vessels and demonstrating their command abilities, and should have been first in line to become captain of the Star Fleet flagship when Pike moves on, becomes disillusioned and enraged when a mere cadet is promoted to captain of the Enterprise ahead of him (or her). They then embark on a personal vendetta against Kirk and Star Fleet.
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3 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
I think he lied about learning to prevent death. That was one of Lucas' simplistic ideas to show "evil". Anakin turned to save Padme and the moment he did, he declared his loyalty to Palpatine and said "Ill do whatever you ask. Just save her" (or something like that), to which Palpatine replied "Im sure if we combine our knowledge we will learn how to save her" (or something like that).
But the implication, to me, was that Palpatine learned to manipulate the force to creative Anakin but never bothered to learn how to prevent death. On the other hand, if the story is true that Plageuis DID learn both of these powers and Palpatine learned one, it stands to reason he likely learned the other too. So its possible he did know how to "prevent" death but lied to Anakin. One interesting thing is how similar the Sith and Jedi were portrayed. They both needed Anakin to lose Padme. Palpatine needed her to die so even if he could save her, he never would have.
In fact, the goofy death of Padme might be more than it seems. She was perfectly fine but "lost the will to live". Which didnt make sense especially as she implored Obi Wan that there was good in Anakin. If she had given up hope of Anakin's redemption, then sure, die. But if she really believed he was good, why would she "lose the will to live"? It made little sense. If she had given up all hope, it would further have made Luke's redemption of Anakin all the more emotional.
As an aside, regarding the Padme death scene, wasnt it odd how they introduced the twins? If I recall Luke was born first and she touched his cheek. Leia was then born and she didnt touch her at all. I always figured they'd reverse that and use that to explain why Leia could remember her mother. Perhaps they thought the touch was Padme giving Luke the touch of Force or something...I dont know. Weird.
Im hoping they delve more into the Prequels next Episode and help make them make more sense.
A bit off topic, but something always seemed really stupid to me about when Padme was giving birth. The medical droid tells Yoda and Obi-Wan that they need to work quickly if they want to save the babies, and Yoda and Obi-Wan are clearly surprised at the word babies. With all of their highly advanced medical technology didn't Padme ever have a freakin' pre-natal exam!! And Yoda and Obi-Wan, with their highly advanced force powers, couldn't somehow detect that she was carrying twins.
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A little off topic as this relates to episode's I-III, but here is an interesting article on how all of the necessary plot points were there to make it a great trilogy, but George Lucas completely missed almost all of them. I think that's what makes those movies so annoying and frustrating to fans - all of the necessary ingredients were available, but Lucas sc***ed it up.
I wonder if, now that Disney owns the rights, if they might reboot that part one day. Would be neat to see episode's I-III made properly.
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It's not that I didn't like Ren's style, just that it was more hack-and-slash than what they usually showed. It seemed like a Knight with a big, 2-handed broadsword instead of a fencing style of fighting. My favourite lightsaber duel is still the opening volley of Obi-Wan/Vader I in Revenge of the Sith.
Yes, I believe the lightsaber they showed was Luke's first one which used to be Anakin's. In Return of the Jedi he had a green blade.
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Strange thing is, according to the box score the Bomber's scored three touchdowns but only got 17 points. I knew there was a conspiracy against the 2013 Bombers and Tim Burke wasn't to blame!